Most Scots want to keep UK’s nuclear deterrent, poll shows
Support to retain the Clyde-based weapons is even strong among supporters of the SNP, which wants unilateral disarmament
A majority of Scots believe that Britain should keep its nuclear arsenal amid calls for the SNP to reconsider its historic demand for unilateral disarmament.
A poll has found that 56 per cent believe the UK should retain its independent nuclear deterrent, compared with 22 per cent who think it should be given up.
The SNP has long campaigned for Britain to unconditionally relinquish its Trident nuclear submarines, which are based on the Clyde (the Royal Navy’s headquarters in Scotland), arguing that they are both financially and morally wrong.
However, Ian Blackford, the party’s former Westminster leader, recently became the first senior nationalist to break ranks, citing Russian aggression and uncertainty over President Trump’s commitment to European defence.
That just shows Blackford for an utter retard. Keeping a nuclear deterrent that's dependent on US whims is absolutely the opposite of what anyone worried about Trump would propose.
I'm not sure about that. I've become a convert to nuclear weapons and would like to see some of the more oppressed nations get hold of them. Would Gaza have suffered the slaughter of 50,000 of their citizens if they had had one?
Yes, as Hamas nuke Jerusalem and Tel Aviv with no understanding of the mushroom cloud that is about to engulf them. Other than that, good idea.
I don't think that would happen. Contrary to widespread opinion some of the most cerebral people I know are Arab. The reason Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons is because indiscriminate slaughter in religiously unacceptable. Would Netanyahu treat the Gazans like a turkey shoot if they had a bomb? No of course not. Would the Gazans use that bomb? Absolutely not.
It is the imbalance in power that has led to the oppression. It nearly always is.
And yet they were willing to rape and murder innocent women and children.
This is not a defence of Israel’s actions.
But it just takes one bad guy
(I think it would be more of an issue bombing the Dome on the Rock than killing all the people nearby)
The weird thing about this regime is that the more they proclaim a white, Christian, European vision of America, the more they hate Europe. There must be some kind of psychology thesis to be written about this.
Vance seems to simultaneously hate his own background and hate the world he has joined.
He also hates immigration and multiculturalism while being married to the daughter of Indian immigrants. He seems to be quite a conflicted individual.
Maybe he hates his wife, though? Doesn't seem that implausible.
He doesn't seem to, but who knows.
Quite common to find immigrants who have problems with other ethnicities of immigrants, in the U.K.
The enthusiasm with which certain activist types sell “only White people can be racist” and “it’s racist to suggest that non-white ethnic groups don’t all love each other” is quite telling.
The only people selling “it’s racist to suggest that non-white ethnic groups don’t all love each other” are figments of your imagination.
Nope.
It was even police policy at one point. Has a hilarious encounter where a white policeman tried to tell my Ghanaian ex that an incident she reported as racist, wasn’t.
The BBC is giving wall to wall coverage of the security lapse farce. And this is OK. But it doesn't tell us anything at all we didn't know before but merely confirms what we thought about their character and competence.
But the BBC continues to give relatively scant attention to the big story: USA has switched sides, and USA is becoming a rogue state both externally and internally.
The USA cannot become a rogue state. Excepting that overfriendliness with KSA does have its own heritage within UK foreign policy, the US decides who is a rogue state and who isn't.
Not as far as we're concerned, it doesn't.
Absolutely as far as we're concerned it does. Name a single occasion that we have differed from the US on who is a rogue state.
Most Scots want to keep UK’s nuclear deterrent, poll shows
Support to retain the Clyde-based weapons is even strong among supporters of the SNP, which wants unilateral disarmament
A majority of Scots believe that Britain should keep its nuclear arsenal amid calls for the SNP to reconsider its historic demand for unilateral disarmament.
A poll has found that 56 per cent believe the UK should retain its independent nuclear deterrent, compared with 22 per cent who think it should be given up.
The SNP has long campaigned for Britain to unconditionally relinquish its Trident nuclear submarines, which are based on the Clyde (the Royal Navy’s headquarters in Scotland), arguing that they are both financially and morally wrong.
However, Ian Blackford, the party’s former Westminster leader, recently became the first senior nationalist to break ranks, citing Russian aggression and uncertainty over President Trump’s commitment to European defence.
That just shows Blackford for an utter retard. Keeping a nuclear deterrent that's dependent on US whims is absolutely the opposite of what anyone worried about Trump would propose.
I'm not sure about that. I've become a convert to nuclear weapons and would like to see some of the more oppressed nations get hold of them. Would Gaza have suffered the slaughter of 50,000 of their citizens if they had had one?
They would if they had Trident, it's neither use nor ornament.
I wonder if Kermit is going to get JDV to speak at the tory conference. It feels sort of on brand for her but the event is probably too low rent and irrelevant for him.
The weird thing about this regime is that the more they proclaim a white, Christian, European vision of America, the more they hate Europe. There must be some kind of psychology thesis to be written about this.
Rather more importantly, it has implications for our foreign policy. There's little point toadying to someone who's actively hostile to you.
Hopefully by April the whole tariffs and retaliatory tax measures malarkey will be a bit clearer and Britain will know whether it’s actually been successful in deflecting them. If so, then I expect we continue to tread carefully - which is understandable but will damage our relations with the EU and Canada; if not, then I hope (but don’t expect) that we’ll join the side of the righteous.
I don't think we can be so sanguine. These are the same people negotiating with Russia - one was probably in the group chat from there. We're allowing people who actively hate Europe to negotiate its future. The implications of that are not something that we can hope to avoid like tariffs.
They are going to talk to Russia regardless. We have the ability to reject any outcome of those talks provided we are prepared to step up and support Ukraine sufficiently ourselves
These are eye watering figures, on something that's both unnecessary, and economically unproductive.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czxnj42z90wo The government will end a contract worth £2bn a year with one of the largest providers of hotel asylum accommodation after the Home Office said an audit identified concerns about the company's performance. Stay Belvedere Hotels (SBHL) provides around a quarter of Home Office asylum accommodation across 51 hotels in England and Wales, and also operates Napier Barracks in Ken..
Max Kendix @MaxKendix · 19m EXC: The Lower Thames Crossing has been approved by the government. The £9billion project has been in the pipeline since 2009. £300m spent on the planning application alone.
300 million on planning alone. Most countries would probably build the whole bloody thing for that!
I query these figures as some of that money will be for design work that will be used and built on as the project progresses. It isn’t wasted on “planning” alone. A project of this magnitude will have significant design work regardless of whether the planning system is liberalised.
I presume the figure quoted here is simply the expenditure by RIBA Work Stage 3.
Last time PB looked at this the £300 million was mostly spent on perfectly sensible things like buying the land needed.
Anyway, I think this is basically fatal for the Labour London Party. Equivalent to 4GW of offshore wind, 9000 miles of cycle infrastructure or a quarter of HS2 to Manchester.
My 11 year old wants a detailed explanation including cost and safety comparisons for why a tunnel was chosen over a bridge...
The weird thing about this regime is that the more they proclaim a white, Christian, European vision of America, the more they hate Europe. There must be some kind of psychology thesis to be written about this.
Vance seems to simultaneously hate his own background and hate the world he has joined.
He also hates immigration and multiculturalism while being married to the daughter of Indian immigrants. He seems to be quite a conflicted individual.
I think Vance wants to be hailed as some sort of 'philosopher prince'.
His writings (see the one that was linked to recently about his conversion to Catholicism) seem to show a need to boast about what he has achieved and what he knows.
More generally Washington resembles a Tudor court more than a modern government.
Trump has all the insecure, grandiose, erratic narcissism of late stage Henry VIII.
Mike Pence / Thomas More as the former favourite who chose his conscience over his master orders.
Vance as the Thomas Cromwell figure - low born and talented but always looked down on by those born to privilege.
The likes of Musk, Rubio, Hegseth scheming for position as the Howards, Seymours and such like did.
There's even a weak ineffective legislature and a threatened judicial system.
V good.
Actually there was a whole piece a few weeks ago about how Russell Vought is the Thomas Cromwell figure.
Max Kendix @MaxKendix · 19m EXC: The Lower Thames Crossing has been approved by the government. The £9billion project has been in the pipeline since 2009. £300m spent on the planning application alone.
300 million on planning alone. Most countries would probably build the whole bloody thing for that!
