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Boris Johnson's plans for a swimming pool have been newtered
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Sweet irony! I wonder who he conned into letting him have this house - surely he can't have bought it with his own money? A 11m by 4m pool, doesn't want much does he. He obviously expects global warming to have an impact worthy of such a pool outside his back door.
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Gwyneth is wearing a "fat suit" to play a very large lady... She dive bombs into a pool and creates a huge splash sending a small boy into a nearby tree.
It's a romantic comedy and well worth a watch
It's one of my favourite pictures It's all about seeing a persons inner beauty.
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Possibly people are concerned about
- The cost of heating such a large volume of water when many people won't be able to heat their homes this winter largely due to his policies
- The environmental impact of filling a big hole in his vast garden with thousands of gallons (at 2 m deep it would be c20k gallons) while much of the country has hosepipe bans at least partly because his government was so lax in controlling the water industry
- The suspicion that he tried to get legislation through to make it "easier" for plucky homeowners such as himself to eradicate a critically endangered species just so he could build a pool for himself and a handful of his children
- The lingering suspicion that most if not all of his money actually comes from either backhanders or defrauding the taxpayers - he's had a lot of "investments" in his new ventures by grateful businessmen and there are still questions over literally billions of pounds missing whilst he was distracting us with cheese and wine
- A "celebrity" tries it on and has unfortunate luck in an ironic incident which doesn't affect anybody else so is merely funny for people who don't like him (of which there are many)
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Many a building project ha been scuppered by the discovery of an endangered species.
Why should he be any different?
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There was a piece on tv recently about the targeting of individuals possibly putting people off going into politics and I can see that plus of course there's plenty of millionaires on the opposition benches and it'll be interesting to see if they attract any comparable level of criticism when they get their chance in government. They arguably don't seem to be attracting it in opposition.
Like the man or not I really can't begrudge him a pool as very few in his position would give it all away and live in a terraced house in northern England. I suspect that the vast majority of his critics in the general population would be impacting the environment in comparable or maybe even worse ways if they had the money and some of his critics in politics and the higher echelons of society with the money probably are. Googling tells me Tony B has property worth £27M and net worth of £50M, I believe he flies a lot too.
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I'm sure he will find someone to say its ok and that he will be following the rules.
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Yes unfortunately that’s what often happens, there was an area with a pond with the newts in our village that the developers had their eye on to build on
they got their planning permission by agreeing to mitigation
in practice this was digging a hole in the local park putting in a liner and catching some newts and putting them in
the pond lasted little more than a year and another habitat for wildlife lost forever
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The law is the law, any others you would like to disregard?
Wildlife crime £5000 .fine and or 6 months inside.
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What’s wrong with caring about both it doesn’t have to be one or the other , if we had a decent government of any party that actually cared out our country then we wouldn’t have the issue with poverty and homelessness and environmental destruction that’s happening now both are wrong, it’s the narrative that the right use to divide us
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Tempting if you're looking for cheap winter accommodation.
Reminds me of an episode of "Porridge" in which Barraclough says he sometimes wishes he was inside with the inmates rather than at home with his wife.
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I think "the right" has ceased to exist to any meaningful extent and most of the division now arguably comes from "the left." If we look at the most divisive issues of the day, racism, gender, reassignment medication and surgery and other issues most of it seems to be coming from people and organisations that would explode if you suggested they were of "the right." The "the left" isn't what it was even just a few years ago either so I doubt traditional labels of "left" and "right" mean all that much any more or at least not whilst any mainstream and even "left" view of a few years ago can today apparently be "far right." Where can we find a Margaret Thatcher today let alone an Oswald Mosely? Even the likes of Tony Benn or Roy Hatherley (who I once admired, and that's Roy not Tony) would probably struggle to recognise "the left" and the hills they choose to die on these days.
On homelessness, you can't eradicate it completely without physically detaining people who don't want to stay put or who would be evicted by any private or state landlord and there would be people who would have to be kept in custodial like conditions. With guards. I think there'll always be a number of homeless people no matter what measures are put in place short of draconian measures which would be seen as unacceptable. Poverty is difficult because "relative poverty" and "social exclusion" get dragged into it and bring their own definitions and we can end up with bizarre definitions which can IMHO be utterly meaningless. Being married to an immigrant and having immigrant partners in the past it is often interesting for me to see their reaction of astonishment and disbelief when looking at these debates in the UK. Not that the conditions overseas should be replicated here, but maybe we need to look at things with a little less reactionary zeal and a little more realism and even common sense.
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He needs somewhere to keep The yacht .. and what’s wrong with your memories just thing of Brian jones, Natalie wood and Michael Barrymore . anyone Know any crocodile breeders LOL
PS don’t forget the titanic either OOPS
PS don’t forget the titanic either OOPS
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Feel free to kill one of our native species, let me know when you are done,
as I still have contacts at DEFRA, I'll give them the heads up
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Can't say I'm surprised by the facepalm and comment at what should be blindingly obvious was a jokeFeel free to kill one of our native species, let me know when you are done,
as I still have contacts at DEFRA, I'll give them the heads up
for the reminder that there'll always be someone to massively over react AndrewFlannigan
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Written jokes are always a problem. Some of the best writers have found that out the hard way!Can't say I'm surprised by the facepalm and comment at what should be blindingly obvious was a joke
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Sarcasm? yes I expected nothing else from you.Can't say I'm surprised by the facepalm and comment at what should be blindingly obvious was a joke
As yet I haven't massively overreacted, that would have been a thread ban...
Still under consideration is that one.
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As for you, addingSome of the best writers have found that out the hard way!
to all your posts doesn't let you off the hook ...AndrewFlannigan
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Sorry.As for you, adding
Sometimes it's hard to know what's in play and what isn't.
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That's easy, what ever I decide, at the time
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I'm very rarely sarcastic, It's not something I do whilst you are very often.... You and you often live up to my expectations,
Yes, you have the ability to ban and I have the ability to walk away from this as the enjoyment is waning and often and rapidly so.
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Written jokes are always a problem. Some of the best writers have found that out the hard way!
Even a clear reference to a famous half hour TV sitcom (Porridge) isn't a clear enough signal.
I despair and I'm on holiday. Bye Bye.
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There is only one of me, I bet you are glad, of that.
Enjoy your holiday, I'm sure you will have many images to share when you return
