Transfergraeme
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Politics (if only we had a government that actually understood the real world).
Business (trying to get our business back to where it was before Brexit).
"Woke" in the "treat people as you would want to be treated yourself" sense!
Cricket (not the 100)
Business (trying to get our business back to where it was before Brexit).
"Woke" in the "treat people as you would want to be treated yourself" sense!
Cricket (not the 100)
Same reason as they supported/financed Brexit and Trump.
January 1, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Same reason as they supported/financed Brexit and Trump.
It might be useful if the potential members of "a Farage government" (and many others in politics particularly to the right of the spectrum) were to read (and hopefully understand) some of our history themselves - because many of their utterances suggest they're pretty ignorant of it at present.
January 1, 2026 at 6:40 PM
It might be useful if the potential members of "a Farage government" (and many others in politics particularly to the right of the spectrum) were to read (and hopefully understand) some of our history themselves - because many of their utterances suggest they're pretty ignorant of it at present.
"Woman wears sensible footwear to an event" is now a headline?
January 1, 2026 at 6:10 PM
"Woman wears sensible footwear to an event" is now a headline?
Air fryers are a con - a basic halogen oven does everything an air fryer does - costs about a third to buy and uses less electricity.
December 31, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Air fryers are a con - a basic halogen oven does everything an air fryer does - costs about a third to buy and uses less electricity.
If farming is "a lousy business that's hard to sell" why are land values rising so rapidly? Could it be because wealthy people who never even visit the land see it as a shrewd investment which they can put in trust for their children or gift before death and ensure they don't pay inheritance tax?
December 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
If farming is "a lousy business that's hard to sell" why are land values rising so rapidly? Could it be because wealthy people who never even visit the land see it as a shrewd investment which they can put in trust for their children or gift before death and ensure they don't pay inheritance tax?
At the time some UK commentators and media (including I believe the Telegraph?) couldn't understand why Australian farmers and the media over there were laughing at the deal the UK had accepted.
Even useless Eustice the then DEFRA secretary admitted later in the Commons it was a bad deal.
Even useless Eustice the then DEFRA secretary admitted later in the Commons it was a bad deal.
December 27, 2025 at 10:50 AM
At the time some UK commentators and media (including I believe the Telegraph?) couldn't understand why Australian farmers and the media over there were laughing at the deal the UK had accepted.
Even useless Eustice the then DEFRA secretary admitted later in the Commons it was a bad deal.
Even useless Eustice the then DEFRA secretary admitted later in the Commons it was a bad deal.
Yes, the same James Dyson who (at the time) said that the reason he started moving his businesses out of the UK was that we chose to retain the £ and didn't join the Euro.
December 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Yes, the same James Dyson who (at the time) said that the reason he started moving his businesses out of the UK was that we chose to retain the £ and didn't join the Euro.
Celebrities/sportspeople are paid appearance fees when they attend events/make speeches and their performance or crowd-pulling sets the level of fee - let's charge for the Royal Family for non-state events - there are certainly a few who are good enough to make a very decent living - others less so!
December 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Celebrities/sportspeople are paid appearance fees when they attend events/make speeches and their performance or crowd-pulling sets the level of fee - let's charge for the Royal Family for non-state events - there are certainly a few who are good enough to make a very decent living - others less so!
Much good advice - but this may be the most important!
Your parent not recognising you is very hard to adjust to - particularly if intermittent - my dad would sometimes know me for a while, then if I left the room for 5 minutes would believe I was his brother (who'd died in WW2) when I came back.
Your parent not recognising you is very hard to adjust to - particularly if intermittent - my dad would sometimes know me for a while, then if I left the room for 5 minutes would believe I was his brother (who'd died in WW2) when I came back.
December 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Much good advice - but this may be the most important!
Your parent not recognising you is very hard to adjust to - particularly if intermittent - my dad would sometimes know me for a while, then if I left the room for 5 minutes would believe I was his brother (who'd died in WW2) when I came back.
Your parent not recognising you is very hard to adjust to - particularly if intermittent - my dad would sometimes know me for a while, then if I left the room for 5 minutes would believe I was his brother (who'd died in WW2) when I came back.
It wasn't "the Brexit" any of the 52% voted for - because the leave campaign were too scared to actually tell the electorate the likely consequences - and the leading leave campaigners didn't even agree amongst themselves what Brexit meant.
It was however exactly the Brexit 48% of us voted against.
It was however exactly the Brexit 48% of us voted against.