I query these figures as some of that money will be for design work that will be used and built on as the project progresses. It isn’t wasted on “planning” alone. A project of this magnitude will have significant design work regardless of whether the planning system is liberalised.
I presume the figure quoted here is simply the expenditure by RIBA Work Stage 3.
Last time PB looked at this the £300 million was mostly spent on perfectly sensible things like buying the land needed.
Anyway, I think this is basically fatal for the Labour London Party. Equivalent to 4GW of offshore wind, 9000 miles of cycle infrastructure or a quarter of HS2 to Manchester.
My 11 year old wants a detailed explanation including cost and safety comparisons for why a tunnel was chosen over a bridge...
Most Scots want to keep UK’s nuclear deterrent, poll shows
Support to retain the Clyde-based weapons is even strong among supporters of the SNP, which wants unilateral disarmament
A majority of Scots believe that Britain should keep its nuclear arsenal amid calls for the SNP to reconsider its historic demand for unilateral disarmament.
A poll has found that 56 per cent believe the UK should retain its independent nuclear deterrent, compared with 22 per cent who think it should be given up.
The SNP has long campaigned for Britain to unconditionally relinquish its Trident nuclear submarines, which are based on the Clyde (the Royal Navy’s headquarters in Scotland), arguing that they are both financially and morally wrong.
However, Ian Blackford, the party’s former Westminster leader, recently became the first senior nationalist to break ranks, citing Russian aggression and uncertainty over President Trump’s commitment to European defence.
That just shows Blackford for an utter retard. Keeping a nuclear deterrent that's dependent on US whims is absolutely the opposite of what anyone worried about Trump would propose.
I'm not sure about that. I've become a convert to nuclear weapons and would like to see some of the more oppressed nations get hold of them. Would Gaza have suffered the slaughter of 50,000 of their citizens if they had had one?
Just when you think PB can get no more idiotic, up pops Roger to suggest Hamas should have nukes.
The weird thing about this regime is that the more they proclaim a white, Christian, European vision of America, the more they hate Europe. There must be some kind of psychology thesis to be written about this.
It’s the old returning to the purity of the ancestral homeland before decadence and the fall. Proper origin myth stuff.
But their hierarchy of contempt extends domestically too. The more familiar, the more they despise. US Liberals are at the top, then Canadians, then Europeans. It’s civil war thinking.
Yes there is real hatred there. It's like Richard Nixon but dialled up to 11. BTW did you see the Sunday Times named Telegraph Hill as one of Britain's top neighbourhoods? Feeling even smugger than usual.
I didn’t, but it stands to reason given the proximity of big Sainsburys.
Max Kendix @MaxKendix · 19m EXC: The Lower Thames Crossing has been approved by the government. The £9billion project has been in the pipeline since 2009. £300m spent on the planning application alone.
300 million on planning alone. Most countries would probably build the whole bloody thing for that!
I query these figures as some of that money will be for design work that will be used and built on as the project progresses. It isn’t wasted on “planning” alone. A project of this magnitude will have significant design work regardless of whether the planning system is liberalised.
I presume the figure quoted here is simply the expenditure by RIBA Work Stage 3.
Last time PB looked at this the £300 million was mostly spent on perfectly sensible things like buying the land needed.
Anyway, I think this is basically fatal for the Labour London Party. Equivalent to 4GW of offshore wind, 9000 miles of cycle infrastructure or a quarter of HS2 to Manchester.
My 11 year old wants a detailed explanation including cost and safety comparisons for why a tunnel was chosen over a bridge...
Relatively large vessels use that part of the Thames. Opening bridges are expensive. A bridge high enough to not need opening would be seriously expensive.
A big chunk of the (estimated) cost of the project is the approaches, not the actual crossing.
Hello everybody. I've uploaded an essay wot I wrote called "The Matter Of Britain" on the evolution of the nation-state since the Dark Ages. @rcs1000 and @TheScreamingEagles are aware. It is about 1600 words and is within the @ydoethur limit. If the mods agree I'm hoping for a publication for next Sunday. If anybody wants to be a pre-reader just click on "like" and I'll send you a link.
Most Scots want to keep UK’s nuclear deterrent, poll shows
Support to retain the Clyde-based weapons is even strong among supporters of the SNP, which wants unilateral disarmament
A majority of Scots believe that Britain should keep its nuclear arsenal amid calls for the SNP to reconsider its historic demand for unilateral disarmament.
A poll has found that 56 per cent believe the UK should retain its independent nuclear deterrent, compared with 22 per cent who think it should be given up.
The SNP has long campaigned for Britain to unconditionally relinquish its Trident nuclear submarines, which are based on the Clyde (the Royal Navy’s headquarters in Scotland), arguing that they are both financially and morally wrong.
However, Ian Blackford, the party’s former Westminster leader, recently became the first senior nationalist to break ranks, citing Russian aggression and uncertainty over President Trump’s commitment to European defence.
That just shows Blackford for an utter retard. Keeping a nuclear deterrent that's dependent on US whims is absolutely the opposite of what anyone worried about Trump would propose.
I'm not sure about that. I've become a convert to nuclear weapons and would like to see some of the more oppressed nations get hold of them. Would Gaza have suffered the slaughter of 50,000 of their citizens if they had had one?
Yes, as Hamas nuke Jerusalem and Tel Aviv with no understanding of the mushroom cloud that is about to engulf them. Other than that, good idea.
I don't think that would happen. Contrary to widespread opinion some of the most cerebral people I know are Arab. The reason Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons is because indiscriminate slaughter in religiously unacceptable. Would Netanyahu treat the Gazans like a turkey shoot if they had a bomb? No of course not. Would the Gazans use that bomb? Absolutely not.
It is the imbalance in power that has led to the oppression. It nearly always is.
And yet Hamas indiscriminately slaughtered 1700 people on October 7th?
You'd be one of those people professing to us all how fair Hamas is while you were in front of the firing squad because you're Jewish. My wife has a word for people like you I won't repeat on here.
Hello everybody. I've uploaded an essay wot I wrote called "The Matter Of Britain" on the evolution of the nation-state since the Dark Ages. rcs1000 and TheScreamingEagles are aware. It is about 1600 words and is within the ydoethur limit. If the mods agree I'm hoping for a publication for next Sunday. If anybody wants to be a pre-reader just click on "like" and I'll send you a link.
@NickPalmer , one of the sections of the article deals with Stalin's view on the National Question. You are a former Eurocommunist and I assume you understood Marxist theory, so can I ask you to check it to see if I got it right?
The most telling part of the US group chat debacle (which won't be fully publicly acknowledged for a while yet) is that Trumpski has no fucking clue what is going on.
When the story broke, he said he didn't know anything about it, but if you read the chat it's clear he wasn't in that conversation either.
These are eye watering figures, on something that's both unnecessary, and economically unproductive.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czxnj42z90wo The government will end a contract worth £2bn a year with one of the largest providers of hotel asylum accommodation after the Home Office said an audit identified concerns about the company's performance. Stay Belvedere Hotels (SBHL) provides around a quarter of Home Office asylum accommodation across 51 hotels in England and Wales, and also operates Napier Barracks in Ken..
It's mad. For 2bn pounds/year think how many hotels we could build.
The weird thing about this regime is that the more they proclaim a white, Christian, European vision of America, the more they hate Europe. There must be some kind of psychology thesis to be written about this.
Vance seems to simultaneously hate his own background and hate the world he has joined.
He also hates immigration and multiculturalism while being married to the daughter of Indian immigrants. He seems to be quite a conflicted individual.
I think Vance wants to be hailed as some sort of 'philosopher prince'.
His writings (see the one that was linked to recently about his conversion to Catholicism) seem to show a need to boast about what he has achieved and what he knows.
More generally Washington resembles a Tudor court more than a modern government.
Trump has all the insecure, grandiose, erratic narcissism of late stage Henry VIII.
Mike Pence / Thomas More as the former favourite who chose his conscience over his master orders.
Vance as the Thomas Cromwell figure - low born and talented but always looked down on by those born to privilege.
The likes of Musk, Rubio, Hegseth scheming for position as the Howards, Seymours and such like did.
There's even a weak ineffective legislature and a threatened judicial system.
V good.
Actually there was a whole piece a few weeks ago about how Russell Vought is the Thomas Cromwell figure.
