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Send message Joined: 28 Jun 10 Posts: 2704 |
All links to the UK police are blocked, even those from https://www.gov.uk/contact-police... Both links work fine for me. I suspect they are just blocked from IP addresses outside of UK. |
Send message Joined: 28 Jun 10 Posts: 2704 |
Both links work fine for me. I suspect they are just blocked from IP addresses outside of UK.If I try using Tor browser to access the links, I am blocked which seems to confirm they are not allowing access from outside of the UK. |
Send message Joined: 30 Mar 20 Posts: 421 |
Same here when trying to reach https://www.met.police.uk/ They are clearly blocking access from outside of the UK. Edit: Hmm, when trying again, an automatic Cludflare "verify", that I'm not a robot, and a security check, suddenly pops up, and then I'm able to reach the page, without having to do anything, but just wait for a few seconds. Edit, added: I'm using Cloudflares DNS 1.1.1.1, and 1.0.0.1 |
Send message Joined: 30 Mar 20 Posts: 421 |
Lots of days...... |
Send message Joined: 30 Mar 20 Posts: 421 |
I wonder if we dare to talk about the U.S election, without the thread exploding? |
Send message Joined: 23 Feb 08 Posts: 2493 |
When does the riot start? |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15566 |
10 minutes after the closing on the 5th. |
Send message Joined: 28 Jun 10 Posts: 2704 |
I dread the thought of going through it all again if Trump loses! Almost as bad as if he wins. |
Send message Joined: 30 Mar 20 Posts: 421 |
If Trump wins, there's going to be hell for the next 4-years, for the entire democratic Western world. If Harris wins, Trump and his followers will start hell immediately in the U.S. of A. Interesting days ahead, starting tomorrow. |
Send message Joined: 28 Jun 10 Posts: 2704 |
Interesting days ahead, starting tomorrow.Or in about a week's time after all the legal challenges! |
Send message Joined: 28 Jun 10 Posts: 2704 |
Oh dear. |
Send message Joined: 30 Mar 20 Posts: 421 |
In reply to Dave's message of 6 Nov 2024: Oh dear.Oh dear, indeed. 4 years of chaos again, sigh. This time, G7, and WTO, as well as the membership in NATO for the U.S. is on the table, I wouldn't be surprised, if Trump wants to leave G7, WTO, and NATO, and bring the U.S into the Russia ruled BRICS instead. And when it comes to Ukraine, Trump will try to force Ukraine into a very bad deal with Russia. It's going to be up to a more and more divided EU, to increase the military help to the Ukraine. I have my doubts that EU will be able and willing to do that. And with the Supreme Court, and now the Senate in his hands (don't know about the House yet), it's even more likely that Trump will be able to rule as the Dictator he always wanted to be. So, bad news all over, as a result of this election. |
Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5129 |
Three things frighten me about this:
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Send message Joined: 30 Mar 20 Posts: 421 |
In reply to Richard Haselgrove's message of 6 Nov 2024: Three things frighten me about this:Yeah, I forgot about the climate crisis. Of course, Trump will for the second time immediately take the U.S out of the Paris Agreement. Remember, Trump, his followers, and large parts of the Republican party, do not believe in climate change. No matter how many large hurricanes, or other climate events, that hits the U.S, and the world, they will continue to say it's all a part of the natural climate cycle. After all, they do believe that climate change is a hoax, and the scientists are all part of a huge conspiracy. It's bad, really, really bad.... |
Send message Joined: 28 Jun 10 Posts: 2704 |
I wonder if he's even noticed the increasing number and strength of hurricanes recently? If he has, he sure hasn't joined the dots.What is needed is for one to hit Mar-a-Lago. Ideally, well I could make a list of those who could do with being there at the time. |
Send message Joined: 23 Feb 08 Posts: 2493 |
In reply to Dave's message of 6 Nov 2024: I wonder if he's even noticed the increasing number and strength of hurricanes recently? If he has, he sure hasn't joined the dots.What is needed is for one to hit Mar-a-Lago. Ideally, well I could make a list of those who could do with being there at the time. Only after he dismantles FEMA! |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15566 |
No, I don't like what's going on in Amsterdam. It's still happening. |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15566 |
For you Brits. Petition Call a General Election I would like there to be another General Election. I believe the current Labour Government have gone back on the promises they laid out in the lead up to the last election. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700143 |
Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5129 |
Sadly, under our current 'first past the post' electoral system, that could only have two possible outcomes: 1) The current lot stay in power, probably with a reduced majority. 2) The last lot get back in, which would be infinitely worse. We don't do coalition governments, even during wartime. There was a brief flirtation between 2010 - 2015, but the Liberal Democrats got their fingers badly burnt by the experiment, and they won't want to repeat the experience for another century or two. |
Send message Joined: 28 Jun 10 Posts: 2704 |
In reply to Richard Haselgrove's message of 24 Nov 2024: Sadly, under our current 'first past the post' electoral system, that could only have two possible outcomes:Agreed. And despite some across the pond describing Labour as, "Far left" Starmer is more in Blair's mould and, "Tony Blair MP" is rather aptly an anagram of, "I'm Tory Plan B." |
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