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There was an even better TV service in Bedlington! From here it looks like a local problem in Bedlington as the mini-server there is still watermarking the feed. My phone says Fourgee only just got back from wherever, so when he's had a rest I will start nagging him.

Being in the EU is good for UK jobs; look how it has saved the British Steel Industry - not! Steel is now rapidly going the same route as our former fishing industry. http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2015/10/18/save-our-steel/ Outside the EU a British Government would be free to do whatever is needed to preserve strategic industries such as steel. Inside the EU it is practically powerless. Redwood is suggesting (1) we simply break the EU rules, (2) that we try to skirt them, and that (3) we beg. There's a far simpler solution, and it has no downside whatsoever (unless you're a trough-guzzling politico)!

Not quite that simple Moe. The reason most people listened to Joyce and other German broadcasters (Lord Haw Haw) was that he provided information the UK government was covering up. It took a good while before the wartime government worked out that honesty (with a bit of patriotic spin) was the best policy. The present day BBC, in their PC stupor, has come very near to unlearning that simple lesson!

Umm.. it's raining and there's a sea of brollys! Anyways thanks for that keen observation Moe as I'm now certain that the RT TV coverage I saw must have been faked too. But, there's plenty of other video of Mutti being booed all over the place if you care to look. Doesn't Volks Verraterin mean something like Traitor to the People? Anyway, obviously more neo-nazi scum there, so ignore. Thing is this has obviously got to her, because she's completely changed her stance - again! http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/598924f0-555d-11e5-9846-de406ccb37f2.html#axzz3ogAxbc17. So, almost within days of unconditionally welcoming the World and its extended family, she's telling huge numbers of immigrants that they "must leave Germany". And, in a historical context, just a few short years back she was declaring that "German multiculturalism has 'utterly failed'". Though her recent open invite would only be applying the usual EU solution to things which patently aren't working: a lot more of the things which patently aren't working! There's method in this general about-face madness though, because when you are primed to do a Corbyn-McDonnell you can never be wrong, or blamed for anything; it's all the fault of the minions and the electorate (or the poor-b immigrants who've spent every cent they had) for not keeping up with the current party line. Joe Goebells? Naah - I think Uncle Joe could relate to that though!

...and neither is the rest of Europe! The only ones applauding are the apparatchiks and those with their snout in the EU trough. The interests of ordinary Germans no longer count, because there's the post-democratic-elites to do their thinking for them. But, most ordinary Germans no longer share the collective guilt complex that haunts Merkel and her cohorts. They just want to see the lives of their children improve, not get worse. They worked bloody hard for this, and it's being snatched away by political dogmatists. Very little reporting of this from the BBC here, and virtually no reporting of the building burnings.

M&S bras and panties guy, now on-line grocer, Stuart Rose at the launch of the "IN campaign" in London yesterday: There's huge logic in that - not! If I was a villain somewhere else in Europe I simply wouldn't be getting here because the UK government would once again have the right to say I couldn't come Mr Rose! But, I suspect you knew that already. If Stuart Rose is the best duplicitous Dave can muster to head up the IN campaign then they are in for a hard time. He isn't at all convinced himself, as you can read in much of the material he's formerly approved as a chief of of anti-EU group Business for Britain. That he's agreed to help out his chum Dave and other embattled big-business types is really just the old boy's network in full flow. His reward for this will undoubtedly be elevation to the peerage. So cosy that our Country has such clear and predictable paths to glory, but... it's as nothing compared with the Brussels feeding trough, and its unparalleled failed-domestic-politico's retirement system!

The evidence is building, and the swans are voting with their wings! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/weather/11926752/Britain-faces-longest-winter-in-50-years-after-earliest-ever-arrival-of-Siberian-swan.html

Whoops you didn't tell me you'd Tubed it! Anyway, I will leave it in the gallery now that it's uploaded here. Maybe you want to upload some hi-res stills?

Oh well, sub £100 didn't last too long! Still good value at £116 though. They probably sussed that they'd drastically under-priced them.

