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Maybe they just get to see more malingerers and hypochondriacs than most, and the more they see the surer they become? I can handle this kind of "political indoctrination", but at my age I'm certainly not going to take any more BS from commie nurses. Ones who think that because I'm paying (twice!) for an examination I deserve sub-human treatment and to be punished. The old Ashington Hospital had some good people on staff, but it certainly employed some scum nurses - ones who put their politics well before patients, basic human decency, and compassion. Only the addled brains of the hard left would go there! On the "free speech" thing I will reserve judgement until the detailed measures are announced. But with Miliband proposing to outlaw even mild criticism of Islam (but not any other religion), it's a bit choice to be damning selective controls on promoting Islamic hate this early. Of course if we hadn't had to endure all this multiculturalism insanity we wouldn't have had a problem, and there'd be absolutely no excuse for limiting freedoms. Where are all the promoters of multiculturalism now? Answer: long dead, retired on fat politico's pensions, and/or keeping their heads well down whilst the country pays a huge price for their little social experiment. The old adage "When in Rome..." should be nailed up at the UK Border. It suited, and even benefited past immigrants as they fully integrated.

I will post updates here, but it could take over a year to actually receive and review the gismos.

Kickstarter Page here. Scroll well down the above page. First deliveries estimating at December. The "Pocket" housing looks cool.

Caught on the radio tonight.. The Tories are now locked into a radical agenda they never actually intended. Why? Because they were utterly convinced there'd be another coalition. So... the bright boys in the back room threw a whole load of radical measures into the Conservative manifesto which the LDs couldn't possibly agree to, with the sole intention of trading them away to get back to what they actually wanted to do. In regarding Cleggie as a dimwit they would seem to have outsmarted themselves. With the fishy twins geared up to condemn every single Tory measure, in order to play to the home crowd, it seems we are in for interesting times.

Now we're only waiting for the announcements that Labour and the LDs have rejected their leaders' resignation letters. Real soon I'd imagine!

In the "old man at the cenotaph with a duffel coat" you'd be talking about another Oxford PPE graduate and champaign socialist, Michael Foot. In your haste to excuse his blunder you're missing the prime fact: the "duffel coat" (or donkey jacket) spoke clearly to most people that he'd lost touch with reality, and lived in his own world. No one could see him as a leader on the world stage, or someone that could get to grips with our own problems. This was a view which transcended party allegiances, and in dismissing the general view your emotions are overruling your experience. Of course I'm not saying that our leaders shouldn't go to university (did you read any of those critiques of the Oxford PPE?)! It's the lack of depth of their experience (life, career, and educational), and the conformity of their thought, that's the reason for people's frustration with the present political classes. It's amusing to read of your intention to join Labour (though are you clear which Labour Party you are about to join?). A political analyst of the radio last night explained that the phenomena of people rushing to join political parties that have just been roundly defeated is a well documented one. He explained that the transitory boost in membership never translates into actual votes, and used the recent example of the surge in Green Party membership (following Natalie Bennett's complete b-up on radio) not resulting in any improvement in their GE showing. Your analysis of "power mongers (the international corporations)" isn't too far off the mark. But, I fear you are about to join a party that is just about to renew its vows to crony capitalism. Kippers are genuinely against crony capitalism, but they very sharply differentiate between home grown enterprise and global corporatism. The total failure of Miliband to go here resulted in his Labour Party being seen as anti-business. It's one of the principal reasons Labour insiders are putting forward to explain their failure. In this respect they are spot on, and Alan Sugar's announcement only confirms this. After the inquest the Labour Party won't want to go anywhere near anyone holding that particular song sheet, so save your subscription. Here's a useful check-list for you to explore: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_the_United_Kingdom#Minor_UK_left.2Ffar-left_parties

