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  1. struggling to get into this for some reason, and i'd 100%'d fallout3 and the dlc's

     

    maybe it's a bit samey or doesn't feel like it's been brought upto the nextgen not sure, it's alright but i'm not playing it non-stop like i would did its predecessor

     

    Agreed - it's not introducing anything new really. It's still a good game but it could have been more than that. I don't know why these developers don't push the boat further sometimes. The settlement building minutemen quests are new and different, but they could have done so much more with that. I'm yet to understand what the real point of that is. I built a farm with an artillery canon for instance - this pleased me for a while but like hell am I really going to need to call in an artillery strike against anything.

  2. The sad truth is that Sturgeon would be an excellent Labour leader if she hadn't ended up with another party entirely.

     

    It's all irrelevant now though, Renton is absolutely right that we'll have the Tories for at least 9 years. I just hope by the end of that someone comes along with something worth believing in/voting for.

  3. McDonnell and Corbyn are virtually unelectable, that's the sad truth of the matter. Fact is, most on this board supported the selection of Corbyn, even if it meant another 10 years of Tory governance. Well done, you got your wish.

    This is a bit of a double edged sword for me. I did get what I wished for, and I remain pleased about it. I didn't expect that he would win the next election, but I didn't expect anyone we could have voted for would either. For me, voting Corbyn was about forcing Labour away from the new centre as defined by the Tories, and back over to the left of centre (in the long run). I'm not going to vote for Labour if they don't broadly represent my thinking. If that means the Tories, then so be it. It's Labour that's lost me though, not the other way around.

     

    That said - the Tories make things harder for some than others, and I can fully appreciate that people like you, given the effect it has had on your family, will be dismayed by the stance of people like me. All I can say to that really is that I can only vote for what I believe in, and I fundamentally didn't believe in the policies of anyone other than Corbyn, regardless of how electable he is.

  4. It was Liam Byrne

     

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    Anything to back the "lie" claim up? I've never heard that.

     

    Other than the fact that, had it been true, the government wouldn't have been able to continue spending money?

     

    It was a fucking stupid note to leave but surely CT, surely you can see that it clearly wasn't true. If it had been true, the country would very literally have collapsed. We would have had the IMF in here immediately trying to do a Greece style recovery job. Did that happen?

  5. Predictable that no-one has the balls to post their thoughts in here, most are too ignorant to care.

     

    :lol:

     

    As they say, you haven't posted your own thoughts. Does the above statement include you then?

     

    I'm not really familiar with the guy, so yes, ignorant in my case, but a quick wiki viewing suggests that he's the sort of person who, if there was a secret illuminati-esque organisation running the world, would be at the forefront of it. About right?

  6. Would a military retaliation from Russia automatically drag the rest of NATO into any conflict?

     

    Technically either we'd fucking have to, or we'd have to say that the whole NATO treaty is a sham and admit that we're afraid of a confrontation with Russia.

     

    That said, I'm still not convinced by the Russian military - as a country they're already entirely encircled by the US. Parky, you mentioned a war on multiple fronts but that's exactly what Russia would get too. Can it really take Europe and the US combined - especially with US military bases in Europe? Also, China would surely be checked by India and I'm convinced that Japan haven't just been sitting on their hands for the last 50 years as far as militaristic arming goes. It's worth noting that China only have one aircraft carrier and it's still being repaired - would China really risk going head to head with the US Pacific fleet with such a flimsy navy?

     

    Worst case scenario to my mind is a Sino-Russian alliance, but I just don't know if I see it. I reckon the West has it in it to contain this if it happens, but we'd probably lose mainland Europe in the process, and the whole world would go to shit.

     

    That said, like fuck is anyone going to let it come to this :lol:

  7. Because there are many different brands of Islam and different levels of buy in from its adherents. You have no idea though how many followers are susceptible to radicalisation though, it may be much hiigher than you think.

     

    Now, how are we going to implement your plan of educating these people from failed states, when I've already pointed out that professional people from this country are willing, and have, died for the cause? Perhaps if we can ask ISIS nicely if we can replace some of their madrassas with secular grammar schools?

     

    Well, we could leave relatively stable if rather brutal regimes in place to run each country, thus ensuring that groups like ISIS have no ability to get started and each country's economy isn't blown up when the bombs dro-- oh no shit, we're systematically purging all of those. Funny how that keeps coming back to bite us...

     

    But seriously, it'd be a lot of fucking hard work to restore anything from here. We have no credibility, no trust on a local level, and no genuine regard for the wellbeing of any of the civilians living in these countries - something they're clearly aware of. From the position we currently occupy, there is no easy answer. In principle though, had we not continued to try to 'solve' this with explosives, that would be the answer. What's your solution exactly? How do we win this by force? I don't think we can, so we either have perpetual war, or we actually try to engage the real issues.

     

    As for those over here who radicalise, we in the West have our fair share of non-Muslim psychos as well - the US for instance has a huge number of them. Sure they don't have a cause to unite behind, but they exist, and they exist because they're disillusioned with life. I will say however, that the Muslim community in Britain has a general stance, in my opinion, of being more isolationist than many other ethnic groups - this means they're more often on the fringes of society, and are more likely to feel separate and I suppose, more likely to have their disaffected young take up with crazies like ISIS. But with that said, I don't know if I think they're in that isolationist position because of their religion... it could be more about the way that the world now views Muslims in the fallout of terrorism.

  8. :lol:

     

    Wages are rising at their fastest for 6 years (and that's before the living wage hike kicks in) and tax receipts are down because income taxes have been cut again and again over the last 6 years.

     

    Are they rising in line with or ahead of inflation? Serious question, am actually curious.

  9. Because all Muslims aren't blowing themselves up, it can't be the religion that's the problem? This is a logical argument?

     

    Whose going to invest and implement this education scheme any way?

     

    It'd be a better use for the money we're about to waste blowing them up.

     

    And as for the first point, I'm just curious really as to why all Muslims aren't blowing themselves up. I wonder why this particular group were more susceptible to radicalisation... if it was simply the persuasive power of Islam, surely everyone would be doing it. Clearly there are other factors at play, and therefore, there are other factors that can be addressed.

  10. I think it was directed more at the farmers and such who actually make up ISIS as a core group. There's always going to be disaffected loonies, but you can minimise it by investing in more widespread education. If they were blowing themselves up because their religion told them to, why aren't the other billion Muslims doing it?

  11. What do reckon McClaren was on at Derby? Not a huge amount and for a bit more plus a crack at a top flight club again I don't think he'll be on big wages (in Premier League terms). Charnley's a similar case with the importance of his position and the wages he'll be on I reckon.

     

    Charnley is on about £100k/annum... which is startlingly small.

  12. If they do get rid of him Perez only has himself to blame. Another example of chronic mismanagement of a football club from the very top.

     

    Who on earth can they possibly get to come in? Guardiola is impossible and they've already exhausted a lot of the normal contenders... who is left?

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