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You can be sure that this is one story you aren't going to read in The Guardian! http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2015/03/20/labours-mystery-600k-donor-martin-taylor-revealed-as-mayfair-hedge-funder/ What it amounts to is that the third biggest contributor to Ed Miliband's election campaign is linked to international capital in the shape of a hedge fund! Yes, one of those "evil" hedge funds that Ed is so keen on demonising. It gets even more interesting: Yesterday (just as I predicted in the Cameron -v- Miliband thread) Miliband dropped the last thin pretence that he'd ever allow a referendum on the EU. He claims that this is because British business would be damaged, but he knows that this isn't the case - the only businesses that would be net disadvantaged by a EU withdrawal are the international crony capitalists who exploit cross border transfer pricing, cheap immigrant labour, and tax havens - particularly those Bilderberg people! Yes, Miliband & Balls ambitions are bought and paid for by international capital, just like Dodgy Dave, Teflon Tony and the whole of the LibLabCon game! They are wedded to international capital and the EU for subtly different reasons, but the best interests of ordinary native Brits feature nowhere! None of them have any intention of stemming the immigration tidal wave. This suits international capital hugely, because it depresses wages to all except the elites, and those the elites wish to buy. It would be interesting to hear what local Labour Party members have to say about this?

No it's not merc. I'm not exactly well at the moment - hopefully fully recovering from the big C - and so I do a little of what I can from afar. That might not always be true, but quite frankly there are some excellent and enlightened people in our town, and I'm not in the slightest bit irreplaceable.

Can't have been X22 bus threatening man? Naa.. he's obviously an Ashington lout.

Calculator now to hand: I think we are going to see a 75%+ turnout this time - hopefully more. But let's say it's only 70% and a 65% split shared between Lab-Con, that's 48.75% and says you are wrong. But, that misses my main point in that people need to know why they are voting which way they are; they should even know why they aren't bothering. "why does an intelligent person have to watch a largely scripted tv debate to get the picture?" because life is full of surprises, and politicos are only "economical with the truth" part of the time. Second hand observation is little better than second hand thinking. Or, to put it more glibly: the script is never the movie!

There's always been a section of the population that's opted out of politics, but it's always a minority. Sorry if I disregarded them. Check the raw data and you'll appreciate that the ONLY significant fall in political engagement occurred after Tony Blair was elected. It's not hard to appreciate why that would be. http://www.ukpolitical.info/Turnout45.htm But since 1997 people have clearly been becoming increasing more politically engaged. No one has to watch the "debate", but I'd imagine anyone who'd visit this topic is at least curious. My bet is that this topic will be well down on the site's hit list, but that's no reason not to run it, and invite the opinion of those who did. I'm really sorry you find me "smug and superior", but at core that's exactly what I'm not! I believe that everyone has the capacity to change their life for the better, and that there's generally very little difference between our thinking ability. That's a humbling thought that we all need to take on board. However I believe that there are a class of people who step forward to do that thinking for us; that their motives are generally suspect, and that our town has cruelly suffered as a result. I'm generally not talking here about the people who stuck with the place and who's names are sometimes preserved on our place names, or even significant figures in the early Labour party. This is much more a modern phenomena. I don't accept the popular belief that formal "education" is the solution to everything, and a path to universal advancement. And, I don't believe that ability to communicate clearly is in any way indicative of ability to think. Life has taught me that creative and independent thinking is only possible if you turn your own brain on, and that nature rewards INDEPENDENT thinking. Too often formal education is used as an a cypher for indoctrination and conformity. i.e. I'm just an average lazy Joe with a tiny few luck breaks who, through life experience, is urging other average Joe's to stop accepting the spoon feeding of a elitist class who parasitically advances themselves by direct lies and pandering to populist myths. That's a major reason why I don't engage directly in politics myself, but that doesn't mean that I'm opting out - anything but! If this comes over as smugness or a superior attitude to you, then hard cheese! I will continue my crusade to better the lot of everyone in Bedlington until my dying day, and hopefully beyond. I don't expect any kudos, or formal recognition, or indeed want any; I do this simply because I owe it to my hard working, humble, and amazing ancestors, who were also committed to self advancement of all in Bedlington. Thank you for providing the opportunity to formalise my late-in-life mission statement.

Nope, I just want to e-x-t-e-r-m-i-n-a-t-e the LibLabCon.

