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That was the exception rather than the rule for French Military History.Ninoinoz said:
Would those French be the same French who at Waterloo shouted "Merde!" to an offer of quarter from the British and promptly were blasted to death by artillery fire?TheScreamingEagles said:
Clearly those two Iraqi Divisions were taught by the French.AndyJS said:ITV news: two Iraqi divisions in Mosul with 30,000 troops capitulated to 800 ISIS combatants.
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It wasn't the British but the Prussians under Blucher.Ninoinoz said:
Would those French be the same French who at Waterloo shouted "Merde!" to an offer of quarter from the British and promptly were blasted to death by artillery fire?TheScreamingEagles said:
Clearly those two Iraqi Divisions were taught by the French.AndyJS said:ITV news: two Iraqi divisions in Mosul with 30,000 troops capitulated to 800 ISIS combatants.
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I've been away for a couple of days, and am therefore slow to thank Morris Dancer for another winning tennis tip. Girl A beat girl B, but don't worry about the names, if MD marks your card. Thanks very much---tomorrow's opinions?
The one tip I can pass on---it is surprising how often the best price is on Pinnaclesports.0 -
**TRUE STORY ALERT**ToryJim said:@bpfootball: Excellent from RTE tonight - http://t.co/kZTLemzuY8
Chortle
In my workplace sweepstake, Chile were drawn by a Mr. Curry.0 -
30,000 surrendered? It would be a stretch to call it an 'army', that's for sure.
10 days to go until the 10th anniversary of the 2004 handover.0 -
He may be, but he's also completely correct.ToryJim said:Osborne is on manoeuvres
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Doesn't he also have the highest approval rating for any senior politician in the country? *titter*Richard_Nabavi said:
He may be, but he's also completely correct.ToryJim said:Osborne is on manoeuvres
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Absolutely.Richard_Nabavi said:
He may be, but he's also completely correct.ToryJim said:Osborne is on manoeuvres
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Brave possibly, but futile. Wars are not won by people who are willing to die for their cause, wars are won by those who are are willing to kill for their cause. ISIS have this advantage.Ninoinoz said:
Would those French be the same French who at Waterloo shouted "Merde!" to an offer of quarter from the British and promptly were blasted to death by artillery fire?TheScreamingEagles said:
Clearly those two Iraqi Divisions were taught by the French.AndyJS said:ITV news: two Iraqi divisions in Mosul with 30,000 troops capitulated to 800 ISIS combatants.
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Paxman's final Newsnight tonight after 25 years.0
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Nick Sutton @suttonnick 2m
Updated Times front page - "Miliband is not up to top job, say voters" #tomorrowspaperstoday #bbcpapers pic.twitter.com/RmgyrmL89n0 -
Have they only just noticed?fitalass said:Twitter
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Updated Times front page - "Miliband is not up to top job, say voters" #tomorrowspaperstoday #bbcpapers pic.twitter.com/RmgyrmL89n0 -
Yup, hard to square that with voting intention.fitalass said:Twitter
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It's a sectarian civil war. The Sunni part of those Iraqi divisions deserted because they weren't going to fight their own team and the Shia part scooted back to home turf. Both parts will quite happily fight once they're on the right team.
What Blair et al have done is create the conditions for a much bigger Suni-Shia version of the Iran-Iraq war across the whole middle east.
edit: and of course not just the middle east as there'll be inevitable blowback here
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Fox, agreed. I think that this Dutch team might just keep getting better as they progress into the next round of the World Cup. Its great to see Holland really playing like a team again, and I wouldn't underestimate them.foxinsoxuk said:
Chile are much better defensively than the Dutch. I see them winning, possibly also the Aussies beating the pisspoor Spanish.
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Nice moustache, Mandelson!0
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Cameroon are 6 with Betfair.0
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Paxman goes out with a bang, with swipe at Miliband: "Polls show he has not much more appeal than a flatulent dog in a lift." #newsnight0 -
@alstewitn: .@Ed_Miliband , about as popular as 'a flatulent dog in a lift'. How politics will miss the nuanced subtlety of a clever Paxoism.0
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Paxman was once asked how being Jewish affected his life and work. His answer was that it hadn't because he wasn't Jewish:Scott_P said:@alstewitn: .@Ed_Miliband , about as popular as 'a flatulent dog in a lift'. How politics will miss the nuanced subtlety of a clever Paxoism.
