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Yet another minister who most certainly doesn't subscribe to Dave's "the government view": She goes on to say pretty much what Nigel Farage was saying about unsustainable pressure on UK services over a year ago, and was extensively mocked over at the time. Courage isn't too much in evidence amongst our senior politicos.

2 Bob Short 3 John Storey 12 Brian Watson 13 Ken McDonald 14 Malcolm Jenkinson Teacher Mr Nicolson

Eggy, Nr. 13 on the school photo could be Kenneth MacDonald, my brother-in-law (now dead) but I'm not 100% on it. Run it past Joan, as she is in the same class, the name might ring a bell.

Hmmm... 27 million pamphlets. Would that be enough to block the Channel Tunnel? Just wondering.

Over 100,000 have already signed, which pretty much guarantees a parliamentary debate. Is this a record in so short a time? A few more signatures won't hurt though. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/116762 Apparently you can't stop the Post Office delivering the thing as the opt-out process takes about six weeks, and registering an opt-out could also block stuff you actually want. Interesting though that the printing was done by a UK subsidiary of the German Post Office, and is a company which itself regularly receives subsidies from the EU. This leaves a casual observer wondering exactly how the £9.2M order was actually placed. Also interesting that the pamphlet - which purports to be the balanced advice of an elected government - was produced entirely behind the backs of several senior cabinet ministers of that self-same elected government. I don't think Desperate Dave has heard the last of this; and maybe needs to fly back to the sunshine for more time to think?