Chomper Higgot

I’m not sure what you are talking about ‘my country’. 1. What you assume to be ‘my country’ is not the subject of discussion. 2. It’s a piece of personal information I have never shared on this forum and you have no rights at all to discuss. 3. It’s together with your ill informed off topic slave trade distraction are whataboutary. Refer top of thread fr the actual subject under discussion.

You can request a thread on the matter.

I’ve provided a link to the history you weren’t taught at school. I see you are slipping into I’ll informed personal attacks. I suggest learning from King Charles and reading up on the actual history of the events to which he referred and this thread relates might be a better use of your energy. You would at least wind up better informed.

You too need to learn from a King Charles and read up on this shameful history. The events to which Charles referred and this thread related did not happen hundreds of years ago, they took place on the period between the end of WW2 and Kenyan Independence in 1962. People who lived through this history are alive today, victims of the atrocities are alive today, people who lost parents and siblings to these atrocities are alive today.

Ill informed nonsense. Here are some facts. Assange jumped bail (a crime). He was eventually returned to prison. The US issued an arrest warrant and an extradition request. Assange applied for bail, it was refused (well given his history of jumping bail). Assange appealed his extradition and has been afforded the rights to appeal. He remains in custody until is appeals are completed. He will then either be released or extradited. He is only now in a UK prison because he is enjoying his rights to appeal and because he has a history of ju ping bail.

Or the modern day Slavery in the UK. But let’s skip the whataboutary and get back to the topic under discussion.

Actually no. Because the British continued to profit from slavery in the empire after it was ‘outlawed’. https://origins.osu.edu/review/after-abolition-britain-and-slave-trade-1807?language_content_entity=en

I think China, like the UK imprisons people who break laws. Though I doubt that in China he would have been given the opportunity to jump a bail.

Perhaps you should learn from King Charles and read up on the atrocities to which his apology refers. It might challenge a few of your ideas and beliefs on the Empire. It probably wouldn’t but at least you’d know the history you are trying to obfuscate.

A line of argument that becomes more than a little problematic when the Guardian and the Inquiry make reference to testimony under oath and documented records.

No need to ‘Bash the Tories’ they’re locked in a cycle of self harm. All opponents of this failing Government need do is stand back snd leave them to it.

Of course it might just be the statements made were objectively misogynist, just like other statements might be objectively racist. I myself don’t ever recall feeling I have been silenced for making misogynist or racist comments. It’s just never happened. Why I wonder?!

That’s a good start.

The GOP proposal is a wrapper, what’s inside is more important than what’s printed on the wrapping paper.

I’m sure he appreciated the refund.

They asserted their view, they did not indicate. Investigators not happy with the decisions made by their directing managers/prosecutors (I. This case a Trump appointee) are par for the course in all Investigation/prosecution authorities.

I suspect you’ve received far more than your understand or indeed are willing to accept. You would not be the first expat to depart back to the warm bosom of the the NHS and the Welfare State when life in Thailand bites harder then expected. Accept the truth of it, your life here is underwritten by the open invite to run back to Nanny should ever needs must.

This raises a dilemma for Brits retired in Thailand who don’t, perhaps for reasons relating to pension increases, wish to let the Government know where they are. Is their vote worth the risk of losing pension increases? Unpaid fines and taxes might be other issues.

A bit of an assumption. Thailand attracts a very different selection of British expats than might be found in other parts of the world. I’d be very surprised if many British expats in Thailand would bother voting even if they had the franchise extended to them. Though if a political party started making promises extend the pension triple lock that might wake a few up long enough to vote.

Trump was not a Washington Disrupter. His administration accelerated the neoliberal Republican policies transferring wealth from ordinary working people into the hands of the hyper wealthy to whom he handed tax breaks at cost to the Federal programs that support the rest of America. He delivered for the 1% at the cost of everyone else. He did exactly what every Republican President since Regan has done, stiff blue collar and middle class Americans and pay out to the hyper wealthy who own the GOP. “Washington Disrupter” he obviously suckered you too.

You are mistaking the GOP trying to offer Putin the hope of US withdrawing funding for Ukraine with what Congress will actually do.

They’ve got to get it through the House first. And yes we know the GOP are keen to cut the IRS, they don’t like it chasing people, particularly their very wealthy backers, to pay their tax dues. Regardless, it’s a spend almost 100x that of you tell us Biden is squandering.

You did read OP, or if not the title of the thread?

From your link: ”The capabilities in this package, valued at up to $150 million” Let’s compare that to the $14.3 Billion Israel aid package unveiled by the GOP and the US Federal Government Budget 2023, estimated to be $6.3 Trillion. This Biden profligacy that seems to bother you represents fractionally over 1% of the handout the GOP are eager to give Israel and 0.00235% of the Federal Budget. I accept $150 million might seem a great deal of money to those whose frame of reference is a very much smaller and significantly weaker economy, but in US Federal Government Budget terms it’s chump change.

I think a late switch out of Trump for a right field candidate is likely.