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Ouch.TheScreamingEagles said:Matt Chorley @MattChorley 1m
Paxman goes out with a bang, with swipe at Miliband: "Polls show he has not much more appeal than a flatulent dog in a lift." #newsnight
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Really interesting article on who ISIS actually *are* on citizen journalism news service nsnbc.me here: http://nsnbc.me/2014/06/15/isis-unveiled-identity-insurgency-syria-iraq/
Basically (and rather convincingly) alleges heavy Saudi involvement.0 -
I am really hopeful that kind of complacency within the Labour party carries on to the GE campaign. Its not just that Ed Miliband is a problem for the Labour party, its the whole Shadow Cabinet who simple don't look or sound like a Government in waiting right now. The Conservatives did back in 2010. I remember years ago, Blair taking to the stage with a group of his strongest performing Cabinet Ministers in one GE campaign, it was quite a powerful message to the voters. This Conservative Government is conveying the same sense of workman like Statesmanship after one term in Office, and its poor that the current Labour Shadow Cabinet do not after only a few years out of power.NickPalmer said:
FWIW my view is that although many voters are not persuaded by any of the party leaders, they don't really actively dislike them either, so the active dislike which the Conservative Party manages to engender in the swing electorate trumps anything else. I often meet voters who are less pro-Labour but more viscerally anti-Tory than I am: the belief that the Conservatives are simply not interested in ordinary people (except as a source of votes every five years) is quite widespread.Sean_F said:
Oh, I agree. 5 years ago, I spent many fruitless hours here rebutting tim's arguments about Latvian homophobes etc.0 -
Still time for Ed to recall Mandelson to the team for the next election.
A bit like Torres...0 -
Those heady days of polling crossover and those three polls turning the PB Hodges into an orgasmic mess. Now, Ed is still crap, but Ed is ahead. Crossover just seems like a distant memory. Squirrelnightmaretastic!
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Mandelson: war in Iraq may have been an honest mistake.0
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@alstewitn: .@BBCNewsnight Mandy says he never confused good communication with good policies. Worth reflecting upon for a moment or two, in silence.0
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@BBCNewsnight Mandy says he never confused good communication with good policies. Worth reflecting upon for a moment or two, in silence.0 -
Did someone mention Felicity Kendal?HurstLlama said:
Oh dear, now I am going to have to go and bathe my wrists in cold water. Felicity Kendall, oh dear. There was one episode of the GoodLife when she was in her nightie and the light was behind her and, well never mind. That I still remember that scene after what, forty years, is enough. There was a picture of her in the paper a few weeks ago and she still looks drop dead gorgeous.MrJones said:
yeah, hot and wholesome combined like Felicity KendalPatrick said:Was browsing the Daily Mail online and a thought occurs to me: That Duchess of Cambridge is really quite exceptionally QILFy....just saying...
I saw her outside the stage door at Wyndham's Theatre last summer. We didn't pay any attention to her (apart from merely noticing that she was there) because we were all waiting to see the drop-dead-gorgeous Daniel Radcliffe outside the stage door at Noel Coward Theatre opposite.0 -
ScottP, one of these days I will beat you to the tweet on PB.
Scott_P said:@alstewitn: .@BBCNewsnight Mandy says he never confused good communication with good policies. Worth reflecting upon for a moment or two, in silence.
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38% was supposed to be Labour's firewall. It's now breached regularly.fitalass said:I am really hopeful that kind of complacency within the Labour party carries on to the GE campaign. Its not just that Ed Miliband is a problem for the Labour party, its the whole Shadow Cabinet who simple don't look or sound like a Government in waiting right now. The Conservatives did back in 2010. I remember years ago, Blair taking to the stage with a group of his strongest performing Cabinet Ministers in one GE campaign, it was quite a powerful message to the voters. This Conservative Government is conveying the same sense of workman like Statesmanship after one term in Office, and its poor that the current Labour Shadow Cabinet do not after only a few years out of power.
NickPalmer said:
FWIW my view is that although many voters are not persuaded by any of the party leaders, they don't really actively dislike them either, so the active dislike which the Conservative Party manages to engender in the swing electorate trumps anything else. I often meet voters who are less pro-Labour but more viscerally anti-Tory than I am: the belief that the Conservatives are simply not interested in ordinary people (except as a source of votes every five years) is quite widespread.Sean_F said:
Oh, I agree. 5 years ago, I spent many fruitless hours here rebutting tim's arguments about Latvian homophobes etc.
