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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 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 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!

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. 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

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: 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.

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.