lichtgilphead Posted September 13, 2023 Share Posted September 13, 2023 6 minutes ago, MazzyStar said: https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/29/surety-mission-50m-airbase-project-could-pave-way-for-uk-to-host-us-nuclear-weapons A story that has largely been ignored (probably because the MSM is very pro-war again). It goes without saying that this is a terrible idea. No yank nukes in are country. Yet, as a Yoon, you support having American-manufactured nuclear missiles in Argyll? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MazzyStar Posted September 13, 2023 Share Posted September 13, 2023 1 minute ago, lichtgilphead said: Yet, as a Yoon, you support having American-manufactured nuclear missiles in Argyll? Who said I’m a yoon? Even if I was it doesn’t automatically mean that I’d support having nuclear weapons in Argyll. Anyway none of this has anything to do with the orignal point. Swing and a miss champ. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted September 13, 2023 Share Posted September 13, 2023 7 hours ago, oneteaminglasgow said: A fucking classic in the genre of ‘saying the quiet bit loud’ These people are absolute vermin, and I would dance on their graves. Who the f**k is this gimp? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted September 13, 2023 Author Share Posted September 13, 2023 2 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said: Who the f**k is this gimp? He’s a Partick Thistle supporter who lives in Edinburgh. ‘Gimp’ is a bit unfair imo. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lichtgilphead Posted September 13, 2023 Share Posted September 13, 2023 5 minutes ago, MazzyStar said: Who said I’m a yoon? Even if I was it doesn’t automatically mean that I’d support having nuclear weapons in Argyll. Anyway none of this has anything to do with the orignal point. Swing and a miss champ. My recollection was that you were a Labour supporter. Labour are Yoons, and enthusiastically support Trident (Jackie Baillie, anyone?) Apologies if my recollection was incorrect. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MazzyStar Posted September 13, 2023 Share Posted September 13, 2023 4 minutes ago, lichtgilphead said: My recollection was that you were a Labour supporter. Labour are Yoons, and enthusiastically support Trident (Jackie Baillie, anyone?) Apologies if my recollection was incorrect. No, I don’t particularly like Labour. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted September 13, 2023 Author Share Posted September 13, 2023 Tobias Ellwood resigns as defence committee chair after controversial Afghanistan video https://news.sky.com/story/tobias-ellwood-resigns-as-defence-committee-chair-after-controversial-afghanistan-video-12960666 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GHF-23 Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 19 hours ago, Granny Danger said: The pro-Zionist scumbags will be upset by this. Antisemitism definition used by UK universities leading to ‘unreasonable’ accusations Report says IHRA definition has led to 40 cases against people and groups – of which 38 were cleared – and is stifling academic freedoms https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/sep/13/antisemitism-definition-used-by-uk-universities-leading-to-unreasonable-accusations It’s about time that the false equivalency between anti-semitism and anti-Zionism was exposed. Some additional context. The 2 which were not cleared were not in fact substantiated, they are yet to be decided. Same week that there's been a furore over Rory Stewart being honest about Corbyn's suspension/removal of the whip, with a full court press by the punditry class asking "oh but why was he suspended?!" The answer to this is of course that in a statement condemning antisemitism he made the point that the "crisis" had been largely manufactured by the press and internal opposition. Not only is this obvious to anyone who has read the Forde report and has a passing acquaintance with the British press, but was also explicitly called out by the much vaunted (and again, for anyone who has actually read it surprisingly sedate) EHRC report as opinion that the Labour party should not penalise members for expressing. We've also seen the collapse of another Labour party civil case just before it goes to trial, as obviously no one would like this to ever get anywhere near a courtroom, and John Ware has for the umpteenth time produced a novella about why despite the well documented "interesting" editing and other choices that were made his Panorama documentary was an unimpeachable piece of journalism. And in a final story for today Labour Right ghoul and self-proclaimed scourge of antisemitism Luke Akehurst was recorded describing a black Jewish labour member as having inner conflict and not celebrating her heritage. It's all going well guys! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StellarHibee Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 18 hours ago, MazzyStar said: No, I don’t particularly like Labour. Most unionists don't particularly like much of anything to do with the union, but they'll defend it at all costs anyway. