The Official Politics Thread (enter at your own risk)

[Come On You Irons]

There. Resident WHO political commentators and gurus can knock yourselves out in here and conduct your endless bickering. All other threads will be locked.

[Mike Oxsaw]

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7985624/

Yep proper place to visit 
I'm very very well travelled trammelled but for some reason never been there

Fixed it for you
 

 

[XKhammer]

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7985624/

Yep proper place to visit 
I'm very very well travelled but for some reason never been there

[Mike Oxsaw]

I can imagine eating in a Lebanese restaurant costing a bomb or losing an arm or leg over there

That'll clearly be the limit of your "imagination".

Plenty of safe places to socialise in the Lebanon, but thank fuck it will never see the likes of you dragging it down.

[Fauxstralian]

Goose son 
Sorry to break it to you but 2000 was 25 years ago
You been in a coma for a few years?

[XKhammer]

I can imagine eating in a Lebanese restaurant costing a bomb or losing an arm or leg over there

[BRANDED]

Top ten Lebanese vineyards to visit

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attractio ... banon.html

 

[BRANDED]

You're getting fake foreign food in all those places. Badge-engineered cooking. Same name, completely different taste & texture.

If you want authenticity then you need to visit the cultures and nations from where those foods and ingredients come. If you just want to boast that you had "A really fine Lebanese meal up town last night", or other look-at-me nonsense, fill yer boots.

So you're recommending going to Lebanon then lol 
Please do

 

You've got to be a 100% MSM-led shirt-lifting whoosie if you believe that there are no safe places in Lebanon that anyone can visit. Google is your friend, even if nobody else is.

Lebanon has superb Bordeaux level vineyards. 

[Mike Oxsaw]

 

You're not including the time you spent in the detector vans grassing up working class people but instead helping the agenda you claim you oppose?



 

How do you know that it was only working class people who were visited by staff from detector vans that didn't actually detect anything?

How did you calculate that within the last 25 years included activities I undertook in 1973/4?

You're really simply rubbish at all this, aren't you, even when you desperately try and spin something to suit your personal, bigoted agenda.?

You're still a grass and hypocrite 

And it's perfectly clear that YOU need that to be the case just to support your bigoted internally simplistic view on life.

You're both sad and funny in equal measures, but, Hey! You're getting attention, so what's not to like???

[Mike Oxsaw]

The standard of restaurants & pubs serving food has improved exponentially in London in the last 25 years
25 years ago in a pub in London you might get some pork scratchings or a ham sandwich on the bar curled up under one of those plastic domes
You can find restaurants serving the food of any nation you are interested in
Same old right wing cunts who don’t live in London telling us how terrible it is 
YAWN  

You're getting fake foreign food in all those places. Badge-engineered cooking. Same name, completely different taste & texture.

If you want authenticity then you need to visit the cultures and nations from where those foods and ingredients come. If you just want to boast that you had "A really fine Lebanese meal up town last night", or other look-at-me nonsense, fill yer boots.

So you're recommending going to Lebanon then lol 
Please do

 

 

You've got to be a 100% MSM-led shirt-lifting whoosie if you believe that there are no safe places in Lebanon that anyone can visit. Google is your friend, even if nobody else is.

[goose]

I reiterate my point that the standard of restaurants & particularly the level of food available .. good food … at a reasonable price in pubs has massively improved
25 years ago you got a rubber steak in Angus Steakhouse now you can go to Hawksmoor or similar
Now you can go to your local for a Sunday roast or a midweek meal
Enjoy your authentic pork scratchings in the Firkin & Farage with a half of shandy 

Hospitality of any kind is more expensive in London 
Utility prices are killing pubs
Maybe that dismal witch Thatcher shouldn’t have given away water, gas & electricity. That’s turned out well hasn’t it?
Bit like our cheap efficient railway system & all that available public housing 

Two things Sven son:
1. You seem to have 25 years ago confused with 45 years ago. Hawksmoor opened in London early 2000’s.
2. By and large utility prices are the same across the country, London doesn’t have unique energy & water rates that make it expensive. It’s rent & people that make London expensive.