Why do you believe that voting for professional politicians who came straight out of university into a party machine, and have never had a productive job in their life, would result in a "fairer and more just society"? Their proposition is very simple: you allow us to continue to live in the style to which we've been accustomed, and we will tell you just what you want to hear. Privately, these people will admit they dole out platitudes and hyperbole. They can be amazingly frank when it's strictly off the record. It's almost as if they have an inner need to prove to themselves that at core they are honest. Suggest to them that they explain the hard reality to their electorate and come clean on what can really be delivered, and they'll tell you that if they did that no one would vote for them. Look at Ed's "carved in stone" promises. Looks great, doesn't it? But look again and tell me how you or I will ever be able to tell if any of those promises have been kept. They can be made to mean whatever Ed wants them to mean. What the ^%%& does "A STRONG ECONOMIC FOUNDATION" mean? It could be used to justify billions of pounds spent on useless infrastructure; just like when he blew huge sums, and put up everyone's energy bills, chasing "climate change" nonsense when he was the energy minister. What he actually achieved was "a strong foundation" of private and national debt! Little of the drivel that LibLabCon puts out is genuine policy. It's generally pseudo-aspirational junk, only there to persuade uncritical people to feel good about voting for them. It has little foundation in either fact or reality. The thing about the bacon sarnie is that it's a familiar process we can relate to and immediately assess competency. It illustrates that he's a dork who probably couldn't hold down a job as a supermarket shelf stacker, yet we are supposed to believe that he is capable of dealing with all the nation's thorny problems, ones that even specialists have no clear answers to. The extent of his detachment from reality is nowhere more evident than the his disastrous tenure as energy minister: http://www.express.co.uk/comment/columnists/frederick-forsyth/437556/This-energy-policy-of-Ed-Miliband-s-will-go-up-in-smoke http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/apr/24/energy-coal-carbon-capture-environment The guy has already cost this country billions, and is probably single-handedly responsible for killing off what we had left of a coal industry. He's also hit the very people he pretends to care about the hardest, both in bumping their energy bills, and then locking in the increase. Tedious and often impossible to explain to the average voter, so the bacon sarnie metaphor has its uses. The Country is well rid of both him and Balls!

Simples: The Greed & Fear Party trumps the Jealousy & Envy Party, ably assisted by both idiot trade unionists (who though they could bring back the 1970's), and an alien nationalist party who obligingly provided a double helping of fear. However, there's a proper democratic party on the scene polling millions of votes, and the tired old Europe-at-any-price & Pretend-to-be-Democrats Party is now a very poor fourth and no longer in the running. And, in the coming weeks... Welcome to New-Old-New Labour. Yes, Teflon Tony is back in all but name. "Things... can only get better... can only get better..." (for crony capitalism).

Care to comment on your "propaganda & you know that" remark now Tony? You party's message: Dear Labour voter make sure you vote Tory to block that popular democracy upstart. We might be on the losing side this time, but you owe us one for the next round of Westminster musical chairs. Fair do's all around - except, of course, for the idiots who tribally vote for our establishment parties.

I don't know how to break this, but.... if you think the next GE in going to be as far away as 2020... you are going to be rather upset! Evens on another before a year is out would seem a good bet. A five year parliament is maybe a 10% chance, and for that to happen some politico or other would already need to have been lying in their teeth. Near impossible, you say?

It won't work with MS Internet Explorer because it doesn't support MJPEG. It did work fine with Firefox up until a recent update, but they seen to have introduced a bug in the MJPEG support. That's beyond our control but hopefully it will be fixed before too long. Chrome and the stock Android browser both seem to work fine at the moment.

The fact that you falsely keep claiming he's a banker is right on the Labour propaganda sheet. Bankers are the new scapegoats (somehow not the Labour government who oversaw the banks and made all the rules under which they operated) so, if only it were true, and if only the audience were simpletons you hope they are... Keep on repeating the lie, keep on talking down to the electorate, that's the way Labour has always worked. Only in your distorted view of the world could Ukip be far right. At present it's the only true voice of the people. The extremists are the crony capitalists your Westminster elitists are in league with. Those friends of Mandleson and Blair who want to replace our democracy with their post-democratic society, where ordinary people are totally subservient to a European superstate, and all traces of British identity are erased. International crony capitalism and your Westminster elites are hand in glove! There's no need to feel sad for the working man Tony, he's learned a lot since 1997. Reserve your sad for the people that LibLabCon are about to dupe - all over again!

