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3rd October 2023, 12:29 PM
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Re: Twice as bad
Mo why do you not actually say that it was a NATO operation during the Balkin conflict. Serbs and ethnic cleansing springs to mind.
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3rd October 2023, 02:23 PM
#32
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I've been in Italy a few times over the last number of years, and there are thousands of them kipping on the streets. I guess Italy doesn't provide for them either. I think the benefit system here in the UK is a disgrace, and has been for a long time. There was even talk this morning on the telly, about men should get a year off work for the menopause, what's that one about then?
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3rd October 2023, 02:54 PM
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Re: Twice as bad
A year off work...with their female rottweiler without the lipstick...A guy would never survive
What woke luvvie thought that one up!
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3rd October 2023, 09:18 PM
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Remember the ten pounders who australia kindly accepted
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4th October 2023, 12:09 AM
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Re: Twice as bad
Unfortunate use of words by the UN, They must seek asylum at the first friendly country the come to, well I don't think for one minute that Tunisia or Morocco would offer that, then there is Italy, France, in fact the whole of Europe is unfriendly, so what they should do is work to change their own Country.
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4th October 2023, 12:40 AM
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#35 Think they should take the 31 st amendment or whatever it is Des , or the more better known one …you have the right to remain silent but if you don’t anything you say may be recorded and used against you in a court of law. Saying all that maybe just better if they kept their big Gob shut. JS
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4th October 2023, 01:21 AM
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#34 only if of good standing and required for the good of the country. And medically sound . No geriatrics cut off age was 54 in 1990 . JS
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4th October 2023, 09:48 AM
#38
Re: Twice as bad
#35 That is a rather sweeping statement Des(in fact the whole of Europe is unfriendly) You must be originally from North Wales then Des?
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5th October 2023, 05:38 AM
#39
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Des has a good point there.
Not all but some parts are not that friendly.
In France a few years ago and treated like some form of alien, in Rostock this year, most unfriendly place I have ever been to.


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5th October 2023, 09:30 AM
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John that is the same in any country. I have lived in France and Spain. Only time I ever had an issue was the bureaucracy. Same here in the UK but at least it is a tad easier seeing as we have a coomon language.
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