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I'll be honest - I've never heard of Nicholson. What's the skinny?

The report is rather more nuanced than that very excitable Times article has it and is completely beside the point re what is actually happening re: international treaties and brexit Criticising the EU, wanting it to do better, scoring it (relatively) badly is not the same as wanting to leave the EU

isn't Rod Liddle a less-than-reliable narrator on matters "racist"?

I see the telegraph are claiming today that the NI protocol was signed under duress and UK was bullied into signing it never mind that a) UK is meant to be a mighty sovereign equal now - how can it be bullied? b) it was hailed as a great deal at the time and sold as such to the electorate (not least by the very same writer) c) the same people objected to any other solutions before - if there is a better one now, what is it and why will it work now when it couldn't before? d) people like us remainers warned about all of this ages ago and were belittled - "how about taking time to examine this protocol" - no no no we have discussed this to death - it's marvellous, get behind it!

Nearly a week later and that last post (and the general volley of ill-tempered posts that day from author) still amazes me

He's talking about bringing them under UK control and not EU control BUT We Could Have Done That Anyway in The EU but just didn't

knowing the Dog, if you place your drinks order at 12:30 you might get them by 2

Driving through Kent a couple of years ago I stopped at a random village pub. That very same couple were running this pub. Was nice to see them again

Take that attitude into the driving test Foxy? Talk about false equivalence

I don't think the Labour Party is promoting any such message However, I agree that it wouldn't take much searching to find parts of left-leaning social media users to find messages like that But then again - "your country is awful/has gone to the dogs/a lot of scum out there" is pretty much the message promoted by most papers year after year. I don't think it's a left wing thing at all

ah the good old NTV (Never the Vale)

I don't think it's just "people on the left" scratching their heads about this government tbh

" they?ve been told by the guardianustas that he?s an awful terrible man and a liar to boot, until yesterday when he?s now a deliverer of truth and integrity. " That is literally the opposite point to what I've tried to make No claims of being a deliverer of truth and integrity - he remains as shifty as ever. But Johnson is the PM is a proven liar and looks to be making the same mistake he has made several times with this virus. No-one has to believe Cummings specifically - but putting aside all bias, guardinaista put downs and all the rest of it - do you genuinely think the core assertions made yesterday are untrue?

Yep - I did say Johnson wouldn't last the year. And the polls (and many people) are happy to laugh at me But I still think it's going to end badly, and more quickly than most think.

I'm seeing a lot of "now loads of people believe Cummings all of a sudden" type comments - but I don't think it's that simple - he remains as shifty and shady as ever. But he was in the room and a driving force behind much of the last 5 years - and it remains notable that the targets of his accusations have avoided explicitly refuting what he says But let's stick with him being an unreliable narrator - because he is. The problem is, the main person he is accusing is also an unreliable narrator - with a proven history of being so. SO either Cummings is lying, or Johnson is lying And in THAT very specific calculation I'm not inclined to believe Johnson above Cummings I don't think this is going to topple Johnson by itself - but it's easy to imagine death rising again and another lockdown because of the India variant despite the clear early evidence about the variant and this becoming a hot topic all over again

found the thread in question - painful reading post after post from me talking out of my arse... until I finally realised the error of my ways /forum/read.php?5,28468,28708#msg-28708

Many many years ago on this forum, someone posted about an attempted child abduction in the area At the time I was inclined to pooh-pooh it as there hand't been any official reports anywhere, and something as horrific as that would surely have made the papers/local news rather than say-so on a local forum - and I posted exactly that I was talking absolute nonsense - it was a very real incident and the people involved really really don't need to hear randos claiming it's all made up.

Anyone else think Hancock today might make things worse?

I don?t know, rah In time, I think yesterday will be seen as beginning of the end for Johnson

What are the supplements for Monica? And have you had a jab yet? With an airborne disease like this you must be anxious?

I don't love reading newspapers on a kindle to be honest

Much easier on the eyes. Tablets use oles or lcd technology which is very ?bright?. I?m paraphrasing but it?s much harsher on they eyes. Particularly for plain text like books A kindle kindle is much much gentler but offers the same benefits (changing font size etc) If I forget my kindle when I?m out and about I generally don?t switch to tablet app for this reason. I?d rather just not read in that case

For some reason it?s the lyric ? Where are you going With your fetlocks blowing? That always tickles me

Ireland used to win the thing every year We didn?t even qualify for the final this time But we don?t invent reasons to self pity over a ludicrous singing contest

"towards" is doing a lot of work there