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I give you the museum in Riga opposite the Russian Embassy

Has anyone heard the one about the Russian encrypted battlefield communication devices called ERA not working? You really couldn't make this shit up

Not sure if you'd seen this. Gale accusing Patel of Misleading the Commons (AKA lying). Not often you see that from a Tory MP

It's going to take some considerable time before he can build the replacement vehicles let alone more that he'll need on top. You'd also think they may need to also come up with some rather new tech to combat what they've encountered, including more suitable aircraft than they currently have. All that in a tanking economy?

I looked into that whenever it first surfaced (Yesterday possibly) and it appears they've used it before in maybe Chechnya or Georgia Shouldn't be exactly hard to take out, especially with a drone

Well yes,. It's quite a climbdown in rhetoric

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What is even more surprising about that is that Gale is the MP for North Throbber Central

No, I agree. The Tories were lying. At the start of the week, there were only two places, they were as I said, Brussels and Paris They were supposedly opening a facility 15 miles inside the Polish Border but unlike all the other countries they haven't quite managed that yet

Well it's an improvement, at the start of the week it was Paris or Brussels

Who knows really? Genuine question, aside from the current India / China border disputes where neither side seems to actually gain or lose anything when was the last time the PRC were involved in any sort of major warfare against another country? Is it Vietnam in the late 70s and 80s?

You've changed

Will your filing system have a scar? Have you shelves been told to expect a non-Beach birth?

I once had an American in the car as a passenger just around the time that the petrol price just hit £1 a litre for the first time He announced to me "Jesus H Christ if fuel ever hit that price per gallon in the US there'd be a revolution" I then had to tell him that the price of a gallon was 4.55 times the price displayed He was genuinely speechless for a short while

That has been cleared up now, the 82 included the people on a ship that had been sent to investigate that was also captured.

So who owns the ASDA forecourts?

Not noticed any changing hands yet The five nearest to my house. Three of them are EG (2 Shell, 1 Esso), one is BP / M&S and a Tesco The furtheest away is always 1p more than the others, The BP always puts it's price up to the level of the nearby Shell and Esso (EG) garages within 24 hours. Then in the next 24 hours the Tesco raises their prices (unless its a weekend then it happens on the Monday) Even though the Tesco did indeed follow suit it is now still 10p a litre cheaper instead of the usual 4p

The soldiers turned up four days later in Russian custody. The only ambiguity is between the words surrendered and captured

Nope, the supermarkets put the prices up a day or so after the normal forecourts because they pitch their prices a few pence per litre below the local level at the traditional forecourts

And here's the big kick in the teeth of all of this... A lot forecourts are branded franchises, the biggest owner of these franchises is a company called Euro Garages (you may have heard of them), they are recognisable across all the brands due to the EG logo Now these franchises have the ability to set their own prices (I suspect there's a lower limit from the refiners). EG have always been priced highly for fuel. So then what happens is EG force the price up everywhere because all the companies set their prices to what the market will bear as they search all the local prices and set them accordingly (even the supermarkets do this) Now moving on to supermarkets, pretty much everywhere I've been, ASDA are usually the cheapest but ASDA generally have no staff, they are all pay by card at the pump and that's how they undercut the rest, much lower staff costs. Have a guess which garage forecourt company have made so much money by jacking up the fuel prices that they managed to buy ASDA from Walmart a year or so ago? Yep. Euro Garages. So Euro Garages now have a position where they control the top and bottom ranges of fuel in this country

BP are their own supplier, so are Shell and Essar. These companies have no middle men, they refine their own product. The supermarkets don’t, they buy in bulk off the companies with refineries. Sure the supermarkets normally undercut by a few pence a litre (loss leader theory) but the disparity currently is HUGE

Some of the food they brought with them was out of date in 2015! An interesting and related article I was reading this morning on Politico

Definitely should be the Guinness Book of Records entry for Worst Blitzkrieg Ever

Current fuel prices are also proving that the Tory mantra of market forces will sort this out, is yet again a complete load of bollocks