Fuck, this is how you end up moving back, isn't it?
A couple of songs. Fierce family memories. Sadness yet happiness. Something unplaceable dragging at you, like an undertow, like some emotional gravity, surging from nowhere
I AD HER I AD HER I DID
Nothing wrong with moving back already got my pyre booked for when I go
Sure. But I’ve never felt like it might actually happen until - literally - about half an hour ago
Quote from one of your links showing leon talking bollocks
"Cornish became extinct as a living community language in Cornwall by the end of the 18th century, although knowledge of Cornish, including speaking ability to a certain extent, persisted within some families and individuals.[12] "
As I said before when we discussed this, if your family genuinely did speak a native version of Cornish until your mother's generation, that is a fantastical survival. Truly!
I find it hard to believe just because it would be so exceptional, but I don't rule it out (not that you should care for my opinion, I am just making it plain)
Indeed, I would love your story to be true! People speaking native Cornish at home into the 20th century would be sensational news for anyone with a love of linguistics. So, I hope it is true
Sadly never really learned it as my parents moved to the foreign lands of padstow
Warleggan would be a brilliant place for it to survive - it is indeed remote, brooding and strange, up on the moor
It was a good choice for the villain's name in Poldark
Did you live there as a tot? Do you remember it? Even now Bodmin Moor is quite freaky
My parents moved to padstow before I was born but some of the tales about warleggan they told me were odd like the priest populating his church with cardboard cutouts
Sounds suitably atmospheric. The essence of Cornwall is more of a mystery to most people than much of the rest of Britain.
When you transit from devon to cornwall even the scenery changes, you switch from the sedimentary sandstone lands to the much more sharp lands of igneous granite. I cant explain why but it lifts my spirit to go home in a way devon doesn't even though they are probably equally green
Poorer yet prettier, sadder yet happier. As soon as you cross the Tamar, from the lushness of Devon
When I was a lad in Hereford we always used to take our holidays with the fam in Cornwall (usually my Auntie Iris in Carnkie), My God that was a long drive in the 1970s. Hours and hours. As we passed each county my Mum and Dad would sing a song for each one, something about Somerset, then "Devon Glorious Devon"
And then we'd sing Coming Up Camborne Hill, Coming Down
WHITE STOCKINGS, WHITE STOCKINGS SHE WORE
Fishermans friends were a great cornish export just saying
Fisherman friends are from lancs
That's the mints. The band and film are from the small town just around the headland to the left from my photo above.
From 5 miles from where I grew up I fished on trawlers with a couple
Nowadays the town is almost entirely second homes and AirBnBs, with the residents having cashed in and bought unattractive modern bungalows in the 'back settlement' inland, over the hill.
Quote from one of your links showing leon talking bollocks
"Cornish became extinct as a living community language in Cornwall by the end of the 18th century, although knowledge of Cornish, including speaking ability to a certain extent, persisted within some families and individuals.[12] "
As I said before when we discussed this, if your family genuinely did speak a native version of Cornish until your mother's generation, that is a fantastical survival. Truly!
I find it hard to believe just because it would be so exceptional, but I don't rule it out (not that you should care for my opinion, I am just making it plain)
Indeed, I would love your story to be true! People speaking native Cornish at home into the 20th century would be sensational news for anyone with a love of linguistics. So, I hope it is true
Sadly never really learned it as my parents moved to the foreign lands of padstow
Warleggan would be a brilliant place for it to survive - it is indeed remote, brooding and strange, up on the moor
It was a good choice for the villain's name in Poldark
Did you live there as a tot? Do you remember it? Even now Bodmin Moor is quite freaky
My parents moved to padstow before I was born but some of the tales about warleggan they told me were odd like the priest populating his church with cardboard cutouts
Sounds suitably atmospheric. The essence of Cornwall is more of a mystery to most people than much of the rest of Britain.
When you transit from devon to cornwall even the scenery changes, you switch from the sedimentary sandstone lands to the much more sharp lands of igneous granite. I cant explain why but it lifts my spirit to go home in a way devon doesn't even though they are probably equally green
Poorer yet prettier, sadder yet happier. As soon as you cross the Tamar, from the lushness of Devon
When I was a lad in Hereford we always used to take our holidays with the fam in Cornwall (usually my Auntie Iris in Carnkie), My God that was a long drive in the 1970s. Hours and hours. As we passed each county my Mum and Dad would sing a song for each one, something about Somerset, then "Devon Glorious Devon"
Fuck, this is how you end up moving back, isn't it?
A couple of songs. Fierce family memories. Sadness yet happiness. Something unplaceable dragging at you, like an undertow, like some emotional gravity, surging from nowhere
I AD HER I AD HER I DID
Nothing wrong with moving back already got my pyre booked for when I go
Sure. But I’ve never felt like it might actually happen until - literally - about half an hour ago
This is a very new feeling. Maybe passing
Those songs are very powerful
Death always comes one day, all we can do is make sure while we were here we helped where we could and lived our best lives before she calls us home
Quote from one of your links showing leon talking bollocks
"Cornish became extinct as a living community language in Cornwall by the end of the 18th century, although knowledge of Cornish, including speaking ability to a certain extent, persisted within some families and individuals.[12] "
As I said before when we discussed this, if your family genuinely did speak a native version of Cornish until your mother's generation, that is a fantastical survival. Truly!
I find it hard to believe just because it would be so exceptional, but I don't rule it out (not that you should care for my opinion, I am just making it plain)
Indeed, I would love your story to be true! People speaking native Cornish at home into the 20th century would be sensational news for anyone with a love of linguistics. So, I hope it is true
Sadly never really learned it as my parents moved to the foreign lands of padstow
Warleggan would be a brilliant place for it to survive - it is indeed remote, brooding and strange, up on the moor
It was a good choice for the villain's name in Poldark
Did you live there as a tot? Do you remember it? Even now Bodmin Moor is quite freaky
My parents moved to padstow before I was born but some of the tales about warleggan they told me were odd like the priest populating his church with cardboard cutouts
Sounds suitably atmospheric. The essence of Cornwall is more of a mystery to most people than much of the rest of Britain.
When you transit from devon to cornwall even the scenery changes, you switch from the sedimentary sandstone lands to the much more sharp lands of igneous granite. I cant explain why but it lifts my spirit to go home in a way devon doesn't even though they are probably equally green
Poorer yet prettier, sadder yet happier. As soon as you cross the Tamar, from the lushness of Devon
When I was a lad in Hereford we always used to take our holidays with the fam in Cornwall (usually my Auntie Iris in Carnkie), My God that was a long drive in the 1970s. Hours and hours. As we passed each county my Mum and Dad would sing a song for each one, something about Somerset, then "Devon Glorious Devon"
Cornwall is a part of the country that really feels different . I’ve been down loads of times to visit friends . As soon as you cross the Tamar Bridge it just feels like you’ve entered a different country in a very good way. It’s a unique place with a sense of mystery , the place names hark back to a different time, it’s almost out worldly .
Cornwall is okay, we like Looe, but the narrow roads are fecking horrendous.
Quote from one of your links showing leon talking bollocks
"Cornish became extinct as a living community language in Cornwall by the end of the 18th century, although knowledge of Cornish, including speaking ability to a certain extent, persisted within some families and individuals.[12] "
As I said before when we discussed this, if your family genuinely did speak a native version of Cornish until your mother's generation, that is a fantastical survival. Truly!
I find it hard to believe just because it would be so exceptional, but I don't rule it out (not that you should care for my opinion, I am just making it plain)
Indeed, I would love your story to be true! People speaking native Cornish at home into the 20th century would be sensational news for anyone with a love of linguistics. So, I hope it is true
Sadly never really learned it as my parents moved to the foreign lands of padstow
Warleggan would be a brilliant place for it to survive - it is indeed remote, brooding and strange, up on the moor
It was a good choice for the villain's name in Poldark
Did you live there as a tot? Do you remember it? Even now Bodmin Moor is quite freaky
My parents moved to padstow before I was born but some of the tales about warleggan they told me were odd like the priest populating his church with cardboard cutouts
Sounds suitably atmospheric. The essence of Cornwall is more of a mystery to most people than much of the rest of Britain.
