“On the basis of extensive analysis, the Government has concluded that it is almost certain that Russian actors sought to interfere in the 2019 General Election through the online amplification of illicitly acquired and leaked Government documents”, says the foreign secretary, that’s Dom the Dim, y’know, the one that we’d all forgotten existed.
It strikes me, though, Dom the Unknown, that they might have been less liable to interfere in British politics if they hadn’t been invited to do so by no less than a British prime minister.
If you invite someone like Putin to poke his nose into British politics to try to influence one election, it would take a level of stupidity that would be beyond, I reckoned, even this ragamuffin bunch of extremist dipsticks, to believe that Putin would stop at only one election.
Duh, Dom!
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Oh, and then there’s this…
Will someone please wake me up if anyone of that lot in Westminster does something right sometime. I’d really hate to miss it because it will be unique.
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MUNGUIN'S NEW REPUBLIC 
So tell me, who interfered in British elections?
Was it the USA for wanting access to the NHS as part of a trade deal.
Was it the UK Government for agreeing to this.
Was it both of them by colluding to keep it a secret from the UK electorate.
Was it the Russians who may or may not have published it on Reddit, but clearly knew about it .
Was it the UK Press who also knew about it but buried it.
Was it Jeremy Corbyn who made a fuss about it when he found out
Questions, questions…
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The problem is that none of us know who did what, because they are all capable and all equally untrustworthy.
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And Cameron didn’t interfere in the 2014 Scottish referendum,the VOW, aye right.
Along with his onionist friends in Slab, Libdems and dark money from NI.
We liked the result so we just fined the parties for overspending, no need to re run the referendum.
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All that’s been forgotten now, hasn’t it?
Well, not exactly.
Next time we’ll be aware.
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And next day they formed an English Parliament, EVEL.
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Why they didn’t have a proper English parliament, like the other three, I have no idea.
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Westminster IS the english parliament.
A few residual Celtics allowed seats from Scotland, Wales and NI could never influence the control by the englanders. We are the last of the colonies, no mistake now.
We are in the englander PLANTATION mode planning, move into the Celtic areas and gradually take over land and properties.
Eventually Scots Law will be wiped out by Legislation from westminster and english law will be the law of the land.
We are approaching the Point of Decision.
After January 2021, westminster has the ball and the 78 majority.
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I’m wondering if the SNP and Plaid should simply stop going to Westminster, rather like SF does.
But then I think that they would use it big time against us.
The thing is there really is very little point.
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tris
Had a meeting yesterday at which I was informed for me
And three others there will be no redundancy due to our skill
Sets and therefore our positions
Are secure (for now)
Unfortunately 26 people today
Are losing their jobs.
Given I was involved in the
Process as a representative for
The employees.
I do feel sick to my stomach
That today 26 people regardless
Of being Nats or yoons or any variety of political affiliation
Or none.
Will be added to an ever increasing unemployment total
Some might say look after number one but In all honesty
To me it is a sad sad day.
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I agree, Niko.
It’s clearly of no importance what anyone’s political, religious or indeed any other affiliations are when they have, for no fault of their own, lost their job.
Across the world the number of unemployed is rising. To some it is just a set of figures, but for those involved, it’s their lives.
It is a sad day, but I’m relieved for you.
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Niko, whether these job losses were because of the pandemic or other insanities, it is a tragedy, at a personal level.
Losing your job for so-called economic reasons probably always is.
Tragedy would usually be an over the top word. In a situation of full employment it would be a mere blip. Sadly your ‘friends’ will be very very lucky to:
1) get into full employment quickly,
2) get the might of the Labour Party around them, or,
3) failing one or two, float to the bottom.
The folk that say to you ‘look after number one’, are, usually not referring to you or I. They are looking at themselves , and if you squint correctly in a mirror, they are blood sucking vampires.
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So let me get this straight – the devious bastards who have lied through their teeth about Scotland’s ability to be an Independent nation and who will stoop to any level of subterfuge and dishonesty in the fight against the people of Scotland’s interests are now telling us the truth about the evil Putin’s machinations to influence the UK election.
