Mrs Roops

Indeed, one couldn't ask for a more august body of men than the Circle of Four.

Whoa, circle jerk alert...

No doubt it was too embarrassing to answer the question by deflecting to the Biden laptop conspiracy, yet another join-the-imaginary-dots of faux dramas that is fast disappearing up it's own fundament despite the amateurish attempts of Jim Jordan, Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, to write the rules as he goes along. As for your intemperate outburst, one wonders why The Corner's most gullible punter ever who has previously admitted to not caring if his discourse is factually true or not and furthermore, has stated that most of what he posts is "shit" should paradoxically howl like a banshee when called out. Genius. Stay warm.

...which partly explains why compensatory damages nearly ten times Dominion's market capitalisation was secured, ordinarily a ridiculous amount - and there's still another six lawsuits in the pipeline... Still, now that you've raised the subject of successful litigation, perhaps you could be kind enough to update The Corner on Trump's progress to date in overturning the result of the 2020 Presidential election.

Jeeze, should've taken the sedative, can't say I didn't warn ya. Anyway, gotta dash - Rishi is holding on line three and Putin's office just texted asking if I do Facetime.

You don't seem to be able to stay away from this and now you're arrogantly barking out orders to "own it" Whilst The Torygraph op-ed appeared three days ago this story has been bouncing around the current affairs media for several months, usually in op-eds rather than any factual news content. I think the originating World Bank dossier hit my desk back in January. Now, I have no wish to cause you any further alarm and distress nor do I wish you to have another foot-stomping session so I suggest you self-administer a sedative before you read any further. To put this simply, you're barking up the wrong tree. Again. The Telegraph's article central premise is based on World Bank data extrapolated from 2010 giving rise to speculative predictions (and they are predictions). Two flaws in your presumptive assessment; firstly you will note that the article does not blame Brexit, in fact the same set of predictions made the case that Poland will overtake Germany and France - two countries that as far as I am aware, are still members of the EU. The second point is that Poland, having gorged itself on the EU tit has unilaterally put in place protectionist measures which are illegal under EU law. Poland wants the benefits but not shoulder any responsibilities. To date the EU Commission has been quite craven about this and have come up with a smoke and mirrors fudge that allows Poland to get away with this. This attitude has often been a problem and is another reason why the UK wanted out, we were happy to stay if everybody played by the rules but it was clear that was never going to happen. LCS, I suspect your just another whinging pom who will blame everything on Brexit; the recent death of the Monarch - obviously caused by Brexit, the 3.10 from Crewe four minutes late - must be Brexit, recent floods in East England - quite clearly due to Brexit. Just STFU.

FFS, well that didn't last long. I hope you're comfortable 'cos I've thrown away the key.

Not Saucepants, calm down.

Yeah, get over yourself, "Doctor"

Its not too clear what police overreach has to do with Brexit but no matter. As an aside, by all accounts the overzealousness of some Australian police forces of late make the poor British policing look like a bunch of officious dinner ladies on steroids yet you're willing to have a "part of it" in your adopted bolt-hole or perhaps you're being selectively blind...

I apologise if punters are triggered by 'inconsistency' but the fact of the matter is there are some mornings in which I do not have the time nor the inclination to read every comment posted, most of which is abject repetitive drivel - punkape.exe is a case in point. If you guys must continue to insult each other then try to do so with fresh barbs. On a more serious note I see that a handful of punters are resorting to cheap and easy LCD comments with regards to sexual comments (no matter how oblique) about relatives and paedophilia. The handful of you that are doing this should cut out that sort of behaviour this instant 'cos one way to reduce my workload is to remove offenders from the site for protracted period of time...

...as part of a reciprocal agreement that allows the UK Border Patrol to man checkpoints in Calais

You two bozos need to manage expectations. I don't know why you two think Brexit happened in 2016 or seven years ago as the UK didn't leave the EU until 2020, the post-referendum delay was thanks in part to the well-meaning but inherently weak Theresa May premiership and to Remoaners employing every judicial and legislative trick to thwart the mandate of the British electorate. That both of you are of the opinion that financial benefits would materialise immediately after Brexit is delusional to say the least. I made clear that Brexit would bring chill winds in the short and immediate term as the UK is a mature and complex economy that was entwined with 27 other countries. Immediate benefits of course was that the UK retook complete sovereignty of its own lands. I appreciate this means nothing to you but like it or not the British are proud and independently minded and don't like being told what do by citizens beyond it's shores.

