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AndrewJB

Have you never heard of retrospective planning permission? It’s not uncommon. Fifty thousand quid handed to him by the denizens of Durham County. Not bad if you can swing it. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42098645 Meanwhile, ordinary working people face prison (and this article is from before the p...

AndrewJB

Cummings and his family built two properties without planning permission, and are no being let off the £50k council tax bill. Would that happen to anyone else in this country?

AndrewJB

No gov in the UK has set aside money for a sovereign wealth fund though. What measures did previous governments put in place to help communities? The unions weren't interested in negotiating with the gov, Scargill saw to that one, so are you saying you would've preferred the gov to just let the Uni...

AndrewJB

Probably cost far less than Iraq though...... Norway population is less than 6 million.... Not hard to have a slush fund when you take that into consideration. So you'd rather Thatcher carry on letting the unions cripple the country like they had in the 70's? What a stupid mindset to have, honestly...

AndrewJB

What do the Falklands cost us etc? Well for starters it's got massive oil fields incase that one had slipped your attention, even the Guardian has reported it though. What did the government save by cutting defences, compared to what the government spent to liberate them and continue to defend than...

AndrewJB

Labour always campaign on giving stuff away, that's their core promises :lol: Student loans paid off, Internet for all etc. Nothing is given away. It’s just cheaper for most people to pay for services via their taxes than pay at point if use. The Tories give their supporters lower taxes because the...

AndrewJB

Rowls wrote: ↑
Tue Oct 13, 2020 2:50 am
Nice try AndrewJB.

The article you've linked says nothing that backs up your argument.

Nothing whatsoever.

Okay. I’m open to debate. What do you have to say?

AndrewJB

Deficit is the key part you're completely ignoring. The Tories reduced the deficit, they couldn't do anything with debts until that was reduced. Oh and the fact that the EU wanted Austerity measures put in place across the EU. The fact the Tories promised to get rid of the deficit by 2015 and faile...

AndrewJB

I don’t think Thatcher set out to start it. I think the incompetence of her government in denuding the defence of the islands gave the Argentinians the opportunity to capture them. The Falkland Islands were woefully defended, and as a result of government cuts, which went toward tax breaks for the ...

AndrewJB

The unions had been shutting down the country before 1979, why are you ignoring the UK pre-Maggie? Like I said, take into consideration the damage done to the UK economy by 3 day working weeks, rolling power cuts due to the oil crisis in the early 70's, unions going on strike being supported by oth...

AndrewJB

Where exactly did I say Blair closed more than Maggie? I didn't, Labour govs prior to Maggie closed more mines than she did but oddly people seem to ignore that fact and I think it's because they only focus on the battles between police and miners. Labour didn't do much to manage its decline either...

AndrewJB

Labour closed more mines than Maggie ever did, but that is never really discussed... We seem to both agree that Labour under Blair carried on the stitch up of the North yet people seemingly still vote for Labour cos of what Maggie did :roll: As for the North, it became reliant on EU handouts, meani...

AndrewJB

Maybe, just maybe, consider the damage done to the countries economy in the 70's by the militant unions. Militant unions? Why didn’t you reply to my other post that dealt with that subject? The post in which I pointed out that she wrecked the economy and lives of many people and places by killing t...

AndrewJB

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/apr/14/margaret-thatcher-loved-hated-economic Well balanced article here, showing that the North was neglected by both Maggie and Blair, but issues were there prior to Maggie taking charge. What Thatcher did in the north was ideological. A wise and good gov...

AndrewJB

You're really bored tonight aren't you? The Argies were ill-equipped and ill prepared to firstly invade Argentina and secondly defend it from the British army retaking it. I think the Argie armed forces were only given a few hours notice to prepare. Our armed forces were better trained, equipped an...

AndrewJB

I’m sure it wasn’t very long ago the U.K. was in the top ten of lists like this:

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countr ... perception

AndrewJB

Thatcher’s government weakened the Falklands enough to embolden the Argentine government to attack. I don’t think she did this purposely, as taking the islands back was by no means a guarantied thing, but it remains her failure. Turning the police on the miners showed a willingness to employ violenc...

