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Andrew Neil becoming more out of touch by the day.

"Just because of Trump doesn't make people in the UK think less of America"

Try asking the airlines.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pWZqoRnWRA

I can perhaps guess at what Andrew Neil sort of means here, perhaps - we still massively consume American culture (and swim in a culturally mainly American sea), and American products, many people like the idea of America, of holidays there, there are American people we like, etc - but I'd be very surprised if he isn't measurably wrong. (Maybe @HYUFD has some polling). The vast majority of people, I suspect, have nudged a little further in the anti direction from wherever they were three years ago on the pro/anti American spectrum. There is a graphic I have been hunting for and cannot find of how well-regarded every country is in the world*, showing America dropping 15 places from 30th to 45th in a year - and this data merely reflects Trump becoming president and not any of the mental shite he has donein the past 6 months. I will post it later if I can find it but I am mid-commute.
You don't have to be as firmly on one side in the Middle East conflict as Roger is to think America has made a right bollocks of this.

On a happier note, my tram ride has just been interrupted by the arrival of a panicked pigeon erroneously boarding at Piccadilly Gardens: impressed to report that a gifted passenger was able to calmy usher the pigeon off without any harm being done.

*FWIW, the UK was about 18th, about equal with France and Germany. As you'd expect, Nordics came top.

Found it!

Interesting graphic.

We are still less well regarded than Belgium.
That is a disgrace.

Nothing to frite about.

We should keep it quiet and not waffle on about it.

Andrew Neil becoming more out of touch by the day.

"Just because of Trump doesn't make people in the UK think less of America"

Try asking the airlines.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pWZqoRnWRA

I can perhaps guess at what Andrew Neil sort of means here, perhaps - we still massively consume American culture (and swim in a culturally mainly American sea), and American products, many people like the idea of America, of holidays there, there are American people we like, etc - but I'd be very surprised if he isn't measurably wrong. (Maybe @HYUFD has some polling). The vast majority of people, I suspect, have nudged a little further in the anti direction from wherever they were three years ago on the pro/anti American spectrum. There is a graphic I have been hunting for and cannot find of how well-regarded every country is in the world*, showing America dropping 15 places from 30th to 45th in a year - and this data merely reflects Trump becoming president and not any of the mental shite he has donein the past 6 months. I will post it later if I can find it but I am mid-commute.
You don't have to be as firmly on one side in the Middle East conflict as Roger is to think America has made a right bollocks of this.

On a happier note, my tram ride has just been interrupted by the arrival of a panicked pigeon erroneously boarding at Piccadilly Gardens: impressed to report that a gifted passenger was able to calmy usher the pigeon off without any harm being done.

*FWIW, the UK was about 18th, about equal with France and Germany. As you'd expect, Nordics came top.

Found it!

Interesting graphic.

We are still less well regarded than Belgium.
That is a disgrace.

Especially when the Belgian PM is a Russian asset.

From the EU leader who recently blocked the use of frozen Russian billions:

Belgium’s PM Bart de Wever: “We must normalise relations with Russia and regain access to cheap energy. That is common sense. [...] We must end the conflict in the interest of Europe, without being naïve towards Putin.”

https://x.com/AliBunkallSKY/status/2033603619841286369

Andrew Neil becoming more out of touch by the day.

"Just because of Trump doesn't make people in the UK think less of America"

Try asking the airlines.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pWZqoRnWRA

I can perhaps guess at what Andrew Neil sort of means here, perhaps - we still massively consume American culture (and swim in a culturally mainly American sea), and American products, many people like the idea of America, of holidays there, there are American people we like, etc - but I'd be very surprised if he isn't measurably wrong. (Maybe @HYUFD has some polling). The vast majority of people, I suspect, have nudged a little further in the anti direction from wherever they were three years ago on the pro/anti American spectrum. There is a graphic I have been hunting for and cannot find of how well-regarded every country is in the world*, showing America dropping 15 places from 30th to 45th in a year - and this data merely reflects Trump becoming president and not any of the mental shite he has donein the past 6 months. I will post it later if I can find it but I am mid-commute.
You don't have to be as firmly on one side in the Middle East conflict as Roger is to think America has made a right bollocks of this.

On a happier note, my tram ride has just been interrupted by the arrival of a panicked pigeon erroneously boarding at Piccadilly Gardens: impressed to report that a gifted passenger was able to calmy usher the pigeon off without any harm being done.

*FWIW, the UK was about 18th, about equal with France and Germany. As you'd expect, Nordics came top.

Found it!

Interesting graphic.

We are still less well regarded than Belgium.
That is a disgrace.

Its all a load of waffle anyway.

Andrew Neil becoming more out of touch by the day.

"Just because of Trump doesn't make people in the UK think less of America"

Try asking the airlines.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pWZqoRnWRA

I can perhaps guess at what Andrew Neil sort of means here, perhaps - we still massively consume American culture (and swim in a culturally mainly American sea), and American products, many people like the idea of America, of holidays there, there are American people we like, etc - but I'd be very surprised if he isn't measurably wrong. (Maybe @HYUFD has some polling). The vast majority of people, I suspect, have nudged a little further in the anti direction from wherever they were three years ago on the pro/anti American spectrum. There is a graphic I have been hunting for and cannot find of how well-regarded every country is in the world*, showing America dropping 15 places from 30th to 45th in a year - and this data merely reflects Trump becoming president and not any of the mental shite he has donein the past 6 months. I will post it later if I can find it but I am mid-commute.
You don't have to be as firmly on one side in the Middle East conflict as Roger is to think America has made a right bollocks of this.

On a happier note, my tram ride has just been interrupted by the arrival of a panicked pigeon erroneously boarding at Piccadilly Gardens: impressed to report that a gifted passenger was able to calmy usher the pigeon off without any harm being done.

*FWIW, the UK was about 18th, about equal with France and Germany. As you'd expect, Nordics came top.

Found it!

Tice pitches that people should pay the minimum possible Tax, to cover up his own nefarious activities.

Whether they break the Law or not, Tax avoidance is as bad as Tax evasion in my eyes and always has been.

Tice may need to explain to his core vote the C and D categories who will rely more on public services than most, that by choice he will be destroying any concept of public services

That in part defines a reason why well off and wealthy do lean left and vote left. It is because we believe in equality of opportunity irrespective of what we were born in to, the polar opposite of the silver spoon brigade, but that wealth earned should be distributed via tax to the less well off, and inherited wealth should certainly be more equally distributed.

That does not allow the NEET state Boris, Truss and Sunak created however.

I will take to my grave my time spent in Sweden when Olaf Palme was in power, a high tax, world class public service system that rewarded enterprise and deliver hope and prosperity. A generation who glady contributed to the wonderful services provided by the State for the benefit of everyone.

One assumes you don't have an ISA then.

No never had one, never will have one.

Some of us have ethics

(FPT) OK, I now believe this is a wind up account.

Of course it is! The account has done nothing else but trash talk Kemi Badenoch for weeks on end. No-one can be that single minded, (our dear Hyufd excluded of course).

I say what I think aboutvBadenoch

I praise other Tories, current and past.

Badenoch is a gibshite with an aggression issue who is not fit to lead any Party.

Well you're not a real person, and if I'm wrong and you are then that's pretty horrible for you really.

If Brixian isn’t a real person he/she has a fantastic knowledge of Birmingham and BCFC that no bot could just conjure up.

He/she is real. I have no doubt about that.

:lol
A real twat?

You insult my football club and you cross the line.

One of my Uni housemates was a Zulu