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Wee bit of a suspicion of handball around Kiltie but VAR no interested. Looked like it was over the line to me, no an OG.

They went from zero to1,500 in England and overtook Labour. In Scotland they could not even overtake labour.

Scotland seems.to be the only place where Reform have not developed any real traction. Probably partly because Scots are just instinctively suspicious of anybody who is 99.99% mouth. Similar to the inroads Brexit made here. Interestingly Stamer's attitude to losing 1,500 council seats to Nige's army seems to be "if voters can't appreciate what great job I am doing, Its hardly my fault".And the Labour MPs around him are still chanting, " You are the anointed one, the only one who can save us Oh mighty leader". The SNPs obsession with an independence referendum they can't get and independence based on the support of only half the country (they have not moved the dual since 2014) is pretty depressing. Still, better than hero worshiping the slimy toad from Clacton.

Reform basically replaced Labour in the English council seats. A huge swing to the right from a fairly right leaning starting point. They got a serious foothold in Wales although Plaid Cymru came out on top. But they barely scratched the surface in Scotland gatting only the same as the Tories and the Greens and winning no constituency seats at all. This reflects the Brexit vote split fairly well IMO. Seems like the UK is still fragmenting with Scotland failing to follow Engerland to the right and remaining much more aligned with most of our European neighbours. Without some change somewhere, independence seems inevitable to me.

As pointed out, nobody was holding anybody to randsom over the Straits of Hormuz before Old Uncle Donald was persuaded by Netanyahu that, despite his degrading their uranium enrichment capacity, the Iranians were only weeks away from launching a first strike nuclear attack on the USA. The USA in the shape of Old Uncle Donald can claim whatever they like. The strategic facts remain unchanged. Nobody can control.passage through the straight without a military presence on the ground. Until the US army actually occupy Iranian real estate they cannot guarantee the safety of jack s**t.

Watching tthe game I could see how far of the pace of a game like that we would currently be. We have a lot of work to do if we are to become competitive in this league.

The public think the Israeli's should stop slaughtering weans in Gaza. Huge public protests against Natanyahu's genocide, including many Jewish people. Only Starmer seems to think its OK.

This with bells on. Rosco went down to Livi in the position we are in right now. Livi were not top league material and it showed. We need to show something more in the last 4 games, but confidence is not high.

Starmer is edging towards making it illegal to publicly complain about Netanyahu's genocide in order to protect people from antisemitism. Obviously his Israel lobby pay masters have been pulling his strings tightly. The man has no dignity or self respect.

I've been on a similar flight from Abu Dhabi back to the UK. We landed in in Riyadh on the way to pick up passengers.. It seemed the undercarriage was barely up and locked before the drinks trolly was out doing a roaring trade.

Yup.

I think "dumb" is a wee bit harsh considering women in Iran have been beaten to death for not keeping their hair covered. But changing "attitudes" works best for me. Many Muslim women don't feel the need to keep their head covered in public and many Muslim men don't have a problem with that. Lets give our 100% support to that group. Laws that can be portrayed as "anti-muslim" just push your nex door neighbour, who happens to be a muslim into supporting the nut jobs.

Yup.

I'm really not a fan of women dressed in bin bags in public, or people out their face on narcotic substances either, but I really don't think the law is the way forward here in either case.. And I think you will find my position is supported by the polis generally.

In my experience, It is always wise to ask yourself, conspiracy or cock up? After you have factored in the involvement of Trump appointees, the explanation is self evident.I Gagging for a photo op after a disaster is the Trump trademark.