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Appears to be a Russian version of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Ironically "Harris" is double layered rhyming slang. Harris= Aris= Aristotle= Bottle= Bottle and Glass= Arse (only really works if you have a South Easter English accent), a reference to the behind and anus. So is he a fan of anuses? I've nothing against such fans, but they often have a repressed alter ego Or maybe he's just a fan of a nice wool jacket. I like sports cars.

On a forum which I moderate, we have a Sent to Coventry setting. Posters can post, but literally no one else will see he's even posted. Fulfils the Freedom of Expression requirement.

When Reform have had a chance to pull the levers of taxation, what did they do, jack up taxes. 19 year old Reform leader learns there is a lot more to running a council than bull<deleted>ting your way on Reddit or Tumblr. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/03/reform-uk-warwickshire-leader-defends-council-tax-rise Another Reform run council, Worcestershire, actually asked the government for special permission to jack up council tax by 9%, the highest increase in the country, an approach to taxation that Jeremy Cornbyn, nay, Dave Nellist would be proud of. The saving grace is if there was a Reform government, it would have the slenderest of majority, possibly even a minority government, easily swept away when some of its MPs decide "sod this for a game of soldiers" and leg it.

Pie on point as usual

What country I am in is irrelevant. You can probably work it out. Where I am you register at the local surgery. The surgery is nominally a private organisation with a contract to the government. The surgery will have partners, the senior GPs. These surgeries will subcontract to private sector providers, who provide a pool of GPs, who generally "float" between 5-8 practices. So my surgery has, in theory, about 100 GPs, but none of them work M-F in the same clinic. And they are constantly changing. Implementation of Telehealth means that first contact is generally by phone. You are called by a duty GP, and that phone contact might result in a prescription that you collect from the local supermarket. I'm an infectious disease microbiologist. Pain management is complex. In paraplegics, diazopam (valium) has beneficial effects in the control of spasticity, which itself is a source of pain. The typical paraplegic will experience pain from the limbs, the bowels and the site of the injury (eg the plates put in to stabilise the spine). Most pain medications will have synergistic effects, and most, at best, lack an evolved mechanistic action. On top of that, the paraplegic will be taking other medications, because beng a paraplegic isn't just about not having legs working. On top of that, there is the constant drum of the pressure sore. Most GPs take a suck it and see approach to pain management, and point blankedly refuse referral to the pharmacologist. Patients end up on concoctions of drugs, with the doctor having very little idea whats going on. In extreme examples, there of numerous examples of celebrities overdosing on pain medication, or suffering an untimely death due to the medication. Examples include Chris Cornell and Prince. I assume you know what pro re nata means, when applied to a prescription. Its a nonsense, which encourages over use, because for some people it means take as much as you need. Do not trust Dr Google. Dr Google will feed you lies and make you sound like a <deleted> in front of the doc.. In Thailand, it doesn't matter if the doctors are not as well read on the literature. Neither are doctors in the west. There is an inverse relationship between physician age and interest in the literature. Most of us don't have rare diseases. Most of us have extremely common diseases. And mostly, you don't need cutting edge medicine for that. What Thai doctors lack is knowledge of the Western body. Its not their fault if a bunch of mostly old men choose Thailand as the place to whither away, get sick, then die, while moaning its all due to old fashioned Thai medicine, rather than anything to do with their own life choices. You misunderstood the statement about morphine and the wheelchair. Morphine caused the paraplegia.

The UK government has responded by opening up visas to allow more Hong Kongers to leave, allowing those born between 1979 and 1997 to emigrate. This has touched a nerve with Beijing who called the move "despicable and reprehensible". Lai is a British citizen, let it not be forgotten. He is not a Chinese citizen. The government is working with Lai's family, who live in the UK, on a response. Its a sensitive subject. On the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal, two British judges still sit, Lord Neuberger and Lord Hoffman. There are conversations going on through back channels. More action is required but its erroneous to suggest all the Foreign Office is doing is issuing protests. There are 2.9 milion people with BNO status in Hong Kong. Its not about the fate of one man. As far as I am concerned, these BNO passport holders might as well be British. They were not party to the negotiations in the 90s between the British and Chinese governments to determine their fate. They were not consulted.

