General News Thread

[leicsmac]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5jg9vy1n0o

 

Southern Water has warned tanker companies to stop delivering its water to the Wiltshire estate of an American billionaire.

Some of it was recently used, entirely legally, to help fill a lake, despite a hosepipe ban being in place locally for domestic users.

Multiple water tankers have been filmed both day and night by local residents filling up from standpipes in part of neighbouring Hampshire where a drought order is in place.

The BBC has been told that those tankers went to Conholt Park, a 2,500 acre estate owned by Stephen Schwarzman – who is one of the world's richest men and a financial backer of US President Donald Trump.

 

Now imagine the water shortage is much more acute than just hosepipe bans.

[Parafox]

5 hours ago, st albans fox said:

Are they trying to get into the ufo ? 
 

police have corrected their estimates to 150k.  But all marches over claim the attendance.  It just seems odd that you’d look at the official estimate of 100k and push a narrative of a million+

 

I mean 500k would be incredibly impressive. Going overboard just confirms to the masses that you’re probably talking shite 

 

Somebody on a local FB group claimed a BILLION .

 

Needless to say they were widely derided.

[Parafox]

1 hour ago, bovril said:

Still not sure why Brits care so much about Charlie Kirk. 

[SkidsFox]

36 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5jg9vy1n0o

 

Southern Water has warned tanker companies to stop delivering its water to the Wiltshire estate of an American billionaire.

Some of it was recently used, entirely legally, to help fill a lake, despite a hosepipe ban being in place locally for domestic users.

Multiple water tankers have been filmed both day and night by local residents filling up from standpipes in part of neighbouring Hampshire where a drought order is in place.

The BBC has been told that those tankers went to Conholt Park, a 2,500 acre estate owned by Stephen Schwarzman – who is one of the world's richest men and a financial backer of US President Donald Trump.

 

Now imagine the water shortage is much more acute than just hosepipe bans.

Without giving away too much detail, water companies already have small teams that are busy in summer and drought periods, checking up on places that may be using large amounts of water that hasn't gone through their metered supply, such as fruit farms and golf courses. 

[FoxesDeb]

1 hour ago, Tommy G said:

How many arrests yesterday vs something of a similar scale, like Notting hill carnival? 

Well it wasn't on a similar scale apparently, but a quick Google suggests that the number of arrests were a very similar percentage

[leicsmac]

1 hour ago, SkidsFox said:

Without giving away too much detail, water companies already have small teams that are busy in summer and drought periods, checking up on places that may be using large amounts of water that hasn't gone through their metered supply, such as fruit farms and golf courses. 

I'm sure that they do. 

 

It seems that there still are issues, and they may become more flashpoints as resources get scarcer, though.

[CornwallFox]

2 hours ago, Foxdiamond said:

A female Group Captain felt the need to resign due to the pressure she was under to meet targets. How many potential top pilots missed out? Men that wanted to help defend the country 

At the same time I'm not sure it was actually the case that the pilots that got in weren't good pilots... Who knows how many of them would've got it anyway, could be all, could be zero, so likely somewhere in between

[CornwallFox]

1 hour ago, SkidsFox said:

Without giving away too much detail, water companies already have small teams that are busy in summer and drought periods, checking up on places that may be using large amounts of water that hasn't gone through their metered supply, such as fruit farms and golf courses. 

Id rather they spent their time thinking about how to not unleash pollution into our rivers and seas 

[Foxdiamond]

29 minutes ago, CornwallFox said:

At the same time I'm not sure it was actually the case that the pilots that got in weren't good pilots... Who knows how many of them would've got it anyway, could be all, could be zero, so likely somewhere in between

The point is that the blokes that were turned down was simply because they were white men and the targets were unrealistic anyway

[Bellend Sebastian]

Unlucky for those lads to have applied for training in the one year out of 107 of the RAF's history where presumably the exact opposite happened

[st albans fox]

Just been looking at events in Spain relating to the vuelta and the way the Spanish PM has encouraged the protests.  It got me wondering is this is how Corbyn would have governed the country - ie. still a protest politician despite being the head of govt. 

[Trav Le Bleu]

8 hours ago, st albans fox said:

Are they trying to get into the ufo ? 
 

police have corrected their estimates to 150k.  But all marches over claim the attendance.  It just seems odd that you’d look at the official estimate of 100k and push a narrative of a million+

 

I mean 500k would be incredibly impressive. Going overboard just confirms to the masses that you’re probably talking shite 

Yeah, 500k would be pretty much almost the entire adult population of Leicester, Nottingham and Derby.

 

It always astonishes me how people don't understand large numbers. I think because of inflation in general, people aren't impressed by 1,000,000 any more (for instance, there are parts of the UK where that wouldn't buy you a family home), but regardless, it's a big number.

 

For instance, London receives 202 million tourists a year, which is approximately 553,000 a day from all over the world and the UK, so to add double that on one day... quite frankly the city would've ground to a halt.

 

Not withstanding the fact, 1,000,000 people... that's a lot of villages missing their idiot.