Matt Gaetz could be the equivalent of Richard Rich:
Since the mid-16th century Rich has had a reputation for immorality, financial dishonesty, double-dealing, perjury and treachery rarely matched in English history. The historian Hugh Trevor-Roper called Rich a man "of whom nobody has ever spoken a good word".
The most telling part of the US group chat debacle (which won't be fully publicly acknowledged for a while yet) is that Trumpski has no fucking clue what is going on.
When the story broke, he said he didn't know anything about it, but if you read the chat it's clear he wasn't in that conversation either.
A senile old man nominally in charge
Yes I wonder if he'll be annoyed they've been talking behind his back.
The most telling part of the US group chat debacle (which won't be fully publicly acknowledged for a while yet) is that Trumpski has no fucking clue what is going on.
When the story broke, he said he didn't know anything about it, but if you read the chat it's clear he wasn't in that conversation either.
A senile old man nominally in charge
Trump said he didn't know anything about it even after it was briefed that Vance and Trump were in agreement, so either:
1) he is lying 2) the briefer was lying 3) Trump has a problem with short term memory, perhaps due to dementia 4) all of the above.
The weird thing about this regime is that the more they proclaim a white, Christian, European vision of America, the more they hate Europe. There must be some kind of psychology thesis to be written about this.
The most telling part of the US group chat debacle (which won't be fully publicly acknowledged for a while yet) is that Trumpski has no fucking clue what is going on.
When the story broke, he said he didn't know anything about it, but if you read the chat it's clear he wasn't in that conversation either.
A senile old man nominally in charge
You've got that wrong. It was Biden. We were told so by every Republican...
Distaste for Europe is often built into American self-definition.
Europe represents the old, the decadent, anxiety about one's own weakness. America is new, vitality, hoping for the salvation of white civilisation, for these people involved.
Most Scots want to keep UK’s nuclear deterrent, poll shows
Support to retain the Clyde-based weapons is even strong among supporters of the SNP, which wants unilateral disarmament
A majority of Scots believe that Britain should keep its nuclear arsenal amid calls for the SNP to reconsider its historic demand for unilateral disarmament.
A poll has found that 56 per cent believe the UK should retain its independent nuclear deterrent, compared with 22 per cent who think it should be given up.
The SNP has long campaigned for Britain to unconditionally relinquish its Trident nuclear submarines, which are based on the Clyde (the Royal Navy’s headquarters in Scotland), arguing that they are both financially and morally wrong.
However, Ian Blackford, the party’s former Westminster leader, recently became the first senior nationalist to break ranks, citing Russian aggression and uncertainty over President Trump’s commitment to European defence.
That just shows Blackford for an utter retard. Keeping a nuclear deterrent that's dependent on US whims is absolutely the opposite of what anyone worried about Trump would propose.
I'm not sure about that. I've become a convert to nuclear weapons and would like to see some of the more oppressed nations get hold of them. Would Gaza have suffered the slaughter of 50,000 of their citizens if they had had one?
Yes, as Hamas nuke Jerusalem and Tel Aviv with no understanding of the mushroom cloud that is about to engulf them. Other than that, good idea.
Not sure if this has been posted here yet - the Roberts report into 7th October. Utterly horrific reading, and provides some context to quite why Israel has reacted the way it has.
I know that the conflict didn't start on 7th October. I know Israel has done horrific things too, but I question anyone to read this report and not be sickened.
The weird thing about this regime is that the more they proclaim a white, Christian, European vision of America, the more they hate Europe. There must be some kind of psychology thesis to be written about this.
Vance seems to simultaneously hate his own background and hate the world he has joined.
He also hates immigration and multiculturalism while being married to the daughter of Indian immigrants. He seems to be quite a conflicted individual.
I think Vance wants to be hailed as some sort of 'philosopher prince'.
His writings (see the one that was linked to recently about his conversion to Catholicism) seem to show a need to boast about what he has achieved and what he knows.
More generally Washington resembles a Tudor court more than a modern government.
Trump has all the insecure, grandiose, erratic narcissism of late stage Henry VIII.
Mike Pence / Thomas More as the former favourite who chose his conscience over his master orders.
Vance as the Thomas Cromwell figure - low born and talented but always looked down on by those born to privilege.
The likes of Musk, Rubio, Hegseth scheming for position as the Howards, Seymours and such like did.
There's even a weak ineffective legislature and a threatened judicial system.
Or perhaps an early 17thC Stuart monarchy.
With a ruler who proclaims his absolute power, untrammelled by law, but places the actual administration in the hands of incompetent favourites.
Which would make Vance the Duke of Buckingham.*
The Tudors, after all, proved rather competent - though brutal - monarchs.
You have a point with the multiple wives, of course.
*Also fond of facial hair and guyliner...
Not much competence between 1525 and 1558 though.
There was a lot of personal enrichment and power centralisation from the dissolution of the monasteries which might equate to plutocratic corruption and state authoritarianism.
Most Scots want to keep UK’s nuclear deterrent, poll shows
Support to retain the Clyde-based weapons is even strong among supporters of the SNP, which wants unilateral disarmament
A majority of Scots believe that Britain should keep its nuclear arsenal amid calls for the SNP to reconsider its historic demand for unilateral disarmament.
A poll has found that 56 per cent believe the UK should retain its independent nuclear deterrent, compared with 22 per cent who think it should be given up.
The SNP has long campaigned for Britain to unconditionally relinquish its Trident nuclear submarines, which are based on the Clyde (the Royal Navy’s headquarters in Scotland), arguing that they are both financially and morally wrong.
However, Ian Blackford, the party’s former Westminster leader, recently became the first senior nationalist to break ranks, citing Russian aggression and uncertainty over President Trump’s commitment to European defence.
That just shows Blackford for an utter retard. Keeping a nuclear deterrent that's dependent on US whims is absolutely the opposite of what anyone worried about Trump would propose.
I'm not sure about that. I've become a convert to nuclear weapons and would like to see some of the more oppressed nations get hold of them. Would Gaza have suffered the slaughter of 50,000 of their citizens if they had had one?
Yes, as Hamas nuke Jerusalem and Tel Aviv with no understanding of the mushroom cloud that is about to engulf them. Other than that, good idea.
I don't think that would happen. Contrary to widespread opinion some of the most cerebral people I know are Arab. The reason Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons is because indiscriminate slaughter in religiously unacceptable. Would Netanyahu treat the Gazans like a turkey shoot if they had a bomb? No of course not. Would the Gazans use that bomb? Absolutely not.
It is the imbalance in power that has led to the oppression. It nearly always is.
The reason that Iran hasn’t got nuclear weapons is due to a long running campaign by the US, Israel and a number of other countries preventing them getting there.
The various, very extensive Iranian efforts on this have been documented by a number of sources, including the IAEI and UNODA.
The right-wing of ReformUK isn't at all happy with the candidate selection in Runcorn & Helsby. They don't like the fact she attended a "refugees welcome" event as a Conservative in 2022.
These are eye watering figures, on something that's both unnecessary, and economically unproductive.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czxnj42z90wo The government will end a contract worth £2bn a year with one of the largest providers of hotel asylum accommodation after the Home Office said an audit identified concerns about the company's performance. Stay Belvedere Hotels (SBHL) provides around a quarter of Home Office asylum accommodation across 51 hotels in England and Wales, and also operates Napier Barracks in Ken..
This comes at the same time as £2bn being put into affordable housing.
Now here is the odd thing. Social Landlords are the main source of affordable housing whose aim is to raise capital in the markets to fund the assets they get builders to build for them. So this £2bn appears to be some sort of subsidy possibly to compensate for the higher level of interest paid to the markets or a fee to builders. Either way it's not supposed to be a feature of social housing.
There is a desperate need for more social housing if the land with PP is available. The £2bn announcement seems nothing other than an admission that housing policy is failing (or a bung is needed)
These are eye watering figures, on something that's both unnecessary, and economically unproductive.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czxnj42z90wo The government will end a contract worth £2bn a year with one of the largest providers of hotel asylum accommodation after the Home Office said an audit identified concerns about the company's performance. Stay Belvedere Hotels (SBHL) provides around a quarter of Home Office asylum accommodation across 51 hotels in England and Wales, and also operates Napier Barracks in Ken..
This comes at the same time as £2bn being put into affordable housing.
