(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 13s Question. If Trump continues to impose tariffs. If he continues to support Putin. If he continues to threaten our allies and NATO partners. Does he still get rewarded with his state visit. Or does he actually have to do something for us, to earn it.
Even for Hodges, this is obtuse. Fwiw, I thought it ill-advised to invite President Trump but state visits are not doled out to nice children. Hodges has confused the King with Father Christmas.
The way it's going the police might have something to say.
Short of a horse drawn carriage driving down the Mall with Axel Rudakubana it's difficult to imagine a less easily controlled event
I'll be out shaking my fist if it goes ahead. In fact I hope it does because I'll enjoy that.
I would hope that if it goes ahead there isn't serious disorder. Controlling that, especially in those circumstances, would lower the reputation of the police even further.
Everyone turning their backs as Trump passes would be better.
Great idea. Shaking fists shows anger whereas that is more a sign of bottomless contempt, hence more powerful. It's the equivalent of when Trump comes on tv not shouting at the screen, or throwing things at it, but just casually turning it off or switching to a sports channel or a soap.
Waving Ukranian, Canadian and Greenland flags is the way to go.
I think that is a great idea, but did anyone here know (before looking it up) what a Greenland flag looked like. I didn't and it is rather interestingly odd.
Very Polish Deathstar.
I know the Greenland flag well, but that’s because I’ve been to Greenland. Am I unique in PB in that?
The flag is one of the great flags of the world. Beautiful in its simplicity - yet it actually isn’t simple at all. It draws on multiple Inuit sun and moon myths
My wife and I have been to Greenland so not quite unique in that respect
So far then, we've got Big_G and spouse, Leon, and the JD Vances.
The quality of visitors to Greenland is somewhat variable.
I have been to both Greenland and Iceland and I would like to say both are hopelessly misnamed.
Greenland should be named Iceland and Iceland should be named Greenland.
Sounds great, i question why its apparently so necessary to make it easy to avoid (if you are well off), but i assume millionaires will moan and move to Dubai, harming our tax rate rarher than helping it
It’s not. Governments come up with industry specific schemes like film finance that is then exploited by firms who essentially use a minimal amount of equity and buckets of debt and then claim the tax relief on the full amount.
It never works, but looks superficially like it does, and by the time the HMRC takes them through the legal process the promotors have run for the hills with their fees leaving the greedy saps on the hook for the liabilities
Part of the reason it doesn't work is that tax experts from the big 4 are seconded to help with these tax schemes then sell consultancy on how to exploit them. The "patent box" was one example.
I’m sure that our resident big 4 tax partner would never sully his hands with that
(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 13s Question. If Trump continues to impose tariffs. If he continues to support Putin. If he continues to threaten our allies and NATO partners. Does he still get rewarded with his state visit. Or does he actually have to do something for us, to earn it.
Even for Hodges, this is obtuse. Fwiw, I thought it ill-advised to invite President Trump but state visits are not doled out to nice children. Hodges has confused the King with Father Christmas.
The way it's going the police might have something to say.
Short of a horse drawn carriage driving down the Mall with Axel Rudakubana it's difficult to imagine a less easily controlled event
I'll be out shaking my fist if it goes ahead. In fact I hope it does because I'll enjoy that.
I would hope that if it goes ahead there isn't serious disorder. Controlling that, especially in those circumstances, would lower the reputation of the police even further.
Everyone turning their backs as Trump passes would be better.
Great idea. Shaking fists shows anger whereas that is more a sign of bottomless contempt, hence more powerful. It's the equivalent of when Trump comes on tv not shouting at the screen, or throwing things at it, but just casually turning it off or switching to a sports channel or a soap.
Waving Ukranian, Canadian and Greenland flags is the way to go.
I think that is a great idea, but did anyone here know (before looking it up) what a Greenland flag looked like. I didn't and it is rather interestingly odd.
Very Polish Deathstar.
I know the Greenland flag well, but that’s because I’ve been to Greenland. Am I unique in PB in that?
The flag is one of the great flags of the world. Beautiful in its simplicity - yet it actually isn’t simple at all. It draws on multiple Inuit sun and moon myths
My wife and I have been to Greenland so not quite unique in that respect
So far then, we've got Big_G and spouse, Leon, and the JD Vances.
The quality of visitors to Greenland is somewhat variable.
I have been to both Greenland and Iceland and I would like to say both are hopelessly misnamed.
Greenland should be named Iceland and Iceland should be named Greenland.
(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 13s Question. If Trump continues to impose tariffs. If he continues to support Putin. If he continues to threaten our allies and NATO partners. Does he still get rewarded with his state visit. Or does he actually have to do something for us, to earn it.
Even for Hodges, this is obtuse. Fwiw, I thought it ill-advised to invite President Trump but state visits are not doled out to nice children. Hodges has confused the King with Father Christmas.
The way it's going the police might have something to say.
Short of a horse drawn carriage driving down the Mall with Axel Rudakubana it's difficult to imagine a less easily controlled event
I'll be out shaking my fist if it goes ahead. In fact I hope it does because I'll enjoy that.
I would hope that if it goes ahead there isn't serious disorder. Controlling that, especially in those circumstances, would lower the reputation of the police even further.
Everyone turning their backs as Trump passes would be better.
Great idea. Shaking fists shows anger whereas that is more a sign of bottomless contempt, hence more powerful. It's the equivalent of when Trump comes on tv not shouting at the screen, or throwing things at it, but just casually turning it off or switching to a sports channel or a soap.
Waving Ukranian, Canadian and Greenland flags is the way to go.
I think that is a great idea, but did anyone here know (before looking it up) what a Greenland flag looked like. I didn't and it is rather interestingly odd.
Very Polish Deathstar.
I know the Greenland flag well, but that’s because I’ve been to Greenland. Am I unique in PB in that?
The flag is one of the great flags of the world. Beautiful in its simplicity - yet it actually isn’t simple at all. It draws on multiple Inuit sun and moon myths
My wife and I have been to Greenland so not quite unique in that respect
When I was in Ilullisat I did hear talk of “strange visitors from Celtic wastelands, bearing endless tales of children in the far west” but I thought it was more gloomy Inuit mythology
(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 13s Question. If Trump continues to impose tariffs. If he continues to support Putin. If he continues to threaten our allies and NATO partners. Does he still get rewarded with his state visit. Or does he actually have to do something for us, to earn it.
Even for Hodges, this is obtuse. Fwiw, I thought it ill-advised to invite President Trump but state visits are not doled out to nice children. Hodges has confused the King with Father Christmas.
The way it's going the police might have something to say.
Short of a horse drawn carriage driving down the Mall with Axel Rudakubana it's difficult to imagine a less easily controlled event
I'll be out shaking my fist if it goes ahead. In fact I hope it does because I'll enjoy that.
I would hope that if it goes ahead there isn't serious disorder. Controlling that, especially in those circumstances, would lower the reputation of the police even further.
Everyone turning their backs as Trump passes would be better.
Great idea. Shaking fists shows anger whereas that is more a sign of bottomless contempt, hence more powerful. It's the equivalent of when Trump comes on tv not shouting at the screen, or throwing things at it, but just casually turning it off or switching to a sports channel or a soap.
Waving Ukranian, Canadian and Greenland flags is the way to go.
I think that is a great idea, but did anyone here know (before looking it up) what a Greenland flag looked like. I didn't and it is rather interestingly odd.
Very Polish Deathstar.
I know the Greenland flag well, but that’s because I’ve been to Greenland. Am I unique in PB in that?
The flag is one of the great flags of the world. Beautiful in its simplicity - yet it actually isn’t simple at all. It draws on multiple Inuit sun and moon myths
My wife and I have been to Greenland so not quite unique in that respect
So far then, we've got Big_G and spouse, Leon, and the JD Vances.
The quality of visitors to Greenland is somewhat variable.
I think we only have one outlier there and that is counting @Big_G_NorthWales and his wife as one.
I hadn't realised we took some part (albeit small) in the Houthi strike.
There is a slight twist to the #signalgate scandal. The USN and USMC have always preferred the probe and drogue method of air refuelling. Because the USAF prefers the boom method, UK tankers spend quite a bit of time refuelling USN & USMC aircraft... https://x.com/gregbagwell/status/1905173263312896251
(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 13s Question. If Trump continues to impose tariffs. If he continues to support Putin. If he continues to threaten our allies and NATO partners. Does he still get rewarded with his state visit. Or does he actually have to do something for us, to earn it.
Even for Hodges, this is obtuse. Fwiw, I thought it ill-advised to invite President Trump but state visits are not doled out to nice children. Hodges has confused the King with Father Christmas.
The way it's going the police might have something to say.
Short of a horse drawn carriage driving down the Mall with Axel Rudakubana it's difficult to imagine a less easily controlled event
I'll be out shaking my fist if it goes ahead. In fact I hope it does because I'll enjoy that.
I would hope that if it goes ahead there isn't serious disorder. Controlling that, especially in those circumstances, would lower the reputation of the police even further.
Everyone turning their backs as Trump passes would be better.
Great idea. Shaking fists shows anger whereas that is more a sign of bottomless contempt, hence more powerful. It's the equivalent of when Trump comes on tv not shouting at the screen, or throwing things at it, but just casually turning it off or switching to a sports channel or a soap.
Waving Ukranian, Canadian and Greenland flags is the way to go.
I think that is a great idea, but did anyone here know (before looking it up) what a Greenland flag looked like. I didn't and it is rather interestingly odd.
Very Polish Deathstar.
I know the Greenland flag well, but that’s because I’ve been to Greenland. Am I unique in PB in that?
The flag is one of the great flags of the world. Beautiful in its simplicity - yet it actually isn’t simple at all. It draws on multiple Inuit sun and moon myths
My wife and I have been to Greenland so not quite unique in that respect
So far then, we've got Big_G and spouse, Leon, and the JD Vances.
The quality of visitors to Greenland is somewhat variable.
I have been to both Greenland and Iceland and I would like to say both are hopelessly misnamed.
