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I would increase spending, what has happened Ukraine has completely transformed how wars are fought, you have drones that cost a few grand taking out multi-million pound tanks or air defence systems. The role of infantry and artillery has completely changed and we need to adapt like everyone else. It’s not me that needs convincing though, it’s mainly the Daily Mail types who cry like babies when asked to pay a bit more tax that will need winning around.

Fact is it will probably take more if a direct threat from Russia before the public are happy with handing over their tax to pay for it. Russia has shown themselves up to be a complete paper tiger in Ukraine, throwing men into the meat grinder is not going to get them anywhere near Berlin yet alone threaten the UK.

White people ride horses all the time round where I live, weirdly there is no outrage.

Maybe that’s why the plod were having a word with them? Why the outrage?

This. Stick the reserves out today and save the first team for Wednesday.

Is riding a horse though a city illegal?

Oh no, a brown person on a horse, how terrifying. 😂

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Well she’s not married to some stuck-in-80s bellend who still calls women chicks so she’s one up on your old dragon.

It's obviously an issue that needs stamping out but to suggest it changed the result is just in Trump territory. My other half pays no interest in politics whatsoever so usually votes for who I suggest. Put the cross next to the rose or the bird, never the tree.

Fantastic result. I'm not a big fan of some their policies but it's just great that the people rejected Reform. Feel a lot better about the country today.

That’s bollocks, plenty on here said it was a pointless gamble at the time.

People would still visit the UK for its history and heritage if we put Charles on 40K a year and stripped him and his hangers-on of most of their wealth. Might even create more tourism opportunities if we hoofed some of them out and stuck their belongings etc in a museum and opened more up as attractions.

They are just a bunch of fuck-ups, gone from being a pointless expense to an expensive embarrassment. Get rid I say.

Surely it's now time to get shot of the Royals for good?

The problem with critics is that they spend their whole lives doing nothing but watch films so always end up wanking over films that are a bit different to the norm, just because they are different.

I was in A&E not long ago, also for a family member and much of what struck me was the same, except most people waiting to be seen appeared to be old/fat and English, whilst many, if not most of the staff performing heroics were people if colour or of foreign descent. The NHS does need reform but the biggest drain by far is old people.

Bet they do, they will see this as an easy fixture.

Of course there is plenty that is worse now than 20 years ago, plenty that is better as well. What I am most proud of about the country (our values of compassion, tolerance, fairness, freedom and democracy) hasn’t really changed though.

I don’t necessarily disagree but you should still be proud of a county that takes care of the most vulnerable. There are plenty of places around the World that don’t, it’s pure luck that we were born in a place as great as the UK that does.

In my opinion our welfare state is something we should all be proud of, taking care of societies most vulnerable is something a good country does. It obviously has its faults but historically it is something the UK should be proud of.

He’s supposed to be a comedian?

What like?

Exactly. Using the word colonised and making up figures. It's a very thin veneer, almost the thin as some on here.