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Discussion in 'Tottenham Hotspur' started by Wandering Yid, Feb 9, 2016.

  1. Spurf

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    What is strange but not surprising is that you have no understanding of the difference between Scotland and England and how the Union Jack is about England, how British is used as a political description when it's Geographical. Ireland for example is in the British Isles so that they could equally call them selves British. They wont of course because it has been hijacked by England. This is all self evident if you look at the history.
     
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    Are they? I still don't know what they are.
     
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    Strange story from Atlanta,Georgia. A councilman,running on a "defund police"ticket had his car stolen by 4 kids aged 6 to 12!. The older kid drove it away and dragged the councilman along the road until he released his grip. Police are looking for 4 dangerous suspects......!Not to mention the car!
     
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    Boris has been cleared by a man that was appointed by Boris last month and made a Baron by the Tories in 2017:
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57280418

    Someone paid it off for him without him knowing about it. Makes you wonder how they knew it needed paying, doesn't it?
    As this is clearly not kosher, the money will be returned to the donor and Bodger will be paying it himself. Honest.
     
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    The aforementioned whitewasher, Baron Geidt, also cleared Matt Hancock for being a thieving ****:
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57272252

    This will have no impact on the electorate and we'll all be very happy in the banana republic.
     
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  6. Left on the Shelf

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    The UK is corrupt as ****. We used to look at Italy and possibly Greece as the larger European countries with dodgy administrations. They look positively angelic by comparison.

    Johnson and his crony cabale has knocked them into a cocked hat.

    The international reputation of England is ruined beyond repair. Fortunately the rest of the World is intelligent enough to know that Scotland & Wales should not to painted with the same brush.

    As for NI with their bizarre Creationist new leader, picking fights with Ireland... FFS!
     
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    This doesn't sound like a sensible long-term strategy, especially while infighting with Foster.
    Probably trying to cause trouble and increase tensions to maintain power, though.
     
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    Bizarrely accusing Ireland of 'starving NI of food & medicines'. .. And there was me thinking NI was part of the UK. Obviously I was mistaken or else he is just projecting to about 5 years in the future!
     
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  9. humanbeingincroydon

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    So here's a little bit of dodginess closer to home (my home, to be specific)

    For those of you out of the loop, the reason why Croydon Council is ever so slightly in pornographic amounts of debt isn't just because of the Tories slashing funding of Labour-led councils to the bone and then gaslighting the public into believing that Labour don't care about people (although that is the case, as David Amess made very ****ing clear) but also due to the actions of Brick By Brick, which was run by Croydon Council CEO Jo Negrini - or, as she is better known around here, the person who lied to us for a good five years about Westfield being on the verge of buying the Whitgift Centre (which she just so happened to hang over our heads to avoid criticism) - who claimed they were set up to build affordable homes but in fact were doing anything but, most notably buying a hotel on the Purley Way miles from anywhere and refurbishing the Fairfield Halls in a manner that somehow looks like they did it for the smallest amount possible yet charged significantly more than the quoted price (which, as you have probably assumed, was supposedly put out to tender by Negrini just gave the job to her mates) before Negrini quit the council last summer yet somehow pocketed £440k for quitting before she was pushed, while council leader Tony Newman was suspended this February and eventually replaced

    So we're up to speed now, yeah?

    When the reality of Negrini's lying and profligacy came to light, or for that matter Newman's ineptitude letting this go on for at least four years under his watch, you would expect at the very least the BxB offices at the top of George Street to look remarkably like a quiche every single day considering its proximity to both Waitrose and a Sainsburys Metro that would mean there would be a plentiful supply of both eggs and tomatoes to coat the exterior, as well as a full enquiry into just how dodgy the whole affair was and, more specifically, how much Newman actually knew about what was happening since it occurred to most of us that Westfield wasn't going to be coming by the end of 2017

    But that's not what is happening. Instead what is happening is BxB are being sold to a firm from Manchester, Urban Splash, and in the last few days councillors have had requests for documents pertaining to the Fairfield Halls debacle withheld by the council under the excuse of "commercial confidentiality" - and given the speed in which the deal to sell BxB to Urban Splash was rubberstamped, it's clearly an attempt to bind anything incriminating in so much red tape it will never see the light of day

    And I haven't even seen a single egg stain, either...
     
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    Here's the problem with Tories hiding behind the union flag: they think it's effective camouflage
     
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    It’s appalling. We are moving towards a very totalitarian government. It’s impossible to hold them to account for even blatant misdemeanours. When they can get the support of those they **** on economically and socially by playing their race card , you know there is no chance of it changing any time soon.
     
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    Add to that useless doormat Lindsay Hoyle saying you cannot accuse anyone of lying in Parliament

    Maybe if somebody whose job it was to call out lying did their ****ing job, Linds...
     
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    ........mean while,in America,the Republicans are becoming a Nazi Party!
     
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    Tim Davie is going to ban David Mitchell from HIGNFY then...
     
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    For anyone with an antivaxxer in their lives...

     
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    It's not difficult to find out what these differences are, you can start with looking at how they all vote for a start.
     
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    Or, for that matter, which languages their road signs are in
     
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    By and large the only part of Scotland that votes Tory is the bit that borders England. The bit where English people come to buy houses because they are cheaper than England and many can still commute to Carlisle and continue to work in England. They also gain in terms of health care and education. The roughly 10 percent of the Scottish population who are English also distort voting on Independence by supporting the union. I know this first hand because I am English and live in Scotland although I happen to support Scottish Independence and we now have a movement in Scotland called English Scots for Independence.
     
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    Aren't the Scots anti English up there?
     
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    Englishmen invading Scotland........reminds me of "Americans" stealing their country from the British,French,Spaniards,Mexicans,Russians and the Indians.Who have I missed?
     
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