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  1. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/04/keir-starmer-government-labour-leader .....a clear summary of what can be expected from a Labour government led by Keir Starmer....
  2. Striker with an eye for goal pretty pricey. The budget restriction is an unknown but two decent midfielders with an eye for space, one of whom had a bit of pace would vastly improve both existing defence and forward line.
  3. Thanks for the alert but that's just gratuitous cruelty Shropshire and a bit previous.
  4. Ask nicely, or are the Americans to blame again. Were there many more there earlier?
  5. If issues such as health and education are dealt with in Scotland, why shouldn't English MPs in Westminster do the same. Goose, gander etc "If the gap narrows, EVEL will return on steroids". This is just nonsense Zorro. What does the prologue to your song above say? "First of all, frighten people". It's a tool that must be difficult to resist. The problem is the nature of folks, not politicians. Power corrupts, misinformation and manipulation becomes rife, regardless of political persuasion....Orwell knew the tune....
  6. This is just paranoid nonsense paraded as knowledge. EVEL could and would never have prevented a scot, welsh or n. irish person leading the country. EVEL was abolished in July 2021. Misinforming any population is of course an important aspect of political control, regardless of how good the supporting song is....
  7. I'll be surprised if he gets 100, but the best he can expect is some recovery in his reputation by voluntarily giving way...... "it only being right I step aside for the candidate with the majority support of our fellow members of Parliament". This will place him well if Starmer wins a landslide victory against, most likely, Sunak. It's only an opinion, but this is what I think Boris is playing for, longer term rehabilitation.
  8. Neither the media that matter - FT, Telegraph and Times so far - or those names that fund the Conservative party will accept Boris the Sphinx - he is too much of a financial and political risk. Moody's already downgraded the outlook for the UK economy to negative and bond market spreads have widened indicating the UK, not global, nature of the problems faced. Boris 2.0 isn't going to happen. I think Sunak is the only candidate markets will be sanguine about. If it looks likely to happen markets will bomb and the outlook for conservative party funding will run even drier - just for the moment his sponsors realise the game is up and the cow that is the UK economy must be left alive to milk at a future date. Sometimes for the wrong reasons vested interests behave the right way. That doesn't mean those vested interests ever deserve to be trusted.
  9. The Tartar Steppe.....hauntingly beautiful and surreal, heartbreaking without a love story, horrifying without a maniac or monster; or perhaps sunlight on rock is both the former and latter in its soporific effect on executive function. Nothing and everything to do with the story but after nearly 50 years I have stopped smoking. Something in the rhythm and words more insidious even than nicotine nudged my mind into a different appreciation of time and choice (...with no mention of mindfulness!). If I need a little help from time to time, I imagine the sun hitting the nicotine stained walls of Fort Bastiani and remind myself of the story's ending. Thanks for the recommendation, one of the most powerful books I've read. Editor's Note: Still as grumpy as f*ck?
  10. I reread it then posted it away. Was out for a wander last week I came across a hunters pulpit as mentioned in the text. The Jaeger here, eastern Germany, pay children or old folk 10€ for a 20kg bag of acorns or chestnuts, then sit in a pulpit downwind but no great distance away waiting to cull as the animals feed. Five to 15 head of wild boar or deer can be taken at a time....unlike in Scotland where, if that's your thing, three days on the hill can yield nothing with some pride. I suppose massive culls are necessary but the slaughter seems a distance from sport. Somehow this brought life to the story....
  11. The FT's staff writers have been pretty consistently anti-brexit since 2015, when as they point out, the Tories, Labour, TU's supported remaining in the EU; only UKIP supported leaving. This is one of the first attempts I've seen to pick out the economic effects of Brexit from the pandemic and energy crisis. One unambiguous conclusion is that while Trussonomics may have caused an economic puncture, the ball has been deflating since the brexit majority vote in 2016. I do wonder at the FTs timing in choosing to be quite so forthright. ....and listening to those presenting and being interviewed I do not believe the grave concerns I have for an independent Scotland which decouples from, its by far largest market, rUK, are the result of my political preference that the UK remain intact.
  12. ....I fear you will fill the country's auto-correctional facilities to overflowing when you gain power Zorro.... For my favourite Auntie, Fanny, from Formby....
  13. Chill, Beaker(7). Come the Starmer revolution it will all be OK. Perhaps world events are making us all a bit edgy?
  14. I didn't see a penalty in that. Yo, great goal!
  15. ....woodsplitting and the kitchen floor cannot be nearly as important as fully understanding this term. A quick Google seems to show Robber Barons is still relatively widely used in the US, as is Raubritter in Germany. I wonder why such a wonderfully descriptive term seems to have fallen out of use in the UK?
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