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Post by Nobbygas on Mar 14, 2024 9:30:25 GMT
Sorry, you are just spreading false information. Show us just where you get the information regarding Reform and banning books! Your claims are absolute tosh.
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Post by Nobbygas on Mar 14, 2024 0:29:44 GMT
So now Russia has produced a book aimed school going persons of 15 - 18 years encouraging them to enlist in the fight against Ukraine, giving distorted views of the actual situation and just WHO invaded who!!.. no surprises there ..just how low can you get, sending kids into a mindless and pathetic situation for one mans fantasy Just try, for context, the loonies banning books in the States. Has not happened here yet, as long as we can keep Reform Party at bay. For chrissakes Oldie. Can't you change the record! What on earth as the Reform Party and their policies got to do with banning books? Why do you come out with this nonsense?
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Post by Nobbygas on Mar 12, 2024 13:51:12 GMT
There are a few videos online showing a van load of Uke draft dodgers caught and beaten by an SBU goon squad at the Uke/Romania border. I am against conscription anywhere, I see it as a form of slavery but Ukraine is a very corrrupt country where people in high positions evade the draft,and bribes have been taken for draft exemptions. I wonder if any of the SBU thugs actually ever serve at the front,if they dont it is out of order that they can send people into the meat grinder. The conscription age in Ukraine is 27. They may reduce that at some point in the future. Will some people avoid it? Of course they will, that's human nature. Do the elite avoid these things? Of course they do. Let's look at the two candidates for the next POTUS :- "The claim: Former Vice President Joe Biden received five draft deferments from the Vietnam War Posts on Facebook honed in on former Vice President Joe Biden and his record of military service — or lack thereof. "Lifeguard/Football player Joe Biden got five draft deferments for asthma during Vietnam," a post claims, alongside a photo of high-school-aged Biden. Some users also compared his record with that of his opponent, President Donald Trump. "Well well well!!!! We finally have a Rebuttal to the Dems saying Trump was a draft dodger.." another post reads. Biden received five student draft deferments and a medical exemption Born in November 1942, Biden came of age amid the Vietnam War. But unlike millions of men of his generation, he never served in the military. Biden received five student draft deferments, first as an undergraduate at the University of Delaware and later as a law student at Syracuse University. And after a medical exam in April 1968, he received the "1-Y" classification, which meant he could only be drafted in a national emergency. Biden released his Selective Service records to the Associated Press in 2008. At the time, a spokesperson said he was "disqualified from service because of asthma as a teenager," per The News Journal. Trump received four student draft deferments and a medical exemption Born in June 1946, Trump was also a member of the generation called up to serve in the Vietnam War. Like Biden, he never did. He received four student draft deferments while an undergraduate at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. And in the spring of 1968, he, too, received the "1-Y" classification — for bone spurs in his heels, per The New York Times. Both candidates played sports prior to medical exemptions Reports have noted that both candidates played sports and appeared relatively healthy prior to their medical exemptions. As the viral meme says, Biden played football and worked as a lifeguard in high school — details he included in his memoir, "Promises to Keep," per a report from the Associated Press. Similarly, the New York Times observed that Trump had played football, tennis, and squash, and "seemed the picture of health" prior to his medical exemption. Our rating: True Based on our research, the claim that Biden received five draft deferments is TRUE. He was granted five deferments as a student before he received a medical exemption for asthma. Similarly, Trump was granted four deferments as a student before his exemption for bone spurs."
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Post by Nobbygas on Mar 11, 2024 15:17:10 GMT
I've seen all the signs saying "stop arming Israel". Not seen a single one saying "stop arming the Palestinians". Not seen a single Palestinian supporter demonstrating outside the Iranian Embassy to moan about about supplying weapons to the Palestinians. I haven't seen any signs during the Palestinian protests in the UK calling for the Palestinians to free the hostages.
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Post by Nobbygas on Mar 11, 2024 10:16:41 GMT
Was just reading about the inquest into a 2020 stabbing rampage in Birmingham by yet another person with mental health issues who was being sought by the police and who should never have been released to kill and maim. The mother of the murdered lad said that the authorities have learned nothing and that the more recent Nottingham attacks should have been stopped if lessons had been learned. Lessons are never learned. When it's classified as a 'mental health issue' the authorities can just wash their hands of the underlying issues and jog on. Nothing to see here.
