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Fair enough I guess. If you guys are satisfied that there's nothing in it then I'll bow to the wisdom of the crowd.

Fist hurt his feelings. That actually does seem to be why.

Brum fans are none the wider about Rowett's sacking than we are. They seem stunned actually and are complaining quite a bit about foreign ownership..

Yeah let's be honest here that's a lot closer to 'yes I'd consider it' than we'd probably all like it to be. A lot of that could come from the fact that he doesn't want to burn any bridges of course, but I'm a little surprised to read that.

Happy birthday mate

Thanks that's an interesting analysis - I agree on your view concerning her regime change narrative, I can't think why anyone in the media would be overly concerned with such a thing.

@Dr Gloom I'm not posting this to bait you or anything but I'd appreciate your view on her arguments. Its only 5 mins long. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IIrzJcEWAU

I mean, honestly, if you can't trust the contract related content then the whole thing is a write off. Poor fact checking will be endemic through the whole show. I bet Trequartista isn't even a real position.

:lol: This thread is brilliant.

Good fucking effort on the avatar Tom

Delivery straight to HMHM Towers, right? I use the Morrisons in Byker ffs Nowt wrong with it.

I took that into consideration too. EDIT - we've rather fucked this thread mind, derailed on the 4th post

Gloom has made a number of good points about my views on the MSM and I'm taking some of it into consideration presently - I do respect his view on it and am educating myself further. I only made that comment because Alex basically asked me to

The article mentions that the MSM are being pretty quiet about this issue though, which I find a bit odd - not in any nefarious way or anything, just in the sense that you'd think this would be all over the front pages. 4000 executions..? Is that not a big deal these days?

I know - I thought about writing something facetious but then considered that the scenario was actually quite possible

Possible I guess. No idea what the MSM looks like in the Philippines but doubtless they have their tabloids calling for blood over this issue, which will be entrenching his support. Good point.

Yeah he sounds dangerously unstable. How are these people coming to power all of a sudden ffs...

How fucking long would it take to get that together. Impressive.

Oh god... can you imagine

I can't stand the guy but fucking good speech from Osborne. Totally counter to my line of thought but he's made a good case: George Osborne, the former chancellor, is speaking now, from the backbenches. (Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, is responding for the government, but in a debate like this he does not have to speak at the start.) Osborne says the concept of an emergency debate suggests this has taken the Commons by surprise. But the Syrian civil war has been going on since 2011. He says MPs are “deceiving” themselves if they think they have no responsibility for what happened. What is happening came out of a vacuum - a vacuum of Western leadership. He says he takes responsibility as a former leader. And parliament must take responsibility too. He says in 2012 and 2013 there was no majority in the Commons for providing the opposition with lethal arms. And in 2013 the Commons voted against military action, even though Assad had broken a 100-year taboo and used chemical weapons. Labour’s Graham Jones asks if Osborne thinks a war in 2013 would have been winnable. Osborne says a red line had been crossed. And the vote in the Commons had an impact. It encouraged Washington to have cold feet. He says he last spoke from the backbenches in 2003, in favour of the war in Iraq. His generation of politicians knows the price of intervention. Now it has become almost impossible to intervene anywhere. But now the opposite problem has arisen. "We are beginning to learn the price of not intervening." Islamic State has emerged. And Russia has emerged as the dominant player in the region, for the first time since the 1970s, he says. "Let us be clear now. If you don’t shape the world, you will be shaped by it."

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