A Political Thread pt. 2

[Amiga500]

Got some diesel for the yoke earlier.
Fella in front of me at pump 3 put a tenner into his motor.
Where the fuk was he driving to? Pump 4?

 

[Bada-Bing!]

TBF he might have very short journies. Or just filling up incrementally when needed.

My motor's full tank is 38 litres. Making the last 40quids worth last a month before refilling. Thankfully only driving it 3 days a week for work. I have only done 19k miles since 2017 when I bought it off my parents and they had used it 3 years before so did 8-9k miles approx.

Halfords keep laughing at me each year I take it for a service because of how low my mileage. Lol.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

To Vladimir Putin’s mind, chemical weapons might just seem a good idea | Paul Rogers

Knowing that he cannot afford to fail, the Russian leader may be willing to use the most grotesque means to break Ukrainian resistance, says academic Paul Rogers

www.theguardian.com

 

[McTallshort]

Got some diesel for the yoke earlier.
Fella in front of me at pump 3 put a tenner into his motor.
Where the fuk was he driving to? Pump 4?

 

[Bada-Bing!]

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yeh posted it a page earlier.

 

[Amiga500]

I remember my da used to put a fiver in the motor back in the day and invariably he would be both surprised and disgusted when that would only do him 2-3 weeks

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Didn't realise how small Russia's economy in terms of GDP compared to USA. About 1/21th of USA's and and almost 2.5 times smaller than UK's. No wonder Russia always wants to be "greater" than they are capable of.

Emerging Markets: The Parts of Russia’s GDP

Understanding the GDP composition of the world’s most expansive country, Russia, can help investors considering entering that market.

www.investopedia.com

 

[Amiga500]

Didn't realise how small Russia's economy in terms of GDP compared to USA. About 1/21th of USA's and and almost 2.5 times smaller than UK's. No wonder Russia always wants to be "greater" than they are capable of.

Emerging Markets: The Parts of Russia’s GDP

Understanding the GDP composition of the world’s most expansive country, Russia, can help investors considering entering that market.

www.investopedia.com

Considering the natural resources they have - between oil, gas, rare metals and (at least at the top end if not in terms of average) an extremely high level of education - its mental.

All ****** away due to corruption.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Didn't realise how small Russia's economy in terms of GDP compared to USA. About 1/21th of USA's and and almost 2.5 times smaller than UK's. No wonder Russia always wants to be "greater" than they are capable of.

Emerging Markets: The Parts of Russia’s GDP

Understanding the GDP composition of the world’s most expansive country, Russia, can help investors considering entering that market.

www.investopedia.com

Reminds me of something I read about Nigeria. It said that Nigeria has the natural resources to make the population as wealthy as the people of Norway. The reason it wasn't was gross mismanagement and rampant corruption. The damage those do to potential economic prosperity is huge.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

This is pretty good:

 

[Bruce_ma gooshvili]

Keeping all digits crossed.

Russia and Ukraine give brightest assessment yet of progress in talks on war

Russian and Ukrainian officials gave their most upbeat assessments yet on Sunday of progress in their talks on the war in Ukraine, suggesting there could be positive results within days.

www.reuters.com

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Keeping all digits crossed.

Russia and Ukraine give brightest assessment yet of progress in talks on war

Russian and Ukrainian officials gave their most upbeat assessments yet on Sunday of progress in their talks on the war in Ukraine, suggesting there could be positive results within days.

www.reuters.com

But not yet the "Golden Bridge" to allow Putin walk back across to save his face in front of the Russian public.

 

[pagliaccio_euforico]

So I've gone on full on panic mode in terms of inflation. Any big purchase I've planned on making in the next year or two I've just pulled the trigger cause I don't see this getting better.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Here in UK we've got VAT going back up to 20% on 31 March and then there's 1.25% on NICs. Fuel and energy prices going up. Can't get away from the effects of cost of living going up.

I see Farage hasn't missed a trick in exploiting it.

 

[Amiga500]

I see Farage hasn't missed a trick in exploiting it.

Someone could do with putting a bullet in that lying wnaker*.

Who is he blaming this time? Has his racism become more overt?


*bit extreme, but as you can probably tell I'm sick to the back teeth of the political classes (Johnson, Farage etc) doing whatever the fuk they want, lying through their teeth - exploiting the public and getting completely away with it.

Whatever about what its supposed to do - the law clearly protects them. Untouchables.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Someone could do with putting a bullet in that lying wnaker*.

Who is he blaming this time? Has his racism become more overt?


*bit extreme, but as you can probably tell I'm sick to the back teeth of the political classes (Johnson, Farage etc) doing whatever the fuk they want, lying through their teeth - exploiting the public and getting completely away with it.

Whatever about what its supposed to do - the law clearly protects them. Untouchables.

Nigel Farage’s hard-right faction won Brexit. Now net zero is in its sights | John Harris

A small group of rightwing MPs are using questions about living costs to undermine climate action, says Guardian columnist John Harris

www.theguardian.com

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Brent Renaud: US journalist and filmmaker killed in Ukraine

It is the first reported death of a foreign journalist covering the war in Ukraine.

www.bbc.co.uk

First foreign journalist killed in Ukraine.

 

[McTallshort]

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Ordinary Russians did not want this war, but Putin is trying to make us all complicit | Dmitry Glukhovsky

Putin tells lie after lie to justify the horror he has unleashed, and to convince Russians this war is being waged for their survival, says Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky

www.theguardian.com

One perspective from Russia.

 

[Gavin]

Brexit: Northern Ireland Protocol is lawful, court rules

A group of unionist politicians had argued the protocol conflicted with the Good Friday Agreement.

www.bbc.co.uk

The Northern Ireland Protocol is lawful, the Court of Appeal in Belfast has ruled.

A group of unionist politicians had challenged the protocol in judicial review proceedings, claiming it was unlawful because it conflicted with the 1998 Good Friday Agreement and the Acts of Union.

But the court rejected their challenge on all grounds on Monday.

The case was an appeal of a ruling delivered by the High Court last year.