Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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 Yup. After Starmer went grovelling to them.
A bit silly holding an 'investment summit' just before a budget IMHO but there you go.
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Captain Haddock
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 So they're desperate to invite a company which sacked its employees by Zoom.
They’re happy to invite the Saudis, who authorised the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
Yet they refuse to invite Elon Musk owner of Tesla, Space X and Twitter because he believes in free speech and the American Constitution)? 
Student union politics mixed with hypocrisy. Pathetic.
(The First Amendment to the United States Constitution protects the freedom of speech, press, and religion, and 
prevents the government from making laws that would restrict these freedoms).
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1845446365717156265"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
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Captain Haddock
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 "The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock
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 "The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
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 It was quite a punch 
How He expected to get away with that ?
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Captain Haddock
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 "The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
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Keith Sansum1
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 Criminal charges should soon follow with that punch , 
Can't see how he will get out of this one
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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 That MP is no better than the average thug, even if there was provocation it does not justify that kind of prolonged  reaction.
On a different subject I see that Labour are as careful with their words as the last lot. Speedy NHS appointments are not the same as actual time reduced specialist treatment.
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Captain Haddock
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 Have a day out in Deal - if you can still afford the bus fare.
(Unable to attend myself as it's the local hunt's opening Meet. Posh totty in tight jodphurs. 

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I do wish Mike would stop calling me 'John'!  

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Button
- Location: Dover
 - Registered: 22 Jul 2016
 - Posts: 3,091
 
 Apparently Ms Reeves is moonlighting in Oliver.
Ah well, you've got to pick a pocket or two.
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Captain Haddock
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 It will be interesting to follow the Archers storyline post budget.
I foresee a fire sale at Grange Farm as the 100 acre field is turned into social housing for migrants as the rest of the farm is covered in solar panels in pursuance of the mythical net-Zero.
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 Archers? Fire? One wonders whether Grace Archer (who died two days after I was born) would've felt betrayed by the Inheritance Tax relief cap. In real life I do think provision should be made for the agricultural sector, though I'm surprised that farms are the assets of natural persons (people) and not legal ones (companies and the like).
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Jan Higgins
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 The buzz word I am absolutely fed up hearing from Labour MPs etc is "workers" when what they mean  those on very low income. A worker is someone who does work be they highly paid company director or minimum pay skivvy.  

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Captain Haddock
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 If you do it because they pay you it's work.
It helps if you convince yourself you 'enjoy' your job purely for your mental health as the prospect of doing the same tomorrow or  next week or next year is far too depressing to contemplate.
I have never done a job in my life where I could not find a more pleasan use of my short time on this planet.
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
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Captain Haddock
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 "The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
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Keith Sansum1
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 Good on him
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Captain Haddock
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 Says Hythe's own 'Wolfie' Smith en route to Waitrose!  

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Keith Sansum1
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 Bob ,
Come on you can do better than that ,
As a right wing rabid tory you can hardly throw names about that may disagree with you
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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 Sorry Keef
I thought it was quite an affectionate description. Seriously.
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Keith Sansum1
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 You don't have to be sorry 
Life goes on
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