Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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#1
Probably worth remembering that not one NATO General, not one Politician, not one diplomat will lose their job or pension over this debacle.
Just saying.
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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#2
All those lives lost as well as those whose lives have been changed forever, what a waste.
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Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
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#3
……to say nothing of those millions of poor women and children whose lives are now to be put back into the Dark Ages.
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#4
If you open your window and listen very carefully the sound you can hear is Mr Putin and that chinky guy who looks like Whinnie the Pooh laughing.
It begins.
Taiwan to China within my lifetime. It used to be perfidious Albion. Perfidious USA now
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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#5
Pablo wrote:……to say nothing of those millions of poor women and children whose lives are now to be put back into the Dark Ages.
So true. After seeing the pictures from the airport it is a shame their menfolk do not seem to have the balls to stay, fight and protect them.
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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#7
This is a big issue and all the army lives lost but at some point the UK would have to pull out woukdnt they ?
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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#8
And Augustine would pray "Lord, make me chaste—but not yet."
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#10
Iv seen so many comments on pulling out
But before all of this I also heard local people shouting reduce altogether aid abroad .
Can't have it both ways
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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#11
Keith it all depends on how that aid is used and by whom. When it is used to benefit the people that is fine but when it goes into the wrong coffers (like palaces or space projects) that is where the system fails.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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#12
Amazing how many Afghans who fled to the UK and claimed asylum now appear to be "stuck" in Afghanistan again "after attending a wedding and visiting relatives"?
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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#13
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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#14
Tugendhat nails it.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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#15
I saw him this morning, such a thought provoking speech from the heart and real experience.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#16
I don't disagree Jan on Aid .
But a lot of civilians will be hit by all of this .
And there doesn't appear to be any plan on how to deal with the unelected lot in Govt there
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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#17
Yesterday's Parliamentary session was remarkable. For one day only, even Tory MPs allowed themselves to drop the facade that we have a competent government/cabinet and piled in. It felt like real politics for the first time in a long time. I'll be interested to see if this is the start of something bigger or a one off reaction to this issue.
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#18
If only councils had been so magnanimous during, for example, the Rwandan civil war (Over the course of a hundred days, between 500,000 and 1,000,000 Tutsi and Hutu were killed) and we could enjoy even more tens of thousands of West Africans living here?
*Sarcasm warning.
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,095
#19
Neil Moors wrote:Yesterday's Parliamentary session was remarkable...
There must have been some early in-front-of-the-mirror rehearsals for the main event.
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#20
send in the drones and clear the area out.
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