When you transit from devon to cornwall even the scenery changes, you switch from the sedimentary sandstone lands to the much more sharp lands of igneous granite. I cant explain why but it lifts my spirit to go home in a way devon doesn't even though they are probably equally green
Poorer yet prettier, sadder yet happier. As soon as you cross the Tamar, from the lushness of Devon
When I was a lad in Hereford we always used to take our holidays with the fam in Cornwall (usually my Auntie Iris in Carnkie), My God that was a long drive in the 1970s. Hours and hours. As we passed each county my Mum and Dad would sing a song for each one, something about Somerset, then "Devon Glorious Devon"
And then we'd sing Coming Up Camborne Hill, Coming Down
WHITE STOCKINGS, WHITE STOCKINGS SHE WORE
Fishermans friends were a great cornish export just saying
Fisherman friends are from lancs
That's the mints. The band and film are from the small town just around the headland to the left from my photo above.
From 5 miles from where I grew up I fished on trawlers with a couple
Nowadays the town is almost entirely second homes and AirBnBs, with the residents having cashed in and bought unattractive modern bungalows in the 'back settlement' inland, over the hill.
Padstow has been the same I don't recognise it any more, now its not a fishing port its a marina. The shops are now all high end art galleries and you have arseholes like the camerons as your tourists. Its now called camden on sea
Fuck, this is how you end up moving back, isn't it?
A couple of songs. Fierce family memories. Sadness yet happiness. Something unplaceable dragging at you, like an undertow, like some emotional gravity, surging from nowhere
Cornwall is a part of the country that really feels different . I’ve been down loads of times to visit friends . As soon as you cross the Tamar Bridge it just feels like you’ve entered a different country in a very good way. It’s a unique place with a sense of mystery , the place names hark back to a different time, it’s almost out worldly .
Cornwall is okay, we like Looe, but the narrow roads are fecking horrendous.
How absolutely horrible of the townplanners of the 17th century not to consider the width needs of your suv
Fuck, this is how you end up moving back, isn't it?
A couple of songs. Fierce family memories. Sadness yet happiness. Something unplaceable dragging at you, like an undertow, like some emotional gravity, surging from nowhere
I AD HER I AD HER I DID
Nothing wrong with moving back already got my pyre booked for when I go
“Hiraeth is famously untranslatable, from the Welsh, but it evokes a deep, melancholic longing for a homeland - not just a place, but a time, a feeling, or even something that may never have existed. It’s nostalgia with soul and ache. A homesickness for a home you must return to, even if you don’t know why”
Fuck, this is how you end up moving back, isn't it?
A couple of songs. Fierce family memories. Sadness yet happiness. Something unplaceable dragging at you, like an undertow, like some emotional gravity, surging from nowhere
I AD HER I AD HER I DID
Nothing wrong with moving back already got my pyre booked for when I go
Quote from one of your links showing leon talking bollocks
"Cornish became extinct as a living community language in Cornwall by the end of the 18th century, although knowledge of Cornish, including speaking ability to a certain extent, persisted within some families and individuals.[12] "
As I said before when we discussed this, if your family genuinely did speak a native version of Cornish until your mother's generation, that is a fantastical survival. Truly!
I find it hard to believe just because it would be so exceptional, but I don't rule it out (not that you should care for my opinion, I am just making it plain)
Indeed, I would love your story to be true! People speaking native Cornish at home into the 20th century would be sensational news for anyone with a love of linguistics. So, I hope it is true
Sadly never really learned it as my parents moved to the foreign lands of padstow
Warleggan would be a brilliant place for it to survive - it is indeed remote, brooding and strange, up on the moor
It was a good choice for the villain's name in Poldark
Did you live there as a tot? Do you remember it? Even now Bodmin Moor is quite freaky
My parents moved to padstow before I was born but some of the tales about warleggan they told me were odd like the priest populating his church with cardboard cutouts
Sounds suitably atmospheric. The essence of Cornwall is more of a mystery to most people than much of the rest of Britain.
When you transit from devon to cornwall even the scenery changes, you switch from the sedimentary sandstone lands to the much more sharp lands of igneous granite. I cant explain why but it lifts my spirit to go home in a way devon doesn't even though they are probably equally green
Poorer yet prettier, sadder yet happier. As soon as you cross the Tamar, from the lushness of Devon
When I was a lad in Hereford we always used to take our holidays with the fam in Cornwall (usually my Auntie Iris in Carnkie), My God that was a long drive in the 1970s. Hours and hours. As we passed each county my Mum and Dad would sing a song for each one, something about Somerset, then "Devon Glorious Devon"
And then we'd sing Coming Up Camborne Hill, Coming Down
WHITE STOCKINGS, WHITE STOCKINGS SHE WORE
Fishermans friends were a great cornish export just saying
Fisherman friends are from lancs
That's the mints. The band and film are from the small town just around the headland to the left from my photo above.
From 5 miles from where I grew up I fished on trawlers with a couple
Nowadays the town is almost entirely second homes and AirBnBs, with the residents having cashed in and bought unattractive modern bungalows in the 'back settlement' inland, over the hill.
Padstow has been the same I don't recognise it any more, now its not a fishing port its a marina. The shops are now all high end art galleries and you have arseholes like the camerons as your tourists. Its now called camden on sea
Cornwall is a part of the country that really feels different . I’ve been down loads of times to visit friends . As soon as you cross the Tamar Bridge it just feels like you’ve entered a different country in a very good way. It’s a unique place with a sense of mystery , the place names hark back to a different time, it’s almost out worldly .
Cornwall is okay, we like Looe, but the narrow roads are fecking horrendous.
How absolutely horrible of the townplanners of the 17th century not to consider the width needs of your suv
It's one reason so many branch lines survived.
Anywhere else and Beeching would have succeeded in terminating the Looe branch with extreme prejudice.
Well I'm glad that Kinabalu and I could have helped set off this positive events Kinabalu first mentioning that Leon was from Cornwall, and then I asking about local Cornish words.
Fuck, this is how you end up moving back, isn't it?
A couple of songs. Fierce family memories. Sadness yet happiness. Something unplaceable dragging at you, like an undertow, like some emotional gravity, surging from nowhere
I AD HER I AD HER I DID
Nothing wrong with moving back already got my pyre booked for when I go
Sure. But I’ve never felt like it might actually happen until - literally - about half an hour ago
This is a very new feeling. Maybe passing
Those songs are very powerful
Death always comes one day, all we can do is make sure while we were here we helped where we could and lived our best lives before she calls us home
Cornwall is a part of the country that really feels different . I’ve been down loads of times to visit friends . As soon as you cross the Tamar Bridge it just feels like you’ve entered a different country in a very good way. It’s a unique place with a sense of mystery , the place names hark back to a different time, it’s almost out worldly .
Cornwall is okay, we like Looe, but the narrow roads are fecking horrendous.
I've been there by train, even stopped at Coombe Junction [rare track!].
Fuck, this is how you end up moving back, isn't it?
A couple of songs. Fierce family memories. Sadness yet happiness. Something unplaceable dragging at you, like an undertow, like some emotional gravity, surging from nowhere
I AD HER I AD HER I DID
Nothing wrong with moving back already got my pyre booked for when I go
I hope for that to be untrue.
You hope I wont die?
Sorry but I have to at some point, life is a short term gift and we need to make room for the new generations it would get crowded if we didnt die
Cornwall is a part of the country that really feels different . I’ve been down loads of times to visit friends . As soon as you cross the Tamar Bridge it just feels like you’ve entered a different country in a very good way. It’s a unique place with a sense of mystery , the place names hark back to a different time, it’s almost out worldly .
Cornwall is okay, we like Looe, but the narrow roads are fecking horrendous.
I spent some happy days seawatching at Pendeen and Porthgwarra, and birding the Hayle Estuary, Cot Valley and Nanquidno. And of course the Scillies. I would love to go there again but I doubt I will get the chance now.
Fuck, this is how you end up moving back, isn't it?
A couple of songs. Fierce family memories. Sadness yet happiness. Something unplaceable dragging at you, like an undertow, like some emotional gravity, surging from nowhere
I AD HER I AD HER I DID
Nothing wrong with moving back already got my pyre booked for when I go
I hope for that to be untrue.
