Rayvin

More damage, yes. But he's doubtless responsible for a lot of them being out there. Cummings being let off basically represented the government declaring COVID to be over. We reap what we sow I guess.

There is absolutely no way that 16 MPs are going to force the cast of Britannia Unchained to stop this.

I still think yes as well, on the basis that I've no idea how the PL manages to tie a fund that acts on behalf of every person within a country, to the crimes of just one individual from that country. As much as I understand people thinking that if it was going to be approved then it would have been by now, the same is true the other way around. Why would the PL draw this out? If they had legitimate reason to kill it, they would have done. It's just as likely that they could be in damage limitation concerning approving it, as they could be in terms of denying it. Either way, people are going to be pissed with them, and I suspect that's why this is taking so long. IMO if they're waiting for this report to come out in a few days time, it could just as likely be so that they can hold their hands up and say "look, we waited, but there's nothing in there that can change our position from a legal standpoint" as it could be that they're going to point to it as the reason why they rejected the deal.

Should we be giving the Tories credit for the offer to take 3m Hong Kongese people if the situation continues to escalate? I accept that doing so will cause a house price surge which will benefit landlords, the Tory parties core supporter group, and that they can probably bank on 3m older Chinese people gratefully voting for their hero Boris in the future, but even aside from that it does feel like the right thing to do. It probably is a huge betrayal of their working class supporters though. But maybe they've calculated that those people won't be long in their pockets anyway.

If this takeover doesn't go through, they'll go to another league and buy another club, she'll forget all about us and probably won't even try to intervene in their next purchase. Meanwhile, we'll be stuck with Ashley. None of them can change the fact that the system we all permit to exist is predicated on money being able to buy you whatever you want. I am more than fucking happy for that system to come tumbling down but I cannot get behind the selective nature of this shit. If the PL do deny this, and there just seems to be absolutely no possible angle for them to do so from a legal standpoint since the PIF is not a person, and Mubarrak isn't going to be personally fucking involved, then I daresay they'll make a big song and dance about how they were doing it for 'the right reasons'. But there is nothing anyone could say to me to convince me that they give the slightest of fucks about this woman's murdered husband. In fact, I don't even really think the press do. No fucker really cares.

I'd support that frankly, but I also get the impression that very few of them actually want to leave.

We're going to get no deal at a time when the US has tanked its own economy, and China is actively threatening economic devastation on us for our response to HK. Wonderful.

As if Johnson is remotely capable in the first place man. It reads as if the only reason we've not been in sorting this out better is because he's been delegating this stuff away. Now though, the man himself is going to come to the forefront with his expert operational abilities and serious management style. Give me a fucking break. It's nothing other than outright propaganda and an attempt to draw a line under the abject chaos of what came before. Which, as we know, he was still fucking responsible for. "Reawakening after a tough old time". Just fuck off.

That video was grim.

I hope this too, and there's a lot of evidence that we have Blair to thank for it due to his drive to get so many young people into university and thus foster far more positive values and critical thinking skills than their parents (by and large) seem to have. However, the right are the ones with the power and influence in the immediacy, and who knows what they'll do to retain that. I am inclined to think that Trump, if he loses the election in November, won't go without a fight.

I've heard people complaining about this insofar as not revealing the outcome of the data will mean people of colour are less "aware" of the risks around the disease, but on reflection could it not also be possible that if you looked at BAME people as a demographic in isolation, then the case for ending lockdown drops considerably. Which in turn means we are actively increasing the risk to them, sacrificing them on the altar of capitalism. Or am I getting a bit carried away?

Invited that one really

There's a Nazi prison camp guard in all of us, supposedly.

I mean Trump has literally ordered this. He will have ordered that the press aren't safe, that extreme force should be used, all of it. He's playing this one terribly IMO. It's got a hint of the Cummings saga about it tbh, it appears to be playing poorly across the aisle too.

Beautiful.

It says something about this bloody takeover that the most recent post in the football forum of an NUFC site is almost two days ago ffs. Definitely done by the end of this week though right?

A friend of mine has said that this militarized response isn't new in the US and that Trump isnt the first to wave it through. I'm stunned by it frankly but maybe I've just not paid enough attention to US policing over time..?

So white nationalist groups have descended to do what... loot for themselves? Or is it that they're trying to false flag the issue? Or is it that they're there for a race war? Fucking lunatics.

Damn, I didn't even notice the reply. Sorry mate! It's still relevant tbf, I haven't moved on from this beyond deciding that I need to do some more detailed system development work to make it happen. I want the list in B to present a range of variables depending on the content in A. So in effect, there will be 3 or 4 potential lists for B, and the relevant one is selected once A is populated. Clear as mud, right?

Looks like he's definitely not resigning. Onwards to the next crisis, I suppose.

Think I'm with Renton on this app. I have no goodwill towards the government whatsoever. They're not taking this seriously and will indeed probably sell the data. No thanks.

I did think it was a bit soon to start letting the MSM off the hook Although in fairness to the rest of them, the BBC is running scared of the Tories far more than anyone else. I would presently trust Piers Morgan over any BBC journalist.. And that's just crazy.

Hoey is not Labour in any sense of the word in her values. She's basically just been a sleeper agent for the Tories.

We have mice occasionally, and have just started using an electric, ultrasonic device that apparently is constantly emitting a fucking annoying signal which deters them. I've checked, and you can get Fox variants. The problem is, I suspect, it's not just foxes that can hear them - which means you'd risk driving the Guinea pigs crazy. Might be worth a little research of course. Beyond that, believe it or not, piss around the garden. As CT has suggested