Rishi Sunak

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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY

I am not concerned about you , its the pedestrians

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Statistically some of them will have voted differently to you mind Sludge. I'll try and hit those ones 👍

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Originally Posted by JamesWales

Statistically some of them will have voted differently to you mind Sludge. I'll try and hit those ones 👍

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Massacre tory pedestrians ?

If you can 50000 for me that will be great

Start again in the new year

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Originally Posted by JamesWales

There's things British nationalists care about too. Do you think every other nation should bend to that. The newspaper you cite is a right-wing tabloid. Thats cool of course, as long as it's the UKs prime minister they are telling to fck off. Reverse it and you would all be fuming.

On the wider topic..I think a loan back to Greece may be sensible. Thats countered by concerns over where such a policy would end as a lot of stuff in a lot of museums would be open to repatriation.

If the terms of the meeting were changed then it could be viewed as strong to cancel it. But yeah, who really cares?

Again, reverse the people involved and a lot of you would be saying..."why are the Tories talking about marbles when there are kids in food banks" etc.

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I agree about who cares and I'm willing to bet that the majority of the population of the UK wouldn't give a toss if the marbles are returned to Greece and most actually think they should be returned?

I'll also willing to suggest that those 'British nationalists' who are vehemently opposed to it are the same whoppers who want gun boats shooting at migrants in the Channel and voted Brexit?

As for your observation that a Greek right wing paper has had the audacity to tell Sunak to "Fuuck Off" they may counter he'd already told their PM the same thing when he cancelled the meeting.

The only people who'll be clapping Sunak will be these 'British Nationalists' you refer to.

Interesting figures relating to opinions towards the Elgin Marbles from the UK public.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/pol...s-marbles-row/

Only waiting now for Sunak to suggest that the ‘marbles’ are in great danger from the Greeks and Yaxley Lennon and the Football Lads Alliance show up at the British Museum to protect them!:biggrin:

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Originally Posted by Jordi Culé

Interesting figures relating to opinions towards the Elgin Marbles from the UK public.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/pol...s-marbles-row/

Only waiting now for Sunak to suggest that the ‘marbles’ are in great danger from the Greeks and Yaxley Lennon and the Football Lads Alliance show up at the British Museum to protect them!:biggrin:

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Thanks for that - as you say, interesting.

Seems people do care about the marbles, in fact, forty nine per cent of them say give them back to the Greeks.

Charlie the third subtlety makes a point

BBC News - King's tie features Greek flag after Elgin Marbles row
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67589075

Next week Sunak will be bowing to pressure from the ‘British people’ and handing them back…or maybe not.

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Originally Posted by JamesWales

Who cares about the marbles? Why is Starmers going on about it when it makes zero difference to anyone's life?

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Populist politics. Anyway there belong to the Otterman empire and if philandering Elgin hadn't rescued them from various sites they would be crunched down building materials by now ..propping up the local Spar

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Originally Posted by JamesWales

Who cares about the marbles? Why is Starmers going on about it when it makes zero difference to anyone's life?

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Originally Posted by life on mars

Populist politics. Anyway there belong to the Otterman empire and if philandering Elgin hadn't rescued them from various sites they would be crunched down building materials by now ..propping up the local Spar

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Very few people care about the Parthenon sculptures - although more UK citizens think they should be returned than kept in the British Museum. But that opinion rarely rises to the level of 'care'.

What a lot of people care about is the ineptitude and misjudgements of the UK Prime Minister. This is just one more case study.

I was in the Parthenon Museum in Athens in September - a fantastic building and exhibition that deserves the original stones back to show visitors. The British Museum (that displays a small proportion of its collection - and loses or has stolen a fair number too) could display the plaster copies that Athens now has. The Greek public care about this (for symbolic reasons); the British and Irish public don't. Handing them back would have been a diplomatic coup - but its too late now. The damage is done.

An incredible poll of Conservative Party members gives Sunak an approval rating of - 25 per cent.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...b2457888.html#

Conservative Party members seem very strange people mind.

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Originally Posted by the other bob wilson

An incredible poll of Conservative Party members gives Sunak an approval rating of - 25 per cent.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...b2457888.html#

Conservative Party members seem very strange people mind.

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Maybe they don’t like his, well you know?