Now here is the odd thing. Social Landlords are the main source of affordable housing whose aim is to raise capital in the markets to fund the assets they get builders to build for them. So this £2bn appears to be some sort of subsidy possibly to compensate for the higher level of interest paid to the markets or a fee to builders. Either way it's not supposed to be a feature of social housing.
There is a desperate need for more social housing if the land with PP is available. The £2bn announcement seems nothing other than an admission that housing policy is failing (or a bung is needed)
"Housing policy is failing" is a statement of the bleeding obvious, and one of the key things Labour need to do over the next few years is fix it...
Important to note when betting. The LPC doesn't need to win most votes to win most seats.
Indeed, they've won the last two elections while losing the popular vote. Which means the Liberals have only won the popular vote once during the last 20 years, in 2015.
As far as I can tell, 22% appears to be the record low for a poll leading party. It's realistic to suggest that we might break that record sooner rather than later.
Max Kendix @MaxKendix · 19m EXC: The Lower Thames Crossing has been approved by the government. The £9billion project has been in the pipeline since 2009. £300m spent on the planning application alone.
300 million on planning alone. Most countries would probably build the whole bloody thing for that!
I query these figures as some of that money will be for design work that will be used and built on as the project progresses. It isn’t wasted on “planning” alone. A project of this magnitude will have significant design work regardless of whether the planning system is liberalised.
I presume the figure quoted here is simply the expenditure by RIBA Work Stage 3.
Last time PB looked at this the £300 million was mostly spent on perfectly sensible things like buying the land needed.
Anyway, I think this is basically fatal for the Labour London Party. Equivalent to 4GW of offshore wind, 9000 miles of cycle infrastructure or a quarter of HS2 to Manchester.
My 11 year old wants a detailed explanation including cost and safety comparisons for why a tunnel was chosen over a bridge...
Relatively large vessels use that part of the Thames. Opening bridges are expensive. A bridge high enough to not need opening would be seriously expensive.
A big chunk of the (estimated) cost of the project is the approaches, not the actual crossing.
They'd considered that issue... Looking at the route my suspicion is that the current Dartford congestion will be supplemented by ACW congestion at Ockendon and at that A13 junction. ACW from Kent to Essex looks like it will be a total nightmare during work and post-completion.
Max Kendix @MaxKendix · 19m EXC: The Lower Thames Crossing has been approved by the government. The £9billion project has been in the pipeline since 2009. £300m spent on the planning application alone.
Stephen Miller suggesting that the USA need to surcharge Europe for the cost of Suez Canal related attack on the Houthi rebels.
How long before US military is just 'for hire'? Available to any tin pot dictator or warlord, including Putin, who can stump up the necessary few million $.
Most Scots want to keep UK’s nuclear deterrent, poll shows
Support to retain the Clyde-based weapons is even strong among supporters of the SNP, which wants unilateral disarmament
A majority of Scots believe that Britain should keep its nuclear arsenal amid calls for the SNP to reconsider its historic demand for unilateral disarmament.
A poll has found that 56 per cent believe the UK should retain its independent nuclear deterrent, compared with 22 per cent who think it should be given up.
The SNP has long campaigned for Britain to unconditionally relinquish its Trident nuclear submarines, which are based on the Clyde (the Royal Navy’s headquarters in Scotland), arguing that they are both financially and morally wrong.
However, Ian Blackford, the party’s former Westminster leader, recently became the first senior nationalist to break ranks, citing Russian aggression and uncertainty over President Trump’s commitment to European defence.
That just shows Blackford for an utter retard. Keeping a nuclear deterrent that's dependent on US whims is absolutely the opposite of what anyone worried about Trump would propose.
I'm not sure about that. I've become a convert to nuclear weapons and would like to see some of the more oppressed nations get hold of them. Would Gaza have suffered the slaughter of 50,000 of their citizens if they had had one?
Yes, as Hamas nuke Jerusalem and Tel Aviv with no understanding of the mushroom cloud that is about to engulf them. Other than that, good idea.
I don't think that would happen. Contrary to widespread opinion some of the most cerebral people I know are Arab. The reason Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons is because indiscriminate slaughter in religiously unacceptable. Would Netanyahu treat the Gazans like a turkey shoot if they had a bomb? No of course not. Would the Gazans use that bomb? Absolutely not.
It is the imbalance in power that has led to the oppression. It nearly always is.
FFS - read this and get back to the real world. Hamas is evil. As evil as the Nazis.
Nicola Sturgeon, Humza Yousaf, and numerous other SNP-ers also going.
Perhaps the most interesting one will be Fergus Ewing who has confirmed that he won't be standing for the SNP, but may run as an Independent. That would make Inverness & Nairn a very interesting contest after the LibDem success there in the general election.
The bouyancy of the Lib Dem support continues to baffle me. It used to be an immutable law of British politics that, six months after a General Election, the Lib Dems would be on about 5%, or roughly half of what they polled.
Lol. That comes out as Tories largest Party on 183. Tory/Reform majority of 14.
What a gilded age of sober and reflective government we would enjoy with a tory/Fukker coalition loaded to the gunwales with thick-as-pigshit chavs and reactionary cranks. All operating on a thin majority that gives every obstreperous crackpot MP immense power.
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be a fat ITV viewer was very heaven.
The bouyancy of the Lib Dem support continues to baffle me. It used to be an immutable law of British politics that, six months after a General Election, the Lib Dems would be on about 5%, or roughly half of what they polled.
Amazing, especially as they are totally ignored by sky/BBC
Most Scots want to keep UK’s nuclear deterrent, poll shows
Support to retain the Clyde-based weapons is even strong among supporters of the SNP, which wants unilateral disarmament
A majority of Scots believe that Britain should keep its nuclear arsenal amid calls for the SNP to reconsider its historic demand for unilateral disarmament.
A poll has found that 56 per cent believe the UK should retain its independent nuclear deterrent, compared with 22 per cent who think it should be given up.
The SNP has long campaigned for Britain to unconditionally relinquish its Trident nuclear submarines, which are based on the Clyde (the Royal Navy’s headquarters in Scotland), arguing that they are both financially and morally wrong.
However, Ian Blackford, the party’s former Westminster leader, recently became the first senior nationalist to break ranks, citing Russian aggression and uncertainty over President Trump’s commitment to European defence.
That just shows Blackford for an utter retard. Keeping a nuclear deterrent that's dependent on US whims is absolutely the opposite of what anyone worried about Trump would propose.
I'm not sure about that. I've become a convert to nuclear weapons and would like to see some of the more oppressed nations get hold of them. Would Gaza have suffered the slaughter of 50,000 of their citizens if they had had one?
Yes, as Hamas nuke Jerusalem and Tel Aviv with no understanding of the mushroom cloud that is about to engulf them. Other than that, good idea.
Not sure if this has been posted here yet - the Roberts report into 7th October. Utterly horrific reading, and provides some context to quite why Israel has reacted the way it has.
I know that the conflict didn't start on 7th October. I know Israel has done horrific things too, but I question anyone to read this report and not be sickened.
You are quite right. Hamas are a sickening, revolting bunch. However I suggest that all the Israelis are doing at the moment is to act as recruiting sergeants for them.
The bouyancy of the Lib Dem support continues to baffle me. It used to be an immutable law of British politics that, six months after a General Election, the Lib Dems would be on about 5%, or roughly half of what they polled.
Not always the case. In Lib Dem historical terms we’re in around 2002 now. Starmer is just setting out on his Blair poodle of POTUS tribute act.
The BBC is giving wall to wall coverage of the security lapse farce. And this is OK. But it doesn't tell us anything at all we didn't know before but merely confirms what we thought about their character and competence.
But the BBC continues to give relatively scant attention to the big story: USA has switched sides, and USA is becoming a rogue state both externally and internally.
The USA cannot become a rogue state. Excepting that overfriendliness with KSA does have its own heritage within UK foreign policy, the US decides who is a rogue state and who isn't.
Not as far as we're concerned, it doesn't.
Absolutely as far as we're concerned it does. Name a single occasion that we have differed from the US on who is a rogue state.
Most Scots want to keep UK’s nuclear deterrent, poll shows
Support to retain the Clyde-based weapons is even strong among supporters of the SNP, which wants unilateral disarmament
A majority of Scots believe that Britain should keep its nuclear arsenal amid calls for the SNP to reconsider its historic demand for unilateral disarmament.