Greenland should be named Iceland and Iceland should be named Greenland.
I don't know what happened between your trip and my trip to Iceland, but green it isn't (mostly) and what is green is mainly moss, which I suppose does make it largely green (sigh).
Sounds great, i question why its apparently so necessary to make it easy to avoid (if you are well off), but i assume millionaires will moan and move to Dubai, harming our tax rate rarher than helping it
It’s not. Governments come up with industry specific schemes like film finance that is then exploited by firms who essentially use a minimal amount of equity and buckets of debt and then claim the tax relief on the full amount.
It never works, but looks superficially like it does, and by the time the HMRC takes them through the legal process the promotors have run for the hills with their fees leaving the greedy saps on the hook for the liabilities
Part of the reason it doesn't work is that tax experts from the big 4 are seconded to help with these tax schemes then sell consultancy on how to exploit them. The "patent box" was one example.
I’m sure that our resident big 4 tax partner would never sully his hands with that
Dopermean’s original post is based on social media misquoting of media misinterpretation of a nonsense story dating back to well over a decade ago.
As usual people on the outside, particularly journalists looking for scoops, assume degrees of conspiracy and Machiavellian manoeuvring several orders of magnitude removed from the very prosaic reality.
I hadn't realised we took some part (albeit small) in the Houthi strike.
There is a slight twist to the #signalgate scandal. The USN and USMC have always preferred the probe and drogue method of air refuelling. Because the USAF prefers the boom method, UK tankers spend quite a bit of time refuelling USN & USMC aircraft... https://x.com/gregbagwell/status/1905173263312896251
(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 13s Question. If Trump continues to impose tariffs. If he continues to support Putin. If he continues to threaten our allies and NATO partners. Does he still get rewarded with his state visit. Or does he actually have to do something for us, to earn it.
Even for Hodges, this is obtuse. Fwiw, I thought it ill-advised to invite President Trump but state visits are not doled out to nice children. Hodges has confused the King with Father Christmas.
The way it's going the police might have something to say.
Short of a horse drawn carriage driving down the Mall with Axel Rudakubana it's difficult to imagine a less easily controlled event
I'll be out shaking my fist if it goes ahead. In fact I hope it does because I'll enjoy that.
I would hope that if it goes ahead there isn't serious disorder. Controlling that, especially in those circumstances, would lower the reputation of the police even further.
Everyone turning their backs as Trump passes would be better.
Great idea. Shaking fists shows anger whereas that is more a sign of bottomless contempt, hence more powerful. It's the equivalent of when Trump comes on tv not shouting at the screen, or throwing things at it, but just casually turning it off or switching to a sports channel or a soap.
Waving Ukranian, Canadian and Greenland flags is the way to go.
I think that is a great idea, but did anyone here know (before looking it up) what a Greenland flag looked like. I didn't and it is rather interestingly odd.
Very Polish Deathstar.
I know the Greenland flag well, but that’s because I’ve been to Greenland. Am I unique in PB in that?
The flag is one of the great flags of the world. Beautiful in its simplicity - yet it actually isn’t simple at all. It draws on multiple Inuit sun and moon myths
My wife and I have been to Greenland so not quite unique in that respect
So far then, we've got Big_G and spouse, Leon, and the JD Vances.
The quality of visitors to Greenland is somewhat variable.
I have been to both Greenland and Iceland and I would like to say both are hopelessly misnamed.
Greenland should be named Iceland and Iceland should be named Greenland.
(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 13s Question. If Trump continues to impose tariffs. If he continues to support Putin. If he continues to threaten our allies and NATO partners. Does he still get rewarded with his state visit. Or does he actually have to do something for us, to earn it.
Even for Hodges, this is obtuse. Fwiw, I thought it ill-advised to invite President Trump but state visits are not doled out to nice children. Hodges has confused the King with Father Christmas.
The way it's going the police might have something to say.
Short of a horse drawn carriage driving down the Mall with Axel Rudakubana it's difficult to imagine a less easily controlled event
I'll be out shaking my fist if it goes ahead. In fact I hope it does because I'll enjoy that.
I would hope that if it goes ahead there isn't serious disorder. Controlling that, especially in those circumstances, would lower the reputation of the police even further.
Everyone turning their backs as Trump passes would be better.
Great idea. Shaking fists shows anger whereas that is more a sign of bottomless contempt, hence more powerful. It's the equivalent of when Trump comes on tv not shouting at the screen, or throwing things at it, but just casually turning it off or switching to a sports channel or a soap.
Waving Ukranian, Canadian and Greenland flags is the way to go.
I think that is a great idea, but did anyone here know (before looking it up) what a Greenland flag looked like. I didn't and it is rather interestingly odd.
Very Polish Deathstar.
I know the Greenland flag well, but that’s because I’ve been to Greenland. Am I unique in PB in that?
The flag is one of the great flags of the world. Beautiful in its simplicity - yet it actually isn’t simple at all. It draws on multiple Inuit sun and moon myths
My wife and I have been to Greenland so not quite unique in that respect
So far then, we've got Big_G and spouse, Leon, and the JD Vances.
The quality of visitors to Greenland is somewhat variable.
I think we only have one outlier there and that is counting @Big_G_NorthWales and his wife as one.
I think we should start calling Greenland “Big G”. It fits. @Big_G_NorthAtlantic
(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 13s Question. If Trump continues to impose tariffs. If he continues to support Putin. If he continues to threaten our allies and NATO partners. Does he still get rewarded with his state visit. Or does he actually have to do something for us, to earn it.
Even for Hodges, this is obtuse. Fwiw, I thought it ill-advised to invite President Trump but state visits are not doled out to nice children. Hodges has confused the King with Father Christmas.
The way it's going the police might have something to say.
Short of a horse drawn carriage driving down the Mall with Axel Rudakubana it's difficult to imagine a less easily controlled event
I'll be out shaking my fist if it goes ahead. In fact I hope it does because I'll enjoy that.
I would hope that if it goes ahead there isn't serious disorder. Controlling that, especially in those circumstances, would lower the reputation of the police even further.
Everyone turning their backs as Trump passes would be better.
Great idea. Shaking fists shows anger whereas that is more a sign of bottomless contempt, hence more powerful. It's the equivalent of when Trump comes on tv not shouting at the screen, or throwing things at it, but just casually turning it off or switching to a sports channel or a soap.
Waving Ukranian, Canadian and Greenland flags is the way to go.
I think that is a great idea, but did anyone here know (before looking it up) what a Greenland flag looked like. I didn't and it is rather interestingly odd.
Very Polish Deathstar.
I know the Greenland flag well, but that’s because I’ve been to Greenland. Am I unique in PB in that?
The flag is one of the great flags of the world. Beautiful in its simplicity - yet it actually isn’t simple at all. It draws on multiple Inuit sun and moon myths
My wife and I have been to Greenland so not quite unique in that respect
So far then, we've got Big_G and spouse, Leon, and the JD Vances.
The quality of visitors to Greenland is somewhat variable.
I have been to both Greenland and Iceland and I would like to say both are hopelessly misnamed.
Greenland should be named Iceland and Iceland should be named Greenland.
I don't know what happened between your trip and my trip to Iceland, but green it isn't (mostly) and what is green is mainly moss, which I suppose does make it largely green (sigh).
According to Danish TV2, representatives from the USA have been going door-to-door in Nuuk over the past few days to find Greenlanders who wanted to be visited by Usha Vance. After they failed to find anyone, the visit was cancelled.
Seriously disturbing. “"We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it," Trump told podcaster Vince Coglianese. "I hate to put it that way, but we're going to have to have it."”
(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 13s Question. If Trump continues to impose tariffs. If he continues to support Putin. If he continues to threaten our allies and NATO partners. Does he still get rewarded with his state visit. Or does he actually have to do something for us, to earn it.
Even for Hodges, this is obtuse. Fwiw, I thought it ill-advised to invite President Trump but state visits are not doled out to nice children. Hodges has confused the King with Father Christmas.
The way it's going the police might have something to say.
Short of a horse drawn carriage driving down the Mall with Axel Rudakubana it's difficult to imagine a less easily controlled event
I'll be out shaking my fist if it goes ahead. In fact I hope it does because I'll enjoy that.
I would hope that if it goes ahead there isn't serious disorder. Controlling that, especially in those circumstances, would lower the reputation of the police even further.
Everyone turning their backs as Trump passes would be better.
Great idea. Shaking fists shows anger whereas that is more a sign of bottomless contempt, hence more powerful. It's the equivalent of when Trump comes on tv not shouting at the screen, or throwing things at it, but just casually turning it off or switching to a sports channel or a soap.
Waving Ukranian, Canadian and Greenland flags is the way to go.
I think that is a great idea, but did anyone here know (before looking it up) what a Greenland flag looked like. I didn't and it is rather interestingly odd.
Very Polish Deathstar.
I know the Greenland flag well, but that’s because I’ve been to Greenland. Am I unique in PB in that?
The flag is one of the great flags of the world. Beautiful in its simplicity - yet it actually isn’t simple at all. It draws on multiple Inuit sun and moon myths
My wife and I have been to Greenland so not quite unique in that respect
So far then, we've got Big_G and spouse, Leon, and the JD Vances.
The quality of visitors to Greenland is somewhat variable.
I have been to both Greenland and Iceland and I would like to say both are hopelessly misnamed.
Greenland should be named Iceland and Iceland should be named Greenland.
I don't know what happened between your trip and my trip to Iceland, but green it isn't (mostly) and what is green is mainly moss, which I suppose does make it largely green (sigh).
(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 13s Question. If Trump continues to impose tariffs. If he continues to support Putin. If he continues to threaten our allies and NATO partners. Does he still get rewarded with his state visit. Or does he actually have to do something for us, to earn it.
Even for Hodges, this is obtuse. Fwiw, I thought it ill-advised to invite President Trump but state visits are not doled out to nice children. Hodges has confused the King with Father Christmas.
The way it's going the police might have something to say.
