matelot
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The war in Syria is nearly over. Why would Assad risk America getting involved by using chemical weapons? Are chemical weapons really worse than conventional weapons? In Syria we've got two choices. We either support Assad who is not as bad as people are making out. Or we support the opposition in Syria who are hardcore nutters that chop the heads off people. After the mess we made of Iraq and Libya we really should be sitting this one out and letting Russia and Assad get on with it. There's no way we should be helping Islamic State (make no mistake, that's the "opposition" in Syria) beat Assad.
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Why not actually present an argument instead of just calling names?
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Imho, Vesp is a complete legend and he keeps the "lounge" of arbtalk alive and kicking. well played Vesp! May you never run out of Internet for your YouTube research!
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IMHO, someone that robs houses when the residents are inside is even lower than someone that hangs plastic bags of dog turd on trees. The police should have been removing the floral tributes. I'm sure the people leaving the flowers knew the guy was a scumbag and didn't tell the police what he was up to.
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Why was the Hungarian election corrupt? To "show my cards", I'm absolutedly delighted that Orban won the election....
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What point are you making? The media are like spoiled children blaming everyone from Russian trolls to Facebook for voting for Brexit and Trump etc. The truth is that Europeans and Americans are just conservative in outlook.... Nothing wrong with that either...
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What point are you making Richard? You should be shouted down as someone that thinks calling someone a "racist" makes you look smart. Calling someone a "racist" makes you look like you believe everything the BBC tells you.
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Another landslide win for an extreme right anti migrant politician. I wonder if the likes of the BBC will stop their condescending attitudes...
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Tbh, I think what's frustrating is that many people could see that these terrorist attacks were bound to happen... They warned wider society and they were shouted down as being "racist".... When you think about it, the main priority of any elected politician is to look after the interests if their electorate. They've not been looking after the interests of native Brits...
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What about food security? The U.K. Imports many essential good and services....
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I've never really got it. Watching some guys run round a track just seems a waste of time... IMHO, the only sports worth watching are women's beach volleyball and the female gymnastics... I can't help thinking we get so much sport on the telly as it's an excuse for media types to get a nice holiday somewhere warm.
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What you doing today? Maybe taking the tractor out on the roads for a jaunt to piss off those townies?
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Question: Do the vast majority of foreigners in the UK improve life for native Brits? Answer: No, they take away jobs, reduce wages and put pressure on the NHS etc. Question: Is importing cheap food good for Britain? Answer: Yes, cheap food means Brits have more money for more fun things. Question: Are farmers known for their excessive complaining and demands for more money? Answer: They are infamous for their constant complaining. Life is actually fairly hard for lots of people in society but they just get on with it...
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Yeah, bloody grass not growing in winter. It's disgusting, they should bring a law in forcing grass to grow all the year.
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There seems to be a universal law that the more public money a group of people get the more they complain and ask for more money....
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What do you expect Israel to do? If you have a couple of thousand people throwing stones at border guards it's more or less certain that the guards will start firing at them.... Do you think if a couple of thousand Jews started throwing stones at Saudi/ Egyptian/ Turkish border guards they wouldn't get shot? Outside Israel how are the Jewish population treated in the Middle East? Ohh, I just remembered, they've all been killed. It's almost laughable how you SJWs play "top trumps" with victims. If a victim is Jewish/ Christian/ white you're just not interested. If a victim is brown and Muslim you'll go to their defence.
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Saying "99%" is an expression of speech.... Looking at Wikipedia 95% of the prison population is male.... I was closer than your 80%..... So someone phoned a radio show and said he'd been stopped 20 plus times and he's a cop? It hardly the best source of evidence.... Do you believe every random caller to radio stations? Even if this story is true maybe he dresses as a yardie and act like a complete master baker? Honestly, what do you want the police to do? Do you want them to be politically correct and "stop and search" old pensioners for knifes or do you want them to go after the demographics that carry knifes?
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The reality is that some ethnic groups are more likely to be involved in stabbings etc..... The police should concentrate their limited resources on catching criminals.... When it comes to "stop and search" that means stopping black male youths. Or maybe the police should "stop and search" some white female pensioners as well? After all the police wouldn't like to be seen as sexist/ ageist/ racists... About 99% of the prison population are male. Maybe that's because the justice system is sexist? Or maybe it's because men just commit more crime?
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A picture is worth a thousand words... Here are the stabbing victims in London....
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The black community have been complaining about "stop and search" being racist. As a result the police have reduced "stop and search" amongst the black community. The result is more blacks are carrying knifes meaning more stabbings. Cause and effect...
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I have to admit when I started reading about the Bowie knife I thought the deer was going to end up in a stew.. I done similar with a sheep that had got its head stuck through a fence. The sheep was thrashing about until I put a jacket over its head then it just sat still, couple of cuts in the fence with my leather-man and the sheep was on its merry way.
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Why is a gently falling population a bad thing? Have you not heard of climate change? Maybe having less kids is one way to help protect our environment... Before you post something along the lines of "we need migrants to work and pay tax". The average migrant takes more from the taxpayer than he pays in tax.... What the UK really needs is more quality control when it comes to immigration. We should only be allowing in people that speak English and will contribute more than they take out. As it is, we hand out British passports to anyone that can hide beneath lorry at Calais and makes it to the UK.
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How many stories in the news are immigrant related? The next time you watch the news just take a mental note of how many stories are related to immigrant groups... It's over half... Some days 100% of the news stories are immigrant related.... No one is saying that all problems in the UK are immigrant related. However let's be honest, many problems people have are indirectly made worse by immigration. Wages are getting held down because millions of migrants will work for rubbish money and conditions. The NHS is in crisis because of the amount of migrants needing treatment. We're cutting down trees to make room for new housing for these migrants... The only group that really benefits from mass immigration is big business as it means they can pay employees less. I don't know, maybe we're all cool with mass immigration so that the bosses of FTSE 100 firms can pay themselves an extra £1m bonus? It's not "hatred" to discuss these issues....
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So what are we arguing about then?
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One of the pressures the NHS faces is migrants needing treatment.... You do know how a queue works? The more migrants needing NHS treatment means the longer Brits have to wait for treatment. Are you cool with that? Is Robert Mugabe on that list? I bet most of these billionaires got rich through corruption... Anyway, you were just saying that Africa is behind scientifically because of lack of money? Now you say they have plenty money? Which is it Wes?