Barring a Black Swan event, the Conservatives will win more seats than Labour in 2015
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The best theatre I've been to recently was Mojo, lots of nice boys topless.JohnLoony said:
Did someone mention Felicity Kendal?HurstLlama said:
Oh dear, now I am going to have to go and bathe my wrists in cold water. Felicity Kendall, oh dear. There was one episode of the GoodLife when she was in her nightie and the light was behind her and, well never mind. That I still remember that scene after what, forty years, is enough. There was a picture of her in the paper a few weeks ago and she still looks drop dead gorgeous.MrJones said:
yeah, hot and wholesome combined like Felicity KendalPatrick said:Was browsing the Daily Mail online and a thought occurs to me: That Duchess of Cambridge is really quite exceptionally QILFy....just saying...
I saw her outside the stage door at Wyndham's Theatre last summer. We didn't pay any attention to her (apart from merely noticing that she was there) because we were all waiting to see the drop-dead-gorgeous Daniel Radcliffe outside the stage door at Noel Coward Theatre opposite.0 -
Of course there could be a black swan event that benefits the ToriesSean_F said:
38% was supposed to be Labour's firewall. It's now breached regularly.fitalass said:I am really hopeful that kind of complacency within the Labour party carries on to the GE campaign. Its not just that Ed Miliband is a problem for the Labour party, its the whole Shadow Cabinet who simple don't look or sound like a Government in waiting right now. The Conservatives did back in 2010. I remember years ago, Blair taking to the stage with a group of his strongest performing Cabinet Ministers in one GE campaign, it was quite a powerful message to the voters. This Conservative Government is conveying the same sense of workman like Statesmanship after one term in Office, and its poor that the current Labour Shadow Cabinet do not after only a few years out of power.
NickPalmer said:
FWIW my view is that although many voters are not persuaded by any of the party leaders, they don't really actively dislike them either, so the active dislike which the Conservative Party manages to engender in the swing electorate trumps anything else. I often meet voters who are less pro-Labour but more viscerally anti-Tory than I am: the belief that the Conservatives are simply not interested in ordinary people (except as a source of votes every five years) is quite widespread.Sean_F said:
Oh, I agree. 5 years ago, I spent many fruitless hours here rebutting tim's arguments about Latvian homophobes etc.
Barring a Black Swan event, the Conservatives will win more seats than Labour in 2015
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Just two words;
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The victors of 2010 dumped. Something to get used to?0
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Michael Howard making a cameo appearance on Newsnight.0
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There is no doubt that UKIP have done much to lance the toxicity of the Conservative party in recent months, something that shouldn't be underestimated when it comes to tactical voting among voters of various political persuasions at the next GE.fitalass said:
I am really hopeful that kind of complacency within the Labour party carries on to the GE campaign. Its not just that Ed Miliband is a problem for the Labour party, its the whole Shadow Cabinet who simple don't look or sound like a Government in waiting right now. The Conservatives did back in 2010. I remember years ago, Blair taking to the stage with a group of his strongest performing Cabinet Ministers in one GE campaign, it was quite a powerful message to the voters. This Conservative Government is conveying the same sense of workman like Statesmanship after one term in Office, and its poor that the current Labour Shadow Cabinet do not after only a few years out of power.
NickPalmer said:
FWIW my view is that although many voters are not persuaded by any of the party leaders, they don't really actively dislike them either, so the active dislike which the Conservative Party manages to engender in the swing electorate trumps anything else. I often meet voters who are less pro-Labour but more viscerally anti-Tory than I am: the belief that the Conservatives are simply not interested in ordinary people (except as a source of votes every five years) is quite widespread.Sean_F said:
Oh, I agree. 5 years ago, I spent many fruitless hours here rebutting tim's arguments about Latvian homophobes etc.0 -
In the run up to the GE, I have a feeling that we will see more of a Holyrood 2011 campaign set back for the Labour party in the polling rather than a 1992 surprise Conservative victory on election night.Sean_F said:
38% was supposed to be Labour's firewall. It's now breached regularly.fitalass said:I am really hopeful that kind of complacency within the Labour party carries on to the GE campaign. Its not just that Ed Miliband is a problem for the Labour party, its the whole Shadow Cabinet who simple don't look or sound like a Government in waiting right now. The Conservatives did back in 2010. I remember years ago, Blair taking to the stage with a group of his strongest performing Cabinet Ministers in one GE campaign, it was quite a powerful message to the voters. This Conservative Government is conveying the same sense of workman like Statesmanship after one term in Office, and its poor that the current Labour Shadow Cabinet do not after only a few years out of power.
