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 Wisbech Eagle  Truro Cornwall 06 Nov 23 10.15pm |
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Originally posted by Teddy Eagle
Good for ordinary law abiding citizens but what about the rest of us? I am quite sure you are a law abiding citizen, Teddy. Whether ordinary is a question I am unqualified to answer.
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Teddy Eagle  06 Nov 23 10.22pm |
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
I am quite sure you are a law abiding citizen, Teddy. Whether ordinary is a question I am unqualified to answer. True apart from my devastating good looks. And I still have most of my hair and some of my own teeth.
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| Wisbech Eagle Truro Cornwall 06 Nov 23 10.22pm |
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Originally posted by eaglesdare
If your carbon footprint is not below the standard this month then you cannot access your money.... No government would consider such an arrangement. They would be voted out of office at the first opportunity. All these wild ideas ignore the fact that we always have ultimate control so no government can adopt anything so extreme and expect to get away with it. So they wouldn’t try, even if they thought it was a good idea. Which no one would.
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| Wisbech Eagle Truro Cornwall 06 Nov 23 10.28pm |
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Originally posted by Badger11
Funny how when they erode our freedoms this line is brought up. Glad I don't have an account at Nat West. How might your freedoms be eroded? NatWest are a business. They are free to offer a service which you are free to accept or reject. No erosion of anything. Except perhaps clear thinking.
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| eaglesdare 06 Nov 23 10.56pm |
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
No government would consider such an arrangement. They would be voted out of office at the first opportunity. All these wild ideas ignore the fact that we always have ultimate control so no government can adopt anything so extreme and expect to get away with it. So they wouldn’t try, even if they thought it was a good idea. Which no one would. Have you missed the last few years? The government litterally locked down the country. That was extreme and they got / getting away with it.
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| eaglesdare 06 Nov 23 10.58pm |
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
How might your freedoms be eroded? NatWest are a business. They are free to offer a service which you are free to accept or reject. No erosion of anything. Except perhaps clear thinking. Won't be long before other banks follow NatWest. There won't be any where to switch service too. A few probably already have and I'm sure we will start to hear stories Edited by eaglesdare (06 Nov 2023 10.59pm)
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| Stirlingsays 06 Nov 23 11.29pm |
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At first they call you a conspiracy theorist...
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| Eden Eagle Kent 07 Nov 23 7.50am |
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Originally posted by eaglesdare
Have you missed the last few years? The government litterally locked down the country. That was extreme and they got / getting away with it. It is utterly pointless trying to have any rational debate with this troll..
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| Eden Eagle Kent 07 Nov 23 7.52am |
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Originally posted by Eden Eagle
It is utterly pointless trying to have any rational debate with WE - he remains a lockdown zealot who lives comfortably on his pension and buy to let portfolio and is tone deaf to the suffering caused both economically and also the long term damage to children's education and the near collapse of the NHS.
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| Wisbech Eagle Truro Cornwall 07 Nov 23 8.48am |
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Originally posted by eaglesdare
Have you missed the last few years? The government litterally locked down the country. That was extreme and they got / getting away with it. Get a grip! A response to a pandemic isn’t in the same category! It’s a temporary expedient to cope with an emergency.
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| Wisbech Eagle Truro Cornwall 07 Nov 23 8.55am |
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Originally posted by eaglesdare
Won't be long before other banks follow NatWest. There won't be any where to switch service too. A few probably already have and I'm sure we will start to hear stories Edited by eaglesdare (06 Nov 2023 10.59pm) On what basis due you make such a daft assertion? Banks compete with each other. If there is a demand for a service that encourages climate change, ant-vax ideas etc then someone will provide it. That’s the commercial reality. Look at the media world. There was a demand for a Fox type TV outlet, so along came GBNews. Do you think the owners are driven by ideology or a desire to make money?
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| Wisbech Eagle Truro Cornwall 07 Nov 23 9.18am |
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Originally posted by Eden Eagle
Originally posted by Eden Eagle
It is utterly pointless trying to have any rational debate with WE - he remains a lockdown zealot who lives comfortably on his pension and buy to let portfolio and is tone deaf to the suffering caused both economically and also the long term damage to children's education and the near collapse of the NHS. Completely untrue. I am neither in favour, nor against lockdowns and certainly not a zealot. I am open minded enough to accept that when faced with an emergency they could be seen as the least bad temporary solution. Who knows if we would adapt a similar strategy again if faced with another emergency? It would depend entirely on the actual circumstances and any lessons we learn from the previous one. People like you only want to discuss the problems that locking down created, which are all acknowledged and understood. What is forgotten are the things they protected against and what cannot be assessed is what would resulted if we had not locked down. It’s like complaining that Palace played in a boring way at Turf Moor and demanding attractive football, when they won 2-0 but would probably have lost if they tried the other strategy. It seems you either have a short memory or an overriding prejudice. One of the primary reasons we did lockdown was to avoid the collapse of the NHS. Locking down did not cause the NHS’s problems, bad as they are. It stopped them from being even worse.
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