You hope I wont die?
A Doors ref. But no I don't like to think of you that way.
"An Egyptian fisherman who helped organise the movement of more than 3,000 migrants as part of a £12 million illegal boat crossing operation has been jailed for 25 years.
UK-based Ahmed Ebid, 42, was involved in smuggling nearly 3,800 people from North Africa to Italy between October 2022 and June 2023, with some making their way to Britain, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said."
He arrived in the UK on a small boat in 2022 after spending five years in jail in Italy for attempted drug smuggling. He applied for asylum in the UK but never received a decision.
Ebid, whose wife and sons are in the UK, had been living in Home Office-funded accommodation in south-west London at the time of his arrest.
Literally deport them all, take their fingerprints and if they ever try and return deport them instantly with no recourse to appeal. This country is a joke.
It makes me want to weep
This fucker was in "Home Office Accommodation" with his wife and kids. That's nice for him. Me and you were paying his fucking rent as he trafficked hostile people into the UK, or threw people overboard into the Channel
This is why we need Reform. We need seriously brutal remedies for all this. Enough
Predictably when this dickhead gets out of jail he'll win a court case to remain in the country on the basis that his wife and child have adjusted to life here and he can't be separated from his family. No, fuck the jail sentence, deport him now to Italy or Egypt. We have no need to have this fucker in our jails taking up space and resources all while we lose the ability to deport him and his family. They all should be on the plane tomorrow.
If HMG doesn't get a grip on stuff like this I don't see how Farage loses. The nation has lost all patience. You can sense it; it is palpable
It's what I said about a week ago, these are the types of cases and stories that are radicalising reliably middle of the road Tories to become much more right wing and throw their lot in with Reform. There's a sense of unfairness and injustice to British citizens that scumbags like this are able to exploit the law and take advantage of us that the Tories utterly failed to address and Labour will need to get sharp with immediately or I could see a landslide for Reform if they pledge to ignore the ECHR and deport all foreign criminals Trump style. Ordinary voters don't care for the minutia of habeus corpus and whatever we might discuss on pb, they want action and they want the criminals and illegal immigrants deported.
Yup
See also Gregg's now having to put their pasties and sarnies behind glass, because of the repeated and blatant shoplifting, which goes unpunished
It's stories like this - visible to all (literally witnessed by @Casino_Royale in Gregg's last week) which is driving people to a radical solution. The sense of total unfairness the sense of life declining, the sense of criminals now totally takng the piss and our spineless government siding with anyone but the poor native honest hardworking Brits
Toxic
Daniel Finkelstein wrote an article on precisely this in The Times last week. Farage has a sense of what seems unfair to people that bureaucrats like Starmer, and most other politicians to be fair, either don't possess or are too ashamed to say in polite company
Fuck, this is how you end up moving back, isn't it?
A couple of songs. Fierce family memories. Sadness yet happiness. Something unplaceable dragging at you, like an undertow, like some emotional gravity, surging from nowhere
I AD HER I AD HER I DID
Nothing wrong with moving back already got my pyre booked for when I go
Sure. But I’ve never felt like it might actually happen until - literally - about half an hour ago
This is a very new feeling. Maybe passing
Those songs are very powerful
Death always comes one day, all we can do is make sure while we were here we helped where we could and lived our best lives before she calls us home
Cheer up, guys, the sun's out.
Chuckles realising your life is finite is not being a pessimist, saying live your best life while you can then make room for the next generation is a positive thing and for me at least this life is merely the start of an ongoing adventure
Cornwall is a part of the country that really feels different . I’ve been down loads of times to visit friends . As soon as you cross the Tamar Bridge it just feels like you’ve entered a different country in a very good way. It’s a unique place with a sense of mystery , the place names hark back to a different time, it’s almost out worldly .
Cornwall is okay, we like Looe, but the narrow roads are fecking horrendous.
I spent some happy days seawatching at Pendeen and Porthgwarra, and birding the Hayle Estuary, Cot Valley and Nanquidno. And of course the Scillies. I would love to go there again but I doubt I will get the chance now.
Nanquidno!
I love those tiny little valleys in West Penwith. What a magical place
Cornwall is a part of the country that really feels different . I’ve been down loads of times to visit friends . As soon as you cross the Tamar Bridge it just feels like you’ve entered a different country in a very good way. It’s a unique place with a sense of mystery , the place names hark back to a different time, it’s almost out worldly .
Cornwall is okay, we like Looe, but the narrow roads are fecking horrendous.
How absolutely horrible of the townplanners of the 17th century not to consider the width needs of your suv
I drive a Hyundai i10 😂😂😂😂
I believe road widening is a concept that was implemented in other parts of the country.
Cornwall is a part of the country that really feels different . I’ve been down loads of times to visit friends . As soon as you cross the Tamar Bridge it just feels like you’ve entered a different country in a very good way. It’s a unique place with a sense of mystery , the place names hark back to a different time, it’s almost out worldly .
Cornwall is okay, we like Looe, but the narrow roads are fecking horrendous.
How absolutely horrible of the townplanners of the 17th century not to consider the width needs of your suv
I drive a Hyundai i10 😂😂😂😂
I believe road widening is a concept that was implemented in other parts of the country.
Perhaps you could just rent a sensible car instead of expecting others to adapt their road systems to your outsized penis mobile?
"An Egyptian fisherman who helped organise the movement of more than 3,000 migrants as part of a £12 million illegal boat crossing operation has been jailed for 25 years.
UK-based Ahmed Ebid, 42, was involved in smuggling nearly 3,800 people from North Africa to Italy between October 2022 and June 2023, with some making their way to Britain, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said."
He arrived in the UK on a small boat in 2022 after spending five years in jail in Italy for attempted drug smuggling. He applied for asylum in the UK but never received a decision.
Ebid, whose wife and sons are in the UK, had been living in Home Office-funded accommodation in south-west London at the time of his arrest.
Literally deport them all, take their fingerprints and if they ever try and return deport them instantly with no recourse to appeal. This country is a joke.
It makes me want to weep
This fucker was in "Home Office Accommodation" with his wife and kids. That's nice for him. Me and you were paying his fucking rent as he trafficked hostile people into the UK, or threw people overboard into the Channel
This is why we need Reform. We need seriously brutal remedies for all this. Enough
Predictably when this dickhead gets out of jail he'll win a court case to remain in the country on the basis that his wife and child have adjusted to life here and he can't be separated from his family. No, fuck the jail sentence, deport him now to Italy or Egypt. We have no need to have this fucker in our jails taking up space and resources all while we lose the ability to deport him and his family. They all should be on the plane tomorrow.
If HMG doesn't get a grip on stuff like this I don't see how Farage loses. The nation has lost all patience. You can sense it; it is palpable
It's what I said about a week ago, these are the types of cases and stories that are radicalising reliably middle of the road Tories to become much more right wing and throw their lot in with Reform. There's a sense of unfairness and injustice to British citizens that scumbags like this are able to exploit the law and take advantage of us that the Tories utterly failed to address and Labour will need to get sharp with immediately or I could see a landslide for Reform if they pledge to ignore the ECHR and deport all foreign criminals Trump style. Ordinary voters don't care for the minutia of habeus corpus and whatever we might discuss on pb, they want action and they want the criminals and illegal immigrants deported.
Yup
See also Gregg's now having to put their pasties and sarnies behind glass, because of the repeated and blatant shoplifting, which goes unpunished
It's stories like this - visible to all (literally witnessed by @Casino_Royale in Gregg's last week) which is driving people to a radical solution. The sense of total unfairness the sense of life declining, the sense of criminals now totally takng the piss and our spineless government siding with anyone but the poor native honest hardworking Brits
Toxic
It is simply not in Labour to fix this. And forget the Lib Dems. They can only ever triangulate and 'make noises' about it. Like they did on welfare reform. Like they did on economic growth. Like they did on immigration. All they will ever do is try to make a noise about it to get the press of their back. They set as much store by solving these problems as Starmer does by the Union Flag behind him when he makes the announcement.
Cornwall is a part of the country that really feels different . I’ve been down loads of times to visit friends . As soon as you cross the Tamar Bridge it just feels like you’ve entered a different country in a very good way. It’s a unique place with a sense of mystery , the place names hark back to a different time, it’s almost out worldly .
