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Stand by for a proposal to house refugees in it
glad to see your'e having a laugh at the expense of the most vulnerable and unfortunate members of society .only a complete idiot would advocate such a stupid solution when spivs and parasites own 100s of 1000s of empty homes that could house the homeless and refugees .
 
You would know all about that GOB, when you make idiotic, unfounded statements you cant back up !!
Remember that ??
 
Migrants and refugees are often mixed up in anecdotal chat and i think Tractionman meant the former in which case if it sunk they could build a palace instead of a house back home with all that free money they get on top of the same working wage as their Brit peers .
 
Exactly Shayne, but GOB wouldn't see that, after all using ships to house refugees is not my idea or a new one.
It's been done before, and there are proposals now for redundant cruise liners to be put to use in that respect. Googling, his favourite hobby could have told him that, without Google he would have nothing to say on his lcc political platform.
 
On this day in 1990 Roald Dahl died aged 74,
Roald Dahl was a British novelist, short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, and wartime fighter pilot.
 
On this day in 2005 Pubs, clubs and supermarkets in England and Wales get the right to sell alcohol 24 hours a day
 
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Today is Thanksgiving in the United States, or a National Day of Mourning for Native Americans in New England, or "Unthanksgiving Day" for some Native Americans on the East Coast. It commemorates pilgrims and Wampanoag people sharing an autumn harvest feast in 1621. However the colonists ultimately repaid the Indigenous people by attempting to wipe them out in centuries of atrocities and genocide , some of which is documented here
 
On this day, 28 November 1919, Faye Schulman, photographer and Jewish resistance partisan, was born in Lenin, Poland (now Belarus). In 1942, the Nazis murdered 1,850 Jews in the Lenin ghetto, leaving only Faye and 25 others alive, making Faye take and develop photos of the massacre. Covertly she made copies of the photographs for herself. She soon fled and joined the partisan resistance, serving as a fighter and nurse. While on a raid in Lenin with her unit, Faye managed to retrieve her camera equipment, and then began documenting the resistance movement, developing her photos under blankets. "I want people to know that there was resistance. Jews did not go like sheep to the slaughter. I was a photographer. I have pictures. I have proof." Faye survived the war, currently lives in Canada and turns 101 today.
 
On this day, 28 November 1985, an internal document circulated within the Shell oil corporation stated that "there has been a global warming over the last 100 years, that the 0.5 degrees increase is a result of CO2 [carbon dioxide] buildup, that we will see a further 1-2 degree warming over the next 40 years… Such a rise would be greater than any change in the last 1,000 years… The global mean sea level has risen by some 15 cm over the last 100 years… By 2050, the range of uncertainty of the rise in global mean sea level is 20-120 cm." It formed part of an extensive confidential internal report by the company produced in 1988 on the greenhouse effect which definitively showed that from at least 1981 Shell was aware of climate change, that it was man-made, that burning fossil fuels was its primary cause, and that it would have catastrophic effects. Despite this, for decades the company covered up its findings, sponsored fake public studies to try to deny climate change, and fought any government attempts to limit CO2 emissions.
 
On this day, 29 November 1975;

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On this day 30th November 1936 Crystal Palace burnt down.
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On this day in 1942 The UK government unveils plans for a welfare state.
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One of the better things done by Labour
 
The Liberals had started to introduce some provisions at the start of the century , in part because of the poor health of those recruited to fight in the Boer war with an estimated 40 to 60 percent being rejected as unfit for service.
 
On this day, 5 December 1955, four days after the arrest of Rosa Parks for refusing to vacate her seat in the “colored” section of a segregated bus for a white passenger, the Montgomery bus boycott began. A seminal moment in the civil rights movement, not just for racial equality but also as part of Black women’s struggles against sexual violence. Sexual harassment and assault of Black women, predominantly domestic workers, was rife on the city’s buses
 
On this day, 9 December 1959 the British government circulated a secret memo as part of Operation Legacy: a plan to destroy official records of crimes of the British Empire in its colonies. The memo ordered the burning of files, although subsequently the government also permitted "for documents to be packed in weighted crates and dumped in very deep and current-free water at maximum practicable distance from the coast". Operation Legacy proved highly successful, and Britain's appalling colonial legacy is not at all well-known in the UK.
Some of the files detailed torture methods used against opponents of the colonial administrations, such as during the Mau Mau rebellion.Many documents were sent back and the UK government admitted in 2011 that it had secret documents related to the Mau Mau Uprising, it began to declassify documents and by November 2013 some 20,000 files had been declassified
 
On this day, 12 December 1969, after months of workers' and students' strikes, a bomb exploded at a bank in central Milan, killing 16 and wounding 88. Initially blamed on the extra-parliamentary left (leading to numerous arrests and the police murder of anarchist rail worker Giuseppe Pinelli), it was later discovered to have been carried out by the far-right in concert with the state, as part of what would become known as 'the strategy of tension'. Three fascists were eventually jailed in 2001. The Bologna massecre is also thought by some to be linked to the same forces.BBC timewatch did an excelent documentary on this subject calle Operation Gladio , still avalable on youtube
 
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