Seems like those Rakuten peeps - I think it was formerly play.com - have the 10" Linx Windows Tab for £99.75 just at the moment, and that includes shipping. That's a cool £50 less than eBuyer are discounting it at. http://www.rakuten.co.uk/shop/electricaldeals/product/LINX1032GB-39272/ The Linx is a fairly good product with a current generation (22nm) quad core Intel Atom CPU and 2GB of RAM. It's upgradeable to Windows 10 for free. http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/tablets/linx-10-1291585/review Beware, there are still lots of older generation Atom CPUs around in stuff on sale, and they hit the battery far harder than 22nm ones. Total bargain I think!

Mee too! One of those regular "out by one" programmer's errors, you understand! Are you suing EE for name infringement yet?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/aviation/11910772/Final-Vulcan-bomber-flight-Crowds-urged-to-stay-away-from-XH558s-farewell.html I thought the comment "They don't cancel the Notting Hill (stab) Fest because too many people turn up." was amusing. All part of the modern PC Britain Experience, I suppose. Why don't they replace the RAF roundels with circles of yellow stars? Then there'd be oodles of free money to keep it flying!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Whatever-Im-Late-Anyway-New-Fashion-Funny-Women-Men-Analog-Quartz-Wrist-Watch-/321791020736

Don't worry Willy, the Blairites will have him sorted well inside two years. They're the career politicos, now by far the largest majority of the PLP, and the ones with all the keys to the kingdom. Labour -> Two parties, one slogan. Tory -> One party, two slogans. LD's -> Zero party, infinite slogans. SNP -> We are the ONLY party, we call ALL the slogans, an' git ooot! Green -> Infinite parties, and... just a minute 'til I've finished this joint, it helps me see things much more clearly.

Labour can do it (£8); Osborne can do it (£9); John McDonnell can do it (£10); so my new party (MNP) is setting an £n + £1 minimum wage target, currently idling at just £11. Note: Here n stands for nuts (= the last nutty advance in the Elect-me-on-my-empty-promise:-I'm-the-most-profligate Game). What's my new party called? Well, I'm working on that, but in true political fashion I must paint it as something it's obviously not. So... I guess the word prudence needs to feature. One thing is for sure, the MNP (My New Prudentialists ?) will never ever disappoint and disillusion like the rest. That's because they'll be the archetypal party of protest, and never aspire to get anywhere remotely near real power, or facilitate any real change. But... if you want to feel good about yourself it will be by far the best party to join, and especially appealing to all wet-behind-the-ears youngsters. Oh - so that's another cardinal policy: lower the voting age to ten, then one year less than any other proposal. I think that's the real meaning of "progressive", don't you? Yes, I think I've got this politics malarkey cracked now; a real tragedy that this damascene moment has come forty years too late for a "rewarding" political career.

I think fourgee is right: it has to be digital. The barely visible panel joins, moire patterning with the camera's pixels on the right, and the total precision, give it away. And, of course the original artwork would be created on a computer, so everyone is right. Paper posters are SO 20th Century!

What impresses me is the total precision of that sign. Can you ever imagine pasting every one of those sheets so precisely at 3am on a wet and windy Yorkshire night, and in a state of blind anger too? Lisa is either a woman of steely cold precision, or one who has no compunction seeking out professionals. Either way it's a complete idiot male that's messing with her!

15ftx10ft sign put alongside the busy Sheffield Parkway in Yorkshire

I have to agree with your first sentence, but when you criticise my posting the graph because "The graph is a stand alone set of figures" we part company. Trade with the EU is what it is all about; at least that's what we were told it was about by lying politicians (most notably the execrable Ted Heath). It's the only defence the EUphiles have for the tragic damage the EU has done to our traditional industries. It's what all the shrill warnings of the likes of Clegg focus on (those mythical three million jobs dependant on our seemingly booming exports to the EU). The "anti-EU brigade" - 51% of the electorate according to a recent poll, so perhaps the biggest brigade in history - have to go where this fallacious argument takes them. Of course there are many other issues like our sovereignty, right to self-determination, democracy, and basic freedoms, but the economic argument is the one that got us into this mess in the first place, and not to address the lie is to accept it. I do hope we can discuss the other matters at length, but the fundamental fact that over the last couple of decades the EU has represented an ever smaller part of our trade is undeniable! And, in answer to Maggie's point of who benefits, just ask any Greek!

