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Post by Nobbygas on Jul 15, 2024 17:50:46 GMT
Yet another stupid legal case brought against him. Will the Democrats ever learn? This idea that these legal cases against Trump are being brought by an opposing political party is for the birds It is standard MAGA rhetoric, nothing is their fault, it's the Democrats, the Media or some mythical "deep state". The fact is Trump was caught with truck load of official documents in his private residence and refused to hand them back when requested. It is then for the courts to decide whether this was a breach of the laws on the statute book. But it never got that far. Judge Cannon, a Trump appointed, (one her peers in her jurisdiction told her to recuse herself from Trump's cases) tossed the case not on balance of evidence but because she decided that Special Prosecutor was not correctly appointed. That decision itself predicated in words of the summation in the Presidential Immunity case. The words by Clarence Thomas, a man himself who has a dubious background. So to be clear, the courts are not saying Trump is innocent, Cannon has declared the case be tossed on an opinion, not evidence. A further sad erosion of American democracy where the demarcation line between the executive and the judiciary is broken. Dark days, and should be on our guard for the same thing happening here. How odd Oldie. In every other case that they have tried to prosecute Trump, you have always insisted that the Judicary are 'independent' and only following the law. Now, you claim that the judge is bent when it can be said she is following the law. Make your mind up. It wasn't 'dark days' when the judge was a Democrat was it.
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Post by Nobbygas on Jul 15, 2024 15:02:42 GMT
Ed Milliband, our new Secretary for Net Zero, has cancelled all new permits for drilling in the North Sea. This means, to meet our energy requirements, we will now have to import that energy. It doesn't do a single thing to help the environment, as it now means that the energy to be provided (+jobs, profit etc) will now go overseas. The energy we need still has to be produced somewhere! There are lessons that should have been learned from the Ukraine war, and that is countries need to be able to provide energy security for themselves wherever possible, and not be reliant on others. Is he planning to get cheap oil and gas from say.....oooo, I dunno......Russia! The rush towards Net Zero is a ridiculous virtue signaling policy.
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Post by Nobbygas on Jul 15, 2024 14:50:37 GMT
Trump ....classified documents case dismissed ! Yet another stupid legal case brought against him. Will the Democrats ever learn?
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Post by Nobbygas on Jul 15, 2024 12:35:37 GMT
They may be conversations that were held in the past, but they do make your claim that "I condemn all violence" seem a trifle hollow don't they ! Only if it is true Taking previous conversations, snippets at that, without context is just disingenuous...I thought better of you Oh well. They were your words and not taken out of context. We'll let others decide eh.
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Post by Nobbygas on Jul 15, 2024 12:23:34 GMT
"I condemn all violence" - Oldie - What about your famous quote about the "halcyon days of Baider-Meinhoff"? Or your support of the rioters who attacked Bridewell Police Station and attempted to set fire to Police Officers? You called that "legitimate protest" ! Oh god Are you a hamster? Taking snippets from conversations long gone by and regurgitating them out of the context they were written within. Get a life Nobby They may be conversations that were held in the past, but they do make your claim that "I condemn all violence" seem a trifle hollow don't they !
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Post by Nobbygas on Jul 15, 2024 12:21:13 GMT
My opinion.
Kyle Walker has to be replaced. Went missing too often and was positionally at fault for both Spanish goals. Trippier. I have nothing against him personally and he was only playing where he was asked to play. But Ben Chilwell and Dennis Mitchell must have been wondering how on earth Southgate thinks Trippier is a better left back than either of them. Failure to take another natural left footed left back was a ridiculous decision by Southgate. It unbalanced the whole team. No threat down the left side with Foden coming inside too often....and with Trippier at left back. Shaw improved things in that department, but he alone could not provide any threat down the left. Foden flatters to deceive, however I think we must keep him. Rice . Had a very poor tournament. Caught in possession too often, dropped too deep and his passing was wayward when under pressure. He always looked panicky. Kane - We all love him, however he was probably the worst of the lot. No movement, no hold-up play, dropped too deep, didn't get involved, don't think he won a single header as he appears to have lost the ability to jump. Southgate seemed to be blinded by loyalty. Playing Trippier at right wing-back when Alexander-Arnold was on the bench was criminal. In fact, not having Alexander-Arnold on the pitch was criminal. Palmer changed things whenever he came on. Why oh why did he not start a single game! Mainoo - Did well but tended to tire after 50 mins.
