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It's a test, to see how much he can get away with before it starts to burn him. Quite a lot by all accounts.

Bipartisan politics is a ridiculous farce and illusion of democracy. Pick a side and fight. No compromise, no consensus instead choose a group who you agree with on a few emotive issues to represent you in every area of your life.

Gammons are destroying the world, the sooner the baby boomers are all dead, the better...

You would say that.
#westsneverasgoodassouths

^typical gammon post; living in the past

It looked to me like the classic 'let's go to foreign policy to distract from domestic policy' manoeuvre.

Exactly.

The world really is going backwards ...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/22/billy-elliot-musical-cuts-dates-hungary-claims-turn-children-gay

The undignified episode in which ill MPs were summoned to Parliament and had to go through the division lobbies could have been turned into a win of sorts for Labour if they'd simply not required their MPs to do this. There wasn't any prospect of winning the vote, anyway.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jun/21/commons-leader-uneasy-after-ill-and-pregnant-mps-forced-to-vote-in-house

Good article by Gus John on Windrush, I think:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/21/turning-down-theresa-may-windrush-reception-caribbean-hostile-environment

Amusing/tragic/pathetic (delete as inappropriate) that Boris Becker seems to have been had by diplomatic passport fraudsters in trying to stave off bankruptcy proceedings:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/19/boris-beckers-diplomatic-passport-is-a-fake-says-car

The world really is going backwards ...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/j­un/22/billy-elliot-musical-cuts-dates-hu­ngary-claims-turn-children-gay

Hungary, if they continue in this direction, will be A50'd I suspect.

More affirmations of human nature ...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/23/food-bank-appeals-for-donations-after-thieves-empty-warehouse

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/hackney-radio-station-which-helps-people-with-learning-disabilities-rescued-after-heartless-thieves-a3869776.html

Is it going backwards or is the progress just nonlinear?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-australia-44598859/kangaroo-pitch-invader-halts-australian-football-game

Private polls—and a timely ‘concession’ from the face of Leave—allowed hedge funds to make millions off the pound’s collapse. Has the feel of Cambridge Analytica part 2

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-25/brexit-big-short-how-pollsters-helped-hedge-funds-beat-the-crash

Saddleworth Moor:

Northern-ness intensifies

Who has a gas mask readily available 'just in case'?

Weird boner.

Stocking up for the anti-Trump protest? ;)

lol

Its going to be OK, Spanish police have trained dogs to do CPR

https://twitter.com/policiademadrid/status/1010084474841976832

“God will forgive them. He'll forgive them and allow them into Heaven. I can't live with that.”

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