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Yep, same here. Lots of baby tom, chilli, broad bean and runner beans waiting to go outside, but it's too cold.

Yep. Trump doesn’t like Zelenski because he declined to be blackmailed by Trump to provide dirt on Hunter Biden. Even if the above happens, Zelenski is under no obligation to give up. He’d try and get more help from Europe, though Europe doesn’t have the capacity to replace US supplies of arms and so on. Even this last US package will only last so long, maybe a year, then it’s back to square one. Russia is gaining ground all the time now, so will just wait it out. The west is fearful of either side losing and thus in this weird position of relative inaction.

Posts removed. Please stay on topic. EMI has his own thread.

No. Can’t see that. The US right sees no role for the US in a far off conflict between two European states.

Gonna bin off this new starting word. Another fail Wordle 1,039 X/6*

Well, yeah, obviously. But it seems, at face value, to make no difference, or not to be the case. The reasons why are what I’d like to understand.

Indeed. The thing is, various leaders of friendly nations acted in response to the claims. So when Israel is unable to present any evidence to validate the claim, what do these leaders think? I suppose another way of asking the question is “how cynical are we?” But either way lying to your buddies should lead to extreme future scepticism.

They attacked a Chinese ship a week or so ago

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The Tory investigation decided that the money he (allegedly?) snaffled wasn’t Tory party money, but some sort of local fund to do Tory things with. So that’s alright then. This place (Fylde) could have its first non Tory MP after the next general election. I’ve lived here 30 odd years now and at no point til recently has that ever seemed remotely likely. It might still do, because y’know cockroaches, nuclear war…but hopefully…

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Wordle 1,036 2/6* new starting word, after yesterday’s answer was my old one.

No. I’m not. What I am assuming is that they wouldn’t have done the 7th October rampage of murdering 1500+ people and kidnapping 250 more if Iran wasn’t onside. If that’s right, then the precise degree of which individuals from Hamas and Iran pushed for it, planned it, supplied the weapons and intel and so on can’t really be known apart from those involved. So I think Iran was, as a minimum “onside” with it and more likely, IMO, approving or indeed encouraging and deeply involved in instigating for their leaders own twisted agenda.

In '93 the club got a CPO and they had to also pay to have the road re-routed. As people have pointed out, CPOs are not easily given, and they're obviously unpopular with the residents and owners of the properties, or most of them, anyway.

I don't see that. "all this" started with the October 7th terror attack by Hamas (at Iran's behest). That was aimed to do 2 things, obviously just engage in a bloodlust, but also to provoke a reaction which would scupper Israel's accord, or whatever the word is - much improved relationship/prospective deal - with Saudi Arabia. It did both those things. The utterly brutal retort from Israel (war crimes, genocide, collective punishment, murdering and destruction..) was probably not what Iran expected, they probably didn't expect such horror, but ultimately they don't care. Sure, Israel attacked the Damascus consulate, where Iranian liaisons with Hamas were holed up, and then we are where we are, with tit for tat attacks. In as much as you can draw a "starting point" or an "at the moment" window around hundreds of years of animosity, the October 7th date is IMO the starting point of the current appalling, bloodthirsty mess. Iran's has kind of let Israel off the hook to an extent, as well, because just as the world, or the democracies who sympathise and support Israel were utterly losing patience, they've re-invigorated that support/sympathy by launching hundreds of rockets and UAVs at Israel. The leaders of Israel, Iran and Hamas are monsters.

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I was just You are a liberal airhead. Now get back to your lentils, pinko.

https://archive.is/829Fa#selection-1393.0-3452.0 Full article on link or Daily Mail interweb

In this case, that Tory person - she was actually (with some creative license) correct on food prices. While general (overall) inflation is, as you say, above zero, and therefore prices are rising, overall, for a significant number of food items prices are and have come down. Now that's where the creative license applies - because the basket of food items used to measure inflation has slightly crept up, overall, as some have risen and some have fallen in price, leaving food inflation overall at (I think) 0.2%. I imagine the weather and stuff will see prices leap again, and none of it (the fall in the cost of certain items) is anything to do with the government's actions, anyway. Ed Balls didn't actually pick up on the thing she "mis-spoke" about. But that's pedantry on my part - she said "food prices" he just picked up on "prices". A proper pedant would have said something like (in his response) "some food prices might have fallen, but others have risen and the cost of non food items has also continued to rise, not fall", but then both the viewers would have fallen asleep or switched off, so perhaps he dod well to pick up on any of it.

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My MP. Previously caught up, a few years ago, in some kind of Brazilian rent boy and drugs story, who said he was gonna clear his name in court, but somehow never quite got round to it. I mean, what they do in their lives is their business and if they like cocaine and prostitution, hypothetically, that’s y’know, not really any concern of mine. But it is a bit of a sign of some vulnerability and insecurity. It sounds like he’s not got his life in order. He nearly found a spine about fracking, but…didn’t. He nearly found a spine about…a few things, but didn’t. Soon enough, or perhaps not soon enough, someone else will be the MP for here. See ya, Mark, another who put party before the people who he represents or his own prospects. Now **** off.

Phil Oakey hasn’t aged well

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Scary looking cat.