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so our soldiers are dolescum too - scroungers with legs blown off

sure - there are rich who are milking the system, but a lot of those payments go to genuine farmers - you may resent that some rich people have a nice pad that would do you and for your yard - I know I do, but the scale of subsidies vs the scale of cost of dealing with migrants mean the illegal immigrants are what is ruining this country's finances The UK government spends a significant amount on agricultural subsidies. In 2023, farmers received £2.953 billion in subsidies, and in 2022/23, spending on farm support in England was around £2.33 billion. This support includes various schemes like the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS), which provides delinked payments, and Environmental Land Management schemes (ELMs). The government also provides grants for tree planting and other environmental benefits. Home Office figures cited by the Financial Times in August last year showed that the annual asylum cost reached £3.96 billion in the year up to 2023—double that of the previous year and six times higher than 2018. Yet, despite that astronomical cost, we continue to increase handouts to France to stop the boats.

1 - ok the super rich will try to avoid paying tax, but also they are not going to be scrounging benefits like illegal immigrants do 2 - Reform took more than 600 new council seats - if 6 have blown up, so what? Even a 10% attrition rate wouldn't matter

It's not somewhere I work, so haven't been right up to it, but that bright yellow is usually laburnum, quite a size for one of those. People with holiday lets and or kids around worry about them, as injestion of leaves and seed known to cause vomiting and even paralysis

they take a while to get big

the Israelis in Talks with Trump administration about US led administration of Gaza It would be no worse than any other injustice. Apartheid, slavery, holocaust - all part of human evolution

Harbour Energy are blaming windfall tax, Jeremy Hunt hiked that, seems to me Conservatives as much to blame, of course Labour are worse but Cons were quick to grasp at 'excess profits' These mid size oil companies are often loaded to the gills with debt to buy out smaller competitors, soon as energy prices drop they are in trouble. Equinor seems a good model - part state owned and part listed shares. Hit Farage up - he can add it to the manifesto

or add nitrous oxide

BillQ StevenP both cut from the same cloth, seemingly endless posts of almost interesting comments

he makes two observations about the spores 1 no leaf litter due to paved area below being swept clear 2 no other ash within 100m so, although the tree may have been infected, the absence of other trees and leaf litter means after abscission the tree can shed most of the pathogen and have a reduced chance of re-infection As above it may also be a genetically resistant specimen The leaf litter will remain at the base of most ash trees, aiding the pathogen's establishment. So if the author is right woodland ash close together are far more likely to succumb.

No, I exaggerated saying he was always in Spoons, I meant he was out drinking in the town most weekends. He said to me once ' I wish there was a job where you could get paid just for thoughts' There are jobs like that e.g a poet. Reminds me of the band UB40, band name referencing their source of income before they got going. So many creative types look at the benefits system as a way of getting money without having to go out and pick fruit or walk behind the bin lorry. I mean if you've been to art school why throw your life away on menial work, when you can have mental health problems and be free with you creative thoughts all day?

clearly someone with severe Down's or cerebral palsy isn't going to do much assembly work. But there are some with e.g Down's who could at least wipe the tables in the factory canteen. A chap I knew years back on the sick with mental health after art school, just kept taking the tablets, and often in the local Wetherspoon's - I used to think if he's well enough to go to the pub with his girlfriend, why can't he collect the empty glasses off the tables instead of scrounging? UK full of people scrounging. We are far too generous with benefits.

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We lost a lot of shipbuilding to the Philippines, among other places. Similar for a lot of our heavy industry. At least some of our Navy fleet was built somewhere else because it was cheaper. The fact that Dyson vacs are made abroad is just sick. Dyson vacuums are primarily manufactured in Malaysia, with additional manufacturing sites in China, the Philippines, and Mexico. Sick Sick Sick - we need to use the benefit claimants to make these vacs - if they won't do it - let them die

Trump isn't thick, no way. Maybe average, or even above average. Trump has cut illegal immigration to a trickle, whereas with Starmer we now have the situation where the French are handing out lifejackets as migrants set off and we are returning the lifejackets for the French to re issue. Trump doesn't have to be a good person to be not thick. Philipp Lenard was a German physicist who won the 1905 Nobel prize - he also became a supporter of the Nazi party.

