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St Badger said:
Police in investigating a “Pandemic Procurement Scandal”
Nah, not here, Germany and Liechtenstein.

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As you say, imagine having a media who would report this and authorities willing to investigate it. What has gone wrong? Have we just been turned into sheep and happy to let these bastards get away with it? :emoticon-0121-angry:emoticon-0121-angry
 
St Badger said:
With regards to journalists getting upset at being accused of bigoted reporting, this is worth a look to see how, mainly the Mail and Express, reported so differently with regards to Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl...andards-royal?mc_cid=28a63ebdce&mc_eid=UNIQID
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Having grown up as an ardent Republican who would have shipped the lot off in a leaking boat - these days I've mellowed, they can have an island to themselves - I care not a jot about the whole lot of them. HOWEVER, when it comes to this stuff I'm amazed. It is exactly the same narrative noted by Raheem Sterling when he highlighted the ways that young black players were presented in the press compared to their white counterparts.

I did watch last night. Once I'd overcome my prejudice to the 'hey man' California feel I thought it intriguing. Love the way that Harry is supposedly dishing the dirt. He supported the monarch, he didn't say his father was a useless twat who had betrayed Harry's mother, and neither of them slagged off the saintly brother and his wife. I ended up feeling they were well out of it. Much it was tittle tattle, but the race agenda within the British Press needs to be addressed. All the 'Kick It Out' campaigns in the world of football are a spit in the cesspit of racism - a cesspit constantly stirred by the racist agenda of the right wing press.
 
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One of yer Norvern Saints said:
Having grown up as an ardent Republican who would have shipped the lot off in a leaking boat - these days I've mellowed, they can have an island to themselves - I care not a jot about the whole lot of them. HOWEVER, when it comes to this stuff I'm amazed. It is exactly the same narrative noted by Raheem Sterling when he highlighted the ways that young black players were presented in the press compared to their white counterparts.

I did watch last night. Once I'd overcome my prejudice to the 'hey man' California feel I thought it intriguing. Love the way that Harry is supposedly dishing the dirt. He supported the monarch, he didn't say his father was a useless twat who had betrayed Harry's mother, and neither of them slagged off the saintly brother and his wife. I ended up feeling they were well out of it. Much it was tittle tattle, but the race agenda within the British Press needs to be addressed. All the 'Kick It Out' campaigns in the world of football are a spit in the cesspit of racism - a cesspit constantly stirred by the racist agenda of the right wing press.
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Nail on the head - whatever your view of the monarchy :emoticon-0148-yes:
 
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One of yer Norvern Saints said:
Having grown up as an ardent Republican who would have shipped the lot off in a leaking boat - these days I've mellowed, they can have an island to themselves - I care not a jot about the whole lot of them. HOWEVER, when it comes to this stuff I'm amazed. It is exactly the same narrative noted by Raheem Sterling when he highlighted the ways that young black players were presented in the press compared to their white counterparts.

I did watch last night. Once I'd overcome my prejudice to the 'hey man' California feel I thought it intriguing. Love the way that Harry is supposedly dishing the dirt. He supported the monarch, he didn't say his father was a useless twat who had betrayed Harry's mother, and neither of them slagged off the saintly brother and his wife. I ended up feeling they were well out of it. Much it was tittle tattle, but the race agenda within the British Press needs to be addressed. All the 'Kick It Out' campaigns in the world of football are a spit in the cesspit of racism - a cesspit constantly stirred by the racist agenda of the right wing press.
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Totally agree. Reference the press, if people keep buying it the paper will take that as a sign of approval for it’s style of reporting, and keep on churning it out.
 
One of yer Norvern Saints said:
If you haven't picked it up, the Welsh FM has been slagged off by Welsh Tories for dissing Johnson. He said that BoJo is really, really awful. He should be locked in the Tower. For gross understatement.
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Reading up on some of the things he has allegedly said and he has gone right up in my estimation.

Bar the Johnson stuff, what he says about the need for a federal U.K. is absolutely bang on, the fact England still doesn’t have its own devolved Parliament is a complete farce and there should be far more separation of powers from Westminster.
 
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Shandy_top_89 said:
Reading up on some of the things he has allegedly said and he has gone right up in my estimation.

Bar the Johnson stuff, what he says about the need for a federal U.K. is absolutely bang on, the fact England still doesn’t have its own devolved Parliament is a complete farce and there should be far more separation of powers from Westminster.
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I live on the border of Wales. In fact the ATM machines display in Welsh and English, and as a lot of people now know Chester City FC's ground straddles the border. So I keep up with developments there. Welsh friends of ours have had two vaccines, around four weeks apart. When lock-downs were in place the Welsh enforced travel restrictions. Their government doesn't over-promise or under-deliver, and I've not heard any crowing from the party in power about the line taken by their opponents. There are huge problems in Wales of deprivation. You may be aware of the blight of the valleys of South Wales, but I can assure you that there are swathes of North Wales where you wouldn't want to go in daylight, never mind nightime. Instead of posturing the Welsh Assembly has got on and tried to tackle covid by listening to the public health advice -a novel approach.

Personally I don't want a devolved government for England. It would be as dominated by the South East as the so-called UK Government is now.
 
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St Badger said:
Another blinding success as a result of Brexit. A Welsh company shipping goods to Ireland, via the EU, because of the difficulties in sending the goods directly across the Irish Sea.

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/n...Igr2X7RhmqoGmFZ1jPPGdcq3UXfyfkr5qxhlueSSrkKw0
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We just had a shipment from a supplier in the UK held up for over a month at Stansted, because the freight companies are completely in over their heads. We aren't even in the EU, and there aren't any new regulations concerning their export...the whole system is just badly jammed up such that, as soon as there are any problems, good luck trying to get someone to remedy them in short order. Per the supplier, they have a dozen or more customers who were in similar stead, and now a large part of their time is spent begging various freight companies to process their paperwork.
 
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