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[jrphoenixw2] 23/4/2024 23:54

Another poster filtered for ranting drunk balls. This board just gets more and more focused and useful - perfect :)

[millwallfan] 23/4/2024 22:35

And all the police needed to do on the beach was put a knife or scissors in the rubber dinghy ,

[diku] 23/4/2024 22:31

Don't know if anybody watched the news this evening... headlines on the migrant crossing...BBC reporter was on the French Coast recording events unfold...my question is how does such a big dinghy get on the coast without nobody noticing it...does it just drops out of the sky?...

[stonedyou] 23/4/2024 21:01

RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTER REVEALED TOTAL LOSSES OF UKRAINIAN ARMY.

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On April 23, the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation launched the meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. The Army General Sergey Shoigu made a speech summering the interim results of the ongoing special military operation in Ukraine. The Russian Defense Minister revealed Ukrainian losses and confirmed the recent Russian victories.

In total, since the beginning of the Russian special military operation in February 2022, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have lost almost 500 thousand servicemen, the head of the Russian Defense Ministry declared. The Army General Shoigu did not clarify if the number includes only irretrievable losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, or it includes both killed and wounded servicemen.

Shoigu: “The American authorities cynically declare that Ukrainians will die for their interests in the fight against Russia. In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to almost half a million soldiers. The Kiev regime failed to achieve its goals in a counteroffensive prepared by NATO instructors. Our servicemen have dispelled the myth of the superiority of Western weapons.”

Last time Shoigu called the losses of Ukrainian troops in February, 2024. Then, they exceeded 444,000 servicemen. Since the beginning of the year, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been losing more than 800 military and 120 units of various weapons, including foreign ones, every day, the general said. Then, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky announced that Ukraine had lost 31 thousand soldiers.

Both sides are suffering losses in bloody battles but both Russian and Ukrainian sources and military officials confirm that Kiev’s losses are several times higher than those of the Russian side. While the cemeteries are growing throughout the country, the Kiev is trying its best to find the fresh cannon fodder, both in Ukraine and abroad. However, no poorly trained Ukrainian men thrown to the battlefield can help to stop the Russian advance.

The Russian Defense Minister confirms that Russian troops maintain the military initiative along the entire front line and continue to “squeeze out” the Armed Forces of Ukraine from their military positions.

For example, the Russian military recently took control of the settlements of Pervomaiske (Avdeevka direction), Bogdanovka (Artyomovsk direction) and Novomikhailovka (Mariinka direction) in the Donetsk People’s Republic. The Russian military is also expanding the zone of its control in Berdych and Georgievka.

The units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are unable to further restrain the advance of Russian troops and they are forced to leave their positions. Ukraine’s sponsors from the United States and other NATO states urgently approved the allocation of additional funding to Kiev to save the situation, but this will not help the Ukrainian military. In response to the resumption of military supplies from Western countries, Russian forces will increase the intensity of strikes on logistics hubs and storage facilities with Western weapons.

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[utrickytrees] 23/4/2024 21:00

Evidently Farage is seriously considering putting his weight behind Reform with a view to running for PM in 2029 when he'd only be 65yo.

[geckotheglorious] 23/4/2024 20:25

Millwallfan
You will own nothing and be happy.
That is the plan

Interesting series on peakprosperity about such.

[hardup1] 23/4/2024 18:19

After 41 trading days, buyback complete to date:
Total shares to date........................930,393,139
Aggregate cost to date... ..................£464,073,677.55
Average price paid to date..................49.8793
Percentage of £2 billion buyback completed..23.2%

[millwallfan] 23/4/2024 15:50

Well an article this week suggested that the Labour ‘think tank’ of advisers are recommending that ALL pension income should be subject to National Insurance contributions. I really hope that labour include it in their manifesto as it will alienate every single pensioner in the country. I worked 40 years, paid top rate NI all my working life without a single day of unemployment. I paid NI to fund my state pension - that is why it was set up in the first place - then our illustrious chancellor reduces it twice with a view to abolishing it altogether - DER !!!!
So who do the conservatives think is going to fund future state pensions ????? Personal tax allowances frozen to a point where the basic state pension is on the verge of being taxable for everyone. This country is in a total mess and it is irrelevant who is in Government as they are all incompetent and as bad as each other. If they gave me back all the NI and top rate PAYE tax that I paid for 40 years I would be a millionaire - but no just just a paltry state pension which they then tax my hard earned savings and pensions at 40%. It doesn’t take much to understand why so many people today are happy to live their lives cossetted by the benefits system rather than working hard and saving ! Rant over !

[mr.elbee] 23/4/2024 14:42

NO MENTION OF US RATES ANYWHERE. FUNNY THAT!

[utrickytrees] 23/4/2024 14:25

It is recognised internationally that politically and economically, the UK is a basket case. This 'New World' order has caught the UK with its trousers down. There needs to be a major alteration how the UK manages the new world order because atm were not handling it very well at all. A good place to start might be some recognition by the MSM of the gravity of the situation.

