What Is Happening To Our Country?

[badgerx16]

31 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

I remembered it from Fergie’s autobiography and was huge news at the time. His father Louis was subject to a World in Action episode at the start of 1980 alleging shady practices in both his food business and recruitment of young players for Man Utd. Didn’t realise Peter Lorimer who ended up at Leeds was caught up seemingly in the latter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Edwards

Using condemned meat in school meals.

[Gloucester Saint]

10 hours ago, badgerx16 said:

Using condemned meat in school meals.

Nice. Easy to see how the CJD crisis came about. On the payments to kids, the more things change in football, in some ways the more they stay the same.

[Gloucester Saint]

This popped up on YouTube, just to prove politicians were idiots in the past as well. As soon as he opens his mouth, he’s jinxed it…

 

[sadoldgit]

Sad news.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2033616/whsmith-to-sell-modella-capital-new-name/amp

[The Kraken]

The WHSmith brand is not included in the sale, and the firm's travel divisions will continue to trade under the name across 32 countries, including at major airport locations, hospitals and rail stations in the UK.
 

Sounds awful. 

[Gloucester Saint]

3 hours ago, The Kraken said:

The WHSmith brand is not included in the sale, and the firm's travel divisions will continue to trade under the name across 32 countries, including at major airport locations, hospitals and rail stations in the UK.
 

Sounds awful. 

In other words captive markets.

[Lord Duckhunter]

WH Smith was a mess, absolutely no surprise they’re disappearing from the high street. Business model not fit for the modern world, only missed by a few dinosaurs  stuck in the last century. 

[Lord Duckhunter]

Looks at this absolute fucking onion…

Edited April 1 by Lord Duckhunter

[Gloucester Saint]

6 minutes ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

Looks at this absolute fucking onion…

I don’t care for it, even though I vote for them, but the electorate does. Look at their 2024 GE performance, Boris did loads of farting about, Farage has, whereas others get called boring.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

12 minutes ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

Looks at this absolute fucking onion…

I guess he'll turn up to anything. Except meet with postmasters, of course.

[sadoldgit]

No surprise but still disturbing.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yr0zw65lro.amp

[Lord Duckhunter]

What a load of old pony 

[whelk]

8 hours ago, sadoldgit said:

No surprise but still disturbing.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yr0zw65lro.amp

Are you going to hunt down the misogynists once you’ve got all the Muslim haters?

[Holmes_and_Watson]

3 minutes ago, whelk said:

Are you going to hunt down the misogynists once you’ve got all the Muslim haters?

Is SOG the best for this? I know there's the years of personal experience tackling crime. But he might show too much leniency to ex-bosses making comments about expressing milk.

[Gloucester Saint]

On 01/04/2025 at 12:57, Holmes_and_Watson said:

I guess he'll turn up to anything. Except meet with postmasters, of course.

I’d imagine he’ll be turning up to the Town Halls in the South, SW and Midlands that they win off Labour and the Conservatives in next month’s local elections. 

[hypochondriac]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3677xzk56no

Absolutely extraordinary that this hasn't been done earlier. Shirley High Street to take a local example has loads of new Turkish barbers, a few vape shops and mobile phone shops that are very obviously involved in criminal activity and a new mini mart at the top which is completely unnecessary and never has any customers. Mad that this has been allowed to operate for years now with everyone knowing what they are. 

 

Edited Friday at 11:54 by hypochondriac

[Turkish]

On 09/04/2025 at 10:35, sadoldgit said:

No surprise but still disturbing.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yr0zw65lro.amp

disturbing 😂

[tdmickey3]

1 hour ago, hypochondriac said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3677xzk56no

Absolutely extraordinary that this hasn't been done earlier. Shirley High Street to take a local example has loads of new Turkish barbers, a few vape shops and mobile phone shops that are very obviously involved in criminal activity and a new mini mart at the top which is completely unnecessary and never has any customers. Mad that this has been allowed to operate for years now with everyone knowing what they are. 

 

Please explain how its "very obvious" ?  

You could be right but, please explain how its "very obvious" ?  

[hypochondriac]

11 minutes ago, tdmickey3 said:

Please explain how its "very obvious" ?  

You could be right but, please explain how its "very obvious" ?  