NickPalmer said:
FWIW my view is that although many voters are not persuaded by any of the party leaders, they don't really actively dislike them either, so the active dislike which the Conservative Party manages to engender in the swing electorate trumps anything else. I often meet voters who are less pro-Labour but more viscerally anti-Tory than I am: the belief that the Conservatives are simply not interested in ordinary people (except as a source of votes every five years) is quite widespread.Sean_F said:
Oh, I agree. 5 years ago, I spent many fruitless hours here rebutting tim's arguments about Latvian homophobes etc.
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Yes, Merkel and her CDU-CSU were seriously fussed about the Tory withdrawal from the EPP, as I reported at the time. You don't (I guess) read the German press?One gets the impression that Downing Street doesn't either. The link with the Latvians wasn't the issue (though it added to the impression that the Tories were a bit bonkers) but the perceived betrayal of the centre-right. The recent embrace by the ECR of the AfD (who are a direct threat to the CDU) added a bit of insult to injury - rather as though the CDU had formed an alliance with UKIP - though the Tory members tried to stop it and were overruled by their new friends in the Danish People's Party - and the Latvians.Richard_Nabavi said:
Come off it, Nick. You cannot possibly be serious - Merkel and other senior politicians were fussed about the Latvian homophobes?
Get real - as you well know, there were, and still are, lots of, how shall I put it, 'colourful' parties in all of the European Parliament groupings. It is inconceivable that grown-ups like Angela Merkel would be fussed by it.
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Bye Paxo!0
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News flash:
I have turned.
Based on the conversations I have had tonight, and the dire leadership polling, I think Tories largest party.
Unless Ed can play the Comeback Kid role at Conference.
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I hope it was classily done ;-)ToryJim said:
The best theatre I've been to recently was Mojo, lots of nice boys topless.JohnLoony said:
Did someone mention Felicity Kendal?HurstLlama said:
Oh dear, now I am going to have to go and bathe my wrists in cold water. Felicity Kendall, oh dear. There was one episode of the GoodLife when she was in her nightie and the light was behind her and, well never mind. That I still remember that scene after what, forty years, is enough. There was a picture of her in the paper a few weeks ago and she still looks drop dead gorgeous.MrJones said:
yeah, hot and wholesome combined like Felicity KendalPatrick said:Was browsing the Daily Mail online and a thought occurs to me: That Duchess of Cambridge is really quite exceptionally QILFy....just saying...
I saw her outside the stage door at Wyndham's Theatre last summer. We didn't pay any attention to her (apart from merely noticing that she was there) because we were all waiting to see the drop-dead-gorgeous Daniel Radcliffe outside the stage door at Noel Coward Theatre opposite.0 -
He has form on good conferences, politically speaking. Perhaps this will be like last year where he has a terrible summer, and then rebounds at conference.BobaFett said:News flash:
I have turned.
Based on the conversations I have had tonight, and the dire leadership polling, I think Tories largest party.
Unless Ed can play the Comeback Kid role at Conference.0 -
Congratulations! You're now welcome to start over-posting ;-)BobaFett said:News flash:
I have turned.
Based on the conversations I have had tonight, and the dire leadership polling, I think Tories largest party.
Unless Ed can play the Comeback Kid role at Conference.0 -
Very, I was mainly there for Ben Whishaw who looks stunning. Colin Morgan looks amazing too.RobD said:
I hope it was classily done ;-)ToryJim said:
The best theatre I've been to recently was Mojo, lots of nice boys topless.JohnLoony said:
Did someone mention Felicity Kendal?HurstLlama said:
Oh dear, now I am going to have to go and bathe my wrists in cold water. Felicity Kendall, oh dear. There was one episode of the GoodLife when she was in her nightie and the light was behind her and, well never mind. That I still remember that scene after what, forty years, is enough. There was a picture of her in the paper a few weeks ago and she still looks drop dead gorgeous.MrJones said:
yeah, hot and wholesome combined like Felicity KendalPatrick said:Was browsing the Daily Mail online and a thought occurs to me: That Duchess of Cambridge is really quite exceptionally QILFy....just saying...
