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The fact that she got away with unarguable massive fraud has to show even the naive who voted Remain exactly how the Euro-elite system actually works.  5000 of them in France alone, and they heavily intermarry to keep the gravy train on the rails for generations to come. The membership queue includes most of our MPs, and particularly the Blairite Labour ones.  The Brexit vote was a disaster to these people, but Blair is plotting behind the scenes to undermine it.

Yes, that's certainly part of it: he was contemptuous of it, but as it was his "comeback number" couldn't refuse to perform it.

Main thing is his producer rushed the recording because he didn't have an exclusive deal, and got wind of another major release by...  I forget who.  As there was no time to organise a proper song arranger Frank simply had to ad lib the ending.  It was recorded in only two straight takes and the best bits of each one quickly spliced.  Then the producer got air stewardess' at the local airport(s) to hand deliver pre-release copies to radio stations in different parts of the USA to get it on the air before the rival version. This obviously worked well for Frank.

It's actually a foreign song (the Balkans?) with English lyrics added later.  I'd heard of the Scooby Doo connection but was a little dubious. But, if there's attribution it's most probably correct.

HAG = Have A Go    Sorry, lazy typist at times! 

4 hours ago, Canny lass said:

Thank goodness for that! It would have been a shame to waste water!

So you know about the solar array then.

5 minutes ago, Canny lass said:

...I swear that when I looked at the weather 30 seconds ago it said "Smoke" and there was a symbol to match. Was it really there or should I take more water with the whisky?

It did.  Not the only town to have a smoke problem; I'm still kippered from last night on the bike!  Shower beckons!

Get it in the Services Directory then, and yes we are a community resource and a Bedlington URL (and your very own FREE webspace) is there for the asking.  You can also have your own forum on the board providing you provide your own moderation, and it can be as open or as closed as you wish.  PM if you need any other help.

P.S.  Don't forget to post your meetings and other events on the calendar.

The reason(s) behind the doo-bee.. are even more interesting.  Laters if no one can come up with them.

Amazingly the charting of this song in the UK and the final days of HAG are approximately time coincident.  Coincidence or not?

Excellent!  I didn't think anybody would get that.  Long before my time - of course!

Here's an interesting factoid: His wife Mabel played the piano in the quizzes in later days, but when HAG started in 1946 the piano player was non other than the latterly famous Violet Carson, so maybe that harmonium in Coronation Street was there by request?

5 hours ago, pilgrim said:

I'm sure there was a Sinatra song that had the refrain Scooby doobie doo ... enchanted evening perhaps ??..

The closing bars of Strangers in the Night.  More oobie than scooby I think!

Give 'im the money, Mabel! 

Does anyone detect a pattern here?

Christmas chaos expected at UK airports as Virgin pilots take industrial action and 1,500 airport staff vote to strike

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Members of Unite employed by Swissport will walk out on December 23 and 24 at Aberdeen, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Bournemouth, Cardiff, Doncaster, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Gatwick, Glasgow, Heathrow, Leeds/Bradford, Luton, Manchester, Newcastle, Southampton and Stansted.

Unite national officer Oliver Richardson said: "We appreciate that this is a very busy time of year at the UK's airports...

Well of course you do, or you wouldn't be striking.

Just now, Andy (4G) said:

Well I told you that when you enabled it a couple of years ago!

There you go blaming someone else; a career in politics awaits!

Just now, Andy (4G) said:

Replies to notices and announcements go into an approval queue

You're missing the point: the lady requested a purple waiting-approval notification!   And... I don't agree with all this approval stuff anyway, it's starting to look like the BBC website.

Just now, Canny lass said:

I think it's the crown of Santa Lucia.

Ah, religious training!  So that's why the subject is being hedged around!

Just now, Andy (4G) said:

It's quite easy to explain this one. Current weather conditions in Bedlington along with a 3 day forecast will now show in the site sidebar.

Hmmm... not sure what the semicircle thing with the radials symbolises.    Do you do an officially recognised training course, and is there an online risk assessment?

Very plausible, but there's an alternative theory: he only wants to shake Nigel's hand because traces of Trump "populism" will rub off.  I think that's a sort of orangey colour;  though... maybe Bob needs to restyle his hair too?

Bob Geldof's Brexit U-turn

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Sir Bob said that half the EU is desperately unhappy: “It doesn't function. It is ignoring the wishes of European citizens.

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...the Irish rocker, who has an honorary knighthood, said he met Mr Farage earlier this week at a party and shook his hand. 

