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The subtle difference Drunker doesn't acknowledge is that US voters have an actual choice as to who governs them. The Brussels apparatchiks were never too keen on referenda, but now they are totally outlawed by diktat, because they are very unlikely to deliver the "correct" result. We are out not a moment too soon!

Naah... it's all due to "Climate Change"! Mind you there are serious clams that CC caused Brexit, and I suppose "The Russians" could e-a-s-i-l-y be behind CC, so everyone is right, really! Also... CC is causing everyone to go a quite mental (except me and you of course), so that has to fit into the big picture - somewhere. Climate change can take a toll on mental health, new report says

And... the great occasion slips into history without even a comment from me - must be slipping folks! Actually, I blame Bre..., no, I mean the crappy keyboard on this temporary replacement tablet computer (as if my normal spelling correction quota wasn't bad enough!). Some excellent comments elsewhere. Best one of this morning from a DE poster: Even the Brussels Broadcasting Corporation is now entertaining. The sight last night of Heseltine being shown how a staunch Tory behaves properly by "young upstart" Rees-Mogg was easily worth sitting through all the other "uncertainty" drivel. Hessa's face at the end said it all. His mace-waving days are long gone, and it seems he's the only one who doesn't know that he should have retired gracefully in the last millennium - where his views belong!

From today's Telegraph: This statement will quite probably rank in the history books with:- "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977 Maybe the "personally" is the get out clause?

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/186047 At time of posting: 9,399 signature

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/22/major-road-schemes-could-cancelled-david-cameron-rushed-11bn/ Beware Politico's "big bold announcements" because they won't be picking up the bill - we will! Most things Dodgy Dave did weren't properly considered, and his "shoot from the hip" style was all about perception.. May is fully aware of this, hence her frequent "politics is not a game" utterances. Cameron is rightfully gone, but Gideon is aiming to make a comeback. Anyone who votes for anything that will facilitate this needs be aware of Osborne's political games. The fact that Heseltine is now advocating that he's competent and capable says it all! We elect Eton bully boys at OUR COST!

He said "Oh no! Another political legacy gone west-land!".

Well, that's OK then! https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/government-and-public-sector/news/84311/labour-mp-ian-lavery-cleared-wrongdoing-over Doubtless an NUM investigative committee will give him "a fair hearing" too. ;)

This doesn't sound like a chancellor who should be buying any new furnishings for No 11! Next cabinet reshuffle?

It's pretty obvious what forfeiture must mean here. Forfeiture of the advantage which the Tory Party gained by deception - the election result! I've no longer any confidence in Hammond!

Yet another of Dodgy Dave's "cast iron promises" proves utterly worthless!

Right conclusion Eggy, but I'm a little confused as to how you got there! We took an archaic system (hereditary peers who gave their time for free) and replaced it with a system which encouraged cronyism on an unprecedented scale, then called it progress. Next time we need to a lot less gullible, and a lot more aware of the self-rewarding games our elites get up to! I'm told about thirty of these lords-a-voting enjoy fat EU pensions which are contractually tied to doing nothing which the EU even mildly disapproves of - yet, have any of them declared this fact?

It's the usual EU elitist tactic of keep on voting until we hear the answer we want to hear, and then stop for evermore - because you'll never be given a second chance to escape. If their senilityships REALLY cared about what the country wants they'd stop trying to dilute and emasculate what the public voted for. Dodgy Dave made it very clear (and spent over £9M of OUR money doing so) that a vote to leave meant leaving the so-called "Single European Market", so all the rest is pure waffle and obstructionism. I'm beginning to believe that abolition is too good for them!

...or NPL = Normally Propagandising Labour?

Was it the Blyth News or the Chronicle that font-paged the artist's concept of the redeveloped Bedlington Town Centre one exciting evening circa 1964? Whichever, I really think someone should make a start on it - whilst the children of the people who marvelled at that brave new Bedlington are still around!

From a friend who saw it recently with family: Pity, it could have been Eggy's fave film, apart from Singing in the Rain that is.

Which generation would that be?

31,027 signatures Still a bit pathetic considering the outrage against the will of the people currently being perpetrated. But, there's three months to go, so it will likely get to the magic 100,000. Heseltine getting up to speak is probably worth another 10,000 signatures!

I think you've given us info indigestion again CL! Maybe you can tell us what's wrong with this recent very readable article? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/23/wont-admit-stockholm-donald-trump-right-immigration-sweden/ It is written by someone who is allegedly there, and who seems to be - at very least - putting on a rather convincing act of political balance. Please have pity on everyone and do this in as few sentences as possible. It's good that Sweden has seemingly managed an 80% reduction in numbers. That's because the number of "refugees" entering Europe illegally looks set for a really bumper year (one wonders where all these new wars are!). Tolerance here is now wearing as thin as the Italian government's cheque book, and a lot of that tolerance was only ever due to far too generous payments to the stressed communities, plus - of course - the fact that the illegals are simply transiting and can soon be regarded as someone else's problem.

Isn't bedlington.co.uk "About Bedlington" ?

Oh! I rushed to this thread thinking that we must have attracted a new estate agent or solicitor's office!

Last time I glanced at the Johnston Press accounts they were akin to those of Greece (but without a compliant ECB) - something like £250M of debt which there is no possible way of repaying. This month's ABC circulation figures for their titles are also a disaster, and the group can't struggle on much longer. They've likely already lost the journos who ensured some sort of political balance. A yesterday post from the ADVFN financial board says it all:

Replace the unelected House of Lords with a publicly elected body The House of Lords is being abused by our elected officials by filling it with cronies. It costs our taxpayers around £100 million a year (probably much more) The House of Lords is the largest parliamentary chamber in any democracy. It is surpassed in size only by China’s National People’s Congress. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/170686/ 20,899 signatures (at time of posting)

I can confirm that this was The Oddfellows Arms by virtue of having handled the original deeds myself at some time in the mid 1970's.

Excellent! The Choo-Choo of The North - eat your heart out Gormley! P.S. We might want to avoid coining The Dog of...