Obviously this is some bot-comedy account.

There seems to be a onfustion between colour of passport and faith. I suspect you are referring to Jewish people. Not all Jewish people are Israeli. Many choose not to take up Israeli citizenship, for a variety of reasons. 3 prominent examples would be Peter Mandelson, Valdimir Zelensky, Vladimir Solovyov, Jay Rayner, Miriam Margoyles, the late Olivia Newton-John, Taika Waititi. Obviously excepting Olivia, because she's dead, are you suggesting all these people must renounce their citizenships and emigrate to Israel? Are you calling for Jewish people to be expelled from non-Israeli lands? The Muslim people you refer to are Palestinians. There is only one Palestine, you seem to be under the erroneous impression there are multiple Palestinian states, each with their own representation in the UN and through diplomatic missions. Palestinians have limited emigration opportunities. In most of the Arab world, the road to permanent settlement, like the West, is complex. Gaining citizenship, wherever you come from, is extremely difficult, and in some cases, legally impossible. Are you in favour of relaxing immigration practices internationally? Do you consider faith to be a defining requirement for immigration, ie. Australia should welcome immigrants from, say, Sierra Leone, but bar immigrants who are not Christian. Do you view all Chinese as Chinese citizens, and welcome the unification of the ROC with the PRC?

Yes and no; the media does whip up issues that cause people to act irrationally, whether its Epstein, Brexit or Immigration, for example. But on the other hand, maybe there is some truth in all these issues. Epstein fallout is now being felt in Norway, with diplomats under investigation. The files also show how Epstein set up essentially an operations centre in Paris to coordinate with people from the US in the funding of European parties like the Front Nationale at a time when these parties were under pressure for having received funding from Russia. Was the world better off knowing about Jimmy Savile, or should it have died with him, like so many others before him. Is the apparent lack of moral probity new, or has it always been like that, just not talked about? Epstein was a blackmailer. His motives are ultimately unknown at the moment. He was very wealthy already from participation in normal financial activities. Possibly he was working for others, but the public, for various reasons, might never get to kniw that.

I suppose the same for the Brexit referendum. Maybe do away with elections, as voters don't know what they are doing. This is the Technocracy ideology that Elon Musk's maternal Grandfather pushed in Canada, before migrating to South Africa in the late 1940s.

More reaction by Senators who have seen the unredacted and the no-so unredacted files. GOP Senator Cynthia Lummis was one of 8 Senators who voted against certifying electoral votes in the 2020 election, and consequently her records were subpeoned as part of the January 6 investigations. This is what she had to see when exposed to revelations in the records, during the private viewing.

That is a spectacularly twisted and inaccurate representation of British elections.

