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As an instinctive Republican, I'd accept that as a compromise. Slim it right down, and also wish that the British public could finally grow out of their forelock-tugging and fawning; it's embarrassing.

I'm instinctively opposed to Monarchy, and get thoroughly peed-off with the facile "we need them for tourism" argument - as if no-one ever visits Paris or New York! But, another elected leader: Tony Blair? Nigel Farage? Ricky Gervais? Miranda Hart? Yuk. In spite of my instinctive...

Before hordes of p*ssed-up Brits arrive :)

Mrs Peteinblack is there this weekend with some workmates. She's finding the temperature a bit of a shock having left here on Thursday where daytime maximums have been in the 17-20 C range.

* The Department of Politics & International Relations at the University * The music scene in the 1980s/1990s - Sisters of Mercy, Gang of Four, The Mekons, The Wedding Present, Soft Cell, Chumbawamba, and Utah Saints. * The former Indie nightclubs, Le Phonographique and The Warehouse (Friday...

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Classic Tory playbook: slash staff and cut funding > service deteriorates further - repeat process > further deterioration > Government announces that "we've tried to improve things, but these people are inherently lazy/incompetent, so we'll need to pursue privatisation." Cue cheers from Daily...

"What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression.” Albert Camus, The Fall.

Also ignored is the impact on the local economies where the 91,000 civil servants live - 91,000 people with reduced disposable income after redundancy, and so spending less in local shops and amenities, so more local businesses and shops likely to go under - having recently struggled through...

How do you know we can do without them? This sounds like another 'dead cat' (like the recent Rwanda announcement) to divert and distract attention away from party-gate, the latest fines, and the Tories loss of 500 seats in last week's local elections. Bashing civil servants always plays well...

Wow! Total respect and admiration.

Excellent post. Mention to a Daily Mail reader that someone is receivng social security benefts, and they'll almost certainly imagine a track-suit wearing character out of Shameless, happily unemployed and drinking booze and chain-smoking all-day while watching trash on an 80" flat-screen TV...

1. Make it illegal to text while walking in public (lift your head up and look where you're going, muppet). 2. Compulsory communication skills courses for people constantly punctuate their sentences with "like" or "Ohmigod" (basically most teenage girls/young women). 3. Ban from live music...

I was born and raised in Lancing - it was indeed a sh*thole - I couldn't wait to leave :thumbsup:

Loves the early episodes of Minder, especially for the banter - some of the dialogue and badinage was superb - and the way that Terry and Arfur always eluded the constantly irascible Sgt Chisholm; every time he thought he'd got them "bang to rights", they got way with whatever scam or...

"Manchester United aren't a shadow of Alex Ferguson's teams, They're a shadow of the Van Gaal, Mourhino and Solskjær teams." :clap:

Never saw this coming - marvellous stuff :)

Daily Telegraph reported today that Spurs want Potter to take over in the summer if Conte leaves, but that we will demand £10 million 'compensation'.

I don't understand this; the Brexitters told us ad nauseum that EU migrants were taking British workers' jobs, so now we've left the EU and the migrants have been 'sent home', why aren't British workers now queuing up to do these jobs? If you say it's because the wages are too low, we were also...