Short of a horse drawn carriage driving down the Mall with Axel Rudakubana it's difficult to imagine a less easily controlled event
I'll be out shaking my fist if it goes ahead. In fact I hope it does because I'll enjoy that.
I would hope that if it goes ahead there isn't serious disorder. Controlling that, especially in those circumstances, would lower the reputation of the police even further.
Everyone turning their backs as Trump passes would be better.
Great idea. Shaking fists shows anger whereas that is more a sign of bottomless contempt, hence more powerful. It's the equivalent of when Trump comes on tv not shouting at the screen, or throwing things at it, but just casually turning it off or switching to a sports channel or a soap.
Waving Ukranian, Canadian and Greenland flags is the way to go.
I think that is a great idea, but did anyone here know (before looking it up) what a Greenland flag looked like. I didn't and it is rather interestingly odd.
Very Polish Deathstar.
I know the Greenland flag well, but that’s because I’ve been to Greenland. Am I unique in PB in that?
The flag is one of the great flags of the world. Beautiful in its simplicity - yet it actually isn’t simple at all. It draws on multiple Inuit sun and moon myths
My wife and I have been to Greenland so not quite unique in that respect
So far then, we've got Big_G and spouse, Leon, and the JD Vances.
The quality of visitors to Greenland is somewhat variable.
I have been to both Greenland and Iceland and I would like to say both are hopelessly misnamed.
Greenland should be named Iceland and Iceland should be named Greenland.
I don't know what happened between your trip and my trip to Iceland, but green it isn't (mostly) and what is green is mainly moss, which I suppose does make it largely green (sigh).
To be fair we also did Iceland and Greenland together but we had to leave Greenland a few hours early as an Atlantic hurricane was threatening our voyage back to Southampton
Right now the Guardian website has four stories at the top, all different versions of “Rachel Reeves is a cruel, lying, incompetent clown”
Unbelievable hostility to a Labour Chancellor. I wonder if Labour’s polling might dip below 20
Labour have a real voter coalition problem (the same as the Tories). It is probably - at least partially - fixable in the next few years, but it’s not a given.
Their left wing could desert them to LDs/Greens/Gaza Indys, some of the WWC vote to Reform, and then all they’ve really got left is their middle class vote - and if they don’t improve their economic lot, those votes might start to have their heads turned by the Tories.
They’re trying to build a Blairite coalition that doesn’t exist anymore.
(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 13s Question. If Trump continues to impose tariffs. If he continues to support Putin. If he continues to threaten our allies and NATO partners. Does he still get rewarded with his state visit. Or does he actually have to do something for us, to earn it.
Even for Hodges, this is obtuse. Fwiw, I thought it ill-advised to invite President Trump but state visits are not doled out to nice children. Hodges has confused the King with Father Christmas.
The way it's going the police might have something to say.
Short of a horse drawn carriage driving down the Mall with Axel Rudakubana it's difficult to imagine a less easily controlled event
I'll be out shaking my fist if it goes ahead. In fact I hope it does because I'll enjoy that.
I would hope that if it goes ahead there isn't serious disorder. Controlling that, especially in those circumstances, would lower the reputation of the police even further.
Everyone turning their backs as Trump passes would be better.
Great idea. Shaking fists shows anger whereas that is more a sign of bottomless contempt, hence more powerful. It's the equivalent of when Trump comes on tv not shouting at the screen, or throwing things at it, but just casually turning it off or switching to a sports channel or a soap.
Waving Ukranian, Canadian and Greenland flags is the way to go.
I think that is a great idea, but did anyone here know (before looking it up) what a Greenland flag looked like. I didn't and it is rather interestingly odd.
Very Polish Deathstar.
I know the Greenland flag well, but that’s because I’ve been to Greenland. Am I unique in PB in that?
The flag is one of the great flags of the world. Beautiful in its simplicity - yet it actually isn’t simple at all. It draws on multiple Inuit sun and moon myths
My wife and I have been to Greenland so not quite unique in that respect
So far then, we've got Big_G and spouse, Leon, and the JD Vances.
The quality of visitors to Greenland is somewhat variable.
I think we only have one outlier there and that is counting @Big_G_NorthWales and his wife as one.
I think we should start calling Greenland “Big G”. It fits. @Big_G_NorthAtlantic
Thts why Goldberg was in the Signal chat.
Waltz and Hegseth thought he was representing the Atlantic Ocean, rather than The Atlantic magazine. It's an easy mistake to make.
Seriously disturbing. “"We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it," Trump told podcaster Vince Coglianese. "I hate to put it that way, but we're going to have to have it."”
Sounds great, i question why its apparently so necessary to make it easy to avoid (if you are well off), but i assume millionaires will moan and move to Dubai, harming our tax rate rarher than helping it
It’s not. Governments come up with industry specific schemes like film finance that is then exploited by firms who essentially use a minimal amount of equity and buckets of debt and then claim the tax relief on the full amount.
It never works, but looks superficially like it does, and by the time the HMRC takes them through the legal process the promotors have run for the hills with their fees leaving the greedy saps on the hook for the liabilities
Note the fun bit -
Q - is the scheme legal? A - our tame KC says it can work - here is his brief
The KC gets paid, the advice always turns out to be wrong. No comeback on the KC.
Best exchange between client and lawyer about a solution to a problem.
Client: Is that solution legal?
Lawyer: It is rarely prosecuted.
It is said (within private banking) that there are certain KCs who will sign any opinion for a suitable fee.
As in the banks tell the customers that the opinions of certain lawyers are a very bad sign.
No wonder the King in Government makes so many bad decisions if that's the quality of his Counsellors!
You do realise the Cabinet is a sub-committee of the King’s Privy Council?
Right now the Guardian website has four stories at the top, all different versions of “Rachel Reeves is a cruel, lying, incompetent clown”
Unbelievable hostility to a Labour Chancellor. I wonder if Labour’s polling might dip below 20
I know that it's regarded as a political no-no, but I do wonder if Sir Keir would be better served shifting her to the Foreign Office sooner rather than later and getting Wes in. I don't think I've seen as CoE lose every modicum of goodwill so quickly and so comprehensively. Norman Lamont perhaps, but even that's a close-run thing.
What has the Foreign Office ever done to you? "Rachel From Travel" has a certain ring to it, and I guess she would be able to get all sorts of freebies in that job
Right now the Guardian website has four stories at the top, all different versions of “Rachel Reeves is a cruel, lying, incompetent clown”
Unbelievable hostility to a Labour Chancellor. I wonder if Labour’s polling might dip below 20
I know that it's regarded as a political no-no, but I do wonder if Sir Keir would be better served shifting her to the Foreign Office sooner rather than later and getting Wes in. I don't think I've seen as CoE lose every modicum of goodwill so quickly and so comprehensively. Norman Lamont perhaps, but even that's a close-run thing.
What has the Foreign Office ever done to you? "Rachel From Travel" has a certain ring to it, and I guess she would be able to get all sorts of freebies in that job
(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 13s Question. If Trump continues to impose tariffs. If he continues to support Putin. If he continues to threaten our allies and NATO partners. Does he still get rewarded with his state visit. Or does he actually have to do something for us, to earn it.
He'll get it no matter what and will be slavered over while he is here. It's delusional to think otherwise.
Neither the British government or the (Not My) king has dared to say a word about his belligerence toward Canada and Denmark. Anybody anticipating even a pugil of moral courage from SKS or KC3 now is heading for disappointment.
This is a consequence of the US being the one "indispensable" country and Europe being dependent on US goodwill for security. Starmer and KCIII are being responsible in attempting to mitigate the impact of Trumpian madness.
The only thing that works with Trump is flattery - as Putin has so amply demonstrated.
Trump is a shit stain, and telling him so would be satisfying.
But, it could push him into siding further with Russia, so holding one's tongue is the sensible thing for SKS to do.
He’s also a sociopath, and the good thing with most sociopaths (as we’ve seen with Trump) is they struggle to bear grudges. They take offence, but it’s short lived and is water off a duck’s back, because they really don’t worry much about what others think about them.
Which means we can be selectively combative and accommodating. On tariff and trade policy we need to meet fire with fire, at least once it becomes clear there will be no UK exemptions (it seems clear already). On Ukraine and foreign policy the triangulation strategy probably works, for now. But with great care taken on intelligence sharing and a concerted effort to wean ourselves off dependency.
I think that Trump does bear grudges.
Indeed his life seems dominated by them and a drive for revenge.
JD Vance compared Trump to Hitler. That's one forgiven right there.
I suspect Trump thought it a compliment. Seriously!
Not long ago the deportation of a BBC journalist by a NATO member democracy would have been a big story. Changing times. Perhaps it won't be a huge story when the USA joins Turkey in this or similar actions.
Seriously disturbing. “"We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it," Trump told podcaster Vince Coglianese. "I hate to put it that way, but we're going to have to have it."”
Trump likes good looking people who make good TV. That's his criterion.
He admires Starmer's accent and thinks he is handsome.
Speaking to Metro, Lip reading expert Jacqui Press reveals Trump reportedly said to Starmer: ‘How are you? Nice to see you here, good journey? ‘You look good… handsome.’
And as for Starmer's wife Vic, well ,,, The US president said he was “very impressed” with Sir Keir Starmer's "beautiful wife".
This is Starmer's edge with Trump. Jesus.
Just like PB, then.
No wonder he seems to like Macron. Handsomest male political leader.
(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 13s Question. If Trump continues to impose tariffs. If he continues to support Putin. If he continues to threaten our allies and NATO partners. Does he still get rewarded with his state visit. Or does he actually have to do something for us, to earn it.
Even for Hodges, this is obtuse. Fwiw, I thought it ill-advised to invite President Trump but state visits are not doled out to nice children. Hodges has confused the King with Father Christmas.
The way it's going the police might have something to say.
Short of a horse drawn carriage driving down the Mall with Axel Rudakubana it's difficult to imagine a less easily controlled event
I'll be out shaking my fist if it goes ahead. In fact I hope it does because I'll enjoy that.