But... you tell me you don't like links Tony! It's worth reading that Spectator article though. No propaganda there - just the truth about how the ruling elites operate. How long before even you realise that Miliband is almost interchangeable with Cameron and Clegg? Sure, he'll do a few token daft things like tinker with (but not actually end) non-dom status. Thus proving his credentials to his paymasters, and so go on to damage our economy a bit more in the process. But, he's a career politico simply out for number one, exactly like like "things can only get better" Blair. The ruling elites can do their thing because deluded people like you let them. They pull your strings, and you oblige by giving them your vote for the dumbest of reasons! Nothing really changes, because at core you are comfortable with your delusions. You are provided with a scapegoats by someone else - someone who happily does your thinking for you, and that's all you need. This is equally true if you are a tribal Tory, or (that dying breed) a tribal Liberal "Democrat"!

Nope, but if anyone can provide another first class, main road, location we can fund and install the gear, and maybe even a connection. A Front Street West, "Top of the Town", Bedlington Station, Glebe Road, North Ridge, or Hartford Road location would be favoured for the action.

Though I'd get that one in before Miliband makes it a criminal offence to criticise "the only true religion". http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2015/04/if-ed-miliband-makes-islamophobia-illegal-i-volunteer-to-test-the-new-law-immediately/ Meanwhile: while Milband and Cameron are desperately running around chasing a few votes, whilst avoiding any discussion of what will certainly turn out to be one of the biggest problems we will face - well apart from global financial meltdown (the real Global problem Gordon!) - at least someone is trying to knock some basic common sense into the heads of the EU elites. Remember this when the first direct Islamic offensive hits European shores. Then, it will be used as an excuse to bolster the EU Army. This will go on to intervene in places like Ukraine in order to expand the Reich. It's all fairly inevitable - except to those currently in total denial, like the Belgian Green guy.

I think you might find that if Nigel doesn't win Thanet but the party gets its first decent foothold in parliament - as is fairly inevitable - then Douglas Carswell will step forward as leader. It's simply not the one man show as the media makes out. Douglas will appeal to a lot more tribal Tory voters as he's much less in-your-face than Nigel. It's actually a great pity that you didn't meet Paul Nutall in Bedlington the other night, as I think he's very much the sort of politician you mention. He's actually a very intelligent guy, but with his feet firmly on the ground. Paul has been in the area a few times, and it's not just raw be seen and be gone electioneering. He'll be back after the election, of that I'm sure. Finally, I take issue with you that my nationalism is any different from Smudge's. That's a bit presumptive of you, and I'd like to hear your rationalisation for this. In the last few days I've been visited by Bepe Grillo's Five Star Movement, and, though I agree with much of what they say about the EU, it's obvious to me that there are significant differences between their narrower nationalistic outlook and the much broader one of Ukip. So please no "Little Englander" labels - leave that one to the fools who want to give away the rest of our sovereignty.

If I were able to I certainly would. They've been invited here to state their views in detail, I do hope they will. I fear that they are the views of their left wing teachers though, and that they have been fed a continual diet of lies and media distortion. Update: Whoops I missed the obvious in the earlier post. direct download link here.

I know you're not! http://www.ukip.org/manifesto2015 Scroll down and hit the button. If 76 pages is too much, and you want a printed "short form" one, I understand that they are handing them out at Front Street East. This is the only party manifesto at this election that has been fully costed by professional bodies, so the figures all add up. They had to, else they would have been torn to shreds by establishment politicos. These policies were decided on by ordinary members and aren't the result of spin doctors, focus groups, or political tit for tat trading. I honestly tried reading the Labour one myself, but it was all hyperbole, and by page 28 I'd seen no hard information, so gave up at that point. IMHO the Tory one isn't even worth starting as Cast-iron-promise Dave has always done exactly what he likes; manifesto promises are ignored, and stuff not in the manifesto is rushed through parliament to suit his whim. BTW If you do nothing else then skip forward to page 66. I've never served in the forces myself but I think the way we treat the people who have is shameful. I'm told by a military guy that the present force's vote is solidly Ukip.