Remember, this exchange started because you pointedly, and unprovoked, decided to insult the British, presumably for <deleted>s and giggles. Your confusion between the word "Grandad" and "Dad" is a Freudian slip, betraying your age, at about 70-80 years old. I know you obviously live in a world of cads, hookers and thieves, with low personal standards, but my grandfather was an honourable man. It is well documented how Australian troops, newly arrived, fled the lines in Singapore. When the Wavell report was declassified in 1993, naturally the Australian PM had to say something, but much of the content of the report was accurate. The units that were sent to directly to Singapore were trained in Australia with sticks, as they had no rifles, and lead by a poor general, Bennet. It was at the Australian government urging, that the AIF was sent and the British 18th Division was doverted from North Africa to Singapore. Wavell issued a report, based on the recollections of officers and other troops, recounting how there was an effort to drive the Japanese who had landed on Singapore back into the sea. 3 Australian battalions were needed, but one of them had completely deserted, and were found drunk in town, some of them committing rape. Some British troops described the Australians as Daffodils, beautiful to look at, but yellow through and through. Not all the Australian troops; the ones that fought the rearguard down the Malay Penninsula did their bit. The ones arriving from Australia were the ones who turned and ran. General Percival went into captivity. General Bennet abandoned his troops and fled by boat, because he claimed Australia needed his unmatched knowledge of jungle fighting. The Australian Army never let him command in the field, again, so obviously his skill set was a bit overstated. Wavell's full report is here: https://www.scribd.com/doc/99765968/Report-by-General-Wavell-on-Operations-in-Malaya-and-Singapore Some choice quotes from the report presented to Cabinet The rest of your plagiarised stolen content also indicates you lack comprehension, possibly lacking a basic education or you have some sort of learning difficulty. Why was Britain sending tanks to Russia in 1946? You posted that Britain was sending tanks in March 1946. Were you blindly or drunkenly copy pasting from Chat GPT/Gemini/Claud etc? You probably weren't taught the war ended in 1945, at your outback school for delinquents. You further outed yourself as an idiot by declaring and then, because you can't read so well , copy paste from your stolen source: in response to my statement which you thought was a timeline; September 1941 was before December 1941, at least in the Northern Hemisphere. Have a read, take your time, its not a race, remember what your teachers told you: https://www.geostrategy.org.uk/britains-world/telling-the-truth-how-britain-helped-the-soviets-win/ https://www.historynet.com/did-russia-really-go-it-alone-how-lend-lease-helped-the-soviets-defeat-the-germans/ You're <deleted> at geography as well. I was talking about Singapore, but you've decided Papua New Guinea is in Singapore. <deleted> me, no wonder we booted out your great great great grandaddy for nicking hankies. Your bloodline diluted the national IQ too much.

From 2017 https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02555059.pdf Probably talking to the writer about some other guy at a dinner in december 2017.

Johnson and Maxwell both attended Balliol at the same time. Racheal Johnson wrote about it years ago. https://spectator.com/article/it-s-hard-not-to-pity-ghislaine-maxwell/ If it did happen, its a so-what. 18-19 year olds.

Americans don't use Imperial measures. Its a popular misconception. Imperial measures were formalised long after the Americans went their seperate ways. Americans use American customary units. Hence they have a strange gallon measure no one else uses.

The UK is not a papier bitte culture. There is no evidence of voter fraud sufficient to overturn basic rights. In my country, at the last election, 0.000057% votes involved identity theft. Photo ID discriminates against those who don't drive, don't have a passport. 2% of the population don't have photo ID. Why should they be compelled to pay for photo ID in order to vote. That's a Poll Tax. The 2023 regulation on photo ID has lead to absurdities, such as police officers being turned away from voting because a Warrant Card was not a government issued identity document. Nurses have been denied voting because hospital photo ID was not acceptable. Many people with driving licences have never moved house, and consequently have a perfectly legal paper licence. Why should they be disadvantaged for not moving home. Its a policy that makes a mountain out of a molehill, and causes more harm to the democratic process than the good it professes to do. Veteran conservative MP and former special forces trooper Sir David Davis is utterly correct. You cannot trust government to hold your data securely. Blair tried to bring in a scheme. The result; the government "lost" 20 million records. Losses of data contune to happen, such as the leaking of thousands of names of Afghans who assisted the British forces. It will be a monumental error, causing self inflicted damage, to solve a problem that doesn't exist. No to national ID. No to photo ID to vote. https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/papers-please-britain-id-cards-privacy-and-individual-rights-david-davis-5HjdDYC_2/ https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/senior-tory-warns-dangerous-voter-id-plans-lack-evidence Those in power pushing for these schemes are agents of dark agents who seek to do us harm. They energise useful idiots to push their policies.

Why are they willing to believe anything a paedophile says? Desperation maybe.

Not sure Maxwell is a reliable witness. After landing cushy day release despite the heinous nature of her crimes, she is now withdrawing cooperation. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c77elp87zyjt She's a lying and manipulative paedophile bitch. A chip off the old block.