I would hope that if it goes ahead there isn't serious disorder. Controlling that, especially in those circumstances, would lower the reputation of the police even further.
Everyone turning their backs as Trump passes would be better.
Great idea. Shaking fists shows anger whereas that is more a sign of bottomless contempt, hence more powerful. It's the equivalent of when Trump comes on tv not shouting at the screen, or throwing things at it, but just casually turning it off or switching to a sports channel or a soap.
Waving Ukranian, Canadian and Greenland flags is the way to go.
I think that is a great idea, but did anyone here know (before looking it up) what a Greenland flag looked like. I didn't and it is rather interestingly odd.
Very Polish Deathstar.
I know the Greenland flag well, but that’s because I’ve been to Greenland. Am I unique in PB in that?
The flag is one of the great flags of the world. Beautiful in its simplicity - yet it actually isn’t simple at all. It draws on multiple Inuit sun and moon myths
My wife and I have been to Greenland so not quite unique in that respect
So far then, we've got Big_G and spouse, Leon, and the JD Vances.
The quality of visitors to Greenland is somewhat variable.
I have been to both Greenland and Iceland and I would like to say both are hopelessly misnamed.
Greenland should be named Iceland and Iceland should be named Greenland.
I don't know what happened between your trip and my trip to Iceland, but green it isn't (mostly) and what is green is mainly moss, which I suppose does make it largely green (sigh).
Seriously disturbing. “"We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it," Trump told podcaster Vince Coglianese. "I hate to put it that way, but we're going to have to have it."”
Seriously disturbing. “"We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it," Trump told podcaster Vince Coglianese. "I hate to put it that way, but we're going to have to have it."”
Seriously disturbing. “"We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it," Trump told podcaster Vince Coglianese. "I hate to put it that way, but we're going to have to have it."”
Seriously disturbing. “"We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it," Trump told podcaster Vince Coglianese. "I hate to put it that way, but we're going to have to have it."”
Politically, for re-election, it's the NHS and cost of living that matter most.
Poverty would largely affect the activist base.
COL and “poverty” are linked though.
Benefits cuts are always popular on paper but similar to tax rises (on anyone other than yourself). There will be a lot of people in the country related to or knowing someone who will be impacted by benefits changes and that has the possibility of turning entire families away from Labour, who would be traditional supporters. This was also one of the issues, I suspect, with the WFA cut and why it resonated so deeply.
I don’t have the answers for Labour, I just comment that one of the reasons why they are so low in the polls has to be that a lot of their policies of late have really miffed a number of people who think “Labour are supposed to be on my side” .
Seriously disturbing. “"We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it," Trump told podcaster Vince Coglianese. "I hate to put it that way, but we're going to have to have it."”
Seriously disturbing. “"We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it," Trump told podcaster Vince Coglianese. "I hate to put it that way, but we're going to have to have it."”
Seriously disturbing. “"We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it," Trump told podcaster Vince Coglianese. "I hate to put it that way, but we're going to have to have it."”
Seriously disturbing. “"We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it," Trump told podcaster Vince Coglianese. "I hate to put it that way, but we're going to have to have it."”
(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 13s Question. If Trump continues to impose tariffs. If he continues to support Putin. If he continues to threaten our allies and NATO partners. Does he still get rewarded with his state visit. Or does he actually have to do something for us, to earn it.
Even for Hodges, this is obtuse. Fwiw, I thought it ill-advised to invite President Trump but state visits are not doled out to nice children. Hodges has confused the King with Father Christmas.
The way it's going the police might have something to say.
Short of a horse drawn carriage driving down the Mall with Axel Rudakubana it's difficult to imagine a less easily controlled event
I'll be out shaking my fist if it goes ahead. In fact I hope it does because I'll enjoy that.
I would hope that if it goes ahead there isn't serious disorder. Controlling that, especially in those circumstances, would lower the reputation of the police even further.
Everyone turning their backs as Trump passes would be better.
Great idea. Shaking fists shows anger whereas that is more a sign of bottomless contempt, hence more powerful. It's the equivalent of when Trump comes on tv not shouting at the screen, or throwing things at it, but just casually turning it off or switching to a sports channel or a soap.
Waving Ukranian, Canadian and Greenland flags is the way to go.
I think that is a great idea, but did anyone here know (before looking it up) what a Greenland flag looked like. I didn't and it is rather interestingly odd.
Very Polish Deathstar.
I know the Greenland flag well, but that’s because I’ve been to Greenland. Am I unique in PB in that?
The flag is one of the great flags of the world. Beautiful in its simplicity - yet it actually isn’t simple at all. It draws on multiple Inuit sun and moon myths
My wife and I have been to Greenland so not quite unique in that respect
So far then, we've got Big_G and spouse, Leon, and the JD Vances.
The quality of visitors to Greenland is somewhat variable.
I have been to both Greenland and Iceland and I would like to say both are hopelessly misnamed.
Greenland should be named Iceland and Iceland should be named Greenland.
I don't know what happened between your trip and my trip to Iceland, but green it isn't (mostly) and what is green is mainly moss, which I suppose does make it largely green (sigh).
Yeah, its moss though. OK I'm wrong as you can guess I realised after my multiple edits trying to worm my way out of my first ridiculous statement.
Greenland though - That is not white.
Here’s my Iceland photo, from 2023
All looks quite icy. But we were in the “ice cave of Vatnajokull” (a brilliantly scary place if you haven’t been)
Whilst I enjoyed my trip to Iceland it failed on most of its selling points:
a) I didn't see the Northern lights even though we did 2 night time trips b) I did see dolphins and Minke whales, but have since seen a better display on a ferry from France to the UK c) It wasn't cold at all. It was significantly warmer than it should have been for the time of year
Geyser was good though as was the Cod War boat and as was the Blue Lagoon which I believe is now closed for the ridiculous reason of an erupting volcano next door.
PS And the waterfalls and standing on 2 continents simultaneously wasn't bad.
Seriously disturbing. “"We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it," Trump told podcaster Vince Coglianese. "I hate to put it that way, but we're going to have to have it."”
At what point does Denmark start shipping guns to Greenlandic citizens? This is literally a signpost to an invasion.
If Trump is serious then Greenland is finished. No way Denmark can defend it against the USA, nor can 50,000 Greenlanders fight off the USMC
It could all be done and dusted in a day
Don't fret. it isn't going to happen.
You think? What odds would you be offering?
No odds. It is just called wisdom. Trump thinks he is a clever negotiator and part of his style of negotiation is playing the hard man. He is modelling himself on Putin and perhaps he thinks his legacy will be to make the USA bigger in his dementia riddled mind, and that could be a threat. I think though there is more likely to be a US coup than the US invading a territory owned by another NATO member. Even under this fecking lunatic.
Seriously disturbing. “"We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it," Trump told podcaster Vince Coglianese. "I hate to put it that way, but we're going to have to have it."”
Seriously disturbing. “"We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it," Trump told podcaster Vince Coglianese. "I hate to put it that way, but we're going to have to have it."”
At what point does Denmark start shipping guns to Greenlandic citizens? This is literally a signpost to an invasion.
If Trump is serious then Greenland is finished. No way Denmark can defend it against the USA, nor can 50,000 Greenlanders fight off the USMC
It could all be done and dusted in a day
They could make things difficult for them as any insurgency can. Nobody is suggesting Denmark or Greenland can fight off the US Army…
Greenlanders have made it clear that they don't want to be part of the US. We'd have to back Denmark, a NATO ally and all-round good chaps (cyclists + monarchy + democracy). At the very least so the Argentinians don't get funny ideas.
The key is to make sure that kind of stupidity never happens. If that means relocating Attenborough, Judi Dench, Princess Anne and 100 very cute cockapoos to Nuuk then so be it.
(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 13s Question. If Trump continues to impose tariffs. If he continues to support Putin. If he continues to threaten our allies and NATO partners. Does he still get rewarded with his state visit. Or does he actually have to do something for us, to earn it.
He'll get it no matter what and will be slavered over while he is here. It's delusional to think otherwise.
Neither the British government or the (Not My) king has dared to say a word about his belligerence toward Canada and Denmark. Anybody anticipating even a pugil of moral courage from SKS or KC3 now is heading for disappointment.
It was Starmer's government who invited Trump, the King just sent the invite.
The King will almost certainly visit Canada after the election first anyway
The King should visit Canada during the state visit.
Seriously disturbing. “"We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it," Trump told podcaster Vince Coglianese. "I hate to put it that way, but we're going to have to have it."”
At what point does Denmark start shipping guns to Greenlandic citizens? This is literally a signpost to an invasion.
If Trump is serious then Greenland is finished. No way Denmark can defend it against the USA, nor can 50,000 Greenlanders fight off the USMC
It could all be done and dusted in a day
Don't fret. it isn't going to happen.
This is Trump. He very often does exactly what he says - eg tariffs
I thought he’d try and bribe the Greenlanders to accede. Give each one $50k. The USA can afford it
But maybe he’ll just fly in the Marines (if they are willing to obey)
He could, but the USA would just be a bullying occupying force. He knows that no-one (except Russia) would recognise territorial ownership so it would be like squatters in Trump Tower. It would be meaningless. He will hope he can buy it.
(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 13s Question. If Trump continues to impose tariffs. If he continues to support Putin. If he continues to threaten our allies and NATO partners. Does he still get rewarded with his state visit. Or does he actually have to do something for us, to earn it.
Even for Hodges, this is obtuse. Fwiw, I thought it ill-advised to invite President Trump but state visits are not doled out to nice children. Hodges has confused the King with Father Christmas.
The way it's going the police might have something to say.
Short of a horse drawn carriage driving down the Mall with Axel Rudakubana it's difficult to imagine a less easily controlled event
I'll be out shaking my fist if it goes ahead. In fact I hope it does because I'll enjoy that.
I would hope that if it goes ahead there isn't serious disorder. Controlling that, especially in those circumstances, would lower the reputation of the police even further.