That's really interesting, because it sounds like much of what you say is self-contradictory. Notice I said "sounds like" because I'm sure you are very clear in what you believe. You say you don't like Ukip because "it is based on nationalism", but go on to put forward a very nationalistic view. Simple question: do you personally know many of these "racist bigots" or is this simply what you've been led to believe by the media? I know lots on actual Ukip members but there's not a single one any reasonable person could call either "racist" or bigoted. They are all concerned where our country is headed, yes - but, none of them is any more "jingoistic" or more nationalistic than an average Brit. In fact I'd say that they are universally not very far from the average Brit in their views, simply a bit ahead of the curve in their assessment of our situation. You sound like you don't think the EU is a terribly good idea for us, but seem to prefer EU Party #1, EU Party #2, and EU Party #3 to the only party that believes that our nation should retain its links with Europe, but not be ruled by Europe. The only rampantly nationalistic party we have is EU Party #4 (the SNP) Unusually, for a political party, I think the clue is in the name . Like all forms of extreme nationalism I think we can all predict that that one will end in tears. Finally, you say you "tend to be anti-establishment", yet here again you turn your back on the only anti-establishment party that has any chance of pricking the establishment bubble. It seems to me that while professing to be anti-establishment you are in fact buying 100% into the establishment's myth of their eternal right to rule.

I'd love to hear from the Ukip haters here exactly what they hate? It seems to Kippers that what they actually hate is their own country. My take on this is that the haters have swallowed establishment propaganda hook line and sinker. That's a huge victory for the establishment, and for the very status quo that those people rail against. Setting individual against individual and thoroughly controlling the discourse guarantees the continuance of the Westminster political elites. You can excuse those young kids for still carrying the second-hand views of their last teacher, but adults really should do their own investigation.

So... when Miliband and Cameron form "an understanding" (read coalition by another name) "in the interests of national stability" (read to preserve their elitist monopoly), are you going to apologise to everyone for your total naivety? I can remember someone in 2010 posting here that a LibCon coalition was an absurdity and wouldn't last. Like you they simply didn't comprehend how the establishment looks after its own. But, I'm sure they understand now! Do you know what the joke is Tony? (Clue: It's one you learn on their Oxford PPE course.) http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9322492/the-politics-of-ppe/

Yes, you read that correctly! From Labour: "DON'T LET UKIP BREAK OUR GREAT LOVE". And.. they say politicos can't ever tell the truth! http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/04/27/thanet-south-labour-and-tories-plead-dont-let-ukip-break-our-great-love/

Well, urging people to turn on their brains is a lot better than those on the left who work on the premise that people don't have one! At least I'm not telling people what they must think, and how they should think, or shouting them down! You'll note that the left is particularly prone to attacks on the messenger when they find the message unpalatable - those 'ist accusations are rather one-sided. There's a lot of indoctrination going on in the UK at present. More than I've ever seen in my lifetime, and it's particularly targeted at the young. I for one am no longer prepared to sit there and take it. I'm no conspiracy theorist, nor alone in this belief. If I'm too "smug", then you are appointed my moral guardian in this respect; please feel free to de-smugify all further postings and/or provide background "health warnings". Hopefully though this won't dominate the discussion, and we can stay on topic, most of the time.

Confounding the pollsters - who placed them a lowly fourth in the election running - the Finnish equivalent of Ukip has come in in second place. It is now directly challenging the ruling centrist coalition party, and has pushed the pro-EU party into third place. Were the Finns deliberately misled by EU funded media? I've no idea. But, if the EU's tentacles are anything like as extended into Finland as they are into the UK, this seems a highly plausible explanation for the major polling "errors". http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/04/21/finnish-ukip-equivalent-defies-predictions-and-grabs-second-place-in-national-election/ This is a party that was almost unheard of a decade ago, and illustrates that yet another EU country is rapidly coming to its senses regarding the EU political experiment. What the Europhiles don't want people to discover is how well the two countries that have already left the EU are doing. What! Countries have actually left the EU?! Why don't we hear about this from UK media? Simples, our EU enthused, EU funded, media don't want you to know! In the age of post-democracy it's not good for you to know. It only suits the ruling elites to tell major porkies about such things, and go where they are going in tiny steps using stealth tactics. Tales of alleged doom and disaster are the only way to keep the proles suitably on message. The truth isn't too hard to seek out these days though. Oceania or the EU?