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I think your 'investigative journalist techniques' needs some sharpening.
Another soldier stabbed.
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Ask your nearest Tory MP, the ones that have been in government for the last 14 years.
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That would explain your local knowledge of Cockney slang.
Very few outside of the East End understand the infrequently used expressions.
Four volunteers cost 3/4 of a BILLION quid through the failed Tory Rwanda scheme. £8 mill a day is bargain by all accounts, lol.
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And there was me thinking I'd read how you had admitted taking other people's vehicles. Have I not read that ?
I detest people breaking into and taking vehicles and tools, as it appears you do too.
Perhaps Odds must have passed through one day and learned the lingo, eh? Have you EVER honestly seen a 'plank' of wood of that dimension? Have you EVER heard anyone describe a 'plank' as a 4 x 2?
Would've been funnier if the scrote ended up under the car and then hit with the scaffold pole a few dozen times...East London actually. A couple of scrotes tried to pinch my commuter scooter. I introduced them to my good friend, Mr Scaffold Pole. They never came back! The police thought it was hilarious and advised me, if it happens again, go for the legs to disable them. Still, gives me a chance to show it again. Thanks.
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Without helmet...
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To me a 4x2 is a piece of timber. I've rarely referred to any piece of timber as a plank.
But I'm pretty confident in saying, yes, I may have referred to a piece of timber as a plank. But I couldn't say when, nor where, nor why.
BTW, I wasn't aware of the anti-Semitic connotations of the 4x2 slang.
I see your post accusing ellal of racism has been deleted, as has ellal's post using the alleged Cockney slang been deleted at your request.
If someone is not aware of the Cockney slang, I can believe it, I wasn't aware of it.
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It's funny how people mix up election dates
The United Kingdom government austerity programme was a fiscal policy that was adopted for a period in the early 21st century following the Great Recession. Coalition and Conservative governments in office from 2010 to 2019 used the term, and it was applied again by many observers to Conservative policies from 2021 to 2024, during the cost of living crisis. With the exception of the Truss ministry, the governments in power over the second period did not formally re-adopt the term. The two austerity periods are separated by increased spending during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first period was one of the biggest deficit reduction programmes seen in any advanced economy since the Second World War, with the emphasis on shrinking the state, rather than fiscal consolidation as was more common elsewhere in Europe.[2]
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The Conservative-led government claimed that austerity served as a deficit reduction programme consisting of sustained reductions in public spending and tax rises, intended to reduce the government budget deficit and the role of the welfare state in the United Kingdom. Some commentators accepted this claim, but many scholars have observed that in fact its primary, largely unstated aim, like most austerity policies,[3] was to restore the rate of profit.[4][5] Successive Conservative governments claimed that the National Health Service[6] and education[7] had been "ringfenced" and protected from direct spending cuts,[8] but between 2010 and 2019 more than £30 billion in spending reductions were made to welfare payments, housing subsidies and social services.[9]
There was no central function or risk assessment made to predict the impact of the austerity programme on services and budgets in the long term.There were however "big strategic moves" to protect groups more likely to vote Conservative, and make cuts elsewhere. This meant that the richest 20% of the population were largely protected, and the 2015 Conservative general election victory is credited to this tactic.
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The United Kingdom government austerity programme was a fiscal policy that was adopted for a period in the early 21st century following the Great Recession. Coalition and Conservative governments in office from 2010 to 2019 used the term, and it was applied again by many observers to Conservative policies from 2021 to 2024, during the cost of living crisis. With the exception of the Truss ministry, the governments in power over the second period did not formally re-adopt the term. The two austerity periods are separated by increased spending during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first period was one of the biggest deficit reduction programmes seen in any advanced economy since the Second World War, with the emphasis on shrinking the state, rather than fiscal consolidation as was more common elsewhere in Europe.[2]
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The Conservative-led government claimed that austerity served as a deficit reduction programme consisting of sustained reductions in public spending and tax rises, intended to reduce the government budget deficit and the role of the welfare state in the United Kingdom. Some commentators accepted this claim, but many scholars have observed that in fact its primary, largely unstated aim, like most austerity policies,[3] was to restore the rate of profit.[4][5] Successive Conservative governments claimed that the National Health Service[6] and education[7] had been "ringfenced" and protected from direct spending cuts,[8] but between 2010 and 2019 more than £30 billion in spending reductions were made to welfare payments, housing subsidies and social services.[9]
There was no central function or risk assessment made to predict the impact of the austerity programme on services and budgets in the long term.There were however "big strategic moves" to protect groups more likely to vote Conservative, and make cuts elsewhere. This meant that the richest 20% of the population were largely protected, and the 2015 Conservative general election victory is credited to this tactic.
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I used to hang out with friends in Plaistow on occasion but never really knew the area. Nobody talks like that in everyday speech as far as i'm aware - perhaps they do it for tourists? I got all my rhyming slang from Alf Garnett.
Fun Fact: Plaistow used to be famous for its water-polo* teams- dominant in UK in the 50s and 60s ish.
*No horses were ever harmed- Dujardin never played w-p.
*No horses were ever harmed- Dujardin never played w-p.
Well there was no 'possible' about you carrying a weapon was there!
And you were intent on causing GBH...
Thus you were as much a thug as they were thieves!
Hence you are a dangerous vigilante...
What would have happened had you badly injured/killed that person?
Apparently calling someone a racist is okay but not when it’s preceded by ‘dirty little undercover’ for some reason.