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Post by Nobbygas on Jul 15, 2024 11:54:07 GMT
I am not. You do it time and time again. You say something (often ludicrous) get picked up on it and then start crying, claiming you didn't mean that. Then proceed to repeat it. I condemn all violence, including threats to "batter" people that have been made on here. Perhaps you should instead of trying to justify it Your making no sense... what do I do time after time exactly? - you are not going old Biden on me here are you Oldie? No, YOU suggest,or change the wording of mine and others on here quotes/written text and than spin it to fit your narrative. Who threatened to batter anyone here and how have I justified anything? ...there again you are using slander. Wheres the proof of me doing so? You confused me with someone else. And why should I condemn anything that I'm not aware of, or never had a part of? Honestly, are you losing the plot Joe...sorry I mean Oldie? That's the most nonsense you have ever written on here, like seriously. "I condemn all violence" - Oldie - What about your famous quote about the "halcyon days of Baider-Meinhoff"? Or your support of the rioters who attacked Bridewell Police Station and attempted to set fire to Police Officers? You called that "legitimate protest" !
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Post by Nobbygas on Jul 15, 2024 7:59:24 GMT
I hope that the strategic defence review here will take into account that Trump might pull the USA out of NATO,in that case the EU will have to take over the defence of continental Europe. Britain needs to sort out its own defence,some kind of anti missile system over every major city and potential targets like power stations,ports,airfields etc and a nuclear capability. Trump will not pull the US out of NATO. Europe is too important strategically to the US. Plus, this would mean a large downgrading on US Defence spending, and the big defence companies will just not let that happen. In the past, Trump has just demanded that the Europeans spend more to help defend themselves, and he is totally correct in saying this.
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Post by Nobbygas on Jul 10, 2024 13:52:36 GMT
Here's one to watch... "Miatta Fahnbulleh, new MP for Peckham, who is constantly billed as a “rising star” in the Labour Party and has been immediately promoted as an energy minister. Despite spending all of five days as an MP… Fahnbulleh is formerly head of the capitalism-sceptic New Economics Foundation which, under her leadership, advocated nationalisation of banks and creation of new “green” banks with taxpayer funds. On top of that would be a block on private banks lending to anyone with a “large amount of greenhouse gas emissions” and “penalisation of banks that provide too many carbon-intensive loans”… The minister, who has been advising Ed Miliband, has personally spent much of the last two years calling for even more and higher windfall taxes on oil and gas producers, and, even more worryingly, the creation of large nationalised energy companies to “flood the market“, accompanied by the introduction of “free basic energy” for everyone. Guido looks forward to seeing the costings for that one…" Here we go
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Post by Nobbygas on Jul 10, 2024 13:37:46 GMT
Utter nonsense Oldie. When Blair took over Labour maintained the Tory spending plans for their first two years. At that time the economy was in decent shape. When Blair/Brown had finished the economy was in tatters as you well know with billions from PFI and Student Loans kept off the balance sheets. No Labour government, ever, has left the economy in a better shape than when they took over. I'm afraid you should remove your rose tinted glasses regarding the economic 'success' of Blair/Brown. It's a myth you keep peddling. Oh, and....When Thatcher stepped down - Debt to GDP...1989...32%. Earlier on you mentioned that Blair had to rebuild after the disaster of the Thatcher years. Well, using your figures and logic she didn't do too badly did she It's not all about gdp figures you know.
