Current Affairs 2025

[Portsmouth]

Isn't there a law that says you can hold terrorists for 14 days without a solicitor or notifying anyone ?
Grab the whole bunch of them and slam them in jail in solitary for 13 days under the terrorism act whilst investigating them then release them without charge
so they have no legal recourse and repeat one month later
that should disrupt their lives enough to show that we won't tolerate their behavior

[Stephen]

Set the dogs on them then deport them to some war torn country. There’s plenty of of them.

[oldbluefox]

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[Mervyn and Trish]

It's claimed it's hard to guard the base because it's big with a long perimeter. Well here's an idea. You don't hundreds of people guarding the perimeter. Just one by each plane with an Alsatian and a sub machine gun. And orders to shoot on sight.

[oldbluefox]

Seems straightforward enough. Anybody not authorised to be there let the dog loose on them.

[david63]

an Alsatian and a sub machine gun

Would it not get its paws stuck on the trigger?

One of the problems with Brize is that although it is defined as a military base it is also a private commercial airfield

[Stephen]

Trump sticking his nose in again.

Just ordered a tin hat off Amazon in preparation of WW3.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ckg3rzj8emjt

[Stephen]

Typical of this nanny state country.

Bring back national service not bribe them to join up.

Give new recruits £10,000 to join army, says Davey https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70x451xpx5o

[towny44]

Why not introduce compulsary conscription for all irregular immigrants, that should reduce the flow to a trickle.

[Stephen]

Gets my vote John.

[screwy]

They will never significantly increase the numbers in the armed forces with this latest generation of youth. They don’t have the backbone .!

As for National Service, same as previous comment,would you as a regular want to have them at your side in conflict? I know I wouldn’t.

[Ray B]

an Alsatian and a sub machine gun

Would it not get its paws stuck on the trigger?

One of the problems with Brize is that although it is defined as a military base it is also a private commercial airfield

RAF Coltishall had the Tornado GR4, and up to its closure just had a 4ft high picket fence at the perimeter .

[Ray B]

How strange that the President of the USA needs to use the F word expletive when speaking to the press.
Not sure I have heard a country's leader lowering the tone of speaking to the press by using that type of language.

[Mervyn and Trish]

Nor me. But not entirely surprised.

[david63]

Well he's not a happy bunny because they are not doing as they are told, and if they carry on like this he will not get his Nobel Peace Prize!!

[Ray B]

What about his best (only) friend Vlad, he's gone off the radar, as Trumpety Trump hasn't mentioned him lately. They haven't fell out have they?

[Mervyn and Trish]

Surely he's already stopped the wars in Ukraine and Gaza? Didn't he promise?

[david63]

Surely he's already stopped the wars in Ukraine and Gaza? Didn't he promise?

But his definition of stopping wars, one of which he would not have allowed to start, is not quite the same as everybody else's

[towny44]

I wonder what the govt are going to do about the welfare rebellion? I definitely do not want to see genuinely disabled benefit recipients have their payments reduced, however as a country we cannot afford to continue with the current level of benefit payments, never mind the projected increase. So something needs to change.
Of course Starmer does have a major weapon that he could use, and that is to make this bill a confidence vote, and to threaten to call an election if they lose. That would result in a massive reduction in Labour MPs, and probably a re-thinking by Labour back benchers.

[david63]

Of course Starmer does have a major weapon that he could use, and that is to make this bill a confidence vote, and to threaten to call an election if they lose. That would result in a massive reduction in Labour MPs, and probably a re-thinking by Labour back benchers.

Don't want that. The way the polls are looking at the moment Reform could be running the country and that, in my mind, would be the worst possible outcome.

Talking of Reform, they won control of our County Council at the recent local elections. First thing they do is create "Musk" style team to reduce costs, then the following week propose having a referendum about a combined authority with a mayor. Aren't these two ideas diametric?

[Portsmouth]

I definitely do not want to see genuinely disabled benefit recipients have their payments reduced

That's the problem....there are so many fake disability claimants who know how to work the system against genuine claimers who find it difficult to prove their disability because they are just honest about pain,movement etc.

[Onelife]

The thing is, how do you measure pain? Pain can be the most debilitating disability one can have, one that can’t be seen…. or assessed using the same criteria as would be the case for physical disabilities. This I believe is a very worrying area as to how the Government is going about bennift reform.

[Ray B]

Another pain that can not be seen, is Anti-monarchists who pay tax, seeing thier tax used to build the Statue of our glorious late Majesty, Queen Elizabeth second.

[Onelife]

Another pain that can not be seen, is Anti-monarchists who pay tax, seeing thier tax used to build the Statue of our glorious late Majesty, Queen Elizabeth second.

I couldn’t have put it better

[Mervyn and Trish]

A hat trick of U turns after less than a year in power for a government with a huge majority. Doubly embarrassing after all Sir Hindsight said about disarray in the Tories.