badgerx16

Trump invited a load of children to the Oval Office to promote a program for healthy eating and exercise for young people. This is part of his rambling stream of nonsense, totally appropriate for the audience. ( He make an important point at about 1:07 in - he has ended 8 wars, nobody else has ever stopped a war ).

Why is it that, in his own words, Trump is the ONLY President to take a cognitive test ? ( At least three times ).

Remember the repeated assurances that the $200M Big Beautiful Ballroom was totally funded by private donations and would not cost the US tax payer anything ? The Republicans are trying to push through a finance reconciliation Bill that provides for up to $1Bn to cover "security enhancements" for the White House in general, and the new East Wing in particular.

Well, you know what happens when a politician's lips move.

Empathy

We visited the national war museum in Fort St Elmo, which contains a lot of stuff from the Axis blitz in WW2. We walked round behind a coachload of German tourists, and at one point I wispered to my wife "And which part fell off your father's plane Otto ?".

There's an idea, re the Navy; we need to ncrease the surface fleet, and therefore the number of ratings required to crew the ships, so bring back the press gang, or at least a variation on it. All able bodied immigrant men of working age, who so desperately want to be here, serve 4 years at sea. After all, they are already experienced sea farers after crossing the Channel in small boats. If they finish their term with a good record, then their asylum applications will be looked upon favourably.

Why bother to put them in temporary camps ? Why not snatch them off the streets and deport them immediately ? Saves even more money.

Well he did at least get something right.

Particularly as almost every local or national poll winner doesn't get close to gaining a true majority of the constituency electorate. You would be "punishing" the majority for something they didn't do.

There are too many unscrupulous builders who fold once the basic construction has been done, to avoid responsibilties and additional costs, such as this development a few miles from us...... https://www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/news/people/fresh-calls-to-fix-botched-south-lancaster-housing-estate-after-four-years-of-misery-5504987

Maybe we should wait to see if the Planning and Infrastructure Bill can deliver.

Affordable housing is not the same as council housing, the situation we used to have more widely where councils built and maintained rental housing stock and retained it in the public domain.

I don't know. Why not write to them and ask why ?

Financial restrictions imposed on Councils limited their options on capital spending, particularly on housing, and Right to Buy scuppered any long term retention of anything that did get built in the public domain.