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 On 29/08/2023 at 08:08, O'Kelly Isley III said: Not if you were the individual or corporation who was sucking on the PFI teat. The whole cynical point of PFI was to shuffle costs off the public finances, and whilst it did that in the first instance it kicked the problem down the road by which time the architects would have moved on to their international sinecures. That was bad enough, but the quality of the 'products' that emerged from PFI was invariably shit, the tab for which will be picked up by Joe Public. I’m going to be tedious and pedantic, but it wasn’t the costs that were removed from the treasury. The outgoings were probably expected to be a bit higher than public borrowing to fund investment but were fiddled (obviously and knowingly) to look like they were expected to be lower and were actually much higher in practice. Two things were meant to be taken out of the national accounts , risk and debt. Notionally the contracts did de-risk the government and put any cost overruns onto shareholders. But any project that looked like it could make a loss could easily be abandoned by shareholders, letting the company go bust. If that happened, no hospital/airport/school and no money back, so government bail outs were almost guaranteed. No actual risk for the PFI firm. What made Gordon Brown have a throbbing erection was getting the debt off the balance sheet. Which actually did work. The only problem is that debt in the National accounts and of itself is only a huge economic issue for the doughnuts that work in the press and the bbc. Replacing debt service payments with pfi rents and services doesn’t in principle change the level of expenditure. It was only an accounting trick for spinning economic competence to morons who didn’t know what they were reporting on. And it worked. (If that wasn’t tedious and pedantic enough) Under new international accounting rules, pfi wouldn’t have made the debt disappear at all. To my mind that demonstrates that it doesn’t have any fundamental underlying benefit other than gaming quirks of the accounting rules. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee-Bey Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 Carillion baby. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 21 hours ago, lichtgilphead said: My recollection was that you were a Labour supporter. Labour are Yoons, and enthusiastically support Trident (Jackie Baillie, anyone?) Apologies if my recollection was incorrect. Labour supporter = Yoon = in favour of trident is one of the most simple minded things I’ve read on this forum, and there’s stiff competition. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 22 hours ago, Miguel Sanchez said: Who the f**k is this gimp? He also thinks people are struggling to buy their own homes because they are spending all their money on smashed avocado on toast. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lichtgilphead Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 2 hours ago, coprolite said: Labour supporter = Yoon = in favour of trident is one of the most simple minded things I’ve read on this forum, and there’s stiff competition. I'm just taking a lead from another poster who stated that everyone that voted Labour should be considered a Unionist. I specifically asked "Is it fair to consider a vote for Labour in a Westminster or Holyrood election to be a vote to continue the union, given polling evidence shows that up to 30% of Labour voters would vote "Yes" in Indyref 2?" @orfc replied ""Basically no, if independence was their main concern they'd vote SNP Why didn't you step in at that point? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StellarHibee Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 On 13/09/2023 at 10:22, oneteaminglasgow said: A fucking classic in the genre of ‘saying the quiet bit loud’ These people are absolute vermin, and I would dance on their graves. I'm half expecting at this point for these "things" to out themselves as evil Venusians and to begin firing mind control beams from their elongated heads. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 1 hour ago, lichtgilphead said: I'm just taking a lead from another poster who stated that everyone that voted Labour should be considered a Unionist. I specifically asked "Is it fair to consider a vote for Labour in a Westminster or Holyrood election to be a vote to continue the union, given polling evidence shows that up to 30% of Labour voters would vote "Yes" in Indyref 2?" @orfc replied ""Basically no, if independence was their main concern they'd vote SNP Why didn't you step in at that point? Because I haven’t seen that before now. It’s clearly bollocks though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee Bully Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 On 13/09/2023 at 18:02, Granny Danger said: He’s a Partick Thistle supporter Automatically marks him out as OFTW. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 On 13/09/2023 at 10:22, oneteaminglasgow said: A fucking classic in the genre of ‘saying the quiet bit loud’ These people are absolute vermin, and I would dance on their graves. "Wind your neck in, you fucking clown - the AI deathbots aren't ready to protect us yet" https://www.bbc.com/news/business-66803279 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted September 16, 2023 Share Posted September 16, 2023 On 04/12/2018 at 21:12, banana said: Folk heralding Russell Brand, what a time to be alive. I blame Question Time. banana on the right side of history for once. What a time to be alive. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btb Posted September 16, 2023 Share Posted September 16, 2023 Quote The shadow foreign secretary, David Lammy, has proposed regular meetings between UK and European Union ministers, as part of a major reset of British foreign policy under a Labour government. While it's encouraging to see Labour steering slightly away from the Tories on Brexit what's in it for the EU? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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