bickster

What he did is considered gross misconduct in any other job. Instant dismissal. Everyone understands this

Troop losses: This is suggesting even Ukraine’s estimates are somewhat short of the mark by approx 50%

11 Generals down now, roughly one every 6 days

Yepbut he's not being mentioned, the question was asked by many

Reports coming in of another dead General, A General Simanov, killed at a command post near Izyum along with a lot of others

He was holding on for a more lucrative deal

nerdlegame 101 4/6

He's moved to phase 2, he's just told the BBC he did watch porn in the chamber "in a moment of madness" Nope, don't believe that shit either.

Apparently he'll be resigning his seat within hours

You only have to see the propagandists on TV and the interviews people are doing with Russians on the street to realise that it really isn't what we'd call a normal society. The values are way off kilter. When soldiers rape women and children because they are told to, kill civilians in the street because they are told to etc they are all a product of it. Some can obviously rise above it but the clever people leave Russia, it's been suffering a "Brain Drain" for years, step out of line and its the Gulag for you and these people interviewed seem very aware of that. The people you see interviewed actually seem more aware of the dangers of speaking out than people I encountered in Soviet times. I don't see being a product of it and the system requiring a person of that type of personality to lead it as mutually exlusive

Wordle 315 4/6*

I really don't see how this one has anything to do with Ukraine, its on an island in the Pacific north of Japan and the Kuril Islands More likely to be general Russian incompetence and lax H&S

Again, it’s the Russian way. That really is again a product of his culture. There aren't many of the last few hundred years where Russian wasn't run by what you would describe as an absolute psychopath. That’s viewing Putin through a Western lens. To him that’s just what you do

Don't ever come to Liverpool, your head will explode

If I had the money I'd pay for billboarsds in that constituency that said "Your MP is a lying rocket polisher vote for someone else" Courtcase would be amusing

Putin isn't a nutcase. He's a product of his environment, the culture he's lived in. He's been brought up in, lived and thrived in a corrupt and paranoid culture. It's too easy to class him as a nutter, his actions seem like that to us in the West but he's been brought up and wired completely differently thoughout his life and has an ingrained mistrust of NATO / "The West." A Huge percentage of Russians are the same because that is what the state has drummed into them whether the state was Soviet or Post Soviet His actions need to be viewed through that lens. When the likes of the Stop the War Coalition were talking about NATO threatening Russia by expanding (even when they weren't) that is what Putin saw. He was wrong, they were wrong but as some of them were obvious Putin shills (Galloway & Milne for sure) and the others were lead by the nose, what they were saying might as well have been said by Russia. If you want to think what Putin was thinking, just read some of the crap STWC came out with before the Invasion. When @magnkarlsays Putin will have a massive border to defend (even though he doesn't HAVE to) he's right because that is the conventional wisdom in Russia and has been for a very long time, they will have to allocate troops for that because that's what the Russian playbook tells them they have to do. This is a country that has never been "Free", never had a democratically elected leader, not in 500 years, they don't understand democracy, in fact many including Putin will think it is a weakness. Elections are something that the winner was always going to win and any opposition is a token gesture. Politics in Russia is just a propaganda exercise, always has been, Russians expect it and many older Russians, I expect, are somewhat scared of democracy and what it entails. The existential threat Ukraine posed for Russia was partly democracy, Russia/Putin is/was scared of having such a large country on it's border, with many many families with relations on both sides that was democratic. That really is a huge threat to Putin, he really can't have that democracy disease spreading any further. Ukraine is too close to home and the populations of the countries are too intermingled. It's a huge threat to Putin You can talk about Oil and Gas in Ukraine as much as you want, it might play a small part in Putin's thinking but Russia already has plenty of it's own and the petrochemical market will be shrinking globally at some point in the future. The Middle East knows it all too well, hence their massive move to diversify their money I'm aware I'm rambling a bit here but I think when you look at Putin and what he does, it's too simple to say he's a nutter and a madman. A lot of what he's done is because he sees a massive crisis for Russia if he doesn't "Stop Ukraine" which is why he's made a massive error of judgement and gone all in. He can't back down because the threat is too great from his POV The reason he's failing massively of course is also a product of that very same environment, corruption, fear of intellect and surrounding himself as Russian leaders and all despots always do, with Yes men, people who think are too dangerous

So he's going with the "I'm f***ing stupid and I think everyone else is too" defence. Hilariously predictable. As some LibDem rightly said earlier, any other job, anywhere and you'd get dismissed instantly for gross misconduct and wouldn't have a leg to stand on

So he's a liar because you don't believe him, not because he's actually had a chance to do something and not done it? It's a very novel concept, I'll give you that

Not until they know who was driving that’s the point of the NIP. To establish who was driving

There was always an EU / Non EU separation at airports

It won’t be that. Got one, what you’ve described isn’t an offence and secondly that’s a red light offence not a CD10

Could be stopped in a queue of traffic and on a phone for example. That can fall under this offence. You don’t actually have to be moving for this offence

No, I think you are misreading it. They are asking you to say who was driving the vehicle at the time. You have a legal obligation to do this and failure to say who was driving is an offence and will result in a fine and points. That is separate to the offence they are investigating. This is nothing to do with a speed camera.

Aha! What you have is a NIP, notice of intended prosecution. They have to know who was in charge of the vehicle at the time. The first port of call is the registered keeper. They can’t show you any evidence until they know they are dealing with the person responsible for the offence

Those rules are for speed cameras