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[minerve] 22/2/2019 19:08

When people are used to seeing what we would class as 'abnormal' things they become what is known as 'habituated' to psychologists. The abnormal becomes normal.

[alphorn] 22/2/2019 18:57

#322. Agree very sad events. What is causing the high level of knife crime in the cities? As bad are the 100's of acid attacks which can cause untold damage.
How do all these stack up with other countries?
Has the level changed - or is it receiving greater media attention?

[xxxxxy] 22/2/2019 18:55

The new grouping of MPs

Bob

Posted February 22, 2019 at 8:21 am | Permalink

Let’s not beat about the bush – The Quisling Party.

[1carus] 22/2/2019 18:54

That case is a very sad affair, and an innocent has paid a very high price. Min, I do disagree with you on this one. There is evil in some people. This wasn't a rushed decision, spur of the moment red mist thing. Premeditated cruel and barbaric... just pure evil over a £10 pound drugs debt by the sound of it. Shudder.

[minerve] 22/2/2019 18:52

Poikka

"Agreed that society has great problems that need addressing (more than they are), but Minerve, you need to ask yourself why the other xxmillions of kids aren't doing what that lad did"

Why aren't xxmillions on this thread like us?

Life is nuanced. Those nuances send us down completely different paths.

[alphorn] 22/2/2019 18:50

x5 remains on filter - a peep at the last posts.

Wow 35 days until no longer any x5. That is worth waiting for!

[bargainbob] 22/2/2019 18:48

I do not believe the record low unemployment figures in the UK either. If it smells like fudge it probably is fudge.

[poikka] 22/2/2019 18:48

Minerve - "I don't believe you are born a murderer. Society, isolation, sick internet content is playing with our children's minds."

Agreed that society has great problems that need addressing (more than they are), but Minerve, you need to ask yourself why the other xxmillions of kids aren't doing what that lad did. Two problems, m8, (at least) one that some people are born deranged, and the other that some are going to go astray coming from households where parenting skills are non-existent.

Poika beginning to think that Minerve is a chimp desperately in search of a fellow chimp.

[xxxxxy] 22/2/2019 18:45

om Peters 22 Feb 2019 6:42PM
Funny isn’t it - many Remainers are young people - yet the EU has visited an epic catastrophe on the young - youth unemployment in Greece 46%; Italy 35%; Spain34% - these are Great Depression numbers but they are not cyclical - they are permanent - the EU has thrown young people across Southern Europe under a bus so that Germany can continue with its predatory trade practices, can continue to run a ruinous trade surplus and export deflation to all of its neighbours. I’ve heard of Turkeys voting for Xmas but young people voting for having their lives ruined - extraordinary!

[xxxxxy] 22/2/2019 18:39

35 days to INDEPENDENCE

LEAVE AND WTO

[minerve] 22/2/2019 18:37

This story about the six-year-old Alesha MacPhail being murdered is really really sad. I feel ever so sorry for the child and I also feel sorry for the 16 year old murderer Aaron Campbell. Two young lives lost.

I don't believe you are born a murderer. Society, isolation, sick internet content is playing with our children's minds.

The problem is OUR problem. Something has to be done to find out why an otherwise normal young lad with anxiety and depression finds himself committing such appalling acts.

As I say, really sad.



Watch the witch hunt chimps start screaming. ;)

[minerve] 22/2/2019 18:22

Poikka

You are so funny.

[poikka] 22/2/2019 18:20

Re Minerve - there are none so blind...

[k38] 22/2/2019 18:01

311The corruption starts at the very top. In the heart of Brussels!!

[stonedyou] 22/2/2019 17:23

Ain`t Spain supposed to be in . . . . . the "HATED EU".




ALL GUNS BLAZING Spanish warship tries to order ships out of Gibraltar waters in ‘foolish’ game


The Tornado's crew can be heard in an audio recording of a radio exchange telling vessels anchored at the Rock to 'leave Spanish territorial waters'



By Jon Lockett



A SPANISH warship ordered commercial ships to leave Gibraltar's British waters on Sunday - with its guns primed for action.

The Tornado's crew can be heard in an audio recording of a radio exchange telling vessels anchored at the Rock to "leave Spanish territorial waters".



Royal Navy boats were quickly deployed in response to the incident - the latest in a string of stand-offs involving Spanish and British ships.

Boats which were ordered to leave - including the Ivor Accord and the Great Victory - remained at the port during the incident, which was branded "foolish" by the Government of Gibraltar.



"There is only nuisance value to these foolish games being played by those who don't accept unimpeachable British sovereignty over the waters around Gibraltar as recognised by the whole world in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea," a spokesman said.

"It seems there are still some in the Spanish navy who think they can flout international law.

"This probably accounts for the state of extremism of some parts of the Spanish political spectrum these days."

[bargainbob] 22/2/2019 16:57

lol that's the funniest thing I heard all day xxxxy.

[minerve] 22/2/2019 16:57

Steady on bargain. Let us not get carried away! LOL

[xxxxxy] 22/2/2019 16:56

A sterling future

The public finances are in good shape. Employment is at record levels. The economy is growing at a perfectly reasonable rate, and the country is politically stable, with a moderate centre-Right government secure in power and with virtually no threat from populist insurgencies. It sounds like a remarkably attractive safe haven – the perfect place to park some cash in a turbulent world.

Where is it? It is, of course, the UK in five weeks’ time.

Daily Telegraph

[bargainbob] 22/2/2019 16:55

Small beer, not even close to the net worth of Minerve .

[stonedyou] 22/2/2019 16:39

Well I never.....No Deal no cry!!!!





Starling Bank promises 400 new UK jobs with £100m grant



Challenger bank Starling is promising 398 new jobs in the UK thanks to the £100

million grant from the Capability and Innovation Fund (CIF).



As reported today (22 February), the RBS Banking Competition Remedies (BCR)

announced the winners of the awards of Pool A CIF, part of the Incentivised

Switching Scheme (ISS).

The grant comes from a £775 million fund created as a condition on RBS for

accepting £45 billion bailout during the financial crisis.

It wasn’t just about Starling. The grants, which have a combined value of £280

million, also saw £120 million to Metro Bank and £60 million to ClearBank.

Along with the new jobs, the bank will invest £94.8 million of its own money as it

hunts out action in the lively SME market.

Anne Boden, Starling’s founder and chief executive, says the award “will

accelerate our ability to reshape the SME banking market”.

Starling says it will make £913 million of balance sheet lending available to SME

customers by the end of 2023. It expects to achieve a 6.7% market share within

five years.

Since launching its mobile banking app in May 2017, the bank explains that it has

opened 500,000 current accounts. This includes more than 30,000 SME business

accounts signed up in less than a year. It will launch a web portal for SME

banking customers later this year.

Life is good for the London-based bank at present. Just last week, it raised £75

million in funding for its expansion plans in Europe.

Life is also busy. There are many other challenger banks in the UK. Check out the

contenders here.