I think it’s safe to say he does not give a flying proverbial which particular set of numpties decorate the govt benches.
He knows fine well that the UK’s foreign and defence policy, and intelligence services are not controlled by the “Government” – and that’s all he’s worried about as regards the UK.
Indeed even if “they” had decided to have a wee laugh and let Corbyn “win” the election, the difference in foreign, defence and intelligence policy would have been negligible. One of the first things Corbyn did in 2017 was to go and get his card stamped at Chatham House. He wouldn’t have rocked the boat.
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Foreign policy will largely be made in Washington DC, which is even farther away than Brussels.
With incredible (even for this lot) ineptitude, they have made an enemy of the chairman of the Security Committee, so we may find out more about what the lying bastards have been up to.
As Bercow says, the PM or his advisors (ie Cummings) should have known that the appointment of the chair was not their business, by law. But rules and laws don’t apply to the likes of them as we already know.
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Now that these external actors have achieved their ends (Get Brexit Done) I wouldn’t expect much in the way of future interference in England’s electoral processes.
It was always about their aims to undermine the EU.
Sorry Brexiteers,you have been sold dien the river.
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It makes sense that both Russia and the USA, and possibly China, would like to see the EU undermined. As a unit it has a bigger economy than any of the “superpowers”.
I think they hoped to foment trouble by encouraging other states to follow Britain’s example, break up the union and have a pile of independent squabbling European states, weaker and poorer, to deal with instead of the EU.
Job done. Move on to Poland, Austria, Italy.
Remember the idiot Trump tried to persuade France to Frexit, when Macron was his best buddy… before he got the elbow for the bromance with Kim. Remember Kim?
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Yes that’ll be why the Russians are fighting tooth and nail against American machinations in order to invest untold £billions to build pipelines and other infrastructure to supply the EU with gas – they want to undermine the ability of their customer to pay for the gas they are going to supply!
There is a difference between interacting with and yes even influencing other powers and “undermining” them.
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Sorry down,not dien (android speak).
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I thought you were being posh, bringiton!
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There are certainly to be more changes in work in progress.
See BA are retiring their fleet of Boeing 747 aircraft, 31 in total. That means hundreds of pilots having to retrain on other aircraft, then there’s the cabin crew and the ground maintenance staff.
Saw a little clip at my brother’s house from a Glasgow based pilot who was now looking for any kind of work. The current cost of training to commercial pilot is in the region of £50,000, there is no tax deduction from the cost, full vat paid as it’s not on the list for recovery.
Meanwhile the papers are full of the Russian’s spying on us.
A wee incident in the Clyde where a nuclear submarine had a near miss with the Irish Ferry is a small afterthought.bet if it was in the Solent it would be all over the news for days.
The chancer’s big handout seems to be just the same budget spending shuffled, so Kate Forbes’ statement now makes sense, the Barnett money for Scotland came to £21m.
They’re worried if the doris is promising another £3billion for the ENHS for the winter.
Glad you didn’t include the rest of the ex speaker’s diatribe, it’s still early.
Keep safe, that includes you, Niko.
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There submarines are a real danger, but they will never make a big thing of it.
What else did Bercow say?
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The Royal Navy’s navigational skills have never been particularly great – if they have difficulty avoiding the Isle of Skye what chance the Belfast ferry!
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LOL
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It would have been the ‘Perisher’ training under way, they use fishing boats to hide their noise from the surface vessels.
Remember this is a state of the art billion pound machine that bumped into SKYE.
Bercow said it was wetting the bed government.
Grayling’s talent was for seeing a problem and making it WORSE, no experience of intelligence.
Bercow didn’t miss any of them.
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Ooops. I wouldn’t like him for an enemy!
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I recall seeing “Perisher” exercises in the early 1980s, from the bridge of a ferry actually, the Arran ferry, you would see them surfacing and diving and getting chased about the place by a frigate.
The “Perisher Bar” in the Douglas Hotel in Brodick was where they all got pished after they tied up to the buoy in Brodick Bay in the evening!
The “Perisher” course was the qualification course for aspiring submarine commanders, so called because most candidates perished or in other words became nervous wrecks and crumbled under the pressure!
