11 minutes ago, Loiner said:

More bad news for you Macron supporters huh?

 'This is deadly serious' - New coronavirus variant 'out of control'

1 minute ago, transam said:

That sounds like envy

19 minutes ago, Loiner said:

There must be as much panic in the EU as the Euros here on TVF. 

Looks like your Red Cross parcels and vittles from the U.K. could be late this year.  Or are you all stocking up on toilet roll and pasta?

2 weeks ago I received a warning from my favourite .co.uk...explaining how things would be different /unconvenient after december 31st... so I passed some additional orders which were delivered (EU) within 3 days!

but I'll miss 

20 hours ago, JonnyF said:

The French will make sure there are plenty of problems, even if there aren't any. Macron will make sure of that.

 

Can't have leaving the EU look easy.  The whole thing would crumble. Like any mafia, there must be consequences to leaving.

 

Expect blockades, go slows, extra checks from our "friends and partners".

 

 

never forget to blame the French, it's cheap and easy..available to anyone whatever the cause

for more information

"I don’t think many people can comprehend the carnage which is about to ensue" (hortidaily.com)

51 minutes ago, Thingamabob said:

The swamp returns. Oh dear....

Isn't Betsy DeVos leaving?

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2 hours ago, RJRS1301 said:

I know you will be all kind and thoughtful for the Trump supporters in the forum, they are now in a period of mourning, still in the denial stage, but they will make it through to acceptance in the next 4 years.

Offer kindness and compassion for their  loss

They can find some comfort in Barr's resignation letter .. 

18 hours ago, simple1 said:

You think IRGC can act independently of the theocracy??? Yes, it is know the alleged reason for his killings i.e. his professional work as a journalist. It is very well known dictatorships kill opponents, i.e. politically motivated - nothing new is it.

 

For some reason you're obsessed with trying to annoy, for the future play your games with someone else.

He was accused of "corruption on earth" (+“offenses against the internal and external security of the country”, “espionage for the benefit of the French intelligence service”, and insulting the “sanctity of Islam”) 

In Islamic Government (Hukumat-i Islami), Khomeini outlined the necessity for the charge of "corruption on earth" to "remove from the life of Muslim society all traces of kufr [rejection of Islam] and destroy them" (1971).

Refworld | Iran: Information on the criminal charge of "corruption on earth"; penalties applicable in law and in practice; whether an individual charged with this crime can be tried in absentia

19 minutes ago, Ventenio said:

I'm sure France will be on full military alert......and do nothing.

 

France is beautiful, but I've had the unfortunate pleasure of listening to endless complaining and ridicule......and then when this happens they have to beg to those same countries they ridicule for help.

 

when you get old enough, you have enough data points...

 

 

It's not as if France wasn't standing up  against political Islam ranging from Salafi to Muslim Brotherhood..and alikes 

35 minutes ago, simple1 said:

 

Thanks. but i know Iran is ruled by a Shiite Theocracy. Good to see France provided safe sanctuary for a Muslim dissident. I do think it's more respectful to note the man's professional life was journalism, not being defined as a refugee.

Try again... " The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced the arrest of Zam in October last year, describing him as a “counter-revolutionary” who was “directed by France’s intelligence service.”

That is more respectful to note that he was executed for political reasons, in an Islamic theocracy. In other words, it's incredible how religious laws can silence opponents. 

3 hours ago, newatthis said:

Then so is the USA

No, In the US, the accused has full latitude to plead his case according to strictly codified procedures.

1 hour ago, simple1 said:

 

It's a sad fact of life journalists / activists are regularly killed for investigating corrupt organisations / regimes; including Thailand. In the past ten years 554 journalists have been killed worldwide...

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/12/30/past-decade-least-journalists-were-killed-worldwide/

 

 

Ruhollah Zam was a refugee - Iran really is an Islamic theocracy - precisions in the article linked below      

In February 2020, Zam's trial opened. According to the indictment, the opponent was prosecuted for "corruption on earth", one of the most serious charges in the Islamic Republic of Iran, punishable by death.

He was also prosecuted for “offenses against the internal and external security of the country”, “espionage for the benefit of the French intelligence service”, and insulting the “sanctity of Islam”.

Source: https://pressfrom.info/ca/news/weekendreads/-340856-iran-executes-a-former-opponent-who-had-refugee-status-in-france.html

15 minutes ago, DefaultName said:

The EU still haven't "got" that the UK wants to rule itself again.  If we take the deal they're offering, we might as well stay in, they'd still be controlling us.

 

Look at fisheries, OK, it's only a tiny percentage of trade, but they're fish from OUR waters, why on earth should we allow foreign boats to take the loins share?  It'll disrupt their business, yes, but they are the ones who set up businesses that depend on fishing the waters of another country, not us.  I come from a fishing village where EU boats have destroyed the livelihoods of family's who fished for hundreds of years, so forgive me if I get heated on this one.

 

Out is Out.  Don't weaken now Boris.  ????????????????????????????????????

What's at stakes for the EU is having the UK exporting cheap fraudulent Chinese (but not only) products to the EU, for instance... not fishes heading more and more North, anyway, due to CC.

3 hours ago, edwinchester said:

Is this the 'oven ready', 'easiest deal in history', 'able to be negotiated over a cup of tea in an afternoon' trade deal these charlatans were selling to the British public all those years ago?

Sunday,  scallops will be served for breakfast, lunch and dinner

1 hour ago, luckyluke said:

 

These people will of course not be delighted, they will have to look for another job ( not that easy ), and in the meantime live with state benefits.

 

This will of course cost money, so it is expected that every citizen in the E.U. will have to pay for it.

 

Not that nice for the man in the street.

 

On the other hand he will have the moral satisfaction that the E.U. hasn't abide to the demands of a country, which left the Union.

 

A country which think, because it has a specific nationality, the E.U. ( if not the World ) should simply acknowledge their requests, and astonished that others may have different view and proposals on a situation, labelling these proposals as totally unacceptable.

 

Their own propositions being of course, the only fair ones.

To provide financial compensation to French fishermen is less costly than accepting UK's conditions on the rest, as anyway the UK considers that an agreement only engages the opposite party 

50 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

That belongs in the museum of infamous laws along with Thatcher's poll tax, IMO.

Are they so divorced from reality in the halls of power that they think laws like that would be accepted?

Those against this law are nothing but those suffering most of violence and incivilities in/from their neighborhood, and yes, fear has to change sides.   

5 hours ago, Salerno said:

 

Yes it is, hence the official term "illegal aliens". Once they claim asylum the act of illegally entering the country is ignored until such time they have been assessed, if deemed not to be genuine refugees they are then in the country illegally and can be removed.

 

I get it, amnesty et al don't want the word illegal to be associated with them due to it being used as a dog whistle by certain ... people. But IMO it doesn't help the issue.

They perfectly know what the laws are, consider they have no obligation to enter France legally, but demand others to abide by the law at their benefit.   

In fact they are  illegal migrants who occupy public space illegally, refuse to respect the injunctions of a police officer - an obligation- and then plead against the police for using  force they consider disproportionate.

Reverse victim and offender tactic.