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Post by Nobbygas on Jul 10, 2024 11:11:14 GMT
You forgot "politically broken" as well. I've got to say that you are expecting a party that is instrumental in breaking this country to repair it? The country has been broken by successive government's, both Tory and Labour, and you expect Labour to fix it? Same old parties, same old policies, same old result. Your optimism is admirable. As yet I am not optimistic. I have not seen enough straight talking and tough policy decisions to be optimistic. But it is only 3 days in and I wait with bated breath. I don't buy the argument that the 97-07 Labour Government broke our country, they had a lot to do rebuild the excesses of Thatcher policies. What damaged us was fraud in the financial markets and then having to spend billions to rebuild balance sheets. All against a backdrop of Cameron & Osborne crowing about the nanny state and that the City didn't need regulating. We have never truly recovered, due in no small part to austerity policies after 2010 and then exacerbated by Brexit. Going into this rebuild we are in a far worse position than we were in 1997. Sorry Oldie, but the Blair/Brown years did not leave the economy in good shape, hence the famous, "there's no money left" note! The decline did not start in 2010. Ha, ha, you always have to throw "exacerbated by Brexit." in there. No matter what happens you always have to throw in that it was either caused by Brexit, and then if you are proven wrong and Brexit had not caused that particular problem, you then claim that Brexit had made it worse. Austerity policies were not put in place for fun, but because the government under Labour had overspent and borrowed too much.
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Post by Nobbygas on Jul 10, 2024 11:01:10 GMT
Jude Bellingham set for awkward referee reunion after UEFA make controversial Euro 2024 semi-final announcement..by Stuart Ballard.
i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/07/09/06/87098507-0-image-a-1_1720502103713.jpg Felix ZwayerJude Bellingham is set for a reunion with Felix Zwayer after UEFA picked the German official to referee England's Euro 2024 semi-final with the Netherlands on Wednesday. Zwayer was banned by the German football federation for six months for his role in a match-fixing scandal back in 2005. He admitted to accepting a bribe from fellow official Robert Hoyzer, who was subsequently given a lifetime ban from football. Zwayer was one of three German referees who stepped forward to bring Hoyzer's match-fixing ploy to light, which helped reduce his ban. He returned to top-flight football soon after and was selected as a VAR official at the 2018 World Cup. But the official was back in the spotlight in December 2021 after officiating a game between Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund. He was heavily criticised for not awarding Dortmund a penalty in their 3-2 defeat to Bayern with Bellingham referring to Zwayer's ban in a post-match interview. "You can look at a lot of the decisions in the game," he said at the time. "You give a referee, that has match-fixed before, the biggest game in Germany. What do you expect?" Bellingham was slapped with a €40,000 (£33,970) for his remarks with Zwayer taking a short break from officiating. The 43-year-old has now been selected by UEFA to referee England's game against the Netherlands having already taken charge of 4 games at the tournament. It will be the first time he's taken charge of a match involving Bellingham since their controversy two-and-a-half years ago. From what I know from when I used to have a German girlfriend years ago Germans don't really see us as bitter rivals in football in the same way that some English see Germany. The Dutch however is a completely different story, I don't know which player it was or when exactly but at the end of a match between Germany and The Netherlands when they swapped shirts one Dutch player wiped his a$$ with the German shirt, so if anything he's more likely to be biased against the Dutch I would say. Yeah, in my experience (lived in Germany for 25 years) it's actually the Dutch who really really dislike the Germans. The Dutch have a number of songs about the Germans returning all the bikes they stole when the Germans retreated from Holland in WW2. The Dutch have never forgiven them. Then you had the Frank Riijkaard and Rudi Voller spitting incident at the 1990 World Cup. It's always bubbling just below the surface when these two countries play each other. The Germans see England as more of a friendly rivalry.
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Post by Nobbygas on Jul 10, 2024 10:55:46 GMT
Dortmund is not that far from the Dutch border, so it's not surprising. You could try the old Indian trick of moving around quickly to make it look like there are more of you than there are
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Post by Nobbygas on Jul 10, 2024 10:30:01 GMT
You guys keep saying these things, but there is zero evidence that any of the assertions you all make are true. What is self evident is that we are broken as a country both financially and socially. This is going to take some rebuilding You forgot "politically broken" as well. I've got to say that you are expecting a party that is instrumental in breaking this country to repair it? The country has been broken by successive government's, both Tory and Labour, and you expect Labour to fix it? Same old parties, same old policies, same old result. Your optimism is admirable.