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Post by Nobbygas on Mar 11, 2024 10:14:31 GMT
Historical facts Oldie? Well it is an historical fact that the Jews were living in the area long before Islam was even created, so they have 'historical facts' behind them. We have covered this. As previously pointed out that area of the world was not set up as countries as we know it with clearly defined borders. Different tribes ebbed and flowed in terms of control the genetic variations of those tribes being miniscule. They were all fundamentally Semites divided mostly by choice of god . It's a lazy and pretty useless trope to say Jews have always lived there. The real source of the current disaster is the Balfour Declaration, The British Mandate over Palestine, because we effed that up. Out of self interest. But on another day you personally argue for borders to return the their pre-1967 state. Another day you'll say the problems go back to 1948 and the UN mandate to declare Israel as a nation? What is it to be? 1967, 1948 or 1918? Where do you draw the line at 'historical fact'? It is not a lazy trope to mention the fact that the Jews lived there for hundreds of years before Islam was created. It's historical fact, which you seem very keen to keep shouting about. The Palestinians tried to take over Jordan, and were kicked out. They then moved to Lebenon, and were kicked out, before finally settling in Gaza and the West Bank. They had the chance to run Gaza as they wanted. Gaza has been the biggest recipient of aid, by far, than anywhere else on the planet. Aid money has poured into Gaza, and what did they do with it? They had free water and electricity from Israel. 50,000 Palestinians a day crossed over to Israel to work. With all that help just what did the Palestinians produce? Nothing but hatred and death. The Israelis were given land that was just a barren wasteland. What did they do with it? Well, they turned that country into a modern, democratic, free thinking, liberal country. The world needs more countries that produce, create and provide environments that benefit the people on this planet. We need to get rid of those countries that only produce death, destruction and hatred. You'd be better off to stop trying to blame the British for everything. The world in 1918 and 1948 were completely different to the current world.
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Post by Nobbygas on Mar 11, 2024 9:55:38 GMT
Everyone aknowledges the suffering in Gaza. However, we all know the answer to stopping it, and it could happen today. If the Palestinians released the hostages it would all stop. However the Palestinians are weaponising their own people. I am starting to believe that HAMAS are not in full control of the whereabouts of the hostages taken during that appalling act of violence. Even whether they are still alive Only starting to believe it? Why do you think very few people talk about 'Hamas' and now just use the term 'Palestinians'? They cannot return any hostages (dead or alive) until the Iranians tell them to do so. For the Iranians it suits their purpose to prolong the conflict. The 'Palestinian people' are just useful idiots to the Iranians.
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Post by Nobbygas on Mar 11, 2024 7:02:58 GMT
So by your curt reply,I assume you don't disagree with these people's actions, regardless of who or what did what and when,these people by their rather pathetic actions are now criminals. . BUT, because it is associated with the current situation in the East ,they will get a slapped wrist and given a packet of sweets to show that everything is fine,carry on as you are.. Your assumption is incorrect. What I do not disagree with is stating historical facts. Important because, as most members on here exemplify, so money people have no idea. Some members on here demanded context for some of my comments, the protesters here provided their context and it is steeped in historical facts. All good, but destruction of an artifact is just gesture politics and I don't agree. Historical facts Oldie? Well it is an historical fact that the Jews were living in the area long before Islam was even created, so they have 'historical facts' behind them.