A poll has found that 56 per cent believe the UK should retain its independent nuclear deterrent, compared with 22 per cent who think it should be given up.
The SNP has long campaigned for Britain to unconditionally relinquish its Trident nuclear submarines, which are based on the Clyde (the Royal Navy’s headquarters in Scotland), arguing that they are both financially and morally wrong.
However, Ian Blackford, the party’s former Westminster leader, recently became the first senior nationalist to break ranks, citing Russian aggression and uncertainty over President Trump’s commitment to European defence.
That just shows Blackford for an utter retard. Keeping a nuclear deterrent that's dependent on US whims is absolutely the opposite of what anyone worried about Trump would propose.
I'm not sure about that. I've become a convert to nuclear weapons and would like to see some of the more oppressed nations get hold of them. Would Gaza have suffered the slaughter of 50,000 of their citizens if they had had one?
Yes, as Hamas nuke Jerusalem and Tel Aviv with no understanding of the mushroom cloud that is about to engulf them. Other than that, good idea.
Not sure if this has been posted here yet - the Roberts report into 7th October. Utterly horrific reading, and provides some context to quite why Israel has reacted the way it has.
I know that the conflict didn't start on 7th October. I know Israel has done horrific things too, but I question anyone to read this report and not be sickened.
You are quite right. Hamas are a sickening, revolting bunch. However I suggest that all the Israelis are doing at the moment is to act as recruiting sergeants for them.
Hard to disagree with that. At some point someone has to stop and try to make things work.
These are eye watering figures, on something that's both unnecessary, and economically unproductive.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czxnj42z90wo The government will end a contract worth £2bn a year with one of the largest providers of hotel asylum accommodation after the Home Office said an audit identified concerns about the company's performance. Stay Belvedere Hotels (SBHL) provides around a quarter of Home Office asylum accommodation across 51 hotels in England and Wales, and also operates Napier Barracks in Ken..
It's mad. For 2bn pounds/year think how many hotels we could build.
That's only a quarter of the accommodation. £8bn every year, in total.
Imagine if we'd trained some of them and put them to work the housing that we don't have sufficient trained workers to build. Rather than paying to keep them in enforced idleness.
Or simply processed their claims speedily, one way or the other.
The BBC is giving wall to wall coverage of the security lapse farce. And this is OK. But it doesn't tell us anything at all we didn't know before but merely confirms what we thought about their character and competence.
But the BBC continues to give relatively scant attention to the big story: USA has switched sides, and USA is becoming a rogue state both externally and internally.
The USA cannot become a rogue state. Excepting that overfriendliness with KSA does have its own heritage within UK foreign policy, the US decides who is a rogue state and who isn't.
Not as far as we're concerned, it doesn't.
Absolutely as far as we're concerned it does. Name a single occasion that we have differed from the US on who is a rogue state.
The bouyancy of the Lib Dem support continues to baffle me. It used to be an immutable law of British politics that, six months after a General Election, the Lib Dems would be on about 5%, or roughly half of what they polled.
Amazing, especially as they are totally ignored by sky/BBC
Most Scots want to keep UK’s nuclear deterrent, poll shows
Support to retain the Clyde-based weapons is even strong among supporters of the SNP, which wants unilateral disarmament
A majority of Scots believe that Britain should keep its nuclear arsenal amid calls for the SNP to reconsider its historic demand for unilateral disarmament.
A poll has found that 56 per cent believe the UK should retain its independent nuclear deterrent, compared with 22 per cent who think it should be given up.
The SNP has long campaigned for Britain to unconditionally relinquish its Trident nuclear submarines, which are based on the Clyde (the Royal Navy’s headquarters in Scotland), arguing that they are both financially and morally wrong.
However, Ian Blackford, the party’s former Westminster leader, recently became the first senior nationalist to break ranks, citing Russian aggression and uncertainty over President Trump’s commitment to European defence.
That just shows Blackford for an utter retard. Keeping a nuclear deterrent that's dependent on US whims is absolutely the opposite of what anyone worried about Trump would propose.
I'm not sure about that. I've become a convert to nuclear weapons and would like to see some of the more oppressed nations get hold of them. Would Gaza have suffered the slaughter of 50,000 of their citizens if they had had one?
Yes, as Hamas nuke Jerusalem and Tel Aviv with no understanding of the mushroom cloud that is about to engulf them. Other than that, good idea.
Not sure if this has been posted here yet - the Roberts report into 7th October. Utterly horrific reading, and provides some context to quite why Israel has reacted the way it has.
I know that the conflict didn't start on 7th October. I know Israel has done horrific things too, but I question anyone to read this report and not be sickened.
You are quite right. Hamas are a sickening, revolting bunch. However I suggest that all the Israelis are doing at the moment is to act as recruiting sergeants for them.
The IDF supported the settler lynch mob on the Oscar winning Palestinian director last week.
These are eye watering figures, on something that's both unnecessary, and economically unproductive.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czxnj42z90wo The government will end a contract worth £2bn a year with one of the largest providers of hotel asylum accommodation after the Home Office said an audit identified concerns about the company's performance. Stay Belvedere Hotels (SBHL) provides around a quarter of Home Office asylum accommodation across 51 hotels in England and Wales, and also operates Napier Barracks in Ken..
It's mad. For 2bn pounds/year think how many hotels we could build.
That's only a quarter of the accommodation. £8bn every year, in total.
Imagine if we'd trained some of them and put them to work the housing that we don't have sufficient trained workers to build. Rather than paying to keep them in enforced idleness.
Or simply processed their claims speedily, one way or the other.
No, no, no. We can't create an even bigger pull factor for asylum seekers. We need to get deporting the ones we have, not making more of them want to come here.
Most Scots want to keep UK’s nuclear deterrent, poll shows
Support to retain the Clyde-based weapons is even strong among supporters of the SNP, which wants unilateral disarmament
A majority of Scots believe that Britain should keep its nuclear arsenal amid calls for the SNP to reconsider its historic demand for unilateral disarmament.
A poll has found that 56 per cent believe the UK should retain its independent nuclear deterrent, compared with 22 per cent who think it should be given up.
The SNP has long campaigned for Britain to unconditionally relinquish its Trident nuclear submarines, which are based on the Clyde (the Royal Navy’s headquarters in Scotland), arguing that they are both financially and morally wrong.
However, Ian Blackford, the party’s former Westminster leader, recently became the first senior nationalist to break ranks, citing Russian aggression and uncertainty over President Trump’s commitment to European defence.
That just shows Blackford for an utter retard. Keeping a nuclear deterrent that's dependent on US whims is absolutely the opposite of what anyone worried about Trump would propose.
I'm not sure about that. I've become a convert to nuclear weapons and would like to see some of the more oppressed nations get hold of them. Would Gaza have suffered the slaughter of 50,000 of their citizens if they had had one?
Yes, as Hamas nuke Jerusalem and Tel Aviv with no understanding of the mushroom cloud that is about to engulf them. Other than that, good idea.
Not sure if this has been posted here yet - the Roberts report into 7th October. Utterly horrific reading, and provides some context to quite why Israel has reacted the way it has.
I know that the conflict didn't start on 7th October. I know Israel has done horrific things too, but I question anyone to read this report and not be sickened.
You are quite right. Hamas are a sickening, revolting bunch. However I suggest that all the Israelis are doing at the moment is to act as recruiting sergeants for them.
Hard to disagree with that. At some point someone has to stop and try to make things work.
It will only stop once Netanyahu Is removed. The guy is a maniac.
The BBC is giving wall to wall coverage of the security lapse farce. And this is OK. But it doesn't tell us anything at all we didn't know before but merely confirms what we thought about their character and competence.
But the BBC continues to give relatively scant attention to the big story: USA has switched sides, and USA is becoming a rogue state both externally and internally.
The USA cannot become a rogue state. Excepting that overfriendliness with KSA does have its own heritage within UK foreign policy, the US decides who is a rogue state and who isn't.
Not as far as we're concerned, it doesn't.
Absolutely as far as we're concerned it does. Name a single occasion that we have differed from the US on who is a rogue state.
Grenada
Accepting that as a benchmark (I know little about it except they invaded without warning Thatcher), you are saying that we have not differed from the US on anyone's 'roguedom' for over 4 decades. And even with a relatively independent-minded leader like Thatcher we'd have probably 'caught up'.
