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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.

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?

Can this be the same story the BBC reported on on the Today program this morning? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3506079/Celebrity-barrister-35-admits-buying-party-drugs-killed-teenage-boyfriend-BBC-producer-night-chemsex-orgy-inside-legal-chambers.html#ixzz458PkOTWd Obviously not, as no BBC Producer was involved in the crime the BBC reported extensively on. How about a Panorama expose on the role of the BBC in UK recreational drug distribution? No? Thought not!

Well, we now know the result of Dave's thinking time alone in Lanzarote - his conclusion as to why he's losing all the arguments is that he's not applied enough spin. His solution: to spend another £9.5 million of desperately needed taxpayers money on a leaflet to all households. This is, of course, exactly the same tactic used by Harold Wilson in 1975. If you re-examine that leaflet all the lies and half truths are now very transparent, and we now know that the promoters knew that it was a deception - they've since admitted it was! His justification for this leaflet is that there's a huge demand from the public to know the facts as they are confused. Well Dave, if you genuinely believe this then subject your EU propaganda sheet to a panel of independent economists, constitutional experts, and business people for scrutiny, once it has been signed off by your spin HQ. Let them determine what is fact and what if pure elitist propaganda, and then edit it appropriately. If you are not prepared to do this then there's a very good home for the leaflet we are being forced to pay for - straight in the waste bin! Dave's other tactic is an appeal to younger people - "after all it is their future". Too true, as, like the older generation, they will be stripped of all democratic right to say this isn't working and we've been lied to for virtually the rest of their lives: It's there in black and white: "There will be no second referendum". That last statement is another half-truth of course; following a Leave vote there will be as many referenda as it takes to try to get them to say yes; that's until we get a government of the people this nation can once again trust. Though, once Pied-Piper Cameron leads them through the trapdoor into that mountain called EU Superstate it will be tragic end-of-story.

They'd be going the other way, and trying to avoid the stone-throwing queues blocking Brenner. Don't SEND any more: Germany issues ULTIMATUM to Italy as millions of migrants enter EU

Our brilliant buddies the Dutch have forced a referendum on the EU's ambitions in Ukraine - it's today! They know that Germany's ambitions in the East are a threat to peace, and that Russia won't be compromised any further by German expansionism. Putin is being constantly painted as an aggressor by the EU controlled media, and the clear understandings at the end of WW2 are being stretched to breaking point. So, it's pretty certain that our Dutch friends are going to give a massive thumbs-down to German ambitions. Theoretically the Dutch have right of veto; but hey, this is the post-democratic EU where we little people don't count. So, what do you think is going to happen? Yes, the overwhelming will of the Dutch nation will simply be ignored, and any attempt to canvas public opinion over a wider franchise will be vigorously suppressed by our EU overlords. Our own government will claim that we've had our say on this in our own referendum, blithely ignoring the fact that the issue was never actually raised by our own elites. If we are dumb enough to fall for Quisling Cameron's lies, and do vote "Remain", then it's the start of our own armed forces (and our nuclear capability) being sucked into Juncker's EU army. Once this process is set in motion all the "peace in our time" rhetoric about the EU will be exposed for the deception it has always been. There has been peace in Europe since WW2 because our forbears had the good sense to remove all serious armaments from German control, but not until after they too made the fatal mistake of allowing an always expansionist Germany to surreptitiously rearm in the 1930's. Think of Vote Leave as a vote to keep our nuclear weapons out of the hands of people who have much form on failing to respect other's rights. The Russian people are not our enemy, but it will be very difficult for any of us to argue this when we are absorbed into a super-state which is dead-set on trespassing on the Russian sphere of influence! It's desperately important for mature people to get this message over to younger people who've been blinded by spin, bogus economic arguments, and touchy-feely "let's all hold hands and make the world a better place" fools. We've been there ourselves (me in foolishly believing Edward Heath in 1975), and are duty bound to make the effort to explain the difference between fantasy and hard reality to the current generation.

We've all heard Cameron's laughable scare stories (from a guy who seriously asked us to believe he might recommend a Brexit), but here's some things that should really scare us!

