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  • Not something that would bother me.

  • All well and good but with a FPTP system you cannot vote for what you want and expect to get it. If we had PR then that would be a different story.

  • The EU will take the UK back. It has been said by a few. The UK will still have to go through a process. It will not be quick. I would not be surprised if the EU makes the first demand for us to have a new referendum. Just so they know we are not wasting their time.

  • Yeah but. they really are trying to stop those boats. Now let's hear about the backhander involved with Rwanda. You know there is one there.

  • If there is no need for office block then there will inevitably be a drop off in the need to hire the space to work in, which in turn will lead to lower prices. Employers do not request higher costs.

    In the UK, the government are pushing for return to work because of pressure from newspaper media. People buy papers on their way to work. The are no cost basis arguments with forced returns to work. There is an obvious case for net zero benefits.

  • I have obviously hit a nerve, but I still non the wiser as to why. It seems you want to defend the gun laws, I think. Well have at it. I don't have a say on US laws, and wouldn't dream of trying to have one. That doesn't mean I cannot learn from them to form an opinion on our own laws.

  • Propa-what? you are reading something that is not there.

  • Israel doesn't like its sins broadcast. This is not the first time they have killed the press.

  • I would have liked to have see him beaten Schumacher's record just for the kudos. But even then I could see that they (the FIA) were taking the piss and manufacturing results in that season.

    Still doesn't beat my biggest disappointment in F1. My wife and I did 5 Silverstones and a trip to Milan and never once saw a British winner. Monza has to have been the biggest kick in the teeth. Hamilton won the previous races there. It looked like his strongest race. He managed pole yet again. A shocking start which he never recovered from left him out of the running.

  • Frogs in a boiling pot. So long as a government moves slowly they can do almost anything. The problem the Tories had in the UK was they got greedy. Their greed was blatantly obvious and more so was felt by the many. It scares me that they could come back having learned the lesson from this.

  • People argue against having a constitution to avoid the problems the US has. 2nd amendment right are a blight in the US as can be seen by the figures on gun violence. 1st amendment rights for freedom of speech allows divisive racial abuse and sundown towns. All of these would be considered abhorrent in the UK. And yet the US seems locked into them.

    My opinion is that the UK should have a constitution. But it should be reviewed regularly and all MPs should be compelled to vote. The problem with the US is amending the constitution is impossible when you have capitalism making a profit from it being there. The NRA has bought the US constitution for many years now. I would dearly love to see all donations to political parties banned in the UK. No one should be allowed to buy legislation.

  • The famous page 48 of the Tory manifesto said they wanted to do this. People were jumping up and down at the 2019 election about this. No one believed they would go this far. Even when Johnson was passing laws similar to that Hitler grabbed before he went for his absolute power grab, people would deny it was happening. Laws that supressed freedoms that are a defence against fascism have been eroded for years now. Frogs on a slow boil, people think that no one would want to remove our freedoms, and yet here we are.

  • You are contradicting yourself to justify an action. This is like stating I needed to the money so I robbed the bank, but it was not right to do so. It is either an acceptable action to join with HAMAS or it is not. There is no acceptable grey area where you can absolve yourself from blame.

  • I do not blame a single one of them for siding with a hate group like Hamas given everything they’ve been through

    As someone who also has lots of sympathy for the plight of the Palestinians, I can say, this is wrong. Two wrongs will never make a right. Israel have been shithouses for years. Don't stoop to their level.

  • So not really the main roads.

    Most of the non main roads are a result of the feudal farming system. The US differs because people could buy up large rectangles of land which fit nicely together. The farming in Europe was a piecemeal affair, and roads were built onto to that. The UK is a very London centric country. The further north you get the less that is spent on roads and transport.

  • What roads did you take? A majority of that is dualed.

  • The guy is 92. As much as I dislike him that is a low blow.