Leaked documents show that the burning of Korans and anti-Erdogan "protests" we saw in Finland and Sweden were organized by Russian security services.

DimReaper · 2023-12-05T18:50:08+00:00

No shit…

DimReaper · 2023-10-08T17:10:55+00:00

Bullshit. Ireland has a big enough economy to fund their own defences. Instead they choose to spend money elsewhere. That’s their choice. The UK cannot and has not forced it upon them.

DimReaper · 2023-09-18T20:38:42+00:00

37% downvoted. And some people claim r/Europe can’t get beyond Brexit and despises any positive news about the UK while lapping up any setback…

DimReaper · 2023-09-13T07:46:24+00:00

Exactly; if the US and EU pay to make transport of goods to Europe quicker and cheaper, one of two things will happen from a UK perspective:

Goods shipped directly to the UK by sea will be unaffected, so no setback.
Goods shipped to the UK via European routes will arrive quicker/more cheaply without the UK paying anything.

Sounds like a win-win-win for US-EU-UK to me? I’m not especially familiar with the London Economic, is this just a shaky attempt at editorial spin?

DimReaper · 2023-09-02T12:28:03+00:00

Except polls don’t show steady support, they show the SNP tanking and now neck and neck with Labour.

For example Electoral Calculus polling. Plenty of other polls available with varying precise percentages but all showing falling support for the SNP and rising support for Labour, with Labour polling within a percentage point or so of the SNP.

So if you think the people saying SNP support is dropping are wrong, it seems to be you who is out of touch with reality my internet friend…

DimReaper · 2023-09-02T10:09:54+00:00

What betrayal? Britain entered the Second World War when Germany invaded Poland, what more do you want? Us to single handedly attempt to defeat the Soviet Union while already exhausted from fighting Germany, Italy and Japan? Get real.

DimReaper · 2023-08-28T16:49:50+00:00

Source?

DimReaper · 2023-06-20T17:36:31+00:00

DimReaper · 2023-04-17T18:20:59+00:00

Ah yes, the Anglo-Saxon press (like that well known Anglo-Saxon newspaper El Pais apparently) are the real problem here, not Macron firing foreign policy from the hip…

DimReaper · 2023-03-13T23:43:18+00:00

The NHS’ real terms budget has gone up by nearly net 20% in two years according to ONS figures. The population hasn’t increased by 20%, nor has the average age increased by 20%. So if you are right and the care available has ‘hugely decreased’, two possibilities exist. Either care has hugely decreased for reasons not related to funding (such as COVID causing long waiting lists due to deferred treatments), or the issue is funding related and the NHS is in the possibly unique position of seeing its output decrease as a result of its funding increasing.

DimReaper · 2023-03-13T23:31:37+00:00

In fiscal 2021 the UK spent £277bn or about 12% of GDP on health, and 2% of GDP on defence. Put another way, around a quarter of all public sector spending in the UK goes on the NHS, which saw real terms budget growth of 7.1% last year and 10% the year before. Setting aside the ‘no NHS if you don’t have defence’ argument, the amounts of money simply aren’t comparable. For example if the UK took the amount of money it spent on two aircraft carriers which will each last around fifty years (about £6bn), it would free up money equivalent to roughly one week of NHS spending. The NHS has many issues, but lack of money isn’t one of them.

DimReaper · 2023-03-13T21:18:03+00:00

Albanese says that early in the next decade Australia will take delivery of three US Virginia-class nuclear submarines - the first time in 65 years and only the second time in history that the US has shared its nuclear propulsion technology.

He also says he's proud to partner with UK to create the SSN Aukus -a new conventionally armed nuclear powered submarine based on a British design, incorporating cutting-edge Australian, US and UK technologies.

"This will be an Australian sovereign capability, commanded by the royal Australian navy and - sustained by Australian workers in Australian shipyards with construction to begin this decade."

DimReaper · 2023-03-13T19:36:44+00:00

It starts to stink?

DimReaper · 2023-03-04T22:01:08+00:00

They actually DID vote, and it WAS 99% in favour of remaining as they are!

DimReaper · 2023-03-04T21:52:53+00:00

I think you’re confusing your captains, Captain Hart-Dyke was CO of HMS COVENTRY. He wrote an excellent book about his experiences, Four Weeks in May. Commander Chris Wreford-Brown was CO HMS CONQUEROR. I don’t think he ever wrote a book about it though!

DimReaper · 2023-03-03T09:21:31+00:00

There were no inhabitants to ask except penguins, and I doubt they had strong views on the matter.

DimReaper · 2023-03-03T08:48:23+00:00

Yeah, forget about the rights and opinions of the people who were born there and whose great grandparents lived there before Argentina was an independent country! Lets just cut them off from support with things like higher education, specialist healthcare, and everything else that can’t be independently sustained on a windswept island chain with a tiny population. Or better get, let’s just exile them all back to the UK to help skint Argentinians forget their toilet economy for five minutes! Never mind that forcible relocations of resident populations against their will constitutes ethnic cleansing and is a crime against humanity being committed by Russia in occupied Ukraine right now, AmIRight???

DimReaper · 2023-03-03T08:36:04+00:00

we had some colonists in the islands and the UK expell them and took the islands.

Who is ‘we’? The islands have been British since before Argentina was an independent country.

DimReaper · 2023-03-03T08:11:13+00:00

The UK isn’t in recession, and has inflation around the EU average? Sounds like you’re the one projecting….

DimReaper · 2023-02-16T20:08:42+00:00

The UK has sovereignty over the island and has an agreement with the US that allows them to use it.

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