Separate Moan Thread About The Election

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  1. pete

    pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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    I agree, but the usual reply these days is its not SAFE.:roflol:
    Nothing is safe, you just have to be CAREFUL.:smile:
     
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      Sadly, that doesn't always work - I have a colleague who has four kids at schools spread all over the place. His wife walks one to school, he then has to drop another off at a school open early enough to accommodate and then drive miles (circa 6 from memory) to drop the other two off at another. When there is a school event or something after school (music, dance classes etc), it is utter chaos.

      It was easy in my day - you went to the nearest school, but not now. We even have dedicated school bus routes that will carry hundreds of the little darlings to school from miles away.
       
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      I sort of agree, but then you read things like this:

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      Since that was written this morning, there has been another murder (19 year old, Finsbury Park); three of those stabbings were on the same day and all within five miles of my house.

      Bearing in mind that I was the guy who used to take all the drunks and neds home on a Friday and Saturday night, used to work nights in bus garages and bus stations with little more defence than a heavy radio, and never bothered my arse... yet nowadays, I don't like being out after dark myself, so I can see why parents are reluctant.
       
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        Maybe easy in theory, but all that would happen is that a holding company (or whatever they call them) would be created with UK residents in nominal control, but foreign money behind it. Whatever rules are set up, the clever lawyers find a way round them as long as they get a healthy cut from the process.
         
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          Biden probably thinks the UK floats and can be moved physically closer to mainland Europe.
           
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            @KT53, that is depressingly true. (Not the Biden bit, but the post before ... though, come to think of it, it probably applies to both.)
             
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            Biden probably thinks the UK floats in his bathtub....

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            pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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            Not quite the same as kids walking to school though is it.
            Some manage it without dying.

            Most places are fairly safe but London is dodgy after dark in certain areas I can imagine.
             
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              The good old days.

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                Indeed, however be under no illusion that the scroats are out on the streets, armed, in daylight. Mostly they are looking for easy thefts and targeting retailers, but not exclusively. The fact that this sort of thing is happening, most often unchallenged, in our streets in broad daylight... well, it is understandable that folks get jittery when it comes to the safety of their kids.
                 
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                  Even Bristol is bad, just yesturday body in a suitcase
                   
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                  Country has gone to hell in a handbasket.
                   
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                      I think the one mixing up zelensky and Putin might have been the clincher
                       
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                        Apparently he also called Kamala Harris 'Vice President Trump'
                         
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