Cornwall is okay, we like Looe, but the narrow roads are fecking horrendous.
How absolutely horrible of the townplanners of the 17th century not to consider the width needs of your suv
I drive a Hyundai i10 😂😂😂😂
I believe road widening is a concept that was implemented in other parts of the country.
Perhaps you could just rent a sensible car instead of expecting others to adapt their road systems to your outsized penis mobile?
Well they arent proper cornish they are southern cornish just saying
You joke but some of my radical cousins - the Cornish Solidarity lot - deny that anyone east of Falmouth is Cornish, indeed they possibly restrict Cornishness to Penzance and Penwith, and The Lizard if they're feeling generous
"An Egyptian fisherman who helped organise the movement of more than 3,000 migrants as part of a £12 million illegal boat crossing operation has been jailed for 25 years.
UK-based Ahmed Ebid, 42, was involved in smuggling nearly 3,800 people from North Africa to Italy between October 2022 and June 2023, with some making their way to Britain, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said."
He arrived in the UK on a small boat in 2022 after spending five years in jail in Italy for attempted drug smuggling. He applied for asylum in the UK but never received a decision.
Ebid, whose wife and sons are in the UK, had been living in Home Office-funded accommodation in south-west London at the time of his arrest.
Literally deport them all, take their fingerprints and if they ever try and return deport them instantly with no recourse to appeal. This country is a joke.
It makes me want to weep
This fucker was in "Home Office Accommodation" with his wife and kids. That's nice for him. Me and you were paying his fucking rent as he trafficked hostile people into the UK, or threw people overboard into the Channel
This is why we need Reform. We need seriously brutal remedies for all this. Enough
Predictably when this dickhead gets out of jail he'll win a court case to remain in the country on the basis that his wife and child have adjusted to life here and he can't be separated from his family. No, fuck the jail sentence, deport him now to Italy or Egypt. We have no need to have this fucker in our jails taking up space and resources all while we lose the ability to deport him and his family. They all should be on the plane tomorrow.
If HMG doesn't get a grip on stuff like this I don't see how Farage loses. The nation has lost all patience. You can sense it; it is palpable
It's what I said about a week ago, these are the types of cases and stories that are radicalising reliably middle of the road Tories to become much more right wing and throw their lot in with Reform. There's a sense of unfairness and injustice to British citizens that scumbags like this are able to exploit the law and take advantage of us that the Tories utterly failed to address and Labour will need to get sharp with immediately or I could see a landslide for Reform if they pledge to ignore the ECHR and deport all foreign criminals Trump style. Ordinary voters don't care for the minutia of habeus corpus and whatever we might discuss on pb, they want action and they want the criminals and illegal immigrants deported.
Yup
See also Gregg's now having to put their pasties and sarnies behind glass, because of the repeated and blatant shoplifting, which goes unpunished
It's stories like this - visible to all (literally witnessed by @Casino_Royale in Gregg's last week) which is driving people to a radical solution. The sense of total unfairness the sense of life declining, the sense of criminals now totally takng the piss and our spineless government siding with anyone but the poor native honest hardworking Brits
Toxic
Daniel Finkelstein wrote an article on precisely this in The Times last week. Farage has a sense of what seems unfair to people that bureaucrats like Starmer, and most other politicians to be fair, either don't possess or are too ashamed to say in polite company
If Reform do get in, the swing of disillusion against them in their midterm is going to be something to behold.
Well they arent proper cornish they are southern cornish just saying
You joke but some of my radical cousins - the Cornish Solidarity lot - deny that anyone east of Falmouth is Cornish, indeed they possibly restrict Cornishness to Penzance and Penwith, and The Lizard if they're feeling generous
They talk of Truro with outright contempt
I went to school with a guy that is still in prison as a member of one of the militant cornish indepence groups cant remember which but we referred to them as the ooo arrrgh A
Cornwall is a part of the country that really feels different . I’ve been down loads of times to visit friends . As soon as you cross the Tamar Bridge it just feels like you’ve entered a different country in a very good way. It’s a unique place with a sense of mystery , the place names hark back to a different time, it’s almost out worldly .
Cornwall is okay, we like Looe, but the narrow roads are fecking horrendous.
How absolutely horrible of the townplanners of the 17th century not to consider the width needs of your suv
I drive a Hyundai i10 😂😂😂😂
I believe road widening is a concept that was implemented in other parts of the country.
Perhaps you could just rent a sensible car instead of expecting others to adapt their road systems to your outsized penis mobile?
Oh do fuck off and drop the attitude, just because Leon has well and truly battered you here earlier there’s no need to be such a jerk.
I just commented on the roads I made no demand for their adaptation to suit my driving preference.
Cornwall is a part of the country that really feels different . I’ve been down loads of times to visit friends . As soon as you cross the Tamar Bridge it just feels like you’ve entered a different country in a very good way. It’s a unique place with a sense of mystery , the place names hark back to a different time, it’s almost out worldly .
Cornwall is okay, we like Looe, but the narrow roads are fecking horrendous.
How absolutely horrible of the townplanners of the 17th century not to consider the width needs of your suv
I drive a Hyundai i10 😂😂😂😂
I believe road widening is a concept that was implemented in other parts of the country.
Perhaps you could just rent a sensible car instead of expecting others to adapt their road systems to your outsized penis mobile?
Oh do fuck off and drop the attitude, just because Leon has well and truly battered you here earlier there’s no need to be such a jerk.
I just commented on the roads I made no demand for their adaptation to suit my driving preference.
I certainly have not battered @Pagan2 - and nor he me - we have bonded like proper Cousin Jacks in exile
OK now I am going to have gin. Enough weepy "hiraeth"
Cornwall is a part of the country that really feels different . I’ve been down loads of times to visit friends . As soon as you cross the Tamar Bridge it just feels like you’ve entered a different country in a very good way. It’s a unique place with a sense of mystery , the place names hark back to a different time, it’s almost out worldly .
Cornwall is okay, we like Looe, but the narrow roads are fecking horrendous.
How absolutely horrible of the townplanners of the 17th century not to consider the width needs of your suv
I drive a Hyundai i10 😂😂😂😂
I believe road widening is a concept that was implemented in other parts of the country.
Perhaps you could just rent a sensible car instead of expecting others to adapt their road systems to your outsized penis mobile?
Oh do fuck off and drop the attitude, just because Leon has well and truly battered you here earlier there’s no need to be such a jerk.
I just commented on the roads I made no demand for their adaptation to suit my driving preference.
It was merely an observation that if the roads aren't wide enough for your car then the problem is your car not the roads
France to open high-security prison in Amazon jungle
France is opening a prison in France, which is not the same thing. As it happens, there is a large part of France in South America, but it is, fully, France, under French law.
Cornwall is a part of the country that really feels different . I’ve been down loads of times to visit friends . As soon as you cross the Tamar Bridge it just feels like you’ve entered a different country in a very good way. It’s a unique place with a sense of mystery , the place names hark back to a different time, it’s almost out worldly .
Cornwall is okay, we like Looe, but the narrow roads are fecking horrendous.
How absolutely horrible of the townplanners of the 17th century not to consider the width needs of your suv
I drive a Hyundai i10 😂😂😂😂
I believe road widening is a concept that was implemented in other parts of the country.
Perhaps you could just rent a sensible car instead of expecting others to adapt their road systems to your outsized penis mobile?
"An Egyptian fisherman who helped organise the movement of more than 3,000 migrants as part of a £12 million illegal boat crossing operation has been jailed for 25 years.
UK-based Ahmed Ebid, 42, was involved in smuggling nearly 3,800 people from North Africa to Italy between October 2022 and June 2023, with some making their way to Britain, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said."
He arrived in the UK on a small boat in 2022 after spending five years in jail in Italy for attempted drug smuggling. He applied for asylum in the UK but never received a decision.
Ebid, whose wife and sons are in the UK, had been living in Home Office-funded accommodation in south-west London at the time of his arrest.
Literally deport them all, take their fingerprints and if they ever try and return deport them instantly with no recourse to appeal. This country is a joke.
