Off Topic Is the UK right to get

Yes. Mine, twice.

 

Seriously? I make a perfectly normal post, you label it a rant, I ask why and then I get that response?

I'll let the rest judge what's happening here seems to be following a familiar path to me though.

Have a nice evening

 

JK Rowling could easily feed and house ALL of the displaced people in Calais and still be a millionaire.
Instead she moans on Twitter about their appalling treatment .

 

The guys a complete fooking melon. Sends his Mrs out to work while he plays on 606 all day. Then claims he's got a day off

 

What the **** did I do Kev ,are you a massive Harry Potter fan or something ?

 

Not you, the melon you was attempting to engage with!

 

See you can be nice that wasn't so difficult.

 

What i have learned after reading todays post on this thread.

We can nearly have a debate even on something like this, not a lot off mud slinging. Plenty of different opinions.


The person who first brought up the word, lefties, or righties, was not who you'd expect, i don't even know if he goes on the politics thread, but he is a chelsea fan with a hot chick in his sig.

 

So Russia are throwing Tony Blair at us in verbal exchange, well no surprise there then, the whole world knows Blair is a murderer and should have stood trial for war crimes. Hence why some are extra cautious this time at just diving in to action. And why should we doubt the Russians, let's face fact this is the attack on 75 people, whereas other countries are at this very moment facing worse atrocities while the world stands by and does nothing.

 

Remember when the world stood and watched as Pol Pot systematicaly killed over a third of his own people?

No one battered an eye to help.

 

Seem to recall the Hutus slaughtering hundreds of thousands of Tutsis in Rwanda not being seen as a big deal either.

 

I'm just not getting any of it. Naturally we should be able to trust the judgement of the British Intelligence Sources if not the media but we have been here before with Blair. But putting that aside I'm not getting why 75 Syrian's have become the forefront of the World's interest. The Russian's claim it was staged, of course it is natural course not to believe them but what exactly is our interest that over-rides interest in other countries.

Russia have successfully been pushing out their borders, this makes no sense from Salisbury to now, they were already in the driving position, we like to play Russia as the big bad wolf but you only have to look across the Atlantic to see an even bigger Loon. It's all gone quiet over North Korea it was only weeks back they were in jostling position. I think the British Media have got a lot to answer for because when it comes to propaganda they are ace at it.

 

Off course the media are lapping it up.

I would usually be in favour of this stuff, i like a good war. But this one seems different.

Maybe cos i'm getting older, maybe cos a lot of my mates have sons now joined up, or maybe something doesn't sit right with all the bollox. I don't know.

 

Suppose i've just become sceptical of the media and if Russia are laughing at us, what do we think we are really go to do about it, fook all that's what. If other countries want to get involved in Syria that's their business, i expect the French to be the first to go in, we only need to get involved if there is retaliation on our neighbours.

 

I'm not really bothered if the russians get pissed off, they need to tread carefully.

Maybe the froga are stepping up to get into big Mr. T pants

 

Russia tread carefully you're having a laugh right, what we going to do or the French come to that. The Russians would only have to sneeze to blow us away.

 

I think often in these cases there is a lot we don't know.

For example I read earlier comments about "use the money to help those at home". With the greatest if respect that's naive. For many reasons but the obvious is these wars are money in the bank for years for this country

Just as we in the UK paid America for WW2 into the 2000's iirc the Iraq war debt is being traded and making people huge amounts of money

Syria and Iraq are for example what was offered to king faisal of Saudi to sign off on Israel being created in palestine, and he obliged but then was killed and lead to Saddam.

Now we have Saudis buying not only weaponry but loads of Shiite in terms of art etc at huge prices and this money is going where? Into the economy as well as business pockets

Similarly any foreign aid given is not always free. There are conditions attached that benefit us greatly and more than the country given it

 

I am not one for saying we should cut the foreign aid budget and hope I never will be but I find it strange that we are, as far as I know, still giving money to the Syrian government.

It's a first but I hope one of you lot is going to tell me I am wrong - would be very pleased!

 

My BIL is Syrian, a doctor. Iirc Syria was not eligible for aid from us but the aid given now is more so for Lebanon and Jordan etc to help with programmes for Syrian refugees

Its called Syrian aid but don't think Syria gets it, other countries do

Could be wrong

 

What you on about? As long as we are best buddies with Trump and his boys we are fine.