Sampson

You have to wonder why Farage, a guy who was allegedly so anti Britain adopting the Euro because of the tradition and patriotism of the pound, is so pro the movement towards crypto over fiat currencies like the pound… What is patriotic and traditional about crypto?

I think we got the same red herring of

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Just about did it but so many red herrings Connections Puzzle #1057 🟨🟩🟨🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟦🟩🟩 🟩🟦🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦

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My first perfect in a few days Connections Puzzle #1056 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Too many British voters sadly too engrained in Americanisation and too anti-EU to do what needs to be done and create a united military-economic alliance seperate from the US, China and Russia between the likes of the UK, EU, Canada, Australia and Japan

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Today’s was gettable but I got done by the so many red herrings Connections Puzzle #1055 🟨🟪🟩🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟦🟦 🟪🟦🟪🟦 🟩🟦🟩🟩

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgepy0xw1nzo Interesting interview with John Major, who I generally think is a very good interviewee these days. I agree that we need to start making an argument to fix the pension system, which is many many times way more costly and bigger albatross around the country’s neck that immigrants or disability benefits which get way more coverage. A far bigger problem that immigration or disability or job seeker benefits is it’s the only part of the country which still works and the government spend the last generation cutting all other public services largely to fund the ballooning state pensions of an ageing population. But it’s so hard to talk about because it’s much easier to blame immigrants, or say job seekers and disabled people are scroungers than it is to reduce pensions, which are the one benefit people seem to demand they actually “deserve” despite the original idea being they would be something for a very small percentage of the country for 4 or 5 years at the end of their life, rather then for a third if the population for the final 25 or 30 years of their life. We saw that with the backlash over the winter fuel allowance- which was a step in the right direction - because politicians are too scared to publicly make an argument about the issues of population ageing.

It’s definitely a tough one and for me they were just the last 4 remaining, but I thought the other 3 groups were ok.

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Me too. Got and understood all 4 categories after a couple of misses to red herrings Connections Puzzle #1053 🟨🟪🟦🟩 🟪🟪🟨🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Eh. You haven’t learnt how this works yet? It’s Reality TV Real Housewives politics. Trump wants a new story of the pendulum swinging every week to keep himself in the news. It will be a few days of “let’s celebrate the great relationship between our countries”, the press will lap it up as “resetting relations”. Then 3 weeks down the road Trump will be attacking the UK again for not helping in the Iran war and saying the Falklands or Greenland belong to the UK and Denmark. Already seen a BBC article about how this will “revitalise UK-US relations”. Didn’t we already read all this last year when Trump came to the UK? It did, for about a week… then everyone forgot about it again. People have such short memories these days.

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Got a bit lucky in the end. The red herring on green was devilish and I know nothing about purple so couldn’t do process of elimination Connections Puzzle #1051 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟩🟪🟩 🟪🟩🟪🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

With whom? Starmer is very much sticking to his “we don’t need to take sides between the US and Europe” schtick when it’s obvious to everyone that the old world order is dead and we do. Those who want us to ween ourselves off American and get closer to Europe will all vote LibDems or Green as they are promising that. Those who think we should get closer to the US and abandon Europe will vote for Reform or Conservatives because they are promising that. Starmer is at least publicly trying to pretend the post-WW2 order still exists and that the US is still on the side of NATO, Ukraine and Europe and play both sides. When it’s obvious to everyone else that that world no longer exists and we *do* need to pick a side to align ourselves with as the world devolves into pre-WW1 military-economic alliance blocks.

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