Don’t worry, I always bite on that as, at the end of the day, they’re just people doing a job (sometimes well, sometimes not so much). Usually it’s people not getting what they want and thinking they know better or blaming the poor desk jockey that’s following policy or working with crappy IT systems
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An alternative kind of ‘Political Party’?
For all the reasons we need maximum support with at that time, glad you received the assistance you needed.
The D-Day thread had a quick mention of the disrespect Hegseth, the US Secretary for Defence, showed at the commemoration, taking the opportunity to obliquely snark at Europeans for not being involved in Iran and for being too open to migrants. Quite disgusting really.
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Completely disgusting. But, then, what else does one expect of the current US administration?
Oh I really do want one of those hats, and I’m a bloke who never wears a baseball cap, but a word of caution, let’s hope it doesn’t become a reality. 
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Felt this thread might be best place for these grannies as they made me laugh
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This should be it, Billy. Ugly man!
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It was a disgraceful comment. And, considering he claims to have military connections as a reservist, makes him a disgusting individual. But, we need to remember that Americans are a completely different breed. We tend to think that they are a bit like us because they speak a similar language. Over my life, I have been astonished by the comments made by Americans
I go along with most of what you say but would add that perhaps the insertion of the word ‘some’ before the last word in your post, might be a good idea. Quite a few of them are among us here and I don’t detect the same attitude that you have discovered. 
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Right now I feel that “many” would serve better than “some”.
Fair point.
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Apropos the horrific incident in Belfast, Jonathan Hall (the independent reviewer of terror legislation) says
“[Donald Trump] said, in perhaps rather overblown rhetoric that there’s this destabilisation of Europe, and he put an awful lot of that down to migration,” he said.
“Now, you may not agree with the language, but I think it does raise the question. If [people from] certain countries are more likely either to commit very serious offences or particular offences, or to get involved with state threat activity, do we need to start thinking about migration now, not simply in terms of the economy and housing, but also in terms of national security?
“Ultimately, national security is to help the nation, and having a stable nation where people feel they can go about their business. At the moment, there are people who happen to be black and brown, but as British as you and me, who probably feel they can’t go about that business, and that is destabilising the nation.
“So, I think it’s absolutely necessary to talk about immigration in the context of national security. I think it’s a conversation that has been raised by the US White House. At the moment, I haven’t yet heard a response, I’ve just heard silence.”
“If you look at the way that the security service, for example, assess the potential risk from people who are held in Syrian camps who went out to join Islamic State, one of the key features is that they either witnessed or they perpetrated really serious violence,” he said.
“The assessment is that affects the risks that they present were they to return to the UK. So, I think it is a relevant factor.”
Fortunately,
John Healey has gone.
He identifies where the problem lies: right at the top, at No 10 and No 11: “[Starmer has been] unable, and the Treasury has been unwilling, to commit the resources that the nation needs to defend the country at this time of rising threats.”
Pretty shocking, given a government’s first responsibility is the protection of its citizens.
FTFY 
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