Sir Bob said: “He is an immensely dedicated populist...you have to hand it to the guy.”

Has he apologised to the fishermen he insulted and derided on the Thames though?

More Christmas-past authenticity!

British Airways cabin crew vote to strike in latest UK industrial action

'Tis the season to be striking - tra la la - tra la la - laa laa laaa!

Be careful what you ask for!

SNOW BOMB: Wall of SNOW to SMASH UK as deadly blizzards hit in COLDEST freeze for 53 YEARS

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BRITAIN faces a historic CHRISTMAS WHITEOUT with “dangerous" blizzards and near record-low temperatures threatening the worst festive freeze for half a century.

Violent and “deadly” Arctic storms will rage into the start of 2017 as thermometers nudge -20C triggering outbreaks of crippling snow.

Heavy and persistent wintry showers are now a near certainty across the UK on Christmas Day with multiple feet-deep snowdrifts lasting into the New Year amid sub-zero conditions.

Britons are warned to expect “major chaos” on the roads and transport networks with extreme weather threatening railway services and airports.

Councils, health and transport officials have been warned to expect the unexpected with this year shaping up to rival the historic chiller of 1963 - the coldest winter on record.

Government officials have sought to allay public fears insisting grit and salt supplies will be enough to keep the roads moving.

Of course the likelihood is it's Jeremy Corby's brother Piers at his crystal ball again, so we can all relax - probably!

If that's not enough to invoke the spirit of the Christmas' past then how about train and postal strikes to add to the authenticity?

And I'm "qualified to know" about Sterling against the Euro!   If Clinton had won you'd be significantly worse off now.

BTW the first of the Italian banks has just gone bust, shareholders have been totally wiped out, and as part of the rescue bondholders are having to take a huge haircut.  As most of those bondholders are average small savers sheltering their life savings (they won't take the risk of investing in the stock markets as they hate the thought of any loss of capital) it's a crushing blow, and bondholders in other banks are now going to panic.  (More) Civil unrest is likely.  The equivalence here in the UK is building society deposits being raided!

Unfortunately - amongst his other major blunders - Dodgy Dave tied us in to the the EFSM, so we will be tapped as Eurozone finances inevitably get worse.  It's entirely conceivable that with the Greek nonsense blowing up again too Sterling will be worth more than pre-Brexit value very soon.  Maybe some of the rise in the value of Sterling will be moderated by Dave's blunder, and we won't have to pay out too much in support - we must hope!  May needs to detach us from the EZ a lot faster than she's now doing!

Quickly skipping over all the other good news (like saving our Steel Industry with a mega investment by Tata):

Record UK exports drive huge narrowing in trade deficit

 

Exports of goods rose by £2.1bn to £26.8bn in October, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

This is the highest level since records began in 1997, and was boosted by strong goods exports to non-EU countries, which jumped to a record £14.4bn.

The increase also pushed up total exports of goods and services to a record level of £46.4bn, though this was driven solely by goods.

Recent surveys suggest the fall in the value of the pound since the Brexit vote has helped exporters to become more competitive.However, Hannah Finselbach, a statistician at the ONS, said there was only "limited evidence so far that the depreciation of sterling has led to a marked increase in UK exports".

He's probably right not to put too much weight on the value of Sterling because it has been steadily creeping up lately, and what is really important is getting away from the dependency mindset that is part and parcel of the EU political project.  We will succeed because we are British, and that's what Brits do when faced with real challenge.  If that sounds a bit jingoistic then tough!  We are not unrolling a thousand years of history to suit the prejudices of those rats who are now willing their own country to fail!

The EU is now entering self-destruct phase.  We triggered this, though it would have happened at some point anyway.  I'm genuinely sorry for those who are still clinging to this sinking ship. Circumstances have taken over and the UK's position is now largely irrelevant to the EU's demise. I've stopped arguing with the very few religious holdouts I know, as they become increasingly desperate and irrational.  Mad as a hatter Tim Farron strikes me as the epitome of this!

Merkel is about to get knifed by her own party/coalition; Italy is in for a painful exit from the EZ - the civil unrest has already started, and of course another season another Greek financial crisis; France is even more EUsceptic than the UK now...  It's just a matter of the order the dominoes fall in, and exactly when.  I'm keeping my pension payments well away from European banks, and have alerted others to the now distinct possibility of a cash grab at theirs!

Of course the EU elites are never going to admit that their political project has failed, but what will finally emerge won't be anything like what they were planning.  Seems like the UK will be prime candidate for scapegoat: because we really didn't BELIEVE!