Well, if there was no interest in the "debates" the broadcasters wouldn't bother either - simples! Something like 65% of the country are still going to vote for either Cameron or Miliband, so an intelligent person would want to try to fathom out why! No one is going to change anything by moaning, or standing in the rain shouting slogans. If they can't get your vote they'd rather you opted out, so essentially simply moaning about the current order is playing their game. They love people like Brand, who diffuse and disperse opposition, but don't threaten their monopoly on power in the slightest. But, get even a few percent of the electorate to wake up to an alternative, and then they're genuinely listening. None of this they'll admit to of course, but it's the reality of the present very closely run situation. In a place like Bedlington, which has been systematically impoverished by being taken for granted for decades, this is particularly relevant.

There's a very good reason why the representative public panel judged Cameron had won the "Leaders Debate" by 5:1 (and other public polls came to similar conclusions) - yet, straight after the event the media decided that overall Miliband had edged it. It's very simple: the media were looking at presentation, nuance, and who faked sincerity better, whilst the public were actually listening to what was said. Cameron was his usual smoothie self, and did what he was always going to do - present himself as a safe pair of hands to complete the recovery. It wasn't impressive, and we know that when his lips move it generally indicates he's lying. He'd obviously not put much time into rehearsing either - such is the job of being PM. On the other hand Miliband was super rehearsed. That didn't prevent two of his answers being genuinely disturbing. Firstly, when a member of the public asked him about the EU, any pretence to democracy went right out of the window. He believes his voters are stupid enough to be fooled by the "if there are any major changes we'll have a referendum" crap, but then practically tells us that he'll never ever allow one whatever. This goes over the heads of the Eurocentric media that's bought and paid for by the EU, but intelligent voters aren't fooled for a nanosecond. Secondly, and even more damning, were Paxo's questions about immigration levels. Ed candidly admits Labour's huge blunder of allowing too many immigrants into the country. He's so sorry, but does he really mean this? So... Paxo asks what's the maximum acceptable population in this small island - 70 million - 80 million - 90 million - 100 million? As each number is progressively called Ed looks like a rabbit frozen in the headlights, but glancing in all directions for an escape route. He adopts a sideways posture; his lips quiver but nothing is heard; this is simply not a fair question! Eventually he recalls a few of the pre-rehearsed avoidance strategies. Unfortunately none of the obvious follow up questions are asked, and he's off the hook. The media mark him for presentation, but the public has seen his true colours - allowing the flood of migrants to continue apace. He's not the remotest bit sorry, and has absolutely no intention of controlling immigration.

LOL! If you can remember it was ITV and not the Biased Broadcasting Corporation. Interesting that many of those politicos got nowhere, and many are even now hard to identify. An ageing Heseltine though is still spouting his Europhile nonsense, with ever less people giving him any credibility. http://www.itv.com/news/2015-02-11/spitting-image-team-reunite-for-spin-off/ I think they can save their money on the Cleggie clone: by the time they launch he'll likely be ancient history.

It's always back! The very occasional non-availabilities are when the IP lease expires, and our software takes a short while to catch up with the newly acquired one. Doesn't occur too often but blame BT. It is going on the "Chat" page in early to mid May, unless there is significant opposition from members. You'll see why. One of the biggest software upgrades we've ever had then. I think you'll like it as the site will be much easier to use for those who presently struggle a bit. Update: We are looking into the possibility of getting a fixed IP assigned to the camera - just for you. No promises quite yet.

British foreign policy in the Middle East is really rather simple... I nicked this from may2015.com but think they nicked it from some other publication. It's credited to Aubrey Bailey, from Fleet in Hampshire. I suspect there's a similar extremely simple explanation of present-day UK foreign policy toward Russia. Anyway, bring back the Cold War when everyone knew where the nuke was due in from, and we all had an approximate idea of who our allies were.

Well, I'd ask third parties to watch the webcam and decide who they agree with here. Hey, the play write Shakespeare didn't even exist, but that never stopped Stratford for one minute! And, it's one building we haven't completely vandalised - yet. I said specialist shopping; there's been brave individual attempts but no synergy has been encouraged. Tesco was trying to compete with like out of Town.

Actually the through traffic is pretty heavy, but there's never been any vision to do anything other than get rid of it at the earliest possible second. Spend a short while watching the webcam of the Market Place, and then mentally add in the top of the town traffic, and also that skirting round past the police HQ. Specialist retail should have been our aim, but individuals that have attempted it simply haven't had the support or encouragement at the civic level. There has never been any vision to capitalise on our past either. We are the actual birthplace of BOTH the railways that span and transformed the entire world, and the guy that kicked off international communications. We also have a world famous name. None of this you'd know because the politics of those historic people didn't suit a socialist mindset. And, many of the people we still mindlessly elect have other towns they consider more politically expedient to favour.. Yes, the political mindset has always been to encourage larger enterprises. Hence we have the empty acres at Cramlington, which were supposed to encourage intermediate industry. It sometimes comes and gives the politicos a photo op; generally it doesn't find the cheap labour it is looking for and turns the place into a warehousing or - after the grants run out - closes down completely. The public money is spent and the expected sustainable jobs don't materialise. Attempts at smaller industrial units generally fall well short of the mark, and are awkwardly zoned and overpriced. I've known a number of people who take these on and spend most of their productive time travelling because the support services they need are so spread out over the region. There's a basic lack of understanding of the needs of small enterprise - how tiny job-creating enterprises used to thrive in the town, and still do in other countries. What we are now about is transferring a welfare dependency culture in the region to one of EU grant dependency. Here the parallels with the Melanesian cargo cult are telling. Big shiny EU plane no come folks - you have to start to think for yourselves!

