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I thought you supported a resurgent Britain taking on the rest of the world, without the need of allies!
We still haven’t got over giving away a big part of our country in 1921 because a few hothead traitors started a riot in Dublin in 1916, while British soldiers were being slaughtered by the hundred thousand in Flanders etc. The loss of the West-British provinces of Leinster, Munster and Connaught and part of Ulster was the pivotal event in the decline of our nation.
I said I wasn’t against the US having overseas bases. I know we do have a few too – Cyprus, Gibraltar, one in Canada etc. India has recently opened its first overseas base, somewhere in former Soviet central Asia.
What I’m querying is whether WE here in Britain need all these bases. The USA should be building more bases in Afghanistan, Iraq etc. That’s where the epicentre of conflict is now.
And the man in the skirt in that photo? He looks like the only Irish Basque Jew in the world, let-tt alawwn the veel-age!!
As an aside, it seems that Bin Laden’s number two, Al Zawihiri, is taking a higher profile. Hopefully this might work against A-Q.
Bin Laden had a sort of evil guile about him, smiling and serene. He appeared charismatic and was no doubt a heroic inspiration to those lured onto his path of wickedness.
Al Zawihiri, by what we see, is a different kettle of fish. Angry, unappealing and nasty, he might be a turn-off to potential recruits. Added to that is the fact that he has views somewhat more extreme than Bin Laden (difficult, I agree!) and belongs to a Takfir sect that actually tried to kill Bin Laden in Somalia some years back
All the evidence suggests that Iraq wasn’t involved in 9/11. Saddam Hussein would have been a hindrance in the War on Terror, though, and maybe the US thought they would be doing Iraqis a favour by getting rid of his regime. More importantly, the US being in Iraq and Afghanistan meant that they were in place one either side of Iran should things turn nasty there.
I also just wonder – suppose the US had discovered that Saddam was involved in the 9/11 conspiracy after all, would they want to admit it?
Another possibility comes to mind. Some claims of evidence that Iraq was involved in the Oklahoma bombing have appeared. If this wider plot turned out to be the case, after McVeigh had been convicted and executed, it would cause a political and legal hurricane in the USA.
HAHAHAHAHA. Id like to see most city folk providing their own food!!!!
Haven’t you heard of Sainsbury’s? Tesco? Asda? What about or Lidl?
Farmers might grow the raw ingredients but I bet most of them wouldn’t know how to boil an egg!!!
Perhaps they are catching more people. Some cruelty is neglect, where the owners are inadequates who are, or have become, incapable of caring for pets. Other cruelty is deliberate and malicious,and that is worrying. Other cases might be due to children not being aware of the consequences of ‘experiments’ on animals.
Tommy – you’ve fulfilled your ambition to become a member of an ethnic minority, i.e. yokels! It’s the city folk that keep farmers in their affluent, subsidised lifestyles that they like to complain about so much!!!
Again – another thread taken over by liberal attitudes
Have none of you ever seen big cats stalking and chasing their prey – bringing it down – snapping it’s neck then severing it’s neck
It’s nature it happens
You’re all thinking of a fox as a cuddly little Basil Brush puppet
Foxes cause all sorts of serious damage – look at what’s left of a hen coop after a fox has ravaged it
You might think differently if a fox attacks the family pet
Theres nothing wrong with the hunt – it’s a great tradition – it keeps thousands in employ
As usual it is 95% of “townies” that are against hunting – people who wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between a fox and a red squirrel !!!
I have lived and worked in the countryside, alongside people who are pro hunting.
My grandparents were anti-hunting, although they were staunch Conservatives in a rural area where many of their friends hunted. My grandfather was indeed a Tory councillor.! My mother was also vehemently opposed to hunting and she was also a died-in-the-wool Conservative.I agree foxes are not nice, cuddly animals and I have no objection to their numbers being controlled humanely. More pets have probably been killed by hunts than by foxes. But foxhunting is not humane and whatever the pro- lobby might say, it is not really concerned with controlling fox numbers and cannot be a very effective way of doing so.
I have worked as a livestock lorry driver and I have seen first-hand the gratuitous cruelty that is perpetrated by a minority of farmers, farm workers, drivers and market drovers. These attitudes are the same as those found in those who worked in the hunt industery.
My opinion is that fox hunting as a sport or leisure pastime is wrong.
If fox numbers need to be controlled, then it should be done by professional ‘huntsmen’, i.e. trained tracker-marksmen, as is done in parts of Wales.
Pro-hunting people claim that hunting isn’t cruel but that is clearly untrue, as anyone with any common sense knows.
Pro-hunting people also claim that they’re doing a necessary pest control job.
That is rubbish because hunting has traditionally been a pastime mainly for the landed gentry. If hunting was indeed a mere ‘job’, then it would have been beneath their social status, they’d have employed people to do it for them.Long live the ban!
