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Topic History of: does Milkshake Politics work? Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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Silent Minority
hedda wrote: Indeed..join us..we have riff raff from all over the world (includes me) and an awful lot of them from the Uk.. a bloody awful lot of them.
Especially here in Bondi Beach..heads on 'em like mice.
And you are right..it's bloody expensive..mainly property..outrageously expensive. Everything else..what cost £1 in the UK cost $1 in Oz so virtually everything else is cheaper..except cars maybe.
Pensions are better, dole is better, sensational free healthcare at point of use..scans today that would cost $1500 in the US cost me the tram fare today..you'd die waiting in Emergency in the UK..(you do pay a small monthly tax)
I invite all Riff Raff to come here now and buy me dinner.
Never be as cheap as Thailand..but much cheaper to get to Thailand from
I vaguely remember seeing a BA advert around the end of the 70s to Australia for about £600...about the time Laker hit the USA....he didn't last,but Virgin did a few years later..and reduced long haul prices...I believe we have the EU to thank for reducing EU wide travel costs....possibly the last to fall were internal flights...I remember a friend quoting £200 Birmingham to Glasgow round trip in the 90s...
....Funny to think a flight to Australia can be had for about the same money as a mid range Spanish week's holiday....do you still fly Hedda?.....especially given the distances involved just going around Australia.
hedda
Indeed..join us..we have riff raff from all over the world (includes me) and an awful lot of them from the Uk.. a bloody awful lot of them.
Especially here in Bondi Beach..heads on 'em like mice.
And you are right..it's bloody expensive..mainly property..outrageously expensive. Everything else..what cost £1 in the UK cost $1 in Oz so virtually everything else is cheaper..except cars maybe.
Pensions are better, dole is better, sensational free healthcare at point of use..scans today that would cost $1500 in the US cost me the tram fare today..you'd die waiting in Emergency in the UK..(you do pay a small monthly tax)
I invite all Riff Raff to come here now and buy me dinner.
Never be as cheap as Thailand..but much cheaper to get to Thailand from
A poster
'London, UK to Sydney, Australia for only £425 roundtrip'
For the price of a few upper crust eggs and milk drinks you can fly to Australia!....Goodness only knows what riff-raff will be joining you down-under?
I found a cheap flight from Bali to the West Coast recently...seems Aussie is getting so cheap to fly to...but I was shocked by prices for hotels and food etc...asia can be so cheap...if Japan/Hong Kong etc are avoided...although the Thai Baht is creeping up....good job all expenses are paid on this week's trip.
hedda
No this is not about Milkshake Veteran..bored with that and it's all been put to bed now but...
The non-election of "Tommy Robinson"..did his reaction to his milkshaking put off 1000s of potential voters?
People react instantly to an incident or attack..it's understandable.. but there are ways to react..
As seen in Egg Boy and the would-be MP in Australia Fraser Anning who attracts many Robinson supporters.
Anning is a Robinson fellow traveler and both have expressed their mutual admiration..the Arab killing Australian Israeli Avi Yemeni (he claims he enjoyed shooting Palestinians when in the IDF) worked on both Robinson and Anning's campaigns (he recently got refused entry to the US)
Anning got booted from the Senate in the May GE in Oz in similar fashion to Robinson.
Most people say Anning's lashing out at Egg Boy was an instant reaction but then he went for a second slap to the face while his supporters laid into the fairly slight teenager on the floor.
Similarly if "Tommy Robinson" had just walked away (as Farage did) he may have saved his image..but he went in fists and all as did his "bodyguards"...I reckon that's when both far-right politicians blew it.
(Anning coasted into the Senate on literally under 100 votes on Oz's complicated preferential system in 2016.)