You really should start thinking for yourself Tony, and not have it all pre-digested for you by your union bosses. The Labour party as you think it still is died 20 years ago (Easter 1995 to be precise). That was Labour's "Clause Four Moment" when all that you still believe in was rejected in a raw bid for power. Yes, I'm quoting from that font of all wisdom Socalism Today! Go read the article - I don't agree with the conclusions or the mad Marxism, but much of it is gospel truth. The problem is, in selling out completely to international capital (much of it in the form of the EU) Teflon Tony has sold out his own country and all traditional Labour supporters to boot. Labour has gone from the frying pan right into the fire - another epic blunder! Miliband isn't a return to traditional values, he's a shill that will be ditched by Blairite Labour at the first opportunity. He's the fairy on the international (Euro) capitalist Christmas tree. Labour has nothing to offer working people but competing with ever grateful immigrants for the lowest paid jobs - and, once again, the North East will be taken for granted and totally ignored whilst they pander to the new cosmopolitan metropolitan class they've set out to create. Paradoxically the party that you mindlessly pan is the only remaining party which holds many of your core beliefs. It's certainly the only one which is at all genuinely interested in the problems of our town and our area. Ukip is interested in what worked well in the past, and blending it with what will work in the future without all the doctrinaire rubbish. Even renationalising the railways is being seriously considered and, if the best option in that case, will be adopted as core policy. Can you imagine Labour even permitting discussion on that matter? Yes, the majority of Ukip members believe in capitalist principals, but in domestic controllable and readily taxable capitalism, not in tax dodging international mega-corporations. Those who switch their industry to the source of the lowest labour cost, and abandon them at the drop of a hat. How can you believe that Labour is any different today from the Labour party you elected in 1997? If anything it's going to take us further down the international capitalist route and trash any traditional values we still hold in common!

Agreed, but it's the way things are done in Dave's brave new world. They are going to sack him later today, and aim to replace him with Chris Evans. Only real question is will the turbo twins follow him out the door? The phone will be ringing right now - Netflix, ITV, Sky? Probably the lot, and more. The title of the new show might incorporate the letter 'V'.

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Sorry! We couldn't find the page you've requested You can actually download an early release from here and burn a CD or flash a USB stick with it. There's no free lunch of course, and I think the general idea is to go onto a subscription model. This would help users, as there's no real reason why they have to do anything like so many major releases with all the inconvenience of full reinstalls and all the security key malarkey. This is more a marketing tool than anything - selling the same old code (that you already bought several times before) is a well trodden M$ revenue path. Having said that, now that Steve Ballmer is gone, it does seem that M$ is starting to listen to it's customers, and not simply pretending to listen. The ageing hippie was one of those people that was in the right place (sitting next to Gates) at the right time (the 1970's microcomputer explosion) and would likely be selling insurance otherwise. In a just world Windows 10 would be called Windows SB (Sans-Balmer); as it is they've made the point by simply skipping a digit. I suspect it was the money and power that he really loved. The modern term seems to be "Epic Fail!"

If I tackle all those we'd all be asleep in no time! BUT - predictably - the Winston Churchill line is trotted out again. So... something else Euro which desperately needs "reform" then? Seems all europhiles are budding curates these days, and oh so many eggs!

