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There. Resident WHO political commentators and gurus can knock yourselves out in here and conduct your endless bickering. All other threads will be locked.
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James Cartilige skewers Lammy in PMQs earlier cleverly using up all his 5 repeated questions on the same issue regarding releasing another sex case on the loose early just days since the last time it happened under Lammys watch...





Lammy clearly flustered and loses it and it's a joy to watch. Silly British hating cսnt didn't even bother to wear a Poppy at PMQs only for a back bencher to later pass him one to wear midway through, on the wrong lapel upside down. Absolutely rattled today.🤡 
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THUNDERCLINT wrote: 05 Nov 2025, 11:58
XKhammer wrote: 05 Nov 2025, 11:23
THUNDERCLINT wrote: 05 Nov 2025, 11:15
You read my mind.
How is it possible to read an empty space?
Nice day for youa bike ride to Hertfordshire, goose is waiting for a pm. Notice you've steered well clear of those posts...
Nice change of subject moron,but to answer your enquiry l will definitely be making a trip to Broxbourne and probably cycle there nice bit of exercise only 20 miles each way...oh and yes very unlikely in winter because the wind and rain much more frightening than the gutless Eyetie shitbag
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If true that’s a startling statistic.

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XKhammer wrote: 05 Nov 2025, 11:23
THUNDERCLINT wrote: 05 Nov 2025, 11:15
Nurse Ratched" wrote: 05 Nov 2025, 10:56
Arf! Good time to have shares in Butterkist.
You read my mind.
How is it possible to read an empty space?
Nice day for youa bike ride to Hertfordshire, goose is waiting for a pm. Notice you've steered well clear of those posts...
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Never mind Ed Koch more like Fiorello La Guardia.
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Curtis sliwa wasn't he a vigilante gang member in the 80's
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Poor old Ed koch must be turning in his grave.
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THUNDERCLINT wrote: 05 Nov 2025, 11:15
Nurse Ratched" wrote: 05 Nov 2025, 10:56
only1billybonds wrote: 05 Nov 2025, 06:01 New York have a new Mayor. They have voted in a communist Muslim who is quite clearly mad. His proposals include a rent freeze, free bus travel, defending the police and rationalising grocery shops. He also wants to tax the rich (who will flee) to extremes in order to fund his ideas. This will be a disaster for the City but great news for the rest of us as it will show once again that socialism/Communism/leftism never works.
Arf! Good time to have shares in Butterkist.
You read my mind.
How is it possible to read an empty space?
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Nurse Ratched" wrote: 05 Nov 2025, 10:56
only1billybonds wrote: 05 Nov 2025, 06:01 New York have a new Mayor. They have voted in a communist Muslim who is quite clearly mad. His proposals include a rent freeze, free bus travel, defending the police and rationalising grocery shops. He also wants to tax the rich (who will flee) to extremes in order to fund his ideas. This will be a disaster for the City but great news for the rest of us as it will show once again that socialism/Communism/leftism never works.
Arf! Good time to have shares in Butterkist.
You read my mind.
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Mike Oxsaw" wrote: 05 Nov 2025, 07:50 Let's see the digital ID card stop shit like this:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mx99ple17o

Coming to a Mini-mart near YOU.

It won't stop the boats and it won't stop the illegals finding ways to work.

The time has come to draw the line and seriously implement a two-pronged attack on the clear cause of the problem:
  1. No immigration of any sort for 12 - 18 months. Just wait in the queue like everybody else.
  2. Get rid of any illegals the instant they're identified. Cut off all communication channels for them until they're out of the country.
The only exceptions to this are state fuck-ups where the authorities have, in a weapons-grade strop, deliberately dragged their heels over situations arising directly from things like Brexit & Windrush which they should be forced to correct with nobody deported for such reasons (unless they're criminals/wrong'uns).
How comes it takes the BBC and not the home office or police not to know about this?
As for digital ID would probably have solve this if set up properly 
The digital ID has got to be better than this present total fuck up
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only1billybonds wrote: 05 Nov 2025, 06:01 New York have a new Mayor. They have voted in a communist Muslim who is quite clearly mad. His proposals include a rent freeze, free bus travel, defending the police and rationalising grocery shops. He also wants to tax the rich (who will flee) to extremes in order to fund his ideas. This will be a disaster for the City but great news for the rest of us as it will show once again that socialism/Communism/leftism never works.
Arf! Good time to have shares in Butterkist.
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Apologies all, my post should have read defunding the police an nationalising grocery shops.
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Lee Trundle" wrote: 05 Nov 2025, 08:06 I feel a bit for those New Yorkers who didn't vote for him, knowing how it'll pan out.

They'll likely be an exodus now, similar to the one in California.
Yep.

