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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Internationally recognised two-state solution with the hardliners on both sides marginalised is the only real way to go and while "Trump Gaza" has become a meme, international investment in Palestine to increase living standards, generate international trade and reduce simmering injustices is...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Unless they want to kill the entire population of gaza then they won't be able to. One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter and just as every Catholic killed in N. Ireland recruited another 2 for the IRA, every Hamas fighter killed by Israel is used to recruit 2 more. There's never...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    The elephant in the room is that the Israelis can't remove Hamas and the military operation in Gaza shows how futile it is. Because Hamas are effectively any random Joe in Gaza who wants to pick up an AK47 and go fight. That's the issue. So Israel goes in to Gaza with the aim of removing...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Its hilarious isn't it that the UK are probably more compliant with EU legislation than many member states. About a year ago I looked at the comments under a "tweet"/post on X where the EU Commission were threatening to take action against member states that still had not implemented the 5th...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Well thats why I said i think its time in private ownership is hanging by a thread....
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    I certainly think Thames Water is getting to the point of no return in terms of remaining in private ownership. It effectively requires a government bailout to remain operating as it is.
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    A very clear uplift in pollution since Brexit? Really? You're making out like the EU had some for of overseer power preventing this from happening and when we left all these water companies were like "whoo hoooo we ate free to dump sewerage!" It's utter crap (literally). Sewerage has been done...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    London is the number 1 processor of cross border banking transactions in the world. So yes, it is a hub for global money laundering.
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    How's that to do with the EU then?
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Again, just look at the state of what you're posting there. Headline = "weakened regulation" Text is "UK government now has the power to amend environmental legislation". I mean isnt that a good thing? That the people that we vote for actually have power?
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    It imposes a duty on regulated sector companies to prevent tax evasion and the facilitation of it and a corporate criminal offence of "failure to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion". Among a tonne of other stuff relating to unexplained wealth powers for law enforcement, information sharing...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Youre referring to something outside of the remit of the regulation you were talking about. There was always a British water regulator, who has just imposed a record fine on Thames Water for unjustified sewerage discharges
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    So in that first article, there isnt a single environmental regulation that has been repealed after Brexit. What they're pointing to is "OMG we left the EU environmental regulator and created our own British one...." and "OMG the EU has passed some new laws after Brexit banning some chemicals...
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    American politics

    1) You can't say that intelligence failures/engineering of intelligence over 2 decades ago mean we should never act on intelligence again. Every case must be considered on its own merits. 2) Iran HAS been months away from developing a nuclear warhead for years. And theres been a concerted effort...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Counter terrorism laws seem to be Starmer's go-to law and order tool at the moment: - Got a refugee issue at the border? Counter terrorism laws. - Got a protest group thats highlighted an embarrassing lack of security at an airforce base? Counter terrorism laws.
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    What regulations and financial safeguards and fundamental human rights have been removed as a result of Brexit. Honestly, this sort of stuff just gets banded - its literally as bad as anti-vaxxers. It is totally deranged. And this idea that Brexit was some sort of plot by disaster capitalists...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    They probably don't at the time of writing. We are talking about why we (as in the UK) don't care about (and in fact actively assist in) the Israeli nuclear weapons programme and why we do care about (and in fact actively seek to degrade) the Iranian nuclear weapons programme.
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    American politics

    We don't know what we don't know. 1) start a war? This sh*t has been going on for decades. 2) The point is, you don't know whether its a maybe or a probably.
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    American politics

    How do you know there was no immediate credible threat? Credible intelligence and evidence that there was an immediate credible threat would likely come from a compromise within the Iranian regime and continued intelligence from that source/those sources and the safety of that/those sources...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    What are my assertions? That Israel does not represent a threat to the UK? Do I need to support it? I mean you can't seriously be asking me to set out why Iran with nukes = bad but Israel with nukes = meh.
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