I always have a photo copy of mine. It’s handy to have. Don’t know about UK but in Ireland it has to be sent back for renewal. This could take up to 10 days so I just pop the copy in screen and scribble “Renewal in Post”. You could use it as “awaiting replacement” maybe?
…foreign as I am, I never really understood ‘rhyming slang’… sorry! (might be the MS…). My (do I say british or english?..does not matter anyway!..) wife tells me that Sarah Cox, in the past, mentioned on the radio that he was promoting himself by putting a banner behind his plane with ‘TRUMP’ on it… she appropriately told her audience that some americain ‘full of himself’ guy was flying around calling himself a fart…
Now we don’t only have to get rid of Kim Yong Un (or whatever his parents put on the birth -he was born and not developed was he?- certificate…) but also this mixture of Scottish and German blood…
Do not get me wrong!.. if he can turn things around in a positive way, fantastic!, but his ‘Hitlertarian’ approach of issues do worry me… Adversity reveals genious, prosperity conceals it.… my wife tells me…
Bless you America, bless Britain, bless Holland, bless etc etc…!
All the best ‘world’, especially us ‘unvolunteerily weaker ones’… (due to illness, lack of money and lack of arrogance…)
Ah yes. Britain and America - two nations separated by a common language!
Being a shallow person I was amused to read on another (non MS) forum a post from a nurse who said that she couldn’t keep a straight face whenever she heard the name of the new First Lady because she always hears Melania as MELENA *
MELENA - black tarry stools caused by bleeding in the gut. Something you certainly don’t want to have accompanying a trump!
The democratic process in the USA saw Trump elected as President.
Good luck to the guy!
I wonder why some women assume they speak for all women when they criticise Trump.
I’ve never heard a man say ‘speaking as a man…’ before making a statement yet invariably when a woman makes a political statement she starts off with ‘speaking as woman…’ and then goes on to say something which implies she is representing all women.
And whilst I’m having a misogynistic whinge - why do some women credit some other women as being ‘strong’ - the implication is there must be some ‘weak’ women somewhere…
Well said re. women speaking for all women, drives me mad! have to reassure hubby sometimes that whoever it is, is definitely not speaking for me. and you’re right you don’t hear men saying they are ‘strong’,they are not ‘fiesty’ either.
So Trump “pressed the right buttons”.
He aimed his campaign at the blue-collar vote, in the states that counted in the electoral college. He ignored the rest.
But in Britain?
Corbyn aims his pitch at the fanatic Socialists.
May aims her pitch at the blue-collar vote who do not consider themselves to be Socialist.
Farron aims his pitch at all those who want to stay in the EU.
And so it goes on … In the US, in Britain, in France, in Greece, in Turkey, etc.
What you can be certain of is that whoever wins (in whatever country) will find a convincing reason to renege on their promises.
Q. How do you know when a politician is lying?
A. Their mouths move.
Oh, more election palaver… I’m sick of the sight of T.May already. I’m with Mick in that I don’t trust any of 'em as far as I could (ahem) spit. J.Corbyn seems like a decent sort of guy with politics I agree with, but his leadership skills are sadly lacking, and in all fairness he should accept that, stand down as leader, and give someone else a chance who might make a better fist of it. And in our rural and strongly Tory constituency, I don’t think anyone is standing who will make the slightest dent in the Tory majority. I’ll still go and vote - I always do (the school used for a voting station being right opposite the local pub has nothing to do with it, honest!) but I’m not expecting it to make any difference to the result! I just hope the NHS survives…we need it!