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Why was it unthinkable? There was always going to be a push-back against the fools and the exploiters of fools! Britain's friends in the USA are not the virtue signallers in the USA - we've got plenty of morons like that over here already. Has the current state of your own adopted country not taught you anything? Even the Guardianistas at the BBC are now recoiling at what has been perpetrated on the Swedish people by "social engineers" of the ilk of Tony Blair. Here's a picture of what friends look like: They are not on the take from us; not intent on social engineering, want to rebuild old alliances, and share the same values and liberty of thought with us. What is more, they don't want to takeover any one else's country; act as apologists for people who do, or signal what very superior beings they are. They just want to get on and do what rational humans have always done: make the lives of their families and friends better, then that of their region and county better, then on and beyond. They have traditional allegiances, because that is what has always worked best for EVERYBODY. They are the builders and not the destroyers! The world has had enough of people like your friend, and it's time for a return to sanity. All the pejoratives they target at people who refuse to be brow beaten by them and adopt their narrow mindset no longer have resonance. The reality is that THEY are the ones full of hate, and it's a hate against the very things which created them and their fellow countrymen. When they can sort out their own prejudices they may have some latitude to lecture others. The wet behind the ears kids on the streets have an excuse for their foolishness and naivety, but the so called "educated" who don't provide them with broader and more mature insights into life have a lot to answer for. Thankfully most of those kids will grow up, but many of their educators never did. Is this foolish friend of yours an "educator"?

The 125,000 copies printed represents proof of a conspiracy? Apparently an idiotic screw up, but additional confirmation of irredeemable establishment group-think nevertheless. The people who hate "uncertainty", but fail to recognise that uncertainty is the very essence of the real world.

Italy could be the next country to take revenge on careerer politicos (of which the EU is the utter embodiment). The referendum on 4th December is about obscure constitutional changes, but it is being regarded as a vote on the EUphile Prime Minister and imposed EU placeman Mario Renzi. He's desperately back-pedalling on his Brussels affiliations in order to appear to be his own man, but few people are buying this. His principal achievement so far is to get the right wing Northern League and the left-of-center Five Star movement (which supports and votes with Ukip in the EU parliament) to unite against him! Five Star still seem to cling to a belief that the EU could be reformed, but they do want out of the Eurozone double quick, and if they get control will get the support of Italy's right wing parties to scrap the Euro. This would be a huge blow for Juncker and Merkel, and a major step towards the EU exit door. The resulting recovery of the Italian economy would set an example for Spain, Portugal, Greece, etc. to follow, and start an irreversible stampede. Without them all keeping the Euro undervalued Germany will be tipped into recession, and the AfD there is sure to add to its recent gains. This, and several other factors, means that the outlook for the EU is bleak in the extreme, and before too long there may not be any EU for crazy religious types like Tim Farron to cling to!

Yes, but the real question must be has Peter the postman been tampering with the postal vote?

Is Nigel packing his bag for his new job yet?

"Keep off the grass" signs then? If not I still have two legs; but maybe these days you can't do anything anywhere without ramps for electric thingies? My first encounter with the Trott would have been punctuated with dogging the top-of-town traffic, and - if I remember rightly - it was plumbed in to the water supply for some unfathomable reason. A "grassy knoll" would have been a stonking safety feature in those non-H&S days! I meant sidelined as far a presentation to through traffic and visitors of course! Bedlingtonians ALWAYS knew who it was and why it was, but these days it probably needs a Bluetooth beacon so they don't have to look up from their screens?

How on earth could that possibly be? It's pretty tragically sidelined now, and it used to be a prominent feature, saying to everyone "you have arrived in Bedlington and we have a significant heritage!". Moving it was one of those late twentieth century acts of civic vandalism that we sort of got used to. How sure are we of the precise original location, and who will determine this?