It makes me want to weep
This fucker was in "Home Office Accommodation" with his wife and kids. That's nice for him. Me and you were paying his fucking rent as he trafficked hostile people into the UK, or threw people overboard into the Channel
This is why we need Reform. We need seriously brutal remedies for all this. Enough
Predictably when this dickhead gets out of jail he'll win a court case to remain in the country on the basis that his wife and child have adjusted to life here and he can't be separated from his family. No, fuck the jail sentence, deport him now to Italy or Egypt. We have no need to have this fucker in our jails taking up space and resources all while we lose the ability to deport him and his family. They all should be on the plane tomorrow.
If HMG doesn't get a grip on stuff like this I don't see how Farage loses. The nation has lost all patience. You can sense it; it is palpable
It's what I said about a week ago, these are the types of cases and stories that are radicalising reliably middle of the road Tories to become much more right wing and throw their lot in with Reform. There's a sense of unfairness and injustice to British citizens that scumbags like this are able to exploit the law and take advantage of us that the Tories utterly failed to address and Labour will need to get sharp with immediately or I could see a landslide for Reform if they pledge to ignore the ECHR and deport all foreign criminals Trump style. Ordinary voters don't care for the minutia of habeus corpus and whatever we might discuss on pb, they want action and they want the criminals and illegal immigrants deported.
Yup
See also Gregg's now having to put their pasties and sarnies behind glass, because of the repeated and blatant shoplifting, which goes unpunished
It's stories like this - visible to all (literally witnessed by @Casino_Royale in Gregg's last week) which is driving people to a radical solution. The sense of total unfairness the sense of life declining, the sense of criminals now totally takng the piss and our spineless government siding with anyone but the poor native honest hardworking Brits
Toxic
Its a total of 5 stores where they are implementing putting food behind the counter - and Greggs have over 2500 stores.
And the thing is Greggs are at least trying - in other places chains will simply quietly close the store relocate the long term staff and pray the media doesn't notice how often they do it.
Cornwall is a part of the country that really feels different . I’ve been down loads of times to visit friends . As soon as you cross the Tamar Bridge it just feels like you’ve entered a different country in a very good way. It’s a unique place with a sense of mystery , the place names hark back to a different time, it’s almost out worldly .
Cornwall is okay, we like Looe, but the narrow roads are fecking horrendous.
How absolutely horrible of the townplanners of the 17th century not to consider the width needs of your suv
I drive a Hyundai i10 😂😂😂😂
I believe road widening is a concept that was implemented in other parts of the country.
Perhaps you could just rent a sensible car instead of expecting others to adapt their road systems to your outsized penis mobile?
Well if it wont fit down roads its obviously too wide, I drove in cornwall all the time never found a round too narrow for my car. Even drove it in a bmw 320 when was my company car. I include all over cornwall in that including looe. What problems are you finding?
France to open high-security prison in Amazon jungle
France is opening a prison in France, which is not the same thing. As it happens, there is a large part of France in South America, but it is, fully, France, under French law.
Hence the quiz question, with which country does France have the longest border, to which the answer is Brazil.
"An Egyptian fisherman who helped organise the movement of more than 3,000 migrants as part of a £12 million illegal boat crossing operation has been jailed for 25 years.
UK-based Ahmed Ebid, 42, was involved in smuggling nearly 3,800 people from North Africa to Italy between October 2022 and June 2023, with some making their way to Britain, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said."
He arrived in the UK on a small boat in 2022 after spending five years in jail in Italy for attempted drug smuggling. He applied for asylum in the UK but never received a decision.
Ebid, whose wife and sons are in the UK, had been living in Home Office-funded accommodation in south-west London at the time of his arrest.
Literally deport them all, take their fingerprints and if they ever try and return deport them instantly with no recourse to appeal. This country is a joke.
It makes me want to weep
This fucker was in "Home Office Accommodation" with his wife and kids. That's nice for him. Me and you were paying his fucking rent as he trafficked hostile people into the UK, or threw people overboard into the Channel
This is why we need Reform. We need seriously brutal remedies for all this. Enough
Predictably when this dickhead gets out of jail he'll win a court case to remain in the country on the basis that his wife and child have adjusted to life here and he can't be separated from his family. No, fuck the jail sentence, deport him now to Italy or Egypt. We have no need to have this fucker in our jails taking up space and resources all while we lose the ability to deport him and his family. They all should be on the plane tomorrow.
If HMG doesn't get a grip on stuff like this I don't see how Farage loses. The nation has lost all patience. You can sense it; it is palpable
It's what I said about a week ago, these are the types of cases and stories that are radicalising reliably middle of the road Tories to become much more right wing and throw their lot in with Reform. There's a sense of unfairness and injustice to British citizens that scumbags like this are able to exploit the law and take advantage of us that the Tories utterly failed to address and Labour will need to get sharp with immediately or I could see a landslide for Reform if they pledge to ignore the ECHR and deport all foreign criminals Trump style. Ordinary voters don't care for the minutia of habeus corpus and whatever we might discuss on pb, they want action and they want the criminals and illegal immigrants deported.
Yup
See also Gregg's now having to put their pasties and sarnies behind glass, because of the repeated and blatant shoplifting, which goes unpunished
It's stories like this - visible to all (literally witnessed by @Casino_Royale in Gregg's last week) which is driving people to a radical solution. The sense of total unfairness the sense of life declining, the sense of criminals now totally takng the piss and our spineless government siding with anyone but the poor native honest hardworking Brits
Toxic
Its a total of 5 stores where they are implementing putting food behind the counter - and Greggs have over 2500 stores.
And the thing is Greggs are at least trying - in other places chains will simply quietly close the store relocate the long term staff and pray the media doesn't notice how often they do it.
"An Egyptian fisherman who helped organise the movement of more than 3,000 migrants as part of a £12 million illegal boat crossing operation has been jailed for 25 years.
UK-based Ahmed Ebid, 42, was involved in smuggling nearly 3,800 people from North Africa to Italy between October 2022 and June 2023, with some making their way to Britain, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said."
He arrived in the UK on a small boat in 2022 after spending five years in jail in Italy for attempted drug smuggling. He applied for asylum in the UK but never received a decision.
Ebid, whose wife and sons are in the UK, had been living in Home Office-funded accommodation in south-west London at the time of his arrest.
Literally deport them all, take their fingerprints and if they ever try and return deport them instantly with no recourse to appeal. This country is a joke.
It makes me want to weep
This fucker was in "Home Office Accommodation" with his wife and kids. That's nice for him. Me and you were paying his fucking rent as he trafficked hostile people into the UK, or threw people overboard into the Channel
This is why we need Reform. We need seriously brutal remedies for all this. Enough
Predictably when this dickhead gets out of jail he'll win a court case to remain in the country on the basis that his wife and child have adjusted to life here and he can't be separated from his family. No, fuck the jail sentence, deport him now to Italy or Egypt. We have no need to have this fucker in our jails taking up space and resources all while we lose the ability to deport him and his family. They all should be on the plane tomorrow.
If HMG doesn't get a grip on stuff like this I don't see how Farage loses. The nation has lost all patience. You can sense it; it is palpable
It's what I said about a week ago, these are the types of cases and stories that are radicalising reliably middle of the road Tories to become much more right wing and throw their lot in with Reform. There's a sense of unfairness and injustice to British citizens that scumbags like this are able to exploit the law and take advantage of us that the Tories utterly failed to address and Labour will need to get sharp with immediately or I could see a landslide for Reform if they pledge to ignore the ECHR and deport all foreign criminals Trump style. Ordinary voters don't care for the minutia of habeus corpus and whatever we might discuss on pb, they want action and they want the criminals and illegal immigrants deported.
Yup
See also Gregg's now having to put their pasties and sarnies behind glass, because of the repeated and blatant shoplifting, which goes unpunished
It's stories like this - visible to all (literally witnessed by @Casino_Royale in Gregg's last week) which is driving people to a radical solution. The sense of total unfairness the sense of life declining, the sense of criminals now totally takng the piss and our spineless government siding with anyone but the poor native honest hardworking Brits
Toxic
Its a total of 5 stores where they are implementing putting food behind the counter - and Greggs have over 2500 stores.
And the thing is Greggs are at least trying - in other places chains will simply quietly close the store relocate the long term staff and pray the media doesn't notice how often they do it.