Our net contribution to the EU budget has been variously computed at £55M to £57M per day. By my - possibly flawed - arithmetic that's just a tad under £40K per minute. Whatever, it is it's huge, and it's ongoing, and we are in for even more out of the blue demands as the EU fails. You can't be sure of any figures with the EU because it is so riddled with graft. EU Budget fails audit test for 18th year in a row I don't know where you get that £4.7BN from (probably the delusional LDs), but it's likely a historic figure now way short of the mark. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/11200800/Britains-net-payments-to-EU-soar-by-a-third-in-a-year-ONS-figures-show.html You've also quoted my "we get precisely nothing" out of context. Of course I didn't mean that we got precisely nothing back from our contribution, I said we got precisely nothing for the net contribution. My essential point is that any "EU funding" is illusory because it's our own money back. Lured into an undemocratic European superstate with out own money! The Europhiles would like it all to be reduced to an economic argument where they can muddy the waters, but the argument is far wider. It's essentially about a post-democratic society and rule by elites. It's about diffusing opposition by regionalisation and subsuming national identities, and it's all founded on lies! They can't get it past the people by rational argument, so it's being done by stealth. Put simply it's a rehash of German National Socialism redacted of the ethnic elements. The EU parliament is nothing we in the UK can recognise as a parliament, the EU commission has all the power and rules by directive. Those directives are handed own by self-selecting political elites, and do not result from democratic forces, as in our style of government. I don't buy Malcolm's nod to social legislation either. Malc please quote me something that our own overpaid lawyers couldn't have arrived at independently. The EU principal of one size fits all does not hold in any sphere. I'd like to expand on this but that will do for now.

Our net contribution to the EU graft machine is £40,000 for every minute, of every hour, of every day, of every year, for which we get precisely nothing - except told how to run our country in ways which aren't in our own best interests. LabLibCon all have their noses firmly in the EU graft trough, so why do you have a problem with the fact that the party which British people democratically put there to represent them should claim their "fair" share of the EU booty, and use it in order to defeat the very system which promotes this waste? Go vent your disgust at Labour and Lib Dem who want to keep the payola flowing, and not a party working to get us out of this ASAP! How about a little bet that when Nick Clegg gets chucked out by the Sheffield electors and/or then loses his position as LD leader to Tim Farron he'll be provided with a ridiculously overpaid EU non-job (and a fat unearned pension) within two years. The Fourth Reich looks after its quislings, and the ruling elites look after their own, but only Ukip is committed to redressing the balance in favour of ordinary working people!

I was really upset to hear the devastating news. Keith was a staunch supporter of this community project, and will be sorely missed. My commiserations to his family. There has been a suggestion that we need to do something positive to keep his memory alive, and I'm fully in accord.

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Well... someone had to mention it! No, we'll not do a bring-back-Clarky poll it's already way overdone, and the result is a foregone conclusion. The dilemma for the guardianista riddled BBC is that they need the mungy. They need the audiences to justify their eternal empire building and their constant forays into many areas best done by commercial organisations. They want TG without Clarkson, but TG IS Clarkson! The BBC's true colours were exposed by the unattributed (but semi-official) leak that compared Clarkson to Savile. Yes, a large section of the leftie-luvvies want Clarkson to be exposed as a serial offender who should have been "outed" decades ago. He's actually an offender against their carefully nurtured left-wing delusions, and the whole ethos of twenty first century Beeb. But, he's at liberty and they know he holds all the cards - by their very own standards they are damned if they do and damned if they don't. Of course it's THEIR standards that are wrong, but even backed into a corner they'll never admit to that. The result can only be a lame attempt at a face-saving fudge from a once great organisation in rapid and terminal decline. That's the same pattern of terminal decline that the UK will face if their soul mates get into government!

It doesn't have to be a phone. NFC payment in wearables might just be the killer app that manufacturers are looking for. Not too removed from actuality as the watch I'm currently wearing has GSM/3G as well as bluetooth and WiFi. I thought the phone functionality might hit the battery too hard, so, for the past couple of months I've left it in auto on/off mode (i.e. it only turns on stand alone phone functionality if you forget your phone, otherwise becomes the equivalent of a BT headset). This morning I decided to be a bit experimental and left GSM/3G permanently on; so far the battery has stood up surprisingly well despite being in a poor signal area. NFC directly in the watch would seem to be the next logical step (My original Gear has NFC in the charging clip, but it's only intended as an aid to BT pairing). You could easily prime the watch to pay by twisting your arm into an unnatural palms-up. There's already an attitude sensor to turn on the display when you twist your arm the other way; alternatively use a voice command, or button press. No thanks, get enough of the fantasy world occupied by guardinistas these days from BBC Newsnight. Matchstick Katz and dog-end interviewers? Now I know exactly why Paxo quit. He's likely out a tad out on thirteen-year-olds though; 11 3/4 seems to be the current attainment level. Evan Davis still hasn't leaned that talking over interviewees 95% of the time doesn't make for a probing interview. It simply indicates that you hadn't framed the question properly in the first place, and that you aren't really interested in what they have to say in any event.

Curiously not one article I've seen even mentions the old twelve-sided thrupenny bit, though I guess they'll probably have just about the same purchasing value! By 2017 we'll likely be purchasing everything by NFC anyway - maybe! Given how often HMG plans Gang aft agley, isn't the inclusion of a thistle a bit like tempting fate? Much more sensible to have a picture of a nuclear submarine - so that the fishy crew would feel compelled to give them all up.