It’s almost like the disunity with europe is part of some targeted effort

We were making Russia a geopolitical ally. Russia decided to invade Ukraine. Appeasement met with backstabbing.

The bully that starts the war doesn’t need to be appeased to stop the war. They need to be defeated.

History tells this is the only way. Appeasement just drags the way out until the bully bullies again.

It does?

There are some great examples of cycle lane design out there. And some atrocious examples of cycle lanes that have been built. But that’s a separate rant.

If we had a quality cycle lane network, we could have adapted that to support “more than walking, less that driving” lanes without much issue.

The earlier we invest in this new class of highway the cheaper and easier it will be.

The headline there (from the BBC) is incendiary at a minimum.

I’m no Royalist. But the Monarch actually takes less of a percentage from the estate than they used to. 12% this year down from 25% last year. What has happened, is the crown estate is making more money due to financing green energy strategies which are both environmentally beneficial and financially sound.

The Monarch taking 12% from the estate, and the estate getting richer means there is more money going into the public domain from the estate that there has been before. This isn’t “money from the gubment” being given to the monarch. This is the monarchs businesses are doing better than they have before.

It’s almost as if we don’t all have to pick a team and support everything they do. This isn’t sports all, this is politics.

I can support trans-rights, hate the Rwanda plan and like nuclear if i want to.

Replying in this thread because I like the openness and communication of it.

I completely agree with you Sharp this could be addressed by breeding and training. But … the end goal is not to have aggressive murder machines on our streets. The breeding of power and aggression into the breed shouldn’t have been done in my opinon (or allowed into the UK). Breeding out the aggression, effectively means eliminating the breed anyway and gives us a transition period of completely unknown dogs.

Unfortunately, the primary reason (in my worthless opinion) for owning these dogs is the visage of power and aggression. The public penalty of that is part of owning that “power symbol”. The public reaction to the dogs, is the reason people want them in the first place.

I do compare this to “assault weapons” in the US. It’s not a phrase that makes much clear sense (like XL Bully). If what you want is a working tool, get a different gun/breed. If what you want is a family companion, get a different breed. If you want the power symbol, get the XL Bully or the “assault weapon”. There’s no specific reason to own that specific dog, except the power symbol.