Oh, forgot the important bit! The mozzies are now out in force, and right on cue I've just been bitten! Take plenty of good quality protective, and don't wait until you are bitten. Apply generously well before the sun goes down. Autan works well but can be ridiculously expensive. You are in the malaria zone on the South coast of Sicily, but it's not the anopheles mozzie that's the main danger at the moment. West Nile disease (tigre mozzie) is always a background risk, and Zika is a disaster waiting to happen (the climate is just right for aedes aegypti).

There's a faint Spanish influence in the mainland, but not i think as much as in Sicily; you'd do better with Greek here. They sort of like the Spanish and refer to them as our Spanish cousins, but Spaniards don't seem that keen on visiting. So, it would be reasonable to assume that your Spanish might do a bit better there, in some places at least. The French aren't desperately liked here - one wonders why! With Germans there's more ambivalence, but in parts of Northern Italy they really can't make their mind up if the are German/Austrian or Italian, so that's sort of understandable. I could do you a pamphlet about "The English", but in private it is generally confided that "The English: they drink too much!" - so, please don't reinforce the stereotype, unless you can pass for Scandinavian!

Been?!! We'll yes I have, but it has changed a tiny bit since. I'm still waiting for the Messina Bridge (local joke)! Just at the moment it's pretty warm (for Northern Europeans) in the Southern Med but the temperatures fall fairly rapidly after sunset when the skies are clear - which is mostly. Take something warmer for night time. The real ramp up in temperatures isn't really until late'ish June. The winter has been far far wetter than average so things look a lot greener to a local eye than usual, but the farmers like this a lot. First crop of the year of citrus is doing nicely (there are two growing seasons for a lot of things and even the cacti can struggle in August). I hope you like seafood! If not you'll get by nicely providing you make this very clear: "niente mare". The town you are staying in will warn you that theirs is the only one not run by the Mafia, you should smile and thank them because all towns actually believe this, and believe the worst about their neighbours. They do not speak Italian in the South so it's pretty pointless trying to learn anything but the basics from locals. English will do just fine unless you are addressing someone over 40 or not in trade or authority. Never ask "Parla Inglese" though as the answer will almost always be a frightened stare (it's standing up in class time all over again) or a non; just speak very slowly; they may respond in dialect but they will generally understand you or have enough English to say what they don't understand. Failing that it's generally phone a friend time (for them)! Don't forget to bring plenty of your visiting cards to hand out to (illegal) immigranti. It's now a lucrative industry because Merkelville is paying generous allowances - with UK money! Privately locals will tell you their deep worries, and that they've never seen anything like it in scale; publicly they've been bought-off, for now. And, whilst you are there you'll notice something else. It may not hit you in the face but it becomes evident to any travelled sentient person. I'm talking about the huge deficit of children and younger people generally. In large part the EU and the Euro has done this; unless you have really good "connections" it's impossible for anyone to get work. The only option is to leave for the North, and up there it's not too much better these days. So, let's all hold hands and make Europe a better place - for Germans! https://www.walksofitaly.com/blog/sicily/sicilian-cuisine-cannoli-arancini

Yes, we know! It's due to today's software/security update having killed our indexes. They will rebuild automatically, so don't panic.

Boris on UK Steel: Pity the Port Talbot workers – their country is powerless to help them

It has been suggested that Tata doesn't actually want to sell Port Talbot, but wants it to fold. Why would this be? Well... sold, it would offer competition to its other plants, and quite amazingly it is in negotiations to actually buy German steel provider Thyssen. So much for Tata being a friend of the UK! One thing is very clear though, EU Dave is only offering platitudes, and is quite content to see a closure. To the posh-boys-playing-games it's just a temporary embarrassment, and nothing must get in the way of Dave's spell as Chairman of the EU Council of Ministers next year. Even if he loses the referendum he intends to hang on in there for his EU pension and perks. He's never held down a real job in his entire life; can't relate to industry, let alone working people, and has absolutely no sense of country. He thinks life entirely revolves around spin and presentation. There are dozens of competent people in the Tory party, yet they have to foist off this Etonian prat onto us! To top it all, there's now panic setting in that he's left the Falklands completely unprotected. Time to remove the two tinkering posh boys Tory Party - before the electorate does it for you.

