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The voters in these redwall seats all complain of a broken Britain etc etc - yet see no connection between the country voting tory for 14 years and those towns voting for Brexit despite being warned it would lead to problems - they just moan about everything - often quite correctly (services are expensive or being cut, roads are a state, housing is expensive etc etc) but when you ask them when things were better.. well the answer is either a) under a labour government when we part of the EU or b) some fictional Facebook sepia tinted picture of Britain "when you could leave your front door open, we didn't know how lucky we were" Voters say they want the truth but when someone sane (if dull and sometimes wrong) gets into power and says "lads, things are worse than we realised" they bleat about a lack of instant fixes and say it's wrong to keep blaming the last government (despite the lie about Labour crashing the economy in 2008 STILL being a stick labour get beaten with in 2025) as for rejoining the EU - the barriers are immense - you have a press and a large portion of the population that will behave just abysmally. You have an electorate that recognises the mistake but is all very English and "made out beds, mustn't grumble" etc etc - no backbone. And you have an opposition party (or two) that is plain bonkers and when labour do lose power they would renege/reverse any progress made in matters EU in seconds Meanwhile EU countries can see all this clearly and have no incentive to engage until this country grows up and is able to demonstrate they won't act hysterically when reintegration starts

". Which ever way you cut it, the world has become a much more scary and dangerous place. " This is true, but what I can't get my head around is the "why?" Where is the win for Trump/America/Voters with all of these moves?

would be odd if both virgin AND Microsoft felt you needed to do something with your phone. Almost certainly a scam Saying that - a quick google shows there can be an issue between MS Outlook and Virgin re emails Paste the text of the messages in here and we can have a look sometimes the address can be similar - bit not quite right - as another way to fool

The lengths some people will go to to excuse bad owner/dog behaviour. Ignoring multiple news reports of dogs causing extreme injury/death I don’t care how friendly you think YOUR dog is. Keep them the f@@@ away from other people

First time post Badly composed Suspiciously exaggerated claims Conclusion: probable troll/extreme dickhead perhaps multiple neighbours will verify the claims but right now? Nah

All good to hear. Cheers BNG If I’m honest, those fliers give off very bland corporate energy also. Shouldn’t it be a relaunch party instead of a launch party? hopefully I’m wrong and it’s great

nope - was sold to Green King pubs many years ago

I found Motherland to be insufferable - the very worst of entitled/oohwhatamIike nonsense and everyone who said "it was so relatable" went down in my..... my book That article and what I've seen of Amandaland do nothing to change this

Vladi obviously trolling But we see enough people on Question Time saying things like "now that Trump is sorting everything out.." like there aren't going to be major dire consequences for what is happening over there Anyway - that eejit from Brewdog has already launched his UK Doge nonsense (the whole idea is crackpot - it needs crackpot to implement it - you can't have the idea without the crackpot. Just like.. y'know... the other thing. What's it called again? Putin enjoyed that one too. It's on tip of my tongue.. Brexit! Yes that's it) https://www.thenational.scot/news/24932406.james-watt-launches-shadow-doge-watchdog-take-uk-government/

if I'm consistent on any single thing, it will be that I will never welcome leavers - unless they recant 😉 "we should welcome our leavers"

Can’t see stonegate accepting an offer from community group. Would love to be wrong if a young Irish family are going to take it over then good luck to them. You need to be a canny operator (and Con was definitely that) to handle the hoops stonegate throw at you

whooooooosh

first Trump comes back and ruins everything and in a similar fashion....

didn't realise Blythe was already a Stonegate pub - they won't have made things easy for him

very confident early post from PP there - almost reassuringly familiar with it's heavy class chippery I miss sitting in EDT watching Obama inauguration - how very far so much has fallen Always enjoyed my evenings (and in case of 2002 World Cup very early mornings) in The Castle as well

Still same pub co Mitchell and butler (harvester, all bar one, toby carvery) they also have pubs in Herne hill and Dulwich village usually terrible food

I would say 55/35 is significantly different to 48/52 its not totally analogous of course and you’re correct to question some of the other points raised but it was clearly a massive deception and a massive mistake If Trump decides to invade/takeover Greenland there will be massive rupture between Europe and USA and uk will have to pick side

I've been WFH for almost 9 years now - full time, not hybrid Combination of office relocation impacting commute + no others in my team working in London meant it was pointless losing 5-6 hours a day on a commute (It had been 3-4 hours max which was fine) made me take the leap I spend less time on EDF and other distractions since - Mal has highlighted the downsides very well above, but for me it's a net win all the way. I get more work done, My annual reviews are better (so my managers - and there have been several in different parts of the world) all happy with my output It's not for everyone but I'll be raging if I have to give it up

This trend really is quite something by now Watching Starmer, Reeves and go do the same fingers-in-ear "la la la" will be their downfall https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/51484-how-do-britons-feel-about-brexit-five-years-on

strong agree rockets - not just the kids tho - the number of older people who seem to have been radicalised is more noticeable to me

I see today that musk is blaming people of colour/ women/equality for the damages caused by wildfires anyone - from jenrick down to lost souls in south east London - who utters anything vaguely defensive of him is nothing but problematic

you would be wrong - price differentials like this predate current labour government (labour NI increase also doesn't come close to many European countries in terms of cost overhead) what is with people in this country refusing to countenance the damage Brexit continues to do

Let's have a look at olive oil price in Uk Tesco https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/254516076?sc_cmp=ppc*GHS+-+Grocery+-+New*MPX_PMAX_All_OT_All+Products_Online+Budget_1011017**254516076*&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADiyNaszLAry567QKuGGE_WRyOsJB&gclid=Cj0KCQiAvvO7BhC-ARIsAGFyToVxNYLKhpNfGyF3C6x4KzK2FynwQtOmzQEujQNODuoep1zaPbiLz1YaAiLbEALw_wcB Now let's try same bottle in Ireland https://www.tesco.ie/groceries/en-IE/products/254516076?srsltid=AfmBOopMBjIs5dRjf87MVaZo_BzH-uVgRCv7Te2bkz0qZ5LZKW3VNGNW Now it's true that inflation is impacting countries everywhere - but guess what's making things worse in UK

Sovereignty? Monarchy? The British pound? fark all that shite (turns out being a rule taker and adopting a single currency isn’t the barrier some brexiteers feared after all) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12/26/51st-state-usa-trump-starmer-eu-special-relationship/

Being nice to Trump, constantly and obsequiously, in no way keeps you onside with him honesty far better and there isnt going to be any meaningful trade deal with USA anyway because it conflicts with other interests. bugs the shite out of me listening to people complain about uk being rude about Trump when the things the uk continues to say about Europe and its leaders is unhinged