How does a barbers or a mini mart with no customers in an area where there is zero demand for either and where you never see anyone getting there haircut or buying anything continue to operate for months or even years at a time with lavish fixtures and fittings and with very expensive cars parked outside by the operators? As the article says, the number of barbers has doubled in England in the last ten years, why do you think that is? All these businesses currently being raided fit the exact same profile as the ones that have sprung up on Shirley High Street - that is run by a foreigner who come in seemingly out of the blue with very expensive and lavish shops with little or zero customers that continue to operate. 

The new mini mart and the vape shop opposite it in particular haslve no logical reason to exist and I haven't seen a single customer in them at any time of the day (and judging by the shelves nothing looks to have been bought either.) There's no reasonable alternative for their continued existence. 

[rooney]

32 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

How does a barbers or a mini mart with no customers in an area where there is zero demand for either and where you never see anyone getting there haircut or buying anything continue to operate for months or even years at a time with lavish fixtures and fittings and with very expensive cars parked outside by the operators? As the article says, the number of barbers has doubled in England in the last ten years, why do you think that is? All these businesses currently being raided fit the exact same profile as the ones that have sprung up on Shirley High Street - that is run by a foreigner who come in seemingly out of the blue with very expensive and lavish shops with little or zero customers that continue to operate. 

The new mini mart and the vape shop opposite it in particular haslve no logical reason to exist and I haven't seen a single customer in them at any time of the day (and judging by the shelves nothing looks to have been bought either.) There's no reasonable alternative for their continued existence. 

Have you reported this to Crimestoppers? I believe you can do this anonymously.

[tdmickey3]

35 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

How does a barbers or a mini mart with no customers in an area where there is zero demand for either and where you never see anyone getting there haircut or buying anything continue to operate for months or even years at a time with lavish fixtures and fittings and with very expensive cars parked outside by the operators? As the article says, the number of barbers has doubled in England in the last ten years, why do you think that is? All these businesses currently being raided fit the exact same profile as the ones that have sprung up on Shirley High Street - that is run by a foreigner who come in seemingly out of the blue with very expensive and lavish shops with little or zero customers that continue to operate. 

The new mini mart and the vape shop opposite it in particular haslve no logical reason to exist and I haven't seen a single customer in them at any time of the day (and judging by the shelves nothing looks to have been bought either.) There's no reasonable alternative for their continued existence. 

Are you monitoring them all day everyday 😉

[hypochondriac]

1 hour ago, tdmickey3 said:

Are you monitoring them all day everyday 😉

Well I live nearby so see it multiple times a day and I've never seen either with a customer. It's not like it's some sort of mad conspiracy theory is it. 

[east-stand-nic]

42 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

Well I live nearby so see it multiple times a day and I've never seen either with a customer. It's not like it's some sort of mad conspiracy theory is it. 

Indeed. However, it is very fashionable right now to be pious and virtue signal, especially when it comes to acting as if they like all comers. For anyone saying they are doing bad is called out simplistically as racism. Simple plain old pious virtue signalling.

[Gloucester Saint]

5 hours ago, hypochondriac said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3677xzk56no

Absolutely extraordinary that this hasn't been done earlier. Shirley High Street to take a local example has loads of new Turkish barbers, a few vape shops and mobile phone shops that are very obviously involved in criminal activity and a new mini mart at the top which is completely unnecessary and never has any customers. Mad that this has been allowed to operate for years now with everyone knowing what they are. 

 

My friends still living in Soton call it Highly Shite Street.

[Lord Duckhunter]

There’s a Muslim barbers in Romney Marsh, perhaps that was a front for dodgy money as well. They’ve only got one customer…..

[Turkish]

11 minutes ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

There’s a Muslim barbers in Romney Marsh, perhaps that was a front for dodgy money as well. They’ve only got one customer…..

I was talking to a friend at the village early summer tea party earlier today. He's is very well connected in the hair dressing scene in England. He told me that many of the barber shops are highly successful with very skilled barbers and any suggestion that they might be a front for money laundering is pure and simple racism. He also knows a lot of Incels and told me they are addicted to Andrew Tate youtube shorts and often shout mysogynistic comments at young girls, but not a single one of them was a muslim barber. Disturbing but not surprising. 

[hypochondriac]

46 minutes ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

There’s a Muslim barbers in Romney Marsh, perhaps that was a front for dodgy money as well. They’ve only got one customer…..

Pmsl

[AlexLaw76]

And I thought we were getting loads of Doctors and Engineers.....