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[johnwise] 17/10/2024 07:59

Britain Racing to Third World Status


'I'M QUITE ANGRY' | Lee Anderson sends warning to Labour MPs

VIDEO

[wsm812] 17/10/2024 07:31

I've mostly been busy with the filter button this morning!

[utrickytrees] 17/10/2024 07:25

Talking of steroids, take a look at the RR share price...SMR news round the corner?

[utrickytrees] 17/10/2024 07:22

Pig farming? Don't think halal pork's going to cut the mustard Scruff.

[xxxxxy] 17/10/2024 07:21

Charmless QuarkYou can't solve a spending problem by cutting spending. Raise taxes instead.You can't solve an obesity problem by consuming fewer calories than you use. You take tax payer funded pills instead.You can't solve an energy security problem by creating your own energy. You buy it it from overseas instead.You can't solve an illegal immigration problem by deporting them for processing in Rwanda (or just stopping them coming). You let them all stay and enter into half a billion pounds' worth of contract to process the ensuing tsunami in the UK.You can't solve a bloated public sector by reducing its size. You inflate it with cronies instead.I could go on.Every action they take is the exact opposite of what the country needs...Daily Telegraph

[scruff1] 17/10/2024 07:04

No houses M2. Solar farms, windmills and pylons only -and fly tipping. Widespread pig farming gets my vote especially around our coasts

[scruff1] 17/10/2024 06:58

Correct again Tiger. I know Buxton very well. Its the same there too. If you search carefully Tricky you can find wallabies there - they stay out all year as they are wild (behind the winking man on Roaches)

[tygarreg] 17/10/2024 06:43

The cows you see outside in winter are on either on concrete, hard-core or very well drained or frozen paddocks and just go out for a bit of exercise. But there is no feed value in the winter grass. They may take some silage or hay out to them but generally their food is waiting for them inside.

[utrickytrees] 17/10/2024 06:28

Seed oils haven't stood the test of time they're a relatively new post WW1, as are ready meals.

[utrickytrees] 17/10/2024 06:00

Having slept on it I do recall the farmer telling me that Buxton was one of the few places in the country where they were able to leave the animals out all year. I think it's the topography of the land...Buxton it unique as it sits in a bowl which acts as a sump for cold air. My mates farm is obviously in the hills which will be 5 or 6° warmer.

[utrickytrees] 16/10/2024 22:25

They leave them out on the hills round Buxton & they eat nothing but lush green grass & heather. I think they put them in the woods if it gets really cold. But Buxton is the coldest place in England so it's probably a genetic thing.

[thevladslayer] 16/10/2024 21:32

stainsmithShow your allegiance to us English as you lot have done for hundreds of years

[tygarreg] 16/10/2024 21:19

But silage is grass. So is hay. Since time began farmers gathered surplus summer grass in the form of hay and in the last century silage, to feed the cows when there was no grass left on the fields through the cold wet winter months. Anything left out on fields through winter just turned into a mud bath. If the farmers didn't store hay or silage for the winter the cows would starve and you wouldn't get any milk.

[stonedyou] 16/10/2024 21:06

Polish citizens appalled by Ukrainians flaunting luxury – defense chief

People have become increasingly disillusioned with supporting refugees from the neighboring country, polls suggest


Taxpayers in Poland are outraged when they see Ukrainian refugees living luxury lifestyles, Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz has said.

Warsaw had previously cut benefit payouts to the almost 1 million Ukrainian refugees who have fled their country.

Polish people are appalled by “the sight of young men from Ukraine, driving the best cars, spending weekends in five-star hotels,” Kosiniak-Kamysz told Polish the news portal Interia in an interview published on Tuesday.

This is perceived as unfair by taxpayers, who fund the Ukrainian refugees’ benefits, and contribute to Warsaw’s military and financial aid to Kiev, the top defense official added.

Poland is a major backer of Ukraine, and has provided it with more than €3.2 billion ($3.5 billion) in military aid since the beginning of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, according to Germany’s Kiel Institute.

More than 981,000 Ukrainian refugees currently reside in Poland, and nearly twice that number have officially applied for asylum, according to UN statistics.

Polish society, which was initially sympathetic to the Ukrainians, has grown increasingly disillusioned, opinion polls suggest. Two-thirds of Poles are in favor of deporting male Ukrainian refugees back home to fight Russia, a study published by Polish state news last week indicated.

Last month, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski called on EU states to cut social benefits for male refugees from Ukraine to encourage them to return home. “We should not be subsidizing draft evasion,” he said.

This spring, Warsaw announced that it would not protect Ukrainians trying to flee Kiev’s increasingly harsh conscription campaign.

Ukraine initially announced a general mobilization in February 2022, forbidding men aged 18 to 60 from leaving the country. Faced with mounting losses on the battlefield, Kiev lowered the conscription age from 27 to 25 in April, and significantly increased the penalties for draft dodgers.

The mobilization campaign has reportedly led to increased draft evasion and rampant corruption. Social media is rife with videos of Ukrainian conscription officers attempting to catch men in the streets, shopping centers, clubs, and concerts, often resulting in heated exchanges.

Moscow has said that Kiev’s Western sponsors are pushing it to fight “to the last Ukrainian,” accusing them of conducting a de facto proxy war against Russia.

[thevladslayer] 16/10/2024 20:26

stainsmith Sing the national anthem and show your allegiance to our King

[hardup1] 16/10/2024 17:40

No shares bought back today so figures the same as for Wednesday 9th October.

After 164 trading days, buyback complete to date:
Total shares to date........................2,944,743,918
Aggregate cost to date... ..................£1,590,961,884.64
Average price paid to date..................54.0272p
Percentage of £2 billion buyback completed..79.55%