We do what America says. The only confusion at the moment is that Trump is an anti-establishment leader, so what's left of the US and global establisment is now on a different page to the White House. If Trump’s way sticks, it will be State visits for Mad Vlad and the Foreign Secretary trumpeting the huge and welcome decline in the latest figures for people being pushed out of windows, the same way we applaud the Saudis when they let women drive.
The BBC is giving wall to wall coverage of the security lapse farce. And this is OK. But it doesn't tell us anything at all we didn't know before but merely confirms what we thought about their character and competence.
But the BBC continues to give relatively scant attention to the big story: USA has switched sides, and USA is becoming a rogue state both externally and internally.
The USA cannot become a rogue state. Excepting that overfriendliness with KSA does have its own heritage within UK foreign policy, the US decides who is a rogue state and who isn't.
Not as far as we're concerned, it doesn't.
Absolutely as far as we're concerned it does. Name a single occasion that we have differed from the US on who is a rogue state.
Grenada
I watched Heartbreak Ridge last night. The usual "Tough sergeant kicks shambles into a fighting unit" movie, but with the farcical ending depicting the US invasion of Grenada as if it was a major contested victory.
The weird thing about this regime is that the more they proclaim a white, Christian, European vision of America, the more they hate Europe. There must be some kind of psychology thesis to be written about this.
The BBC is giving wall to wall coverage of the security lapse farce. And this is OK. But it doesn't tell us anything at all we didn't know before but merely confirms what we thought about their character and competence.
But the BBC continues to give relatively scant attention to the big story: USA has switched sides, and USA is becoming a rogue state both externally and internally.
The USA cannot become a rogue state. Excepting that overfriendliness with KSA does have its own heritage within UK foreign policy, the US decides who is a rogue state and who isn't.
Not as far as we're concerned, it doesn't.
Absolutely as far as we're concerned it does. Name a single occasion that we have differed from the US on who is a rogue state.
It might not seem like the major issue, but the historical illiteracy of an American administration complaining that freeloading Europeans haven't done enough to militarily control the Suez Canal is quite the thing, eh?
The BBC is giving wall to wall coverage of the security lapse farce. And this is OK. But it doesn't tell us anything at all we didn't know before but merely confirms what we thought about their character and competence.
But the BBC continues to give relatively scant attention to the big story: USA has switched sides, and USA is becoming a rogue state both externally and internally.
The USA cannot become a rogue state. Excepting that overfriendliness with KSA does have its own heritage within UK foreign policy, the US decides who is a rogue state and who isn't.
Not as far as we're concerned, it doesn't.
Absolutely as far as we're concerned it does. Name a single occasion that we have differed from the US on who is a rogue state.
Grenada
Rather more significantly, Vietnam.
I was going to say Canada, but we’re not showing much evidence of differing so far.
The BBC is giving wall to wall coverage of the security lapse farce. And this is OK. But it doesn't tell us anything at all we didn't know before but merely confirms what we thought about their character and competence.
But the BBC continues to give relatively scant attention to the big story: USA has switched sides, and USA is becoming a rogue state both externally and internally.
The USA cannot become a rogue state. Excepting that overfriendliness with KSA does have its own heritage within UK foreign policy, the US decides who is a rogue state and who isn't.
Not as far as we're concerned, it doesn't.
Absolutely as far as we're concerned it does. Name a single occasion that we have differed from the US on who is a rogue state.
Grenada
Accepting that as a benchmark (I know little about it except they invaded without warning Thatcher), you are saying that we have not differed from the US on anyone's 'roguedom' for over 4 decades. And even with a relatively independent-minded leader like Thatcher we'd have probably 'caught up'.
We do what America says. The only confusion at the moment is that Trump is an anti-establishment leader, so what's left of the US and global establisment is now on a different page to the White House. If Trump’s way sticks, it will be State visits for Mad Vlad and the Foreign Secretary trumpeting the huge and welcome decline in the latest figures for people being pushed out of windows, the same way we applaud the Saudis when they let women drive.
You're missing the point which is that we didn't - and don't - have to.
The disaster in Iraq is one which we might well have avoided, had the government at the time been different. It was certainly not without considerable opposition on both sides of the House, and among the electorate.
I am still of the view that the list of White House appointees will look very different by year end.
Why?
These idiots, appointed by an idiot, are doing exactly what he wants.
There's a difference in owning the Libtards and making the President a laughing stock. He's too thin-skinned to allow the idiots to make the White House a permanent Whitehall farce.
"Donald, where's your trousers?" as Jimmy Kimmell will ask every episode. You KNOW there will be a price to pay for those letting him down. He'll end up more capricious than the Queen of Hearts.
That's a good one, that I hadn't seen before. I like Donald Shmuck and Donald Chump, but he does say that his mum was from the Isle of Skye, does he not?
Max Kendix @MaxKendix · 19m EXC: The Lower Thames Crossing has been approved by the government. The £9billion project has been in the pipeline since 2009. £300m spent on the planning application alone.
300 million on planning alone. Most countries would probably build the whole bloody thing for that!
I query these figures as some of that money will be for design work that will be used and built on as the project progresses. It isn’t wasted on “planning” alone. A project of this magnitude will have significant design work regardless of whether the planning system is liberalised.
I presume the figure quoted here is simply the expenditure by RIBA Work Stage 3.
Last time PB looked at this the £300 million was mostly spent on perfectly sensible things like buying the land needed.
Anyway, I think this is basically fatal for the Labour London Party. Equivalent to 4GW of offshore wind, 9000 miles of cycle infrastructure or a quarter of HS2 to Manchester.
Yes. But they are getting TWO BICYCLE BUSES !!!!
(Which will inevitable not be very accessible. BASTARDS.)
But that's mainly because they've made it so expensive to use cash. They need to reduce the cash fares and the number of people using cash will go up again.
The BBC is giving wall to wall coverage of the security lapse farce. And this is OK. But it doesn't tell us anything at all we didn't know before but merely confirms what we thought about their character and competence.
But the BBC continues to give relatively scant attention to the big story: USA has switched sides, and USA is becoming a rogue state both externally and internally.
The USA cannot become a rogue state. Excepting that overfriendliness with KSA does have its own heritage within UK foreign policy, the US decides who is a rogue state and who isn't.
Not as far as we're concerned, it doesn't.
Absolutely as far as we're concerned it does. Name a single occasion that we have differed from the US on who is a rogue state.
Grenada
Rather more significantly, Vietnam.
Very much to Harold Wilson's credit that he kept us out, in Spielbergs, AIUI, of his considerable liking for LBJ. Although, if LBJ HAD been re-elected, would he have pulled the plug on the Vietnam adventure?
Most Scots want to keep UK’s nuclear deterrent, poll shows
Support to retain the Clyde-based weapons is even strong among supporters of the SNP, which wants unilateral disarmament
A majority of Scots believe that Britain should keep its nuclear arsenal amid calls for the SNP to reconsider its historic demand for unilateral disarmament.
A poll has found that 56 per cent believe the UK should retain its independent nuclear deterrent, compared with 22 per cent who think it should be given up.
The SNP has long campaigned for Britain to unconditionally relinquish its Trident nuclear submarines, which are based on the Clyde (the Royal Navy’s headquarters in Scotland), arguing that they are both financially and morally wrong.
However, Ian Blackford, the party’s former Westminster leader, recently became the first senior nationalist to break ranks, citing Russian aggression and uncertainty over President Trump’s commitment to European defence.
That just shows Blackford for an utter retard. Keeping a nuclear deterrent that's dependent on US whims is absolutely the opposite of what anyone worried about Trump would propose.
I'm not sure about that. I've become a convert to nuclear weapons and would like to see some of the more oppressed nations get hold of them. Would Gaza have suffered the slaughter of 50,000 of their citizens if they had had one?
Yes, as Hamas nuke Jerusalem and Tel Aviv with no understanding of the mushroom cloud that is about to engulf them. Other than that, good idea.
Not sure if this has been posted here yet - the Roberts report into 7th October. Utterly horrific reading, and provides some context to quite why Israel has reacted the way it has.
I know that the conflict didn't start on 7th October. I know Israel has done horrific things too, but I question anyone to read this report and not be sickened.
You are quite right. Hamas are a sickening, revolting bunch. However I suggest that all the Israelis are doing at the moment is to act as recruiting sergeants for them.