Some supplementary questions: Which international bank is picking up the huge legal bills that both you and the "foreign hairdresser" are running up (rather a lot of perms!)? How close is the Miller business relationship to Goldman Sachs? Have the Millers or their associates had any contact with Tony Blair is recent times? Which of your two faces did you use in your modelling career? If those questions are too difficult then how about: When was the last time you ventured outside the M25?

Amusing to see the discomfort of their lordships (aka Tony's Cronies in the High Court) over the massive press reaction to their judgement on the Article 50 shenanigans. So shaken are the lawyers that they've been leaning on Lord Chancellor, Liz Truss (one of Dodgy Dave's cronies - great how you can get to be THE senior law officer these days with no formal legal experience; alternating around the LibLabCon stitch-up as convenient; and sleeping with a married Tory MP) to condemn:- I'm sure the press would support the last sentence there, except their precise point is that the judiciary isn't seen to be acting independently [of the EU] in this case. In fact the judiciary should be so independent that it keeps its nose entirely out of politics. Their narrative is that this is entirely a matter of correct procedure, and that their deliberations are entirely apolitical. That might have been believable if at least two of their "ludships" had recused themselves as parties with their own fingers in the EU honeypot. What's more, the public is entitled to take a broader view and ask what consideration was given to matters of correct constitutional procedure during the entry process to the then EEC, and at every salami-slicing attack on British sovereignty and democracy since that time. The plain answer to that is sweet FA! Like everything to do with the EU, British constitutional matters have become a one-way street that has no turning, and the cabal that determined that traffic plan is intermingled with the cabal that derives all indirect benefit from traffic flow. Of course the Machiavellian figure of Tony Blair hangs behind the whole affair. Blair not only packed the system out with his mates but made new law on an unprecedented scale. Ironic then that brining to justice the biggest criminal this country has ever known is now "a legal impossibility". How did that happen then? To crown it all, rather than stay the low profile team manager of the EUphiles, Blair is now dancing around on the pitch making no secret of his intention to subvert democratic process by all means at his disposal. These are HIS cronies and placemen - go figure! So... our judiciary demands respect, and if we don't give it to them the price is sure societal breakdown. Well, a lot of us feel that we are heading for societal breakdown quite rapidly, and through their agency! There, and I haven't mentioned Bilderberg once! Do your own research and weep for our country!

Analysis by News Watch of BBC Brexit coverage Well worth scan reading the whole thing - Maggie! http://news-watch.co.uk/bbc-brexit-collection-strong-bias-against-leaving-the-eu/ What we now have is a sustained ideological attack on traditional working people (particularly those in the North) from the state broadcaster, and an attempt to diminish, disparage and sideline their values. The only decent thing the BBC can do is to get rid of Evan Davis and Ian Katz. As long as they hold a senior positions at the BBC nothing can even start to change.

They SAY they learned something from the referendum result - I wonder! BBC sacked me for being a white man... even though I work in radio Maybe it was just that Jon didn't contribute enough to the non-stop wall of hilariously funny anti-Ukip "jokes" before the last GE? You know, the ones that now cheerfully flout both the BBC Charter and electoral law in the six week purdah periods. OK, so he's not a Guardian subscriber, but why would he waste his money when there are so many surplus copies littered around Broadcasting House?

The Guradianistas at the BBC aren't being entirely honest in reporting what Carlos Ghosn the CEO of Nissan UK is saying by selectively reporting him. What Ghosn is looking for is the government to channel some of the revenues from counter-taxing German luxury cars back to Nissan to compensate them for any EU protectionism and Brussels hubris. Obviously no one wants any tariffs, and if sanity prevails there won't be any, but the Brussels bureaucrats are in a hole and their empire threatened, so rationalism may not prevail. Ghosn is being very careful about not issuing any threats, and is only talking about competitiveness, but this doesn't seem to be good enough for elements at the BBC. Nor is he pressing his views, and that he's not mentioning the windfall boost to Nissan's competitiveness from the lower exchange rate is understandable, although it's not understandable for the BBC to completely fail to question him about this aspect! In fact he's doing his duty and acting in the interests of Nissan, its shareholders and it's employees. It a pity that the BBC Guardianistas need to be frequently embarrassed into acting in the interests of their own "shareholders"..