I saw her outside the stage door at Wyndham's Theatre last summer. We didn't pay any attention to her (apart from merely noticing that she was there) because we were all waiting to see the drop-dead-gorgeous Daniel Radcliffe outside the stage door at Noel Coward Theatre opposite.0 -
Ah Q! My second favourite Q. :')ToryJim said:
Very, I was mainly there for Ben Whishaw who looks stunning. Colin Morgan looks amazing too.RobD said:
I hope it was classily done ;-)ToryJim said:
The best theatre I've been to recently was Mojo, lots of nice boys topless.JohnLoony said:
Did someone mention Felicity Kendal?HurstLlama said:
Oh dear, now I am going to have to go and bathe my wrists in cold water. Felicity Kendall, oh dear. There was one episode of the GoodLife when she was in her nightie and the light was behind her and, well never mind. That I still remember that scene after what, forty years, is enough. There was a picture of her in the paper a few weeks ago and she still looks drop dead gorgeous.MrJones said:
yeah, hot and wholesome combined like Felicity KendalPatrick said:Was browsing the Daily Mail online and a thought occurs to me: That Duchess of Cambridge is really quite exceptionally QILFy....just saying...
I saw her outside the stage door at Wyndham's Theatre last summer. We didn't pay any attention to her (apart from merely noticing that she was there) because we were all waiting to see the drop-dead-gorgeous Daniel Radcliffe outside the stage door at Noel Coward Theatre opposite.
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Spain managing to lose the World Cup and lose a King 75 minutes later might be seen by some unkind cynical people as somewhat careless0
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LibDems = Spain 0
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Possibly. That is the hope. I'm guessing Alexrod's advice is : "run into Conference with a weak lead. Laugh off the bacon/Sun crap. Kick on from there."RobD said:
He has form on good conferences, politically speaking. Perhaps this will be like last year where he has a terrible summer, and then rebounds at conference.BobaFett said:News flash:
I have turned.
Based on the conversations I have had tonight, and the dire leadership polling, I think Tories largest party.
Unless Ed can play the Comeback Kid role at Conference.
To be fair to Ed, he's a good speaker, without notes. But the pressure is on!0 -
BBC Newsnight on a bit later now in Scotland, and I have just been watching the very revealing Mandelson vs Paxman interview segment on Ed Miliband, Labour policy and Tony Blair..... OUCH! The Labour party are being far too complacent, and Mandelson knows it.
PS. As a swansong interview by Paxman in his career with Newsnight, they don't come much better than this excellent one with Peter Mandelson. And then to follow it by jumping on a tandem bike ride around London with Boris Johnson, absolutely priceless!0 -
F*ckwit. How many died, and will die for an 'honest mistake'?AndyJS said:Mandelson: war in Iraq may have been an honest mistake.
Besides, no one of sane mind makes a decision to go to war on terms so loose that it could be construed to be an error.
Looks as if he's trying to further distance himself from the whole sorry mess.
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This benefits crap is yet another sign of complete cowardice and lack of principle from the Labour leadership. Ugh.0
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Where is the Ashcroft marginal poll ?
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I have to say I think that is grossly unfair. During the Franco-Prussian War the population of Paris resorted to eating rats before they surrendered. In the First World War they were 'bled white' at Verdun and overall lost far more men than we did (often forgotten).TheScreamingEagles said:
That was the exception rather than the rule for French Military History.Ninoinoz said:
Would those French be the same French who at Waterloo shouted "Merde!" to an offer of quarter from the British and promptly were blasted to death by artillery fire?TheScreamingEagles said:
Clearly those two Iraqi Divisions were taught by the French.AndyJS said:ITV news: two Iraqi divisions in Mosul with 30,000 troops capitulated to 800 ISIS combatants.
It is sometimes forgotten that we surrendered Singapore and Tobruk within 3 months of each other in 1942. In 1940 we were only saved from having to capitulate on a far greater scale at Dunkirk due to the inexplicable pause that Hitler ordered in the Panzer advance.0 -
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Doesn't help that the Conservatives go last so get last reply etcBobaFett said:
Possibly. That is the hope. I'm guessing Alexrod's advice is : "run into Conference with a weak lead. Laugh off the bacon/Sun crap. Kick on from there."RobD said:
He has form on good conferences, politically speaking. Perhaps this will be like last year where he has a terrible summer, and then rebounds at conference.BobaFett said:News flash:
I have turned.