Hard to disagree with that. At some point someone has to stop and try to make things work.
It will only stop once Netanyahu Is removed. The guy is a maniac.
That can't happen. If Bibi loses power he goes to jail. The next election will be pushed back.
Distaste for Europe is often built into American self-definition.
Europe represents the old, the decadent, anxiety about one's own weakness. America is new, vitality, hoping for the salvation of white civilisation, for these people involved.
In MAGA land Putin is a white crusading Christian nationalist, while Europe is a Muslim-occupied trans hell-hole. Sadly, I don't think I'm much exaggerating.
Distaste for Europe is often built into American self-definition.
Europe represents the old, the decadent, anxiety about one's own weakness. America is new, vitality, hoping for the salvation of white civilisation, for these people involved.
In MAGA land Putin is a white crusading Christian nationalist, while Europe is a Muslim-occupied trans hell-hole. Sadly, I don't think I'm much exaggerating.
It's has been blatantly obvious what sort of thing would happen for months and months.
The fools in the USA elect the Mickey Mouse Club to govern them, and it's going to hell in a handcart. Surprise ! Who knew? Only the entire effing world if they had the eyes to see.
One of Trump's criminal trials was for stealing top secret material, lying to the FBI about it, and giving it to foreigners for personal benefit. Back in November he refused to put his transition team through standard security clearance.
Why did Times Radio not get this? What did they expect?
These are eye watering figures, on something that's both unnecessary, and economically unproductive.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czxnj42z90wo The government will end a contract worth £2bn a year with one of the largest providers of hotel asylum accommodation after the Home Office said an audit identified concerns about the company's performance. Stay Belvedere Hotels (SBHL) provides around a quarter of Home Office asylum accommodation across 51 hotels in England and Wales, and also operates Napier Barracks in Ken..
It's mad. For 2bn pounds/year think how many hotels we could build.
That's only a quarter of the accommodation. £8bn every year, in total.
Imagine if we'd trained some of them and put them to work the housing that we don't have sufficient trained workers to build. Rather than paying to keep them in enforced idleness.
Or simply processed their claims speedily, one way or the other.
No, no, no. We can't create an even bigger pull factor for asylum seekers. We need to get deporting the ones we have, not making more of them want to come here.
The problem is we're not dealing with the current pull factors. It still astonishes me that people are willing to cross the channel in an inflatable to come to the UK. I think Labour need to introduce some bonkers draconian law that fines people £5k for accepting a deliveroo meal/car wash from an illegal immigrant - just nuke all the demand for cheap illicit labour.
The BBC is giving wall to wall coverage of the security lapse farce. And this is OK. But it doesn't tell us anything at all we didn't know before but merely confirms what we thought about their character and competence.
But the BBC continues to give relatively scant attention to the big story: USA has switched sides, and USA is becoming a rogue state both externally and internally.
The USA cannot become a rogue state. Excepting that overfriendliness with KSA does have its own heritage within UK foreign policy, the US decides who is a rogue state and who isn't.
Not as far as we're concerned, it doesn't.
Absolutely as far as we're concerned it does. Name a single occasion that we have differed from the US on who is a rogue state.
Grenada
Accepting that as a benchmark (I know little about it except they invaded without warning Thatcher), you are saying that we have not differed from the US on anyone's 'roguedom' for over 4 decades. And even with a relatively independent-minded leader like Thatcher we'd have probably 'caught up'.
We do what America says. The only confusion at the moment is that Trump is an anti-establishment leader, so what's left of the US and global establisment is now on a different page to the White House. If Trump’s way sticks, it will be State visits for Mad Vlad and the Foreign Secretary trumpeting the huge and welcome decline in the latest figures for people being pushed out of windows, the same way we applaud the Saudis when they let women drive.
You're missing the point which is that we didn't - and don't - have to.
The disaster in Iraq is one which we might well have avoided, had the government at the time been different. It was certainly not without considerable opposition on both sides of the House, and among the electorate.
I think if our friend HYUFD was here he'd suggest that that would have meant that Saddam Hussein ...... or by now probably one of his sons ....,., would still be in power in Iraq. I'm not entirely sure which would have been worse for the ordinary Iraqi in the coffee house.
Distaste for Europe is often built into American self-definition.
Europe represents the old, the decadent, anxiety about one's own weakness. America is new, vitality, hoping for the salvation of white civilisation, for these people involved.
In MAGA land Putin is a white crusading Christian nationalist, while Europe is a Muslim-occupied trans hell-hole. Sadly, I don't think I'm much exaggerating.
Putin would agree with that analysis.
Odd then, that his military is so dependent on Muslim Chechens...
The BBC is giving wall to wall coverage of the security lapse farce. And this is OK. But it doesn't tell us anything at all we didn't know before but merely confirms what we thought about their character and competence.
But the BBC continues to give relatively scant attention to the big story: USA has switched sides, and USA is becoming a rogue state both externally and internally.
The USA cannot become a rogue state. Excepting that overfriendliness with KSA does have its own heritage within UK foreign policy, the US decides who is a rogue state and who isn't.
Not as far as we're concerned, it doesn't.
Absolutely as far as we're concerned it does. Name a single occasion that we have differed from the US on who is a rogue state.
Grenada
Rather more significantly, Vietnam.
I was going to say Canada, but we’re not showing much evidence of differing so far.
Distaste for Europe is often built into American self-definition.
Europe represents the old, the decadent, anxiety about one's own weakness. America is new, vitality, hoping for the salvation of white civilisation, for these people involved.
In MAGA land Putin is a white crusading Christian nationalist, while Europe is a Muslim-occupied trans hell-hole. Sadly, I don't think I'm much exaggerating.
Putin would agree with that analysis.
Odd then, that his military is so dependent on Muslim Chechens...
Why? They either win - and a problem goes away and he wins - or they die - and a problem goes away and he wins.
Hello everybody. I've uploaded an essay wot I wrote called "The Matter Of Britain" on the evolution of the nation-state since the Dark Ages. @rcs1000 and @TheScreamingEagles are aware. It is about 1600 words and is within the @ydoethur limit. If the mods agree I'm hoping for a publication for next Sunday. If anybody wants to be a pre-reader just click on "like" and I'll send you a link.
With all these endlessly long headers from you and @ydoethur, I hope I'm going to get grovelling apologies for the many times you've criticised the length of mine.
The BBC is giving wall to wall coverage of the security lapse farce. And this is OK. But it doesn't tell us anything at all we didn't know before but merely confirms what we thought about their character and competence.
But the BBC continues to give relatively scant attention to the big story: USA has switched sides, and USA is becoming a rogue state both externally and internally.
The USA cannot become a rogue state. Excepting that overfriendliness with KSA does have its own heritage within UK foreign policy, the US decides who is a rogue state and who isn't.
Not as far as we're concerned, it doesn't.
Absolutely as far as we're concerned it does. Name a single occasion that we have differed from the US on who is a rogue state.
Grenada
Rather more significantly, Vietnam.
I was going to say Canada, but we’re not showing much evidence of differing so far.
Hello everybody. I've uploaded an essay wot I wrote called "The Matter Of Britain" on the evolution of the nation-state since the Dark Ages. @rcs1000 and @TheScreamingEagles are aware. It is about 1600 words and is within the @ydoethur limit. If the mods agree I'm hoping for a publication for next Sunday. If anybody wants to be a pre-reader just click on "like" and I'll send you a link.
With all these endlessly long headers from you and @ydoethur, I hope I'm going to get grovelling apologies for the many times you've criticised the length of mine.
I have never been given a word limit by OGH BTW.
Among my very occasional negative comments on your excellent headers, I've never complained of their prolixity.
Oddly, it's the professional writers who seem to have problems with their length.
The BBC is giving wall to wall coverage of the security lapse farce. And this is OK. But it doesn't tell us anything at all we didn't know before but merely confirms what we thought about their character and competence.
But the BBC continues to give relatively scant attention to the big story: USA has switched sides, and USA is becoming a rogue state both externally and internally.
The USA cannot become a rogue state. Excepting that overfriendliness with KSA does have its own heritage within UK foreign policy, the US decides who is a rogue state and who isn't.
Not as far as we're concerned, it doesn't.
Absolutely as far as we're concerned it does. Name a single occasion that we have differed from the US on who is a rogue state.