You've missed the essential point: everything the politicians have told us has turned out to be the truth standing on its head, so why should we continue to believe them and vote as they say? You are also discounting all the doom and disaster scenarios that were run by us if we didn't adopt the Euro. Politicos just love people with short memories who don't recall really basic things like that (or the impressionable young who don't have any - yet!) Any economist looking objectively at that graph would say that the precise placing of the inflection points are too big a coincidence. Even if other factors did come into play it was a huge coincidence that they did exactly when they did - no? Nothing can ever be known with certainty, but ignoring the best available evidence and proceeding regardless will generally get you into deep water at some point. What you are actually doing is just what the politicians want you to do: opt for the status quo. But there's the really big lie - there is no status quo! It's either a united states of Europe under German domination, or a return to the same sort of trading relationship we had under the EEC. The EUphile politicos don't have the statistics you demand. If they did we'd be bombarded with them incessantly. All they have is the usual empty scare stories of what will happen if we don't do what they want. What statistics there are actually point in the other direction, which is precisely the purpose of my post. i.e the EUphiles have nothing to point to as evidence, and a great deal they want to conceal, but there IS NOW useful evidence to the contrary. So much evidence that many independent economists are coming down on the side of leave. The bright people in the EFA countries have already realised that they are better off with a non-political trading relationship and are praying that we'll join them, even take the leading position. Greenland is prospering since leaving. Regarding your "Does the country suddenly start producing oodles of goods that the rest of the world wants to buy? Or would the rest of Europe continue buying from cheaper markets, as they are now? I think we all know the answer." The UK does already produce oodles of goods (and services) the World wants to buy, We are pretty good at self-deprication but are actually the world's fifth largest economy and forecast to overtake Germany and become the fourth largest before too long. It's what that graph shows: world trade is racing ahead whilst the EU is already declining in importance to us (and in ITS position in the World). EU barriers would actually work in our favour if we left, because we already produce to meet the layers of EU regulation, whilst lower labour cost producers would struggle to replace us. But... here you are falling for the myth that our exports to the EU would be much affected - they won't! Nothing much tradewise will happen for the first two years after our giving notice. During this period there is a treaty obligation for rump EU to negotiate a trade agreement on favourable terms with us. Germany can not afford to drag its feet on this because they have far more to lose than us, and their current growth is anaemic by former measures. The reality is that we'll ultimately get a trade agreement which is pretty much indistinguishable from what we already have, but without all the political twaddle. This is something which the EUphles won't even discuss, because any sort of speculation as to likely outcomes kills their arguments stone dead. Others will ultimately want what we got - that's certain death of all their political pipe dreams!

You really couldn't make any of this up! He's closely associated with one of the most two-faced b&*&(*s on the face of the Earth, and it looks like she's now making Labour policy! It's truly Christmas every day from now on for duplicitous Dave!

I think he'd rather call them comrades Tony. First climb-down already: party says he HAS to sing the national anthem! But, did they specify which country's national anthem? Anyway - small mercies - it can no longer be those filthy-capitalist, homophobic, sexist, xenophobic, warmongering, Russian's anthem. Elton John might compose him a new one (one that only alludes to The Queen) if he talks sweetly, but he'll likely have to sack his brutish driver first!

...has achieved precisely nothing for the UK Economy: Notice that our exports to Europe were steadily increasing in the 20 years before The Common Market (EEC) was formed, and continued increasing at the same sort of rate for 20 years after. And, this was despite all the crises and industrial unrest that we were told were disrupting and disadvantaging British industry over that period. BUT... with The Single European Market (EU), with all its bureaucracy, and regulation, and other nonsense, they then stagnated. Since just before the millennium they've been falling. Who has benefited in that 20 years? Well, certain not the British people! This is exactly the opposite of what politicos of the three major parties told us The Single European Market would bring. They also told us that we must join the Euro or we were sunk, and it was only a miracle of fortune that saved us from that stupidity. And, the next 20 years if we don't stand on our own feet again? My best guess is a mirror image of what started around 1958 - the signs of a failing EU are there already. Better Off Out - certainly!