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PaulCP

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  1. What’s the point of Starmer’s response, just calling Sunak & Hunt “the chuckle brothers of decline”? Can someone explain to me what he intends to achieve by just another round of petty schoolboy name calling rather than offering some sensible valid criticism whilst suggesting alternatives? This is exactly why I will not be voting at the next GE. I can’t in all honesty vote Tory because of the mess that they have created and there is no way I can vote for the bunch of Beano characters of Dennis the Menace and Minnie the Minx that Labour represent (showing my age here🙄). FFS Starmer & his cronies leading the country when all they know is name calling and how to act like deprived, uneducated schoolchildren. They act just as their Spitting Image puppets would, but this is Parliament we are talking about, not a satirical TV show! The political system in this country is completely broken.
  2. They are not politicians any more, just jumped up overgrown school kids carrying on their playground disagreements and name calling between their respective gangs. Quite frankly pathetic the lot of them!
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    Formula One

    Whilst I’m not a fan of Horner, in fact I can’t stand his smug little face, I do think that the system is at fault. Why can he be named in a case like this but not the person who is making the allegations? There is always a feeling in this country with these cases that someone is guilty until proven innocent with the media always in a rush to hang them before the facts emerge. For all we know the person making the allegations might just be a snow flake gold digger who sees an opportunity for a big pay out Exactly the same with Russel Brand. The media hung him out to dry without a shred of evidence which then resulted in a few other, possibly snow flake gold diggers, possibly not, jumping on to the bandwagon. The media should be silenced until the investigations have taken place.
  4. The hard woman Sturgeon demonstrating why she was kicked out of drama school, really crap at acting 😩, but excellent at lying!
  5. What are all of these severe weather warnings all about, so severe that they describe ‘immense snowfall in places of between 2cm-5cm. FFS that was considered a ‘light dusting of snow’ just a few years ago. Once again we have the media trying to make a mountain out of a molehill, they have become totally fixated on winter weather ever since one of them was silly enough to claim their was a ‘beast in the east’ a few years 4-5 years back. Can’t we just gag and ban all of the U.K. media, they serve very little purpose.
  6. The question needs to be put directly to Starmer, not the Labour Party, and on live TV 🙏🙏
  7. I too get your point Tony but after witnessing 3 police motorcyclists rocking up at the drive through Costa I was in this morning, taking off all their gear, sitting inside having a nice warm coffee and still being there chatting 40 minutes later when I left, I do wonder how real this shortage of resources is. 🤔🤔
  8. Junior doctors………….now approaching their 26th day of strikes (unless I heard I wrong). So poor that they can afford to throw away a month’s pay through strike action!
  9. I blame the media for running with the “story” at all
  10. Andy, if you are both half serious about this do it whilst you can. We had similar thoughts when we returned from Saudi 10 years ago, in fact we decided that this is what we would do whilst we were in Saudi. Then on returning put it off for what was going to be 3 years so that we could spend some time with family. Towards the end of the 3rd year the dream was over once my cancer was diagnosed. As the saying goes “you just don’t know what’s around the corner” - too true! Friends of ours who spent 5 years as ex pats in Hong Kong, returning just over a year ago, bought a Motorhome on their return and spend 3-4 months at a time travelling around Europe returning to the U.K. for a month then off again. Modern day “Gypsies” perhaps, but they are delivering on their dream (early) retirement.
  11. You’ll soon be making use of those rear Evora seats Uncle Bibs, congratulations 🍻
  12. Probably @LotusLeftLotusRight because these days: News reporters=Pointless Twats
  13. Andy, iirc the guy representing “bereaved families” is a lawyer hired by them. I’m not 100% sure because I refuse to listen to any of it. The whole real purpose and cost of the witch hunt just makes my blood boil. Why should anyone representing a very, very minor minority be in attendance at such an enquiry let alone allowed to ask questions. The media talk about elections in parts of Ukraine being a sham. The fact that they themselves are lapping this up and not calling it a sham once again proves how biased and possibly corrupt the media are in this country.
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    Sounds like comments from someone who is out of his depth, which he quite probably is.
  15. Both just much too full of their own importance, plus Khan ought to think about how knife crime has increased in London under him. An utter imbecile!
  16. PaulCP

