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Discussion in 'Queens Park Rangers' started by Stroller, Jun 25, 2015.

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Should the UK remain a part of the EU or leave?

Poll closed Jun 24, 2016.
  1. Stay in

    56 vote(s)
    47.9%
  2. Get out

    61 vote(s)
    52.1%
  1. SW Ranger

    SW Ranger Well-Known Member

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    And it continues!

    NatWest reporting £3.6bn H1 profit (up from £2.6bn for same period last year).
    Though we are all due a dividend as it’s 39% owned by the taxpayer … aren’t we? :emoticon-0140-rofl: :emoticon-0140-rofl: :emoticon-0140-rofl:
     
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    Government likely to lose millions in dispute over PPE contract awarded via ‘VIP lane’
    SG Recruitment UK allegedly failed to deliver on £20m-plus Covid contract awarded after Lord Chadlington introduction.

    More of our money gone to make the rich richer
     
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  3. Star of David Bardsley

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    I always use recruitment companies to buy me clothes so it was an easy mistake to make.
     
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  4. Star of David Bardsley

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    Good work from the CEO.
     
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    They aren’t even trying to hide the corruption any more
     
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    They’ll be asked nicely not to do it again while Doris down the road dies of hypothermia with an empty fridge.
     
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    Had never heard this before. Things don’t really change.
     
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    Sadiq Khunt.
     
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    Turns out the Tory-enforced ULEZ that impacts virtually nobody is lawful.
     
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    Feel free to move to Iran when you're finished bleating about the banks
     
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    Fortunately we have the power to end discrimination by the wealthy banking elite. Two of the ****ers have gone already.

    Wish it was as easy with the Islamic leaders in Iran.
     
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    Hopefully get rid of the corrupt bastards running/ruining this country next year also
     
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    Looks that way. 14 years will have been a long time in office. I have zero confidence in what will replace them.
     
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    Iran has victims of oppression who constitute 50% of the population and we have Nigel Farage whose bank account was taken away from him. Not aware of anyone giving him a slap, punch or kick or two. Next.
     
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    It's reserved for paying compensation to those who had their bank accounts taken away because they are Brexiteers. Keep up son.
     
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    Would be nice to see our courts dish out some similar punishments to those ****s who made big profits out of PPE etc....

    Vietnam jails 50 in mass bribery trial over Covid-19 flights
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    The defendants wearing civilian shirt stood for their sentencing in the Hanoi courtroom.
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    A court in Vietnam has jailed 54 people, including several high-ranking officials and a former minister, in one of the country's largest ever bribery and corruption cases.

    Judges said the accused had extorted money from people taking repatriation flights during the Covid-19 pandemic.

    One former minister was sentenced to 16 years in prison for receiving over $900,000 (£700,000) in bribes.

    The court's decision comes amid a major anti-graft drive across the government.

    After a trial of more than two weeks, the court in Hanoi convicted dozens of ex-officials - including several senior diplomats and a former deputy foreign minister - of receiving, offering or being complicit in bribes, fraud and abusing positions of power.

    The defendants were involved in a scheme in which diplomats and businesspeople took money from Vietnamese citizens abroad who wanted to return to the country on repatriation flights during the pandemic, when commercial travel was not available.

    The court said the defendants "must be punished seriously".

    State-run newspaper VTC reported that 25 state officials were found guilty of taking pay-offs worth a total of $7.4m (£5.8m).

    Life sentences were handed out to four former high ranking officials at the ministries of foreign affairs, health and public security, while ten businesspeople and civilians received suspended sentences.

    Pham Trung Kien, ex-secretary to the deputy health minister, and To Anh Dung, former deputy minister of foreign affairs, were some of the most high profile names caught up in the scandal.

    Prosecutors had sought the death penalty for Kien, who received a life sentence for being the recipient of 253 bribes in an 11 month period worth a total of $1.8m (£1.4m).



    The death penalty <yikes> .....Bitch Face Mone better steer clear of Vietnam
     
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    Your next government...

     
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  20. Star of David Bardsley

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    Another day in this perfectly normal country.

     
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