Could Canada join the EU? – politicalbetting.com
Could Canada join the EU? – politicalbetting.com
"Canada must remove barriers with the European Union to more deeply integrate Canada's economy with the EU in order to reduce our dependence on the US"? Agree: 85%? Disagree: 12% https://t.co/xcixjHsH3B pic.twitter.com/dQlRzkInaa
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Once people lose all trust in authorities then what.
These cover ups make things worse and feed conspiracy theorists.
Our son and Canadian daughter in law live in Vancouver and I doubt they have any interest in being part of the EU
Trump is a time limited problem and the US will come to it's senses in due course
The EU seems a very long way away from British Columbia which of course it is
And I bet the commissioner wasn't asked to give their opinion before the news was contained...
Has that gone by the board now that we're all "post truth"?
Is this the Oregan Powersharp system, or a posh and expensive sharpening machine that costs the same as 2 of my fairly posh cordless chainsaw?
Oregan Powersharp is a different bar on the chainsaw itself, which we discussed over on Buildhub in (checks) 2017. A qualified tree man said:
Oregon PowerSharp bar ... has a reverse bevel chain so the top of the tooth is sharpened not the curved cut as per a normal chain.
Stick the stone on it and rev the nuts off it whilst pressing onto a sturdy log and a shower of sparks later you have a sharp chain ...
See them on the low end stuff in the sheds now as it means Joe Public can use a sharp chain to hack his own leg off rather than spend money on PPE and a sharpening system ...
I think you bought a sharpening system.
https://forum.buildhub.org.uk/topic/2717-self-sharpening-chainsaws/
I think most of the subjudice laws need to be repealed completely. As they are at the moment they can trump free speech and do, on a regular basis.
It will be ironic if the government's attempts to restrict the right of 14 yo lads to have a wank bring their whole stinking edifice of lawfare down but whatever, it will be a good thing if it falls.
I do not think we can rely on the idea that America comes to its senses.
Yes knuckle draggers might turn up for a ruck, but we do need to put in proportion, what we call a riot, the French call a quiet evening. The far right is really very small group of people. And we correctly punish people severely for rioting.
I am more worried about if you keep covering up and lying to normal folk a) does it make it easier to radicalise them and b) we don't want to go down a path like Latin America, where it is just presumed the authorities lie about everything.
Now I am not going to go all Leon and say we are anywhere near that, but the authorities need to realise with social media / WhatsApp the word will get around and you want to be the one setting the narrative not some egg icon called Ahgdhjgsfhg7748454 on twitter.
Not to mention the last thing the police want to do is trigger a riot or even a small, peaceful demonstration before they've had time to cancel leave and call in support from neighbouring forces.
Why not Canada?
Two Afghan asylum seekers kidnap, strangle and rape a 12 year old girl in Nuneaton? “Ah, hush it all up, don’t tell anyone, maintain community cohesion, if anyone complains use sub judice as an excuse”
We can now all see what they do. We know. Two tier methods in their two two tier judicial system. What’s more, they know that we know
It’s pretty grim
An agreement between the EU and the TPPA would be an excellent mechanism
Tl;dr: American Eagle jeans are shit.
https://x.com/dieworkwear/status/1951786899884130464
https://x.com/OasisLGNGFan/status/1951778722840723849
I am guessing TSE wasn't down there, he was in the air conditioned private box? Don't want the plebs ruining his expensive trainers.
I was thinking of getting a 41" bar for my MS881 and building an Alaskan sawmill to slab a giant walnut tree I've got but I need my full squad of Ukranian sappers for the project and one is away working on a cruise ship.
On topic... Canada will not be joining the EU. As recent events have demonstrated the UK, Canada, etc. will suffer any indignity rather than emerge from subservience to the USA. It's going to take a lot more than Trump to change that situation.
It is a bit of a circus by comparison, as we saw with Trump's trials in New York.
They do things like run with a full B-team in the jury box, for all the ones who drop out.
I suspect it will also be much more expensive, and the USA spends a huge amount more on it's legal system than we do, and it is far less effective.
I'd say this one won't happen because of Govt hating spending money.
IF a matter is in the legal process, I think it perfectly reasonable it should be kept out of the public domain pending the outcome of the legal investigation. It may surprise you but the principle of "free speech" (which seems to mean different things to different people) doesn't trump the presumption of innocence before guilt or the right of any individual to a fair trial.
We're back to the old notion of the right to know versus the need to know.
I certainly accept once the legal process has been completed, we should be entitled to as much information as possible about what happened, who knew and what attempts (if any, I mean, "sources", that can mean anything) were made to suppress information and, if proven, whether any further legal action is justified.
We've seen only recently how rumour and misinformation can be used to agitate, incite and provoke so all this has to be handled carefully and just because something is written in a paper traditionally hostile to the Government and immigration doesn't mean we should accept it unconditionally.
The fresh legal opinion, seen by The Telegraph, was circulated to the Prime Minister, Lord Hermer, the Attorney General, and dozens of influential Labour MPs.
It was commissioned by Lord Mendelsohn, the Labour peer, in response to Sir Keir’s decision to recognise a State of Palestine in September unless Israel meets certain conditions.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/08/03/recognising-palestinian-state-international-law/
We know how keen Lord Hermer is all government policies being in accordance with international law....
The righties tend to choose these battles over really terrible stuff, AE, Bud Light and, let's face it, Jags. Knock yourself out guys, they are forever your territory.
