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Colburn_Claret

I guess that's where we're differing in that you want to define poverty as something along the lines of risk of death without intervention (maybe not exactly that but it reads as if you want there to be severe deprivation to be classed as in poverty, feel free to give your own definition as to how ...

Colburn_Claret

Really, maybe you should tell the people of North Yorkshire https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/more-third-hull-children-living-1115644 You don't like listening do you. The way we calculate poverty is a load of ********. I've already explained why. If you want to keep post...

Colburn_Claret

I do enjoy Colburn's view of "if I'm not experiencing it it's not happening and I am very much the person best placed to judge what is happening". Maybe you should tip off all these poor unfortunates to move to N.Yorkshire, we seem to have it sussed here. Or maybe they'd just drag the same excuses ...

Colburn_Claret

So - a bit like racism - you choose to believe that poverty doesn’t exist in this country despite the evidence to the contrary, because you don’t want it to. That’s the fallacy of adverse consequences again. That approach might make you feel better about yourself for being a Tory with a complete la...

Colburn_Claret

I find it hard to agree with you, Colburn, as you seem to be suggesting that poverty, hunger and real life deprivation are a minor problem in Britain and that in most cases where it does exist it is the fault of those people themselves. But it is simply not true. Universal credit left people with n...

Colburn_Claret

No, I’m not blaming the government for bad parenting. It inevitably exists and where is does it’s difficult for the children to break out of the cycle and they end up following their parents. That’s where society, in the form of government, should step in to help out. How, because giving them more ...

Colburn_Claret

The 4 million children referred to in the following link don’t exist, but if they did exist they should be taking a long hard look in the mirror, examine their life choices and realise they were born into poverty due to mistakes they have made (presumably in a former life - I didn’t know Colburn wa...

Colburn_Claret

If only these people had chosen to be born into well off families rather than poor families their lives would be better. Serves them right! Wake up Martin, I know and grew up with loads of kids that grew up in poor families. They worked themselves out of it, in a time when the benefit system was fa...

Colburn_Claret

Whether or not the poorest people have ever had it so good is irrelevant, Colburn. If it is the case that we are as a nation better off than ever before then that just makes it more disgraceful that a considerable section of our population are forced to rely on food banks and that children are stil...

Colburn_Claret

martin_p wrote: ↑
Mon Jun 15, 2020 8:14 pm
The last ten years has seen huge cuts to public services, particularly the benefits that many of the less well off depend on. Where was the comparable hit for the incomes of the well off?

Answer the question, what year do they want to go back to, where they had it better.

Colburn_Claret

A number of the current cabinet wrote a book suggesting that workers were too protected, elements of minimum wages should be abolished, people needed to work harder, etc I believe you. It was reported today that Labour had a plan to merge the South East of England and North West of France and creat...

Colburn_Claret

Ok, let’s just go back and look at the last decade and ask ourselves who took the brunt of the austerity pain? No you need to compare 'austerity' with the 90s, the 70s, the 50s. You haven't lived if you think life is anywhere near as harsh as it used to be. Call it austerity, call it anything you l...

Colburn_Claret

martin_p wrote: ↑
Mon Jun 15, 2020 1:45 pm
Proof? How about just the whole history of the UK!

Oh well, if you're offering proof like that how could I argue

Colburn_Claret

It all depends how many teams are still standing when fans are allowed back in. I really think the Premier league should do more. God knows we aren't flush, but I hope we'd be willing to cough up 5 million towards the lower leagues. If every club did it, 100 million should tide most clubs over. I'm ...

Colburn_Claret

I think one of the nuances that needs to be understood by some is that it is not just a case of a govt abolishing employment rights for everyone and they just disappear as if that happened there would be uproar. What the reality will be is that they take away protections of rights but the majority ...

Colburn_Claret

Is that a suggestion that UK maternity leave and minimum pay and the rest are protected by the EU? It seems an unlikely conclusion, so I apologise if I have misunderstood you, but I can't imagine any other "organisation" that could even be imagined as being able to enforce workers' rights. In which...

