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I wonder if those people would want their energy bills reduced now as a short term measure than say a few extra pennies a week whenever they retire?

Thats Tories being Labour, so not an example of Tory-lite

Shall we start with the hot topic of the day. Energy Windfall tax and move on from there

There used to be a very valid argument for that when it was Blair / Brown vs a more centrist Tory Party. That really isn’t the case right now. There are vast differences in policy and ideology between the two main parties. The statement you’ve put forward there doesn’t really stand up to any scrutiny these days

Not a scooby about today's, no point in even listening to the last clip, still not going to get it

meh Wordle 318 5/6*

Like I said a few days ago, we have reached that point in the election cycle. People want change and once that opinion has flipped it's very hard to get it back Good Morning Britain's bus story today has actually really resonated, not with the politically aware twoteratti but with ordinary working people. I had a youngish lad in my car tonight on a fairly long journey, we were chatting about music, taxi driving, his job (Got his HGV in the Army now drives a bin wagon), no politics involved and all of a sudden he changed the topic to Johnson and the Bus Story, he even knew the pensioners name and was determined to vote for the first time in his life this week Once you go past that point where the collective conciousness has decided Johnson (and the Tories) are wrong 'uns all they hear is the bad stuff and all that the papers can throw at Labour doesn't matter, Labour are no longer the baddies

Only rumours but... Nothing concrete in the article (How could there be?) but it does quote a few different Russian analysts

Fire! This time the warehouse of a Kremlin friendly book publisher outside Moscow, Why Attack that? Well this book publisher makes all the education books for Russian Schools and has recently been ordered by the Kremlin to remove any references of Ukraine and Kyiv

It's no coincidence that Israel announced today that there is no clause in the weapons supply contract they have with Estonia preveventing the Baltic State from supplying those weapons to a third country Estonia has only this year taken delivery of 500 Spike personal anti-tank weapons and a number of Blue Spear coastal defence missiles Considering at the outbreak of this, Israel was very pointedly getting splinters in its arse from the fence it had plonked itself on, I think it's quite safe to assume now that they've picked a side and they've come off that fence because of the rhetoric coming from Russia

Getting rid of first past the post would help an awful lot

C'mon less of the post on poster, there's no way your delivery man is DHUTWU instead of delivering your parcel

So a £600 million windfall tax is 12 days profit for BP, and obviously MUCH less than that when you add in all the other companies too Makes the Tories claim seem even more bizarre than it already was.

Yeah but the downside is the buses always smell of wee

AKA the European Shirt because you weren't allowed sponsors in European competition to start with.

It will be. Admiral started the replica shirt trend in 1975 with Leeds Utd but that was mainly aimed at kids it wasn't until 1977 that they marketed them to adults, which obviously caught on very quickly through all the top teams

Remember all the tyre pictures back a month and a half ago... Well there was this fella who seemed yo know his shit, well he analysed a few more pictures of failed tyres on a Grad launcher The kicker in this lot is the Made in the USSR stamp that means two things The tyres are possibly over 30 years old and They were made for the export market It suggests that there is something of a tyre shortage in Russia

FTFY

Why would you imagine that would happen? They currently have soldiers dying of radiation sickness because they were made to dig and live in trenches in the highly radioactive ground around Chernobyl. Putin won't give a shit about withdrawing any soldiers in your scenario. He's not going nuclear anyway imo. I don't even think China would support that because anyone supporting Russia at that stage will also be sanctioned. As it is you might as well think of Russia under the new name of West Korea

So how are we supposed to pronounce Mount Wank, Rimsting, Titz, Weener, Wankum, Wangerland and Fahrtgasse?

Also seems to be confirmed by Telegram channels from Russian soldiers

They ran out of material for socks and full length trousers

FTFY

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