is it still open, wasn’t sure when the council sold public land to some property developer to make a shopping centre if the pub was closed?
Been over 30 years now since I walked through those frightening doors - well they were frightening when they came back at you at 80mph because the regulars were throwing you out without opening them first. Grand times. I miss the place, oh well.
Farage was on Nick Ferrari’s show today.
He was asked about Zelensky and the suit (or lack of a suit).
Farage said that Trump was old fashioned about such things.
I might suggest that wearing baseball caps indoors is not very nice, but hey ho.
Ferrari asked if Churchill was right not to wear suits everytime he met other world leaders in WW2. Farage responded that “he wasn’t dealing with Trump”.
Yep, Churchill was dealing with a decent man.
Anyways here is Led By Donkeys interpretation of a suitably suited Churchill…
And Farage himself about 4-45 here https://youtu.be/iJ7T7Rku-8A?si=QjsvadILTF3avwQB
Posh name for a pizza house ! probably still full of mackems though 
Like Farage said (and like I said) he evidently has old fashioned ideas about formal dress, so he found it a tad disrespectful…that is his prerogative as a host on his home ground.
I aint saying I agree with with him I don’t, it is a mountain out of a molehill, but even I know you dress in different attire for different functions, so maybe Zelensky could have been a bit tactful,.especially as it came out that he was advised to do so.
So come on then…what is exactly wrong with a baseball cap…indoors or otherwise?
Maybe not wear it at my Grandma’s house at the table on her invitation for Sunday lunch, but what is wrong with one in a pub?
For playing baseball they’re a good idea.
For keeping the sun out of one’s eyes great… but indoors?
Trump wears his baseball cap with his slogans to make a point. Indoors or out, of course he does.
Saudi Princes wear their own national costume, of course they do.
As did Mohdi of India when he was there.
Zelensky wears a version of plain military-style dress to make a statement also. He does not wear full garb with rows of ribbons from campaigns he wasn’t in, nor acres of gold braid. At the moment dark and drab is the national dress of Ukraine.
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Just seen your edit;;
I wouldn’t wear a baseball cap indoors, but wouldn’t object to those that do.
But, nah, I’m not changing my bonnet for no-one.
Ok we are getting well off the subject here but as I said what is wrong with wearing a bb cap in a pub?
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Wearing any headgear indoors is a no-no as far as I’m concerned. Wearing a baseball hat with MAGA on it when your the supposed leader of the free world is like something out of Wayne’s World. It’s crass, childish and unbecoming. Then again that could be applied to Trump in general.
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Lifted from YT comments:
“A narcissist, a hill billy and a hero walk into a crowded bar and only one leaves with his honour…no wait it wasn’t a bar it was tte Oval Office”
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This is the worst statement that could have been made by Zelenskyy, and America will not put up with it for much longer! It is what I was saying, this guy doesn’t want there to be Peace as long as he has America’s backing and, Europe, in the meeting they had with Zelenskyy, stated flatly that they cannot do the job without the U.S. – Probably not a great statement to have been made in terms of a show of strength against Russia. What are they thinking? apnews.com/article/russia-ukra
A psychiatrist’s view of the man baby:
Trump’s Defence Secretary Hegseth has ordered the Us to step down digital actions concerning Russia…
Well, maybe the ex Fox News personality thinks that since everything is so quite in the world at the moment, that there is less need to attend to Russian threats?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/03/02/pentagon-hegseth-orders-spies-russia-cyber-threats/
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…
Ok Trump may be worthy of a lot of the criticism he gets, and granted he attracts it etc etc…(although tbh some of the stuff on here is a bit infantile and yeah I’ve been known to post dubiois stuff myself in the past 
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It does look a bit like a witch hunt, and posting stuff for the sake of it, and ok, to a point I get it.
What puzzles me is we have an absolute Gonk as our OWN leader…in a different way to Trump, but nevertheless still a Gonk.
Some of the stuff he says and does is worthy of unlimited milage of ctiticism and derision on a forum in fact.
I fail to see a ‘Busy Mr Starmer’ thread to run alongdide this one, given that all his f.ups and ineptitude would provide discussion as much as this one.
Given that his and his govt’s actions have far more relavance to us and our country, even on the political forum he gets a very easy ride in comparison …I find it quite bemusing .
You cant all be immovable Labour Supporters, and if you are have you not heard the news.?
…You are all ‘far right’
Just an observation and a comment btw.
Carry on.
We have a general Politics thread, which you might have noticed… 
Or maybe you could start one?
Maybe put it beside the “Brexit Benefits” thread? 
And if you think that is crass, there was a Statement form the PM in the HoC today. Very nearly all parties were supportive of the PM and his actions. Badenoch, ScotsNat, Libs, etc all broadly on side.
Just one MP who had to shoehorn his own favourite hobbyhorse, but the House did let him know where the rest of them stood.
Look at about 0-43.
Yep I noticed it, illustrated by the fact I even mentioned it in my post.
I dare say he has got the support of the house (first time for everything) I myself even support Ukraine for what that is worth.
But it is all well and good getting carried away on principles and being all ‘gung ho’ about them.
I just think the main potential and possible consequences for us, given the circumstances, mainly no military support from the US, are being treated a bit casually.
I totally agree that it is a very tense time for all.
There is no better route that anyone is suggesting that I can see.
Ignoring Ukraine now, apart from the morality, will only postpone things a few years.
And the licence to print money begins
So long as it UK, Canadian, and EU companies, it may have a silver lining.
It is best to make fridges and cars, rather than tanks, if we are safe.
But it is still better to make tanks, rather than nothing.
The economy churns along.
Yes, it’s perhaps not the best climate to become a 'fridge magnate.
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