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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I didn't know it was even possible to spend £5400 in Primark.



    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Me neither, especially as it's such crap, but I'd be even more concerned about the 77,000 spent on eyebrows!
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited March 2021
    I'm still trying to get my head around the Primark one. Will consider the eyebrow issue later.
    If you spent over £600 on cupcakes, I suppose the expenditure on a diet consultant might be a necessary expenditure so that's that one sorted 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    steveTu said:
    IMO - the way to have fixed the EU was from the inside as you have no influence from outside - and a failed EU would be a nightmare for Europe and the world for decades/centuries to come.


    Attempts to sort out the EU from inside have been tried many times but self interest by those at the top, and the Governments of the countries who benefitted financially prevented anything happening.  As long as the Germans and French have an apparent stranglehold on the EU nothing will ever change.  The additional problem is, that if other countries did manage to wrestle control they would probably get their snouts just as deep in the trough.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    £77k on eyebrows.  Even Denis Healey's woudn't have cost that much!
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219

    No political process is perfect - but in any democracy, the only way to change it is using the process itself. The Parliamentary process here may also have flaws - and the way to change those is via the Parliamentary process. Ignoring the process and ducking out of it can't change it. But insanely, the UK needs a united EU. If you think Brexit was a pain - just imagine NO EU and dealing with the individual countries again - all with their own processes and standards.

    It concerned me that the UK leaving the EU may have vastly more ramifications than just the UK not being part of the EU anymore.


    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I might keep this photo handy in case I'm ever having a bad day at work.

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    The bullfinches have returned and are helping themselves to the buds on our apple trees... at least they're beautiful, so I sigh but accept their right to a share.  But not EVERY bud, please...
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    That digger looks awful small
    This could be a job for International Rescue
    Thunderbirds are Go!

    In London. Keen but lazy.
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