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I hate it when coppers seize weed. Such a waste.

What an absolute piss take that was, ridiculous standard. One Day Cricket has always been mickey mouse but the complete imbalance in favour of batsmen is making it more so, sadly it's creeping into real cricket now too.

I think a big part of the problems we have in talking about Brexit, and also just domestic British politics, is that the Conservative Party is , objectively, a far-right English nationalist party. We think we are separate from the issues you see in places like Hungary and Poland, but the thing is that rather than a Fidesz, or a Law and Justice type party coming to power, our traditional governing party has turned into a party analogous to them. And its only strategy for holding onto power is to hide its new, radically reactionary character behind the charade of being the "Conservative" Party. Meanwhile, the pretty run-of-the-mill social-democrat opposition is spun into some kind of totalitarian monster to try and hide its own new radical direction.

Under normal circumstances it would bury the Conservative Party even more when we consider the mass movement against the Irak War in Tony Blair's tenure and the fact the people are more wary of anything initiated in these terms by the US these days. You could say this about the world over to be honest. BUT! There is a very important "but" here which is that even though the Tories have been decimated and reduced to almost nothing due to Brexit where even most of their hardcore tribal voters have abandoned them. If Brexit has done one thing is that it's changed socialogical perceptions, behaviours and fundamentally it has made British classes and idelogical sensibilities regress back to before the fight for a more politically correct and socially tolerant society... Today there is a total lack of care of observation for speaking one's mind. Where as before you would watch what you would say, today and now we have a whole new ball game where even politicans have fallen into the emotional and visible bigoted clap-trap that's been festering for decades and has transmitted itself to the people. Populism and everything else you may want to call it means that what one wants means that one will back and support openly what they feel. Those in support of Brexit will also be more inclined to support someone like Donald Trump and what he is percieved to represent and with for example this "No Deal" Brexit scenario which is all bullshit and where practically no Brexiter really understands (the more intelligent ones that stand to benefit from is will pretend to not understand and peddle lies and fantasies) has the support of this odd US Trade Deal which already exists aside from what's illegal to trade and bring into the EU safety and quality control standards and of which will even have those that don't particularly like Donald Trump getting into bed with anything he may want to do so as to keep it all nice and cosy. What you do have in its totallity is that those that are fighting to remain which is either half of the UK or according to statistics, more than half these days, will be vehemently against any participation or aligning themselves with "Trumpism" in any shape or form. I don't know if you've understood any of what I've just written because it's not an easy subject to transmit without either going into extreme detail regarding Brexit and present US/UK relations or having to follow it all extremely closely with detail and making sure one either stays away from news platforms with an agenda which isn't easy or that one is so clued up that they can then dissect what's real from what's manipulation when reading the ideologically unbalanced media. In short (after all that)... Were the United Kindgom to join in a war with the USA in anything to do with the Middle East right now, it WOULD cause the biggest and most public bout of civil disobedience and unrest ever witnessed on these islands, certainly in peacetime. Sensibilities and emotions are already being stretched to the limit here in the UK especially in England and any government be it from the right or from the left would have to be extremely transparent, clear and honest (a practical impossibility right now) before making any decision of this magnitude. An alignment with the US in what already looks extremely dodgy and based totally on the US trying to get its way in political and social destabilisation of the region in question would blow things up and destroy the British political system up for good.

Our son & grandson have just arrived, Lovely Jubilee from my son, a litre bottle of my favourite sherry......BUUUURRRRRPPPP and a Del Boy mug from our grandson

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Make that 16! Equals the record number hit in an ODI.