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3rd February 2024, 10:55 AM
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Never known a farmer who did not moan about something. French farmers get the lions share of the EU agricultural budget 8 billion a year +. Germany & Spain get between € 6 to 8 Billion.
Is the French complaint about the rules banning certain pesticides?
Since Brexit the UK.
The UK has failed to ban 36 pesticides that are not allowed for use in the EU, as campaigners say it is becoming the “toxic poster child of Europe”.
Though ministers promised the UK would not water down EU-derived environmental standards after Brexit, there have been multiple instances of divergence since the country left the bloc.
Now, the country is failing to phase out pesticides that have been found to be harmful to human health and the environment at the same rate as the EU, according to research from Pesticide Action Network (PAN).
Thirteen of the 36 chemicals are considered highly hazardous pesticides under UN definitions used to identify the most harmful substances. Four of these are highly toxic to bees, one contaminates water and one is highly toxic to aquatic organisms.
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3rd February 2024, 10:29 PM
#102
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Query and true to title of post, can anyone confirm in the many stories put out by the media am sure saw one the other day but now cannot find again ? A report on the executions in Iran last year , the crime being they were Gay. A figure of 741 was given but the report said they were the only ones reported and may have been more ? If this is true why aren’t people world wide condemning such vile acts of behaviour and barring the leaders who enforce such laws to purgatory. ? Do they know this and fight back by having Gay Mardi Gras .? I don’t want to believe this story , but it should be made very plain to the rest of the world if true what they are up against. JS
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6th February 2024, 10:15 AM
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The media over here have recently been telling us of some disconcerting news eminating from the UK. Some guy in England
arrested by police for waving a Union Jack in front of a group waving a Palestinian flag . He was arrested and the group allowed
to go on their way. The same outlet tells us that the Islamisering of the UK has begun.
Please tell me this is false news !.
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6th February 2024, 11:20 AM
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Well under way John, and after the next election we'll probably have to adopt ****** law. Many of our good old pubs have closed down and are now ****** centres.
Will it be a bad thing? I don't know, but you get 20 virgins if you blow yourself up.
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6th February 2024, 02:22 PM
#105
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Thing is who says those virgins are women
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6th February 2024, 02:29 PM
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Originally Posted by
John Cassels
The media over here have recently been telling us of some disconcerting news eminating from the UK. Some guy in England
arrested by police for waving a Union Jack in front of a group waving a Palestinian flag . He was arrested and the group allowed
to go on their way. The same outlet tells us that the Islamisering of the UK has begun.
Please tell me this is false news !.
Yes it would appear to be false news.
Unless Reuters are wrong.
A video of London’s Metropolitan Police arresting a man holding a Union Jack has been falsely described online as showing him being arrested for unveiling the flag at a pro-Palestinian rally. The police force said he was arrested for making racially aggravated comments and was later charged.
Thousands of demonstrators marched in central London on Oct. 14 to call for an end to Israel's military action in the Gaza Strip triggered by an Oct. 7 Hamas attack
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6th February 2024, 07:18 PM
#107
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hi john cassels #104
good evening, Dont believe a word any left driven lemon tells you, the man was arrested in liverpool a day ago, and yes im pleased to say he is a scouser, you can find it on youtube under BAZZER IN UNION JACK HANDCUFFED TO VAN, its put up by a guy called charlie veitch, the left wing will always demonise or call it out as right wing but when you watch it you will see the truth, he was on his own and the police take the union jack off him and lock him up, Even in dublin yesterday the local people marching against mass immigration that is being forced on them where deliberately forced by the gardi to march into a gathering of marxists and open borders mob screaming racists etc etc this was aimed at irish men women and children who have had enough.
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6th February 2024, 07:31 PM
#108
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hi john cassels #94
good evening, just to reiterate in regards of the mobilisation of the european farmers, as i have previously stated ireland are now taking the same action and scotland and the welsh plus england are on course for some of the same action,
also read that the european parliament is now changing their mind on banning all fertilizers, proves that we can stop them if we want to.
tom
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6th February 2024, 07:49 PM
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hi john sabourne #103
good evening ,I dont believe the report was correct as the iranians seem to be more humane in their dealings with the limp wristed bretheren of iran than we are led to believe, as far as i have heard they force all of them they catch to undergo a sex change operation, which after all the west is doing the same to children and on occasions without parential consent.
tom
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6th February 2024, 08:36 PM
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Thomas , thanks your #108. No , I wasn't about to accept that comment.
Last edited by John Cassels; 6th February 2024 at 08:53 PM.
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