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[We Hate Scouse 10,326]

What would the rationale be for lying about it?

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7 minutes ago, We Hate Scouse said:

What would the rationale be for lying about it?

Just putting it out there, I for one dont trust the cunts running this world. Anything is plausible. There are also interviews with Lebaneese whom claimed they saw rockets hit the place. I see if I can dig it up.

[We Hate Scouse 10,326]

1 hour ago, Atomiswave said:

Just putting it out there, I for one dont trust the cunts running this world. Anything is plausible. There are also interviews with Lebaneese whom claimed they saw rockets hit the place. I see if I can dig it up.

Don't get me wrong, I like to keep an open mind about these things, but I just can't see a reason that someone would do something like this and then there be a cover up.

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If it was an attack of some sort, its getting the desired result ie it looks like the government is on the way out. However I think it was mega incompetence with disastrous results.

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1 hour ago, We Hate Scouse said:

Don't get me wrong, I like to keep an open mind about these things, but I just can't see a reason that someone would do something like this and then there be a cover up.

Thats fair my friend, its good to be open minded.

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A completely deranged Trump claims Joe Biden will "hurt God" if elected president

 

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3 minutes ago, 11Drogba said:

 

lol, reduced to a Manc wank

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It really makes me sad when dictators like Lukashenko win elections like this...

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On 28/04/2012 at 8:28 AM, Spike said:

Do you like Politcs? Yes? No? Could care less? Well in this grande topic we discuss politics.

Here is a test for those curious.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

Don't take the test too seriously, and post your results if you want to.

My results lean heavily towards Liberty and Communism/Socialism. The stupid image extension isn't allowed on Talk Chelsea.

Keep things civil people.

This was mine

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Britain’s New Record: A Recession Worse Than in Europe and North America

Seventeen years of economic growth have been wiped out in Britain’s late and long lockdown.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/business/britain-economy-recession-coronavirus.html

Britain discovered on Wednesday that its economy had suffered a recession deeper than any other reported by a European or North American country during the coronavirus pandemic.

The reasons for the severe downturn in the second quarter include an economy that relies more heavily than most on consumer spending and a longer national lockdown than its neighbors.

Still, the cost of the pandemic provided another grim record. Last month, the government reported that Britain had Europe’s highest rate of excess deaths.

“A few months ago, I said hard times are coming and today’s figures show hard times are here,” Rishi Sunak, Britain’s top finance official, said on Wednesday.

Economic output declined by 20.4 percent from April to June, compared with the previous quarter, official preliminary statistics showed on Wednesday. It’s the worst recession since the government started keeping records in 1955 and takes the British economy back to the size it was in 2003. The fall in gross domestic product was twice as large as in the United States and Germany.

The government’s relatively slow response to the pandemic in March largely explains Britain’s fate. The closing of schools and businesses began weeks later in Britain than in some neighboring European countries. In those crucial days, the coronavirus was able to spread further and the problem was worsened by failures in contact tracing, testing and the protection of nursing homes.

 

This led to a longer period under a more severe lockdown, which began in late March and only started to be lifted in mid-June. Compared with the United States, which instigated state-by-state shutdowns of varying lengths and severity, Britain’s lockdown also affected a greater share of the population for a longer period.

The longer lockdown was “at the root of the economy’s underperformance,” Samuel Tombs, an economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, wrote in a research note.

An Oxford University index on the strictness of government responses, including school and workplace closings and travel bans, showed that Britain’s lockdown was more stringent in the second quarter than in Italy, Germany, Spain and the United States.

Britain was also more vulnerable to the economic impact of social distancing measures because of its large services sector. In the second quarter, spending on accommodation and food services — a category that includes hotels and restaurants — plunged by 87 percent.

 

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2 hours ago, Vesper said:

 

THis shit would have made threats going back and forth just 20 years ago.....that was quality Vesper