Everyone turning their backs as Trump passes would be better.
Great idea. Shaking fists shows anger whereas that is more a sign of bottomless contempt, hence more powerful. It's the equivalent of when Trump comes on tv not shouting at the screen, or throwing things at it, but just casually turning it off or switching to a sports channel or a soap.
Waving Ukranian, Canadian and Greenland flags is the way to go.
I think that is a great idea, but did anyone here know (before looking it up) what a Greenland flag looked like. I didn't and it is rather interestingly odd.
Very Polish Deathstar.
I know the Greenland flag well, but that’s because I’ve been to Greenland. Am I unique in PB in that?
The flag is one of the great flags of the world. Beautiful in its simplicity - yet it actually isn’t simple at all. It draws on multiple Inuit sun and moon myths
My wife and I have been to Greenland so not quite unique in that respect
So far then, we've got Big_G and spouse, Leon, and the JD Vances.
The quality of visitors to Greenland is somewhat variable.
I have been to both Greenland and Iceland and I would like to say both are hopelessly misnamed.
Greenland should be named Iceland and Iceland should be named Greenland.
I don't know what happened between your trip and my trip to Iceland, but green it isn't (mostly) and what is green is mainly moss, which I suppose does make it largely green (sigh).
Yeah, its moss though. OK I'm wrong as you can guess I realised after my multiple edits trying to worm my way out of my first ridiculous statement.
Greenland though - That is not white.
Here’s my Iceland photo, from 2023
All looks quite icy. But we were in the “ice cave of Vatnajokull” (a brilliantly scary place if you haven’t been)
Whilst I enjoyed my trip to Iceland it failed on most of its selling points:
a) I didn't see the Northern lights even though we did 2 night time trips b) I did see dolphins and Minke whales, but have since seen a better display on a ferry from France to the UK c) It wasn't cold at all. It was significantly warmer than it should have been for the time of year
Geyser was good though as was the Cod War boat and as was the Blue Lagoon which I believe is now closed for the ridiculous reason of an erupting volcano next door.
PS And the waterfalls and standing on 2 continents simultaneously wasn't bad.
I love Iceland. Been several times. That Ice Cave is one of the most beautiful & incredible places on earth
They’ve even improved the food, of late
The problem is the cost, esp booze. Luckily I don’t have to pay for most of it
Seriously disturbing. “"We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it," Trump told podcaster Vince Coglianese. "I hate to put it that way, but we're going to have to have it."”
(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 13s Question. If Trump continues to impose tariffs. If he continues to support Putin. If he continues to threaten our allies and NATO partners. Does he still get rewarded with his state visit. Or does he actually have to do something for us, to earn it.
He'll get it no matter what and will be slavered over while he is here. It's delusional to think otherwise.
Neither the British government or the (Not My) king has dared to say a word about his belligerence toward Canada and Denmark. Anybody anticipating even a pugil of moral courage from SKS or KC3 now is heading for disappointment.
It was Starmer's government who invited Trump, the King just sent the invite.
The King will almost certainly visit Canada after the election first anyway
The King should visit Canada during the state visit.
Trump should be offered a dinner with Andrew.
In a Pizza Express in Woking.
It's the only time I can think of where one thinks it is a shame Jimmy Saville is dead, because if he were not, he would be an ideal ambassador to the court of the Orange Clown.
Seriously disturbing. “"We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it," Trump told podcaster Vince Coglianese. "I hate to put it that way, but we're going to have to have it."”
Seriously disturbing. “"We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it," Trump told podcaster Vince Coglianese. "I hate to put it that way, but we're going to have to have it."”
Seriously disturbing. “"We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it," Trump told podcaster Vince Coglianese. "I hate to put it that way, but we're going to have to have it."”
At what point does Denmark start shipping guns to Greenlandic citizens? This is literally a signpost to an invasion.
If Trump is serious then Greenland is finished. No way Denmark can defend it against the USA, nor can 50,000 Greenlanders fight off the USMC
It could all be done and dusted in a day
They could make things difficult for them as any insurgency can. Nobody is suggesting Denmark or Greenland can fight off the US Army…
Greenlanders have made it clear that they don't want to be part of the US. We'd have to back Denmark, a NATO ally and all-round good chaps (cyclists + monarchy + democracy). At the very least so the Argentinians don't get funny ideas.
The key is to make sure that kind of stupidity never happens. If that means relocating Attenborough, Judi Dench, Princess Anne and 100 very cute cockapoos to Nuuk then so be it.
Trump doesn't want the Falklands which have a bigger garrison than Greenland and unlike Denmark belong to a nation with nukes
Seriously disturbing. “"We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it," Trump told podcaster Vince Coglianese. "I hate to put it that way, but we're going to have to have it."”
Right now the Guardian website has four stories at the top, all different versions of “Rachel Reeves is a cruel, lying, incompetent clown”
Unbelievable hostility to a Labour Chancellor. I wonder if Labour’s polling might dip below 20
Labour have a real voter coalition problem (the same as the Tories). It is probably - at least partially - fixable in the next few years, but it’s not a given.
Their left wing could desert them to LDs/Greens/Gaza Indys, some of the WWC vote to Reform, and then all they’ve really got left is their middle class vote - and if they don’t improve their economic lot, those votes might start to have their heads turned by the Tories.
They’re trying to build a Blairite coalition that doesn’t exist anymore.
Yes the only voters who like Starmer and Reeves now are bankers and developers.
The left hate them, the white working class hate them, farmers hate them, pensioners hate them and business owners hate them and now the public sector, civil servants and ex NHS England workers and the disabled and those on benefits hate them too
Seriously disturbing. “"We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it," Trump told podcaster Vince Coglianese. "I hate to put it that way, but we're going to have to have it."”
At what point does Denmark start shipping guns to Greenlandic citizens? This is literally a signpost to an invasion.
If Trump is serious then Greenland is finished. No way Denmark can defend it against the USA, nor can 50,000 Greenlanders fight off the USMC
It could all be done and dusted in a day
They could make things difficult for them as any insurgency can. Nobody is suggesting Denmark or Greenland can fight off the US Army…
Greenlanders have made it clear that they don't want to be part of the US. We'd have to back Denmark, a NATO ally and all-round good chaps (cyclists + monarchy + democracy). At the very least so the Argentinians don't get funny ideas.
The key is to make sure that kind of stupidity never happens. If that means relocating Attenborough, Judi Dench, Princess Anne and 100 very cute cockapoos to Nuuk then so be it.
Right now the Guardian website has four stories at the top, all different versions of “Rachel Reeves is a cruel, lying, incompetent clown”
Unbelievable hostility to a Labour Chancellor. I wonder if Labour’s polling might dip below 20
Labour have a real voter coalition problem (the same as the Tories). It is probably - at least partially - fixable in the next few years, but it’s not a given.
Their left wing could desert them to LDs/Greens/Gaza Indys, some of the WWC vote to Reform, and then all they’ve really got left is their middle class vote - and if they don’t improve their economic lot, those votes might start to have their heads turned by the Tories.
They’re trying to build a Blairite coalition that doesn’t exist anymore.
Yes the only voters who like Starmer and Reeves now are bankers and developers.
The left hate them, the white working class hate them, farmers hate them, pensioners hate them and business owners hate them and now the public sector, civil servants and ex NHS England workers and the disabled and those on benefits hate them too
That's a real hatefest. I guess it also means that the roughly 25% who indicate they'd still vote Labour are all bankers and developers. Huge if true.
Though when I asked our Medical School about increased numbers of students as part of the NHS plan, they said there was no expansion.
Tumbleweed from the DoH. It's cheaper and easier to import Nigerians and Egyptians.
Unless things have changed a lot since my own working days, the lack of interest in training our own people is a national trait in all walks of life.
Good morning, everybody.
One of the main reasons for our difficulties in competing economically with other countries is the relatively high cost of overheads here. This is due largely to poor infrastructure and a lack of training.
It is difficult, though not impossible to do something about the former. The latter appears to be a cultural thing. 'We fly by the seat of our pants'. Hmm,yes...and not very well in the main.
Businesses which invest in training often find their newly trained workers depart for other businesses which do not invest in training but offer higher pay.
Amusingly those departed workers sometimes regret their decision as they discover that businesses which do not invest in training but offer higher pay are also unpleasant places to work at.
The flip side of that is that businesses are quicker to sack people in the interests of maximising shareholder value and supposed efficiency. Businesses show less loyalty to staff; staff show less loyalty to businesses. Reduced social trust all round.
In the building industry there is already a training levy.
I advocate merging all training and higher education into universities.
This would get rid of the academic/blue collar divide - degrees for all. Modular, part time in the mix as well.
I would go further, and demand a mix in all degrees - Elizabethan Poetry with a side of Welding.
A plumbing degree with a side of Moral Philosophy.
There's been an Apprenticeship Levy since 2017, and it raises £3.5 billion per annum:
The Apprenticeship Levy, a 0.5% levy on annual paybills exceeding £3 million, currently raises around £3.5 billion annually, with a portion allocated to the Department for Education (DfE) for apprenticeships in England and the remainder distributed to devolved governments.
The organisation of and rules around apprenticeships allowed in this scheme is a nightmare. I am constantly surprised how little attention it receives. Cut all the red tape and it would be a good scheme.
Seriously disturbing. “"We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it," Trump told podcaster Vince Coglianese. "I hate to put it that way, but we're going to have to have it."”
At what point does Denmark start shipping guns to Greenlandic citizens? This is literally a signpost to an invasion.
If Trump is serious then Greenland is finished. No way Denmark can defend it against the USA, nor can 50,000 Greenlanders fight off the USMC
It could all be done and dusted in a day
Don't fret. it isn't going to happen.
This is Trump. He very often does exactly what he says - eg tariffs
I thought he’d try and bribe the Greenlanders to accede. Give each one $50k. The USA can afford it
But maybe he’ll just fly in the Marines (if they are willing to obey)
He could, but the USA would just be a bullying occupying force. He knows that no-one (except Russia) would recognise territorial ownership so it would be like squatters in Trump Tower. It would be meaningless. He will hope he can buy it.
