Current Affairs 2025

[Ray B]

Merv , I'm starting to worry about you . Please have a lie down, OL?

[screwy]

Aww, I wanted Literature.

I mean, I’ve read all the Janet and John Books.

[Mervyn and Trish]

Merv , I'm starting to worry about you . Please have a lie down, OL?

I heard he was the ghost writer for Spare. Best fiction book this century.

[david63]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvg68rym2krt

There is nothing to say.

[david63]

How much worse can Isreal get?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0rvxjnvv71o

[Mervyn and Trish]

Clearly another meticulously planned clinical strike on a Hamas control centre targeting Hamas leaders.

I am not anti semitic because I have nothing against Jews in general. But the Israeli state military leaders are callous murderous bastards.

Nothing in these latest attacks will have any impact whatsoever on those who carried out the October 2024 atrocities, nor prevent something similar happening again. Quite the opposite. They make future attacks on Israel pretty much a certainty.

[david63]

But the Israeli state military leaders are callous murderous bastards.

Good see that we have found you having a good day otherwise I don't know what you might have said!

[Mervyn and Trish]

Quite so.

[screwy]

Just a thought.

With the noise about benefits,who should get them/not get them.
Why don’t we do as the Manx government do. No entitlement to benefit or social housing until you have lived there for 5 yrs.
Also why are some of these so called migrants working as food delivery/ couriers.? I thought you had to have a national insurance number. I know I’m being thick again.

[Onelife]

I can understand where you are coming from Screwy but the reason the Isle of Man can implement these sound policies is that they don’t have the worry of illegal migrants dropping anchor on their coastline.

[Mervyn and Trish]

I'm with you Screwy, but I'd go further. I wouldn't restrict it to migrants. I'd say whether migrant or born here no benefit payouts until you'd worked and paid relevant tax and NI for 5 years.

[Stephen]

I’d go even further. Don’t let the bu99ers in to start with. And when they do, stick them all in a warehouse until there’s a ship load then send them back to Mr Macron and Co.

[oldbluefox]

I’d go even further. Don’t let the bu99ers in to start with. And when they do, stick them all in a warehouse until there’s a ship load then send them back to Mr Macron and Co.

Should have done that long ago as soon as Brexit kicked in. Why are we still pandering to EU rules and regulations when we left the EU years ago. As Mr Macron said, the problem with migration into UK is because we make it such an attractive proposition, ie we are too welcoming. Other countries are not so.
It seems to me you get in a rubber dinghy, the French navy will see you out to sea whereupon Border Force will taxi you the rest of the way. Crazy!!!

[david63]

So Rachel from accounts latest plan is to rob savers of their savings so that those savings can be invested in shares. What does she have against people being prudent and saving for the future - not something that this Government understands!

[Mervyn and Trish]

Rachel from Accounts has lost it for me. Growth down, unemployment and inflation up. She still bleats on about how she's repairing the economy and encouraging growth. But she's doing the opposite. She's crashing it one piece at a time and a year on can't keep blaming the Tories.

[david63]

... and just announced that inflation is up yet again this month.

I'm not saying that she is the worst chancellor that we have had in recent times but she is certainly in the top one two

[Ray B]

John Torode sacked from the BBC for an allegation of using racial language which he say he can not recollect or even said. He was supposed to have made the remarks in a social setting in 2018 or 2019.
It's taken 6 or7 years for someone to make the complaint, why now?
It's like a witch hunt for celebrities, the past may be thier enemy.

[Onelife]

... and just announced that inflation is up yet again this month.

I'm not saying that she is the worst chancellor that we have had in recent times but she is certainly in the top one two

I’m still giving her the bennift of doubt…. she’s had a lot of mess to clean up left by the incompetent Tories.

[poole boy]

onelife you really cheer me up with a good laugh at some of your silly posts against the tories while still supporting the labour loonies

[david63]

she’s had a lot of mess to clean up left by the incompetent Tories.

That excuse is wearing a bit thin after 12 months.

The current problems are ones that she has created herself, with a bit of help from Sir Hindsight, and nothing to do with the previous Government.

[david63]

John Torode sacked from the BBC for an allegation of using racial language which he say he can not recollect or even said. He was supposed to have made the remarks in a social setting in 2018 or 2019.
It's taken 6 or7 years for someone to make the complaint, why now?
It's like a witch hunt for celebrities, the past may be thier enemy.

Not only that but nobody can actually say when this happened and according to the reports it was not a big issue in the context in which it was said and apologies were made and accepted at the time.

[Onelife]

she’s had a lot of mess to clean up left by the incompetent Tories.

That excuse is wearing a bit thin after 12 months.

The current problems are ones that she has created herself, with a bit of help from Sir Hindsight, and nothing to do with the previous Government.

The ‘problem’ is that in order to find the solution you will inevitably make a few mistakes along the way….12 months as opposed to 13 year is a short time in politics…at the very least we appear to have a government that is working together in order to find the solutions, imo.

[Mervyn and Trish]

Yeah right. I'll be surprised if she lasts the year. Just look at the economic graphs for the last 12 months to see how she's doing.

[david63]

The ‘problem’ is that in order to find the solution you will inevitably make a few mistakes along the way

So it's OK for Labour to make mistakes and get away with them but not the Conservatives?

[david63]

Yeah right. I'll be surprised if she lasts the year.

She will still be here at the end of the year as Sir K has said on several occasions that he has complete confidence in her - as he patted her on the back looking where to stick the knife in