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If the Tories want to replace Johnson that is up to them but there should be an immediate General Electionj as he was the leader when the public voted and delivered to him a large majority. I have never seen a bigger collection of no name bland arseholes as the batch running to be the next Prime Minister (not leader, Prime Minister). Whoever it is has ZERO mandate from the public to lead the country. If any of these gimps had been leader at the last GE I doubt it would have been the majority it was. Like or not people voted for Bojo the Clown, not any of these dicks.. I think it is really disgusting they can just slip in some totally different person (with presumably their own agenda) and with a ready-made huge majority (won by a different leader) to pass whatever legislation they desire and we don't get a say in it. These candidates are a fucking rotten. What a shit show Britain has become these last few years post BREXIT especially.

The BBC are truly a vile organization. I usually never watch it but I have seen quite a bit this last week. They are actively campaigning like fuck for Bojo to resign (and for whom?). Not even a tiny attempt at balance. Who is the ginger prick they produce for reporting at 10 Downing St. Total non entity talking like he he knows what is going on. It is an endless supply of smug know-nothing wankers. Man they are so loathsome. Far worse than any politician past or present. As for Gove... the guy is a fucking scumbag.

All of this is about parachuting Gove into Boris Johnsons majority. Gove could never win an election on his own so he has to steal Johnsons. If Gove becomes prime minister I really fear for us. If Gove becomes PM I cant underline how bad it will be.

Oh hello. I see you are making an utter cunt of yourself on multiple threads now posting your usual moronic shite. You have a lovely evening now.

Don't know shit about this supermarket attack and would not comment one way or the other. As I have stated many times you simply cannot know if these incidents are true or not. Interestingly aaid and bumchums are going 'all in' on their reputations on this one. Risky.

Very interesting that. Thinking about it I am sure this will 'explain' why these ultranationalists see ethnic-Russian Ukrainians as invaders that need ethnically cleansed.. It also explains how they can shell residential neighbourhoods with moral impunity, they don't see them as 'real' Ukrainians. They killed 14,000 in 8 years doing that. And they ramped it up massively just before Russia invaded. It also explains things like banning the Russian language and other 'ethnic cleansing' type moves. The Russians however view the Ukrainians as the 'same as them' (excluding the eastern ultranationalists). This is why they have tried to minimise the civilian casualties (or at least that is what they have stated). This policy was quite costly for them in terms of lives especially in the beginning. These ultranationalists are the ones behind the coup and they were backed by the US. It is absolute insanity. --------------- The Ukrainians are now sustaining massive losses. This commander reveals to Sky News that he has lost 80% of his original unit.

Aye it is complex. These lads are Finnish. 😀

If the Nazis had conquered the UK I dare say there would have been plenty collaborators here as well. Might be a few candidates on this thread even. 😉 Is there much distinction between Russian and Ukrainian ethnically speaking? Putin has described Kiev as the first Russian city (historically speaking). My point with the Galicia region was that despite liking the nazis it is relatively small part of modern Ukraine (and is perhaps not worth fighting WWIII over). The Holodomor like the Armenian genocide is relatively overlooked. (Both influenced Hitler as well.) It is interesting to me that communism is not stigmatized to the same extent or more as nazism considering how many people they murdered. That is a thread in itself though.

https://thegrayzone.com/2022/06/21/british-journalists-mason-cadwalladr-security-state-lapdogs/ 😀

(Hugely understated) Yep.

See how the bad cunt thread got all the replies... 😀 Seconded!

Hmmm unlike you I read it. 😀 It is a pretty good article and balanced. Seems to be a respected website as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FiveThirtyEight So in comparison to the utter guff you post mostly unsourced I'd say maybe sort yourself out first Ally. Toodles.

I love how it seamlessly moves on to Jan 6 (another pile of utter shite) without any acknowledgement of the mountains of shite spouted on here about Russia collusion. Years and years of that Russia pishola and all shown to be total made-up crap. Biden's presidency is a binfire and he never gets a mention. Hunter Biden's laptop... man alive... yet not a mention. It is hilarious. Fucking shameless. 😀 Good old Trump he is the gift that keeps on giving.

Well obviously it was 70 years ago. Calling shite on that though. I don't think most people do know. I certainly didn't The Nazi sympathizer above was telling us with a straight face not that long ago there are no nazis in Ukraine and it is anti Semitic to say so.

Mods can we change the name of the thread to the 'Joe Biden Free Pass Thread'? 😀 Found this which gives an explanation... seems balanced. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-supreme-courts-argument-for-overturning-roe-v-wade/ What the ruling said At its heart, Roe v. Wade was about how much states could restrict abortion. In that ruling, states were prohibited from banning abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy and their ability to regulate abortion was limited during the second trimester. That structure changed with Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a Supreme Court case decided in 1992, which replaced the trimester framework with a single dividing line: fetal viability. Even with that change, Americans had a constitutional right to abortion up to a certain point in pregnancy for almost 50 years. In his majority opinion, Justice Samuel Alito, a Republican appointee, explained that this right simply never existed. “Abortion presents a profound moral question,” he wrote. “The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion.” Roe, he wrote, wasn’t simply wrong — it was so wrong as to amount to an “abuse of judicial authority.” This week’s ruling — officially known as Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health — relied heavily on a historical view of abortion rights. Alito argued that approach is crucial for understanding why abortion couldn’t be constitutionally protected. “Until the latter part of the 20th century, such a right was entirely unknown in American law,” he wrote. “Indeed, when the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted, three quarters of the States made abortion a crime at all stages of pregnancy.” Some historians have argued that Alito’s view of this history — which was also laid out in a draft opinion that leaked in early May — isn’t complete. But it’s worth emphasizing because another major opinion released yesterday, overturning a concealed-carry law in New York, also relies heavily on history. Alito acknowledged that a major precedent was being overturned, but he argued that it had to be done because the justices who decided Casey actually made a mistake by relying too heavily on precedent. The court is not required to uphold a previous ruling simply because it’s already on the books, he wrote. In fact, “the Constitution and the rule of law demand” that the question of abortion be returned to the states.