Ah "Funny French": French plumbing, and lifts that you can only go up in - yes, I remember it well. I knew that Hong Kong used our 13A but I never realised how many other countries adopted them: To that you can add countries - like South Africa - that still use our old British Standard round pin plugs. That was in the days when we looked outward and led the world in innovation (and democracy). A tragedy our kids are never taught this, to apologise for the past, and are fed all this inward-looking EU bilge.

Yup, it's a smaller 5A one - I thought the prongs looked far too small to be the 15/13A size. And, with a fuse in it, then it's a Wylex 5A side-entry ring-main plug. You'd be hard pressed to find one of those here even 60 years ago. The thought strikes me that if anyone bought a non-ring main one and used it on a ring main they could be in big trouble - unless there was a design difference to prevent that. That's something H & S would make a song and dance about these days, but in those days most people had a thing called common sense, and the very very few who didn't helped improve the gene pool. The horrible fuse-pin ones BUDC fitted were I think branded DS - probably. I've no idea what DS stood for. There must be lots of those still lying around Bedlington in sheds and attics.

Hmm.. looks like there may also have been 5A and even 2A variants of the Wylex, to match the normal round-pin (British Standard?) range that everyone of an age will remember. And top and side entry versions of every one too - a true collectors cornucopia! Never knew that, though chances are I've come across at least one other at some time! On this subject: how about our 13A plug being the envy of the world? Something to remember when you are cursing that they don't fit into the bag, box or suitcase. Though, there's likely some overpaid Eurocrat in Brussels drafting a directive to standardise us on German Shuko's as I write this. http://www.fastcodesign.com/3032807/why-england-has-the-best-wall-sockets-on-earth

It's known as a Wylex plug and they came in two types: ring main (13A) and non-ring main (15A). Looks like that's a "non" one (without a fuse). I think there were probably other manufacturers of the design, but that seems to be a genuine Wylex one. They're a collectors item, though not that rare - so don't throw it away. It would be interesting to know which local builder/electrician fitted them. The BUDC had a thing about those terrible fused pin ones which frequently fell to bits. Everybody was surely glad to see the back of those! They became ridiculously expensive, and the fused pins hard to get hold of, which brought on their rapid demise in the late 1960's. The Wylex design probably failed in the 1950's, or maybe just post-war.

Ah, yes, I think you've just identified your own problems: a logical space limit that only you with your larger uploads (and maybe an odd few others) were hitting. Well, good to see that this has been (inadvertently) fixed - the pain had a bit of gain.