Bet the silly myopic bugger & his acolytes think Wall Street and it's institutions will always be there to pick up the tab.
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I feel a bit for those New Yorkers who didn't vote for him, knowing how it'll pan out.

They'll likely be an exodus now, similar to the one in California.
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only1billybonds wrote: 05 Nov 2025, 06:01 New York have a new Mayor. They have voted in a communist Muslim who is quite clearly mad. His proposals include a rent freeze, free bus travel, defending the police and rationalising grocery shops. He also wants to tax the rich (who will flee) to extremes in order to fund his ideas. This will be a disaster for the City but great news for the rest of us as it will show once again that socialism/Communism/leftism never works.
 
 
NYC is reliant upon selling debt to function, it’s one of the most indebted cities in the US. About 10% of it’s budget is servicing the debt.
What do you suppose will happen when he starts giving away free shit the city cannot afford?

the rent freeze will eventually mean landlords cannot afford to maintain the property so the quality will go down. Eventually they’ll sell and the availability of rental property will decrease.

I like the idea of free buses, but they’ll end up as mobile homeless shelters.
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Let's see the digital ID card stop shit like this:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mx99ple17o

Coming to a Mini-mart near YOU.

It won't stop the boats and it won't stop the illegals finding ways to work.

The time has come to draw the line and seriously implement a two-pronged attack on the clear cause of the problem:
  1. No immigration of any sort for 12 - 18 months. Just wait in the queue like everybody else.
  2. Get rid of any illegals the instant they're identified. Cut off all communication channels for them until they're out of the country.
The only exceptions to this are state fuck-ups where the authorities have, in a weapons-grade strop, deliberately dragged their heels over situations arising directly from things like Brexit & Windrush which they should be forced to correct with nobody deported for such reasons (unless they're criminals/wrong'uns).
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Faux, angry middle aged men?

You need to add women to that sentence.

And it’s in our lifetimes that the country has been allowed, encouraged even, to go to pot, hence that anger. Particularly as legitimate concerns expressed for years have been shouted down and ignored, and now when the situation is untenable those same concerns are all of a sudden legitimate things that need tackling according to our political classes. The same political classes that shut down those concerns for the best part of three decades.

If it was apathetic middle aged men and women, then that really would be time to turn the lights off.
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Billy, nope the BBC can’t help themselves you’re right.

They’re like a particularly ‘Right on’ HR department running a public funded broadcasting company. If anyone wanted to look at the crux of what the fucking hell has gone wrong in the last 30 years, then the BBC would be a great starting point. 
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7v80n7mz2jo

this is what Rachel from account’s doesn’t seem to understand.
its the people not working (and getting a 4% rise in benefits) that need to be targeted. You can’t just keep taxing working people.

i wonder how many more people will leave the U.K. because of this?

The government is a PR disaster at the moment.
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New York have a new Mayor. They have voted in a communist Muslim who is quite clearly mad. His proposals include a rent freeze, free bus travel, defending the police and rationalising grocery shops. He also wants to tax the rich (who will flee) to extremes in order to fund his ideas. This will be a disaster for the City but great news for the rest of us as it will show once again that socialism/Communism/leftism never works.
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Fauxstralian wrote: 04 Nov 2025, 17:45 Caught between the flag shaggers & those who say you can’t say Christmas without being arrested
Ironic
Angry middle aged men overload 
Er, no. KCC have asked that flags not be flown from lamp-posts that will also be carrying Christmas lights. They have said that whilst flags and lights can't go on the same poles due to H&S bollocks, there is no question of forcibly removing the flags.

So that's another thing you've made up today.
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Come On You Irons" wrote: 04 Nov 2025, 20:34 I'm interested to know why the plastic Aussie, champagne communist Sven refers to Reform and right wing citizens as "gammons".

To me gammon is a racist slur given it's a pejorative term expressly targeted as white citizens with a right wing political persuasion.

Care to apologise for your racist slur, Sven?

Care to censor that poster for his use of a racist slur, Mods?
I'm more than happy that the only response people who have differing views to mine is (attempted) personal insults, proving that they have no better solution to offer.

The solution though, needs to be fit for purpose, matching what I want now - today - not what someone thinks I should want now or what I wanted 5/25/50 years ago.

On the politics front, the only party talking along those lines is Reform; they're not perfect but have only had a few years to seek that perfection, unlike the existing political parties, who have had decades, or even centuries, to work out what it is the people (voters) really want.
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The BBC just can't stop themselves can they.
Been caught red handed deliberately 'doctoring' footage of Trump to make it look like he as ordering his followers to march and create mayhem at the Capitol. 
Refund the shitshow, shouldn't have to be forced to pay for such a stinking corrupt organisation.
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