Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

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Nice rant Fred but back to the question do you agree with Corby that Russia should have a veto on our foreign policy ?

To make it easy for you a simple yes or no will suffice.

Grow up!

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As predicted, Theresa May has apologised for Windrush immigration fiasco and blamed whoever was Home Secretary between 2010 and 2016.


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I'm so glad that whoever was Home Secretary during that time isn't in charge of things now.


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Now now Fred pick your dummy up.

Is the question too hard for you ?

Lol Maxk , pity they hadn't deported Abbott before realising their mistake. That would have been funny.

They couldn't find a boat big enough Dil.

lol.

I see Fred is still as lost for words and unable to defend Corby's suggestion that we let Russia have a veto on foreign policy.

Hope for you yet Fred , not much for Corby though. Seems to be dropping himself in it every week recently.

Dil.

I don't have any need to defend Corbyn, he is more than capable of defending himself.

Suggest you don't read into his "statements" what you want to believe he has said or written.

But, at the same time, it is interesting what Trump's poodle will do for a hope for deal.

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It is interesting to see the UK being "pimped" and prostituting itself around the world begging itself for deals.

But I supposed for some it has appeal.

No one can defend Corbyn , your right there Fred but I didn't ask you too.

Asked a simple question that required a one word answer which seems to have stumped you. Here we go in case you forgot what it was.

Do you agree with Corby re Russia being able to veto our foreign policy ?

fred will never ever give a straight (and simple!) answer to anything

out of curiosity, how did the question crop up in the first place?

Corby suggested that unless agreed by the UN we shouldn't get involved in anything.

I know he hasn't got the bollox to give a straight answer but it's entertaining me seeing what rubbish he posts trying to get out of answering.

Dil.

I suppose you are volunteering to put your own and the bodies of your family on the line.

What has all the hot air and boasting from yourself and fellow travelers achieved?

The UN is weak due to it executive control system and needs changes as I have advocated for years.

But at the end of the day, talking and negotiation are necessary to the resolving of conflicts.

But why not kill as many as you can first. To the hell with the price as long as you don't think you are paying for it directly.

Corbyn appears to advocate attempting to negotiate, he is not condoning the murder and mayhem which is occurring at the moment in Syria and M.E. and probably would be exacerbated by the approach you seem to advocate.

After all other people's lives are worth less than your own and it is not you who is "up and at 'em".

But, as you seem to enjoy conflict it may be what you are wishing for.

The price of a war is a profit for some.

Frankly the Russians are a disgrace about not properly helping about a possible "Jason Bourne" rogue agent "(if you can call this person so)", that has possession of a nerve agent....is everybody crazy about not knowing who and how those poor people were sprayed with this nerve agent ?........
I am very disappointed with the press who should have asked and ordered an immediate hunt for the perpetrators of this hideous act.....don't the general public see the hushing up behind all these latest developments?....beyond belief.....!.,...

Sprayed?

I read it was in liquid form and was painted onto the Skripal's front door handle - witnessed by tests showing this was where the highest concentration was found.

I also read the two people who are thought to have done this deed came in on one plane, did their painting and then left on the next.

....and were seen on CCTV.

Fred , number 1 we have and are still doing , so that goes some way to explaining my disgust at people like Corby and his kind who don't think this country faces any threats these days and publicly states he would never press the red button if he were elected PM.

2 Hot air and boasting ... err wtf you on about ?

3 UN needs changing ... lol not as much as the EU does

4 Yep , worked a treat when we tried it in 1914 , 1939 etc etc

5 Prove it

6 Seems to me he's happy to ignore all the evidence of chemical attacks over the past six years but hey ho the Russians said they didn't happen so he's ok with it

7 They are to Assad and Russia but fortunately not to the majority of the human race (not sure which camp your in Fred)

8 Lol , the world is condemning Assad and Putin but really it's my fault sat on the side lines cheering them on ... what planet are you on ?

9 I agree but I bet we disagree on who


There we go Fred , now yes or no to my question.

Geez I must be bored :-)

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Yesterday, we went for a walk in a nearby large local park. I like it because there are quite a lot of seats to take a rest on (I have lots of arthritis).

The mysticism, that most people have truly amazes me. I witnessed more of it in the park.

Using a tractor and mower, a guy had cut all the grass in the park, even where it was far too wet to do so.

As a consequence to him doing this, there are now lots of very deep trenches where his tractor wheels have dug very deeply into the ground. Indeed, 60% of the ground in the park is now completely spoilt. I am not sure how, or when or even if, these massive trenches in the ground will ever get filled and the ground re-levelled.

One explanation might be, that the mower man is 'a contractor' and he simply doesn't get paid unless he cuts the grass.

The contract obviously and most probably says nothing about 'the ground being too wet to do so'. I guessed, rightly or wrongly, that the guy's machinery is his own and has been bought using finance. Similarly, 'no grass cutting' means he isn't fulfilling his grass cutting contract. So 'no income' means he then can't pay his finance bills. "He needs to cut the grass come hell or high water!"

Trenching has happened previously but not to the same extent.

The Parish Council are in charge of the park and the grass cutting contract. It also seems to me, they are incapable of amending this contract from one year to the next or even supervising the contractor. Neither are the local populace all that bothered enough to complain to the PC about this poor state of affairs and mis-management.

Lots and lots of people are just 'mystic' about it and ignoring the reality of a pretty poor situation concerning the utter spoiling of this potentially, very attractive parkland.

I suppose lots more things in life are far more important than this but my guess is that even with other things, enormously high levels of 'mysticism' are, in the main, to do with peoples' thoughts on it all and the 'reality' of the situation is completely ignored and 'just left to some mystic power to deal with'.

We even see this kind of approach on MoneyAM where the 'reality' concerning such a lot of the site's persistently basic problem are continually given just 'a temporary fix'.

What then happens, is that the site's vibrancy rapidly disappears and with the loss of vibrancy, go a whole lot of the site's users.

Exec,

Perhaps he the "operator" thought he was ploughing.

But this and similar are areas in a "society" where leaving it to the commercial enterprises is less beneficial than providing "services" for the "community" with "publicly" run longterm considerations with or without restrictions.


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