[XKhammer]

The standard of restaurants & pubs serving food has improved exponentially in London in the last 25 years
25 years ago in a pub in London you might get some pork scratchings or a ham sandwich on the bar curled up under one of those plastic domes
You can find restaurants serving the food of any nation you are interested in
Same old right wing cunts who don’t live in London telling us how terrible it is 
YAWN  

You're getting fake foreign food in all those places. Badge-engineered cooking. Same name, completely different taste & texture.

If you want authenticity then you need to visit the cultures and nations from where those foods and ingredients come. If you just want to boast that you had "A really fine Lebanese meal up town last night", or other look-at-me nonsense, fill yer boots.

So you're recommending going to Lebanon then lol 
Please do

[XKhammer]

I worked abroad for most of the last 25 years, and never once in all that time did I notice any improvements in the country over my previous return. Not a single one. The current return is the same.

Shops I used to frequent are closing, companies going out of business and as for pubs & restaurants, there seems to be an active agenda to rid the country of them completely.

I learnt long ago that these changes were not for my benefit, but I never could see who was gaining from all this rapid change.

 

You're not including the time you spent in the detector vans grassing up working class people but instead helping the agenda you claim you oppose?


 

How do you know that it was only working class people who were visited by staff from detector vans that didn't actually detect anything?

How did you calculate that within the last 25 years included activities I undertook in 1973/4?

You're really simply rubbish at all this, aren't you, even when you desperately try and spin something to suit your personal, bigoted agenda.?

You're still a grass and hypocrite 

[Fauxstralian]

I reiterate my point that the standard of restaurants & particularly the level of food available .. good food … at a reasonable price in pubs has massively improved
25 years ago you got a rubber steak in Angus Steakhouse now you can go to Hawksmoor or similar
Now you can go to your local for a Sunday roast or a midweek meal
Enjoy your authentic pork scratchings in the Firkin & Farage with a half of shandy 

Hospitality of any kind is more expensive in London 
Utility prices are killing pubs
Maybe that dismal witch Thatcher shouldn’t have given away water, gas & electricity. That’s turned out well hasn’t it?
Bit like our cheap efficient railway system & all that available public housing 

[Mike Oxsaw]

The standard of restaurants & pubs serving food has improved exponentially in London in the last 25 years
25 years ago in a pub in London you might get some pork scratchings or a ham sandwich on the bar curled up under one of those plastic domes
You can find restaurants serving the food of any nation you are interested in
Same old right wing cunts who don’t live in London telling us how terrible it is 
YAWN  

You're getting fake foreign food in all those places. Badge-engineered cooking. Same name, completely different taste & texture.

If you want authenticity then you need to visit the cultures and nations from where those foods and ingredients come. If you just want to boast that you had "A really fine Lebanese meal up town last night", or other look-at-me nonsense, fill yer boots.

[Mike Oxsaw]

I worked abroad for most of the last 25 years, and never once in all that time did I notice any improvements in the country over my previous return. Not a single one. The current return is the same.

Shops I used to frequent are closing, companies going out of business and as for pubs & restaurants, there seems to be an active agenda to rid the country of them completely.

I learnt long ago that these changes were not for my benefit, but I never could see who was gaining from all this rapid change.

 

You're not including the time you spent in the detector vans grassing up working class people but instead helping the agenda you claim you oppose?

 

How do you know that it was only working class people who were visited by staff from detector vans that didn't actually detect anything?

How did you calculate that within the last 25 years included activities I undertook in 1973/4?

You're really simply rubbish at all this, aren't you, even when you desperately try and spin something to suit your personal, bigoted agenda.?

[OK_Guy]

Black Friday shoppers spent a record $11.8 billion on line this year.

So much for a poor economy. Consumer spending says we are doing just fine!

just a personal thought... every year your pound is devalued & sales records are broken - you're actually spending more for the same stuff and that includes, houses, cars, shrunken chocolate bars etc... think it's called 'inflation' or 'cost of living', not that I'm bothered, if I see something I like I buy it there & then, fuck Black Friday... btw January Sales are way better, Shops want offload their winter stock.
 