Never has been - I remember being in Sainsburys on Tottenham Court Road 10 years ago and 2 people picked up 2 sandwiches and drinks from the fridge then just walked out the door...
France to open high-security prison in Amazon jungle
France is opening a prison in France, which is not the same thing. As it happens, there is a large part of France in South America, but it is, fully, France, under French law.
Given the cash I will probably be heading to Guadeloupe when I retire...
"An Egyptian fisherman who helped organise the movement of more than 3,000 migrants as part of a £12 million illegal boat crossing operation has been jailed for 25 years.
UK-based Ahmed Ebid, 42, was involved in smuggling nearly 3,800 people from North Africa to Italy between October 2022 and June 2023, with some making their way to Britain, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said."
He arrived in the UK on a small boat in 2022 after spending five years in jail in Italy for attempted drug smuggling. He applied for asylum in the UK but never received a decision.
Ebid, whose wife and sons are in the UK, had been living in Home Office-funded accommodation in south-west London at the time of his arrest.
Literally deport them all, take their fingerprints and if they ever try and return deport them instantly with no recourse to appeal. This country is a joke.
It makes me want to weep
This fucker was in "Home Office Accommodation" with his wife and kids. That's nice for him. Me and you were paying his fucking rent as he trafficked hostile people into the UK, or threw people overboard into the Channel
This is why we need Reform. We need seriously brutal remedies for all this. Enough
Predictably when this dickhead gets out of jail he'll win a court case to remain in the country on the basis that his wife and child have adjusted to life here and he can't be separated from his family. No, fuck the jail sentence, deport him now to Italy or Egypt. We have no need to have this fucker in our jails taking up space and resources all while we lose the ability to deport him and his family. They all should be on the plane tomorrow.
If HMG doesn't get a grip on stuff like this I don't see how Farage loses. The nation has lost all patience. You can sense it; it is palpable
It's what I said about a week ago, these are the types of cases and stories that are radicalising reliably middle of the road Tories to become much more right wing and throw their lot in with Reform. There's a sense of unfairness and injustice to British citizens that scumbags like this are able to exploit the law and take advantage of us that the Tories utterly failed to address and Labour will need to get sharp with immediately or I could see a landslide for Reform if they pledge to ignore the ECHR and deport all foreign criminals Trump style. Ordinary voters don't care for the minutia of habeus corpus and whatever we might discuss on pb, they want action and they want the criminals and illegal immigrants deported.
Yup
See also Gregg's now having to put their pasties and sarnies behind glass, because of the repeated and blatant shoplifting, which goes unpunished
It's stories like this - visible to all (literally witnessed by @Casino_Royale in Gregg's last week) which is driving people to a radical solution. The sense of total unfairness the sense of life declining, the sense of criminals now totally takng the piss and our spineless government siding with anyone but the poor native honest hardworking Brits
Toxic
Its a total of 5 stores where they are implementing putting food behind the counter - and Greggs have over 2500 stores.
And the thing is Greggs are at least trying - in other places chains will simply quietly close the store relocate the long term staff and pray the media doesn't notice how often they do it.
Never has been - I remember being in Sainsburys on Tottenham Court Road 10 years ago and 2 people picked up 2 sandwiches and drinks from the fridge then just walked out the door...
I never saw anything like it when I was London based with sandwich shops and the like, mind you not seen it in Newcastle or Durham either.
Nigel Farage missed the parliamentary debate on the biggest reset to Brexit since the referendum because he is overseas on holiday, the Reform UK leader has said. Following speculation that he was on holiday in France, Farage, who has not been seen in the Commons this week and did not present his GB News show on Monday, released a statement confirming he was away.
Nigel Farage missed the parliamentary debate on the biggest reset to Brexit since the referendum because he is overseas on holiday, the Reform UK leader has said. Following speculation that he was on holiday in France, Farage, who has not been seen in the Commons this week and did not present his GB News show on Monday, released a statement confirming he was away.
Good for him for having a holiday - he sure as shit deserves one.
However, Kemi has definitely made the most of it in his absence.
France to open high-security prison in Amazon jungle
France is opening a prison in France, which is not the same thing. As it happens, there is a large part of France in South America, but it is, fully, France, under French law.
Cornwall is a part of the country that really feels different . I’ve been down loads of times to visit friends . As soon as you cross the Tamar Bridge it just feels like you’ve entered a different country in a very good way. It’s a unique place with a sense of mystery , the place names hark back to a different time, it’s almost out worldly .
Cornwall is okay, we like Looe, but the narrow roads are fecking horrendous.
How absolutely horrible of the townplanners of the 17th century not to consider the width needs of your suv
I drive a Hyundai i10 😂😂😂😂
I believe road widening is a concept that was implemented in other parts of the country.
Perhaps you could just rent a sensible car instead of expecting others to adapt their road systems to your outsized penis mobile?
Well if it wont fit down roads its obviously too wide, I drove in cornwall all the time never found a round too narrow for my car. Even drove it in a bmw 320 when was my company car. I include all over cornwall in that including looe. What problems are you finding?
Cornwall is a part of the country that really feels different . I’ve been down loads of times to visit friends . As soon as you cross the Tamar Bridge it just feels like you’ve entered a different country in a very good way. It’s a unique place with a sense of mystery , the place names hark back to a different time, it’s almost out worldly .
Cornwall is okay, we like Looe, but the narrow roads are fecking horrendous.
How absolutely horrible of the townplanners of the 17th century not to consider the width needs of your suv
I drive a Hyundai i10 😂😂😂😂
I believe road widening is a concept that was implemented in other parts of the country.
Perhaps you could just rent a sensible car instead of expecting others to adapt their road systems to your outsized penis mobile?
Well if it wont fit down roads its obviously too wide, I drove in cornwall all the time never found a round too narrow for my car. Even drove it in a bmw 320 when was my company car. I include all over cornwall in that including looe. What problems are you finding?
Cornwall is a part of the country that really feels different . I’ve been down loads of times to visit friends . As soon as you cross the Tamar Bridge it just feels like you’ve entered a different country in a very good way. It’s a unique place with a sense of mystery , the place names hark back to a different time, it’s almost out worldly .
Cornwall is okay, we like Looe, but the narrow roads are fecking horrendous.
How absolutely horrible of the townplanners of the 17th century not to consider the width needs of your suv
I drive a Hyundai i10 😂😂😂😂
I believe road widening is a concept that was implemented in other parts of the country.
Perhaps you could just rent a sensible car instead of expecting others to adapt their road systems to your outsized penis mobile?
Well if it wont fit down roads its obviously too wide, I drove in cornwall all the time never found a round too narrow for my car. Even drove it in a bmw 320 when was my company car. I include all over cornwall in that including looe. What problems are you finding?
Cornwall is a part of the country that really feels different . I’ve been down loads of times to visit friends . As soon as you cross the Tamar Bridge it just feels like you’ve entered a different country in a very good way. It’s a unique place with a sense of mystery , the place names hark back to a different time, it’s almost out worldly .
Cornwall is okay, we like Looe, but the narrow roads are fecking horrendous.
How absolutely horrible of the townplanners of the 17th century not to consider the width needs of your suv
I drive a Hyundai i10 😂😂😂😂
I believe road widening is a concept that was implemented in other parts of the country.
Perhaps you could just rent a sensible car instead of expecting others to adapt their road systems to your outsized penis mobile?
Well if it wont fit down roads its obviously too wide, I drove in cornwall all the time never found a round too narrow for my car. Even drove it in a bmw 320 when was my company car. I include all over cornwall in that including looe. What problems are you finding?
Maybe P2 can't do single track roads
Sorry a bmw 320 is hardly narrow, could still fit down those roads just fine......when driving a in cornwall I found people complaining mostly about the road width were people who couldn't reverse
Cornwall is a part of the country that really feels different . I’ve been down loads of times to visit friends . As soon as you cross the Tamar Bridge it just feels like you’ve entered a different country in a very good way. It’s a unique place with a sense of mystery , the place names hark back to a different time, it’s almost out worldly .
Cornwall is okay, we like Looe, but the narrow roads are fecking horrendous.
