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Not at all, but for each policy I have, it requires minimal effort once a year to renew or switch policies. Prepping / survivalism is quite a bit more involved than that isn't it?

I sometimes wonder how preppers feel when they are dying. Do they feel disappointed that the thing they were prepping for didn't happen in their lifetimes, that it was a waste of time? At least if you've spent your life worshipping a god, you can tell yourself you're going to heaven when you die.

I don't think someone replying to two of your posts consulted constitutes being followed around. If you're going to make fairly bold statements (nothing wrong with doing that), expect a bit of push back.

Here's that list

It seems most survivalists in the US are interested in survival in a rural context, which makes sense given the swathes of wilderness they have. For people in the UK, the most relevant recent experience is probably the siege of Sarajevo because of its urban context. I remember seeing a list of the things that survivors of that siege thought were necessary, in order of importance. I remember fuel, dogs, guns and ammunition being near the top, as was cooking oil so you don't have to boil literally everything you eat.

The thing with a national day is that it's often to celebrate winning freedom and autonomy from occupiers and oppressors, which endows the event with a more universal meaning or resonance, though that gets diluted over the decades and centuries. England's national day doesn't have that because historically, England was the occupier and oppressor. "Remember the days when we stuck it to the Micks and the Blacks" wouldn't really cut it.

I don't get at all triggered by St George's Day, it's altogether very meh. The most notable thing about it for me is how every year, a certain kind of person commemorates St George's Day by loudly complaining that you're not allowed to commemorate St George's Day, while commemorating St George's Day, which I find mildly amusing but not that funny because it's the same joke every year.

You can't even go into central London, drink 12 cans of Stella, do a couple of lines of beak and throw bottles of **** at a good old British bobby without getting arrested these days, and all because the Tory party are all Trotskyists now.

That makes more sense. The Tory government shouldn't be allowed to settle in the UK 😊

My sister went a long way back in our family tree (she's a historian). Mostly Irish and Italian proles for us (although if you go back past 1100 there's probably a Norman knight in there somewhere), no indication of any involvement in the slave trade. I do recognise my privilege though and adhere to the writer Ursula le Guin's notion of wealth - it's not about what you've got, but what you can afford to give away. Which isn't loads in my case, certainly nowhere near Drax's £3m, but I do what I can.

You can, I am.

Man goes to protest to try and provoke an aggressive response, with intent to film said response and present it as proof of anti-Semitic hate on the protest Man does not get aggressive response Man claims he is victim of anti-Semitism

Well it's clear now that this guy was trying to engineer an assault on himself - the fact that no-one took the bait seems to prove that these are not 'hate marches'. I see Braverman has weighed in - I wouldn't be surprised if she and he hadn't come up with this wheeze together.

Of course you wouldn't, it would involve thinking of morals and values rather than your own narrow self-interest.

Lol. A mendacious contribution.

Just for clarity, and for the benefit of myopes like Axe / West77, there have been large, very visible Jewish contingents on all of the big London pro-Palestinian demonstrations, who have been welcomed. Therefore, it's a lie that London is a no-go area for Jews when there is a protest, though it's clearly true that there has been a steep rise in anti-Semitic incidents in general.

Funny how you've been defending their treatment of Black people all this time and it's only now that you realise just how awful the Met are. Those must be some really thick blinkers you've got.

Yes, I think so. I certainly would.

If he doesn't profit from it, the actions of his ancestors have nothing to do with him. If he does profit, then they do have something to do with him.

Many in Spain want fewer tourists anyway, due to the pressure they are putting on their fragile resources https://news.sky.com/story/amp/thousands-of-people-in-canary-islands-take-to-streets-calling-for-limit-to-tourist-numbers-13119441

Yeah, nice get out. This is what people who approve of Tory welfare policies have to do - tell themselves that they are fair and that anyone who reports otherwise has an agenda and can't be trusted. The alternative is to accept that what they support is really disturbing and wrong, and no-one wants to do that. There are of course loads of testimonies available to read online about the arbitrary brutality of disability benefits assessments, but I'm sure you can think of reasons why you shouldn't believe any of those either.

God, are you really that naive? He says there'll be a safety net, so there'll be a safety net, is it? Dear god. I've been to tens of these assessments, the reality is so far from what you think it is, it's unreal.

Taking money from people too mentally ill to work = fine Calling Tories scum = morally reprehensible

Absolutely nailed it there pal.

I guess we'll have to wave bye bye to Axe after the election as well, after all the gentleman's assertions that the Tories will win are proved wrong. Better start thinking of your new username.