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Another Xmas market disaster
at 21:42 22 Dec 2024

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Second BREXIT Referendum
at 12:25 22 Dec 2024

That Oxford research uses data on Brexit voting profiles by age group to argue that a significant retiree population had a big influence on the result in Wales. However, it does not go into the crucial issue of which Welsh localities voted which way. Merthyr and Rhonda Cynon Taff are hardly areas where large numbers of English retirees settle, but they and indeed all the valley areas voted heavily for Brexit. Other academics explain this with reference to industrial history, culture, and disillusionment with the Welsh political elite rather than English retirees.

https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/electionsinwales/wp-content/uploads/sites/100/2018/0

Usual trashy final sentence from a poster who seems to find it hard to construct logical arguments.
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Hull City v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 22:19 21 Dec 2024

I would hazard a guess that is not true. Jackmanandboy would be a contender. You seem to have had a bad day.
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Second BREXIT Referendum
at 22:11 21 Dec 2024

Wales had a higher percentage of leave voters than England. if Killy's silly hypothesis was correct and English incomers merely replicated the English pattern to influence the Welsh result then you would not get the result we had.
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Second BREXIT Referendum
at 18:37 21 Dec 2024

Rejoining would not restore the old rebate, and would probably require agreement to join Schengen, participate in immigration "burden sharing", and in the longer term adopt the Euro. The UK would become a net contributor at a time of continuing EU enlargement with poorer countries joining, and the big two (Germany and France) less able to subsidise the beneficiary countries. There would be a requirement to be bound by the EU's new economic governance framework with its risk-based surveillance and enhanced enforcement regime, plus its mandatory requirement to implement the prescribed measures needed to "secure the green and digital transitions". That framework includes rules on markets, competition and public debt limits that may not be wholly congenial to a Labour government, including in areas such as the Fourth Railway Package, which appears incompatible with Labour's rail nationalisation plans. There would be heavy pressure to coordinate European defence, probably under a unified command. The fishermen would lose any prospect of getting a bigger share of agreed catches in the various regulated sectors. In the legal domain, we would sign up to the whole EU acquis communautaire, and again become a rule taker rather than a rule maker. Personally I do not think a return is a great idea at the present juncture. Many people on here probably think that all the above means nothing if they can avoid paying £6 for a holiday visa waiver.
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Hull City v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 14:22 21 Dec 2024

Made to look like relegation fodder by the bottom team.
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Hull City v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 14:08 21 Dec 2024

It was coming. Since we equalised we have been very negative.
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Hull City v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 13:46 21 Dec 2024

No, I was a keeper. My point was that the deflection gave Vig little chance.
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Hull City v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 13:44 21 Dec 2024

I'm starting to get really frustrated with the slow build ups and refusal to put in crosses even when in good positions. Key and Harris are among the guilty ones.
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Mandelson to be next Ambassador to USA.
at 13:37 21 Dec 2024

Networker? As the saying goes, "It takes two to tango",

https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/international-relations/trump-gave-permission

The naivety of the appointment is beginning to show.
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Hull City v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 13:14 21 Dec 2024

At last a reasonable cross and good header. I'd hazard a guess that Hull are vulnerable if put under pressure.
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Hull City v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 13:08 21 Dec 2024

Bit of bad luck with the deflection, but we are very much second best. As I write we almost conceded again. The way things are coming from behind is hard for us.
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Mandelson to be next Ambassador to USA.
at 11:28 21 Dec 2024

Thangam Debbonaire is another contender in the hypocrisy/sleaze stakes.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24811836.thangam-debbonaire-called-house-lords
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Tulip Sadiq
at 11:22 21 Dec 2024

If the proverbial hits the fan, the worst she can look forward to is probably a peerage.
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Another Xmas market disaster
at 11:13 21 Dec 2024

Well, we will see when more information comes out, but the posts were quite recent, and reports say the man also ran a website with anti-Islamic content, I accept that the authorities might prefer a story of that kind, and it seems that some pro-immigration groups in Germany are saying this was a supporter of AfD who turned on Germany because it did not support extreme policies. It wasn't so much the occupation and age that I had in mind when I said the attacker was atypical, but the social media posts and reaction to them,

https://eturbonews.com/why-this-saudi-terrorist-killed-germans-attending-the-mag
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The Black Belt Barrister
at 11:04 21 Dec 2024

It is an interesting suggestion, but seems a bit of a stretch to me. Two possible avenues that the barrister may have had in mind are:

1. The possibility that a verbal statement, promise or acceptance of an offer becomes a contract in law. This seems more likely to apply to business than politics, and depends on establishing that what was said causes another party to rely on that statement in such a way that they are financially injured by that reliance. Even in the business domain this is difficult to prove.

2. The principle that a statement by a public authority can create a legitimate expectation that a promised course of action will be followed, and that denial of this legitimate expectation is unlawful. Again this is a difficult thing to establish and as far as I know has been applied to the area of public administration rather than politics. The nearest example I can think of is R (on the application of Wheeler) v Office of the Prime Minister (2008). This was a case where Wheeler argued that a Labour Party Manifesto commitment to hold a referendum on the related Constitutional Treaty meant that the Labour government should hold a referendum on whether to ratify the Treaty of Lisbon.

https://www.lawteacher.net/cases/wheeler-v-prime-minister.php#:~:text=The%20clai

Note that I am not an expert in these areas, so my suggestions are just discussion points.
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Another Xmas market disaster
at 10:03 21 Dec 2024

You can probably gather that I am not a fan of radical Islam, but it seems from the content of his X posts that the arrested man - "Taleb A" - was an activist who had been involved in getting Saudi atheists and other dissidents who oppose Islam into Europe. So if we can believe the reports he is not the usual jihadist zealot.

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Among the X posts was one accusing the German people of being responsible for the killing of Socrates and some that said the police were opening his mail. I won't count a post blaming Merkel for the "silent Islamisation of Europe" as necessarily indicating mental disturbance.
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Tulip Sadiq
at 09:52 21 Dec 2024

The plot thickens.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/labour-minister-tulip-siddiq-faces-question
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Britain is the Western Sharia Law Capital
at 09:08 21 Dec 2024

The background to this is media reports about so-called Muslim patrols and the counter-reaction from certain UK groups. Much of the coverage is probably unreliable, but there do seem to have been incidents where Muslims have tried to impose their behavioural norms on persons walking in public areas. At least five persons have been jailed for offences relating to this.






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Another Xmas market disaster
at 08:40 21 Dec 2024

From official statements it is looking as though this is a highly unusual case where a 50 year old Saudi national, who worked as a prison psychiatrist, held strong anti-Islamist views, and appeared to have made bizarre X posts that might indicate a mental disturbance, I guess we need more information before we have much idea about motivation. All I would say is that in addition to the obvious risks of jihadi violence, mass immigration into Europe sets in play complex interactions and dynamics that can cause collateral damage.
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