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Post by Nobbygas on Mar 11, 2024 6:56:18 GMT
How about the people injured in the 2005 bombings or the Manchester arena atrocity ? they are still suffering but there are no follow up stories in the news now. BLM activist Sasha Johnson shot in the head and terribly wounded, still alive as far as I am aware but its almost as if she had her 'quota' of news space and its time to move on. Gaza will drop down the news as Ukraine has done, US election is a headline grabber now, the EU elections could be too, the stories move on the public have a limited attention span and get bored quickly. No they don't, not when it's continuing death women and children. I think many of us are in disbelief with a sense of helplessness but not bored. You might be, LiS says he is, but that's natural for you as you don't care. What is amazing is people like you become very indignant with people protesting over what is going on in Gaza, full blown hissy fit when a painting is damaged but never acknowledge the appalling suffering of Palestinians. Everyone aknowledges the suffering in Gaza. However, we all know the answer to stopping it, and it could happen today. If the Palestinians released the hostages it would all stop. However the Palestinians are weaponising their own people.
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Post by Nobbygas on Mar 8, 2024 9:01:03 GMT
Yes, the Tories did introduce PFI but it was used on a very limited basis. It was Labour who went bats**t crazy with PFI, as you well know. "It was fraud in the American mortgage market which rendered packaged debt valueless and left banks with hollowed out balance sheets. That's is what caused the crisis in the financial markets, not over spending by the government. As I recall debt to GDP was 48% going into the bank bail outside by the taxpayer. Look where is now, nigh on 100%." - Ah, so Labour were not to blame but the Tories are to blame for Covid and Ukraine? Right. Wrong again Even on this thread I said that COVID was not their fault and that supported Sunak's response (a pure Keynasian text book response if ever there was one) As for Ukraine, who is blaming any party, certainly not me. No no.The Tories and their ideologically driven economic incompetence has led us to this. 1997 all over again. No, you are missing the point. You claim bankrupt Britain at the end of the Labour rule was not their fault but was caused by the banking crisis. You then claim that bankrupt Britain now is caused by Tory policy but you ignore the huge costs of Covid and Ukraine, when the reality is that both Labour and Tory have been useless.
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Post by Nobbygas on Mar 7, 2024 14:47:34 GMT
Once again, you provide no context. Why did the Tories have to introduce austerity? It was because the country was broke after the Blair/Brown years. majority of British people. The absolute mess in the HoC for three years after the Brexit vote was also the responsibility of Labour. If they had backed May at the time you would have had the ultra-soft Brexit you all craved (thank god they didn't). Yes, I will give you that the Tories nave totally screwed up, but the blame for the mess cannot be laid entirely at their door. And let's not forget the absolute scandal of PFI that Labour had inflicted on the country, which we are still paying for to this day. Tory supporters are not calling for people to vote Reform. The people calling for that are those among us who have had enough of the constant repeated failures of both Labour and Tory governments. As for Reform suffering from 'semi litterate innumaracy' issues, have you been listening to Labour? It's obvious you are happy to continue with the same-old, same-old, with the same-old results. Others of us are saying it's time for things to change. "Why did the Tories have to introduce austerity? It was because the country was broke after the Blair/Brown years.' False. It was fraud in the American mortgage market which rendered packaged debt valueless and left banks with hollowed out balance sheets. That's is what caused the crisis in the financial markets, not over spending by the government. As I recall debt to GDP was 48% going into the bank bail outside by the taxpayer. Look where is now, nigh on 100%. "The Tories did not 'dump' Brexit on us. All the political parties promised a referendum in their manifesto's. Brexit was the wish of the" I don't recall it being in the Labour manifesto of 2015. "In the election campaign, Labour Party policy was that such a referendum would be an unnecessary distraction from government priorities." "And let's not forget the absolute scandal of PFI that Labour had inflicted on the country, which we are still paying for to this day." That was a John Major government construct, which Labour carried on. On Reform...yeah right Yes, the Tories did introduce PFI but it was used on a very limited basis. It was Labour who went bats**t crazy with PFI, as you well know. "It was fraud in the American mortgage market which rendered packaged debt valueless and left banks with hollowed out balance sheets. That's is what caused the crisis in the financial markets, not over spending by the government. As I recall debt to GDP was 48% going into the bank bail outside by the taxpayer. Look where is now, nigh on 100%." - Ah, so Labour were not to blame but the Tories are to blame for Covid and Ukraine? Right.
