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Adam Brooks
@EssexPR
The U.K is shipping excess gas to Europe,
we have more than we know what to do with at the minute..
we cannot store it because we dismantled our storage facilities a few years ago.
The prices the consumer pay are staggeringly high.
This whole system is a mess and totally wrong.
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@EssexPR
The U.K is shipping excess gas to Europe,
we have more than we know what to do with at the minute..
we cannot store it because we dismantled our storage facilities a few years ago.
The prices the consumer pay are staggeringly high.
This whole system is a mess and totally wrong.
Now we know why Ellers has been so quiet lately...
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Now we know why Ellers has been so quiet lately...
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By the looks of him he's clearly quite a catch. I'm sure his kids will understand.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politic...rtygate-pictures-boris-johnson-raising-toast/
I think all the words I want to use will get bleeped out.
Clear as daylight that he deliberately misled Parliament. Inevitable, I suppose, given his track record in every job he's had, and in every relationship he's had. I can't believe that people had to choose between him and Corbyn. What an insanely awful pair of candidates for Prime Minister.
I think all the words I want to use will get bleeped out.
Clear as daylight that he deliberately misled Parliament. Inevitable, I suppose, given his track record in every job he's had, and in every relationship he's had. I can't believe that people had to choose between him and Corbyn. What an insanely awful pair of candidates for Prime Minister.
What a job! When you can get paid for getting pissed all the time.
I heard the explanation this morning.
He was on his way to his flat...and he saw the leaving do. So was asked to raise a glass to the leaver...who was someone he didn't like anyway.
Which he did from the doorway...and immediately left.
Contrived or what and the met police accepted that...and that is why he was not fined
Even so...surely he should have said... excuse me, this is wrong and illegal...please disperse.
He has also called Sue Gray in and asked her not to publish her report.
He obviously has received a very big spade, and is digging deeper and deeper
Sums up the state of the political classes across the board imo.
Meanwhile, in Ukraine......
PETER HITCHENS: Can anyone explain to me why this was called evacuation and not surrender?
I laughed out loud in Marks & Spencer when I found that they are now selling something called ‘Chicken Kyiv’.
This is apparently just like their old ‘Chicken Kiev’, only with added propaganda. I am told that there is now also a ‘No Chicken Kyiv’ for vegans, without any actual chicken in it.
Not since the wild frenzy after the death of Princess Diana have I ever met such a wave of ignorant sentiment. Nobody knows anything about Ukraine. Everyone has ferocious opinions about it.
The other night I shocked a distinguished Oxford academic by informing her that the lovely, angelic, saintly, perfect Ukrainians had blocked off the water supply to Crimea in 2014
She was rightly shocked by this nasty, uncivilised act of spite, but it was far more shocking that this highly educated person did not know this important fact.
In the same way almost nobody, in education, politics or journalism, knows about the nasty, racist roots of Ukrainian nationalism, the horrible history of the vicious Stepan Bandera (now a Ukrainian national hero), or the Kiev state’s discriminatory scorn for the Russian language. If Canada treated its French speakers as Ukraine treats its Russian speakers, there would be international outrage.
Worst of all is the widespread ignorance of the fact that President Volodymyr Zelensky, in my view an admirable man, was elected on a programme of peace with Russia. But when he tried to do as he had promised, he was blocked by parts of his own army, who publicly confronted him and humiliated him.
At the same time his political rivals, including the neo-Nazis who very definitely do exist in Ukraine, went on the streets to denounce any sort of deal. President Zelensky crumbled. And the war came.
I have mentioned here before that the first act of violence in this war was actually the Western-backed mob putsch which overthrew Ukraine’s lawful government in 2014.
This was the true beginning of all the horror. And while it does not excuse the idiotic and brutal Putin invasion, it very much helps to explain it.
Look, I respect those who take Ukraine’s side in this war. They have a valid point of view which I happen not to share. But what I object to is the wholly one-sided nature of public opinion here. It is so bad that it is a positive disadvantage to know anything about the subject.