Any occupying force would be a the end of quite a long and vulnerable supply line. Everything would have to be flown or sailed in, over Canada or the sea. Supply ships and fat aircraft are very hittable targets for a missile.
So, for that matter, are Air Force One and Mar-a-Lago.
Seriously disturbing. “"We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it," Trump told podcaster Vince Coglianese. "I hate to put it that way, but we're going to have to have it."”
Right now the Guardian website has four stories at the top, all different versions of “Rachel Reeves is a cruel, lying, incompetent clown”
Unbelievable hostility to a Labour Chancellor. I wonder if Labour’s polling might dip below 20
Labour have a real voter coalition problem (the same as the Tories). It is probably - at least partially - fixable in the next few years, but it’s not a given.
Their left wing could desert them to LDs/Greens/Gaza Indys, some of the WWC vote to Reform, and then all they’ve really got left is their middle class vote - and if they don’t improve their economic lot, those votes might start to have their heads turned by the Tories.
They’re trying to build a Blairite coalition that doesn’t exist anymore.
Yes the only voters who like Starmer and Reeves now are bankers and developers.
The left hate them, the white working class hate them, farmers hate them, pensioners hate them and business owners hate them and now the public sector, civil servants and ex NHS England workers and the disabled and those on benefits hate them too
That's a real hatefest. I guess it also means that the roughly 25% who indicate they'd still vote Labour are all bankers and developers. Huge if true.
25% would be the lowest Labour GE voteshare for 100 years and that was pre spending review
Seriously disturbing. “"We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it," Trump told podcaster Vince Coglianese. "I hate to put it that way, but we're going to have to have it."”
At what point does Denmark start shipping guns to Greenlandic citizens? This is literally a signpost to an invasion.
If Trump is serious then Greenland is finished. No way Denmark can defend it against the USA, nor can 50,000 Greenlanders fight off the USMC
It could all be done and dusted in a day
Don't fret. it isn't going to happen.
This is Trump. He very often does exactly what he says - eg tariffs
I thought he’d try and bribe the Greenlanders to accede. Give each one $50k. The USA can afford it
But maybe he’ll just fly in the Marines (if they are willing to obey)
He could, but the USA would just be a bullying occupying force. He knows that no-one (except Russia) would recognise territorial ownership so it would be like squatters in Trump Tower. It would be meaningless. He will hope he can buy it.
Any occupying force would be a the end of quite a long and vulnerable supply line. Everything would have to be flown or sailed in, over Canada or the sea. Supply ships and fat aircraft are very hittable targets for a missile.
So, for that matter, are Air Force One and Mar-a-Lago.
Who do you think is going to be firing missiles at them?
If Trump is serious then Greenland is finished. No way Denmark can defend it against the USA, nor can 50,000 Greenlanders fight off the USMC
It could all be done and dusted in a day
Indeed, there's no way for Denmark to stop the US taking Greenland by force. But it would very likely turn into an unmitigated disaster for Trump.
NATO would die that day, taking all of the US' bases in Europe with it. What happens if the Greenlanders resist and the Marines are ordered to shoot civilians and some (possibly all) refuse? And would the US be prepared to start a shooting war if Europe mustered a fleet to take the island back?
Trump likes good looking people who make good TV. That's his criterion.
He admires Starmer's accent and thinks he is handsome.
Speaking to Metro, Lip reading expert Jacqui Press reveals Trump reportedly said to Starmer: ‘How are you? Nice to see you here, good journey? ‘You look good… handsome.’
And as for Starmer's wife Vic, well ,,, The US president said he was “very impressed” with Sir Keir Starmer's "beautiful wife".
This is Starmer's edge with Trump. Jesus.
You'd think Ukraine would deploy Olena Zelenska then.
(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 13s Question. If Trump continues to impose tariffs. If he continues to support Putin. If he continues to threaten our allies and NATO partners. Does he still get rewarded with his state visit. Or does he actually have to do something for us, to earn it.
Even for Hodges, this is obtuse. Fwiw, I thought it ill-advised to invite President Trump but state visits are not doled out to nice children. Hodges has confused the King with Father Christmas.
The way it's going the police might have something to say.
Short of a horse drawn carriage driving down the Mall with Axel Rudakubana it's difficult to imagine a less easily controlled event
I'll be out shaking my fist if it goes ahead. In fact I hope it does because I'll enjoy that.
I would hope that if it goes ahead there isn't serious disorder. Controlling that, especially in those circumstances, would lower the reputation of the police even further.
Everyone turning their backs as Trump passes would be better.
Great idea. Shaking fists shows anger whereas that is more a sign of bottomless contempt, hence more powerful. It's the equivalent of when Trump comes on tv not shouting at the screen, or throwing things at it, but just casually turning it off or switching to a sports channel or a soap.
Perhaps, having turned their backs, everyone should do a moonie? The police can't arrest everyone!
Seriously disturbing. “"We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it," Trump told podcaster Vince Coglianese. "I hate to put it that way, but we're going to have to have it."”
If Trump is serious then Greenland is finished. No way Denmark can defend it against the USA, nor can 50,000 Greenlanders fight off the USMC
It could all be done and dusted in a day
Indeed, there's no way for Denmark to stop the US taking Greenland by force. But it would very likely turn into an unmitigated disaster for Trump.
NATO would die that day, taking all of the US' bases in Europe with it. What happens if the Greenlanders resist and the Marines are ordered to shoot civilians and some (possibly all) refuse? And would the US be prepared to start a shooting war if Europe mustered a fleet to take the island back?
Bear traps everywhere.
Yes even for a lunatic like Trump a military assault looks absurdly risky - there would be a real chance his orders are disobeyed and then he’d be toppled and likely end in jail
I revert to my earlier opinion. He will try and use bullying, bluster and basic cash. He will try and buy it with added menaces
Seriously disturbing. “"We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it," Trump told podcaster Vince Coglianese. "I hate to put it that way, but we're going to have to have it."”
At what point does Denmark start shipping guns to Greenlandic citizens? This is literally a signpost to an invasion.
If Trump is serious then Greenland is finished. No way Denmark can defend it against the USA, nor can 50,000 Greenlanders fight off the USMC
It could all be done and dusted in a day
Sad to remind everyone, during ze War, Denmark surrendered to Germany after only 6 HOURS (in April 1940).
Look at a map, Sunil
Context is for Kings, Viewcode.
@Leon was talking about Denmark hypothetically losing to the USA in a day. I provided a real, historical example when Denmark DID surrender within a day.
Right now the Guardian website has four stories at the top, all different versions of “Rachel Reeves is a cruel, lying, incompetent clown”
Unbelievable hostility to a Labour Chancellor. I wonder if Labour’s polling might dip below 20
Unfair on Reeves because she's doing the right thing and no-one likes it.
If I may politely disagree. The function of the Labour Party is to increase the wealth and opportunities of the working class and the poor. To do this it increases equality by taxing the rich and spreading that wealth to the poor. But the belief has spread that one cannot tax the rich (because they leave) so the only tool Labour have left is to impoverish and immiserate the poor and/or working class, therefore obviating the entire point of the Labour movement.
If things keep going this way the South Wales Valleys will go Reform in 2029, which is Olympus has fallen for Labour. Starmer flirts unthinking with the destruction of his party, which as a metropolitan elite lawyer he failks to understand or even intuit.
Right now the Guardian website has four stories at the top, all different versions of “Rachel Reeves is a cruel, lying, incompetent clown”
Unbelievable hostility to a Labour Chancellor. I wonder if Labour’s polling might dip below 20
Unfair on Reeves because she's doing the right thing and no-one likes it.
If I may politely disagree. The function of the Labour Party is to increase the wealth and opportunities of the working class and the poor. To do this it increases equality by taxing the rich and spreading that wealth to the poor. But the belief has spread that one cannot tax the rich (because they leave) so the only tool Labour have left is to impoverish and immiserate the poor and/or working class, therefore obviating the entire point of the Labour movement.
If things keep going this way the South Wales Valleys will go Reform in 2029, which is Olympus has fallen for Labour. Starmer flirts unthinking with the destruction of his party, which as a metropolitan elite lawyer he failks to understand or even intuit.
You do have to think that a Labour Government taking a quarter of a million more into poverty has a fundamental problem.
But then, all Labour Governments leave office with fewer employed than they inherited.
At some point, voters WILL realise their business model is shite.
Right now the Guardian website has four stories at the top, all different versions of “Rachel Reeves is a cruel, lying, incompetent clown”
Unbelievable hostility to a Labour Chancellor. I wonder if Labour’s polling might dip below 20
Unfair on Reeves because she's doing the right thing and no-one likes it.
If I may politely disagree. The function of the Labour Party is to increase the wealth and opportunities of the working class and the poor. To do this it increases equality by taxing the rich and spreading that wealth to the poor. But the belief has spread that one cannot tax the rich (because they leave) so the only tool Labour have left is to impoverish and immiserate the poor and/or working class, therefore obviating the entire point of the Labour movement.
If things keep going this way the South Wales Valleys will go Reform in 2029, which is Olympus has fallen for Labour. Starmer flirts unthinking with the destruction of his party, which as a metropolitan elite lawyer he failks to understand or even intuit.
Indeed if progressive inner city and university town seats went Green and the LDs held their anti Brexit seats and the white working class seats went Reform and soft Leave seats went back to Tory and Muslim seats Corbynite Independent that would be curtains for Labour
Seriously disturbing. “"We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it," Trump told podcaster Vince Coglianese. "I hate to put it that way, but we're going to have to have it."”
At what point does Denmark start shipping guns to Greenlandic citizens? This is literally a signpost to an invasion.
