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Understandable that Ukraine dominates the news cycles, but the 'Benefits of Brexit' march on relentlessly. Yesterday there was a Cross Party (Tory majority) Report from the Environment Select Committee on the state of the agricultural sector due to Brexit and Covid. Vacancies in the sector have shot up to half a million which has led to problems with food supplies, crops unharvested/left to rot, and the culling of at least 27,000 healthy pigs. The pig culling is a result of the lack of butchers, and despite filling some vacancies, still well below the levels of when we were in the EU. So far the Gov has failed to compensate pig farmers, and some now fear going out of business. "The evidence we have received leaves us in no doubt that labour shortages, caused by Brexit and accentuated by the pandemic, have badly affected businesses across the food and farming sector. If not resolved swiftly, they threaten to shrink the sector permanently." ?the Govt has not demonstrated a strong understanding of these issues and even on occasion sought to pass the blame onto the sector on the basis of incorrect information about its own immigration system.? As bad as all this is, what's just as dispiriting is Labour/Starmer's reluctance to mention any of this for fear of being seen to criticise Brexit. Although I personally believe that any form of Brexit would've been damaging, there are clearly forms of Brexit that would've been less damaging than the 'oven ready deal' Johnson served up, and that's what Labour/Starmer should do, attack the deal we have and say how it can be bettered in the short term...

Man stops giving away furlough money and becomes unpopular shocker...

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- ''Would be nice for council to plant trees that don?t interfere with existing structures.'' This can be done using root guards, but maybe it's difficult to do in residential streets i.e. needs wider/deeper excavation work. Regular trimming/lopping of trees is also supposed to prevent excessive root growth...the Bonsai principle...but that costs money etc. There's always going to be problems on narrow fronted streets like the OP posted, roots will seek out sources of water e.g. drainage pipes/sewers, maybe we just need to accept that, London as a whole is still one of the greenest cities in the world...

I love the hyperbole word embellishment that EDF threads throw up, from ugly/tacky to beautiful, to holocaust and scurvy. EDF, never change :) TL:DR - The banners are staying, nothing to see here...

Nigello, your OP asks whether advetising on a state school is legal, yet a few posts above you state as fact that ''state bodies (in this case, a school) shouldn't be advertising anything on their property...''. Can we then deduce that since your OP you've found out that it is indeed not legal, or are you mistaking your opinion for a fact?

''Johnson still refusing to say that the law has been broken, despite the Met already issuing the first tranche of fines for...breaking the law.'' As more fines are given, including one to the Gov's former 'Whitehall ethics chief'...you couldn't make it up....Johnson's spokesperson still denying any rules have been broken, meanwhile Rees-Mogg bemoans that the rules that his Gov drew-up and passed in Parliament are wrong and ''inhuman''. This is what shameless gaslighting in real-time looks like...

Fook off back to where you come from, comin' over 'ere and stealing our thread space...

Don't mess with a Mum...https://twitter.com/i/status/1509744933128781824

Week 28 fixtures... Saturday 2nd April Liverpool v Watford Brighton & Hove Albion v Norwich City Burnley v Manchester City Chelsea v Brentford Leeds United v Southampton Wolverhampton Wanderers v Aston Villa Manchester United v Leicester City Sunday 3rd April West Ham United v Everton Tottenham Hotspur v Newcastle United Monday 4th April Crystal Palace v Arsenal Wednesday 6th April Burnley v Everton

There's a good chance that some of those already issued with a FPN for breaking the law, will be employed as 'civil servants', and as such have to adhere to a code of conduct, which among many things states that a civil servant can't break the law. That's fine, until you factor in that those who receive a FPN are not being identified by the Met, which then begs the question, how does a civil servant who has broken the law face the consequence of falling foul of the code of conduct, unless they personally 'fess up'?...

We can send men to the moon. We can find cures for once incurable diseases. We can even assemble Ikea Billy bookcases without peeking at the instructions* But apparently we're incapable of tackling rising inflation etc and supporting Ukraine while at the same time, God forbid, hold the Gov and PM accountable for breaking the very laws they legislated and insisted everyone followed. *Doffs cap and tugs forelock* *Ok, a bit far-fetched that one...

