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More £ in less £ out. We can play with the small ticket items and blame everyone else all day long but to make a difference it's the big ticket items that count. Take your pick:- A lower standard of living. Re balance income and expenditure. Work longer, work harder. Less pension and other benefits. Less health care, less subsidy. Contribute to health care (? pay prescriptions, pay for doctors appointments), reduce health care benefits (change ratio of costs to outcomes), pay for social care, pay full cost of energy, pay more for education. Increase economic output. Favour growth industries, favour education in target streams (stem subjects), tax breaks for new business. Favour healthy lifestyle. Tax, sugar, tax salt, stop subsidising meat. Subsidise, health, sponsor fitness.

The law sets apart the civilised world from the terrorist. If we have no rules then we are no better than the terrorist. A terrorist that hides amongst civilians, a terrorist that kills children, a terrorist that kills just because they can. We have a choice.

I agree completely. Far from excessive but..... we cannot afford to maintain it. Own house, own car, free health care, free education, independent army, navy, airforce, road infrastructure, prison service, legal service, subsidised heating, subsidised rail, subsidised roads, subsidised care service, paid for with increasing debt we can barely service and then we vote for Brexit. Something has to give.

😁 out in the sun 🙂

👍 politics what's that? 😁

Start at the top. Capping pensions would make the biggest saving. Is that what you mean?

😁 give us a call meet up for a beer would be good.

There are two with the same name. The one in Compton Martin is a favourite. 👍

The villagers by me bought their local pub and now run it as a community enterprise. Keeping it open maintains the value of the houses. https://www.waldegravearms.com/

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I doubt very much he can save us. The country is living off the excess of yesteryear consuming a lifestyle it cannot afford with a sense of entitlement that cannot be delivered. Benefits are too high, services have to be limited. That said they have a plan for change which is way beyond the thinking that has gone before. They are starting on delivering that change which is refreshing. Fingers crossed but I won't hold my breath like all politicians they struggle to say no.

? Anglo Saxons were immigrants.

? A change for the better (at least for now) but no leader of mine.

That's someone that needs help with his inadequacy.

^^^^^ This. Too little too late on the numbers alone. The heart ache, alienation and loss of living life is worth even more. Can we even begin to imagine the pain of living through this stuff?

They said he was between holes. 🤷‍♂️

I bet the postage on that was something else 😁

Just had the same with my Cocker. Another grass seed deep in the ear.

😁 I watch about an hours worth of updates each day and I think I have seen maybe three nazi's. They were Russian. 🤣

The rate of APC's used has declined and the kit being used now is ancient. Using golf carts on attacks is hardly ideal. If they had plenty of kit they would use it. Weight of fire is important but so is accuracy. Fire rate has declined from 20 to 1 to 3 to 1 and far less accurate. The recent display of gen 5 fighters was a joke they were barely airworthy and certainly not stealth as claimed. The Russians do not have the stocks of missiles (otherwise they would use them and not be shopping in Iran and N Korea). The use of Russian made missiles is now concurrent with production and a fraction of what they had.

From an video update a screen capture of a super yacht on location. I have tried using a location editor but no help. Anyone know where this is?

Istanbul was still born in Bucha and the lack of depth in the Russian threat. The UK will not take out a Russian target that was the whole purpose of the meeting today to ensure that we comply with international law on weapon supply and targeting. Pressure against Putin is rising within as warlords based in the country speak out. Again and again Russia is in N Korea searching for weapons. The country is paying over the odds for trade as the rubble is rejected and Chinese agents are used. Whilst some materials are getting through the sanctions the noose continues to tighten. Putin lost at the point of invasion it's just a matter of time. Ukraine cannot win but they can last long enough for Putin to go. What next? Their stealth aircraft are not fully functional and not stealthy. Have you seen the dragon drones burning up the trenches. Ukraine will be a world leader in new weaponry post this war.

Putin is pretty much out of kit. He is using equipment from the 50's (t55 and the like). They just presented a series of supposedly newly arrived gen 5 fighter jets (stealth) that are laughable (rivets and screws on display, no heat proof cowlings etc). Even the engines for his shahed drones are coming from china along with golf carts being used for troop assaults. He clearly does not have enough resources to push through Ukraine (otherwise he would have done so). Ukraine is improving technology everyday but also does not have enough kit and men to finish the job but has continued support. What happens next?

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We are all already volunteered just by living here. This is close to the end game.