If Trump is serious then Greenland is finished. No way Denmark can defend it against the USA, nor can 50,000 Greenlanders fight off the USMC
It could all be done and dusted in a day
They could make things difficult for them as any insurgency can. Nobody is suggesting Denmark or Greenland can fight off the US Army…
Greenlanders have made it clear that they don't want to be part of the US. We'd have to back Denmark, a NATO ally and all-round good chaps (cyclists + monarchy + democracy). At the very least so the Argentinians don't get funny ideas.
The key is to make sure that kind of stupidity never happens. If that means relocating Attenborough, Judi Dench, Princess Anne and 100 very cute cockapoos to Nuuk then so be it.
Right now the Guardian website has four stories at the top, all different versions of “Rachel Reeves is a cruel, lying, incompetent clown”
Unbelievable hostility to a Labour Chancellor. I wonder if Labour’s polling might dip below 20
Unfair on Reeves because she's doing the right thing and no-one likes it.
If I may politely disagree. The function of the Labour Party is to increase the wealth and opportunities of the working class and the poor. To do this it increases equality by taxing the rich and spreading that wealth to the poor. But the belief has spread that one cannot tax the rich (because they leave) so the only tool Labour have left is to impoverish and immiserate the poor and/or working class, therefore obviating the entire point of the Labour movement.
If things keep going this way the South Wales Valleys will go Reform in 2029, which is Olympus has fallen for Labour. Starmer flirts unthinking with the destruction of his party, which as a metropolitan elite lawyer he failks to understand or even intuit.
You do have to think that a Labour Government taking a quarter of a million more into poverty has a fundamental problem.
But then, all Labour Governments leave office with fewer employed than they inherited.
At some point, voters WILL realise their business model is shite.
Employment in April 1997: 26.5mn Employment in April 2010: 29.5mn
Employment rate in April 1997: 58.1% Employment rate in April 2010: 58.2%
Right now the Guardian website has four stories at the top, all different versions of “Rachel Reeves is a cruel, lying, incompetent clown”
Unbelievable hostility to a Labour Chancellor. I wonder if Labour’s polling might dip below 20
Unfair on Reeves because she's doing the right thing and no-one likes it.
If I may politely disagree. The function of the Labour Party is to increase the wealth and opportunities of the working class and the poor. To do this it increases equality by taxing the rich and spreading that wealth to the poor. But the belief has spread that one cannot tax the rich (because they leave) so the only tool Labour have left is to impoverish and immiserate the poor and/or working class, therefore obviating the entire point of the Labour movement.
If things keep going this way the South Wales Valleys will go Reform in 2029, which is Olympus has fallen for Labour. Starmer flirts unthinking with the destruction of his party, which as a metropolitan elite lawyer he failks to understand or even intuit.
You do have to think that a Labour Government taking a quarter of a million more into poverty has a fundamental problem.
But then, all Labour Governments leave office with fewer employed than they inherited.
At some point, voters WILL realise their business model is shite.
Employment in April 1997: 26.5mn Employment in April 2010: 29.5mn
Employment rate in April 1997: 58.1% Employment rate in April 2010: 58.2%
THANK GOD SIR KEIR STARMER HAS BANNED NINJA SWORDS
You could sense the tension in the streets. Waiting for him to do this. To finally bring peace to urban Britain. It was the question everyone asked in every pub, shop and casualty ward - “when will they finally have the sense to ban ninja swords, so all this violence will stop”
Now, he’s done it. Taken action. Expect Labour to poll 50%+ by May
(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 13s Question. If Trump continues to impose tariffs. If he continues to support Putin. If he continues to threaten our allies and NATO partners. Does he still get rewarded with his state visit. Or does he actually have to do something for us, to earn it.
He'll get it no matter what and will be slavered over while he is here. It's delusional to think otherwise.
Neither the British government or the (Not My) king has dared to say a word about his belligerence toward Canada and Denmark. Anybody anticipating even a pugil of moral courage from SKS or KC3 now is heading for disappointment.
This is a consequence of the US being the one "indispensable" country and Europe being dependent on US goodwill for security. Starmer and KCIII are being responsible in attempting to mitigate the impact of Trumpian madness.
The only thing that works with Trump is flattery - as Putin has so amply demonstrated.
Trump is a shit stain, and telling him so would be satisfying.
But, it could push him into siding further with Russia, so holding one's tongue is the sensible thing for SKS to do.
He’s also a sociopath, and the good thing with most sociopaths (as we’ve seen with Trump) is they struggle to bear grudges. They take offence, but it’s short lived and is water off a duck’s back, because they really don’t worry much about what others think about them.
Which means we can be selectively combative and accommodating. On tariff and trade policy we need to meet fire with fire, at least once it becomes clear there will be no UK exemptions (it seems clear already). On Ukraine and foreign policy the triangulation strategy probably works, for now. But with great care taken on intelligence sharing and a concerted effort to wean ourselves off dependency.
I think that Trump does bear grudges.
Indeed his life seems dominated by them and a drive for revenge.
JD Vance compared Trump to Hitler. That's one forgiven right there.
I suspect Trump thought it a compliment. Seriously!
Seriously disturbing. “"We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it," Trump told podcaster Vince Coglianese. "I hate to put it that way, but we're going to have to have it."”
At what point does Denmark start shipping guns to Greenlandic citizens? This is literally a signpost to an invasion.
If Trump is serious then Greenland is finished. No way Denmark can defend it against the USA, nor can 50,000 Greenlanders fight off the USMC
It could all be done and dusted in a day
Sad to remind everyone, during ze War, Denmark surrendered to Germany after only 6 HOURS (in April 1940).
Look at a map, Sunil
Context is for Kings, Viewcode.
@Leon was talking about Denmark hypothetically losing to the USA in a day. I provided a real, historical example when Denmark DID surrender within a day.
THANK GOD SIR KEIR STARMER HAS BANNED NINJA SWORDS
You could sense the tension in the streets. Waiting for him to do this. To finally bring peace to urban Britain. It was the question everyone asked in every pub, shop and casualty ward - “when will they finally have the sense to ban ninja swords, so all this violence will stop”
Now, he’s done it. Taken action. Expect Labour to poll 50%+ by May
They're being freely sold on Amazon right now. It's a disgrace.
THANK GOD SIR KEIR STARMER HAS BANNED NINJA SWORDS
You could sense the tension in the streets. Waiting for him to do this. To finally bring peace to urban Britain. It was the question everyone asked in every pub, shop and casualty ward - “when will they finally have the sense to ban ninja swords, so all this violence will stop”
Now, he’s done it. Taken action. Expect Labour to poll 50%+ by May
They're being freely sold on Amazon right now. It's a disgrace.
As you may know, I was disgusted by the recent award of a NHS contract to Peter Thiel. If you want to keep track of yet another billionaire buying the UK, may I recommend the Byline Times articles thus:
Right now the Guardian website has four stories at the top, all different versions of “Rachel Reeves is a cruel, lying, incompetent clown”
Unbelievable hostility to a Labour Chancellor. I wonder if Labour’s polling might dip below 20
Unfair on Reeves because she's doing the right thing and no-one likes it.
If I may politely disagree. The function of the Labour Party is to increase the wealth and opportunities of the working class and the poor. To do this it increases equality by taxing the rich and spreading that wealth to the poor. But the belief has spread that one cannot tax the rich (because they leave) so the only tool Labour have left is to impoverish and immiserate the poor and/or working class, therefore obviating the entire point of the Labour movement.
If things keep going this way the South Wales Valleys will go Reform in 2029, which is Olympus has fallen for Labour. Starmer flirts unthinking with the destruction of his party, which as a metropolitan elite lawyer he failks to understand or even intuit.
You do have to think that a Labour Government taking a quarter of a million more into poverty has a fundamental problem.
But then, all Labour Governments leave office with fewer employed than they inherited.
At some point, voters WILL realise their business model is shite.
Employment in April 1997: 26.5mn Employment in April 2010: 29.5mn
Employment rate in April 1997: 58.1% Employment rate in April 2010: 58.2%
UK population rise between 1997 and 2010: 4.45m
That doesn't affect the rate though does it.
Because of the changing age pyramid in the country that expansion of the population is almost entirely of the retired. The working age population is pretty much unchanged. Without immigration taxes would be higher or pensions would be less, or both. This is the debate on immigration that we never have. Do we want to be pure but poor?
Right now the Guardian website has four stories at the top, all different versions of “Rachel Reeves is a cruel, lying, incompetent clown”
Unbelievable hostility to a Labour Chancellor. I wonder if Labour’s polling might dip below 20
Unfair on Reeves because she's doing the right thing and no-one likes it.
If I may politely disagree. The function of the Labour Party is to increase the wealth and opportunities of the working class and the poor. To do this it increases equality by taxing the rich and spreading that wealth to the poor. But the belief has spread that one cannot tax the rich (because they leave) so the only tool Labour have left is to impoverish and immiserate the poor and/or working class, therefore obviating the entire point of the Labour movement.
If things keep going this way the South Wales Valleys will go Reform in 2029, which is Olympus has fallen for Labour. Starmer flirts unthinking with the destruction of his party, which as a metropolitan elite lawyer he failks to understand or even intuit.
You do have to think that a Labour Government taking a quarter of a million more into poverty has a fundamental problem.
But then, all Labour Governments leave office with fewer employed than they inherited.
At some point, voters WILL realise their business model is shite.
Employment in April 1997: 26.5mn Employment in April 2010: 29.5mn
Employment rate in April 1997: 58.1% Employment rate in April 2010: 58.2%
As you may know, I was disgusted by the recent award of a NHS contract to Peter Thiel. If you want to keep track of yet another billionaire buying the UK, may I recommend the Byline Times articles thus:
“By the end of November, mark my words, all wooden spoons over nine inches long will be forever banished. Along with wasps. I’m sending in Jonathan Powell to negotiate with the King of the Wasps and they’ve agreed to move to Ireland as long as we give them seventy trillion pounds in apricot jam”
Right now the Guardian website has four stories at the top, all different versions of “Rachel Reeves is a cruel, lying, incompetent clown”
Unbelievable hostility to a Labour Chancellor. I wonder if Labour’s polling might dip below 20
Unfair on Reeves because she's doing the right thing and no-one likes it.
