No. The UK has been trying to get a good deal but who knew that a single country would struggle to get a deal as good as they had when they were negotiating with 27 others on their side.

Like I said, they’re badly in need of new trade partners after they fucked their sweet deal with the EU.

Too soon.

They didn’t cause it, no.

David Cameron caused it by adding it to the Conservative party manifesto to help them get reelected.

I’d be surprised if Russia didn’t at least attempt to influence the referendum in favour of Brexit. They have been interfering in elections for years and Brexit would be beneficial to them as it made both the UK and the EU weaker.

If the punishment for deliberately claiming more in benefits than you’re entitled to is simply to repay the benefits then there’s no incentive to not do it. If you get caught then you’re no worse off than if you’d not broken the law so why not do it?

Having said that, if the punishment for accidentally claiming more than you’re entitled to is so harsh then that is unfair.

I’d imagine that the process for both of the scenarios is the same but it definitely should have some human element in it where intent is taken into account.

The system should protect people from that by having proper checks before the money is paid out.

When the genocide is almost complete.

It’s ridiculous how we’re never saying that things have crossed the lines that have clearly been crossed.

They were on the brink of famine for months and I’m not sure that they ever declared one.

I know that the article is about the unanswered questions but I think that it’s a bit disrespectful (of the BBC) to her to use that photo as the lead.

Sorry…. rereading my post I realised that there should have been a /s on there.

I definitely don’t believe that the tarrifs were reciprocal despite that being the Trump message.

But they’re reciprocal tariffs, not unilateral. It’s like nobody listens.

I imagine that it depends upon whether the agreement allows for outsourcing or not.

“No free speech, no deal. It is as simple as that,”

So he’s going to push this condition onto everyone that they deal with right? Saudi Arabia and Israel for example.

They’re currently getting the help to look under sofa cushions to raise the money.

Not only that rule. Also the specific rule that they agreed to which was to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty if they gave up their nukes.

In fairness, they are also betraying the poor people in the rich countries too. And everyone else who has kids and grand kids to inherit the mess.

If Trump is a Russian asset as we all believe then Putin will have irrefutable proof that would be able to put Trump in prison.

He’s also likely to have evidence of other crimes that everyone is pretty sure that he has done and is doing.

A lot of the publicly available stuff has a lack of evidence, a lack of motivation to get the evidence or a lack of will to impeach and prosecute a sitting president. It’s possible that Putin could release enough information to overcome those barriers.

That’s what I was thinking except I was thinking about the military. Why are the numbers for health so much lower than for war. It’s not a little lower it’s multiple zeroes lower and that’s not just the US. The UK is paying $22m to the WHO but has a military budget more than 3,000 times larger!

What Hamas did is very excusable.

They killed and kidnapped civilians which isn’t excusable. It would have been excusable to attack the military, not civilians.

Also various places want their stolen objects back from our museums.

Finders keepers shut up!

The West can’t trust America anymore when they used to be the most reliable partner which shows that everyone needs to reduce their reliance on external states as much as possible.

We relied on Russia for energy when they weren’t a friendly country. We still rely on China for tech and manufacturing and they can’t be described as friendly. And then we find out that we’re too reliant on USA who also turned out to be unfriendly.

I don’t think that those are mutually exclusive options.