Well now - if you recall, I originally ignored your rather silly comparison of a newly emerged economy of some two million people with that of a mature economy of sixty-seven million. You then made a subsequent post in which you solicited a response from me. I addressed your POV with a slight dig and thought that would be the end of the matter. Your response was to throw a five-paragraph tantrum filled with tired tropes and insults. Calm down squire.

I must admit to a wry chuckle at your earlier post dripping with misplaced smugness. For some reason you still feel the need to scour the 'net for a 'gotcha' moment even if it means ending up with an obscure article replete with false equivalency. The article appeared in an on-line magazine, Palladiummag, which is the official mouthpiece of the American Governance Foundation, an outfit which, until now, I have never heard of. Unfortunately no-one else has heard of them either. As for the article, I presume Slovenia was chosen for a 'contrast and compare' exercise due to the ill-informed perception that the former Yugoslav state was just another Balkan backwater that was caught up in the horrendous ethnic cleaning associated with the rest of Yugoslavia. In fact Slovenia got its democratic act together early on in breakup of Yugoslavia and became a fully-fledged member of the EEC and NATO as early as 2004. Naturally the small state received a ton of money from Brussels (a good proportion of that no doubt from the UK). The levelling-up exercise was successful as the income inequality rates are amongst the lowest in the world hence my initial assessment of false equivalency. Its one thing to have Panzer abusing a British site's hospitality by spewing out bigoted nonsense and embellished facts like some modern Lord Haw-haw, its another thing pretending to be a new-age pan-European though how that works living in a continent on the other side of the world is anyone's guess.

...which brings us full circle to your original hypocrisy

Indeed, the Russian oligarchy were effective in limiting the UK govt's assistance to The Ukraine following the invasion

Well, it suits you to say that. Kelly's source was a research paper by Trinity College, Ireland's most prestigious university or are they now simply "a college of Widdecombes" or are you simply talking through your arse?

Meanwhile, back in Ireland...

Yes

Cancel Culture is alive and well and has been weaponised to aid Starmer's political manoeuvrings to root out the Labour Party's extreme left. Abbot has form for not engaging her brain and her crime was to issue a clumsily worded statement. FWIW, I don't think this warrants her losing the whip.

Your patently absurd "bait" trope was something one could get away with during the first five minutes of the internet being a thing. Nowadays it serves to confirm not only your naivety but a desperation to save face. As for the rest of your post... To be fair you were doing reasonably well, insofar it was to a C+ standard, but as usual you failed to keep your partisan emotions in check. To rail against US Democrats "wilful abandonment of the Constitution" whilst ignoring the 6th January attack on the basic tenets of democracy by MAGA Morons, especially in light of a recent "smoking gun" revelation that Trump and his team knew they did not have a scrap of evidence that the Presidential election was "stolen", shows a disturbing mindset on your part. I appreciate you're emotionally invested, but even so...

Someone was a bit needy last night... Eew, all over your chin as well. Physician, heal thyself Why? As far as I recall, Unicoin has never been mentioned on The Corner, certainly not as part of a conspiracy. Well, good luck in explaining the "analogy" as the metaphor is an idiomatic expression, but no worries. Anyway, I presume this is the same James E Trainor who was nominated by Trump for the post of FEC Commissioner, a reward for work done on the presidential campaign. The position was confirmed by the Republican controlled Senate only after they voted to guillotine the nomination debate. Trainor is correct in saying that the charges are not a campaign finance or a reporting violation. He omits to say that the 34 charges relate to falsifying financial ledger inputs of which Trump's chief New York bean-counter is now serving time for another raft of false accounting. My one reservation about this is that Trump's offences are listed as felonies rather than misdemeanours, of which the latter ordinarily attract a slap on the wrist by way of a fine. Trump would be extremely unfortunate if he ends up in an orange jumpsuit over this but he has far more serious legal problems ahead of him elsewhere.

Fire yours

It won't be interesting as Judge Davis has already ruled that the facts of the election's integrity are established i.e. there was no fraud or "stolen election". The trial will concentrate solely on 1st Amendment issues and the degree of malice (if any) behind the defendant's defamation (if proven). In fact there were several independent paper audits where results were disputed. Suffice to say, no evidence of widespread fraudulent voting emerged. The most notorious of the "independent" audits was the blatantly partisan audit of Maricopa County by the Cyber Ninjas, commissioned by the Republican controlled Arizona State Senate. In the end the results of the audit had to be wheedled out by court order. The audit found that Biden was short-changed by about 300 votes.