"Keep Batley British !"

[Silver Cat]

Britain has promised new incidents in Russian waters in the Black Sea.
The British naval forces will continue to enter the Black Sea similar to the one carried out by the British destroyer Defender, which violated the state border of Russia, on July 6, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the kingdom Dominic Raab said during a hearing in the country's parliament.
Keep it up, idiots!

Something tells me that soon Russia will be dealing with extremist Muslim groups spreading to Central Asia out of Afghanistan. And it may be that your country will have to start another Afghan campaign.

With all that said, I mean that some British warships won't be a too big concern for you soon.

In fact, Britain, being a nuclear power will always be more serious problem than non-nuclear militants.

You are comparing oranges with apples. They are two different kinds of threat. Except of that, it can't be excluded that the Brits will try to stir some things up there. Actually, I will be hardly surprised if they won't.

In the case of Taliban invasion - there will be a local war. In the case of British violation of Crymean borders - there will be a significant risk of a nuclear, regional war. Therefore, Russia can ignore potential Taliban's treat to Tajikistan (for some time), but can't ignore a treat of a nuclear war against Britain.

I think that the possibility of a nuclear war is viewed as a possible but highly unlikely scenario. While destabilizing of some parts in Central Asia is the perspective of relatively nearest future.

It is "unlikely" only if the UK won't invade Russia-controlled waters. If they continue their provocations - the war (against Ukraine or Britain) becomes much more likely.

 

[ESay]

Britain has promised new incidents in Russian waters in the Black Sea.
The British naval forces will continue to enter the Black Sea similar to the one carried out by the British destroyer Defender, which violated the state border of Russia, on July 6, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the kingdom Dominic Raab said during a hearing in the country's parliament.
Keep it up, idiots!

Something tells me that soon Russia will be dealing with extremist Muslim groups spreading to Central Asia out of Afghanistan. And it may be that your country will have to start another Afghan campaign.

With all that said, I mean that some British warships won't be a too big concern for you soon.

In fact, Britain, being a nuclear power will always be more serious problem than non-nuclear militants.

You are comparing oranges with apples. They are two different kinds of threat. Except of that, it can't be excluded that the Brits will try to stir some things up there. Actually, I will be hardly surprised if they won't.

In the case of Taliban invasion - there will be a local war. In the case of British violation of Crymean borders - there will be a significant risk of a nuclear, regional war. Therefore, Russia can ignore potential Taliban's treat to Tajikistan (for some time), but can't ignore a treat of a nuclear war against Britain.

I think that the possibility of a nuclear war is viewed as a possible but highly unlikely scenario. While destabilizing of some parts in Central Asia is the perspective of relatively nearest future.

It is "unlikely" only if the UK won't invade Russia-controlled waters. If they continue their provocations - the war (against Ukraine or Britain) becomes much more likely.

We will see what happens next. As for now, that is just empty words.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Far-right candidates lose deposits, win under 2% of vote and ‘sink without a trace’ in Batley and Spen

Candidates tried and failed to capitalise on Batley Grammar School cartoons row in tense race

www.independent.co.uk

Well the Batley by election came off yesterday with an entertaining list of far right loons. And none of them managed to keep their deposit.

The worst result was for Susan Laird of the new populist party Heritage, with 33 votes, followed by former Britain First deputy leader Jayda Fransen, with 50.

Anne Marie Waters, leader of the far-right For Britain Movement, received 97 votes, while Ukip candidate Jack Thomson got 151 and English Democrat Therese Hirst received 207.

Election rules mean that all candidates must pay a £500 deposit, which is returned if they receive at least 5 per cent of the vote. The results mean that every far-right candidate lost their money.

Its likely that all of these loons have been in the same party at some point but collectively they managed to get 500 votes. Its hugely encouraging in a constituency that saw some dirty trick campaigning by rght wing extremists.

However we have to ask if these idiots fared so badly because the right has now found a home in Blowjobs tory party. I dont think that they have gone away.

NB My American friends may recognise the name of Jayda Fransen who benefitted by being retweeted by Donny before he was banned from twitter. She got 50 votes.

Pretty stupid election to have so many candidates and parties diluting the vote. She only got 35% of the vote. Why not have a runoff election of the top two? She’d get demolished.

Yep, First Past The Post is pretty stupid. The US has FPTP.