I’m not really sure to which of my many previous, as yet unanswered, questions you refer. Please repeat the question. However, I’m quite happy to accommodate your trying again with the following. I agree, the answers are important and I’ve already responded to this part of your enquiry (see above). Your responses overlap mine which only results in confusion Go a little more slowly. And - if you don't get a reply on a particular thread then - bump that thread. No they were not suicide bombers and perhaps they didn’t use machine guns (I personally don’t know) but they did have other methods of killing and torturing innocent people (this I do personally know). So let’s call a spade a spade shall we. It is killing we are talking about not the methods used. Well, we are getting somewhere. The IRA used measured violence to create political pressure. They make mistakes, and admit to, even apologise for those mistakes. Their objective isn't the genocide of any people. Go tell that to anybody working in the casualty departments of the major hospitals at the time! Believe me, it was the not knowing that it was about to happen which caused the most disruption. Though I do remember one warning about a planned attack in London and when all resources were nicely concentrated in London they detonated a bomb in … Manchester, I believe it was. Didn’t greatly reduce the number of casualties that warning! And another warning issued 90 minutes before the bomb detonated. What good was that? How long do you think it takes to get a bomb squad in place? Once in place, how long does it take to find and defuse the bomb? That warning didn’t reduce the number of casualties either. No, I won't do that because it would be crass. If you saying that what we are facing through the scourge of Islam is in any way on a similar scale to our own past local difficulties you are totally deluded. The IRA, as far as my memory serves me, had one purpose – the reunification of Ireland. Good, and to do that they had to take all the people's of that Island with them. In their own way they saw this as possible. They weren't aiming for total world domination, and slaughter on a previously unimaginable scale. At some point in their agenda was an element of compromise, and their territorial ambitions were piffling. IS, to whom I think you refer when speaking of Islamic terrorism, would also appear to have only one purpose – the reunification of Islam, by establishing a new Islamic caliphate across the middle east. At least that’s how I’ve understood it. Perhaps you have understood something else? No its not just IS, that's a front. It's there in the Quaran, 97 times if I remember correctly, and it's world domination. Perhaps you have missed something? “Behind every IRA terrorist stood thousands on republicans from whom the terrorists were drawn, most of these people made no bones about their support- they sheltered the terrorists. Are you saying that this is an entirely different phenomenon here??” I’m not really sure what you mean here. I think that behind the IS terrorists there are supporters, maybe not thousands behind each one but supporters never the less. I haven’t seen anything in news reports or media which would make me believe that IS terrorists are not sheltered by their supporters. If you could clarify your question maybe I can give you a more substantial answer. I mean that the entire catholic community there was behind the IRA - some more and some less, but when it came to the crunch there would be no doubt as to exactly where they would all take their cue from - it was right there in the voting records. This "none of my business" doesn't wash with most people. Our country and entire continent need to hear a lot more than "none of my business" if we are to truly believe we don't now have a houseful of sleeping vipers. Anyone who follows the Quaran has to face up to issues that this raises; this is not OUR problem it is THEIR problem, and this needs to be made plain. The longer this is delayed the more the extremists will take encouragement from what they see as our terminal stupidity. Or, as The Guardian puts it: ..and, you know what? I think that in many cases they could be dead right!

Most of my harmless muslim friends didn’t choose to come to a (nominally Christian) Europe. They were born in Europe as were most of their harmless parents. Some of my muslim colleagues, also harmless, did choose to come to a (nominally Christian) Europe. They’d heard that Britain was a democracy that there were equal rights for men and women and that the Brits were a friendly race. So.. they continue to practise a belief set where there is anything but "equal rights for men and women", and set up courts which impose a law which is anything but democratically derived? For some of those who did come to Europe it was a case of any port in a storm. They fled from war and oppression and were placed in Europe as refugees. They didn’t ask to come to Europe. They only asked to be taken to a place of safety. There goes that some again! And did they really? The compass has eight principal directions and Europe is only one, and are you sure that it wasn't them actually doing the persecution (of Christians). Why can't the oil-rich Muslin nations do something for them - they have the space, they have the money, and Arab hospitality is legendary. And, why don't the persecuted Christians in those regions come here in volume? They choose to stick it out for better times - well those who have survived Islamic persecution. Yes, some of them are brilliant: the ones who have confronted the scourge of Islam. http://ex-muslim.org.uk/ Some of them were fleeing from Islamic fundamentalists who were deemed, by the majority of harmless muslims, to be anything but harmless. They couldn’t, and still don’t, accept the fundamentalist interpretation of the holy book. Much the same way as I (and I suspect you) don't accept the Jehovah's Witness interpretation of the Christian holy book. I can see exactly where Jehovah's Witness are coming from, and I haven't noticed them ghettoising in our cities or altering or architecture, or setting up a parallel justice system, or any terrorist acts in the name of Christ. In fact I'm open to persuasion on this Armageddon thing of theirs; maybe Armageddon starts around Dabiq? A couple of them came because they were invited by the British Government in 1947. Now there’s a surprise! A couple of them was never a problem. In fact 30,000 immigrants per year wasn't too much of a problem. This is twenty times that and more, and it threatens our culture. And, on this score, I'm not even singling out the scourge of Islam: these levels of immigration are truly crazy! In all cases they, like me, couldn’t give a jot about what religion other people have. They, like me, know that everybody in Britain has the right to choose and follow their own belief. The law says so. Which law would you be talking about there? We aren't talking about a religion as we've come to know religion; we are talking about a medieval belief set that doesn't broker any dissent. http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1023001/pg1 Even culture hasn’t been a problem. They accept us as we are – warts and all. They respect our culture and, like me and most other immigrants, they adopt those bits of it which suit and stay away from those bits that don’t. The key words there are "hasn't been".. well if you ignore the few minor misunderstandings like Brussels. So they are going to stop building shining monstrosities in our cities and do what other religions do? That's great, and it's really nice that they accept us in our own country! Supplementary questions: Why did you choose to go to a (predominantly) Catholic Italy? What is so special about Italy to you that you had to go to such trouble and expense compared with settling in one of the other countries who share your religious beliefs, closer to where you come from and with a similar climate/culture? (I’m thinking first and foremost of Northern Ireland but I could stretch it to Byker or Blagdon). This is easy, and in fact I get asked this all the time! And, as far as I know, no one has been arrested for asking me. It's the climate, the food, and the health aspects. But underlying this is the fact that I can relate to the locals Romano-Judaic belief set. I'm not a churchgoer (and neither are many here), but if the community were in any way threatened I'd be there in a local church showing my support, and indeed I do modestly help the local church charities. Of course the reverse question is also valid: why would anyone want to move to the UK climate if it wasn't on purely economic grounds, as there are those other points-of-the-compass? Why make a tiny crowded island any more crowded? Our own civilisation broke out of here for more living space, and generally did rather well by that.

