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53 minutes ago, possum1931 said:
What I am going to say is, no one could be worse for the UK than the two main parties, the have messed it up through all my lifetime, so no other party could be any worse, especially Labour. The biggest thing in recent years in the UK has been immigration, that is the main reason most people voted for Brexit, and UKIP would have done something about that, unless Nigel Farage is as big a liar as Blair, Brown, "call me Dave" etc which I very much doubt.
Excellent example of UKIP thinking, make generalised statement on the failings of the main politcal parties, claim UKIP could not do any worse, throw in a bit of immigration, offer no tangible policies.
The only outcome of UKIP's campaign is the consolodation of Tory party power an increase in racist abuse and a drop in the value of the whole of the UK economy.
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5 minutes ago, geriatrickid said:
Anyway you slice it, Corbyn is a bigoted resentful jerk. He is living an adventure he deserves.
Corbyn bigoted?
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3 minutes ago, Ulysses G. said:
I see about one out of a thousand that looks good and improved someone's appearance and that is when they are young and fit. The rest just look tacky or worse. I do not understand why people do that to themselves.
Because they don't understand T-Shirts.
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1 hour ago, louse1953 said:
If you say hullo to me because i have a white face you are a racist.
Perhaps I simply say hello to the person who walks into the line at the coffee shop counter, regardless or the colour of their face.
Sort of like common good manners.
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Its a mobile phone services cell tower. If you go look a bit closer there's be a containerised transmission equipment building near the base, the name of the service provider will be on the side of the container.
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1 minute ago, Johnniey said:
Why the hell should I say hello to some old farang who is still on his pink cloud after being here 2 year, with a wife who looks like she used to work in Khon Kaen fish market?
Just because he has the same skin colour as I? he could be a Yank or German for all I know.
You seem to have someone particular in mind.
Remember what it is we all hate the most.
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Calm down, no need to start with the preemtive strike against an argument nobody has yet made.
I'm a keen game shooter, and in my adult life one of those hated urbanites.
But I've never seen the need to give up slipping home for a bit of shooting when I need a break from the joys and rewards of city life.
All a rich tapestry to be enjoyed.
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42 minutes ago, possum1931 said:
The only chance Britain has is with UKIP, the major parties has messed it up time and again, they are all hypocrites and liars.
Can you give tell me any policy that UKIP offers that they have any chance of delivering on.
Their flag ship policy of removing the UK from an EU over which they claimed the UK has no influence, of removing the UK from having to pay for the EU and removing the UK from having to accept the EU's freedom of movement, will actually deliver the UK a relationship with the EU in which the UK is stripped of its veto on EU policy (and therefore has zero control over the EU0), the UK will continue to pay for the EU and the UK will continue to accept the EU's freedom of movement of people.
And thats if and only of the UK does withdraw from the EU, if an only if the UK can get a deal that UKIP promised but had absolutely no idea how it was going to achieve the deal.
Meanwhile the £350 million a week UKIP promised to spend on the NHS has gone down the pan, the fight against the 'Elite' has ended with the 'Elite' consolidating power in 'Their' political party.
And as if to remind everyone, the Duke of Westminster departed this earth leaving his £9000,000,000 estate to his son, the new Duke of Westminster, without paying a penny tax. His last thoughts surely contentment UKIP's stated aim of getting power from the 'Elite' and handing it to the 'common working man' had gone exactly the way it was planned to go.
I look forward to any hearing from you any policy UKIP has that might ever happen, that is not based on fear, xenophobia or racism and that does not and is not aimed at maintaing the control the 'Elite' have over the UK's politics?
Over to you.
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The undeniable fact is, the US federal government has allowed state governments to legalise the use of cannabis within the jurisdiction of their own states.
Those states that have legalised the use of cannabis have not fallen into dens of evil and iniquity .. but tax takes are up.
No negative impacts detected across society and tax takes up.... You absolutely know which way this is going.
