Britain - The Official Thread

[UKMikey]

Definitely D.

Do you mean D for "Dominic"?

 

[MatskiMonk]

Definitely D

edit: Dang, tree'd by Mikey.

 

[UKMikey]

^Yeah, but you provided a pic @Mat.

 

[Touring Mars]

So, the Novichok spy drama is getting a new season? Mmm, gotta get some popcorn.

The German government are claiming that Alexei Navalny was poisoned with Novichok.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...d-with-novichok-says-german-government-russia

 

[Wiegert]

Alexei Navalny was poisoned with Novichok.

 

[DK]

It's disgraceful, really, to spread disinformation at a time like this.

 

[Novalee]

I wish on air media was like this lady, here in North America.

 

[UKMikey]

I wish on air media was like this lady, here in North America.

I'm not the biggest Kay Burley fan but I have to admit this was a clean shot from her and the Sky team. I bet you could fry an egg on Hancock's forehead during this interview.

Inb4 "cancel culture"

 

[TenEightyOne]

"He's admitted that he likes to stamp on babies and that he burns old people for fun".

"Yes, but he's an expert on trade".

EDIT: And, in a supreme example of nominative determanism, Hancock "bows to nobody" when it comes to gay sex. Interesting.

 

[UKMikey]

"He's admitted that he likes to stamp on babies and that he burns old people for fun".

"Yes, but he's an expert on trade".

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

I wish on air media was like this lady, here in North America.

Oh man, that is so good.

He's experienced in the area of trade. It doesn't change my views.

 

[Rage Racer]

The German government are claiming that Alexei Navalny was poisoned with Novichok.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...d-with-novichok-says-german-government-russia

And another time that super-lethal, super-secret Russian poison didn't kill the target.

 

[Tired Tyres]

And another time that super-lethal, super-secret Russian poison didn't kill the target.

What's the problem? Is your news so transparent that you feel fully informed with real information?

 

[Rage Racer]

What's the problem? Is your news so transparent that you feel fully informed with real information?

Not less informed than you are.

 

[TenEightyOne]

And another time that super-lethal, super-secret Russian poison didn't kill the target.

Who called it "super-lethal", given the number of people it had killed? Did you hear on Russian news that people were calling it that?

Who called it "super-secret", given the amount of press coverage of this particular poison in recent times? Did you hear on Russian news that people were calling it that?

 

[adamp93]

Major incident declared here in Birmingham overnight. I've been working in the city centre and there were more police cars/vans/helicopters than I've ever seen, it was like GTA. A couple of police officers came in for coffee and told us at least 5 people have been stabbed, one said it was "worrying".

There's been no official statement yet from the police so take everything you read on twitter with more than a pinch of salt.

 

[Rage Racer]

Who called it "super-lethal", given the number of people it had killed? Did you hear on Russian news that people were calling it that?

No, it was the British news where I read this:

'PLAYING DICE'
Novichok assassination bid ‘could have killed 4,000 Brits’
The substance inside the perfume bottle used by Russian spies could have caused "a significant loss of life"

Who called it "super-secret", given the amount of press coverage of this particular poison in recent times? Did you hear on Russian news that people were calling it that?

"Super-secret" in the meaning that ONLY Russia may have and use this poison and no one else (and no one could have reproduced it). That's how Theresa May's statement just after the Skripals incident made it sound like.

It is now clear that Mr Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent of a type developed by Russia. This is part of a group of nerve agents known as 'Novichok'. Based on the positive identification of this chemical agent by world-leading experts at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at Porton Down; our knowledge that Russia has previously produced this agent and would still be capable of doing so; Russia's record of conducting state-sponsored assassinations; and our assessment that Russia views some defectors as legitimate targets for assassinations; the Government has concluded that it is highly likely that Russia was responsible for the act against Sergei and Yulia Skripal...

But although Mrs. May used "highly likely" (these words - "хайли лайкли", pronounced similarly to the English origin, have entered the Russian vocabulary in the meaning of "another unsubstantiated accusation from the West") in her speech, Boris Johnson said it straight that Novichok is "Russian-only" in his interview to Deutsche Welle.