Colburn_Claret

I should imagine that foreign holidays are out of the question, so it will depend on how long they leave the start of the new season. Mid season will definitley be shorter than usual, so the pre season won't require to be as intensive or as long. I hope early Sept, the 5th is my lads birthday, a nic...

Colburn_Claret

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Germany away 5 1 had to be.
Despite only drawing 0 0, the away qualifying match in Italy, when under Hoddle, made me feel proud. Men v boys in a very tough fixture.

Colburn_Claret

Just checked against my original guesses, and I would have scraped an honourable draw, still I won't be making that mistake again.
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Colburn_Claret

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I'm sure i posted yesterday. I'm at work and I know these aren't the ones I worked out yesterday, oh well fingers crossed

Colburn_Claret

I'll just check but I'm sure I posted mine yesterday

Colburn_Claret

I like to drink quite a variety of Whiskeys. Don’t mind a bourbon. I do find some of the peaty single malts of the highlands overpowering sometimes. My favourites are Irish Whiskeys, their grain whiskeys are very nice. But my favourite by a long margin is Red Breast. It is by Jameson’s. Ima bartend...

Colburn_Claret

I can understand why people would be worried about food standards, that's a given, but how bad are these American standards. Presumably, they haven't done any harm to Americans, otherwise they would have resolved the issue. Secondly, if the Americans have the right to sell food here, it doesn’t mean...

Colburn_Claret

martin_p wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 09, 2020 10:35 pm
It's been a big issue in Bristol for a while so i doubt you're accurately representing the views of Bristolians.

Its been a big issue for a minority. The people of Bristol voted to keep it, but just like everything else the left wing lose, they can't accept defeat gracefully.

Colburn_Claret

Well it might not have been your intention but by condemning his stance against racism by using his ethnicity I don't know how else you thought it would be interpreted. Of course pulling down statues and renaming streets is addressing racism. It may not be directly tackling individual acts of racis...

Colburn_Claret

Ok, so in a nutshell Khan shouldn’t address the issue of racism because of the opportunity that this country has afforded him? That’s what I claimed that you said the first time. it wasn't, or certainly wasn't my intention. Everyone should address the racist issue. Sadiq Khan as well, but deciding ...

Colburn_Claret

He's 30, spent most of his career struggling with crap teams in Scotland, and I mean crap. A good season doesn't make a good player, we'd be mad to buy someone that age, unproven in a class anywhere near Premier league standard. I trust SD has far more sense than that, besides he'd be a poor 5th cho...

Colburn_Claret

You said; ‘ He pontificates about racism in a country where he is the Asian Mayor of one of the biggest cities in the world. Oh the irony.......’ Which suggests that you think it’s wrong that Khan pontificates about racism in this country because of his heritage and senior position. So what is the ...

Colburn_Claret

So racism doesn’t exist in this country because the Mayor of London is from a minority ethnic group? Sounds legit. Where in that post, or any others on this thread, have I said racism doesn't exist. The left wing liberals being as illiberal as ever. As anyone not blinkered knows, this country, desp...

Colburn_Claret

We don't really get taught about the tragedy of English slave traders in school though, do we? Also, education in a school and a statue celebrating someone are completely different things. It will be part of the curriculum if Khan gets his way. 25 reasons why we should hate Britain. He pontificates...

Colburn_Claret

Who is talking about erasing the past? A statue or monument celebrates a person or thing. It’s appropriate to remember the negative people and chapters of our history, but is it right to actually celebrate them? What would it say about us to do that? That he was a man of his time. I said earlier, h...

Colburn_Claret

As Woodley says, slavery has been happening for thousands of years, we didn't invent it. Before Black Africans were ruthlessly enslaved and sent to the colonies, Black Africans would have been making slaves of other Black Africans. The people who perpetrated these acts were men of their times. Not e...