Hmm, my Grandad was at Singapore. What he remembers of the Aussies there was them dropping their rifles, legging it, stripping off their kit and looting the NAAFI. He wasn't impressed. Americans supplied the Australians as well, I guess because they threw away their rifles. Lend Lease wasn't just American aid. British aid was also part of the supply to the Soviet Union, which included 5000 British tanks (though 1500 of these were Canadian built), 7000 aircraft (including 3000 Hurricanes), 4000 trucks and Bren carriers, 28 ships (HMS Sovereign became the Arkhangelsk, which basically the Russians ruined), 6000 radar and radio sets, and 5000 anti-tank guns. Oh and 15 million pairs of boots for the Russian squaddie being pushed forward in suicide attacks. In the Battle of Moscow, half the tanks on the field were British tanks. If Moscow had fallen, the USSR would have been out of the war. American aid didn't reach Russia until late December 41, after British supplied tanks helped turn the Nazis back from Moscow.

You don't get to choose a GP. It depends who the practice has subcontracted out to. My mother had a 30 year "relationship" with her GP. In the end, when needed, he proved to be bloody useless. He encouraged her to overdose on painkillers when she was in a wheelchair. By overdosing I don't mean for the purposes you think. Exceeding daily limit for dihydrocodeine by 3-4x. This doesn't result in you being wheeled into A&E to get a stomach pumped, it results in constipation and more pain. GPs I view as the least capable of physicians, Jack of all trades, master of none. Most at danger at being influenced by manufacturer claims. Inadequate understanding of contraindications, except by whatever the computer screen tells them. They follow the path of least resistance, which means they stop practicing medicine and end up following guidelines. There is a difference. You can still practice medicine but not follow the clinical guidelines, but the difference you are told if it came to litigation, you won't be able to hide behind the official guidelines. If GPs are reduced to nothing more than someone who follows a flow diagram and check boxes with an average contact time of 10 minutes, then they can be replaced. In truth, the "system", wherever you are, is set up to not give you access to healthcare but to prevent you from accessing healthcare. Can't get an appointment for 6 weeks to see a GP. Maybe you'll sort yourself out. Wait 8 hours at A&E? Maybe you didn't need to be there. That's not me saying that. That was a statement given to me by a Fellow of the Royal Society of General Practitioners, in 2016, in relation to the implementation of point of care testing in clinical practice. Now that was the UK, but you see the same patterns throughout Western healthcare. I recently had to go to A&E to get an abscess drained. Waiting hours. Got seen by an older doctor, an Afghan. He was forced to defer to the consultant, a younger guy, who insisted I needed to be admitted, and the procedure carried out under general anaesthetic. Consultant gone, Afghan refugee doc said "I can do this under local, what say you". Go for it doc. With my consent, 20 minutes later, the wound was packed and dressed, and I was off home.

GB News poll didn't go to plan.

Like Flynn and Clarke. Eisenhower?

The resignation or replacement of Starmer following a leadership challenge does not result in a hung parliament. The parliamentary arthrimetic remains exactly as before. There is unlikely to be a GE until spring 2029, given the government's majority. Starmer might resign, and like Cameron, stay in post until there is the orderly election of a replacement. Or the Cabinet/Labour Ruling Body will appoint an interim PM (Lammy is not automatically PM). A leadership challenge requires the challenger to secure the backing of 80 MPs. The vote then goes to the Party membership. The challenger might lose that vote. Even if the challenger wins the vote, that might not be the end of Starmer. He might decide to emulate Ramsey MacDonald in 1931, who was desposed as pa rty leader, but remained PM of a new National government with Tory/Liberal backing. He was expelled from the Party, but all that is needed was for him to persuade the King that he had the confidence of the Commons. Unlikely scenario to play out, but it depends on who the challenger is. No member of cabinet will challenge a sitting PM. Oddchecker https://www.oddschecker.com/politics/british-politics/next-prime-minister-after-keir-starmer Betting odds for the Home Secretary are shortening...... Only possible if Starmer resigns. John Healey likely to be interim PM.