How absolutely horrible of the townplanners of the 17th century not to consider the width needs of your suv
I drive a Hyundai i10 😂😂😂😂
I believe road widening is a concept that was implemented in other parts of the country.
Perhaps you could just rent a sensible car instead of expecting others to adapt their road systems to your outsized penis mobile?
Well if it wont fit down roads its obviously too wide, I drove in cornwall all the time never found a round too narrow for my car. Even drove it in a bmw 320 when was my company car. I include all over cornwall in that including looe. What problems are you finding?
First time we went we stopped by St Kew. Lovely place. But it was just the narrowness of the roads and the lack of passing places.
The road up to the cottage literally had no space either side. Totally hemmed in.
Also with the roads being narrow and windy with stone either side rather than foliage in parts made not only pulling to one side an issue but having to reverse a bit of a worry, to let someone pass.
The visit to Looe was not an issue by comparison in terms of where we stayed, just a couple of places we visited we had similar.
The visit to the Healeys brewery was good.
Neither of us drive much and I tend to cycle or walk locally.
Oh my word. I met Patrick a few times at UKIP dos around 2013-2015, and spoke online a lot with him in that period. He told me to back Farage to stand in South Thanet at 7/4 or North Thanet at 10/1 (about 6/5 a 1/100 shot) at the 2015 GE when Ladbrokes had a market on where he would try his luck.
A lovely fellow. Fan of The Jam, football, and Brexit. What a shocking bit of news. RIP
Cornwall is a part of the country that really feels different . I’ve been down loads of times to visit friends . As soon as you cross the Tamar Bridge it just feels like you’ve entered a different country in a very good way. It’s a unique place with a sense of mystery , the place names hark back to a different time, it’s almost out worldly .
Cornwall is okay, we like Looe, but the narrow roads are fecking horrendous.
How absolutely horrible of the townplanners of the 17th century not to consider the width needs of your suv
I drive a Hyundai i10 😂😂😂😂
I believe road widening is a concept that was implemented in other parts of the country.
Perhaps you could just rent a sensible car instead of expecting others to adapt their road systems to your outsized penis mobile?
Well if it wont fit down roads its obviously too wide, I drove in cornwall all the time never found a round too narrow for my car. Even drove it in a bmw 320 when was my company car. I include all over cornwall in that including looe. What problems are you finding?
First time we went we stopped by St Kew. Lovely place. But it was just the narrowness of the roads and the lack of passing places.
The road up to the cottage literally had no space either side. Totally hemmed in.
Also with the roads being narrow and windy with stone either side rather than foliage in parts made not only pulling to one side an issue but having to reverse a bit of a worry, to let someone pass.
The visit to Looe was not an issue by comparison in terms of where we stayed, just a couple of places we visited we had similar.
Neither of us drive much and I tend to cycle or walk.
Well just saying I never had an issue with road width, I know a lot of emmets did especially the time they met my mother on the a narrow road and they got out of the car and demanded she reversed and she got out and then passed out drunk on the bank
@Nigel_Farage So sad to hear of the passing of Patrick O’Flynn. Paddy was a great journalist, a great thinker, a great patriot and a titan of our joint cause.
Most final polls in 2024 had Reform on 15-20% and they got 14% (only NumberCruncher underestimated them but had them close to their final result at 13%). So Reform as well as Labour were overestimated
Farage and he weren't exactly the best of buddies.
Someone else Saint Nigel was friendly with and fell out with ?
I think they were friends. O'Flynn said Farage was at risk of appearing thin skinned during one of the tv debates I think, and maybe that damaged their friendship, but Patrick was tweeting support of Reform and Farage just last month, as well as calling him a friend
Even Carswell, who Farage fell out with pretty spectacularly, seems to be supportive again now
Nigel Farage missed the parliamentary debate on the biggest reset to Brexit since the referendum because he is overseas on holiday, the Reform UK leader has said. Following speculation that he was on holiday in France, Farage, who has not been seen in the Commons this week and did not present his GB News show on Monday, released a statement confirming he was away.
Good for him for having a holiday - he sure as shit deserves one.
However, Kemi has definitely made the most of it in his absence.
HOC is in recess next week, the lazy f****r could have gone then. They pretty much get the school holidays plus another month in September/October.
When ISAs were first launched, the idea was to encourage ordinary folk to save by giving them a tax break. I don't think it was ever envisaged that over the years it would enable many pretty wealthy savers and investors to take so much of their investment income out of tax.
Nigel Farage missed the parliamentary debate on the biggest reset to Brexit since the referendum because he is overseas on holiday, the Reform UK leader has said. Following speculation that he was on holiday in France, Farage, who has not been seen in the Commons this week and did not present his GB News show on Monday, released a statement confirming he was away.
Good for him for having a holiday - he sure as shit deserves one.
However, Kemi has definitely made the most of it in his absence.
HOC is in recess next week, the lazy f****r could have gone then. They pretty much get the school holidays plus another month in September/October.
Whatever else he can be called, I don't think lazy is it.
Australia's Liberal National coalition splits after 80 years as the Liberals move back to the liberal centre after Dutton's hard right campaign was heavily defeated while the Nationals remain solidly conservative and as the 2 parties differ on issues like nuclear power.
Nigel Farage missed the parliamentary debate on the biggest reset to Brexit since the referendum because he is overseas on holiday, the Reform UK leader has said. Following speculation that he was on holiday in France, Farage, who has not been seen in the Commons this week and did not present his GB News show on Monday, released a statement confirming he was away.
Good for him for having a holiday - he sure as shit deserves one.
However, Kemi has definitely made the most of it in his absence.
HOC is in recess next week, the lazy f****r could have gone then. They pretty much get the school holidays plus another month in September/October.
Whatever else he can be called, I don't think lazy is it.
He does f all constituency work. He frequently misses Commons sessions, as he always missed European Parliament sessions. He's pretty lazy.
Nigel Farage missed the parliamentary debate on the biggest reset to Brexit since the referendum because he is overseas on holiday, the Reform UK leader has said. Following speculation that he was on holiday in France, Farage, who has not been seen in the Commons this week and did not present his GB News show on Monday, released a statement confirming he was away.
Good for him for having a holiday - he sure as shit deserves one.
However, Kemi has definitely made the most of it in his absence.
HOC is in recess next week, the lazy f****r could have gone then. They pretty much get the school holidays plus another month in September/October.
Whatever else he can be called, I don't think lazy is it.
He does f all constituency work. He frequently misses Commons sessions, as he always missed European Parliament sessions. He's pretty lazy.
Income from savings is taxed at 20% basic rate; income from working taxed at 28% (20% ICT + 8% NI).
Why should unearned income be taxed less than earned income?
If it's savings from already taxed earned income, why should it be taxed again?
Well, currently you get taxed when you get paid for a job, and then when you spend that money, you pay VAT. If you employ someone with your money, you have to pay NI contributions. That person then pays tax on what you pay them. Money is always being taxed again and again as it moves around the economy.
In this case, you aren't being taxed on the savings themselves, only on the interest you get, which is new money.
Nigel Farage missed the parliamentary debate on the biggest reset to Brexit since the referendum because he is overseas on holiday, the Reform UK leader has said. Following speculation that he was on holiday in France, Farage, who has not been seen in the Commons this week and did not present his GB News show on Monday, released a statement confirming he was away.
Good for him for having a holiday - he sure as shit deserves one.
However, Kemi has definitely made the most of it in his absence.
HOC is in recess next week, the lazy f****r could have gone then. They pretty much get the school holidays plus another month in September/October.
Whatever else he can be called, I don't think lazy is it.
He does f all constituency work. He frequently misses Commons sessions, as he always missed European Parliament sessions. He's pretty lazy.
The less time mp's spend in parliament passing laws the better for all of us, frankly it not having anyone turning up for 50 years might be better because all they do is make life more shit
So that's a second Ukrainian born builder wannabe model that has been charged with firebombing Starmers property....they don't scream FSB.
Imagine you are FSB and want to smear Ukraine and Starmer at the same time. Hire some young amateur male models, sifting for Ukrainians, and pay them a couple of grand each to do some inept arson.
To be clear, no evidence either of them were ever paid to be a model. They just signed up with a website and had some photos taken. This is how they may have been contacted. And neither of them are attractive. Though the second is sort of weird-attractive, which models can be.
