howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
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Just thought we all ought to read this, especially as this 'paper' tells "The Truth"...
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Brian Dixon
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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Guest 1997- Registered: 3 Mar 2017
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#1395 - Just true to form as far as The Sun is concerned. The Mail is no better. All papers will have a poliitical bias but these 2 resort to fabrication as matter of course. No doubt there are still Mail and Sun readers who will defend them.
#1398 - Thanks Brian. Genuinely amusing satire. And, as with all good satirical comment, its roots are based in truth.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Courtesy of the Telegraph
In March 2017, after three years, the European Commission gave Hungary the go-ahead to expand its Soviet-era nuclear power station at Paks, 75 miles from its capital, Budapest. The deal with Russia was worth €12.5bn (£11bn), for which the Kremlin offered 100pc of the financing required. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Russian President Vladimir Putin settled the deal in person.
This deal – a tactical defeat in the long-running battle between the EC to make its member states less dependent on Russian energy – is not the “nuclear option” that dominates the headlines. Instead, eyes have turned to Poland as the schism between the harder-Right governments of central and eastern European nations and western Europe’s more liberally governed France and Germany grows deeper.
judicial reform bill threatens the independence of the judiciary, and goes against the principles of separation of powers required by EU membership, according to Brussels. Donald Tusk, president of the EU Council, even suggested the bill was devised to follow a “Kremlin plan”. It made for an uncomfortable state visit for Theresa May, as she sought to balance building relationships with the Polish regime, with maintaining positive momentum in Brexit negotiations. This tale of two nuclear moments - Hungary’s power station and the triggering of Article 7 of the EU Treaty, which could ultimately strip Poland of its voting rights in Brussels - represent more significant threats to the integrity of the European project than Brexit, some economists argue.
“The risk of fissures in the EU, particularly on its eastern flank, are a bigger worry than Brexit. There’s a growing sense that Brexit is an issue that’s manageable. The far bigger issue in the EU is if they try to come down too hard on Poland,” says Chris Beauchamp, chief market analyst at IG Group.
These splits, Beauchamp argues, are worrying signs that should occupy the attention of EU leaders “quite a lot [more]” than the UK’s imminent departure. Trade alone will not solve these EU east-v-west rows and neither will the healthy levels of economic growth, it seems. The central and eastern states of the EU have been particularly strong performers among the EU28 this year. Swiss bank UBS estimates that in 2017 GDP grew by 4.2pc in Poland and 3.7pc in Hungary, but that shared economic prosperity has not translated into political unity. It’s difficult to say how far it might spiral out of control – whether a bigger spat will develop and Poland will dig in or fall in line. They feel very backed into a corner by the rest of the EU,” Beauchamp says.
Migration and asylum have been the greatest issues straining relationships between new EU member states and the western old-guard. “Politics has raped European law and values,” Peter Szijjarto, Hungary’s foreign minister, told a news conference in September, after the European Court of Justice dismissed Hungary and Slovakia’s legal challenge to the asylum seeker quota system. However, these existing cracks may come to a head in 2018, not because of migration, or even elections, but because of EU spending plans.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5223661/Bizarre-plan-launched-Dads-Army-Border-Force.html
What's all this about a Dad's Army Border Force? Don't see why that's a problem. Who does he (Abul Taher, the journalist) think he is kidding? The stupid boy has got it all wrong if he thinks we're all doomed. I might email them myself and see if he likes it up 'im.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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don't tell them your name mr bishop
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Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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Yes. I had to double check! Surely this is an employment opportunity in coastal regions. Wouldn't this help coastal economies too? Volunteers...don't panic! Don't panic!
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
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It must be a good idea if it's united Mark Serwotka and Dover's right Charlie against it. Seriously, what's not to like: its shambolic, misguided and ill-led bordering adventures will provide plenty chuckles for the older generation, and it'll get good coverage on BBC2 when they can't find anything else to fill an early evening slot.
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'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Meanwhile back in the real world:-
https://homeofficemedia.blog.gov.uk/2017/12/31/jdajdk-test/
Don't bother photo-copying the IS81's just yet.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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I particularly line the paragraph:
If a pilot volunteer scheme were to be taken forward, it would be subject to rigorous selection procedures, with candidates undergoing initial security clearance checks in line with full-time Border Force employees, coupled with comprehensive training and mentoring.
It reminds me very much of Windsor Davies's Sergeant-Major quote "I shall choose the volunteer!" from
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum.
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Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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I'm still surprised that Captain Haddock wasn't promoted to Commodore in the New Year's Honours List. I mean, all that service propping up the Conservative dismeanours during 2017; being Dover and Deal's very own Lynton Crosby must have taken its toll...and for no reward!
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Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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The Bishop wrote:I'm still surprised that Captain Haddock wasn't promoted to Commodore in the New Year's Honours List. I mean, all that service propping up the Conservative dismeanours during 2017; being Dover and Deal's very own Lynton Crosby must have taken its toll...and for no reward!
he is rewarded,, crash politics win seats, he's more like Trump than Trump.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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telling it how he sees it, Howard.
and Germany voting again I think
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