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Selling CH4 isn't about maximising income for the Government. It's about reshaping the news output the UK gets, oh and it's conveniently yet another distraction. All part of the culture wars

tough for me today nerdlegame 76 4/6

FTFY

Wordle 290 5/6

You realise that doing your own meter readings gives you the opportunity to inflate the pre-price hike readings (not legal caveat)

Yes I'd agree with all of that, though I still think, the warchest is big enough to outlast his supply of weapons I'm just saying that stopping the purchasing of gas and oil isn't going to directly affect the war as people seem to think

Finally put her head above the parapet today, not good. I also found out a few other interesting "facts" about Merkel I never knew until today I knew she was from the East but I didn't know that her father was the only person known to have defected from the West to the East. Most observers now accept he was a spy. Then there was Merkel herself, who was a group leader in the FDJ (essentially Hitler Youth for East German Communists). She was also close to her Professor, Hans-Jörg Osten both in the Academy and the FDJ which he was involved in organising. Osten it has been discovered was in the pay of the Stasi. Merkel always played down any involvement in "communism" but in the only East German free elections before reunification she had a spectacular rise in German politics. She joined the Democratic Beginning Party (DA) and was straight away appointed Press Spokesperson of the party by its leader Wolfgang Schnur, who was again found out to be a former paid Stasi agent and was forced out of the party but she was already set and was elected to the East german parliament and was in the group of Party's in the winning coalition. Her Party (DA) then merged with the East German Christian Democrats who on reunification merged with their West German couterparts. She was already well on the way in politics, very quickly and thanks to at least two people who were later known to be in the pay of the Stasi

I keep seeing this being said and I'm not sure it's actually true. Putin's war was funded well in advance, it had to be. He can't just make new tanks or aircraft or even missiles it appears. Even if his tank factories could get the parts the Russian output of tanks from its factories was about 4 tanks a week pre-war. It take's months to build aircraft and years to build warships He pays the soldiers in roubles and he can just print as many of them as he likes, he also doesn't have to pay them if they're dead, they aren't even paying dead soldiers families what they promised because it's not a war but a "special operation" I'm not saying that we shouldn't stop buying his gas / oil, we obviously should, it's just the notion that it's funding his war I'm struggling with, I don't think turning off the fuel would make a blind bit of difference to what he's doing. He's already lost at least $10 Billion in tanks / APC / Aircraft destroyed or capture but they had a warchest of something like $350 billion. He'll run out of weaponry and people willing to fight before he runs out of money What the money is doing is propping up the economy and that's why it should be stopped but people seem to think cutting the fuel link will directly affect the outcome of the war, it really will not have that direct effect. It will collapse the economy further but the war will still most likely continue

I wanna see Woodham's Railway Graveyard

We'll be doing the same I think. I also don't think it's for any other reason other than to keep the gas actually flowing

Well be thankfull it wasn't Ch4, Threesomes with Dan Walker, Naked Picnics with Dan Walker, Dan Walker's Naughty Side...

An absolute icon of punk fashion

It's exactly what cancers do, fits in perfectly with everything else they do

What's Dot Cotton got to do with a picture of Johnny Marr and Paul Weller?

Dropping like flies now, nothing for months and three in a week. As far as I can see, @sidcowhad June Brown

Private company now. Roland Hill was still alive when you worked there

Hey, you gotta claim your points, no way am I going through the spreadsheet everytime someone karks it Now it has been pointed out I shall update tonight

Documentaries aren't films now? Anyway, the best Xmas film is obviously Die Hard...

A functioning democracy allows a counter-demonstration like we see in Liverpool and other places as soon as the Nazis try and March. They’ve been thwarted every time here

They never work like they should do, I have one by Melody's Echo Chamber, it's a piece of card rather than on the disc itself but you have to view it through your phones camera. Utter pants, never worked and I believe thats a very common issue

Press ganged by the Met

That’s what happens in a functioning democracy

Prices dropped a bit round here, so it could be the idiots think they are saving money

All the drinkers should have chipped in to pay for the parking in the first place along with the fuel.

She's actually getting worse and worse