Making the news today....

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

1 hour ago, eggsarascal said:

Philip Hammond jacked, how many more?

To be fair, I’d give the whole cabinet their P45 - they are directly responsible for 3 years spaffed up the wall. 

 

Oct 31st it is then, do it or do one Boris!

[eggsarascal]

1 minute ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

To be fair, I’d give the whole cabinet their P45 - they are directly responsible for 3 years spaffed up the wall. 

 

Oct 31st it is then, do it or do one Boris!

Do you think, (not hope) he'll sort it by the 31st?

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

9 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

Do you think, (not hope) he'll sort it by the 31st?

Yes I do - unless the spineless brigade set about intentionally obstructing it. 

 

He will instal a team that actually have the gumption to do it rather than dick around talking about it whilst not actually having any intention of doing so. 

 

It is the legal position that it will happen. So if he does nothing, 31 Oct weme out...

[Mark J]

 

[felixthelogchopper]

22 minutes ago, Mark J said:

 

RIP.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

CornwallLive - a notoriously amateurish and inaccurate media source. 

 

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/mass-destruction-trees-ruined-town-3129293

[aspenarb]

1 hour ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

CornwallLive - a notoriously amateurish and inaccurate media source. 

 

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/mass-destruction-trees-ruined-town-3129293

"A council spokesman said: “The trees, which were situated on private land, were being felled by the landowner, apparently due to highway safety concerns."

 

Seems plausible, there are not many woodland managers these days with a budget that will stretch to "tree surgery". We have winched in hundreds of roadside trees over the years, many only needed deadwooding, in a lot of cases there is not even the money to sned them out , pull them in and on to the next one.

 

Bob

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

1 minute ago, aspenarb said:

"A council spokesman said: “The trees, which were situated on private land, were being felled by the landowner, apparently due to highway safety concerns."

 

Seems plausible, there are not many woodland managers these days with a budget that will stretch to "tree surgery". We have winched in hundreds of roadside trees over the years, many only needed deadwooding, in a lot of cases there is not even the money to sned them out , pull them in and on to the next one.

 

Bob

Looks like the aftermath of a machine with shear / grab. CornwallLive are a dreadful local media outlet. Video looks more like hedgerow coppicing to me. There are a few comments on a local tree swingers page so might hear a more accurate account at some point. 

[TIMON]

When I first read about this I genuinely thought it was one of those fake news satire pieces.
Then I realised it actually happened.

UN Singles Out Israel as World's Only Violator of Women's Rights; Iran, Saudi Arabia & Yemen Among the Voters - UN Watch

UNWATCH.ORG

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GENEVA, July 24, 2019 — Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Pakistan were among members of the UN’s 54-nation economic and social council, a principal organ of the world body, who voted to single out and condemn Israel yesterday as the only country in the world that violates women’s rights. The Jewish state was harshly and repeatedly condemned in a resolution, adopted 40 to 2 with 9 abstentions and 3 absent (see breakdown below), for allegedly being the “major obstacle” for Palestinian women “with regard to their advancement, self-reliance, and integration in the development of their society.” Out of 20 items on the UN Economic and Social Council’s 2018-2019 agenda, only one — Item No. 16 against Israel — focuses on condemning a specific country. All the other focus areas concern global topics such as disaster relief assistance and the use of science and technology for development. The resolution completely ignores how Palestinian women’s rights are impacted by their own governing authorities—the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, and Hamas in Gaza—nor does it mention how women are discriminated against within patriarchal Palestinian society. Moreover, ECOSOC concluded its annual session by ignoring the world’s worst abusers of women’s rights, refusing to pass a single resolution on the situation of women in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, or DR Congo, all of which ranked in the top ten worst countries in last year’s Global Gender Gap Report, produced by the World Economic Forum. Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch, condemned the delegates’ abuse of the UN body as a forum to target Israel. “The UN reached new heights of absurdity by …

[Khriss]

1 minute ago, TIMON said:

When I first read about this I genuinely thought it was one of those fake news satire pieces.
Then I realised it actually happened.

UN Singles Out Israel as World's Only Violator of Women's Rights; Iran, Saudi Arabia & Yemen Among the Voters - UN Watch

UNWATCH.ORG

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GENEVA, July 24, 2019 — Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Pakistan were among members of the UN’s 54-nation economic and social council, a principal organ of the world...

Possibly a political post ? Israel aint known fr womens rights - hence Orthodox prayer of ' Thank god I was not born a woman' but I am not one to judge the Haaredi , K