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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Tue Aug 24, 2021, 07:47 AM Aug 2021

Thank God we took back control



And it not just on the domestic stage either. As Ailbhe Rea writes so eloquently in the New Statesman morning call today:

The priority at today's call will be to coordinate the humanitarian and refugee resettlement response to the crisis, where the Prime Minister will, again, hope to assume a leadership role. But that is where his past foreign policy decisions will come back to bite him. The aid that the UK has promised to Afghanistan in recent weeks is still lower than the 2019 level, weakening Johnson's scope to secure ambitious aid commitments from allies. Depending on how the G7 call goes today, it could well be that the collapse of Afghanistan comes to exemplify the weakened and confused place of "Global Britain" on the world stage - drifting from the US, and oscillating between leadership and retreat on global issues.
Emphasis mine

Fun times continue unabated 👀
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Thank God we took back control (Original Post) Soph0571 Aug 2021 OP
Word has it Cosmo Blues Aug 2021 #1
Where I am, Santa Fe, NM, milkshakes are often unavailable PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 2021 #2
Kelis hired by McDonald's to resolve national milkshake shortage T_i_B Aug 2021 #4
I wonder what they're doing in the U.S. PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 2021 #5
Newsthump is a satire site -) n/t Soph0571 Aug 2021 #6
Oh, I didn't know. PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 2021 #7
I can't be the only person on here who's heard this song! T_i_B Aug 2021 #8
Well at least... orwell Aug 2021 #3

Cosmo Blues

(2,765 posts)
1. Word has it
Tue Aug 24, 2021, 08:22 AM
Aug 2021

Johnson wants to ask Biden to extend the pull out in Afghanistan because he didn't get everybody out. Everyone was given about a year and a half to make plans, it's well known now that the Trump administration tried to sabotage the exit of Afghans that were on our side because of their bigotry, unfortunately Johnson only has the excuse of incompetence. It's well known that Biden is wanted out since at least 2014 so good luck with that extension

PoindexterOglethorpe

(26,729 posts)
5. I wonder what they're doing in the U.S.
Tue Aug 24, 2021, 12:09 PM
Aug 2021

Plus, it seems weird that a random musical artist could solve the problem. Does she own a milkshake company?

T_i_B

(14,800 posts)
8. I can't be the only person on here who's heard this song!
Sun Aug 29, 2021, 09:42 AM
Aug 2021

There's a milkshake bar in a neighbouring village to me and I can't walk past the place without thinking of this song.


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