9 hours ago, mercuryg said:

No, i'll be supporting him. 

Doubtless he'll be grateful, as with all the business he's losing, he's going to be struggling maintaining that "refugee" camp on his private island. 

BTW are you supporting Tony in his scheming to frustrate and undo a democratic decision?

A campaign now building to boycott all things Virgin over Branson's funding of the campaign to overturn the Brexit vote.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/736027/richard-branson-brexit-boycott-virgin

Blair is the ringleader of this, and that alone has many tempers flaring.

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A memo written by ex-health secretary Alan Milburn, a key ally of former prime minister Tony Blair, says: "We have been beavering away over the last few months to get a Europe campaign up and running. I'm pleased to say that substantial progress has been made.

"I have met the Freuds team several times and we are making good progress. I have been in discussions with an excellent potential CEO to lead the campaign.

"Virgin ... are keen to help. Since we last spoke [they] have offered a further £25k, plus bigger office space, help with legal advice and a possible secondment.

Someone posted a list of Branson enterprises to boycott:

V Festival
Virgin Active
Virgin America
Virgin Atlantic
lVirgin Australia Holdings
Virgin Books
Virgin Care
Virgin Connect
Virgin Experience Days
Virgin Galactic
Virgin Green Fund
Virgin Health Bank
Virgin Health Miles
Virgin Holidays
Virgin Hotels
Virgin Limited Edition
Virgin Megastores
Virgin Mobile
Virgin Money
Virgin Oceanic
Virgin Racing
Virgin Radio
Virgin Rail Group
Virgin Sports
Virgin Trains East Coast
Virgin Unite
Virgin Vacations
Virgin Voucher
Virgin Voyages

21 minutes ago, mercuryg said:

Not often I agree with you outright 3G, but this one I do! I believe wind farms to be an expensive waste of time. Out of interest, what would your suggestion be in  terms of replacing fossil fuels?

Small modular reactors are nuclear energy’s future

Something the EU should have been promoting instead of all the vanity projects it has been sinking countless billions in to, and duplicating other work.  Something we can lead in if the government gets off its butt.

Well, you know the official line: wind power now contributes a significant amount to or energy budget, and so represents a major improvement to all our "carbon footprints".  After all countless billions spent and all those wind turbines littered everywhere around and over our island how could it be otherwise?

In the USA these claims are part of the Obama legacy that he's now trying to sell to the history books.  But, he grudging admits that it's “less than 14 percent”.  If only these sort of figures were true!

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2016/11/14/obamas-much-ado-about-nothing/

From today's Telegraph:

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...I cited that figure only after a quick internet trawl. where it is quoted on various websites, including Wikipedia. Only when I subsequently referred to a more reliable source did I find that the figure was in fact absurdly exaggerated. All the US was actually getting last year for all the billions of dollars it has spent on wind and solar farms was just 5.4 percent of its electricity. Most of the rest of course came from those CO2-emitting, “planet-destroying” fossil fuels that Obama was so keen to see disappear.

So how does this compare with the position here in England, where we are continually told that wind and solar are now providing ever more of our own power? The official headline figures do not separate England, where most of us live, from the rest of the UK. But thanks to some very clever detective work by Paul Homewood on his Not A Lot Of People Know That blog, we can see that the English figures are in fact strikingly similar to those for the US. The contribution of English onshore wind and solar farms to electricity used in England amounted last year to just 5.3 percent.

That intermittently generated by all the thousands of wind turbines spread across the English countryside was just 2.4 percent: rather less than that fed into the grid by a single medium-size gas-fired power station like that recently opened at Carrington outside Manchester – which, thanks to the “carbon tax” and the Climate Change Act, could be the last we ever see built. There’s another very uncomfortable fact you will never see quoted on Wikipedia.

No one is mentioning Ed Windmilliband's role in the fiasco, but it's another of the virtue signalling left's hair-brained ideas that have visibly changed our country for the worst, and piled on huge levels of debt in the process.  That debt must be repaid at some point (a situation that will be made much worse as interest levels increase, as now looks likely).  How much extra energy will need to be expended to achieve the levels of industrialisation that will be needed for future generations to even service that debt?  This is the question to ask those "greens" who believe in infinite free lunch and techno-miracles.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/17/three-mobile-cyber-hack--six-million-customers-private-data-at-r/

It's sensible to treat ANY customer communications purporting to be from Three with suspicion.