If that is what the FSB have done, I for one salute them for their narrative genius
I should also add that, if they were rent boys, I guarantee the profiles would have been found. So it's safe to assume they aren't.
Why are you so oddly keen to clear this up when the fact is - we don't know anything - it's just very weird?
I'm not! I just like my pet theory.
Actually, the basis of the theory is that the knowledge of Starmer's old house and old car can only have come from a state actor - i.e Russia. It's not something a random terrorist is likely to be able to research.
The address of his old house is on companies house. And the fact they didn't know he had sold his car last year, but is the one that appears using a google inage search . That rather points to amateur hour.
If the past few years have told us anything, its that amateur hour doesn't rule out the Russians.
Not really FSB themselves have continued to be highly effective. How many balcony slips have there been, including in the UK. They are long gone by the time authorities put two and two together.
If its was hire useful idiots for plausible deniability then perhaps. What was that 80s movie with Chevy Chase and Dan Ackroid which was that premise.
The definition of a "useful idiot" is the guy who did the Trump sassytempt
Evidence found in his car and apartment supports the idea he expected to somehow SURVIVE shooting at Donald Trump from 50 yards away, with about 200 FBI snipers all around
When ISAs were first launched, the idea was to encourage ordinary folk to save by giving them a tax break. I don't think it was ever envisaged that over the years it would enable many pretty wealthy savers and investors to take so much of their investment income out of tax.
Also one thing Reeves has done I agree with, the wealthy also use SIPPs to simply transfer wealth to inheritors free of tax. She’s right to close that loophole.
As for ISA’s looks like she’s not touching them. She’d got city firms demanding she change the rules on cash ISA’s so they can get their hands on the money to invest, at a small fee, and banks wanting no change as they get the deposits.
Ideally some changes should be made but it’s a problem for her. Same with the pensions changes to ‘invest in Britain’. I wouldn’t want any pension money of mine invested in illiquid assets. I wonder how many people would.
When ISAs were first launched, the idea was to encourage ordinary folk to save by giving them a tax break. I don't think it was ever envisaged that over the years it would enable many pretty wealthy savers and investors to take so much of their investment income out of tax.
Doesn't mention ISAs, closing the avoidance loophole of owning your home via a company seems sensible though doesn't bring in much.
Pension lifetime allowance should be indexlinked if a limit returns. If people don't save for a pension, the Govt will just end up having to pay their care home costs.
When ISAs were first launched, the idea was to encourage ordinary folk to save by giving them a tax break. I don't think it was ever envisaged that over the years it would enable many pretty wealthy savers and investors to take so much of their investment income out of tax.
Also one thing Reeves has done I agree with, the wealthy also use SIPPs to simply transfer wealth to inheritors free of tax. She’s right to close that loophole.
As for ISA’s looks like she’s not touching them. She’d got city firms demanding she change the rules on cash ISA’s so they can get their hands on the money to invest, at a small fee, and banks wanting no change as they get the deposits.
Ideally some changes should be made but it’s a problem for her. Same with the pensions changes to ‘invest in Britain’. I wouldn’t want any pension money of mine invested in illiquid assets. I wonder how many people would.
Let reeves have public sector pension funds as long as the rest of us aren't on the hook for shortfalls. I am sure the public sector has faith in reeves investment plans as they are the party of the public sector
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This is a very new feeling. Maybe passing
Those songs are very powerful
I confess an actual tear rolled
KERNOW BYS VYKEN
“Hiraeth is famously untranslatable, from the Welsh, but it evokes a deep, melancholic longing for a homeland - not just a place, but a time, a feeling, or even something that may never have existed. It’s nostalgia with soul and ache. A homesickness for a home you must return to, even if you don’t know why”
Anywhere else and Beeching would have succeeded in terminating the Looe branch with extreme prejudice.
Leon was from Cornwall, and then I asking about local Cornish words.
I love those tiny little valleys in West Penwith. What a magical place
One reason I love them is their beautiful names
NANQUIDNO
My older daughter's middle name is Lamorna
My niece has just called her baby daughter Zennor
This message was brought you by Ginsters.
I believe road widening is a concept that was implemented in other parts of the country.
Ginsters are fine, their sausage rolls nice. Alan Partridge is a fan. However there is a great pasty shop in Looe.
They talk of Truro with outright contempt
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Monday 10th
London to Plymouth (did railway from Newton Abbot to Plymouth for the first time)
then:
Tuesday 11th
Plymouth to Gunnislake, and Plymouth to Falmouth
Wednesday 12th
Par to Newquay
Thursday 13th
Truro to Penzance, and St Erth to St Ives
Friday 14th
Liskeard to Looe (and Coombe Junction Halt!)
And back to London
I just commented on the roads I made no demand for their adaptation to suit my driving preference.
OK now I am going to have gin. Enough weepy "hiraeth"
https://www.cinch.co.uk/used-cars/hyundai/i10/details/98690910-7b32-47f5-96df-1b3965e560bf?CID=ppc|google|paid|UK_EN_Google_Generic_Research_PMax|||||&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20697209697&gbraid=0AAAAACtVW9Jo-m6jhiLhaWYV7samRWwx-&gclid=Cj0KCQjw0LDBBhCnARIsAMpYlAqjqIPZ8HqMemzVGyovyO1pS3dgt_VtFlMnQ94NIzpTKe0Iwlzh4h8aAnoiEALw_wcB
And the thing is Greggs are at least trying - in other places chains will simply quietly close the store relocate the long term staff and pray the media doesn't notice how often they do it.
Oh, the horror. The horror.
https://x.com/notfarleftatall/status/1915448725629005974?s=61
Good for Greggs for trying to do something.
https://x.com/zackdfilms1/status/1924888353826042066?s=61
This one, guy just fills up a bag.
https://x.com/crimeldn/status/1813640875920236948?s=61
However, Kemi has definitely made the most of it in his absence.
The Conservative Party poll rating.
https://x.com/reformparty_uk/status/1924818392558579739?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q
Journalist Patrick O’Flynn dies age 59
Nigel Farage pays tribute to former Ukip MEP and political editor of Daily Express
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/05/20/journalist-patrick-oflynn-dies-age-59/
The road up to the cottage literally had no space either side. Totally hemmed in.
Also with the roads being narrow and windy with stone either side rather than foliage in parts made not only pulling to one side an issue but having to reverse a bit of a worry, to let someone pass.
The visit to Looe was not an issue by comparison in terms of where we stayed, just a couple of places we visited we had similar.
The visit to the Healeys brewery was good.
Neither of us drive much and I tend to cycle or walk locally.
A lovely fellow. Fan of The Jam, football, and Brexit. What a shocking bit of news. RIP
https://x.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1924898697218846990
Nigel Farage MP
@Nigel_Farage
So sad to hear of the passing of Patrick O’Flynn. Paddy was a great journalist, a great thinker, a great patriot and a titan of our joint cause.
Thank you Paddy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2024_United_Kingdom_general_election
Even Carswell, who Farage fell out with pretty spectacularly, seems to be supportive again now
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/05/20/angela-rayner-demands-tax-raid-savers-rachel-reeves/
Income from savings is taxed at 20% basic rate; income from working taxed at 28% (20% ICT + 8% NI).
Why should unearned income be taxed less than earned income?
"A Beautiful Trip along the St Ives Bay Line!
GLovesTrains"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cUGKz4qerw
The 2 parties will still likely preference each other though under Australia's 2PP voting system
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cev4dve4970o
In this case, you aren't being taxed on the savings themselves, only on the interest you get, which is new money.
As for ISA’s looks like she’s not touching them. She’d got city firms demanding she change the rules on cash ISA’s so they can get their hands on the money to invest, at a small fee, and banks wanting no change as they get the deposits.
Ideally some changes should be made but it’s a problem for her. Same with the pensions changes to ‘invest in Britain’. I wouldn’t want any pension money of mine invested in illiquid assets. I wonder how many people would.
Pension lifetime allowance should be indexlinked if a limit returns. If people don't save for a pension, the Govt will just end up having to pay their care home costs.
Anyhow, VAT is paid out of taxed income - there you might have a point.