Very timely piece on the post above. Lot's of history in this that explains what is going on now. https://sonar21.com/understanding-the-ukrainian-ss-galicia-division-helps-explain-uk-and-canadian-support-for-ukraine/ It sure explains why the country with the most foreign volunteers in Ukraine is Canada with Poland second.

Got to be balanced.

I swear a decade passes now in the same time it feels like a year passed when I was 10.

For no real reason...Bump.

Four years seems a long time to be in that amount of pain. Maybe look into medical tourism. Perhaps some countries specialize in cheaper deals like getting your teeth done in Turkey. Hip replacement surgery is pretty swift versus the old days. I think you are in and out pretty quickly now.

Was watching something on Stepan Bandera and it gave some historical insight into the Nazi collaborators of WWII and the link to a certain part of present day Ukraine (and Poland). You have to go back to the Austro-Hungarian empire. That region in the North- East that today is part of Southern Poland and Eastern Ukraine... Galicia. This was a backward rural part of the Austro-Hungarian empire and it is this region that collaborated with Hitler and from here that nearly all the modern day Ultranationalists / Nazis come from today. It is very limited geographically (compared to the rest of the Ukraine but they are well organized violent extremists backed by the US state department). It also shows why the Poles are so active. Lot of bad blood with Russia going back a very long time. If you want to know what is the Nazi part of Ukraine it is that yellow part of the former Galicia. Some of the cities there openly have statues to Bandera. A guy who fought on the side of Hitler. Note the extent of the Russian Empire as well.

When the soviet union broke up Russia agreed to the current border with Lithuania on the condition that there was a permanent and untouchable rail corridor to Kaliningrad. This is a violation of that agreement, no rail corridor no recognition of the border, and it is being orchestrated by the US using a NATO country. Russia has apparently sent a written warning to Lithuania. They did this with Ukraine as well shortly before they invaded. I don't think they will invade Lithuania but something is coming be sure of that. The sanctions are far worse for us in Europe than they are for Russia. So therefore they are a bad idea. We are not succeeding in geo-politically isolating Russia, we are in fact isolating ourselves. The sanctions will also have zero impact on the military outcome in Ukraine. All of this is about the US trying to maintain dominance. And they are throwing us in Europe under the bus in an effort to hold on to it. It is going to fail IMHO and we will pay a heavy price for it. There is a real chance it descends into nuclear war as well. Kaliningrad is another very dangerous provocation similar to cutting off the water supply to the whole of the Crimean peninsula. I'd say that is a clear act of war. i.e. a NATO country just committed an act of war against Russia. (One thing though if it does kick off I'd pay money to see the bewildered pregnant look on Malcom's face when he sees the mushroom cloud go up. Be the last thing I see but it would give me a chuckle as I get incinerated.)

We all witnessed the enormous media propaganda onslaught during 2014. How to a man near enough they coalesced into an arm of the NO campaign, the disgraceful 'Vow' etc etc (just watch London Calling). It was shocking to witness but not surprising (at least to me). Well we are in another propaganda onslaught right now with regard to Russia, Putin and Ukraine. This onslaught however completely dwarfs the onslaught we witnessed in 2014, this is global and it has been building up over a decade plus. What amazes me though is that many people who recognized what happened in 2014 are seemingly not even aware that they are in another much more massive propaganda bubble. When it was us being demonized in 2014 it was obvious to some but now it is the Russians they can't see it anymore. This is why billionaires are queuing up to buy newspapers when none of them make that much money if any. Because people believe them. This is why despite being a prime candidate for it the BBC was never privatised. From what I am reading South American countries are all quietly rooting for Russia, same with African countries, India, add in China and that must be a majority of the world population I would think. We along with the US are hated. Unfortunately for the UK I think we are the prime vassal country to a dying empire. We are going down with that ship.

The one thing that is completely overlooked in all the Partygate stuff is not that they broke their own rules and acted like complete hypocrites, all that is true of course, but the thing that no one really discusses is that they clearly did not fear the virus. They were not worried about putting themselves at high risk of catching it by breaking all the supposed critical advice they were telling to the general public (masks, social distancing, gathering in large groups). This was supposedly a deadly and dangerous virus yet at the height of the fear they were all getting together for parties. So they obviously did not fear the virus while at the same time telling us to fear the virus. That is the scandal here IMHO.

Britain is a spent power and a vassal state to the US. (And that is who is impeding our quest for independence.) But the one thing the UK still does very well (and it comes from a long history of violent conquest and occupation plus from the methods used domestically) is propaganda. This is what Putin means by Empire of Lies and he is right... at least on that. Step out of line like Corbyn did or Salmond did or this guy is doing and you quickly find out the nature of the real country you are living in.