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Post by Nobbygas on Mar 7, 2024 10:25:52 GMT
The fallout from yesterday’s budget is continuing, as banks and think tanks dig into the numbers behind Hunt’s speech. Citigroup has a particularly downbeat assessment, saying that rather than the budget meeting his rules, the Chancellor is actually “fiscally offside” by £50 to £60 billion. Citi says that’s because the OBR’s productivity forecasts are overly optimistic, leaving the picture £30 to £35 billion worse than laid out by the watchdog. It adds “assuming – we think fairly – that real terms cuts penciled into the current spending profile are undeliverable,” the UK will need a extra £20 to £25 billion of funding to plug that gap too. Citi’s team says the budget “disappointed” their expectations. They’re pretty downbeat on the economic outlook for the UK too: “Fiscal policy is instead now catching up with the increase in interest rates. And with fiscal support now being wound down and monetary tightening spooling up, the implication is a more challenging economic outlook than commonly thought.” As I have already said, the Budget was a joke.
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Post by Nobbygas on Mar 7, 2024 10:23:13 GMT
The problem is that SKS will change his mind at the drop of a hat. Not only that but the 'team' around him looks hopeless. It's madness to expect those who created the problem's (Labour & Tories) to be the ones who will provide the solutions. This fiscal mess is entirely a Tory construct predicated upon their disastrous austerity driven fiscal policies post 2010 (I did warn you), their pandering to the ultras in their party which dumped Brexit upon us, the chaos of Boris Johnson, COVID which was not their fault and Sunak's response was correct apart from the administrative incompetence that ran it, the chaos of the "Lettuce" (Truss) leading to Sunak who is like a rabbit in the headlights. So here we are 14 years later, and we learn that real incomes will not match pre 2008 levels until 2026, at best. Now their supporters are telling us to vote Reform, because they have a "plan" The problem is they don't their current policy documents are an absolute joke of semi literate innumeracy. Nice Once again, you provide no context. Why did the Tories have to introduce austerity? It was because the country was broke after the Blair/Brown years. The Tories did not 'dump' Brexit on us. All the political parties promised a referendum in their manifesto's. Brexit was the wish of the majority of British people. The absolute mess in the HoC for three years after the Brexit vote was also the responsibility of Labour. If they had backed May at the time you would have had the ultra-soft Brexit you all craved (thank god they didn't). Yes, I will give you that the Tories nave totally screwed up, but the blame for the mess cannot be laid entirely at their door. And let's not forget the absolute scandal of PFI that Labour had inflicted on the country, which we are still paying for to this day. Tory supporters are not calling for people to vote Reform. The people calling for that are those among us who have had enough of the constant repeated failures of both Labour and Tory governments. As for Reform suffering from 'semi litterate innumaracy' issues, have you been listening to Labour? It's obvious you are happy to continue with the same-old, same-old, with the same-old results. Others of us are saying it's time for things to change.
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Post by Nobbygas on Mar 7, 2024 8:39:29 GMT
Jeez, what a god awful budget ! The Tories have really given up and have no hope. Agreed!! But the fear is SKS!! Mr Boredom itself, uninspiring to say the least....,where to go for some relief? The problem is that SKS will change his mind at the drop of a hat. Not only that but the 'team' around him looks hopeless. It's madness to expect those who created the problem's (Labour & Tories) to be the ones who will provide the solutions.
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Post by Nobbygas on Mar 6, 2024 23:51:03 GMT
Jeez, what a god awful budget ! The Tories have really given up and have no hope.
