Pensioners with citizen children
MPs will need bodyguards if they vote for stealing a parent's lifetime of tax contributions and deporting them to live in penury
That aside, the main reason it won't happen is the volume of working-age ILR folk with mortgages
06.10.2025 12:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The original medbed? Our Lord Jesus Christ π
02.10.2025 21:04 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Deploying cavalry against Leopard 2A4 main battle tanks is a sign you need to start a new game of Civilization
30.09.2025 12:23 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Would have benched him anyway against the best team in the league
29.09.2025 20:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
It's not good strategy for at least 2 reasons
- Farage has a threat to him from his right (Robinson types and the online radicalised who won't be happy without 'remigration' of full citizens): a policy as extreme as this only encourages them
- people with ILR have mortgages
26.09.2025 11:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Ok, last guess: popular days for hiking or some other outdoor activity (peaks in spring and autumn, too hot in November and December but the heat is offset in January by holidays)
26.09.2025 11:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Is it something to do with sporting activity, like attendances or injuries? (Weekend peaks, amateur and pro seasons peaking in September and dropping away over the summer)
26.09.2025 11:08 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
It's grimly amusing when the grift of sociopathic paranoia (15 minute cities! Low traffic neighbourhoods! Vaccines!) outweighs the cause of controlling immigrants
26.09.2025 08:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
You may think that, I may think that; millions don't
It reflects poorly on the OP he can't build mental models for Trump support. Sure, some of it is unspoken or denied and has to be inferred - but the strongman will always have an appeal, especially if he has a gift for mining grievance
25.09.2025 21:41 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
He's funny, gutsy and 100% his own man.
He looks upon society's established shibboleths (don't make fun of a disabled man, don't mock a war hero, don't be a preening narcissist all the time in public), sees them for the hollow norms they are, and powers through them.
Lots to like for many people.
24.09.2025 23:43 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
Reform's biggest wedge vulnerability is 'remigration'
Their base increasingly likes and demands it but to middle England it must be somewhere between disgusting and 'not until all the illegals are gone'. And if done at any scale it would wreck house values and the banking system.
24.09.2025 08:40 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
YouTube video by Plainly Difficult
When Extreme Cost Cutting Leads To Disaster: The Whiddy Island Event
Just had this experience with Ireland's worst post-war maritime disaster which killed 50 people
youtu.be/7keRtGGA79k?...
24.09.2025 02:50 β π 19 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
*and* he's the subject of 'Can't You Out of My Head', as performed by Kylie Minogue, also written by Cathy Dennis
23.09.2025 10:59 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Liverpool Street, Sydney, 23 September
23.09.2025 10:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Corbynism was exciting for many because the UK system (FPTP voting, no written constitution) made it possible for a socialist to take over a party, win 35+% of the vote in a 2.5 party system and be radical in government
Sadly, that dynamic can also work nicely for Farage
19.09.2025 23:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
It was always going to happen. Morrissey sounds like the Daily Mail and the Daily Mail sounds like his lyrics.
18.09.2025 21:30 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
I'm struggling to understand the people brave enough to attend a protest in person, where they could be arrested en masse, but nervous about signing up to a list using a burner email with an offshore service accessed through VPN (easily done and reasonably effective)
18.09.2025 21:20 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Disney announces Andor Season 2 reboot: the Ghormans had it coming
18.09.2025 21:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
It's also a way for the regime commissars in ICE to see up-close-and-personal who in those agencies is reliable and who, in their view, is squeamish and flaky and liberal
09.09.2025 21:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Well they can't use Roman numerals
05.09.2025 08:25 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Jane Australia
26.08.2025 11:34 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I've really enjoyed the TF season previews you helped put together
I hope you feel better soon and enjoy the football and more
10.08.2025 04:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
AONB? STFU
27.07.2025 12:01 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
As a passionate believer in free speech, I am sometimes asked if this right may be constrained by limits to which a person has willingly submitted - like state bar standards for the professional conduct of attorneys
That's when I switch to Spanish
23.07.2025 20:38 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
He's not the only prominent American to recently suggest this!
At least the other guy get served the perfect response, to his face, from the actual leader of Germany
05.07.2025 09:50 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"You will address me as Captain... Captain Birdseye"
[one for the UK+Ireland crowd]
26.06.2025 02:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Villeneuve took the job because... MI6 HQ is a ziggurat!
26.06.2025 01:47 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
In Andor, the ultimately successful anti-fascist rebellion is orchestrated by an former war-criminal antiques dealer, then led by a rich nepobaby centrist senator who can't bring herself to kill a blackmailer but sells her daughter to a crook
No modern leftist writes this; it's Le CarrΓ© liberalism
07.06.2025 09:08 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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18.05.2025 00:23 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
We go live now to the Russian Foreign Ministry
15.05.2025 11:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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