    Formula One

    The one thing that I would love to happen, I hope and pray that one day in the none too distant future, Red Bull are found to have been cheating with some sort of gizmo on Verstappen’s car and they are subsequently disqualified from every race over the past 2 seasons. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 This would certainly go some way in explaining why Perez is no where near Verstappen in races with, so called, similar cars. Spiteful I know, but that’s how Verstappen’s attitude and demeanour sits with me!
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    Formula One

    Don’t forget @pete that F1 is run by the FIA, that’s the Farcical Idiots in Autosport
  18. That is very much my thinking about IT, although when I mention it to IT people I get told that it is only the case because others just received what they asked for, it’s just because they couldn’t specify what they wanted correctly. Me response usually begins with bull…. 🙄
  19. I would hazard a guess that the 90%+ of investments held by the private sector in final salary pension funds have yielded poor performances over the past 25 years. However, in the private sector part of the onus of correcting the deficit has been born by employees in either increased contributions or lower salary multiples, whilst public sector employees just sit on their golden laurels and try to underperform the investments in their pension schemes. You are 100% about holding councils and the public sector accountable for their decisions. Local council here built themselves sparky new offices and part of the financial justification was that their then current offices occupied a prime site for developers and the proceeds from the sale of them together with lower maintenance costs over whatever period made their decision a ‘no brainer.’ So, here we are, some 8 years later and the site has still not been sold and they are still having to spend money on security etc for it.🙄
  20. Let’s not forget the £m poured in to fund under performing final salary pension schemes every year and in one off top up's. This figure should be a mandatory declaration on the annual bluff that all councils provide to their CT payers. No wonder council workers never want to leave their jobs, although looking at how many of them currently perform I doubt that they would last long in the outside world.
  21. PaulCP

    Formula One

    Too much wear of the wooden plank on the floor of the car = disqualification Knowingly overspending budget rules = a slap on the wrist Thats why F1 is now just one big money grabbing joke!
  22. That’s the worst we’ve known it in 23 years here. Probably all down to the local planning dept allowing 20 homes to be built on what was a flood plain 2 years ago about 1 mile down river. Quite a few of the neighbours now planning to bombard the local council with a “we told you what would happen and we were right” approach. Luckily the water would have to have risen a further 4 feet before the house was threatened.
  23. I honestly believe that it is time that parents were held fully responsible for their precious siblings by prosecuting them for all crimes committed by their children up to 18 years of age It is the only way that may make many parents take responsibility for their children. I know that some parents don’t take any responsibility for themselves but it’s time they were dealt with like dog owners, who get fined and penalised for not keeping their dogs under control. We need MPs, the police force, magistrates and society in general to start to grow some balls. They are all co-responsible for the gradual fall in standards over the past decades.
  24. On the way out 6 days ago we decided to try to minimise risk by being as clinical as possible through the airport (at both ends) and decided to follow the Canadian guy’s theory when boarding and on the plane. We will do the same for the return journey. Yes @C8RKH you are correct, there will be many things missed along the way and yes @Rambo you are correct re type of mask etc. Since I appear on the ‘vulnerable’ list it would be crazy to act all macho and be totally ‘gung-ho’ about CV-19 but it is also crazy to regard oneself as a hermit and never travel anywhere etc. We know the risks so try to minimise as much as possible. Fortunately the 1 time I did catch CV-19 the NHS were very efficient and administered antivirals within 4-5 hours of me reporting that I had tested +ve. I never really felt ill afterwards but I don’t take for granted that it would be the same the next time so we still try to minimise the risk as much as it is practical to do so.
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