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Oh but he said sorry by producing light refraction as an emblem of the gay movement
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Your comment about what consequences are going to happen if we rebel against the book, your interpretation of said book and the main character in the book, is based purely on your “worldview”. A worldview which is based on the interpretation of various stories, from 1000’s of years ago, further interpredated by various leaders, and taught to you. There are many people who believe in the same book as you, but far less who agree with the interpretations you follow (hence the narrow in my comment). There are many other books and many other interpretations that go against. None of us know, for sure, if there is a deity, it is all based on personal faith. I personally don’t believe a story that required the people in the Roman empire to travel to their birthplace for a census (given the fluid borders and size of the empire), but I could be wrong. Unfortunately, on internet forums your style of evangelism is divisive, and the comments against your interpretation can appear to be against the entire religion. I have nothing against 99% of people with religion (I was at church with my family the other Sunday, I’m not a believer but my wife is), but your narrow worldview is something to rail against
“what are the odds, that of history’s endless parade of gods, that the god you just happened to be taught to believe in, is the actual one?” (Tim Minchin”
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What was the number one issue the public wanted sorting?
I didn’t vote for Brexit, but I assume it was to leave the EU at any cost.
Have the government implemented this wish?
Considering Brexit has gone pretty much how I expected, I think they have implemented it better than they have implemented other things
Have the public been let down by an incompetent government?
Yes
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In my opinion, the way to reduce the impact of traffikers over the channel is not to use policies that go against the UN refugee convention and to use divisive and racist rhetoric, rather provide a legal way for refugee applications, then we can have the debate about numbers. There is currently no legal way to travel to the UK for the specific purpose of seeking asylum – but they can only apply for asylum when they are here, yet everybody has the right to apply for asylum (there is no such thing as an illegal asylum seeker).
The Conservative approach to refugees seems to correctly open the borders to white refugees (Ukraine) but to close them for non-white refugees. The argument that people should apply in the first “safe” country is fundamentally flawed, it goes against the refugee convention for good reason – if all refugees settled in the first safe country, it would massively increase the potential for similar problems in that country. Also, why shouldn’t an English speaking refugee apply for asylum in an English speaking country?
The right-wing press give us the impression that UK is the most popular destination but in reality most refugees apply in neighbouring countries, Syrian refugees make up almost 20% of Lebanon’s population, Jordan houses 3 million. In Europe, we have less refugees than Italy, Sweden, France, etc despite being more populous. Germany house 1.15 million (0.31%), while we house 0.13 million (0.18%)
Lineker’s tweet (on his personal twitter account, not on a BBC programme) gave his opinion on the current government rhetoric, an opinion I share (but people are welcome to disagree). The Conservative governments lead by Johnson, Truss and Sunak have been using divisive language and have been blaming foreigners for their own mistakes. The kind of rhetoric that precedes some of the worst moments in world history. I’m not a Tory (obviously), but I can respect (and disagree with) Cameron, Major and Hague’s conservative governments, but its very difficult to respect the recent incarnations.
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All part of Swann’s grand plan to make Gainsborough Trinity the highest placed football club in Lincolnshire
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It’s so depressing, even when we’ve been near the bottom facing reelection, or narrowly avoiding the drop we’ve had “something” that gave us hope that we would either survive or recover if we dropped. We’ve had terrible squads before, but they’ve had “something” (they’ve lacked skill but had “fight”).
As a Scunthorpe United fan, I don’t expect success, I don’t go to a game expecting 3 points, but I do expect “something”.
But at the moment I don’t see “anything” that could provide hope.
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Quite funny to see alcy claim to not be fooled by snake oil salesmen, when the non football forum is bursting with snake oil salesmen videos that alcy has posted and swallowed blindly.
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