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NZ gets penthouse pets to vote for....

UK gets Theresa '****' May!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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duke63 wrote:NZ gets penthouse pets to vote for....

UK gets Theresa '****' May!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nah, Aussie does Duke. New South Wales state elections. Though she’ll get in I wouldn’t vote for her in a million years. F**kng current Liberals pushed through a development to replace a historical bridge over our local river to a higher one in the same spot. Council and majority of locals wanted a by pass bridge further down stream and maintain the historical bridge and the oldest town square in Australia it passes through. But the Libs just steam rolled the process and are currently demolishing and covering up historically rare brick barrel drains and storm culverts to put their preferred bridge in. Has transpired that the real motivation was to get the low old bridge out so they can sell sand mining rights upstream that till now hasn’t been accessible.

https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.dai ... aacf7ded1d

https://www.hawkesburygazette.com.au/st ... st-report/
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The Penthouse Pet won the the seat of Hawkesbury
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That's awesome. Democracy at it's finest.
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D41 wrote:That's awesome. Democracy at it's finest.
In fairness she is 61 and did the spread in her early 20’s
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Yeah....you say that like I wouldn't date an older woman who'd bared-it-all on camera.../

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In the meantime India has developed technology to shoot down satelites.

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/ind ... ocid=ientp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I do hope the £150m foreign aid donation we send them each year helps them with their expenses (headbang)
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I thought we stopped Indian foreign aid in 2015
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And we can't shoot down a drone over a runway? hahahah
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:D :D :D
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Monty wrote:I thought we stopped Indian foreign aid in 2015
It's now called "technical assistance". There was an aid commission review about it. So yes, technically we do not give direct aid to India by way of a cash sum. But they still get millions from us.
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Why?? Seriously....why would the UK be sending aid to a country that has about 20 times it's own population. That doesn't make any sense. There has to be some "tier" of internal wealth in India that can be trickled down to the pions??
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It's a bung. We give them foreign aid and in return they buy goods or weapons or something along those lines.
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That almost makes sense. Almost.
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It's a corrupt world and back handers make it go round.
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It definitely is Blade
Blade wrote:It's a corrupt world and back handers make it go round.
kiwikrasher wrote:Well Australia paid Indonesia $320 million in foreign aid last year and then Indo turned around and bought $400 millions worth of attack helicopters.... so we’ve literally paid to make it easier for them to invade us
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It's all kicking off in Libya

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Looks like Trump wants a war to boost his ratings.
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Trump is a dick. Aside from Iran, he is also falling out with a Country that holds $1.13 trillion of US debt. That's nearly a third of all US external debt.

If China wanted to pull the plug tomorrow on future borrowing the USA would be bankrupt and run out of money.
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Trump wants a war on his resume'
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