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Post by Nobbygas on Jul 10, 2024 9:15:24 GMT
I'm afraid people that had your attitude to the Brexit result and most in the Labour's Party,eg Sir Kier Starmer,means Leavers and others would be fools to trust a word they say.Same goes for the Tories. I looked again at the Labour manifesto but I still could not find any clause which stated that rejoining the EU, either as a whole or parts of was a policy aim. Perhaps you could point me to the bit I have missed As I have already pointed out Oldie. There was nothing about the tax rises in the manifesto either, but we all know they are coming.
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Post by Nobbygas on Jul 9, 2024 21:31:33 GMT
Farage and Reform will be a thorn in the side of 'rejoiners',Labour,Tory and Green. Could you articulate which part of the winning manifesto advocating rejoining the EU? God, you guys are so insecure, because (I believe) in your hearts you know what you have done. Oh, the shame No I can't Oldie, because Labour were scared stiff to mention Brexit. In the same way I saw nothing about the tax increases heading our way in their manifesto, but they're coming!
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Post by Nobbygas on Jul 9, 2024 21:29:04 GMT
Farage and Reform will be a thorn in the side of 'rejoiners',Labour,Tory and Green. Could you articulate which part of the winning manifesto advocating rejoining the EU? God, you guys are so insecure, because (I believe) in your hearts you know what you have done. Oh, the shame Insecure? I don't think so. We're out of the EU 😂
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Post by Nobbygas on Jul 9, 2024 21:25:04 GMT
Interesting the groans from the House when Farage mentioned Brexit. It just demonstrated that the fight for Brexit is still not over. Labour, huge majority with 9.2 million votes. 33% of the vote share. They claim they have a mandate from the British public. Brexit, 17.2 million votes, 52% of the vote share, yet they wanted another Referendum and will still work to take the UK back in to the EU. The Remainers have never accepted the Democratic mandate. They just don't get it do they. They still don't realize that the British public hold these fools with utter contempt. The fight for Brexit ? 😂😂🇬🇧🇬🇧 What exactly would you /we be losing then if it was reversed ? Blimey , you wonder why I think you lot are bloody loons 🙄 I remember the absolute drivel you used to post on the other forum and how your beloved Brexit would be a huge success. It’s a disaster, you know it , I know it and everybody else honest knows it . Your hubris wont let you admit though , so you’ll carry on preaching absolute nonsense. I have tried to be very polite to you. I have attempted to encourage you to participate in a sensible way. However, I still remember your Internet stalking of me in the past. i haven't forgotten that. Was it you or gassy that came on here pretending to be a woman? It is plainly obvious that you have nothing to add except vitriol and personal attacks. I will now block you as I have no time for your inane ramblings. If others want to block you then that is up to them. Maybe it's in everyone's interest if you just talk to yourself.
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Post by Nobbygas on Jul 9, 2024 17:47:36 GMT
Interesting the groans from the House when Farage mentioned Brexit. It just demonstrated that the fight for Brexit is still not over.
Labour, huge majority with 9.2 million votes. 33% of the vote share. They claim they have a mandate from the British public. Brexit, 17.2 million votes, 52% of the vote share, yet they wanted another Referendum and will still work to take the UK back in to the EU. The Remainers have never accepted the Democratic mandate.
They just don't get it do they. They still don't realize that the British public hold these fools with utter contempt.
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Post by Nobbygas on Jul 9, 2024 17:40:18 GMT
Has anyone seen Jess Phillips speech after the count when she won her seat ? held up several times by heckling until the room was cleared. Apparently it was a very dirty campaign, campaigners abused and one had car tyres slashed,Phillips said that Jo Cox's parents were supposed to campaign with her on the last day but she told them not to attend as she didnt want them to experience the hatred !....seems like Phillips/Labour not universally popular. Yes, it's what the Ropers bring to the table unfortunately.
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