The Politics Thread

‘More schoolchildren eaten by big sharks under Tories’ could be a real vote winner

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Are UK waters safe for sharks?

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There are some that have not yet been poisoned by the effluent, I think. A Smalltooth Sand Tiger Shark was washed up onto a Wexford beach this year and another was seen in Lyme Bay, there are Great White Sharks off Devon, Greenland Sharks off Scotland, Smooth Hammerhead Sharks off Cornwall, occasional Thresher Sharks off Devon, Shortfin Mako Sharks and Blue Sharks migrating past and Porbeagle Sharks all year round, and of course Basking Sharks, though we did our best to wipe those out because they are slow and easy to catch as a result.

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for years fishermen of Achill island caught basking sharks for their liver oil to go to Switzerland for oiling watches movements

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Just so. The rest of the shark was thrown away…

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Achill is the Posh Fambly Stamping Ground…

Carinthia. xx

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A post was merged into an existing topic: So, who wants to help … to frivol in the cellar?

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And in other news/countries, Trump found guilty on 34 counts, according to the BBC.

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Soo xx

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Meant to post this before:

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We’re gonna need a bigger straitjacket…

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That’s not all that much madder than any other speech he’s given this past year or so.

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You’re not really helping, you know…

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I can’t help it if he has been observably off his chump for some time, you know. It wasn’t me, I didn’t do it, nobody saw me and you can’t prove anything.

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Irish Times article, this morning:

Rishi Sunak v Keir Starmer UK election debate review: all the charm and grace of a duo of Daleks trapped in a portaloo

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Glurp. I just met a Voter. A Reform Voter. A pleasant young man*, 28, married to a woman of Mongolian heritage. Arguing with him was like punching air. He isn’t quite sure what he thinks, afaict , but he is proud to be British.

Dear God, that was depressing

*by which I mean he had his manners on him and was courteous to an much older female; that, plus presence of his wife, who was clearly dying of embarrassment/alarm, served to keep me more civil than I would like to have been.
gutless Gus

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And if I didn’t smoke, none of this would have happened. They don’t put THAT on the bliddy packets, do they? Just badly posed corpses surrounded by DM sad faces, and shocking bad teeth

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