And it reached its peak last week when the Ukrainian defenders of the Mariupol steelworks, many of them in fact the neo-Nazis of the Azov battalion who proudly wear SS emblems on their official uniforms, surrendered.
The UK media coverage of this event strove mightily not to mention the neo-Nazis and to avoid using the word ‘surrender’.
The Mariupol garrison was said instead to have been ‘evacuated’ into Russian-held territory. Pictures showed them disarmed and being frisked by Russian soldiers. But we are so much in the grip of a one-sided view of this conflict that we could not even admit they had capitulated.
Refusal to accept such obvious reality is a sign of madness.
I personally have no idea what British interest is served by slavishly backing the American policy of stirring up trouble in Ukraine and goading Russia into combat.
Perhaps someone could explain it to me, over a plate of ‘Chicken Kyiv’ and a bottle of vodka. But for any debate to take place, we’ll have to start accepting that there are two sides to this argument.
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Great News!!!!!
Here in the land of Oz, the Australian public, in unison with the woke brigade, the Bleeding hearts Society, the Trans Everything Party and alike, decided to elect our very own equivalent Tim Sherwood as Prime minister. Except for a few facial variations and as such, l could've sworn they were brothers!
Its quite uncanny that both are bottom-of-the barrel choices, look as silly as they sound, yet there are some who think they are the greatest thing since slice bread.
Even before he was formally sworn in, he announced that he would increase financial aid to overseas causes, yet having had more rain and floods since Moses was a lad, the poor souls of Northern New South Wales, have lost their homes, jobs and are swimming around in circles crying out for assistance..... but hey, we need to be seen by those around the world, that we care about other nations!
So here we are, just a couple of days out from the election, our new master has stated, 'we need to act on climate control' .........lets step up electric vehicle conversions and bring forward scrapping todays petrol and diesel cars, utes and trucks to 2030."
In case you have lived on the North Pole since the beginning of time, you may not know that distances between town & cities here in Australia can be days apart in travel times, so an electric vehicle of some kind.
As a builder, l can't wait to load up my new electric fully laden truck and drive it to work, not!
I'm all about practicality and the bean counters in our masters new castle wouldn't know Jacksh!t about commonsense.
Anyway, just my two bobs worth whilst feeling the need to sound off.
As you were ..................
Here in the land of Oz, the Australian public, in unison with the woke brigade, the Bleeding hearts Society, the Trans Everything Party and alike, decided to elect our very own equivalent Tim Sherwood as Prime minister. Except for a few facial variations and as such, l could've sworn they were brothers!
Its quite uncanny that both are bottom-of-the barrel choices, look as silly as they sound, yet there are some who think they are the greatest thing since slice bread.
Even before he was formally sworn in, he announced that he would increase financial aid to overseas causes, yet having had more rain and floods since Moses was a lad, the poor souls of Northern New South Wales, have lost their homes, jobs and are swimming around in circles crying out for assistance..... but hey, we need to be seen by those around the world, that we care about other nations!
So here we are, just a couple of days out from the election, our new master has stated, 'we need to act on climate control' .........lets step up electric vehicle conversions and bring forward scrapping todays petrol and diesel cars, utes and trucks to 2030."
In case you have lived on the North Pole since the beginning of time, you may not know that distances between town & cities here in Australia can be days apart in travel times, so an electric vehicle of some kind.
As a builder, l can't wait to load up my new electric fully laden truck and drive it to work, not!
I'm all about practicality and the bean counters in our masters new castle wouldn't know Jacksh!t about commonsense.
Anyway, just my two bobs worth whilst feeling the need to sound off.
As you were ..................
Ayres rock has just been fitted with a charging station
Somewhere for the baby stealing dingos to congregate
Somewhere for the baby stealing dingos to congregate
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Shame about the “is”.
Nineteen kids and two teachers killed in a US school. Just another day.
Arm the teachers, that's the solution.
An utterly mad society.
Arm the teachers, that's the solution.
An utterly mad society.
America won’t change.
They will continue to outrage about it but it will take generations to faze out the gun rights mentality.
More schools will be shot up, more deaths but nothing, absolutely nothing will change in the next 40-50 years.
Sad.