Johnson still refusing to say that the law has been broken, despite the Met already issuing the first tranche of fines for...breaking the law. A denial because he knows he's going to get a fine?...

TheCat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- ''I would think that overwhelming majority of people who you and Bic Basher would chacaterise as 'GC' would AGREE with your comment above. I certainly havent seen anyone commenting on this thread (even the much demonised oimissus) suggest that transpeople dont have a right to be who they want to be....'' ''...unless that transperson was previously a man and now identifies as a woman'' As has already been pointed out on this and previous threads on this subject, that's deeply insulting to a transperson, the denial of who that person identifies as. An ex-work colleague who is third generation black British, once told me that the most hurtful thing that had been directed at him about his ethnicity wasn't the usual racial stereotypes/slurs that he had learnt to 'brush-off', but when someone casually told him that no matter what nth generation he was, he could never be 'truly British' because he was black and not 'indigenous' white. It's that denial of someone's identity that cuts through and it's something that the likes of oimissus knowingly do...

Seabag Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- ''Can you imagine all the hard work of creating a hostile Britain for those seeking refuge, only to be undone by a war and its actual war refugees, thousands of them. And specially refugees from a country with a strong desire to join the EU.'' Spot on sb, the border system has been doing exactly what it was planned to do on the back of Brexit, in particular to Channel crossings, that is to close legal routes for asylum seekers/refugees so people entering immediately become 'illegals' and cue Daily Mail headlines demonising them. From yesterday... Yvette Cooper: ?Today, Tory MPs voted to make it a criminal offence for Ukrainian families to arrive in the UK without the right papers with a penalty of up to 4 years in prison...when British people have made clear we need to help Ukrainian refugees, this is deeply shameful."

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think a lot of comments are responses to Liz Truss (and others) posting a selfie... Liz Trusstagram...

There was a recent poll and the UK came about third in a list of countries who Ukraine sees right now as an ally, higher than the US, France and Germany, and the main reason given for this was as Cat rightly points out, that the UK has been providing military support over the years. Whether this will change once the UK Gov's appalling response to Ukrainian refugees filters through, remains to be seen, but right now for Ukrainians on the ground it's about military support. But I think we should also be aware that this support was also good for UK Plc, we've been making money from it, and it could be said it's more to do with that than insightful long-term strategic military planning against a potential Russian invasion. We should also remember that during the same period the UK Gov has does nothing to stop Putin's oligarchs from essentially laundering their ill-gotten wealth through UK Plc, it's a global thing but the UK, in particular London, has been at the heart of it, hence the moniker Londongrad. All of which has backhandedly supported Putin and ergo the Russian war machine we see now...

Because as I said before, it's an insult, and as such, just like if a racist insisted on using the n word, I wouldn't want to debate racial issues with them. Some people are beyond 'reaching out to', Oimussus is one of them. I wondered why many of the posters who had commented on the previous Oimissus thread on the same subject, haven't on this one, and I suspect for similar reasons...

Ah, the inevitable 'trying to shut down the debate' throw away line. I've no wish to give your nasty transphobic views and strawman arguments any more oxygen...

redjam Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- ''It's so unhelpful that we can't have a debate about these issues without instantly being accused of being transphobic. I fully support the right of trans people to live safely and happily in whatever gender they choose'' That's all well and good but Oimissus doesn't think the same and instead believes that a man who has transitioned to a woman is not a woman per se, and constantly and knowingly refers to them as a man, which is seen as an insult in the trans community. That's transphobia right there. There is indeed a serious debate to be had about how trans people can best be integrated into sport, but you can't have that debate with people like Oimissus who won't even recognise their identity and instead constantly throw insults...

Week 27 points... Week 27 table... International break, back in about 10 days time...

''In some sports''...

Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is there anything considered wrong in suggesting > that trans people have their own category in > sports? It could be the way forward, but at the moment it just seems a handful of sportsmen/women across various events, so currently it would lack any competitive element. As an aside, female jockey Rachael Blackmore is proving that in some sports women can compete and even be better than men, so the whole argument about women who identify as men and vice versa have an unfair advantage, is blown out of the water...