The answer (from a random hijab in the street) has already been supplied to the man who ended up being arrested for asking the question. The answer is a standard "nothing to do with me". Technically and legally it's a faultless answer, because it is all to do with my mindset and the people I slavishly obey (including my father/husband). It's perfectly managed duplicity! Mosque leader who condemned Brussels attacks sent messages calling extremist ‘true Muslim’ Duplicitous Dave - who is off on a solo trip to Lanzarotte (after heading up a publicity campaign urging us proles to holiday in flood-torn Northern England) has gone for some thinking time, away from the family and the unprecedented revolt in his party - must be eating his heart out at how easily it comes to the religion of peace. Odds on that George had better watch his back, as Dave has a long record of throwing his friends to the wolves in a most un-eatonian fashion.

I regularly failed my English Language because I spent a lot of time standing in the corridor having been thrown out of class. Though, what really gutted the English master was that I was the only one in the form who got anywhere near top marks in GCE Literature without turning in any class (or homework) that he in any way rated. I think he thought I must have had pre-exam tuition, but the reality was I actually enjoyed many of the set books and studied them in MY way; whereas the rest of the kids looked on them as a chore - because he was such a p'poor teacher, and taught by prescription and wrote! I will skip the first question because you've worn me down, and I'm not prepared to wade through the above to examine the possibility of my quoting you out of context. BUT - in true Paxo fashion - I'm going to try again on: Now, the answers to these questions are actually important, so let's skip the obfuscation this time. And, if I've failed to answer any of your questions on other threads, then simply link me to the tread and I will answer there - no more waiting! And... the Sky link (which certainly doesn't look like a load of rubbish): http://news.sky.com/story/1656777/is-documents-identify-thousands-of-jihadis

OK thanks for the extensive syntactical analysis, but how about expending a lot lot less time in actually answering my questions - thus not massively obfuscating. This tiny majority of radicalised Muslims of yours now seems to be in the tens of thousands (Sky is claiming to have received a USB stick with the detailed ISIL database. It's understandable why Sky should come up with this intelligence as Europol is currently far too busy trying to sell the mythical security benefits of being in the EU to actually do anything positive, or indeed even read the warning about the named individual Turkey sent). Of course this database doesn't include the up-and-coming ones, like those school classes cheering at news of the Brussels slaughter - they haven't been cheering in your classes, I hope? Funny that the guy who tweeted this observation was visited by the police and told to keep his mouth shut; I wonder what the authorities were fearing?!

Worth a mention I think, as it illustrates that our antipodean cousins are just as unimpressed by the so-called "progressive" politicos they elected as many of us are ours. Making a statement with your nation's symbol should be approached with great caution, as it's a bit permanent (unless you relish spectacular and damaging climb-downs), and may not quite make the statement you intended. The referendum angle on this is that we could view it as an invitation to renew traditional ties. Now that WOULD be a really nice 90th birthday present for Her Mag - but, I suspect, not so valued a present as a decisive OUT vote.