AndrewJB

Just sums up modern day politicians and advisors of all parties. Got to admire their openness for taking people for fools whether it’s Covid, awarding your mates new company multi million pound contracts or bunging your pals constituencies a huge grant etc etc. This is it. The number of people who ...

AndrewJB

It’s just the franchisation of football. As soon as Liverpool or Man Utd won fans outside of the country, they ceased to belong solely to the places they were founded in. Contrast that approach with the thoughts of Arsène Wenger: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/oct/11/arsene-wenger-arsenal...

AndrewJB

I usually do this in January. October has Canadian Thanksgiving, my birthday, and Halloween, so I’d have to be very dedicated.

AndrewJB

It's possible that SARS-COV2 could cease to be a pandemic in the next two or three months and almost certainly by the spring. Reasons why I am thinking this: The UK lags Spain by around 6-8 weeks. The the daily case rate in Spain began to rise in early July peaked at 10,909 (7 day average) on 18th ...

AndrewJB

Hey, your side fixated on their claim that CA did something to skew the result of the referendum, that drum was battered for a good while in an effort to get the result turned over. Finding no evidence isn't the same thing as completely exonerating them - especially as the investigation took place ...

AndrewJB

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/07/the-great-british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democracy This is Cadwalladr’s article on the subject. The raid on Cambridge Analytica took place a year later. If I accused you of data mining Facebook, and running algorithms on servers at your house to be...

AndrewJB

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/oct/06/government-likely-to-miss-2025-target-for-fibre-broadband-in-every-home Nationalising most of the internet infrastructure would have got around these issues, which mostly boil down to how much of the government’s £5 Billion investment the companies ...

AndrewJB

The Proud Boys have been pro gay from the start, and their leader is a Afro Cuban. Yet the pink pussy hats and x wing commanders think they are white supremacists. :P https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/proud-boys They say they’re not white supremacists but “western chauvi...

AndrewJB

In case anyone wondered what the government’s next steps are in all of this:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/ ... c-22790194

AndrewJB

https://zelo-street.blogspot.com/2020/1 ... n.html?m=1
Not looking good for Fox.

AndrewJB

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/04/us/p ... index.html
This is good.

AndrewJB

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/ ... irman-role

One out of the running.

AndrewJB

It shows what a fragile thing Burnley FC is if a disagreement between the chairman and manager can affect results on the field. The relationship can’t always have been bad, so they should resolve whatever it is - seek arbitration or counselling if need be. The current situation isn’t working.

AndrewJB

To be fair, we are slap bang in the middle of a pandemic I don't think anybody at the helm would be considered to be doing a good job in the circumstances, I'm surprised it's low at 57% which means 43% think he's doing ok, it's extradionary with brexit & Covid for the backing to be so high, when th...

AndrewJB

I'm pretty sure you have put up similar arguments in the past which, when it came down to what really matters, proved impotent. What argument? You pointed out the fact he won the election, and I’m pointing out the fact that nearly two thirds of people now think he’s doing a bad job. Personally I th...

AndrewJB

Elizabeth wrote: ↑
Sat Oct 03, 2020 10:14 pm
Andrew , you have been on the end of some big defeats in the last year so I forgive you your exasperation

Fifty-seven percent of people think he’s doing a bad job. So it’s silly to say the country is behind him.

AndrewJB

Elizabeth wrote: ↑
Sat Oct 03, 2020 7:33 pm
The nation is still behind Boris whatever insults people feel they need to throw at him

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/tr ... val-rating

Not since early summer, according to this poll. He appears to have spaffed any goodwill people had for him up the wall.

AndrewJB

Doesn't really affect us so there's nothing wishful about it, I don't really care. But it is a little tricky to work out whether Trump's actions have helped the poor - his tax cuts in 2017 have a consensus that it has affected everyone, the poor are paying less tax but the rich and companies are pa...

