JonnyF

Teach them how condoms work. Teach them that actions have consequences and you can't always rely on others to bail out your poor decisions. That way you don't need dangerous, expensive medical procedures to remove unwanted unborn children from the womb. Sounds like common sense to me. Prevention has to be better than "cure".

Presumably you also object to the premier league pausing games for muslims during Ramadan? https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/65028657 Or do they need to leave it at the kick off whistle pal?

Condoms are cheap. And personal responsibility is free. Maybe schools could teach that instead of critical race theory? Just a thought...

Yes that 4% of gdp was nothing to do with Covid and the war in Ukraine lol. It was 100% Brexit. Laughable. Besides, Brexit was never about % points of gdp. Only bitter remainers focus on gdp above everything else. They'd probably vote for the UK to be a province of China for 10% increase in gdp. Some of us look beyond dollar signs, especially when they are associated with the corrupt federalist EU project. You cannot put a price on sovereignty and morality.

Nonsense. Biden/Trump whoever. They need to stay out of UK politics. The US days acting as the world's policeman are long gone. They lost all moral authority a long time ago. They should fix their own substantial mess before commenting on other countries issues. Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan. You'd think they'd have learnt by now. But no, Biden can't help himself especially when he is pretending to be Irish.

These predictions are hilarious. I still have a good chuckle about the pre Brexit warnings of 10% gdp loss, the end of London as a financial centre etc. Good stuff. Anyone got any others? ????

Nobody in the UK cares what Biden thinks. He needs to reel his neck in, he has enough problems at home. Stay in your lane Joe you seem to be nodding off again and straying into ours. I do wonder if he referred to our PM as Rashi Sanook again though...????

Reminds me of Prayut and co. banishing the political opposition to Singapore on jumped up charges under the threat of jail time. It's really sad to see American politics stoop so low. Reminiscent of a third world country. How the mighty have fallen.

In the West we extend our hand as a handshake. That's quite different to putting your hand next to a 12 year old girl's mouth and asking her to suck your fingers, immediately after kissing her. Seriously, stop enabling and justifying this disgusting behaviour. Have you even seen the video?

Are you serious? Normalizing Paedophilia and passing it off as a cultural indiscretion is deeply disturbing. 94 year olds in Tibet do not ask young boys to kiss their tongue after kissing them. Why would you justify this ? Maori also stick their tongue out as part of a war dance. They don't ask young boys to kiss it. Enabling this behaviour is pretty shocking. Honestly it turns my stomach.

You're welcome. Predictions are notoriously difficult to prove or disprove. It's inherent in their nature. But thanks for confirming that, Captain Obvious. I'm sure the concept of a non crime hate incident would have been dismissed as a conspiracy theory years ago. Police with billboards stating "being offensive is an offense" would have been dismissed out of hand as a figment of the "far right's" imagination of a fake culture war. Yet here we are. It would appear that your attempts to label everyone you disagree with as a conspiracy theorist are not going too well. But feel free to continue, it's most amusing. Ironic even, given your adherence to the teachings of the climate change doomsday cult.

It's the thin end of the wedge. The start of a long process (many decades). Of course it will be dressed up as 'helping' citizens and making life convenient but the long term aim is to reduce the movement of people as much as possible. Let the proles go to work, let them buy their food and clothing, then get them back into their homes to watch politically charged content from state broadcasters such as the BBC that you are forced to pay for under the threat of prosecution (telling them what a great job they are doing saving the planet, documentaries featuring one armed trans women etc.) and then prepare for their next workday, ideally working from home. I would expect the next step to be some kind of pollution/green charge for travelling x amount of miles away from your place of residence without a valid reason. In the name of saving the planet, of course. Or possibly a social credit system where points are deducted for such 'inconsiderate' behaviour. Kind of like the congestion charge in London except you are charged for leaving an area as opposed to entering an area. Maybe they could call it a non-crime pollution incident and hold it on your record for future employees to see, ala the non-crime hate incidents currently being recorded for holding the wrong opinions? They could label it the brave new [insert the city here], or something like that. Brave New Newcastle, Brave New Swindon etc. The best thing is, it's all for YOUR benefit. So be grateful. After all, your taxes are paying for it.

I saw the footage, it was absolutely disgusting. As was the behaviour of the sycophants in attendance who simply laughed at the lecherous behaviour towards the young boy . If ever there was an incident to cause you to lose faith in humanity, this was it.

As is so often the case with the left, they are what they accuse you of being. They believe the best form of defence is attack. They shout "racist" and hope you start defending yourself instead of pointing out their hypocrisy.

No need to apologise. It takes more than that to upset me I can assure you :). It's a shame you never came to our wonderful country. That's another 200 quid the ferry company and youth hostels lost out on but hopefully they'll survive.

Well, I have the stats I posted that prove Britain's decline in tourism since Covid is a worldwide trend and actually % wise Britain is faring much better than many countries who depend on tourism more heavily, such as Thailand. So there's that...

I thought they were all coming on ferries and getting stranded at the ports? ????

Tourism to Britain is down. Worldwide tourism is down. Tourism to Thailand is down. See a trend? No? Check the charts I posted not some anti British hit piece from The Guardian. Pinning it on Brexit is ludicrous. Desperate stuff from bitter remainers ????. The title of thread would be more accurate if it said "Worldwide downturn in tourism also evident in Britain". But no, this is The Guardian so they pretend it's down to Brexit ????. Predictably, bitter Remainers lap it up and attempt to deflect when presented with the facts.

The OP was a left wing Remainer rag trying to pin the worldwide trend in reduced tourism since 2020 (a trend which was unsurprisingly also present in Britain) on Brexit. Laughable. Check the stats. You've got nothing.

Same time the Chinese stopped coming to Thailand. Uncanny. Maybe Brexiteers should start paying repatriations to Thailand for ruining their tourism industry by leaving the EU (just before Covid lockdowns)? ????

Yes I've reached my daily limit on statista giving you so many examples. Here you go in case you couldn't workout when global tourism fell off the cliff. All down to Brexit of course (nothing to do with Covid lockdowns). Oh look, Brexit ruined the US tourist industry as well. Who knew... And just when Covid happened again. How inconsiderate of us. https://www.statista.com/statistics/214763/number-of-overseas-visitors-to-the-us/ Damn those Brexiteers. Clearly nobody wanted to visit the US once members of EU countries required a passport check to enter the UK.???? I take it cause and effect isn't your strong suit.

So compare with the world as whole. Who knew Britain was so important as to ruin the whole world's tourism industry just by voting to leave the EU. We really are as important as I thought. So strange it coincided with Covid lockdowns though, huh?

Surely Europe as a whole would be a better comparison instead of cherry pecking one particular country? Oh look. It's also down since Brexit. Same as the world as a whole and the same as Thailand. Who knew... Damn those Brexiteers for ruining the whole world's tourist industry. So strange that it coincided with Covid lockdowns.

There's no law that says you have to like Bogans either. However we should probably stay on topic.

For the sake of completeness we should tell that to the Thai enterprises that have been hurt by the loss of tourism post Brexit. https://www.statista.com/statistics/994693/thailand-number-international-tourist-arrivals/ Damn those evil Brexiteers.