There is a very fine line to followed
The Bud Light though went really massive because the executive openly said well yes but our current customers are all knuckle dragging morons with outdated views who we don't want drinking our beer, literally insulting the customer base of the largest beer brand in the US.
It cannot be a surprise that people who turn up looking for a ruck have a predisposition towards violence and aggression.
Especially out of the football season.
This reminds me of last week's "But but but this treaty says ....". "This Treaty" being a Treaty about the Americas.
I still think the appropriate model is perhaps the Balfour Declaration, if the Govt move on this.
I'm not very clear how this would 'destabilise the international system', when "147 of the 193 United Nations (UN) member states have recognized the State of Palestine".
There seems some justification to go both ways.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQz-RO3XAwE
Jago Hazzard"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YKsTI1dMrU
Jaguar I don’t blame them trying something different. Their cars are crap, they have a declining customer base they need to do something or put the brand out to pasture. I see it as a last roll of the dice.
The Bud Light thing was hilarious. They Ratnered the brand for nothing.
Or do they not have any rights, the people of Nuneaton?
- Chagos
- Abortion
- Afghan leak
I think this is a different tier (heh) though, simply because it confirms a narrative in the way the others didn't. There is a cumulative effect too and I think if there is another round of disorder, it could spark off on something relatively minor.But a proportion of the terminally online lot have a thing against Sydney Sweeney because a) she is hot white woman that is getting lots of attention, b) is unapologetic about using her hotness to advertise things (this is far from the first time she has done these kind of ads) and c) might not be far left in her politics although she stays clear of most of that stuff thus why people suspect that, instead shoots guns and stuff.
I suspect some clever management have realised there is a big opportunity for a hot celebrity to make a lot of money that takes this path. She isn't even the super hottest of the mega hot celeb / modelling world, but there is a market for the yes there are people in normal society who look like that.
Investigations like this are difficult and sensitive and they've managed to charge the first individual less than a week after the event, and then they did a press release immediately after they charged the second individual a couple of days later.
https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/local-news/extra-patrols-after-suspicious-man-32177592
https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/local-news/appeal-leads-nuneaton-mans-arrest-32155841
All the news is weirdly vague. “Incident”. “Man”. “Suspicious”
We have no proof this is more crime by asylum seekers - or not - but that’s because the news won’t tell you. And if lived in Nuneaton right now I’d be thinking “wtf is going on, who is committing these crimes?” Especially now they know the police tried to hush up the Afghan rapes
As @FrancisUrquhart says, the cover up and secrecy is probably making it all worse - and the eventual backlash will be more extreme
It will be as effective as all the others.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgm2y24xjgko
Nice try. Fail
Local business owner claims this is not the first attack on Health Secretary’s constituency headquarters"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/08/01/trans-rage-protesters-vandalise-wes-streeting-office
It will be about as effective as "crack downs" on drug advertising on Snapchat and TikTok...
Mr Shaw, who is the author of a standard legal textbook on international law, is currently representing Israel in its International Court of Justice (ICJ) case against South Africa, which argued that Israeli forces had committed genocidal acts in Gaza.
I wonder what the Venn diagram of Youth Demand, JSO, PA, and now Trans Bash Back is?
Also from the article above - the employer really isn't that bright given the statement "She claimed that two workers have since started the process with the Home Office and are not illegally working, although this has not been confirmed."
And they didn't try to keep the alleged rape quiet - they just didn't publish any further details about the individuals. For community tensions - well they aren't wrong, are they? Their first responsibility is to keep people safe and they often provide dubious advice as a result, like telling me to not cycle on an A road even though I'm perfectly entitled to.
It's telling that the local councillors didn't make any statements either - they are terrified of seeing their local community burnt down, and there is no doubt it's effective to wait a few days to kill the momentum of such disorder. Is that sustainable in the long term? I don't know, but I think almost all of us would make the same decision if we were in that position.
And that’s how you store up grievous trouble
Malmesburys suggestion has a lot of merit. It should be consider. Obviously it won’t be.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IeFlGyE27Mc
One minute of a speech in which President Trump's past cheating is enumerated.
Though they have their fans. I wonder in which foreign city 'Bella' resides?
That’s a first !
Discussion is appropriate on here. The small boats are the biggest political issue of the moment, an issue the incumbent and previous Governments lost control of. However it is inappropriate for you to solely report these issues in terms of their (in your view) correlation with Islam.
I wonder how many others are put off the site by the sentiments you express? I know you have your fanbois here, but blimey PB isn't a nice place to be when you get your jackboots on.
Or so it seemed to me watching this morning. Another good reason for Rejoining.
It seems to me that if we were to process people more quickly and give a lot more publicity to sending back those we reject, that those with weak or no case for asylum would be encouraged to use their money to settle somewhere else.
Even you will understand why that approach is unsustainable. You'd have thousands of bullshit allegations by the far-right.
It's obviously Mexico that puts the American in American Eagle.
BBC investigates ‘cocaine use’ by Strictly stars
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/03/bbc-launches-probe-into-cocaine-use-strictly-stars/
For shame !!
You could go out for a couple of drinks in a couple of bars, have a meal, and end up 3 grand in debt through no fault of your own 😱
Whenever the government attempt to restrict it there is a big outcry that they can't get the "skilled" staff in the UK, despite there being very high levels of unemployment among Bangleshi community (who run most Indian restaurants).