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JMButler's avatar

Why would you condemn a pony to be an emotional support for Starmer? An alligator, I could get behind. Or a hippo. Anything big, with teeth.

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Rolf Norfolk's avatar

Perhaps an Eeyore.

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JMButler's avatar

Wasn't there a Heffalump somewhere in the story?

It could squash insignificant things ...

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Vivian Evans's avatar

Nah, Mr Starmer, our esteemed PM, ain't no tractor - he's a Trabbi - do use your browser of choice to check out that vehicle, developed and built in the socialist East German DDR, with a waiting list of 8 years ...

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Rolf Norfolk's avatar

I'd heard of those.

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Silesianus's avatar

His father was a toolmaker, true, but not a very good one it seems.

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Rolf Norfolk's avatar

Of course! That explains it!

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Tom Welsh's avatar

"There is a US military base on the Chagos island of Diego Garcia, which lies strategically situated in the Indian Ocean controlling sea lanes in which the expansionist Chinese Government is keenly interested".

Do you have the slightest sense of irony or proportion? A US military base literally almost exactly on the opposite side of the planet from the USA. But you object to the Chinese government wanting some influence over sea lanes that are vital to its economy and prosperity.

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Rolf Norfolk's avatar

This is a struggle between empires.

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Tom Welsh's avatar

Perhaps - if so, between a military empire and a commercial one. China's weapons are intelligence, hard work, cooperation, low prices, and the ability to defend itself if it is forced to.

I prefer that kind of empire to the B-52 - napalm - 800 foreign bases type.

How many foreign military bases does China have?

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Rolf Norfolk's avatar

China is working smarter, though as to peaceableness there is the issue of Tibet - and China's claims on Arunachal Pradesh etc. This is the first phase.

I'm amazed that the US didn't use money instead of armaments - no I'm not, there's the arms manufacturers and their lobbyists. Lethal greed.

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Tom Welsh's avatar

"Mauritius has zero entitlement to the Chagos Islands and never did have".

And the UK does? Seriously??

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Rolf Norfolk's avatar

Yes, otherwise the ICJ would not be asking us to relinquish it.

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Tom Welsh's avatar

“Tractor” is not among the first couple of hundred words that come to mind.

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Rolf Norfolk's avatar

It's only one letter out.

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Rolf Norfolk's avatar

A what?

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