Edited 14 September 2025 by Trav Le Bleu

[bovril]

Cliffhanger 

[Trav Le Bleu]

2 minutes ago, bovril said:

Cliffhanger 

Overrated, though as always, Michael Rooker makes a good baddie.

[Trav Le Bleu]

1 hour ago, leicsmac said:

I'm sure that they do. 

 

It seems that there still are issues, and they may become more flashflood points as resources get scarcer, though.

[leicsmac]

3 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Oh, yes. Those too.

[Foxdiamond]

23 minutes ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

Unlucky for those lads to have applied for training in the one year out of 107 of the RAF's history where presumably the exact opposite happened

Didn't stop this chap Indra Lal Roy

[Bellend Sebastian]

18 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

Didn't stop this chap Indra Lal Roy

A DEI hire in 1917, who'd have thought it. After three years of grinding industrial slaughter, it's good to see they hadn't lost sight of their priorities.

 

A white man could've had his body smashed to pieces in his place, it's woke nonsense gone mad

[Foxdiamond]

Just now, Bellend Sebastian said:

A DEI hire in 1917, who'd have thought it. After three years of grinding industrial slaughter, it's good to see they hadn't lost sight of their priorities.

 

A white man could've had his body smashed to pieces in his place, it's woke nonsense gone mad

Don't worry lots of posh white boys died too. Lt Roy was a volunteer who didn't have to go. 

[Heathrow fox]

1 hour ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Yeah, 500k would be pretty much almost the entire adult population of Leicester, Nottingham and Derby.

 

It always astonishes me how people don't understand large numbers. I think because of inflation in general, people aren't impressed by 1,000,000 any more (for instance, there are parts of the UK where that wouldn't buy you a family home), but regardless, it's a big number.

 

For instance, London receives 202 million tourists a year, which is approximately 553,000 a day from all over the world and the UK, so to add double that on one day... quite frankly the city would've ground to a halt.

 

Not withstanding the fact, 1,000,000 people... that's a lot of villages missing their idiot.

Glasto is always a good guide for judging these sort of things.Just compare and contrast a birds eye view of the Pyramid stage crowd.That footage looks around the 200k mark to me.

[leicsmac]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce32qepq12qo

 

The Conservative Party has written to Sir Keir Starmer demanding answers over the extent of Downing Street's knowledge of Lord Mandelson's links to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

The Tories also called for the prime minister to release documents relating to Mandelson's appointment, including evidence showing how No 10 reacted when they learned of his ties to Epstein.

 

While it's right to ask because people should know how deeply Mandelson was involved here, it's just a mite hypocritical that the ones doing the asking are those all too happy to embrace the policies and strike the ego of the man with whom Epstein had as much as if not more involvement. 

[Bellend Sebastian]

9 hours ago, Foxdiamond said:

Don't worry lots of posh white boys died too. Lt Roy was a volunteer who didn't have to go. 

The real mystery is under which scheme my Uncle Roy was allowed in, must have been one for being overweight and banging on about the cruise control on his BMW for far too long

[Tommy G]

1 hour ago, leicsmac said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce32qepq12qo

 

The Conservative Party has written to Sir Keir Starmer demanding answers over the extent of Downing Street's knowledge of Lord Mandelson's links to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

The Tories also called for the prime minister to release documents relating to Mandelson's appointment, including evidence showing how No 10 reacted when they learned of his ties to Epstein.

 

While it's right to ask because people should know how deeply Mandelson was involved here, it's just a mite hypocritical that the ones doing the asking are those all too happy to embrace the policies and strike the ego of the man with whom Epstein had as much as if not more involvement. 

Are you talking about your friend here Trump?

 

I'm not sure what you want the opposition to do, this is exactly what they should be doing? Holding the govt to account, you'd expect labour to be doing the same if they were in opposition, no?

 

There seems to be a trend at the minute of finger pointing at other people, political parties about how they go about their business or otherwise without holding yourself to those standards because they are 'worse'.

 

They should be talking about Mandelson - what is has to do with right leaning policy and trump I don't know. 

[leicsmac]

13 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

Are you talking about your friend here Trump?

 

I'm not sure what you want the opposition to do, this is exactly what they should be doing? Holding the govt to account, you'd expect labour to be doing the same if they were in opposition, no?

 

There seems to be a trend at the minute of finger pointing at other people, political parties about how they go about their business or otherwise without holding yourself to those standards because they are 'worse'.

 

They should be talking about Mandelson - what is has to do with right leaning policy and trump I don't know. 

Yes I am, and it's entirely possible to both acknowledge that they are doing what they should be doing and pointing out the hypocrisy at the same time. 

 

That being said, I guess hypocrisy is rife in high level politics regardless of affiliation. 

[Tommy G]

5 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Yes I am, and it's entirely possible to both acknowledge that they are doing what they should be doing and pointing out the hypocrisy at the same time. 

 

That being said, I guess hypocrisy is rife in high level politics regardless of affiliation. 

Same with topics like climate change - people wittering about the problems but still driving their ICE cars, buying imported food, leaving lights on, going on holiday on planes. All preposterous examples but we exist in a virtue signalling society where it's important to be seen to be doing the right thing rather than doing it I guess.