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University student stabbed


Harbour Boy said:
Malaga - 7 days, Air BnB wasn't in the centre so walked around one of the rougher areas. Wasn't bad at all compared to the rough parts of our major cities.

Krakow - 7 days, travelled up to Warsaw and into Katowice. I know all 3 cities well and all are way better than our major cities.

Porto - 4 days. Been loads, area around Campanha is a bit sketchy but nothing compared to the likes of Brum and Manc.

Bratislava - Stayed in the Nivy district, stunning. Ran up to the rougher parts, apart from a bit graffiti it's way better than our equivalent.

I go all over in Poland and their like for like cities vs ours, even in the rougher parts are worlds apart.

Going back just 10 years it was never like that.
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Sorry to the mods as we are going slightly off topic here but my findings differ from yours, I've been to Albania, Kosovo, Estonia, Israel, Turkey, Spain and then a few Nordic countries. All I have found have some incredible places where I'd move tomorrow if I had the chance but all I've seen (for very limited time) places comparable with places I've driven through Birmingham or Manchester. Israel is the only place as a white person I've really received real racism, the only place I've had gun pointed at me or asked where my conceal carry is and the only place I've been taken into a room for over 2 hours at an airport and had (claimed) the British Embassy had to be contacted to check my details.

You mention Slovakia but then you stayed in Bratislava, thats what I was meaning, its like an American judging the UK by staying in London and maybe visiting the Cotswolds for a day, once you leave a big city its bad. I get dragged on mountaineering trips and all the local guides complain they are stuck because wages are too low and everything is focused on 1 or 2 main hubs in their countries so if they wanted a job theyd have to mvoe to the capital and rent is sky high, basically like the UK. The Nordics are different as they invest in their people, not everyone is loving it but my god if I could I'd be there tonight, but all the places I've been I've sat on a night and thought I could easily live here, scratch the surface though and I'd see the same issues we have here, its just places seem better when I'm sat on a balcony on holiday after a day of exploring new places.

Again I'm not saying the UK is great, we concentrate too much on London, on getting people to go to uni and on big issues but dont actually solve the big issues but sure as hell have consultations every 5 years and plans on what we will do whilst everything just slowly gets worse but it seems all countries are doing that. Why? I'm not 100% sure but if I was forced to answer I'd say its because big businesses are killing us, they are not paying what they should in all countries so a select few are getting richer whilst the majority of us are getting a worse deal, thats happening everywhere. Its not because of some foreigner coming over but those big businesses are paying people to go on tv, radio, advertise false info and to get us fighting each other as if we all stopped and looked we'd be fighting Amazon, big tech and the media.
 
FoldingStars said:
Sorry to the mods as we are going slightly off topic here but my findings differ from yours, I've been to Albania, Kosovo, Estonia, Israel, Turkey, Spain and then a few Nordic countries. All I have found have some incredible places where I'd move tomorrow if I had the chance but all I've seen (for very limited time) places comparable with places I've driven through Birmingham or Manchester. Israel is the only place as a white person I've really received real racism, the only place I've had gun pointed at me or asked where my conceal carry is and the only place I've been taken into a room for over 2 hours at an airport and had (claimed) the British Embassy had to be contacted to check my details.

You mention Slovakia but then you stayed in Bratislava, thats what I was meaning, its like an American judging the UK by staying in London and maybe visiting the Cotswolds for a day, once you leave a big city its bad. I get dragged on mountaineering trips and all the local guides complain they are stuck because wages are too low and everything is focused on 1 or 2 main hubs in their countries so if they wanted a job theyd have to mvoe to the capital and rent is sky high, basically like the UK. The Nordics are different as they invest in their people, not everyone is loving it but my god if I could I'd be there tonight, but all the places I've been I've sat on a night and thought I could easily live here, scratch the surface though and I'd see the same issues we have here, its just places seem better when I'm sat on a balcony on holiday after a day of exploring new places.

Again I'm not saying the UK is great, we concentrate too much on London, on getting people to go to uni and on big issues but dont actually solve the big issues but sure as hell have consultations every 5 years and plans on what we will do whilst everything just slowly gets worse but it seems all countries are doing that. Why? I'm not 100% sure but if I was forced to answer I'd say its because big businesses are killing us, they are not paying what they should in all countries so a select few are getting richer whilst the majority of us are getting a worse deal, thats happening everywhere. Its not because of some foreigner coming over but those big businesses are paying people to go on tv, radio, advertise false info and to get us fighting each other as if we all stopped and looked we'd be fighting Amazon, big tech and the media.
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Very well said.
 
