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Message 114898 - Posted: 24 Nov 2024, 17:31:54 UTC - in response to Message 114896.  

I see someone has got over a million signatures on the parliamentary e-petition page to have another general election. Probably a kipper/Brexit/Reform type.
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Message 114927 - Posted: 29 Nov 2024, 17:45:30 UTC

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Message 114928 - Posted: 29 Nov 2024, 21:26:54 UTC - in response to Message 114927.  

Clarkson is a buffoon willing to do anything for publicity. Starmer reflects the same politics as Blair.
"Tony Blair MP" aptly being an anagram of, "I', m Tory Plan B."
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Message 114929 - Posted: 29 Nov 2024, 22:29:45 UTC - in response to Message 114928.  

Look beyond who's saying it and listen to the message he's saying. It's not about Clarkson. He just reaches masses others do not.
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Message 115108 - Posted: 30 Dec 2024, 19:40:42 UTC - in response to Message 114895.  

In reply to Richard Haselgrove's message of 24 Nov 2024:
... We don't do coalition governments, even during wartime.

Not at all true.

The UK was governed by a coalition government from May 1915 until Oct 1922, first with Herbert Asquith as Prime Minister, succeeded by David Lloyd-George.

Ramsay MacDonald's minority, sustained in office from June 1929 to Aug 1931 with Liberal support, finally collapsed and was replaced by a "national administration", that is a coalition including members of all parties seated in the Commons. From then on, until Clement Atlee won a majority in the 1945 general election, the UK was governed by a coalition administration.
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Message 115268 - Posted: 23 Jan 2025, 17:09:04 UTC
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I have just watched the most bizarre thing, I've seen for a very long time.
Trump attending the WEF i Davos, virtually from Washington.

Speaking to a bunch of equally bizarre capitalists, and answering as* ki**ing questions from some of them.
If only 10% of what he says will come true, we're in to a he** of a crazy four years. It's scary, and probably
the end of WTO, and the rule based world order. The wild west, is back....

I'm not a psychiatrist, but, Trump would likely be diagnosed as a...........................

That virtual appearance of Trump, in front of the WEF in Davos, will probably appear in my worst nightmares.
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Message 115275 - Posted: 24 Jan 2025, 5:50:15 UTC - in response to Message 115268.  

Didn''t take long for a judge to rule one of his executive orders was unconstitutional though! Sadly, I don't think his tariff based approach to the American economy will get the same treatment though.
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Message 115349 - Posted: 4 Feb 2025, 2:43:38 UTC
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DOGE is Gestapo.

This is just the beginning, since SCOTUS has ruled that the President have full immunity for everything
he does in the role as President.

I'm sorry, but the U.S in on a fast track towards fascism and dictatorship.
"There will be no need for any more elections" Remember who said that, and when?
Putin and Xi, is laughing their a**es off.
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Message 115350 - Posted: 4 Feb 2025, 5:07:39 UTC - in response to Message 115349.  

First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the Scientists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a scientist

Then they came for the Teachers
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a teacher

Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
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Message 115352 - Posted: 4 Feb 2025, 8:01:54 UTC

I remember the day after Roe V Wade was overturned, a far right you tuber (who has visited Mar-A -Lago), posted a video in which he celebrated the decision, ranted gleefully about freedoms and ended with the words "Remember our goal is the Handmaidens Tale and nothing less."
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Message 115354 - Posted: 4 Feb 2025, 11:41:44 UTC
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The plan is clear and obvious. Of course Trump/Putin/Xi needs Canada as the 51:st state.
With Canada in the U.S, the whole of North America is linked to Russia, with just a short
body of water in between, and Russia already shares a border with China.

Three totalitarian states joined into one huge totalitarian state.

The project with the Manchurian candidate worked.

Hello George Orwell. You only had the wrong year.
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Message 115359 - Posted: 5 Feb 2025, 4:03:22 UTC

Another Trump Special from yesterday "We take over, and own Gaza".
I guess it is OK then that Putin wants to own, at least the Eastern part of Ukraine.

It's getting more and more bizarre this v2 of the Trump presidency,
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Message 115360 - Posted: 5 Feb 2025, 5:15:04 UTC - in response to Message 115359.  

In reply to Grumpy Swede's message of 5 Feb 2025:
It's getting more and more bizarre this v2 of the Trump presidency,
It is a narcissist, it will do everything to assure itself it will be talked about for a thousand years, that is the only thing that matters to itself. Bizarre is to be expected, it is the norm.
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