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14 hours ago, possum1931 said:
If he is, which I very much doubt, he will be the first labour leader in my lifetime, to genuinely care for the working man.
Dongkampo asked you to 'please tray to hear what Jeremy Corbyn has to say', your response is to immediately dismiss the invite.
The opportunity though still remains. Corbyn's voting and speaking record in the house is solidly behind ordinary working people and solidly in opposition to the exact 'betrayal of the working class' of which you complain characterises the Labour Party since Wilson.
The question to ask is why have the right wing press singled Corbyn out of so much of their attention? - They repeatedly tells us that Corbyn has no chance of winning an election for Labour but are relentless in their attacks on Corbyn.
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18 minutes ago, Ulysses G. said:
Stop this stupid drug war. It has been a complete failure.
Hold on, the Filipinos haven't finished learning their lessons about what great fun a 'war on drugs' can be.
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I, and I am sure many others, have come across the same miserable faces from expats in response to a civil greeting (in Thailand).
I think its worth making a comparison. I've often met westerners in other non-western parts of the world, by example the middle east, where similar civil greetings are very seldom met with the miserable face so often seen in Thailand.
I put it down to the fact that a lot of misfits wash up in Thailand, but don't regard their grumpy response in an entirely negative light - they are at least giving the rest of use clear notice that they are not likely to be good company.
And as a friend of mine who lives in a part of Thailand with very few foreigners remarks, he sees no reason to lower the standards of the company he keeps just because there's not a lot of company about.
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Its so that when Smart-Phone payment takes off in Thailand they can can automatically charge foreigners the 'Farang Price'.
Ahead of the curve when it comes to welcoming foreign guests.
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The newspaper made no statement on the matter, they simply reported what the accused said during his trial.
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1 hour ago, possum1931 said:That's true, how much power does a prime minister have over their government robbing state pensioners by refusing
to give them the annual increases that they are entitled to? Has anyone ever known of any British prime minister condemning
the refusal of these annual pension increases?
There are number of MPs who argue against the freeze on increases to pensioners overseas, amongst the the current leader of the Labour Party.
The hurdle us not MPs or indeed PMs but the general public and the exchequer.
Read any UK newspaper article on the matter and you'll find the reader's comments are filled with that essential ingrediant of British public political debate - Spite and envy.
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1 hour ago, yogi100 said:
We all know British people who have become workshy and lost their work ethic because of the ease with which benefits can be accessed and those of us who have had to enter benefits or housing offices have seen how they are inundated with gimmegrants.
Welfare must be made harder to obtain and priority given to our own people regarding employment opportunities. British manual workers are getting fed up with wages that some of them were getting 10 - 15 years ago. They are also getting fed up with the negative aspects of globalisation as was demonstrated on the 23rd June.
Incidentally you must be a remarkably high flying, capable and busy fellow having recruited these foreign engineers at their fantasic salaries to say nothing of the hundreds of professional immigrants you've managed to make the acquaintance of. Then you also know all these equally industrious Thai wives in various towns throughout the UK.
How you find the time and energy to meet and deal with all these fine people as well as contributing nearly 10,000 posts to this forum is truly amazing. If every Englishman was as hard working and as energetic as you appear to be the UK would be in a much better state that it finds itself in today. If that's the case I must certainly take my hat off to you!
While many of us express outrage about an elderly lady getting killed and five people getting stabbed in one incident in the centre of our capital city at the hands of a Muslim immigrant you can tell us of the positive contributions hundreds of other immigrants have made to our society. That's a positive attitude in anybody's book!
I'm glad you raised the issue of what you say is a need to curb/reduce welfare - We might come back to this at sometime in the future and ask 'Who is it that receives all welfare, the individuals themselves, the companies employing people on low wages that need to be subsidised by welfare or the Buy to Let landlords making profits from welfare housing payments?'
