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Reply | US/UK/EU - the way forward
at 18:18 6 Mar 2025
I'm very surprised that there haven't been a load of replies from brexiteers complaining about my praise for the idea of a European army.
We can still be part of one of course. We don't need to be part of the EU for that. Let's hope that happens soon. |
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Reply | US/UK/EU - the way forward
at 18:33 5 Mar 2025
Bearing in mind where we are at the moment with Europe starting a scramble to work together to re-arm and build up their individual armies imagine how great it would have been if 10/15/20 years ago a European army had been created.
Europe would have been in a much stronger position in dealing with Trump and Putin.. |
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Reply | US/UK/EU - the way forward
at 18:44 4 Mar 2025
I accept that the EU will do what's best for the EU same as America will. And the same as the UK will.
The difference is that what's good for the EU, in the case of Ukraine for one, is the same as what's best for the UK. |
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Thread | US/UK/EU - the way forward
at 14:14 4 Mar 2025
Donald Trump is going to be POTUS for the next four years and if his policies are still popular in America at the end of that time it may very well be that a Republican (Vance ?) will replace him. And that person will probably continue in a similar vein.
So what should the UK do now ?
At the moment the UK is stuck in the middle trying to balance keeping the US onside while doing the same thing with the EU. That applies with trade as well as the Ukraine problem.
In my opinion we should, while carrying on being diplomatically onside with the US, accept that in the long run our future is better served by accepting we are part of Europe (not the EU) and work toward better relations with the EU.
If we engage with the US on trade we know that they will ALWAYS, especially if it's a Trump/Vance Republican administration, ensure that the US wins the (Trade) war. They will use their size and might to ensure that happens because they hold all the cards, to use a currently popular phrase. |
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Reply | Trump and Vance
at 18:55 1 Mar 2025
Vance talked about diplomacy with Putin being the answer to stopping the war. Zelensky asked him a simple question.
He said Putin signed a ceasefire agreement in 2019 after the Crimea invasion (Macron and Merkel also involved in the negotiations). A couple of years later he just ignored the agreement and invaded Ukraine again. So he asked what sort of diplomacy will work this time ? He was very calm and measured in asking a what to me was a very reasonable question.
Vance's response was to accuse him (Z) of coming to the Oval Office and being disrespectful in trying to litigate in front of the media.
Throughout the whole 50 minutes or so Zelensky kept calm despite his frustration because on many occasions he had to actually ASK for a chance to give his answer to the questions put because Trump just talked and talked and took over virtually the whole meeting.
I thought he did brilliantly. |
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Reply | Relegation
at 10:00 23 Feb 2025
We can only hope. |
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Reply | Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Match day thread ** Updated
at 16:28 21 Feb 2025
Is Ginnelly fit or not ? That's what I want to know. If he is then he's the only one with real pace so he should be played even if it's to be brought on as a sub for the last thirty or whatever his match fitness allows. |
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Reply | Stoke City v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 17:48 15 Feb 2025
I wanted to ask about Ginnelly.
He's on the bench so fit to play. He's the quickest player on the books and would have got past the Stoke back line easily. Does anyone have a clue why LW doesn't use him ?
Anyone ? |
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Reply | Small Boat Crossings
at 22:16 13 Feb 2025
Correct builthy. But it's the 30,000 that seems to concern so many people. It's so visible I suppose.
People are very strange. If you asked them all if they'd be happy with the figures down from almost a million last year to 30,000 they'd love it. So why doesn't the government stop ALL visas ? Maybe they wouldn't care about the 30,000 then.
Then the same people would complain that there aren't any doctors and nurses and care workers to look after them. |
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Reply | Small Boat Crossings
at 18:41 13 Feb 2025
Yes, apparently they just threw their papers into the channel for that purpose.
But if they did do that how did we identify all the Albanians and send them back ? And how did we identify all the Vietnamese who were shown to be the largest group of migrants at one point ? |
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Thread | Small Boat Crossings
at 18:05 12 Feb 2025
This is an idea that occurred to me. There's probably a glaring problem with my logic that I can't see. Maybe one of you can.
The Labour government say they've recruited a lot more people to process asylum claims. When those claims are investigated apparently about 60% are valid with 40% declined. My question is, what if you said we're going to use all the new asylum claim processors to process the illegal small boat arrivals as soon as they arrive. That you will detain them somewhere while they are processed and then deport the illegal ones.
Would this not mean that anyone who knows they have no real claim would say i'm not going to pay thousands to cross the channel knowing that my claim will fail and i'll be immediately deported.
If this did happen there would be a drop from maybe 30,000 this year to 18,000 at a stroke.  |
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Reply | Trump haters of the forum
at 18:58 10 Feb 2025
'It just could have been'.
What an intelligent insight. So it just also 'could have been' because he's just been elected POTUS and the pilots just thought lets end it now.
It 'could have been' anything. I wonder if he's ever heard the word div. |
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Reply | Silver Lining
at 16:13 4 Feb 2025
There is at least one major flaw in my suggestion. That is, who is going to make the decision on who should replace LW ? The same person that appointed him ? |
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Thread | Silver Lining
at 09:45 4 Feb 2025
There's always one.
During Jan it was said many times that there was a limited amount of money to spend due to FFP and P&S. And better to spend that money on getting players in rather than on getting rid of LW.
Well that problem has gone. The money's still there and the probably one good thing AC can do now is get rid of Williams. If the owners have any sense they would have already been planning on sacking him in the Summer so the cost is essentially the same.
Even if the person they replace him with is just given the job of keeping us up with a bonus for doing it that's okay. And from what Keith says, if the players are really pee'd off with the current training regime perhaps a change will make all the difference to them as well. |
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