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Good to know we are in safe, erm … EEEEEK
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I’ve just seen a recruitment ad for the navy submarines. It’s even more jaw dropping than the other two. In fact this one is hilarious – a nobody from Teeside becoming a budget-price James Bond who goes on secret missions. Funny that all the recruits in these adverts are from the extreme north of England.
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Got a link, Jesmond?
I imagine it’ll be something the posh boys thought might appeal to working-class lads, but I’d love a good laugh.
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Winston Smith is alive and well
The handcock has initiated a recount on covid deaths.
from Sky ‘not the real news’.
An urgent review has been ordered into how daily coronavirus death figures are calculated after it was claimed the current method did not account for people recovering from COVID-19.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has asked for the examination of Public Health England’s data – said by researchers to include a “statistical anomaly” by which “no one can ever recover from COVID-19 in England”.
According to government figures, there have been 45,119 COVID-19 associated deaths across the UK.
However, there are now concerns that death tally could be inaccurate due to the way coronavirus deaths are recorded in England.
A government source confirmed that PHE’s current method of calculation means if a person was previously diagnosed with COVID-19 but subsequently died of unrelated causes, their death would still be counted as part of PHE’s daily coronavirus death tally.
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It is understood a different methodology for counting coronavirus deaths is used in Scotland and Northern Ireland to the one used in England.
The review ordered by Mr Hancock aims to sort out the issue and establish the impact on the UK’s overall death tally.
Anyone like to guess the reduction in numbers?
Well taught by the South Korean propaganda machine as taught by the naked empire.
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I imagine that we will find that next to no one actually died of the virus in England and that Mr Cummings and his motley crew are in fact, heroes, who have save the world, or at least England, which is about the same thing.
Send them all to the Lords with Ks and Garters, I say.
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The Garters round their necks.
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LOL. What a thought!
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Err.
Dave:
You mean “North Korean propoganda machine”, perhaps? South Korea has decent stats.
Oh! The USA!
If not , please explain what ‘naked empire’ South Korea follows.
It has certainly followed it’s own path is dealing with COVID-19 fairly successfully without falling into the political black hole that is the Trump insanity bomb.
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Putin looks like that prince who actually is prince Charles’s son.
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Funny… I was kinda thinking that too.
I wonder if they are related…
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I think he (the son that is) is more likely to be related to a certain ex monarch of Spain…..closely related let’s just say.
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Well, it’s interesting that neither of Charlie’s kids looks anything like him.
Juan Carlos used to take both him and Harry Hewitt out to kill as much of the wildlife of Spain as they could reasonably find. Fortunately, he fell and broke his leg and had to give up hunting. An odious old man (replaced by his odious son).
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When Willie ascends the throne will that be the ultimate revenge for the Spanish Armada?
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Finally Spain will rule England. 🙂
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Love 💕 This
https://vm.tiktok.com/JNHaayt/
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LOL LOL.
Brilliant series.
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I’ve just read this from the BBC
It’s by Douglas Fraser.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/53449787
The gist of it is that the Chancellor, Risky Kumquat, has been playing fast and loose with the numbers and his promises and announcements aren’t what they seem. The Institute for Fiscal Studies have called him out on it. In westminster and holyrood there has been all the usual claim and counter claim.
What really annoys me though is the tone adopted by the BBc’s Douglas Fraser towards the end of his “News” article.
Here is what he says: ( remember this is heaadlined as NEWS)
“So, before many other conclusions are drawn from this – and they have been, believe me, in the social media battleground – I humbly contend that the Treasury does itself no favours by obscuring its calculations, and over-claiming for its generosity.
But this does not mean it is treating Scotland unfairly.
For those engaged in the pitched political battles on this issue, when you come up for breath, it is worth considering that if you like what the IFS says this week, treat its expertise with due respect on occasions when it is less helpful to your cause.
And please don’t treat the current financial year as any guide to the future trajectory of public finances of either the UK or an independent Scotland, except to factor in higher debt for a long time to come.”
WHAT’S BALANCED AND IMPARTIAL ABOUT THAT?
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