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Post by Nobbygas on Mar 6, 2024 23:48:17 GMT
My memory of Stan Bowles, and forgive me if I have some of the details wrong but this is from memory... Rovers v QPR away. I think it was a League Cup game at Loftus Road. I was there so I was probably about 12 or 13? It's hazy We drew 1-1, but in the last minute QPR got a free kick on the edge of our box. Up stepped Stanley and crashed a shot that came crashing back from the cross bar! We survived, but what a player Stanley was. He was the original Gazza. In the replay at Eastville it was a wet and windy Tuesday night. I was in the Tote End. Someone was sent clear in the inside left position, he shot and Phil Parkes dived to his left and palmed it. The ball just stopped in the mud, about 8yds out, slap bang in the middle of the goal. Up strode Sandy Allen to just slot it into the empty net, and we won 1-0. I remember it because it was one of those rare moments where you started to jump up and celebrate a goal before the ball went into the net! He just couldn't miss. I hope my memory is not affected by age, but this is how I remember it. It was one of those great League Cup nights at Eastville in the 70's. Since 1907 we have played QPR 65 times, W25, D13, L27...The 2 games above were as you said in the 4th round of the league cup & were played on: Queens Park Rangers 1 Bristol Rovers 1...Saturday 26th October 1971 Bristol Rovers 1 Queens Park Rangers 0...Tuesday 2nd November 1971 BRFC finished 6th in the 3rd division and lost 2-4 at home to Stoke City (the eventual cup winners) in the Q/F on 23.11.1971 Thank you so much for that........I'm just glad that I wasn't dreaming it
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Post by Nobbygas on Mar 6, 2024 21:58:25 GMT
My memory of Stan Bowles, and forgive me if I have some of the details wrong but this is from memory... Rovers v QPR away. I think it was a League Cup game at Loftus Road. I was there so I was probably about 12 or 13? It's hazy We drew 1-1, but in the last minute QPR got a free kick on the edge of our box. Up stepped Stanley and crashed a shot that came crashing back from the cross bar! We survived, but what a player Stanley was. He was the original Gazza. In the replay at Eastville it was a wet and windy Tuesday night. I was in the Tote End. Someone was sent clear in the inside left position, he shot and Phil Parkes dived to his left and palmed it. The ball just stopped in the mud, about 8yds out, slap bang in the middle of the goal. Up strode Sandy Allen to just slot it into the empty net, and we won 1-0. I remember it because it was one of those rare moments where you started to jump up and celebrate a goal before the ball went into the net! He just couldn't miss. I hope my memory is not affected by age, but this is how I remember it. It was one of those great League Cup nights at Eastville in the 70's.
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Post by Nobbygas on Mar 6, 2024 21:48:11 GMT
Why not provide some context. What are the import duties that are imposed on cars coming from the EU?
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Post by Nobbygas on Mar 6, 2024 15:05:57 GMT
This one is coming up April 19th "The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, which happened in Amritsar, Punjab on April 13, 1919, remains a poignant symbol of the atrocities inflicted upon the Indian people under British colonial rule. This tragic event served as a pivotal moment in India's fight for independence, as it fueled the country's demand for self-rule and liberation from British oppression." "The protestors had no idea that Dyer had decided to use force to disperse the gathering. The firing continued for approximately 10 minutes, killing an estimated 379 people and injuring over a thousand more." Men, women and children 😞 On a role, we shot people at Croke Park in Dublin, just a year later. Croke Park - Context:- "Bloody Sunday (Irish: Domhnach na Fola) was a day of violence in Dublin on 21 November 1920, during the Irish War of Independence. More than 30 people were killed or fatally wounded. The day began with an Irish Republican Army (IRA) operation, organised by Michael Collins, to assassinate the "Cairo Gang" – a group of undercover British intelligence agents working and living in Dublin. IRA operatives went to a number of addresses and killed or fatally wounded 15 men. Most were British Army officers, one was a Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) sergeant, and two were Auxiliaries responding to the attacks. At least two civilians were killed, but the status of some of those killed is unclear. Five others were wounded. The assassinations sparked panic among the British authorities, and many British agents fled to Dublin Castle for safety. Later that afternoon, British forces raided a Gaelic football match in Croke Park. British RIC members called "Black and Tans", Auxiliaries, and British soldiers, were sent to carry out a cordon and search operation. Without warning, the police opened fire on the spectators and players, killing or fatally wounding 14 civilians and wounding at least sixty others. Two of those killed were children. Some of the police claimed they were fired at, and this was accepted by the British authorities." I am not defending what happened, just providing some context. It is only right to highlight the events leading up to what happened at Croke Park.
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Post by Nobbygas on Mar 6, 2024 13:56:59 GMT
Nope, I don't see a single sign saying, "stop arming the Palestinians"!
...and why are so many faces covered up?
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