There's nothing remarkably high flying about working in an industry that employs professionals earning 3 to 5 times the national average wage, those working in the financial services industry would scoff at such incomes as being near poverty, a fraction of annual bonuses to many.
Nor indeed is there anything remarkable about finding large numbers of professional immigrants working in a multinational professional services company within a multinational business.
As for my post count, yours will eventually get there, if like me you hang around long enough, don't break the forum rules and don't get banned for doing so. But thanks for the reminder of my count, my 10,000'th post looms ... I perhaps need to think about making it something special.
If you send me your CV, I'll give it the once over, you might have the qualifications and experience for one of those 'remarkably high flying' jobs. We get a bonus if we recruit people the company are looking for. :-)
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7 hours ago, MissAndry said:
If immigrants weren't doing these jobs on the cheap, they would have trained up English people to do the work for a proper wage. Immigrants are just a cheap source of labour for cheap employers, not essential to a country at all.
I've recruited three immigrants to jobs in the UK, all engineers, all earning between 3 and 5 times the national average wage.
I would not claim these to be entirely representative of immigrants (though they are representative of the hundreds of professional immigrants I know) and they are evidence that your sweeping generalisation is just that a sweeping generalisation.
Your argument that the UK would train locals for jobs if immigrants were not doing them is true in some but by no means all cases, you first need to demonstrate that the hardcore unemployed in the UK are actually looking for work.
I personally know a number of immigrant Thai wives, married to British men, who on arriving to settle in the UK have found work within only a matter of days of arrival, I know of a couple of Thai wives of British men in the UK who have found several jobs. They all live in towns in which there is unemployment.
Did these women steal jobs from Brits desperate to demonstrate their work ethic, or did they get up off their backsides and go looking for work?
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This thread has taken a rather nasty turn. Going back to the topic, the thread is centred on an vicious, unprovoked knife attack that has resulted in one death and several serious injuries. The attacker, a Muslim, also and immigrant, is according to police reports mentally ill.
He was arrested at the scene, and charged on Friday morning, his name, nationality, religion and immigration status were released to the media soon after he was charged. He presented to the magistrates court on charges of murder, GBH &c., He has been remanded in custody pending trial and shall appear at the Old Bailey in open court on Wednesday* of this week. (I'm not entirely sure if it is Wednesday but that is the last report I read.He has not been charged with terrorism or terrorist retaliated offences. The police have explicitly stated they see no connection to terrorism in these attacks.
These facts have fed a steam of Islamophobic, racist, xenophobic and hate mongering posts.
When some of us challenge Islamophobia, racism, xenophobia and hate mongering we are now accused of being 'supporters of Islamism', 'apologists' 'appeasers', 'enablers'.
Language aimed at shutting down debate, isolating those with whom you disagree and quite frankly language and accusations that border on criminal defamation.
I think we all need to keep this in mind.
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2 hours ago, The Deerhunter said:
I was not expecting that..... Yes. I do know Muslims and have heard similar things said. Also many stupid Muslim apologists say the exact same stupid things. Fortunately there are less Muslims around here than where I come from. My suburb "back home" has a high percentage of Indian and middle-eastern folk. Glad to not be there in so many ways although I liked the house and general area. I can also read the signs held up in dozens of Youtube clips with Muslims (including rabid women) protesting for sharia law, threatening to kill unbelievers and kill apostates who are Muslims that they consider not "not Muslim enough."
And read this. It loudly argues against your point by explaining that the clerics themselves are to blame because they do not condemn the ongoing violence.) (Sorry, I pinched it from another poster's comment)
So you did not hear anyone making the disgusting comments about the victims of this attack that YOU made up and YOU posted on this forum.
We need to keep that in mind when you claim to have heard Muslims saying 'similar things' or when you report any views you claim to be expressed by other people, regardless of their faith.
I say again. The comments you posted about the victims of these vile attacks are disgusting - YOU made them up, YOU posted them.