Colburn_Claret

I prefer Irish whisky, which probably explains my preference for Glenmorangie, very smooth for a Scotch.
I have about a dozen bottles of different whiskeys, for tasters when I used to get company.

Colburn_Claret

Missed that one, but went to Newcastle for the final. I remember it was supposed to be over 2 legs, but because of the back log, I heard they did a deal that whoever won the FA Cup Semi Final would have home advantage in a 1 leg final. It just wasn't our year.

Colburn_Claret

Still no mention of 'the procedures' to be applied in a school. You do realise there is very limited space available in classrooms. For any level of 'normal' to occur it would require more space and more staff. Neither are available. I think you misunderstand me. I personally, wouldn't enforce soci...

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Colburn_Claret

I'm not having that. 1 home game and 16 away, we need an enquiry.

Colburn_Claret

It doesn’t matter if a few kids and children get riddled with the virus anyway does it ? There will still be 80m people in the UK who haven’t had it. In what way do a few kids get 'riddled' with the virus. All the stats show that kids are not susceptible to the affects of the virus. It shouldn't ma...

Colburn_Claret

'procedures there can be controlled' Could you just clarify the controlled procedures you expect to see in a standard classroom size for 25/30 very young children for around 6 hours a day. This would also include meaningful practices for said children as part of their learning experience. Otherwise...

Colburn_Claret

Steve-Harpers-perm wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 06, 2020 7:41 pm
Getting back to normal? Inconvenience? People panicked? Not my fault people have died? Christ.

Anyway as long as you and your family are ok......

We are, but thanks for asking

Colburn_Claret

You did say,Colburn that covid 19 was 'an inconvenience'. Perhaps you might wish to define what your idea of an inconvenience is. Mine would be perhaps having to stand on a bus journey partway because all the seats have been taken. 'Open the country up but follow the guidelines' Do you mean follow ...

Colburn_Claret

I'm not expecting it to the nearest decimal point but maybe the nearest million. I don't really know what your 80m figure is. If you're trying to talk about UK population you're about 15m out, that's a pretty big figure. Similarly, your 250k estimate for who has had the virus seems incredibly low. ...

Colburn_Claret

Collateral damage then for a pandemic that is just an 'inconvenience'. Presumably you do check what you have written before you post it. normally not always. I dont pretend the lives that are lost dont matter, and I never said that any deaths were inconvenient, but this lockdown has become that. As...

Colburn_Claret

I know he got you the brexit you so passionately craved but ever since you have thought the sun shines out of his arse. You couldn’t be more wrong. Take the blinkers off and judge him. You say, above, that I don’t listen to him when the truth is that I do listen to him and he is so obviously a frau...

Colburn_Claret

Johnson should never have become prime minister. Had the right wing press done their job and scrutinised his failures and shined light on his shortcomings, nobody would have voted for him. Instead they protected him from negative stories, and carefully fostered his image. There’s an absolute glut o...

Colburn_Claret

aggi wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 05, 2020 11:56 pm
Have you just made up these numbers?

I must admit I don't have them to the decimal point, but can you tell me how many people haven't contracted Covid 19 in the last 6 months.........

Colburn_Claret

The reason people are obsessed with Boris lying all the time is because he lies all the time. He was sacked as a journalist for lying, making up quotes to be exact but lies, sacked as a minister twice for making stuff up and being incompetent, lied to David Cameron about backing remain, lied about ...

Colburn_Claret

On the evidence of the last few years what basis is there for trusting/having faith in this government? They've stumbled from one disaster to another, all the time lying and trying to spin the facts to hide their failures. Says a man who shallows the media. Something in the country changed during B...

Colburn_Claret

Trusting the government working out well for lots of people I suppose. I could be pedantic and heartless and say its working out for the 80 million who haven't died from Corona Virus, thats right 80 million. I feel for anyone who's lost a loved one or friend, and if they or someone they know is in ...

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