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

  • Stay in

    Votes: 56 47.9%
  • Get out

    Votes: 61 52.1%

  • Total voters
    117
  • Poll closed .
Good ****ing Christ! I kind of like NFL, and, for my sins, I thought I'd watch the Superbowl, but **** right off. The whole thing is puke-making.

I've come to despise America and everything American.
There’s a word for that attitude.

But you’re in good company, Trump didn’t like the Super Bowl show either.
 
There’s a word for that attitude.

But you’re in good company, Trump didn’t like the Super Bowl show either.
Is it racist to despise racists?

There are many good people in America, but there were also many good people in 1930s Germany.
 
Is it racist to despise racists?

There are many good people in America, but there were also many good people in 1930s Germany.
So you don’t ’despise America and everything American’ (which would include all American people). Good, because that would be stupid and I know you aren’t stupid.

The word isn’t ‘racism’ it’s xenophobia, blanket dislike and distrust of another nation and its culture, rather than race/ethnicity.
 
Apologies, it's the Trump effect, as I'm sure you understand.

He's made the US very unpopular in Europe.

He's about to make himself even more unpopular by reversing climate emissions in the US to prop up the US motor industry.

This will add to global emissions and hopefully choke the fat f**k in exhaust fumes.

What the idiot has not accounted for is that the rest of the world will not buy the US-made gas guzzlers and it will cause the US motor industry to collapse under their own market conditions. I feel for the workers at Ford, GM, Chrysler etc. who will suffer job losses as production slumps. TRumP is utterly clueless on economic activity.
 
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Apologies, it's the Trump effect, as I'm sure you understand.

He's made the US very unpopular in Europe.

Canada Joins Germany and the UK in Driving the Decline of U.S. Tourism as Global Visitor Numbers Fall Amid Rising Travel Barriers and Economic Pressures​

Published on February 11, 2026

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International tourism to the United States has suffered a significant decline in 2025, with key markets like Canada, Germany and the UK leading the charge in this downturn. Visitors from these nations, traditionally major contributors to the U.S. tourism industry, have sharply reduced their travel to the country. A combination of rising economic pressures, higher travel costs and increased barriers to entry, such as stricter visa regulations, has resulted in a 5.4% overall drop in inbound tourism. This decline is raising serious concerns among U.S. tourism officials and local businesses. The consequences of this downturn are felt most acutely in major U.S. destinations like Tampa Bay, which rely heavily on international tourism.
 
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Another bunch of corrupt ****s...

Peter Murrell accused of embezzling £459,000 over 12-year period​


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Peter Murrell is due to appear in court next Friday for a preliminary hearing

ByJames Cook, Scotland editor and Phil Sim, Scotland political correspondent
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Former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell is facing a charge of embezzling £459,000 from the party over a period of more than 12 years, it has emerged.

Details of the case against Murrell, the estranged husband of former first minister Nicola Sturgeon, are contained in a copy of an indictment seen by BBC News.

According to the document, Murrell is accused of embezzling the funds between August 2010 and January 2023.

He is accused of illicitly purchasing items including luxury goods, jewellery, cosmetics, two cars and a motorhome.
 
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Another bunch of corrupt ****s...

Peter Murrell accused of embezzling £459,000 over 12-year period​


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Peter Murrell is due to appear in court next Friday for a preliminary hearing

ByJames Cook, Scotland editor and Phil Sim, Scotland political correspondent
    • Published
      5 hours ago
Former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell is facing a charge of embezzling £459,000 from the party over a period of more than 12 years, it has emerged.

Details of the case against Murrell, the estranged husband of former first minister Nicola Sturgeon, are contained in a copy of an indictment seen by BBC News.

According to the document, Murrell is accused of embezzling the funds between August 2010 and January 2023.

He is accused of illicitly purchasing items including luxury goods, jewellery, cosmetics, two cars and a motorhome.
Looks like an ill Phil Mitchell
 
I went to see Al Murray years ago and he said “I like that Nicola Sturgeon.
She’s got an answer for everything.



It’s the same answer…..”independence,independence, independence …”
 
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A question occurs to me.

Given that “Prince” Andrew Mountbatten M4 Jn6 has always been known as being incredibly thick, even before his exposure as a money grabbing inept nonce, what idiot appointed him a trade envoy and then gave him ‘sensitive’ information that he could leak to his ***** mates?
 
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A question occurs to me.

Given that “Prince” Andrew Mountbatten M4 Jn6 has always been known as being incredibly thick, even before his exposure as a money grabbing inept nonce, what idiot appointed him a trade envoy and then gave him ‘sensitive’ information that he could leak to his ***** mates?

Who was it, Blair?
 
Would have thought it was something the Royals asked for to give him something to do without having a chance to really get in the way or **** anything up. Sounds a bit odd someone in Labour at the time thought getting the dumb tubby one in to do a role like that was a good idea. **** knows.
 
Nice to know there are still some sane americans

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I'd guess when he asks that question he'll find it was the same people who sat back while Joe Biden, clearly entering advanced senility, and said it was fine for him to run for a 2nd term. You really have to ask what political processes conspire to saddle 300+ million Americans with two such extreme examples of the last people you'd want running your country...
 
Another Starmer U-turn as Nigel Farage court case against Government cancelling elections forces climbdown. Looking forward to a Labour wipeout...