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14 minutes ago, mrmicbkktxl said:
Yeah 99% maybe didn't attack anybody,but also 99% didn't try to prevent them from doing so,and that's the point.
Whenever you come across references to 99%, in reference to other people, you should ask the question 'is that true or is it a sweeping generalization?'.
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4 minutes ago, The Deerhunter said:
Excellently said: that is exactly the thrust of the problem. Many secretly agree with the violence or might say "A woman should not be a police person or should be home with the kids, reading the Koran. Serves her right. Not that I condone violence, but she brought it on herself." It is these spineless silent Muslims who know who many (but not all) of the nutters are and do nothing about it, that sickens me.
Have you actually heared these disgusting remarks being made about the victims of the vile attack, or did you make them up?
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2 hours ago, yogi100 said:
Well you saw or were at least aware of what happened to over 700 people in London that day. I listened to the events unfold on LBC radio throughout the day till a pal ran me to LHR in the afternoon.
When the truth dawned on people the loathing and disgust of English men and women from all walks of life was immeasurable.
Did it not instill in you a hatred or at least a distrust for those responsible and those that made it possible by nurturing and rearing them especially when most of us never wanted them in our country in the first place.
In a word.
No.
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1 hour ago, yogi100 said:
You can see from reports it's a shop fronted bar with no obstructions from entry or exiting.
Public places have to conform to health and safety regulations especially fire hazards regarding inflammable materials and fire exits etc.
OK that will not guarantee a fire not starting but neither is it a sound reason for so many fatalities being caused.
You may think it's a perfectly normal understandable occurrence but some of us may regard the circumstances as a bit suspicious to say the least.
Police act on the orders of governments and it's beginning to dawn on not just French but all European politicians that their quest for a multicultural society has been one massive, ill conceived pipe dream.
They've already tried excusing these attacks with claims of mental instability on the part of the perpetrators. Who knows what else they may have up their sleeves, politicians have been known to tell the occasional lie when it suits their agenda.
Look at the comments sections in the various on line versions of our daily newspapers and you will see I'm not alone in my suspicions.
Oh dear !
Ecuador to set date for Assange to be questioned by Sweden
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Blaming the Swedish investigators for not acting to interview Assange when he himself hid from them in the Ecuadorian embassy is a bit of stretch.
If it is really extradition he fears, and not the rape charges, he would gladly go to Sweden.
Under the Extradition Treaty and European Arrest warrant any attempt to extradite him from Sweden would have to first be cleared by a Swedish Court and then cleared by a UK court. He would enjoy an extra level of judicial review by going to Sweden than he would enjoy in the UK.
And then there is the hole in Assange's argument of the extradition - the United States has made no attempt to extradite Assange.
Chelsea Manning is serving time for crimes that he committed in collusion with Assange - Assange allows Manning to take the punishment, while cowering in the Ecuadorian embassy.
Well yes, he's wanted on an arrest warrant, the UK police are duty bound to arrest him if he steps out of the embassy.
The Ecuadorian embassy are duty bound to protect their staff, I hope they are acting in the best interest of their female staff given the presence in the building of a man accused of rape.
The "United Nations Panel" that expressed this 'opinion' comprised a team of people within which there were no representatives with any legal expertise. The panel's opinion has not been endorsed by the UN.
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All that aside, Assange's flight to the embassy of Ecuador is a strange choice if, as he claims, he wishes to defend freedoms of speech, investigation, association and the right to challenge governments.
Ecuador boasts a repressive government that pays particular attention to denying freedoms of speech, arresting and imprisoning investigative journalists, locking people up for the crime of 'association' and some rather nasty responses to anyone who challenges the Ecuadorian government.
What the President of Ecuador does share with Assange is their articulation of hatred of the United States.
Assange acts against the political, military, commercial and diplomatic interests of the United States, he does so by illegally obtaining and transmitting US government, military and diplomatic data.
He should not be at all surprised if the US government respond to him the way they have and will continue to do so.