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WillG said:

rcs1000 said:

Malmesbury said:

FrankBooth said:

If you look at the programme of Opposition Platform - For Life it is NOT about joining Russia or ceceding from Ukraine. It does however favour Donbass autonomy. Where is the evidence for a substantial minority let alone a majority of people in any part of Ukraine wanting to be part of Russia?

Pre invasion polling - https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2022/02/europe/russia-ukraine-crisis-poll-intl/index.html

That's fascinating polling: in 2022, before the invasion, just 9% of Ukrainians thought Russia and Ukraine should be one country.

And even in the far east of the country, the number is just 18%.

The figures are very similar to those in the 1991 Independence referendum.

They have long and different histories. Ukraine started as the Kyivan Rus in the 800s. It was a centre of civilization, with a federal system and constitutional nature. It prospered by trade between the Norse Kingdoms and the Roman Empire during the Byzantine era.

The Duchy of Moscow didn't even begin until five centuries late. It was a remote backwater and tribal monarchy. It achieved no status on its own but after the Mongol conquest, became the main town in that region as the Mongols used it as an administrative base for the region. It rapidly became a collaborationist state, helping the Mongols oppress her fellow Slavs. Moscow embraced Asian despotism and a role in economically exploiting her neighbours as tax collectors for the Tatar yoke, taking its own slice of the cash. Using that money it launched a campaign of brutal conquest, annexing peaceful trading republics. When it got big enough, it stole the name of the Rus and unduly laid claim to its history.

Farooq said:

Chris said:

Farooq said:

Chris said:

Just out of curiosity, can anyone clarify for me exactly why Phillip Schofield has been sacked?

Was it because:
(1) He is gay
(2) He was unfaithful to his wife
(3) He had an affair with a colleague
(4) He was asked by his employer whether he had had/was having an affair with a colleague and falsely denied it?

(5) an affair with someone who works directly for you is problematic.

From what I understand of the situation, a sacking doesn't sound over the top. The coverage, though, probably is.

Did the person work directly for him? In Schofield's statement, he is just described as a younger male colleague.

Schofield was just a presenter, wasn't he? Would a presenter normally have other staff working under him, unless in some personal capacity?

As I understand it, yes. I may be wrong.

Theuniondivvie said:

Dura_Ace said:

Journalists chasing Johnson round some airport is highly amusing. His reality distortion field is clearly failing.

He sounded quite angry (with just a soupçon of fear) which was fukking excellent.

Malmesbury said:

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MoonRabbit said:

RochdalePioneers said:

This week's bot was almost impressive. Ranting about woke in schools. How democracy is failing. How strong leadership is needed.

We sure he is a Russian bot? And not one of the NatC speakers? TBH I look at some of the GBeebies people on Twitter and they don't sound much different.

I took as much gay propaganda and perversion I could to school, but the teachers didn’t like it at all. Not one bit. I like to think this has changed in just a dozen years, but strongly suspect the Nat-C’s and GBeebies are completely wrong on this. What a load of hopeful rubbish SovBot’s spout. 👭

Colonel "Bat" Guano: I think you're some kind of deviated prevert. I think General Ripper found out about your preversion, and that you were organizing some kind of mutiny of preverts.