Britain - The Official Thread

[MatskiMonk]

We will rebuild...

 

[Sprite]

Thankfully not too much damage in the village. On our dog walk last night, we did notice a chimney pot was virtually holding on to its last, and the road was covered in bricks and mortar.

This one…

We knocked and notified the old lady who lives there and she said she rents so will have to call the landlord. She didn’t seem to know what to do. Thankfully I spoke with my mum who works in a local shop and she knows the owner of one of the neighbouring properties who may know the landlord and also contact them.

What annoyed me was none of her close neighbours didn’t let her know.

 

[UKMikey]

No pictures for me but as a friend and I were driving my mum to the dentist a large tree fell down and blocked the road just a few seconds ahead of where our car was so we were just inches from disaster.

 

[Liquid]

Angry Scottish mucky supermop and COVID/vaccine denier Neil Oliver is now also a wind-denier. What a surprise.

Has he ever heard of Rotherham canal?

 

[Famine]

Has he ever heard of Rotherham canal?

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This isn't even that rare - Rotherham Central is right next to the River Don, and literally built in a disused canal. It used to flood on a semi-annual basis, though I think this is the first since the recentish redevelopment.

 

[Liquid]

This isn't even that rare - Rotherham Central is right next to the River Don, and literally built in a disused canal. It used to flood on a semi-annual basis, though I think this is the first since the recentish redevelopment.

I just liked the picture. The evidence elsewhere speaks for itself.

A lot of areas that had it slashed could have really done with that flood defence money about now. I hope everyone on the islands stays safe.

 

[Famine]

I just liked the picture. The evidence elsewhere speaks for itself.

A lot of areas that had it slashed could have really done with that flood defence money about now. I hope everyone on the islands stays safe.

It's a very rare picture of adverse weather affecting the North, for sure...

 

[TheCracker]

This isn't even that rare - Rotherham Central is right next to the River Don, and literally built in a disused canal. It used to flood on a semi-annual basis, though I think this is the first since the recentish redevelopment.

Ever since the floods of 2007 and the subsequent flood defences that were built in Sheffield, the Don and its tributaries have largely not burst their banks. Unfortunately for those downstream, in Rotherham and Doncaster, the flooding has been getting worse...

 

[Scaff]

So while most of todays papers focus front pages on the invasion of Ukraine, the Daily Mail says that British spies can't focus on it because they are too woke. The world's most idiotic rag does it again.

 

[MatskiMonk]

The world's most idiotic rag does it again

Founded by a Fascist.

Anyhow...

I'm not sure what sanctions the UK are going to bring against Russia next, but the lack of transparency (i.e. the government withholding the report into Russian influence in UK democracy) should have us asking significant questions about how seriously we will act as a nation.

 

[TheCracker]

I'm not sure what sanctions the UK are going to bring against Russia next, but the lack of transparency (i.e. the government withholding the report into Russian influence in UK democracy) should have us asking significant questions about how seriously we will act as a nation.

I'm guessing nothing too major...

 

[MatskiMonk]

I'm guessing nothing too major...

Yeah, Boris can flap his lips about supporting Ukraine, but we really need to see action - a lack of such just makes the allegations about Russian influence seem more concrete.

 

[UKMikey]

 

[MatskiMonk]

 

[UKMikey]

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Wait until he promotes Natasha Asghar to deputy leader. Boris and Natasha.

 

[swinny]

Person in charge of Brexit negotiations doesn't know what she's on about...?

For someone who lives in UK your very negative in every post,may I ask your nationality.

 

[MatskiMonk]

For someone who lives in UK your very negative in every post,may I ask your nationality.

British English, born in Yorkshire in the late '70's, currently living in a super-safe Tory seat.

I'd be far more negative if it weren't for the AUP

 

[andrea]

Can't think of anything that could more clearly define what this country is.

 

[MatskiMonk]

Can't think of anything that could more clearly define what this country is.

Boris's Russian Oligarch mates having an unelected and democratically unremovable seat in the House of Lords goes quite a long way to defining it too.

 

[anslo_garrick]

Cheers,

 

[Famine]

Thursday: P&O unilaterally terminates the contracts of 800 staff, potentially unlawfully.
Friday: Kwasi Kwarteng MP (Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) and Paul Scully MP (under-Secretary of all that again), and Grant Schapps (Secretary of State for Transport) write a letter to express their anger and disappointment...

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... to Robert Woods, who resigned as CEO of P&O in December 2021.

They have since deleted the Tweet and replaced it with one addressed to the right "human", Peter Hebblethwaite.

 

[Biggles]

Boris Johnson points out the British, like Ukrainians, have courageously stood up for their freedoms. In a speech he said Britons, like Ukrainians, had the instinct "to choose freedom" and cited the 2016 vote to leave the EU as a "recent example".

Ukraine war: Boris Johnson sparks fury after comparison to Brexit

But chancellor Rishi Sunak says it was "general observations about freedom", not a direct comparison.

www.bbc.com

Lord Barwell, who served as Theresa May's chief of staff in No 10, said: "Apart from the bit where voting in a free and fair referendum isn't in any way comparable with risking your life to defend your country against invasion, and the awkward fact the Ukrainians are fighting for the freedom to join the EU, this comparison is bang on."

 

[Liquid]

Johnson is an unflushable nugget of 🤬 and his rhetoric on this issue cements this position.

 

[Touring Mars]

What a truly repugnant thing to say.

Boris Johnson is an utter embarrassment, leading a party of utter embarrassments. The sooner they are out of the power, the better.

 

[Dreadmed]

John Crace of the Guardian summed it up quite well a couple of weeks back; The Ukrainians elected a comedian and found themselves a leader, we did the same (in a manner of speaking) but instead we got a clown.

 

[HenrySwanson]

The royal visit to Jamaica as part of their Caribbean tour isn't going down well in some quarters:

William and Kate’s royal visit to the Caribbean is tone deaf | Nadine White

Just as it’s impossible to divorce Bob Marley and reggae from themes of Black oppression, it’s impossible to divorce William, Kate and the royal institution from themes of Black oppression

www.independent.co.uk

 

[HenrySwanson]

PM facing calls for resignation as police confirm 20 fines in Partygate scandal

Downing Street refuses to accept that police fines prove PM misled Commons over parties during lockdown

www.independent.co.uk

He's so going to get away with it

 

[Touring Mars]

PM facing calls for resignation as police confirm 20 fines in Partygate scandal

Downing Street refuses to accept that police fines prove PM misled Commons over parties during lockdown

www.independent.co.uk

He's so going to get away with it

Everything's going to be fine.

 

[PeterJB]

These "fines" are only gonna be like £200 anyway, with no criminal record affixed to them. Must be very reassuring for the student fined £10,000 for hosting a part of their own...

 

[MatskiMonk]

He's so going to get away with it

Then it'll be important to remind people before in the run up to the next election.