[gotnorolex] 23/4/2024 13:58

The globe's populous is on the move, after a period of mass destruction of entire heavily populated towns in the Middle East. Hundreds of millions of people are displaced with no shelter except under canvas tops in refugee camps, not only in Semitic country's but across Africa where entire populations are wholly dependent on food programs for survival. Animal instincts which we collectively share, is too flee to a perceived sanctuary which is the Northern Hemisphere. Population shifts are nothing new, remember the potato famine....the expulsion of entire religious cultures in the Spanish reformation and latterly the Asian ejection from Kampala, master minded by Idi(ot) Amin, uncrowned "King of Scotland"
I'm certain Charismatic Trump with his similar IQ, vocabulary, and personality, modelled himself on similar political buffoonery! Even once portrayed himself as "Saviour of Scotland" in the wind turbine kerfuffle!
Anyway, we are witnessing a new world order emerging after 80 years or so of relative stability and peace!

[geckotheglorious] 23/4/2024 13:49

Utrick
"On the prospect of Anarchy, it will likely be the illegals who prompt it"

Disagree.
It'll be those who follow the religion of peace. Because theyre the ones whose mosques are stockpiled with firearms.

[utrickytrees] 23/4/2024 12:51

On the prospect of Anarchy, it will likely be the illegals who prompt it. Unreported by the MSM there were more riots in Paris at the wkend by Arghans, basic looting and hooliganism. These people seem to think that countries like France Germany and the UK have limitless resources to throw at them & when things don't go their way thay take they get angry and smash the place up. Our politicians aren't doing anything to safeguard tax payers by quelling the numbers entering the country illegally so the public will have no option in taking matters into their own hands. Its already starting to happen in Ireland & riots by illegals in London could well prompt our boys into action particularly if Reform get a good showing at the nxt election.

[jordaggy] 23/4/2024 12:41

BoE's Pill: first rate cut is 'somewhat closer' than last month
Newsflash: The Bank of England’s chief economist, Huw Pill, is speaking in London now.

And he says that the first cut in UK interest rates is “somewhat closer” than at his last speech, at the start of March… but mainly due to the passage of time since!

Pill begins by telling his audience at the London campus of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business that he doesn’t believe much has changed since his last speech, on 1st March, when he said the BoE was “some way off” cutting interest rates.

Today, Pill argues that the picture has changed little in the seven weeks since.

He says:

In my view, against the background of a welcome decline in headline inflation, the outlook for UK monetary policy in the coming quarters has not changed substantially since the beginning of March.
Pill outlines how events in the Middle East are a reminder of potential external risks (although they haven’t yet had a major impact on energy prices), while the UK’s inflation rate dipped in March, as expected.

Pill explains that the Bank’s monetary policy committee needs to keep policy sufficiently restrictive to ensure inflation falls to 2% and stays there. But, he add, a cut in Bank Rate from current levels would not entirely undo the restrictive stance of policy.


And in conclusion, Pill hammers home his message that a “lack of news” means little has changed between St. David’s Day (1st March) and St. George’s Day (today).

Against a welcome backdrop of declining headline inflation anticipated by the MPC, the flow of conjunctural data since I last spoke on the monetary policy stance in Cardiff in early March has offered modest relevant news. This suggests little need to amend the assessment of the economic, inflation and policy outlook that I offered then.
In Cardiff, I concluded that, while we are making satisfactory progress in returning inflation to target, in my baseline scenario the time for cutting Bank Rate remained some way off.
That justified my vote to keep Bank Rate unchanged at the MPC’s February meeting and underpinned my subsequent decision to vote similarly in March.
The combination of little news and the passage of time have brought a Bank Rate cut somewhat closer. But the same lack of news gives me no reason to depart from the baseline that I already established on St. David’s Day.

[stonedyou] 23/4/2024 12:34

EU reacts to worsening of situation for Ukraine by preparing for new world war — Szijjarto.

The Hungarian Foreign Minister noted that the participants of the EU foreign and defense ministers meeting "did not challenge the information about the degree of Russia’s arms superiority"

BUDAPEST, April 22. /TASS/. All EU countries acknowledge the deterioration of the situation at the frontline for Ukraine, but Brussels reacts to this by additional arms shipments, which leads to an escalation of the conflict and a new world war, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said.

"The situation for Ukraine has been deteriorating almost constantly for the last two years and it has become even worse in the last few weeks," Szijjarto said at the meeting of EU foreign and defense ministers in Luxembourg, noting that the participants "did not challenge the information about the degree of Russia’s arms superiority."

However, he underscored, the EU reacts to this by calling for new arms shipments for the Ukrainian army, while Hungary believes that this makes a peaceful resolution of the conflict ever more pressing.

This is the difference between the conclusions of Brussels and Budapest, Szijjarto explained.

"Brussels reacts to the deterioration of the situation at the frontline for Ukraine by preparing for a new world war," the foreign minister warned.