...trade deals. Or at least trade deals negotiated by politicians. Even if you formerly claimed "TTTIPEX" or whatever the best thing since pencils with rubbers on the top; even if it was in your party's manifesto; even if you part negotiated it yourself - right now you want to distance yourself from it, because the practical result for your country has turned out far worse than having no deal at all! (average tariffs under the current WTO regime are only about 3.5%) Now what are our politicos telling us we really really need? What are armies of British bureaucrats readying to spend years and years negotiating? Someone should tell them to make sure they stay right at the end of the queue.

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...or even the Guardian, but the MAIN headline of the Sunday Express HOME page: It's like spelling checkers aren't built in to practically every bit of WP software these days! That's only the start; I hardly get to read any substantial piece where I don't have to reread a sentence several times to try to figure out what the writer intended to say.

Really?! We need that technical prob looking at straight away!

Ah, well, I got it wrong (but that was 3.30 in the morning!): New South Row was parallel to the main rows and not at right angles; that one was (quite logically) Cross Row. Got the vicinity right though. So - after many decades - at last an explanation of why New South Row was called "New". But still a mystery as to why it was labelled "South" when it was in fact North of North Terrace. It seems that North Terrace was built long after the rest though, so perhaps not so illogical at the time NSR was named. And, if it was built before the two major rows shown on the 1898 map were even planned, everything would then be explained: it would have been the most southern row at that point in time.

Not one newspaper has anything good to say about him: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/12/david-cameron-had-to-go And, we've already seen him choose. Doubtless a decision made on one of his never-ending holidays for reflection. Can I really be bothered with the little people? Well no, forget that promise to look after the people in my constituency; file it away with all my other "cast iron" promises. May is busily unpicking a lot of what he did. It's clear that she regards both him an Osborne with contempt, and has practically said such. I suppose he's spared us a Ted Heath style super-sulk, so that's something to be grateful for.

So, the real question is will our Mr Lavery get a real job, and if so who would be idiotic enough to employ him?

The same principal needs to be applied to Scotland double quick; it would reduce the number of SNP MPs by about 2/3 and clip the mad fish woman's wings! From what I've just heard on the news it seems about time we took a hatchet to the HoL too - 100 of their lordships now seems too many! In fact the HoL would be a good place to start PR in: one lud for every percent of the national vote I think.

I'd wondered this about the NE too. Maybe Cameron triggered a by-election now so's Boris or Davis couldn't slide into his seat at the 2020 GE? Being forced to campaign for either with a happy face would even be beyond his powers of deception!

David Cameron resigns as MP, triggering by-election in his Witney constituency Pretty much good riddance I think, and a few did see this coming. Alternative headline: Petulant Etonian Schooboy Takes [rugby] Ball Away. So much for your protestations of necessary service to the Tory party, and to our Country. Go practice your lying skills somewhere else Dave!

HUMILIATION FOR ANGELA: Anti-migrant movement trump Merkel's party in German election The equivalent of losing a bye-election in the PMs home county, and AfD has only been going three years! The interesting thing is that only 2% of the migrants have gone to this area. It's pretty clear that most Germans have now had enough, and if her own party doesn't give her the chop they - like her - are history come next year's GE.

Thanks for your concern Maggie. Did my research long ago, and so moved to an area that has no history of problems - well, if you discount fourteen hundred and something! Yes, I know: that must mean there's one overdue! Not felt here, but around the time the dogs got upset, and we had no idea why. We did get the roof tiles loudly rattled by distant shock waves from the Athens one a few years back. That wasn't scary because we didn't know what the strange noise was until a local arrived to ask if we'd felt it, and told us that the town was buzzing with people discussing it.