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1: it was nigh on 29 years ago, and he was neither charged nor convicted of drunk driving. 2: if he is elected he will get an official car with drivers. 3: another straw drifts down the MAGA river, campaign members desperately doggy paddling after it!

🦩 Today's pink flamingo award for the most bizarre post goes to...

1: If the November elections result in a Democrat majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, perhaps likely given how closely balanced they are now, which incarnation of Congress will make the vote, the outgoings one or the incoming one? 2: The preparations to fail/refuse to certify the ballot in certain places are very obvious, and well before the ballot is due to be held. Presumably there are legal challenges to such refusal to certify, which can be made.

No, that happened in Hitler's bunker. It should be dynamited.

He may well have a very large portfolio, but if, as is reported, it is in hock up to the eyeballs (I believe the measured technical financial term is significantly leveraged?) then in cash terms it is pretty useless, and can't be used to cover his debts. Does the "golden escalator" have a reverse button?

Presumably the Pole would have returned to the base of Mount Fiji, and in due course returned home to Poland. Or have I come to a "clear misunderstanding"?

It wasn't particularly massive, and he really should have slowed down rather than weaving around it at speed as he approached the crossing.

This question of "qualifications" crops up regularly on these forums. The only "qualifications " required are that the candidate is selected/elected by the appropriate means; under the constitution. The current Thai parliament has allowed for the formation of a coalition of parties which forms a government. That the formation of that coalition was flawed, compounded by the shenanigans of the Senate, does not change the fact that they are a majority within Parliament. They selected her as Prime Minister. The manoeuvring and influence of Thaksin doesn't change that. She was selected in accordance with the rules. Now I don't think she is likely to be a particularly good Prime Minister; but then the alternatives, time serving dinosaurs or the scions of a different political clan chief (albeit one who mustered less support than Thaksin's Pheu Thai), are also less than appealing. But "qualified" she is. Unless "qualified" is shorthand for "I don't like her or her party"!

Yet more diversity and talent to be brought into government!

She was a Pheu Thai party list candidate - so rather a lot of people voted for her in fact. She was always very much in the top tier of the party leadership, so again that was known when people voted Pheu Thai. Now I don't pretend to know whether she will be any good as Prime Minister, but given the experience of when her aunt was in the job she will probably be less, umh, "venal" than some others. Either way, I suspect that it will end in tears.

"Smash the gangs". In a landscape littered with cynical, meaningless announcements, slogans and initiatives this is possibly the silliest slogan of them all. Does the "Blessed Keir" not realise that these "gangs" are based, and operate overseas. The UK has no jurisdiction over them. He can form a raise as many "commands", "task forces" and "special teams" as he likes. They will have no impact.

Defence Moratorium, Peace Dividend, Front Line First, Options For Change, Strategic Defence Review, or as they were commonly known : OP BOHICA. Bend Over Here It Comes Again!

In other news, the two young men who were filmed raining blows on police at Manchester Airport, including breaking the nose of a policewoman, have yet to be charged three weeks after the incident. The gangs on motorcycles who threatened a TV reporter and her film crew at a roundabout in Birmingham, and then used knives to slash the tyres on their vehicle remain untouched. Again caught on film. The gang who beat seven shades of <deleted> out of a man in the "smoking area" of a Birmingham pub remain untouched. Plenty of video footage of that. Two tier government. Two tier policing. Two tier judicial system.

I'd check your irony filters if I were you!

Perhaps as a "swarthy central Balkans sort of cove", purely in the interests of accuracy of course?

Yeah, right, of course you would, just like you do every day! I am not sure that he is seeking any publicity or awards, merely being interviewed by journalists, and describing what happened.

It is very likely that the first thing he did after the police took the knife man away, was to go and wash his hands and face, and comb his hair. Heaven knows he may even have put on a clean shirt. Accounts seem to agree that he was the first to tackle the knife man, and that he disarmed him. Others then helped him.

There are several awards and commendations which he may well receive - initiated both by the civic authorities and the Metropolitan Police Service. I doubt whether His Majesty will get directly involved, although I am sure that he will have been fully briefed, and will have been pleased by the actions of his subject.

He is trolling Chomper, he is trolling!

🦩 Why the pink flamingo you may ask? Well, it is no more bizarre than your comment!

It is not, except to help provide an accurate description of the incident

He was the security guard at an adjacent "tea shop", which in this case I suspect means a shop selling expensive tea making paraphernalia to tourists rather than selling brews! Either way, I would imagine that his job description covers preventing and apprehending shoplifters on the premises rather than tackling knife men in the street; which makes his acts remarkable and praiseworthy.

It seemed remarkably clear to me. Abdullah saw the woman and child being attacked, went to their aid, disarmed the attacker and held him until the Police arrived.

Well done Mr Abdullah. A very brave young man.

Personally, and as I have already posted on here, I have a low opinion of Elon Musk. I think he is childish, foolish, and although very successful in certain of his business ventures, I think he has more money than sense. I also think that for Humza Yousaf to accuse him of face baiting is extremely funny, and deeply ironically!