Britain - The Official Thread

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How will you vote in the 2024 UK General Election?

  • Conservative Party

    Votes: 2 6.9%
  • Green Party

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Labour Party

    Votes: 14 48.3%
  • Liberal Democrats

    Votes: 2 6.9%
  • Other (Wales/Scotland/Northern Ireland)

    Votes: 1 3.4%
  • Other Independents

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other Parties

    Votes: 2 6.9%
  • Spoiled Ballot

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Will Not/Cannot Vote

    Votes: 8 27.6%

  • Total voters
    29
  • Poll closed .
(which reminds me, why WASN'T he knighted!!! He did more for this country than almost all of those on the list every year).
I'd imagine because he's Irish. I'd also argue that he was awarded for his service record, and a knighthood for simply being the last person living that faught in a battle is not worthy alone of a knighthood, given those he faught alongside who also survived may well not have received the honour.
 
I'd imagine because he's Irish. I'd also argue that he was awarded for his service record, and a knighthood for simply being the last person living that faught in a battle is not worthy alone of a knighthood, given those he faught alongside who also survived may well not have received the honour.
Re the first point, Bob Geldof is Irish and had an "honorary knighthood" until he returned it in 2017 - I am aware he couldn''t call himself "Sir" but he had the equivalent title available for an Irish man.

Re the second point, yes I agree with the point about others not having been awarded so he shouldn't have been awarded on that basis.

I've also since found out that only commissioned officers can be knighted, so in fact none of them would ever have been eligible and it's a moot point.

It does remain however that he likely saved thousands of lives at Dunkirk, in Britain and in Italy over the course of 5 years, and I salute him for that and hope he rests in peace.
 
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It does remain however that he likely saved THOUSANDS of lives at Dunkirk, in Britain and in Italy, and I salute him for that and hope he rests in peace.
Fair enough.

I've been to many, many war graves over the years, I'd salute them all, but they're dead, there is no point. I think it's more important to honour their sacrifice by up holding what they risked, and often lost everything, for. Sad as it is when one of the few dies... no one (for example) knows who this soldier was, he gave his life to secure the Normandy area.. never a medal, never a knighthood... one of thousands, tens of of thousands... when you consider the Great War, hundreds of thousands.

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Salute them all.
 
Would not be surprised if this turns out to be sabotage e.g. a drone attack of some sort. I sincerely hope it was not, however.
 
Some swede has got this one badly wrong. What a turnip! There's Norway an error like this slipped in, is there? Denmark it down, an embarrassing gaffe from Sky.
There's obviously a smörgåsbord of errors in Sky News's research. In a time of national crisis like this, they really can't afjord to be so sloppy.
 
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I'm sorry but I'm unsure where the Scandinavian references have come from the Sky screenshot above. Please enlighten me
 
I'm sorry but I'm unsure where the Scandinavian references have come from the Sky screenshot above. Please enlighten me
This may help.
Wikipedia
Scandinavian Airlines, stylized as SAS, is the national airline of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Short for Scandinavian Airlines System and legally referred to as Scandinavian Airlines System Denmark-Norway-Sweden, SAS is part of SAS Group and is headquartered in Solna, Sweden.
The amusement comes from Sky News confusing them with the Special Air Service on screen.
 
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I'm glad they finally did it. It was UK culture's "Audi in F1" yearly request that went unfulfilled.
 

Fifteen people including former Conservative MP Craig Williams have been charged with betting offences by the Gambling Commission.
The investigation was launched last year following bets placed on the timing of the 2024 general election.
The commission said the investigation focused on individuals "suspected of using confidential information - specifically advance knowledge of the proposed election date - to gain an unfair advantage in betting markets".
Before the election was called, Williams was the MP for Montgomeryshire and an aide to then-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
The group of those charged includes Russell George, a Member of the Senedd, who was suspended from the Welsh Conservative group after he was charged.
Others charged include Laura Saunders, the former Conservative parliamentary candidate in Bristol North West, and her partner Anthony Lee, a former director of campaigning for the Conservatives; Thomas James, the director of the Welsh Conservatives and Nick Mason, a former chief data officer for the party.
The party of law and order
 
In a very favourable environment for a byelection (unpopular government, older electorate directly affected by policies like winter fuel payment cuts, etc) Reform still only take 38% of the vote, 0.02% and 6 votes ahead of Labour.

Maybe we aren’t following the Americans off the cliff quite yet, but it would help if Starmer’s lot remembered that they’re not actually supposed to be Tories themselves. I know you don’t win elections from the left but they still could have a few years of progressiveness before they switch back to campaigning mode.
 
I wonder what a bunch of 3rd/4th-generation newspaper columnists will bully Starmer into doing next.
 
We already shot ourselves in the head economically... how much worse can things get?

And now braindead folk want to elect one of the chief architects of that disaster to the higest office in the land. I despair.
 
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We already shot ourselves in the head economically... how much worse can things get?
I mean, a lot. If post Brexit Britain is as bad as it could get, I'd take it.

I'm not defending Brexit, I know what it cost me and the impact was greater than any Sterling amount, but the financial impact just doesn't represent economic suicide to me. We're still a top 10 world economy, and a lot of the financial pressure most of us feel is the result of decades of moronic domestic policy (and Covid), rather than leaving the EU. I remember the impact the 90s recession had on my family and my parents, I remember what the GFC did to our business, financially Brexit simply does not appear to have been as bad. We might be battered and bruised with an inferior future, but we are still here, and we're doing better than most countries.

The potential future fascist government will undermine our rights, our education, and our information in a way that even the worst governments most of us have experienced, have not.
 
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