matelot
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Apart from Blair, and his sidekick Brown, who was the last Labour Prime Minister? However the far right seem to be the only political group that have any ideas on how to protect the West from the threats we face....
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Amen to that! It annoys me how the media always warn us how dangerous the "right wing" are. It's not the "right wing" that have spent the last twenty years killing Europeans in Europe.... However the media bend over backwards telling us the ideology behind the terrorist attacks in Europe is "peaceful". It's like something from 1984.
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Tbh, I'm not sure that the public sector is underpaid... We'd all like a pay rise, however it's only the public sector that moan to the media.
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I'm out on site working daft hours.....
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give it a few months and I bet us two and Mark J will be best pals.
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My hero from the London terrorist attack was the guy that shouted "flip you, I'm milwall" as he attacked the terrorists. it seems like some London citizens have some seriously large testicles.
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I've seen air spades used for exposing utilities. It seems a reasonably fast process. Could you soak the area before digging? If you google "vacuum excavation" you will see machines that suck up the spoil. It's probably worthwhile having a look on YouTube.
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Do you live in a parallel universe? If she wasn't an ethnic minority I doubt she'd be an MP.
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I'm a civil engineer to trade. However my dad owns some land and I've picked some things up regarding forestry.
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That's good value! Apart from the obvious nuisances like deer and squirrel you should be aware of pine weevil. After a softwood plantation is harvested the pine weevil population explodes as it has so much brash to feed on. When you plant trees the weevils can attack the saplings and ring bark them You can buy saplings that have been treated to protect against the pine weevils. Without seeing the site I'd be happy planting amongst the stumps. The advantage of a recently felled site is that there is little competing vegetation, the disadvantage is that walking in brash is difficult....
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The more I see of the EU the more i dislike it. I just can't see us getting a half decent agreement with them. I think we should just go the hard brexit route.
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Tbh, the Grenfell Fire seems to highlight a lot of problems with Britain.. They spent £10m cladding this building to reduce heating costs. That's £80,000 for each flat! I'm into the environment, however that money could have been spent better elsewhere IMHO. £10m would plant a lot of trees... It also highlights that there are many illegals in London that fly under the radar and don't get deported. Then the survivors of the blaze get given flats in a luxury development worth well over a £1m each....
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"Freedom of movement" sounds good but is fairly rubbish for British people. There were about twenty people on my MSc course. Two were Brits and the rest were Spanish, French, German, Italian, Greek and Zimbabwean. After the MSc my course mates could apply for jobs in the UK. However I'd never get jobs in their countries as I don't speak their languages. I also wouldn't want to work in their countries as the pay would be rubbish. British people just don't learn foreign languages to the standards to get professional jobs abroad
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I've got "The Times" open in front of me. Main headline in business section is "Pound's fall fuels biggest export boom in decades". It's almost as if the Bremoaners forecasting doom after Brexit didn't know what they were talking about.
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Perhaps you were off when your school taught the Magna Carta? It was written in 1215 and details human rights. It's good to see you use your human right to appear foolish.
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We live in a parliamentary democracy. IMHO politicians were acting outside their powers by letting the EU treat the British people like gimps and letting millions of EU migrants in. We should have had referendums decades ago. Other countries had referendums, why did we not?
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Really? We had no human rights before the EU? It's no wonder people voted Brexit when you bremoaners make stuff up.
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I'd imagine many people here weren't even alive in 1973.....
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Tbh, what I find amazing is that we got into bed with the EU without the British people being asked what they thought. In 1973 we were asked to vote on a trade agreement with Europe. However we should have been asked to vote again when the East European countries asked to join the club. The British people should also have been asked to vote to see if they were happy with "freedom of movement". I expect we weren't asked to vote as we would have said FU EU.
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What could possibly go wrong.... If Turkey doesn't change course it will become another Pakistan... "Turkish schools to stop teaching evolution, official says Board of education chairman says subject is ‘debatable, controversial and too complicated for students’ " https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/23/turkish-schools-to-stop-teaching-evolution-official-says
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I'm supervising work on a large construction project at the moment. When can I expect Theresa May to come to site to audit the work I'm doing? I'd imagine the underlying cause of this fire is professional incompetence. I had a job where I had to monitor defects on the road network, I went into my three month probationery interview and had my probationery period extended as I was pointing out too many defects... If substandard cladding was used I'd imagine it was either due to incompetence or corruption. If someone has done wrong let's prosecute them, but how about we don't use the fire as an excuse to bash the tories?
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To be fair after working an 80 hour week I can't really be bothered researching how much these flats sold for.... So it seems that the 68 flats are the ones that the developer had to sell as "social housing" as part of the planning permission. The Guardian did produce a misleading article...
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So the flats would retail for a total of £100m but the council get them at cost for £10m? Do you really think the profit margin in selling flats is 90%? We've had a decade of austerity but London council tenants are getting flats worth over £1m....
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Yeah, I bet there have been a lot of house fires in the last week and it's only the Grenfel residents that get this media circus. There should be some national debate to decide if it's right that council tenants get houses that most of us here could never afford. To beat my favourite immigration drum again it seems crazy that we give migrants luxury houses that even very well paid British taxpayers cant afford. Two weeks ago me and my brother were clearing up the playground of a council run nursery for free as the council don't have the budget. Then this council has a spare £100m?
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It does seem bizarre that the survivors of the fire are moving into a luxury development where the starting price of a flat is £1.6m.... 68 flats are being provided so it will cost £100m plus... It looks like austerity only affects some people.... https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/21/grenfell-tower-families-to-be-given-68-flats-in-luxury-apartment-complex