Based on the conversations I have had tonight, and the dire leadership polling, I think Tories largest party.
Unless Ed can play the Comeback Kid role at Conference.
To be fair to Ed, he's a good speaker, without notes. But the pressure is on!0 -
Cameroon madness.0
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Or the Pakistani army of 1971?TheScreamingEagles said:
Clearly those two Iraqi Divisions were taught by the French.AndyJS said:ITV news: two Iraqi divisions in Mosul with 30,000 troops capitulated to 800 ISIS combatants.
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Yorktown 1781?TheScreamingEagles said:
That was the exception rather than the rule for French Military History.Ninoinoz said:
Would those French be the same French who at Waterloo shouted "Merde!" to an offer of quarter from the British and promptly were blasted to death by artillery fire?TheScreamingEagles said:
Clearly those two Iraqi Divisions were taught by the French.AndyJS said:ITV news: two Iraqi divisions in Mosul with 30,000 troops capitulated to 800 ISIS combatants.
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The French always get up my nose.MaxU said:
I have to say I think that is grossly unfair. During the Franco-Prussian War the population of Paris resorted to eating rats before they surrendered. In the First World War they were 'bled white' at Verdun and overall lost far more men than we did (often forgotten).TheScreamingEagles said:
That was the exception rather than the rule for French Military History.Ninoinoz said:
Would those French be the same French who at Waterloo shouted "Merde!" to an offer of quarter from the British and promptly were blasted to death by artillery fire?TheScreamingEagles said:
Clearly those two Iraqi Divisions were taught by the French.AndyJS said:ITV news: two Iraqi divisions in Mosul with 30,000 troops capitulated to 800 ISIS combatants.
It is sometimes forgotten that we surrendered Singapore and Tobruk within 3 months of each other in 1942. In 1940 we were only saved from having to capitulate on a far greater scale at Dunkirk due to the inexplicable pause that Hitler ordered in the Panzer advance.0 -
Naughty.Sunil_Prasannan said:
Or the Pakistani army of 1971?TheScreamingEagles said:
Clearly those two Iraqi Divisions were taught by the French.AndyJS said:ITV news: two Iraqi divisions in Mosul with 30,000 troops capitulated to 800 ISIS combatants.
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All of yous.
Read this, explains French Military History, they are worse than the Italians.
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Jim, Osborne is always on manoeuvres, and the Conservative party has always been the main beneficiary.ToryJim said:0
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Come to think of it, the Ashcroft poll could be a serious problem for Nick Clegg if the results point to big losses for the LDs.0
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Correct. Nothing whatsoever to do with tim's, Labour's (and Chris Huhne's, to his eternal disgrace, admittedly one of many such disgraces) smears about the homophobes - which, if you remember, was the criticism at the time.NickPalmer said:
Yes, Merkel and her CDU-CSU were seriously fussed about the Tory withdrawal from the EPP, as I reported at the time. You don't (I guess) read the German press?One gets the impression that Downing Street doesn't either. The link with the Latvians wasn't the issue (though it added to the impression that the Tories were a bit bonkers) but the perceived betrayal of the centre-right. The recent embrace by the ECR of the AfD (who are a direct threat to the CDU) added a bit of insult to injury - rather as though the CDU had formed an alliance with UKIP - though the Tory members tried to stop it and were overruled by their new friends in the Danish People's Party - and the Latvians.Richard_Nabavi said:
Come off it, Nick. You cannot possibly be serious - Merkel and other senior politicians were fussed about the Latvian homophobes?
Get real - as you well know, there were, and still are, lots of, how shall I put it, 'colourful' parties in all of the European Parliament groupings. It is inconceivable that grown-ups like Angela Merkel would be fussed by it.
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Do we know if the same marginals are being monitored by Ashcroft, or is it a different set each time?0
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Says the moderator of a political betting forum ;-)TheScreamingEagles said:0 -
watching isis youtube vids and thinking the US might want to bomb them just to get rid of the embarrassing amount of US kit they've got
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Well, we should be very pleased at that admission, on the Prodigal Son basis, especially from Mandy, who is by a country mile the most talented Labour figure of his generation.AndyJS said:Mandelson: war in Iraq may have been an honest mistake.
