thebrokendoll 9151 Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 I'd be hoping for a rare but very satisfying double knockout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonatine 11329 Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 https://borisjohnsonsocialcareplan.com/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 17154 Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 You’d like to think that Johnson’s 80 seat majority would crumble when they try to get this through Parliament....you’d like to think that this would really fuck with their conscience... I wouldn’t bank on it though... we’re definitely not in fuckin Kansas any more... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/24/wholl-defend-our-right-to-a-free-press-not-the-ex-hack-in-no-10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinRobin 11193 Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 On 23/07/2021 at 15:13, ewerk said: An antiquated rule from a time where MPs were expected to be reasonably honest and have the honour to come to the house and apologise when they'd mislead it. Unfortunately those rules didn't allow for this particular shower of cunts. To be fair, it has not been a part of politics anywhere for a very long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGingerQuiff 2412 Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 BBC News - Thatcher helped climate by closing coal mines, says Boris Johnson https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58107009 What a visionary 😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isegrim 9741 Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJS 4375 Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 I hope him laughing at them tickles the consciences of the cunts in Blyth and Consett who voted for him but I doubt it will. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 34952 Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 1 hour ago, NJS said: I hope him laughing at them tickles the consciences of the cunts in Blyth and Consett who voted for him but I doubt it will. They’ll be blaming Labour and/or The EU 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 30394 Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 They will literally do anything for cash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGingerQuiff 2412 Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 The magic trick was making all that money disappear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Carr's Gloves 3860 Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 20 years, 241,000 deaths and £20.3 billion pounds later and Afghanistan is back where it was. What a fucking waste. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 21438 Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 Aye, fucking ridiculous by Biden, massive strategic mistake and a completely inhumane action to boot. Not a great start as president. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Carr's Gloves 3860 Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 8 hours ago, Renton said: Aye, fucking ridiculous by Biden, massive strategic mistake and a completely inhumane action to boot. Not a great start as president. I was thinking it was a criminal act by Bush and Blair tbh. It shouldn’t have happened in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 34952 Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 I think it was Trump who agreed the withdrawal / did the deal with the Taliban. Not sure how difficult it would’ve been for Biden to go back on that. Not that he seemed to want to stop it, quite the opposite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 34952 Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 11 hours ago, Kevin Carr's Gloves said: 20 years, 241,000 deaths and £20.3 billion pounds later and Afghanistan is back where it was. What a fucking waste. Even at the time when there was a lot of support for it (unlike Iraq later) I thought it was a mistake. I didn’t see how the west could succeed where the soviets failed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 21438 Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 Blair was certainly acting as Bush's poodle. Tbh, I'm not sure if a do nothing after 9/11 was feasible either, but we are where we are as they say. Once committed, we were committed without a time limit. Fact is, we were maintaining relative peace and stability with an international skeleton military force. We've now withdrawn that abruptly and it will have a devastating effect on the people of Afghanistan, the stability of the region, and perhaps global terrorism. I don't accept Biden had to do anything Trump agreed to. He's now to blame for this, and I believe it will turn out to be a disastrous decision. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 30394 Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 Given the relatively low cost in terms of $ and human life it was a baffling decision to leave so abruptly when what we’re seeing now was pretty much inevitable. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 21868 Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 Disastrous for the Afghan people, particularly young girls who will no longer be allowed to go to school when the Taliban regain the entire country. Better news for US public finances. The idea that democracy could take hold in a country like Afghanistan via regime change was always a fantasy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isegrim 9741 Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 Maybe someone should get the EPL involved. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7011 Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 Quick google: $822bil spent on the war in Afghanistan between 2001-2019 2300 US soldiers and 450 UK soldiers dead 64,000 Afghan soldiers and Police dead 111,000 civilians dead (and we didn't start counting til 2009) All for it to fall to shit within 12 months of pulling out troops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGingerQuiff 2412 Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 But the taliban have changed innit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7011 Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Carr's Gloves 3860 Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 I am willing to bet there will be a spate of suicides after this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGingerQuiff 2412 Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 Okay pm me for odds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 30394 Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 In February the US had 13,000 troops in Afghanistan. They currently have 28,000 in South Korea. This was undoubtedly an ideological decision rather than a practical one and has ended in the loss of 20 years of progress and an incredible number of lives. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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