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I think what Mac’s saying is that it’s one thing to put up a blocker to stop a tidal wave going in one direction, but his concern is that the tidal wave could then turn around and power back the other way.

For a start, they need to unrelentingly point out Reform’s softness/complicity with Russia. They’re weak on national defence and that needs hammering. They also need a detailed immigration plan to highlight Reform’s weakness in detail but that’s a lot tougher for a number of reasons.

I think the Conservative Party has to stand up to Reform. A Conservative Party that tries to get in bed with Reform is a Conservative Party that gets squashed.

There should be riots at this.

I know it’s unpopular opinions, but that’s a bit much dude.

China are going to benefit the most from all this in the long term.

Read an interesting comment today that this will also hurt the Russian economy by proxy. So I’m not sure they’re that happy about it all despite the exemption.

Bit generous calling him a comedian.

Frankly, even if your foe crashes the economy now, she outlasted a lettuce in doing so.

I mean… At least it doesn’t say incarcerated?

Interesting that they had all of AI to try for this image and the best they could come up with was a villainous military officer leading a poor 7-fingered foreigner away in chains.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj929xd84e3o I can’t decide whether he has something to answer for himself or whether he’s so up his own backside that he just doesn’t care.

I never thought at the time that I’d look back on the days of George W. Bush as an era of American diplomatic reliability and competence.

I do think there’s an opportunity for Europeans to respond to this with words like: ”We very much agree with Vice-President Vance’s stated concerns over the threat of increased Russian aggression in the Arctic and elsewhere and we look forward to working closely with America on security regarding the matter.”

In those words?

@leicsmac - I think the thing that originally bugged me about the whole Trump/dementia thing was seeing an article, presented either on this thread or one of its predecessors, where an expert was claiming (pre-election) that Trump was showing signs of dementia while Biden wasn’t. I’m perfectly happy and willing to listen to expert opinion but that one blatantly failed the eye test, and I have to then ask myself why the article existed. The one presented above was a similar thing, albeit without the Biden comparison in it, and unfortunately follows a bit of a trend I’ve noticed over recent years on several big issues such as Trump, trans and the origins of Covid - scientific experts posting things that they want to be true as opposed to being definitively objective. I agree with what you’re saying in principle, and I’m not saying that such posts are conspiratorial or anything like that. I think it’s more a case of people making the classic statistical mistake of coming to a conclusion and then trying to find the data to back it up.

Not quite sure what led up to this but if I was the bank staff I’d be suspicious of him too.

You’re kind of assuming their supporters would vote for the other there though. For instance, at present I’d consider voting Lib Dem but wouldn’t vote Green.

So far - it never happened, fake news from a discredited reporter, it’s nothing to do with me despite me being president, it did happen but it only shows the cogs of a working government, and it’s the Democrats’ fault for scrimping on security.

I’m inclined to agree. A lot of the purported evidence I’ve seen about Trump possibly having dementia reads like people hoping he has dementia more than anything. Like we all hoped Putin was going to snuff it soon when he was behaving oddly shortly after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Trump may have early dementia, he may not. But all this stuff came out in the lead-up to the election from people trying to get on the “Democrats got rid of their senile candidate, what about the Republicans?” bandwagon.

Hang on, I thought the Democrats admitted that Biden had been going senile for four years and they’d known all along? Or was that fake news?

For my money, Rachel Reeves is doing the unpopular things and will end up getting thrown to the wolves so the next chancellor can step in and do more popular things before the next election. I think Labour will try to keep her in place for as long as possible so the next person can hit the ground running. I wouldn’t be surprised if my local MP Jeevun Sandher got his hands on the role eventually. He seems that way minded.

I’m assuming it was a Russian agent with a drone until specified otherwise.

Can I vote for Vardy tapping the ball into the net while Heaven’s lying on the floor getting treatment?

I’m always nervous about a wealth tax on the basis that I reckon it would chase money - both private and business - out of the country. But I do think the world might have collectively missed a trick in not imposing one to pay for the response to Covid. It feels like one domino falling would have led to others there.