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Re: Geography today – politicalbetting.com
It’s interesting just how much more pro-Zelensky/Ukraine the British are compared with other European countries.Yes, also much more anti-Trump. The shift in opinion towards the US here in Britain has been quite dramatic. I was quite surprised to see that UK opinion now seems more hostile to the US than opinion in, say, France.
https://x.com/yougov/status/1897634189329022976?s=46
Trump really triggers us here, I think it's something to do with the bullying and the vulgarity. From a British perspective Trump is like all the worst elements of American culture, distilled in one person. It's a shame because there is much to admire about the US but those days may now be gone.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/06/donald-trump-threat-to-peace-ukraine-talks-survey-western-europeans
Re: Geography today – politicalbetting.com
The inflation on stamps the last decade, I'm surprised first class is still a thing.I was surprised to learn second class was still a thing.'Denmark's state-run postal service, PostNord, is to end all letter deliveries at the end of 2025, citing a 90% decline in letter volumes since the start of the century.'The UK is quite likely to move to every other day, soon, for second class.
That's a very end-of-an-era kind of thing.
Pro_Rata
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Re: Geography today – politicalbetting.com
Which is why the correct response is not to engage.Trump's MO is to make an astonishingly audacious opening gambit in order to make his adversary grateful for any subsequent veer towards reasonableness.Trump now,postpones tariffs on Mexico for a month, Canada expects the same.Are these people just using the threat of tariffs as a form of insider trading to manipulate the markets? None of it makes sense.
What a shitshow
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y03qleevvo
Suffice to say the US markets are now green.
rcs1000
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Re: Geography today – politicalbetting.com
I think being able to experience Trump in our native language makes a big difference too.It’s interesting just how much more pro-Zelensky/Ukraine the British are compared with other European countries.Yes, also much more anti-Trump. The shift in opinion towards the US here in Britain has been quite dramatic. I was quite surprised to see that UK opinion now seems more hostile to the US than opinion in, say, France.
https://x.com/yougov/status/1897634189329022976?s=46
Trump really triggers us here, I think it's something to do with the bullying and the vulgarity. From a British perspective Trump is like all the worst elements of American culture, distilled in one person. It's a shame because there is much to admire about the US but those days may now be gone.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/06/donald-trump-threat-to-peace-ukraine-talks-survey-western-europeans
Re: Geography today – politicalbetting.com
I went to a photographic exhibition in Nice today on the early months of the civil war in Ukraine in 2014. Some outstanding war photography.There was no civil war. Right from 2014 the conflict was being directed from Moscow with Russian troops and equipment. Where do you get this garbage from?
I have to say the story of the war as it unfolded was more complex than I had understood it to be. This is not to excuse the Russian invasion eight years later but it's a shame that we have to understand it through the eyes of 'goodies and baddies' without reference to the complexities
Re: Geography today – politicalbetting.com
And railways.PB contributors, due to education, income and experience- by and large - will tend to have a larger interest in legal, constitutional and broader geopolitical issues.Looks like opinion on the Chagos Islands is pretty evenly split but most don't have a view either wayVery few people care much about the Chagos Islands. Most of those few are PB contributors.
Omnium
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Re: Geography today – politicalbetting.com
Kind of as predicted by some of us I see NBC are reporting that UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada are discussing ending the Five Eyes relationship with the USA and scaling back on what intelligence they share with them.
Re: Geography today – politicalbetting.com
Kind of as predicted by some of us I see NBC are reporting that UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada are discussing ending the Five Eyes relationship with the USA and scaling back on what intelligence they share with them.Let’s hope the move toward four eyes doesn’t prove to be shortsighted.
IanB2
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Re: If Farage doesn’t distance himself from the odious Trump then his polling might struggle
He's a tosser. We are all paying a price because of him and tossers like him. Some are paying with their lives.He's a human being.Please find me the smallest violin . Sorry if this sounds a bit flippant and you said they’re friends of yours but I have zero sympathy for anyone who voted for Trump and if they get screwed now I could care less.We have friends in California who are (or were) Trump voters. He voted Trump because (a) concerns about illegal immigration / crime, and (b) because he thought Trump (as a businessman() would manage the economy better than Harris.Our distaste, bordering on contempt, for Donald Trump is a remarkably unifying factor across our political spectrum. Surely an organised two minute hate would be appropriate and bring together society's disparate factions?I find it hard to understand why so many Trump supporters on the UK right - such as Jenrick - now criticise him when it was absolutely clear what he was going to do on Ukraine and tariffs well before November. Were they being opportunistic then or is it now?
Said friend has a clothing business: he basically supplies big chains with own label clothing that bears a remarkable physical resemblance to that made by more expensive brands.
Before the election, he saw the way the wind was blowing and moved a lot of production out of China, and into Mexico. He's been absolutely poll-axed by the Mexican tariffs: he's genuinely worried he is going to lose his business because his contracts are in the US and his cost of importation just rose 25%, and his customers don't care.
He's still clinging on to the hope that this will all blow over, but he's in wide eyed shock right now that things have gone the way they've gone.
I didn't agree with his vote, but he's just another human being.
Why should we care about him?
Re: Geography today – politicalbetting.com
I once had a job as a circumcisors assistant. The guy that held the scissors and mopped the circumcisors brow, basic stuff really.How many people would have any skin in the game?Dare you to have a bash at banning infant circumcision. You'd need a century of campaigning.There are many former religious practices that have been outlawed. Not sure why the same can’t happen again.Food Standards Authority failed to act (what a shock !!) against non stun halal slaughterhouse where animals were subjected to cruelty and abuse before being despatched.Mm. I've mentioned this before, but I'm greatly troubled by the creeping normalisation of halal.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/slaughterhouse-abattoir-sheep-meat-halal-warwickshire-b2705241.html
I'll get my coat.
I did it before I went into engineering. Interesting job. Basic pay was poor but he gave me half the tips.
Taz
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