He doesn't disappoint even now; in authentic New Labour style, his use of the word 'honest' in that comment stretches the English language well beyond breaking point.
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That is slightly unfair, though funny, the French victory at Rocroi was stunning and broke essentially the Spanish power in continental Europe. The Duc d'Enghian was only 21 at the time too. Admittedly you can always pick out odd examples etc but the French were capable of some military prowessTheScreamingEagles said:All of yous.
Read this, explains French Military History, they are worse than the Italians.
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I'm merely the occasional guest editor of PB these days.RobD said:
Says the moderator of a political betting forum ;-)TheScreamingEagles said:0 -
My apologies!TheScreamingEagles said:
I'm merely the occasional guest editor of PB these days.0 -
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Yorktown?TheScreamingEagles said:All of yous.
Read this, explains French Military History, they are worse than the Italians.
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/jokes/bljokefrenchmilitaryhistory.htm
Austerlitz?
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Betting post for all PBers
BetBright
Pile the f--k in.
Free no risk bet up to £30 on tomorrow's game, with an additional £10 free bet on ENG v CRC if your bet loses.
I cannot see how this is not free money. I have shovelled the lot on Uruguay at 3.5 as insurance.
As a very patriotic, sport-loving social democrat, I hope to lose my 'money'.
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""The shocking statistic is that Cameroon have only had one shot on target in 135 minutes of World Cup football.
"This side looks a pale imitation of the Cameroon side that thrilled the world with their attacking flair in 1990."
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Is this a new account offer or for all ?BobaFett said:Betting post for all PBers
BetBright
Pile the f--k in.
Free no risk bet up to £30 on tomorrow's game, with an additional £10 free bet on ENG v CRC if your bet loses.
I cannot see how this is not free money. I have shovelled the lot on Uruguay at 3.5 as insurance.
As a very patriotic, sport-loving social democrat, I hope to lose my 'money'.
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Wow, it feels weird and odd to have a non profitable bet at this world cup.0
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New accounts onlyPulpstar said:
Is this a new account offer or for all ?BobaFett said:Betting post for all PBers
BetBright
Pile the f--k in.
Free no risk bet up to £30 on tomorrow's game, with an additional £10 free bet on ENG v CRC if your bet loses.
I cannot see how this is not free money. I have shovelled the lot on Uruguay at 3.5 as insurance.
As a very patriotic, sport-loving social democrat, I hope to lose my 'money'.
DYOR etc etc
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Plus you need to look at the fact that Charles Martel stopped the Moorish conquest at Tours, that Charlemagne was a pretty nifty warrior. Both should be considered French.Sunil_Prasannan said:
Yorktown?TheScreamingEagles said:All of yous.
Read this, explains French Military History, they are worse than the Italians.
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/jokes/bljokefrenchmilitaryhistory.htm
Austerlitz?
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From the Times
A YouGov survey for Prospect magazine published today found that 60 per cent of voters believe he is “not up to the job” of being prime minister.
It also revealed that more people believe Mr Miliband’s brother David, the former foreign secretary whom he defeated to become Labour leader, would be a better prime minister.
....The YouGov polling found that 23 per cent of voters thought Ed Miliband would make the best prime minister, with 33 per cent opting for David Cameron. His rating is down two points on a similar poll taken soon after he was elected Labour leader in 2010.
It also suggested that voters did not believe Mr Miliband would deliver on his main election pledges of holding down energy prices and tackling the cost of living.
When voters were asked whether David Miliband would have made the best prime minister, 35 per cent opted for the former foreign secretary, with Mr Cameron’s ratings tumbling to 23 per cent.
Mr Miliband was described as weak by 59 per cent and strong by 13 per cent. He was seen as “in touch with my concerns” by only a quarter of voters.0 -
I honestly can't fathom why people think David Miliband would be a decent PM - yet I've heard it from quite a few fairly apolitical people. Is it just that he looks slightly more normal than Ed ?0
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Croatia - Mexico should be a belter.0
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"Dwindling oil reserves in Baghdad lead to soaring prices worldwide
Iraq's crude exports had helped to keep global petrol prices from rising, but the Isis advance has driven prices past $114 a barrel"
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/18/dwindling-iraq-oil-reserves-cause-price-spike0