[OK_Guy]

The standard of restaurants & pubs serving food has improved exponentially in London in the last 25 years
25 years ago in a pub in London you might get some pork scratchings or a ham sandwich on the bar curled up under one of those plastic domes
You can find restaurants serving the food of any nation you are interested in
Same old right wing cunts who don’t live in London telling us how terrible it is 
YAWN  

Should i yawn?, you state that 'food improved exponentially in London in last 25years etc. etc.'... that's some statement. Joe Strummer was singing about the food diversity in London back in 2003, I distinctly remember going to Italian, Indian & Chinese in the early '70's... 'Same old left wing cunts who don’t live in London telling us how terrible it is YAWN '... best to generalise wouldn't you agree?

Bhindi Bhargee Lyrics (in part): 

Well, I was walking down the High Road And this guy stops me
He'd just got in from New Zealand And he was looking for mushy peas I said, no, we hadn't really got 'em round here
I said, but we do got Balti, Bhindi, strictly Hindi Dall, Halal and I'm walking down the road
We got rock soul, okra, bombay duck-ra Shrimp beansprout, comes with it or without
With it or without Bagels soft or simply harder Exotic avocado or toxic empenada
We got akee, lassi, Somali waccy baccy I'm sure back home you know what tikka's all about What tikka's all about Welcome stranger to the humble neighborhoods You can get inspiration along the highroad Hommus, cous cous in the jus' of octopus Pastrami and salami and lasagne on the go Welcome stranger, there's no danger Welcome to this humble neighborhood There's Balti, Bhindi, strictly Hindi Dall, Halal and I'm walking down the road Rocksoul, okra, bombay duck-ra Shrimp beansprout, comes with it or without So anyway, I told him I was in a band

Link:  Joe Strummer - Bhindi Bhagee

[Nutsin]

Black Friday shoppers spent a record $11.8 billion on line this year.

So much for a poor economy. Consumer spending says we are doing just fine!

[goose]

Is that not the same across the entire western world because of the availability of food.

by and large the standard of food served up in the country is middle of the road at best. Most places are over priced and use poor quality ingredients. If you want quality you have to pay top dollar (by and large).
this isn’t exclusive to London, but the prices in London are notably higher.

[Fauxstralian]

The standard of restaurants & pubs serving food has improved exponentially in London in the last 25 years
25 years ago in a pub in London you might get some pork scratchings or a ham sandwich on the bar curled up under one of those plastic domes
You can find restaurants serving the food of any nation you are interested in
Same old right wing cunts who don’t live in London telling us how terrible it is 
YAWN  

[XKhammer]

I worked abroad for most of the last 25 years, and never once in all that time did I notice any improvements in the country over my previous return. Not a single one. The current return is the same.

Shops I used to frequent are closing, companies going out of business and as for pubs & restaurants, there seems to be an active agenda to rid the country of them completely.

I learnt long ago that these changes were not for my benefit, but I never could see who was gaining from all this rapid change.

 

You're not including the time you spent in the detector vans grassing up working class people but instead helping the agenda you claim you oppose?
 

[Mike Oxsaw]

I worked abroad for most of the last 25 years, and never once in all that time did I notice any improvements in the country over my previous return. Not a single one. The current return is the same.

Shops I used to frequent are closing, companies going out of business and as for pubs & restaurants, there seems to be an active agenda to rid the country of them completely.

I learnt long ago that these changes were not for my benefit, but I never could see who was gaining from all this rapid change.

[Massive Attack]

Fucking hell, it's just come out in a Select Committee by the WMP admitting that part of their "intelligence" to ban Maccabi fans from Villa was based on a phantom game between West Ham values Maccabi at the London Stadium back in November 2023. We actually played Greek side Olympiakos instead!

State of this Country run by total divs. 

[Massive Attack]

https://news.sky.com/story/labour-mp-tu ... h-13477731

..But Farage is the problem.

Let's see if the MSN make a right song and dance about this MP as they did going in ham on a new Reform UK Wales leader..

[XKhammer]

 Non-alcoholic beer is a lot like going down on your cousin...It tastes the same but it just ain't right