Grenada
Accepting that as a benchmark (I know little about it except they invaded without warning Thatcher), you are saying that we have not differed from the US on anyone's 'roguedom' for over 4 decades. And even with a relatively independent-minded leader like Thatcher we'd have probably 'caught up'.
We do what America says. The only confusion at the moment is that Trump is an anti-establishment leader, so what's left of the US and global establisment is now on a different page to the White House. If Trump’s way sticks, it will be State visits for Mad Vlad and the Foreign Secretary trumpeting the huge and welcome decline in the latest figures for people being pushed out of windows, the same way we applaud the Saudis when they let women drive.
You're missing the point which is that we didn't - and don't - have to.
The disaster in Iraq is one which we might well have avoided, had the government at the time been different. It was certainly not without considerable opposition on both sides of the House, and among the electorate.
I think if our friend HYUFD was here he'd suggest that that would have meant that Saddam Hussein ...... or by now probably one of his sons ....,., would still be in power in Iraq. I'm not entirely sure which would have been worse for the ordinary Iraqi in the coffee house.
It’s one of the more interesting alternative histories.
I assume Saddam would have remained in power until 2011. Then the Arab Spring would have engulfed Iraq as it did Syria and North Africa. Saddam would have reacted brutally.
Would Western countries have intervened then? Probably. What about Turkey, or Iran in the South? There would probably have been no ISIS because they were the heirs to AQ in Iraq.
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This is not a defence of Israel’s actions.
But it just takes one bad guy
(I think it would be more of an issue bombing the Dome on the Rock than killing all the people nearby)
It was even police policy at one point. Has a hilarious encounter where a white policeman tried to tell my Ghanaian ex that an incident she reported as racist, wasn’t.
We need to be prepared.
https://www.wahlrecht.de/umfragen/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czxnj42z90wo
The government will end a contract worth £2bn a year with one of the largest providers of hotel asylum accommodation after the Home Office said an audit identified concerns about the company's performance.
Stay Belvedere Hotels (SBHL) provides around a quarter of Home Office asylum accommodation across 51 hotels in England and Wales, and also operates Napier Barracks in Ken..
The LPC doesn't need to win most votes to win most seats.
Actually there was a whole piece a few weeks ago about how Russell Vought is the Thomas Cromwell figure.
Transport for London says that fewer than one per cent of Tube journeys – there are more than three million each weekday – are cash fares.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/tube-train-passengers-cash-tickets-tfl-london-travelwatch-report-b1218442.html
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1935261/incredible-new-9bn-bridge-lower-thames-crossing
A big chunk of the (estimated) cost of the project is the approaches, not the actual crossing.
Hello everybody. I've uploaded an essay wot I wrote called "The Matter Of Britain" on the evolution of the nation-state since the Dark Ages. @rcs1000 and @TheScreamingEagles are aware. It is about 1600 words and is within the @ydoethur limit. If the mods agree I'm hoping for a publication for next Sunday. If anybody wants to be a pre-reader just click on "like" and I'll send you a link.
Linke membership would probably commit mass seppuku if their party had anything to do with the AfD, for example.
You'd be one of those people professing to us all how fair Hamas is while you were in front of the firing squad because you're Jewish. My wife has a word for people like you I won't repeat on here.
When the story broke, he said he didn't know anything about it, but if you read the chat it's clear he wasn't in that conversation either.
A senile old man nominally in charge
Since the mid-16th century Rich has had a reputation for immorality, financial dishonesty, double-dealing, perjury and treachery rarely matched in English history. The historian Hugh Trevor-Roper called Rich a man "of whom nobody has ever spoken a good word".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Rich,_1st_Baron_Rich#Legacy
If I was Canadian, the moniker "Perfidious Albion", would be beginning to come ro mind.
1) he is lying
2) the briefer was lying
3) Trump has a problem with short term memory, perhaps due to dementia
4) all of the above.
They are literally the elites they pretend to hate.
https://x.com/ossoff/status/1903998853046546942
Europe represents the old, the decadent, anxiety about one's own weakness. America is new, vitality, hoping for the salvation of white civilisation, for these people involved.
Lab: 23% (-3 from 16-17 Mar)
Ref: 22% (-2)
Con: 22% (=)
Lib Dem: 16% (+2)
Green: 10% (+1)
SNP: 3% (=)
https://worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/uk-parliaments-landmark-report-details-october-7th-hamas-atrocities
I know that the conflict didn't start on 7th October. I know Israel has done horrific things too, but I question anyone to read this report and not be sickened.
There was a lot of personal enrichment and power centralisation from the dissolution of the monasteries which might equate to plutocratic corruption and state authoritarianism.
The various, very extensive Iranian efforts on this have been documented by a number of sources, including the IAEI and UNODA.
Kudos for the Latin.
That comes out as Tories largest Party on 183.
Tory/Reform majority of 14.
Now here is the odd thing. Social Landlords are the main source of affordable housing whose aim is to raise capital in the markets to fund the assets they get builders to build for them. So this £2bn appears to be some sort of subsidy possibly to compensate for the higher level of interest paid to the markets or a fee to builders. Either way it's not supposed to be a feature of social housing.
There is a desperate need for more social housing if the land with PP is available. The £2bn announcement seems nothing other than an admission that housing policy is failing (or a bung is needed)
More confirmation that Labour just pisses off its own voters by apeing Reform, while not convincing any of the Refukkers.
Looking at the route my suspicion is that the current Dartford congestion will be supplemented by ACW congestion at Ockendon and at that A13 junction.
ACW from Kent to Essex looks like it will be a total nightmare during work and post-completion.
https://worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/uk-parliaments-landmark-report-details-october-7th-hamas-atrocities
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1kjd0wp9dro
Nicola Sturgeon, Humza Yousaf, and numerous other SNP-ers also going.
Perhaps the most interesting one will be Fergus Ewing who has confirmed that he won't be standing for the SNP, but may run as an Independent. That would make Inverness & Nairn a very interesting contest after the LibDem success there in the general election.
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be a fat ITV viewer was very heaven.
LDs lead the poll at 25% in Rest of South.
£8bn every year, in total.
Imagine if we'd trained some of them and put them to work the housing that we don't have sufficient trained workers to build. Rather than paying to keep them in enforced idleness.
Or simply processed their claims speedily, one way or the other.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/24/oscar-winning-palestinian-director-attacked-by-israeli-settlers-and-arrested?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
We do what America says. The only confusion at the moment is that Trump is an anti-establishment leader, so what's left of the US and global establisment is now on a different page to the White House. If Trump’s way sticks, it will be State visits for Mad Vlad and the Foreign Secretary trumpeting the huge and welcome decline in the latest figures for people being pushed out of windows, the same way we applaud the Saudis when they let women drive.
It might not seem like the major issue, but the historical illiteracy of an American administration complaining that freeloading Europeans haven't done enough to militarily control the Suez Canal is quite the thing, eh?
https://bsky.app/profile/hugorifkind.bsky.social/post/3ll6thkiurs2i
The disaster in Iraq is one which we might well have avoided, had the government at the time been different. It was certainly not without considerable opposition on both sides of the House, and among the electorate.
(Which will inevitable not be very accessible. BASTARDS.)
Although, if LBJ HAD been re-elected, would he have pulled the plug on the Vietnam adventure?
Title "Leaked chat: Trump administration is ‘astonishingly incompetent’".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK_lhcJN2Nw
WTFFFFF?
It's has been blatantly obvious what sort of thing would happen for months and months.
The fools in the USA elect the Mickey Mouse Club to govern them, and it's going to hell in a handcart. Surprise ! Who knew? Only the entire effing world if they had the eyes to see.
One of Trump's criminal trials was for stealing top secret material, lying to the FBI about it, and giving it to foreigners for personal benefit. Back in November he refused to put his transition team through standard security clearance.
Why did Times Radio not get this? What did they expect?
(Rant over)
I'm not entirely sure which would have been worse for the ordinary Iraqi in the coffee house.
I have never been given a word limit by OGH BTW.
Oddly, it's the professional writers who seem to have problems with their length.
I assume Saddam would have remained in power until 2011. Then the Arab Spring would have engulfed Iraq as it did Syria and North Africa. Saddam would have reacted brutally.
Would Western countries have intervened then? Probably. What about Turkey, or Iran in the South? There would probably have been no ISIS because they were the heirs to AQ in Iraq.