Wobblybob

1 minute ago, brewsterbudgen said:

It makes no difference whatsoever, except, apparently, to the UK government who seem think we should be delighted at getting a "blue" (black) passport instead of a burgundy one.  What does make a difference is that the new passport is considerably more restrictive than the previous EU one.

Life is too short to worry what colour your passport is, you could be better spending your time finding a cure for all known diseases. ????????.????

2 hours ago, redwood1 said:

Just sign any name  yourself and be done with it...

Exactly, just fill it out yourself and get the wife to sign, nobody checks. 

48 minutes ago, herfiehandbag said:

Come on then, let us assume that I am a blundering thicko shall we?

 

Why was Starmer's late night social soirée, with beer and pizza, any different to Johnson's party with cake and coke? Why did it not break lockdown regulations when Johnson's party did?

 

Why was claiming that Raynor wasn't there when actually she was not telling a lie? After all she is his deputy so not unreasonable to assume he would have noticed her?

 

Why did the Durham Police basically not investigate, and dismiss the matter offhand?

There wasn't any difference, infact Starmers soiree was worse than Boris Johnsons, but Whitehall, the left wing press and of course the ever unbiased BBC have never forgiven Boris of taking the UK out of the EU. The gutter press are now chosing who runs the country and not the electorate. 

1 minute ago, brewsterbudgen said:

They might have thought that it was right in 2016 - they certainly don't now! ????

Bit too late to change the rules now, 2016 the UK voted to leave the EU, easy as that, can't keep saying I didn't mean it. The media didn't agree with Brexit, the the staff in Whitehall didn't agree with it and it has been an exercise by these people of how to overturn a democratic vote. 7 years in the making and the remainers are still going on about it, totally shameful.

11 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

I am a Brit and I can assure you it was the wrong decision!

17,488,000 public voters can assure you it was the right decision.

22 minutes ago, RuamRudy said:

Certainly there were factors which exacerbated the outcome, but the main point is that there would have probably not have been a crash if the paparazzi were not chasing her car. 

Henri was totally inebriated through alcohol and drugs, he was driving a reinforced Mercedes that probably weighed quite a few tons and to put the icing on the cake he was travelling twice the legal speed limit, those "factors" would be deciding factors to most people and at the inquest into the accident the blame on Henri Paul was unanimous.

"Some media claimed that the erratic behaviour of the paparazzi chasing the car, as reported by the BBC,[3] caused the crash. In 1999, a French investigation found that Paul lost control of the vehicle at high speed while intoxicated by alcohol and under the effects of prescription drugs, and concluded that he was solely responsible for the crash. He was the deputy head of security at the Hôtel Ritz Paris and had earlier goaded paparazzi waiting for Diana and Fayed outside the hotel.[4] Anti-depressants and traces of an anti-psychotic in his blood might have worsened Paul's inebriation.[5] In 2008, the jury at the British inquest."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Diana,_Princess_of_Wales

22 minutes ago, RuamRudy said:

To be fair, they chased his mother in similar circumstances and that didn't end too well for her or for 9-year old Harry either, 

 

By not mentioning Henri Paul Diana's drunk driver that evening you are not being fair as this caused the death of Diana and probably by not wearing a seat belt didn't help her chances of survival.

2 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

I think you are mixing up the Russian mentality with the USA one.

I don't think I am, it is only the Russians that are raping and killing innocent Ukrainians, stealing their land. And never forget that NATO was formed to keep the Russians from just taking other nations land and hasn't Putin done a fantastic job with NATO, Uiraine had no chance of joining until Russia invaded, the Finns and the Swedes had no intention of joining until Russia invaded Ukraine too, so we must all doff our caps to Putin, this years NATO salesman of the year.