When DW’s Zhanna Nemtsova asked what evidence the British parliament has to support this judgment, Johnson replied: "The reason I said what I did was because if you look at the stuff that's been used, it is a Novichok agent according to our scientists. You also have to consider that Sergei Skripal, the guy that they attempted to assassinate, is somebody who has been identified as a target for a liquidation and that Vladimir Putin has himself said that traitors, i.e. defectors such as Mr. Skripal, should be poisoned. So it's a Russian-only nerve agent."

As you guys see, it's a mistake to think that I only have Russian news to read. It's 21st century, and I live in Russia, not North Korea. And some of you might be surprised, but even the Russian news aren't all the same.

Anyway, if Navalny really was poisoned by the "Newcomer" and if he recovers, then Novichok might be called the most useless poison ever invented. As for Navalny, whereas I dislike this person, I wish him to recover. He's a populist, a liar, a slanderer and just a disgusting person in my opinion. But he's not someone who deserves being killed. Besides, I'm sure that his death would cause a lot more trouble to the Kremlin than his activity.

 

[Novalee]

A MUM has been told to pay her daughter’s killer £40,000 after she took legal action to try to stop his release from jail.

Marie McCourt said Ian Simms, 64, should not have been considered for parole until he disclosed where Helen’s body was.

She argued that Simms, who was convicted of murder on DNA fingerprint evidence in 1989, should have remained in jail.

She took the case to the High Court which ruled the Parole Board had adopted a “balanced approach” on Simms.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12595170/mum-ordered-to-pay-daughters-killer-40000-pounds/


Hard not to have some sympathy for this mother.

 

[TenEightyOne]

A MUM has been told to pay her daughter’s killer £40,000 after she took legal action to try to stop his release from jail.

Hard not to have some sympathy for this mother.

She deserves lots of sympathy, but your Sun links are missing a couple of important things (no surprise).

Firstly: a man committed a crime and served a sentence upheld by the High Court, therefore he had received his justice. He was not in court in respect of that case but in respect of whether or not his freedom from imprisonment (albeit still on Life Licence) was apt. Anybody who is taken to court by somebody else is entitled to have their legal costs paid if they win, that's equally true for everybody before the law. And that's how it should be, we don't choose based on whether we like somebody or not. I'm certain that we collectively don't like the man but that doesn't mean he's not entitled to the same treatment under the law as anybody else.

More importantly... the mother doesn't actually have to pay a penny of her own money.

 

[TenEightyOne]

A great headline in the coming morning's i: Britannia Waives the Rules.

 

[UKMikey]

A great headline in the coming morning's i: Britannia Waives the Rules.

Not saying this is an old joke, but... I have a punk album from 1982 with the same title.

 

[Novalee]

I might have to tune into sky news, some rather robust interviews i must admit.

 

[mustafur]

It's weird how Sky News in UK is the exact opposite of Sky News in Australia.

 

[UKMikey]

I think it would be safer to say that Sky News in Australia is so far to the right it makes Sky News in the UK look like CNN in the US.

Perhaps its geographical proximity to the home of Emperor Palpatine is responsible for its greater Trump licking quotient.

 

[polysmut]

I believe the UK brand of Sky TV was sold a couple of years ago and is no longer Murdoch owned. I'd feel less uncomfortable about watching it now.

 

[UKMikey]

I believe the UK brand of Sky TV was sold a couple of years ago and is no longer Murdoch owned. I'd feel less uncomfortable about watching it now.

Thanks, I didn't realise that. Explains quite a bit.

 

[TheCracker]

Thanks, I didn't realise that. Explains quite a bit.

They were, at one point, all part of the News Corp group, but Comcast bought out the UK/Euro part of ie Sky Group. It's politically impartial now, on the whole.

 

[Stotty]

Uk now approaching Australian and NZL levels of destruction of civil liberties.

Boris will go down as the worst leader our country has ever had.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Boris will go down as the worst leader our country has ever had.

Ian Duncan Smith enters the chat, but nobody notices.

 

[UKMikey]

My Tory friends are all still convinced Gordon Brown selling the gold reserve was somehow worse.