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Missed 2 funerals of my aunties the last 15 months because of the lurgie, only 1 left now, would like to see her before she goes, she'll be 96 in January, so would like to get there sooner than later.

Sorry to hear than man

And yeah for sure, the sooner the better. I've got some friends in Clare who I want to go back and see.
 
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Sorry to hear than man

And yeah for sure, the sooner the better. I've got some friends in Clare who I want to go back and see.

Never gone up as far as Clare, Stab City is the highest point I've beenon that coast, seen the Saw Doctors about a dozen times though :biggrin:
 
Never gone up as far as Clare, Stab City is the highest point I've beenon that coast, seen the Saw Doctors about a dozen times though :biggrin:

Spent a fair bit of time surfing between Lahinch in Clare right up to Bundoran in Sligo. That coastline is littered with great surf spots.

I’ve driven through Limerick. It looks rough as ****. A beautiful city further up is Galway. Reminds me a bit of Edinburgh, it’s a really cosmopolitan place in what is right out in the sticks of western Ireland
 
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Spent a fair bit of time surfing between Lahinch in Clare right up to Bundoran in Sligo. That coastline is littered with great surf spots.

I’ve driven through Limerick. It looks rough as ****. A beautiful city further up is Galway. Reminds me a bit of Edinburgh, it’s a really cosmopolitan place in what is right out in the sticks of western Ireland

Always fancied doing the Oyster festival in Galway.
 
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Spent a fair bit of time surfing between Lahinch in Clare right up to Bundoran in Sligo. That coastline is littered with great surf spots.

I’ve driven through Limerick. It looks rough as ****. A beautiful city further up is Galway. Reminds me a bit of Edinburgh, it’s a really cosmopolitan place in what is right out in the sticks of western Ireland
Did you meet a Galway girl?
 
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This is what I was on about the other day. Boris literally blaming journos for 'distracting the public' because they are asking him difficult questions about his abject behaviour, instead of talking about what he wants to talk about.
 
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Thing is most of it has been stirred up by twitter, those little worm holes people start going down.

What no one has thought of is if you remove Boris, you end up with another Tory, if you remove the Tories you end up with Starmer, it's like getting a win on the pub meat raffle and being given a dozen rats to take home and cook.

Are you suggesting we now eat the cabinet? ... bit extreme but it might just be a goer <laugh>
 
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This is what I was on about the other day. Boris literally blaming journos for 'distracting the public' because they are asking him difficult questions about his abject behaviour, instead of talking about what he wants to talk about.
Ponkie… you’re old enough to know every politician is this bad. Nothing will ever change
 
I'm all for revolution

But what do you replace the current system with ?

I like radical ideas ... how's about all MPs must have gone to school somewhere in their constituencies during their lifetime and Public schools don't count if they are boarding ones and you come from outside the local area ... that way we get much better representation of our communities ... and I reckon much higher voting turnout at the elections <cheers>
 
There's so much more than just that though. Legislature for example is a massive part of central government and what many of us look to vote for as much as things like taxes, the economy, nationwide public sector services such as the NHS, police, education.

On the latter, I appreciate some of the infrastructure of these things e.g. schools, hospitals can be better managed at local level but the overall direction and oversight is still needed at a central level.
I know mate, I agree with you. I was merely being glib and a tad simplistic in order to make a point. The point being, is that we’ve been conditioned into thinking we need centralisation to run our every day lives, when in reality most of the things that really matter to us as individuals could be run much more locally and with little ‘head office’ at Westminster oversight.
 
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I like radical ideas ... how's about all MPs must have gone to school somewhere in their constituencies during their lifetime and Public schools don't count if they are boarding ones and you come from outside the local area ... that way we get much better representation of our communities ... and I reckon much higher voting turnout at the elections <cheers>

That's kind of tweaking the system rather than revolution, but yeah MPs should defo come from their local communities. As Tobes touched on, I'm up for much more devolution to the local areas. Most of Govt is about managing the nuts and bolts of society which local govt know how to do better than a centralised Govt
 
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This really boils my piss. I hate this new thing they have of just repeating the latest soundbite mantra no matter what the question is. Whether it is 'Brexit means Brexit', 'Get Brexit done' or 'Getting the job done' they despise accountability and just feed us this ****. There is no substance to anything they say.

I ****ing hated Thatcher with a passion but by god if she had been asked a question she didn't like she would square up to the interviewer and argue her case. I disagreed with almost everything she said and stood for but you knew exactly what she did stand for. She believed in the changes she wanted to see happen, as unpalatable as they were to me. This lot are so spineless they couldn't stick their heads above the parapet even if they wanted to!
 
Ponkie… you’re old enough to know every politician is this bad. Nothing will ever change

It looks that way, but I'm a half glass full type of person.

Nobody and I mean nobody in UK Politics in my lifetime has been as bad a Boris. He's literally a UK version of Trump.

I don't think people should confuse just how **** he is and tar everybody with that brush.
 
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It looks that way, but I'm a half glass full type of person.

Nobody and I mean nobody in UK Politics in my lifetime has been as bad a Boris. He's literally a UK version of Trump.

I don't think people should confuse just how **** he is and tar everybody with that brush.
Luckily we didn’t get to see Jezza in charge. It would have made the cut for celebrity death match back in the day with him and boris
 
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