AndrewJB

Dear me cheap shot that was Andrew. How do I know it? Like most people know it by observing whats going on around me. And its one reason why the last election result was a landslide victory for the Tories. The general public at large is not Woke and does not like it. You are are in a minority. Tony...

AndrewJB

Stayingup wrote: ↑
Fri Oct 02, 2020 4:42 pm
In every quango, the BBC, NHS, National Trust, Police, etc are examples
Time for a massive clear out of these easily offended poor souls.. Its going to happen

Did you read that in the Daily Mail? The whole country is crawling with Bolsheviks, and only a massive cancellation will do.

AndrewJB

We on the right have had to put up with the equivalent for years. Suck it up lefties. I think you'll be waiting a lot longer, because I don't think Dacre, Moore, and Brewer are going to be getting jobs at the BBC. At least you have Talk Radio, whatever the Murdoch radio offering is now, and lots of...

AndrewJB

Darthlaw wrote: ↑
Fri Oct 02, 2020 9:02 am
I'm struggling with the comparison to Hitler to be honest.

You'll have to let me know where Trump has stashed his extermination camps.

Trump is very similar to early 1930s Hitler.

AndrewJB

Stayingup wrote: ↑
Thu Oct 01, 2020 9:29 pm
Highly doubt? Strongly words.

There have been a few contentious appointments suggested recently, and I think this is just another.

AndrewJB

Jakub BTW, any PM handling this Covid crisis would be responsible for erroneous decisions leading to avoidable deaths you directly blame boris johnson for this, you seem wedded to the view that nobody else in BJs position would have made them same mistakes, boris johnson himself was struck down wit...

AndrewJB

Examples ? I’d be interested to know who you are comparing to a child torturer and killer ? On another thread Jacob has said that although our part time PM has made some terrible mistakes - which we all know have led to tens of thousands of needless deaths - he invokes the idea that to err is human...

AndrewJB

If you don’t have any idea why are you exploring that possibility, the benefit of the doubt seems to sway towards the assumption that that’s possible even though over £5 million pound as been spent & the other murderer as gone on a downwards spiral it’s reasonable to assume the other as gone the sa...

AndrewJB

Bordeauxclaret wrote: ↑
Thu Oct 01, 2020 5:52 pm
I see that “Leave.EU have had to apologise for calling Naz Shah a “grooming gang apologist”.

Hasn’t a poster on here been banging on about this repeatedly?

Who would do a thing like that?

AndrewJB

Clarets4me wrote: ↑
Thu Oct 01, 2020 6:09 pm
to take over Woman's Hour, after talks with Emma Barnett have broken down over salary and her work-life balance requirements, according to a BBC source ...

I highly doubt that.

AndrewJB

https://www.csis.org/analysis/escalating-terrorism-problem-united-states As you can see from this report, even after grouping together various groups from anarchists to environmentalists, to indigenous rights campaigners under the banner of “the left” the right are still overwhelmingly offer the thr...

AndrewJB

https://ig.ft.com/us-election-2020/ Looks as though Trump will have to win some people over rather than catering to his base. Here’s an article on Andy Ngo who was quoted above: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/andy-ngo-right-wing-troll-antifa-877914/ As it’s been pointed out he...

AndrewJB

America Appeals systems It doesn’t have to be. For example if I was given a licence by the government I would do it for petrol expenses. They pay the clean up costs, undertaker costs and associated paperwork. I would provide my own equipment to rid the nation of the evil sc*mbag. If you read the bo...

AndrewJB

The most heinous crime. How it’s ever possible that a perpetrator of such an act, even a child, can walk free afterwards is beyond me. We have gone very soft on crime in this country and sadly no sign of that changing (albeit this seems the right decision for a change - as his Dad says: the first o...

AndrewJB

How many children were murdered in the last 27 years? We shouldn’t obsess over one. And we definitely shouldn’t obsess over the murderers rather than the people left behind.

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