By spray painting fighter jets. I believe that this was based on paint having got into the engine and necessitated a full rebuild or something similar.
But the figure came from the company who lease the aircraft to the RAF, and the MoD have never substantiated it or released their own.
£7 million, but the figure is completely unsubstantiated and the aircraft in question were flying within a few weeks, so it’s likely to be a lot less.
Because he was headlining all 3 days. There is not a chance of getting 3 acts of similar clout to play at this short notice. At which point the event is far enough from what was advertised that they’d have to give refunds to the shitload of angry customers demanding them. Better to just cancel now.
This is probably better evidence than a 35 year old song lyric.
Yes we have our issues, as does any country, but the US is way out there in terms of police brutality.
UK police are trained to a higher standard than they are in the US
This is true, but it’s also a fundamentally different standard. De-escalation is much more prioritised in UK policing, and the whole idea of policing by consent doesn’t seem to be a thing in the USA.
It’s a quick way to both write, and drum a bit of publicity for, what is essentially just far-right merch. It’s not really supposed to be read, why bother writing it?
I don’t think the point is whether it’s actually an offensive act or not in general terms, it’s “this is the technical definition they will weasel out on”. Which is almost certainly true - refueling is not inherently offensive.
Sure. But is billions on something we already have (but need the USA to help maintain) really the best use of defence spending? Because I bet there are a hundred other areas in defence where disentangling ourselves from the USA would be wise.
Do I believe we should funnel billions of pounds of our money into the pockets of arms manufacturers, just so we can have independent control of a weapon whose entire point is to never be fired?
Sure, why not? But can we please sort out some of the more important shit first?
Luckily for us, it seems the Greens have proven that Labour’s grasp on the duopoly isn’t quite as firm as they thought. I’m praying that Labour get completely wiped out at the next General Election and slip off into the quiet obscurity of history.
It’s exciting isn’t it? If Starmer had any sense at all, he’d see the writing on the wall and introduce PR. Otherwise I think there’s a decent possibility that we’ll see a few high profile defections from Labour to Green and then electoral wipeout. At the moment I’d still expect Reform to win, but we can always hope.
Sure, but I’d argue that Corbyn was divisive enough that he drove more right wingers to vote. And we can argue his potential electability, but when it came down to it he was leader of a Labour party which failed to win an election.
It’s not that there isn’t a large progressive bloc in the UK, it’s that it’s just not big enough to win elections.
Are progressives or real, avowed socialists so unelectable today that the Labour party has come to this?
Yes.
my thought was that they need more Tony Benn or Ken Livingstone than Tony Blair
Blair undoubtedly did some awful things, and moved the party economically to the right. But also he was the only Labour PM to get elected for a generation. And he did it 3 times. So yeah, I’d say that real economic progressives have been unelectable for a long time. Hopefully that’s starting to change, but who knows.
The thing is, an awful lot of people would still think that more than 10% of new GP registrations being from immigrants is too high. And no-one disputes letting doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals come here.
What is a sensible immigration rate? Why? If it’s not what we have, what are we doing about it? And given how loudly Reform are crying about immigrants, and how well it’s working, why is no-one from government shouting this stuff from the fucking rooftops?!
(I know, the answer is a mixture of “we need the cheap labour or the economy is fucked” and “we couldn’t fix this if we tried”)
Avocados for an Aubergine.
I mean, they’re vaguely similar in shape, sort of, and colour, not really but sometimes they’re both dark, and they both begin with A, but no-one enjoyed the guacamole at our party 😞
It’s not often that I’m genuinely shocked by political news, but this has done it for me.
Ukip are still around?!
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It is. Just to check, it’s the British citizen who needs to be earning £29k? Your above comment makes it sound like that is the case, but earlier you said:
You need to be earning at least £29k before they’d even consider giving you a visa
Which suggests it’s the immigrant who needs to be earning that much.
Fucking animals.
Oh wow. I guess the carpet is easier on your knees or something? Like for smaller livestock? And then the sink is right there.
Scroll down instead of pretending that this hasn’t been debunked in this thread.
I get a notification on my app, I reply. Funnily enough I’m not actually keeping up-to-date with what you have to say elsewhere.
The trouble is, I agree with you about the BBC and neutrality.
But spouting bullshit you refuse to back up (seriously, just one link to an article where the BBC call Hamas terrorists, that’s all I’m asking) lowers the quality of the debate for everyone, and makes the rest of your argument look weak.
Expensive is an understatement. They threw away their promise on student fees in the process of this. Causing their vote share to collapse at the next election. Meaning that Cameron’s plan to offer an EU referendum in the manifesto, but negotiate it away during coalition talks wasn’t applicable. Meaning he had to actually offer the Brexit referendum…