They all went to what was once countryside, some to what we call towns and cities, sometimes two neighbouring towns grow so big they meet in the middle, forming one big concrete tumour

plague of locusts raping the countryside - a whopping extra 140 million people there since 1970

Having recently binged watched Yellowstone, then 1923 and 1883 I was pleased to see this chart, as it means net migration will fall below the peak of 3m during Biden's tenure. Trump's reasons for wanting migrants out are likely different to mine, my reason is the beautiful countryside you can see in the Yellowstone series and the whole stretch of wilderness the pioneers ventured through in the 1883 series will be more slowly infected by human nests if the population growth slows. I will never get to see America like those hardy folk who ventured out into Indian lands, and anyway I can't ride a horse, but the less condos the better. Trump's reasons are more crime reduction and reduced spending on benefits, from what I can gather. Maybe I'm wrong During the Biden administration, there were large and unexpected immigration flows at the southern border. The surge was dominated by those who lacked regular status but were allowed to enter for humanitarian reasons, including asylum seekers with a credible fear of returning home, participants in humanitarian parole programs for those fleeing from certain countries, and individuals who received temporary parole or a notice to appear in immigration court. The Congressional Budget Office estimated overall net migration of 3.3 million in 2023, including migration of “other foreign nationals” far higher than historical norms

pardoning the Jan 6 mob was a mistake - it sends the message that gang warfare is an ok way to achieve political ends. I wonder if there is a betting market for ' when is the next American Civil War? My fantasy ending to Jan 6 would have been the police lobbing grenades into the crowd below, as soon as some of them tried to break in. If Trump really does try for a third term there would be good reson to think the US has been hijacked and needs liberating.

surely for proper pleaching you would have left all the side branches near full length and tried to pull them in together with thin rope, rubber covered wire or similar? Alternatively for a proper pollard establishment cut to major forks leaving no stubs - so the union is only an inch or so behind both cuts

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I mentioned the crusades a while back, while arguing that historically the Christians were just as intolerant as the muslims and you were like 'what crusades?' As if to say to say there are no crusades today, so it's hardly relevant Anyway as its a tree forum let's imagine Trump banging his pretty spokeswoman under this pretty tree

No - they would be intolerant, like in Iran. But the Christians were pretty bad too - burning heretics at the stake and all that. You say the crimes of Christians in days gone by is irrelevant to today - I say, no it's perfectly relevant. It shows the nature of the beast. The only hope is forced atheism with compulsory demolition of all places of worship, synagogues, mosques and even churches. In the schools tell the new kids about religion 'this stuff used to be legal before we realised how much harm it causes'

Poor Tommy isn't the only one in wrong it would seem, from last year - surely the answer is to let everyone in to the UK and learn to love one another? And if muslims do become the majority - so what? Let them enjoy being in charge, just like Christians once had their turn. Or Not. Maybe it's not possible to stem the tide and huge changes are in store no matter how many Farages and Yaxleys there are. Countries sometimes break out into civil war, sometimes they become so overcrowded the sewage spills out everywhere.

I wasn't trying to be kind. I'm not saying he isn't racist - the whole thing is incredibly upsetting, but basically what I'm saying is he's put his life on the line for what he believes in - and is now in prison because of it. In todays world we are conditioned to accept newcomers no matter what. Britain is being swamped by foreigners. No I know you man of the world types will never agree with my blinkered views, but I don't mind. At least the Wall St Journal (who's opinion pieces are mostly critical of Trump) get my view on the real dangers posed by unrestricted immigration - Tommy Robinson is not quite in Trump's league, but they are both right on needing to clamp down on foreigners invading by land and sea.