December 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It wasn't "the Brexit" any of the 52% voted for - because the leave campaign were too scared to actually tell the electorate the likely consequences - and the leading leave campaigners didn't even agree amongst themselves what Brexit meant.
It was however exactly the Brexit 48% of us voted against.
It was however exactly the Brexit 48% of us voted against.
Someone will be - though I fear increasingly it will be unpaid carers.
December 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Someone will be - though I fear increasingly it will be unpaid carers.
So the people (presumably by this we mean UK citizens) who would have done the jobs AI replaces will now lay bricks, mend leaking taps, clean toilets and wipe dementia patients' backsides - and we can save a lot by not educating them and render them even less capable of thinking for themselves.
December 22, 2025 at 9:41 AM
So the people (presumably by this we mean UK citizens) who would have done the jobs AI replaces will now lay bricks, mend leaking taps, clean toilets and wipe dementia patients' backsides - and we can save a lot by not educating them and render them even less capable of thinking for themselves.
I think only about (if polls are to believed) 30% of the UK will celebrate.
December 22, 2025 at 9:19 AM
I think only about (if polls are to believed) 30% of the UK will celebrate.
When AI can lay bricks, mend a leaking tap, clean toilets and wipe dementia patients' backsides then I'll believe that AI is a sub for immigration - until then I remain very unconvinced.
December 22, 2025 at 9:18 AM
When AI can lay bricks, mend a leaking tap, clean toilets and wipe dementia patients' backsides then I'll believe that AI is a sub for immigration - until then I remain very unconvinced.
According to my partner (who was a child there at the time) this was a common way of harvesting mistletoe in Herefordshire in the 1960s/70s.
December 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
According to my partner (who was a child there at the time) this was a common way of harvesting mistletoe in Herefordshire in the 1960s/70s.
As a fairly messy rural household with long-haired people and long-haired cats we've always found our Shark outperforms any previous cleaner.
December 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
As a fairly messy rural household with long-haired people and long-haired cats we've always found our Shark outperforms any previous cleaner.
Would be very interesting to ask those 18804 who they voted for in the may elections - and after this news who they'll vote for next time.
December 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Would be very interesting to ask those 18804 who they voted for in the may elections - and after this news who they'll vote for next time.
Numb or just dumb?
December 20, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Numb or just dumb?
Was it not made advisory instead of mandatory as a trade-off against a proposal letting 16 and 17 year-olds have a vote (proposed by the SNP?)
December 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Was it not made advisory instead of mandatory as a trade-off against a proposal letting 16 and 17 year-olds have a vote (proposed by the SNP?)
The Norwegian government made it plain that they would veto any attempt by the UK to join, both before the referendum, and again within a week or two of the result when certain leading Brexiters were desperately searching for a way of alleviating the disaster to come after they had won by mistake.
December 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The Norwegian government made it plain that they would veto any attempt by the UK to join, both before the referendum, and again within a week or two of the result when certain leading Brexiters were desperately searching for a way of alleviating the disaster to come after they had won by mistake.
The scary thing is that (like Brexit) people will continue to believe their lies and vote for them again next time.
December 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The scary thing is that (like Brexit) people will continue to believe their lies and vote for them again next time.
I think you're right - it's now impossible - for two reasons.
Firstly opposition politicians (of whatever party) spend so much more of their time "playing the man and not the ball" to create a feeling of ill-will against the government.
Secondly - the media - who want them all to fail.
Firstly opposition politicians (of whatever party) spend so much more of their time "playing the man and not the ball" to create a feeling of ill-will against the government.
Secondly - the media - who want them all to fail.
December 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I think you're right - it's now impossible - for two reasons.
Firstly opposition politicians (of whatever party) spend so much more of their time "playing the man and not the ball" to create a feeling of ill-will against the government.
Secondly - the media - who want them all to fail.
Firstly opposition politicians (of whatever party) spend so much more of their time "playing the man and not the ball" to create a feeling of ill-will against the government.
Secondly - the media - who want them all to fail.
But I thought Boris was personally building us 40 new hospitals - and the funding was coming mainly from all the extra tax we'd have left over as a result of Brexit.
December 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
But I thought Boris was personally building us 40 new hospitals - and the funding was coming mainly from all the extra tax we'd have left over as a result of Brexit.
An unusual opinion from someone who's based his entire career on "preventing unelected people having a say in UK legislation".
December 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
An unusual opinion from someone who's based his entire career on "preventing unelected people having a say in UK legislation".