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No assumptions necessary! I'm at the sharp end, where they sleep in fields, in groups of hundreds under motorway bridges. Where the bodies wash up on the beach, and the numbers visibly increase by the year. The only thing that stops us being overrun is that they have a lemming-like desire to press on to Northern Europe, and the fact that (apart from highly seasonal back-breaking jobs in the countryside that no Europeans will even consider for the money - illegal away), there is absolutely no employment in the Southern reaches of the Fourth Reich! I had a couple of local guys on my drive the other week canvassing for political support. Their interesting proposition was that all Euro politicians should be shot in the head. A bit extreme, but there are times I could be persuaded to pull the trigger myself!

I know exactly what you mean; perhaps best exemplified by the 1968 Spanish winning entry.

It is! Clearly the profundity of thought transcended even the more intelligent reader. So, I apologise for my solo tripette into the realm of human perceptions. Note to self: Do not start topics concerning any example of "modern art". By way of redress I offer this home-spun philosophical alternative, ya all: (With apologies to Mrs Gump Snr.) Lidl is like a shared box of chocolates: by the time you decide what you really want - it's all gone!

No, because they want to tell us how we should live, and how we should think, what we can and can not say, and even impose their own barbaric legal system. Otherwise the only problem we have is with the sheer volumes being imposed on us by people who want to use immigration to make a political point - like... Nature calls this cuckoo in the nest syndrome, and only thick lefties are dumb enough to trash their own culture in the vague hope that if we allow ourselves to be completely overrun the world will magically become "a better place". This is on par with their wish to make rich people poor because that (supposedly) will make us more equal. Rather than aiming to make everyone better off, "equality" becomes a goal in itself and everyone ends up worse off as the wealth creators are disincentivised, or simply give up in the face of cultural stupidity! I have massive sympathy for economic migrants (and i get to see a lot more of them than you do). They are only trying to do what we all do, and that's build a better life for ourselves and our children. But, many of them have the sense to see what the Guardian-reading dolts can't see, and that's that too many and they kill the very thing they seek. On a less serious note Padders clearly passes the Kipper's immigration test with flying colours - he's a massive earner for the UK!

As we are back to politics here I have A Song for Europe. Actually not Europe but the EU; strange how our politicos use the names almost interchangeably when they are utterly different concepts. I see the respected Digby Jones is now telling the truth now that he's no longer gagged as CBI boss.

All great stuff, but I was searching for something more profound. Anyway, after several days deep thought I now have the answer to the meaning Lidl, the Universe and everything. The answer is:.

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.