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16th April 2022, 11:35 AM
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Re: Life in the sunshine
#6 The Australian government even stationed offshore vessels with immigration officials on board if they didn’t fulfil the requirements they were towed back to mainly Sri Lanka where most started from, other vessels towed them back , they never set foot on Australian soil unless they were legal. JS .
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16th April 2022, 10:07 PM
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Re: Life in the sunshine
RAF Brize Norton > Kigali, you never know they may have a lucky scratch card and the winner gets a return ticket.
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17th April 2022, 06:51 AM
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Re: Life in the sunshine
Ah louis .....allow yourself another case of vino plonko ....you can celebrate the fact that brent labour council is changing the name of a park in london from William Gladstone park...a four times prime minister to .....im sure even you cant believe it louis ......Diane abbot park....no doubt partytime for diane and co .....all the labour stalwarts will be there .....corbyn .....corbyns brother ....set in stone miliband ....SIR steer calmer......two jags.....and old george the donkey for dianne to arrive mounted..... ....whoopee time for labour .....R683532
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17th April 2022, 08:13 AM
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Re: Life in the sunshine
Do you think Boris & the wife will go as they love a good party?
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17th April 2022, 08:21 AM
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Re: Life in the sunshine
naw boris doesnt like louis .....or his donkey ....he thinks there would be enough donkeys there anyway........
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17th April 2022, 10:13 AM
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I have often wondered why the Tory party attracts so many crooks, liars, perverts and eccentrics.
A Tory MP has just been found guilty of molesting small boys. Another kicked out for making a fortune out of the Covid crisis even though the Clown defended him and tried to keep him in his job. The not so Priti Patel whose parents were forced out of Uganda announced the brilliant proposal to send immigrants on a one way ticket to Rwanda. The British taxpayers are expected to foot the bill for this lunacy which could run into billions of pounds without consulting them.
While I am at it there is a Tory MP who sits in Parliament with a bright yellow mop on his head, unbelievable but true.
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17th April 2022, 10:24 AM
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Re: Life in the sunshine
Louis, i owe no allegiance to any political party, but if you are singling out Tory party MPs crimes and dodgy behaviour, i think you have been turning a blind eye to behaviour of other MPs , there is bad eggs among most of them. Maybe you just expect them all to be pristine white, in which case you will spend the rest of your life being disappointed.
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17th April 2022, 10:25 AM
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At least 55 Labour MPs, Councillors and Mayors have been arrested, charged, suspended, or placed under investigation in the past 6 months.
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17th April 2022, 10:52 AM
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Vic, remember when to be a councillor one was honoured and only too pleased to do the community work . Out of pocket expenses was the only money involved. I never really heard any complaints. Then salary’s were brought in , must have been about the time of that well known song “ Money is the Root of all Evil” , hitting the charts. JS.
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17th April 2022, 11:07 AM
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Yes John, and the standards went down.
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