UK Politics Thread

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

I had a friend (Petty Officer Sonar) who has sadly passed recently. He was aboard a RN frigate during the above and he would occasionally share stories of how RN ships bows were reinforced with concrete for ramming purposes.

But they did not had to row, no...?

[Jimbuna]

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Skybird

But they did not had to row, no...?

The hull of the Leander Class frigate was paper thin. They were designed to fire missiles etc. at enemies in the distance and were totally unsuitable for what was expected of them during the Cod War.

[Catfish]

^^ EU bankrupt and "Frexit"?
Cheap propaganda, but at least one of the comments is true: England will have a bit of a problem if LePen wins the next election.
And the makers of these vids will have a good laugh (read: Russia)

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by Catfish

^^ EU bankrupt and "Frexit"?
Cheap propaganda, but at least one of the comments is true: England will have a bit of a problem if LePen wins the next election.
And the makers of these vids will have a good laugh (read: Russia)

I doubt she will win, I know the inner child of a voter and it can be bribed.

Just promise them lower taxes higher wages and other good things and you have a majority of their votes.

This is what happened last time Marie Le Pen was in the lead-then Macron made those promises and he won.
(From my memory)

Markus

[Moonlight]

^That may be true old boy but Macron didn't bloody deliver on those promises did he?, what he did do though was look after the well heeled muppets as usual and the less well off will not fall for that tactic again.

Edit

This piece by Tony Parsons sums up the current Labour Politicians for me, it's OTT but the underlying message is plain as day, the days of the 1970s Labour voter voting blindly for their Labour councillors and MP's are consigned to history, and so will the Labour movement if they don't change their stance.

TONY PARSONS Labour ditched working class voters…and now they’ve ditched Labour for good
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/148934...-ditch-labour/

[Jimbuna]

^ True that

I was a party member for somewhere in the region of 25 years but resigned my membership the day after Steptoe and his loony left rabble took hold of the reigns of power.

I can't vote Tory either because of fundamental differences so I tend to vote Independent and am resigned to the fact my vote doesn't make any difference at all in the overall picture of things.

[Catfish]

Some will say there's a grain of truth in that

[Catfish]

[Jimbuna]

[Catfish]

Election 2021: What do the results mean for Scottish independence?

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland...itics-57038039

[Jimbuna]

We have our own Berlin Wall....it's called Hadrians Wall

[Jimbuna]

[Moonlight]

Men detained by Home Office released after face off between police and protesters in Glasgow
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknew...?ocid=msedgntp

Here's an idea for you Bozo, 1- fire all the prats who had anything to do with this decision, 2- send all illegal immigrants in England up to Scotland as they clearly like having potential terrorists on their doorstep, 3- don't forget to mix a few thousand terrorists you've allowed back from the middle east into the mix as well.
You might not have the bollocks to do anything like that Bozo but there's quite a few million people in England who does, gizza job.

[MGR1]

Glasgow, Moonlight, Glasgow, not Scotland as a whole.

One defining characteristic of Weegie Left-Wingers is their similarity to the French Left - they'll strike and protest about anything at the drop of a hat.

The English Right forever gurns about the Scottish (actually Glaswegian) love affair with the Left but they're merely complaining about the symptoms. They never stop to ask themselves what caused Socialism to be so widely accepted in the Clyde Valley in the first place.

As in Northern Ireland, the root of the problem goes back to at least the 19th Century, if not further, namely how Scotland has been governed by it's ruling and economic elites.

Mike.