Visiting owl said:
He left voluntary, he wasn't sacked. The band wanted him to remain but self contain his views.

He left because he didn't want his band mates to suffer the abuse and backlash he did for critizing the far left.

By leaving the band he could then give his political views without others and their families being targeted and receiving threats from the left.

👍

It shouldn't be funny but it is.
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He could form a new band with his dad - C*ntface and Son
 
Hugh Gains said:
what transpired here is a result of years worth of conditioning, negative conditioning, now paying diviends.
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Or maybe just an inexperienced, poor quality police officer with a crap attitude making an extremely bad judgement upon arriving at a crime scene ?

You just see what you want to see through the lens you've already held up
 
Grimes said:
Explain this to me if you have the time
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Explain what? The UGLE court case?

Do you remember the Met Police announcing any officer who was a Freemason would have to declare it? The United Grand Lodge of England - basically the head office of Freemasonry, encompassing both male and female Freemasonry, challenged the ruling legally, and lost.

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JonnotheMackem said:
Explain what? The UGLE court case?

Do you remember the Met Police announcing any officer who was a Freemason would have to declare it? The United Grand Lodge of England - basically the head office of Freemasonry, encompassing both male and female Freemasonry, challenged the ruling legally, and lost.

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I predict a lot of reform councillors are Freemasons
 
Frijj said:
I get why his argument puts people’s backs up. Nobody wants to hear their country is declining, especially those of us who are stuck here, either because of family commitments or because we don’t have the skills to work abroad.

We have invested in this country and so we develop a subconscious bias to shut out criticism that might erode the value of that investment, because otherwise we’d have to deal with some complex, negative feelings.

I’d happily entertain the thought of working abroad but I doubt I’d ever get the opportunity and so like many, I am “stuck” here too.

The UK is a declining power and is rapidly becoming an absolute shithole. Two decades of austerity, unchecked capitalism, broken communities, a dilapidated public realm and a failing economy are a toxic combination and yes that does describe the UK.

Do we have it better than most of the world? Yes we do because most of the world is an even bigger shithole than the UK, but by western, modern standards the UK is a poor country on the slide and I see absolutely no signs of anything that will improve it.
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pace of change in our life time thus far has been staggering, not quite sure where we'll be by 2050 if pace is kept

glad im out
 
Safc98 said:
Weird how politicians are rightly condemning this but were happy to “share the anger” at George Floyd and didn’t condemn those riots. Riots for me but not for thee.
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Because they're f***ing hypocrites and Political Opportunists, Farage gets stick for it and quite rightly, but if you look at people like Mahmood, there is post after post regarding George Floyd doing exactly what you say.

And Riots are for the Braindead
 
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JonnotheMackem said:
Explain what? The UGLE court case?

Do you remember the Met Police announcing any officer who was a Freemason would have to declare it? The United Grand Lodge of England - basically the head office of Freemasonry, encompassing both male and female Freemasonry, challenged the ruling legally, and lost.

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That is very interesting, thank you
 
The said:
We’re a highly developed western nation and have been leading from the front for hundreds of years. We are now thoroughly in decline and in such a short period of time that many people can clearly see it.

Healthcare = poor
Education = poor
Standard of living = seriously on the wane and already shit for millions of people
Income = stagnant and considering there’s a well documented ‘cost of living crisis’, poor
Social cohesion = dogshit
Infrastructure = dogshit
Development = poor
Crime and punishment = dogshit

If we were a school report card, the teacher would be recommending we were put into special measures and the parent had us ‘tested’.

We’re f***ing laughing stock.
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Don't agree with this at all.
You have a very black look on the UK.

Wasn't / isn't the coat of living crisis due to huge inflation from the covid years, and world wide? . More or less back to the 2% inflation rates now.
 
Hugh Gains said:
its not a conspiracy

was LGBT, woke, all this stuff frontline, in your face in your parents day

thats a clear indication of the change in social doctrine over time

this sums you and your ilk up lovely

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further illustrated by newman

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