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So is Chaiyaphum city.

"battle it out for individual and team glory"

Replace glory with Saudi money and you're nearer the truth. The only glory is in their own minds, no-one else gives a s*** about this 3-ring circus.

14 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Nothing like that at all no.

 

Once you give powers to government and big tech to decide arbitrarily what is "harmful" and what can or cannot be said online, you're on the same slippery slope to where Hungary is today.

After the UK, Hungary will likely be the next domino to fall in the splintering of the anti-democratic power grab that is the Brussels bureaucracy (EU Commission).

Once the full force of their idiotic energy policies comes back to bite them this winter, expect the break up to accelerate as people take to the streets in protest at the Davos elites and their Great Reset.

My last flight from Heathrow the pilot announced just before take off that 45 bags out of 240 had to be left behind.

Are you feeling lucky, punk?

3 hours ago, wombat said:

Why would you want to live in UK?

It wouldn't be from choice from what I read.

Changing seasons instead of the monotony of hot and wet or hot and dry, beautiful architecture of old towns and villages instead of the uniform drabness in Thailand, not having to sit behind someone driving at 20mph in the outside lane, being able to sit outside with a beer in summer till 11pm while its still light and without getting bitten to death, vast choice of theatre, concerts, art galleries and museums if that's your thing.

One man's meat is another man's poison. There's no one size fits all answer, it's wherever you feel happiest.

And the point of the OP is? That you can't predict the future?

37 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

There are very clear differences between the major parties, the one in power has a record of corruption, law breaking and incompetence. 
 

 

And the other one doesn't? How about the illegal invasion of Iraq for starters?

14 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

And cut public services in a society already floundering after over a decade of Tory austerity.

 

 

Austerity, aka living within your means (which incidentally they didn't even achieve).

6 hours ago, placeholder said:

So your defense of the Conservatives is that their performance was bad but Labour's would have been worse?

Exactly. The current crop of politicians on both sides is the worst in living memory. Believing that changing one set of clowns for another is going to improve anything is living in cloud cuckoo land.

22 hours ago, baboon said:

Let's wait to hear that this is the fault of the party not in government and what about Diane Abbott...

Are you seriously suggesting we would not be in this mess if Diane Abbott had been in charge?

56 minutes ago, NightSky said:

Those posters are probably cccp plants 

Of course. Anyone who questions US hegemony must be a communist.

4 hours ago, webfact said:

It’s no surprise that the British public were beguiled. They were conned by others like Savile, Thatcher, and Churchill

Savile certainly. Churchill - not sure how you get to that conclusion. Yes, he made plenty of gaffes, but can you honestly see Britain winning WW2 with Chamberlain or Halifax at the helm (they were the alternatives at the time, along with Attlee, who Churchill famously described as "a sheep in sheep's clothing").

As for Thatcher - how exactly did she con the British public? You may not like her policies, but she did exactly what she promised to do at three general elections.