Gary Neville.

[jukel123 9,754]

1 minute ago, WILF said:

Ahh, but remember the people are not blameless in all this mate…..they voted for this shambles, time and time and time again and if you read comments in say Reforms or Labours or Tory’s social media you will many, many people are no better informed, are taking no more of a critical look and still talking the same old bollocks that they ever did……

Show them a shiny thing, reduce the mortgage rate a percentage point and they will happily close their door in the evening and not give a flying f**k that it looks like Islamabad outside or that their grand kids will be under the total control of the state…..they won’t even give it a second thought !

I'm afraid so. A good example was Badenoch's promise to abolish stamp duty. Well big f****n deal. That will make a tremendous difference to everybody's lives. 

Parties never think outside the box. It's always little baubles for the natives.

But parties are now controlled by big business so they are in a straitjacket too.

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9 minutes ago, NEWKID said:

Good post mate.

completely agree with the "pulling down of British flags and the not touching of pride flags" the irony is sad to be honest. The amount of Ukrainian flags that went up and now Palestinian flags, when you start seeing that in little Devon villages where they are untouched by the real issues of all this unrest, it makes you wonder how easily people are brain washed...

Contrary to my previous post, I quite like seeing the English and British flags flying, but it has become a bit of a bandwagon to jump on rather than true patriotism imo.. I remember being in Ireland a lot as a youngster and every night at last orders in the pubs the anthem would be played and everyone would stand and sing, there were flags everywhere, there was true patriotism... I've said before about how I found Japan to be beautifully patriotic, by how they acted, the pride in their towns/cities, the way they interacted with each other and tourists.... As above I like seeing the flags but is it true patriotism or there for social media views and to signal some false solidarity? 

My daughters partner is a pretty well travelled lad, he said he loved Japan and he was saying that they just politely view every foreigner as a guest…he said they will always ask “When are you going home ?” 
Like it’s just a given that you don’t belong there, not in an ultra nationalistic aggressive way, just common sense that you obviously are not Japanese. 
 

Mind you, he is also a committed nationalist, racist and rabid anti semite…..but all done with a massive intellectual understanding of history and politics and world events From a lad with a very quiet nature and decent degree……so he fits right in on the first bit….maybe not so much on the second ! lol 

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5 minutes ago, WILF said:

My daughters partner is a pretty well travelled lad, he said he loved Japan and he was saying that they just politely view every foreigner as a guest…he said they will always ask “When are you going home ?” 
Like it’s just a given that you don’t belong there, not in an ultra nationalistic aggressive way, just common sense that you obviously are not Japanese. 
 

Mind you, he is also a committed nationalist, racist and rabid anti semite…..but all done with a massive intellectual understanding of history and politics and world events From a lad with a very quiet nature and decent degree……so he fits right in on the first bit….maybe not so much on the second ! lol 

It's not treacherous to admit lots of countries do it better than us. I love reading about the way different countries organise their societies. As you know, I'm a great admirer of the Nordic countries.

People scoff at The Global Happiness Index which consistently feature the Nordic countries, especially Finland. But , for me, sod everything else, governments should be driving at all times to make its citizens lives better.

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17 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

I'm afraid so. A good example was Badenoch's promise to abolish stamp duty. Well big f****n deal. That will make a tremendous difference to everybody's lives. 

Parties never think outside the box. It's always little baubles for the natives.

But parties are now controlled by big business so they are in a straitjacket too.

Absolutely, I mean it’s a nice thing for those who benefit but in the grand scheme of the state of Britain it’s meaningless nonsense ! 
 

And this has been my thing with Reform, we all know painting around the edges won’t have the slightest impact on anything but to then go further and suggest all the same people that got us into this shit are the ones to fix it ?….and to suggest it or they will is just plain dishonest !

 

And if we are getting dishonesty now then what are we getting after ?……we have been bitten enough with all that surely ?

Edited yesterday at 09:03 by WILF

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Just a note to apologise for using the word “Partner” instead of “Boyfriend”…..I sounded like a f***ing minge ! 
See, even I’m vulnerable to this infection of nonsense !

[jukel123 9,754]

5 minutes ago, WILF said:

Just a note to apologise for using the word “Partner” instead of “Boyfriend”…..I sounded like a f***ing minge ! 
See, even I’m vulnerable to this infection of nonsense !

We feel your pain brother. Take a moment.

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7 minutes ago, WILF said:

Just a note to apologise for using the word “Partner” instead of “Boyfriend”…..I sounded like a f***ing minge ! 
See, even I’m vulnerable to this infection of nonsense !

Don't worry wilf , it was just your inner homo , trying to fight it's way out of the closet .

[jukel123 9,754]

1 hour ago, NEWKID said:

Good post mate.

completely agree with the "pulling down of British flags and the not touching of pride flags" the irony is sad to be honest. The amount of Ukrainian flags that went up and now Palestinian flags, when you start seeing that in little Devon villages where they are untouched by the real issues of all this unrest, it makes you wonder how easily people are brain washed...

Contrary to my previous post, I quite like seeing the English and British flags flying, but it has become a bit of a bandwagon to jump on rather than true patriotism imo.. I remember being in Ireland a lot as a youngster and every night at last orders in the pubs the anthem would be played and everyone would stand and sing, there were flags everywhere, there was true patriotism... I've said before about how I found Japan to be beautifully patriotic, by how they acted, the pride in their towns/cities, the way they interacted with each other and tourists.... As above I like seeing the flags but is it true patriotism or there for social media views and to signal some false solidarity? 

I used to get a lot of stick for refusing to stand for the anthem. I wasn't  making a victim , look at me,  rebel stance. I just didn't support the royal family. My choice. Leave me alone.

Thankfully the anthem has virtually died out now.

[mackem 30,012]

1 hour ago, jukel123 said:

People scoff at The Global Happiness Index which consistently feature the Nordic countries, especially Finland. 

I was trekking in a country which was voted the happiest country in the world,always featured top of the happiness index,but when I scratched beneath the surface I met a monk who asked me to buy him beer (really nice guy but I think he had inner demons),another bloke who was depressed as his wife had left him,and a lot of people who wanted to leave the country to go abroad as they were skint,never believe that happiness index shit.

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6 minutes ago, mackem said:

I was trekking in a country which was voted the happiest country in the world,always featured top of the happiness index,but when I scratched beneath the surface I met a monk who asked me to buy him beer (really nice guy but I think he had inner demons),another bloke who was depressed as his wife had left him,and a lot of people who wanted to leave the country to go abroad as they were skint,never believe that happiness index shit.

Reported for gross insensitivity to a pensioner. Just let me ramble on and don't upset me by disagreeing .

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4 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

Reported for gross insensitivity to a pensioner. Just let me ramble on and don't upset me by disagreeing .

And you mentioned Finland without mentioning their alcohol problem.

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15 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

I used to get a lot of stick for refusing to stand for the anthem. I wasn't  making a victim , look at me,  rebel stance. I just didn't support the royal family. My choice. Leave me alone.

Thankfully the anthem has virtually died out now.

Well, you’ll get your wish with this utter f***ing buffoon of a king…..nobody will give two fucks about the monarchy when he is done, horrible traitorous no mark that he is !