Who is the biggest threat to the UK ?

[GrannyMac]

He's right Muddy. 

[Scrumpy]

Do you honestly think either would actually use them? I don't because despite Starmer and Macron both are essentially sensible. 

I am not an aggressive person.. I do not look for trouble..

BUT.. I would protect my children from danger.. If someone threatened me with a weapon and I also had a weapon .. I would fight back.. to the death..

Starmer and Macron might feel the same way when it affects their family..

[klondike]

I think you are looking at our colonial past with rather rosy tinted spectacles. While it is true that many were better off with us in charge we didn't go to those places through altruism. Like for many of our own influx now we went for what we could get. The main difference is that im the main we improved the places we invaded

[Ashy]

I suppose mutual benefit is a possibility but we have to look at history in context, where all the great nations of Europe were fighting over anything they could think of, and grabbing land in the new world and Africa was one of those things.

[JBR]

I think you are looking at our colonial past with rather rosy tinted spectacles. While it is true that many were better off with us in charge we didn't go to those places through altruism. Like for many of our own influx now we went for what we could get. The main difference is that im the main we improved the places we invaded

This.
Yes, we expanded and gained control of a quarter of the world, no doubt for our own benefit: resources, influence, knowledge of other societies, etc., but we also benefited the countries of our empire with our technology, abilities, ideas and perhaps faith.  One example being India, which now possesses the greatest railway system in the world and a legal system not dissimilar to our own.

[muddy]

Not to mention our language .

[Mups]

Remember those 'Alarm'  noises they wanted to send to our mobile phones a while back?
Well I have just seen they are going to do it again.


"The government will test the UK's Emergency Alert System again in 2025, causing everyone's phone to make an alarm sound.

The system has already sounded four times for real since its first test in 2023, warning of two separate bomb threats in Plymouth in February 2024, flooding in Cumbria in April 2024, and warning those hit worst by Storm Darragh in December 2024.

The alarm is used to warn people of serious danger to life.
Some people are speculating that the plan for another test could be connected to the conflict between Iran and Israel, as the US gets involved with the missile strikes between the two countries". 

[klondike]

I really can't see that resulting in any missiles here but it sure as hell could bring more terrorist attacks. If it does maybe it will mean fewer gullible middle class prats supporting their rallies.

[JBR]

To answer the original question, the biggest threat to the UK right now is Two-tier Keir.

[Raven]

To answer the original question, the biggest threat to the UK right now is Two-tier Keir.

My choice too. 

[klondike]

There were two threads on this I've just realised. My reply went onto the other which died.

My answer there was the Labour Government. It seems I was not alone in that view. Other dangers mentioned are indeed all big problems but I think the current government gifted a large majority by the abysmal record of the preceding Tories are currently demonstrating that they are even worse.

[muddy]

The government seems to working against the people .

[klondike]

They appear to be deliberately destroying the economy. They are so effective at this it must be deliberate as nobody could be so clueless surely?

[JBR]

I agree that the problems the country now faces are indeed TTK, but also the Labour Party as a whole.

Yes, TTK is certainly incompetent.  I don't know how good he was as a defence lawyer, but he certainly is not a prime minister.  Unfortunately, even though he may be kicked out soon (many comments in the press suggest this), his replacement for the next few years is likely to be almost as bad as the Labour government doesn't seem to contain ANY really competent members.

Interestingly, I wonder, who will replace him when the party decides enough is enough?