If I may politely disagree. The function of the Labour Party is to increase the wealth and opportunities of the working class and the poor. To do this it increases equality by taxing the rich and spreading that wealth to the poor. But the belief has spread that one cannot tax the rich (because they leave) so the only tool Labour have left is to impoverish and immiserate the poor and/or working class, therefore obviating the entire point of the Labour movement.
If things keep going this way the South Wales Valleys will go Reform in 2029, which is Olympus has fallen for Labour. Starmer flirts unthinking with the destruction of his party, which as a metropolitan elite lawyer he failks to understand or even intuit.
Indeed if progressive inner city and university town seats went Green and the LDs held their anti Brexit seats and the white working class seats went Reform and soft Leave seats went back to Tory and Muslim seats Corbynite Independent that would be curtains for Labour
I am certain that even though they will lose large numbers of seats at the next GE there will still be more Labour MPs than Tory ones.
THANK GOD SIR KEIR STARMER HAS BANNED NINJA SWORDS
You could sense the tension in the streets. Waiting for him to do this. To finally bring peace to urban Britain. It was the question everyone asked in every pub, shop and casualty ward - “when will they finally have the sense to ban ninja swords, so all this violence will stop”
Now, he’s done it. Taken action. Expect Labour to poll 50%+ by May
They're being freely sold on Amazon right now. It's a disgrace.
Starmer is why Americans are right to despise Britain
Americans with a grievance of course can just pop down the gun store in some states buy an AK 47 and shoot all those who pissed them off. No need to bother with a sword
Right now the Guardian website has four stories at the top, all different versions of “Rachel Reeves is a cruel, lying, incompetent clown”
Unbelievable hostility to a Labour Chancellor. I wonder if Labour’s polling might dip below 20
Unfair on Reeves because she's doing the right thing and no-one likes it.
If I may politely disagree. The function of the Labour Party is to increase the wealth and opportunities of the working class and the poor. To do this it increases equality by taxing the rich and spreading that wealth to the poor. But the belief has spread that one cannot tax the rich (because they leave) so the only tool Labour have left is to impoverish and immiserate the poor and/or working class, therefore obviating the entire point of the Labour movement.
If things keep going this way the South Wales Valleys will go Reform in 2029, which is Olympus has fallen for Labour. Starmer flirts unthinking with the destruction of his party, which as a metropolitan elite lawyer he failks to understand or even intuit.
You do have to think that a Labour Government taking a quarter of a million more into poverty has a fundamental problem.
But then, all Labour Governments leave office with fewer employed than they inherited.
At some point, voters WILL realise their business model is shite.
Employment in April 1997: 26.5mn Employment in April 2010: 29.5mn
Employment rate in April 1997: 58.1% Employment rate in April 2010: 58.2%
UK population rise between 1997 and 2010: 4.45m
That doesn't affect the rate though does it.
Because of the changing age pyramid in the country that expansion of the population is almost entirely of the retired. The working age population is pretty much unchanged. Without immigration taxes would be higher or pensions would be less, or both. This is the debate on immigration that we never have. Do we want to be pure but poor?
We need to increase our birthrate, on that Musk is right
What did we do to deserve this? Yes, I voted for them, but no one could have expected them to be this bad, this stupid, this inept, this flailing, this futile, this clueless, this embarrassing, this absolutely fucking terrible in every single aspect
As you may know, I was disgusted by the recent award of a NHS contract to Peter Thiel. If you want to keep track of yet another billionaire buying the UK, may I recommend the Byline Times articles thus:
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Greenland should be named Iceland and Iceland should be named Greenland.
Top takeaways:
1) Hegseth definitively exposed CLASSIFIED war plans.
2) Hegseth must resign. IMMEDIATELY.
3) This is a cover-up at the highest levels of government.
Let me explain...
https://x.com/PatRyanUC/status/1904898412438249593
Only joking, Big G
👏
As usual people on the outside, particularly journalists looking for scoops, assume degrees of conspiracy and Machiavellian manoeuvring several orders of magnitude removed from the very prosaic reality.
Poverty would largely affect the activist base.
Boris, at a summit dealing with Yemen, in September 2017.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson#Attributed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOBhf8f7cXM
https://icelandtrippers.com/summer-in-iceland/
According to Danish TV2, representatives from the USA have been going door-to-door in Nuuk over the past few days to find Greenlanders who wanted to be visited by Usha Vance. After they failed to find anyone, the visit was cancelled.
https://x.com/lepettre/status/1905024080668962956
Lib 45% (+1)
Con 41% (+1)
NDP 6% (-1)
Grn 1% (-1)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2025_Canadian_federal_election#National_polls
Seriously disturbing. “"We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it," Trump told podcaster Vince Coglianese. "I hate to put it that way, but we're going to have to have it."”
https://x.com/shashj/status/1904981721428197621
Greenland though - That is not white.
Their left wing could desert them to LDs/Greens/Gaza Indys, some of the WWC vote to Reform, and then all they’ve really got left is their middle class vote - and if they don’t improve their economic lot, those votes might start to have their heads turned by the Tories.
They’re trying to build a Blairite coalition that doesn’t exist anymore.
Waltz and Hegseth thought he was representing the Atlantic Ocean, rather than The Atlantic magazine. It's an easy mistake to make.
Of course if you are planning to leave NATO this no longer applies.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly34rg5ee5o
All looks quite icy. But we were in the “ice cave of Vatnajokull” (a brilliantly scary place if you haven’t been)
It could all be done and dusted in a day
Benefits cuts are always popular on paper but similar to tax rises (on anyone other than yourself). There will be a lot of people in the country related to or knowing someone who will be impacted by benefits changes and that has the possibility of turning entire families away from Labour, who would be traditional supporters. This was also one of the issues, I suspect, with the WFA cut and why it resonated so deeply.
I don’t have the answers for Labour, I just comment that one of the reasons why they are so low in the polls has to be that a lot of their policies of late have really miffed a number of people who think “Labour are supposed to be on my side” .
Reform leader’s Coutts account was closed in 2023 because of his political views" (£)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/03/26/nigel-farage-gets-natwest-payout-over-debanking-row/
Dynjandi
a) I didn't see the Northern lights even though we did 2 night time trips
b) I did see dolphins and Minke whales, but have since seen a better display on a ferry from France to the UK
c) It wasn't cold at all. It was significantly warmer than it should have been for the time of year
Geyser was good though as was the Cod War boat and as was the Blue Lagoon which I believe is now closed for the ridiculous reason of an erupting volcano next door.
PS And the waterfalls and standing on 2 continents simultaneously wasn't bad.
I thought he’d try and bribe the Greenlanders to accede. Give each one $50k. The USA can afford it
But maybe he’ll just fly in the Marines (if they are willing to obey)
The key is to make sure that kind of stupidity never happens. If that means relocating Attenborough, Judi Dench, Princess Anne and 100 very cute cockapoos to Nuuk then so be it.
In a Pizza Express in Woking.
https://x.com/bilgeisback/status/1905216319424786920
They’ve even improved the food, of late
The problem is the cost, esp booze. Luckily I don’t have to pay for most of it
The left hate them, the white working class hate them, farmers hate them, pensioners hate them and business owners hate them and now the public sector, civil servants and ex NHS England workers and the disabled and those on benefits hate them too
He is ready to defend Greenland.
I guess it also means that the roughly 25% who indicate they'd still vote Labour are all bankers and developers. Huge if true.
So, for that matter, are Air Force One and Mar-a-Lago.
NATO would die that day, taking all of the US' bases in Europe with it. What happens if the Greenlanders resist and the Marines are ordered to shoot civilians and some (possibly all) refuse? And would the US be prepared to start a shooting war if Europe mustered a fleet to take the island back?
Bear traps everywhere.
https://x.com/keir_starmer/status/1905238067843150186
Confirmed: Ninja swords will be banned by this summer.
When we promise action we take it.
I revert to my earlier opinion. He will try and use bullying, bluster and basic cash. He will try and buy it with added menaces
PPC ahead of Greens now too
@Leon was talking about Denmark hypothetically losing to the USA in a day. I provided a real, historical example when Denmark DID surrender within a day.
If things keep going this way the South Wales Valleys will go Reform in 2029, which is Olympus has fallen for Labour. Starmer flirts unthinking with the destruction of his party, which as a metropolitan elite lawyer he failks to understand or even intuit.
But then, all Labour Governments leave office with fewer employed than they inherited.
At some point, voters WILL realise their business model is shite.
Employment in April 2010: 29.5mn
Employment rate in April 1997: 58.1%
Employment rate in April 2010: 58.2%
This is a tweet from the actual Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Next there will be legislation against “foul winds that bringeth demons”
“Confirmed: Ninja swords will be banned by this summer.
When we promise action we take it.”
https://x.com/keir_starmer/status/1905238067843150186?s=46&t=bulOICNH15U6kB0MwE6Lfw
He’s worse than Truss. More embarrassing. More excruciating. God help us
You could sense the tension in the streets. Waiting for him to do this. To finally bring peace to urban Britain. It was the question everyone asked in every pub, shop and casualty ward - “when will they finally have the sense to ban ninja swords, so all this violence will stop”
Now, he’s done it. Taken action. Expect Labour to poll 50%+ by May
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lizzy-Scabbard-Warrior-Samurai-accessory/dp/B0D382PYNZ/
Because of the changing age pyramid in the country that expansion of the population is almost entirely of the retired. The working age population is pretty much unchanged. Without immigration taxes would be higher or pensions would be less, or both. This is the debate on immigration that we never have. Do we want to be pure but poor?
buy an AK 47 and shoot all those who pissed them off. No need to bother with a sword
What did we do to deserve this? Yes, I voted for them, but no one could have expected them to be this bad, this stupid, this inept, this flailing, this futile, this clueless, this embarrassing, this absolutely fucking terrible in every single aspect
I think it's karmic justice for the Irish Famine