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Oh, you are going to see a lot more of this sort of thing from the completely unbiased BBC in the weeks ahead. UKIP: the only party that the establishment are so s*** scared of that they will search out the brother-in-law of the neighbour of someone who thinks they might have voted UKIP in 2005, and shove a microphone in his face, so there might be something they can edit up to sound irrational, and then attribute it to official party policy. What is being used against UKIP is the free discussion that is tolerated. Anyone can propose just about anything and have it subjected to open scrutiny. The establishment can't (read won't) get it's head around this. You'll notice that nowhere does the BBC link to actual UKIP policy, but prefers to interpret it. If a late and flustered Nigel Farage is accused of being unprofessional says "It took me six hours and 15 minutes to get here - it should have taken three-and-a-half to four. That is nothing to do with professionalism, what it does have to do with is a population." A perfectly reasonable statement given the blatantly obvious road overcrowding we now have, is twisted into a rant against immigrants, instead of the intended heads-up that things can only get worse without seriously considering the present pressures on ALL UK infrastructure. Then, we get: All complete and utter drivel, but crafted to make free discussion impossible. A few of these trolls are actually being paid by public funds, and many by party funds. Lots of people in this country don't want to see change, and when you can't argue against change, the way to fight it is to try to make people who advocate it look stupid by any possible means. When you control the media it's so easy! A constant barrage of left-wing "comedy" ridiculing Kippers on BBC radio being just one example. In previous generations this would have been completely shut down during an election period, but the establishment sees big advantage in ignoring precedent, and a meekly compliant public (who can't remember this protocol anyway) just devours the propaganda like in an Orwellian novel. Try standing up at a Lib or Lab or Con party conference and proposing something new. If procedural rules aren't used against you, then you'll be ushered out of the building. This isn't democracy, or even anything approaching popular democracy! Democracy includes the freedom for anyone to float ideas, and have them debated. Some will be crackpot, most will be entirely impractical (I'm looking at you Green Party), but in amongst them will be some gems which can be given a probationary try, and ultimately our society will be enriched by this.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/brogan-driscoll/page-3-the-sun_b_6522938.html?utm_hp_ref=uk Oh, they can dole out the mockery, but they can't take it! The Sun may think its had the last laugh, but its childish behaviour has only... - goodness, sounds just like my former head master, on a bad day in his secret fight against "substance abuse"! Yup, 215,000 signatures from twitterers with a ten second attention span. Whether The Sun actually drops p3 will depend exclusively on sales, and not in any way on endless, completely ignorable, cyber-petitions. I've never bought a single copy since the first freebie intros flopped through the Hartford Road letter box in the mid '60s. But hey - for a laugh...!

Can anyone remember A for Andromeda from way back in the early 1960's? It had a very smart early Julie Christie in it, but that's not why I remember it (honest!). The cultural thugs (or maybe it pre-dated those and it was the accountant thugs) at the Beeb destroyed the original recordings, but it was a real classic. One of the reasons for its status was the writers involved scientists to get the physics right, and to ensure that they didn't patronise the audience with the usual "Hollywood science". That was, of course, the days when UK science hadn't become heavily contaminated with politics, and so was worthy of respect (Doomwatch, anyone?). The early me found it quite gripping, and I bet that wasn't because of early BBC SFX!

Countless columns where written about it; numerous "feminist" commentators were interviewed - all expressing satisfaction that all the years of campaigning had now borne fruit; that good sense and political correctness had finally prevailed. All's fine with the World, until - in the next few moments - the Greek chorus settles on the next wrong to right. Then, yesterday, an article appeared which floated the interesting proposition that The Sun would have abandoned "p3" a decade ago if it hadn't been for all the valuable publicity provided by "feminist" protest. Silence from the chattering classes; they who won't accept any proposition that life is just a little more complicated than their myopic and childishly naive view of the world demands. Then, this morning, the final dagger (but, IS it? ): Well... however you feel about "p3" you have to appreciate the joke. Not to at least fake a chuckle would make you one of those myopic, politically correct, simpletons, who are so so easily led!

The camera distance makes the houses at the top seem far far closer, and the ones at the bottom appear almost in a straight row.

On yet another review I have to agree! BUT: A large upstairs side-window has been added to the house behind Foxy's 'O'.The picture has severe perspective distortion making the houses at the rear look far far nearer than they actually are. This could only be done by it being taken with (what would then be) a telephoto lens from the edge of the central grass parallel with the front door or even south side wall of No. 17.A lot of tree/bush growth on the corner now obscures other vital details.The metal window replacement mentioned earlier was already assumed.Anyone aiming to reproduce the shot for us will need to have a reasonable zoom (probs not a phone), and manoeuvre carefully at the said spot using a copy of the photo. Because of the distance the precise height from the ground won't be terribly critical, but the horizontal angle will be very critical. In fact it should be possible to pinpoint the exact place the camera was E/W within inches. Should be interesting! Minor details in the brickwork also give "DNA standard confirmation" to these conclusions.

Here's what happens when you ask a Labour shadow minister a question which he hasn't cleared with elitist though-control central first. Note that he IS talking about Muslim matters before he insists he's NOT going to talk about Muslim matters because that's not what he came for! Umunna uses the awkward-question avoidance tactic he's been taught, but the Sky reporter recognises this immediately and nullifies it. "You and I can have this debate if you want, but the wider and more bigger issue is..", reporter does want, but no way is he going to go there! LibLabCon is all about spinning a narrative that keeps the ruling elites in power; taking the voters as suckers. But, it's no longer working - the public and independent media isn't as stupid as they've been taught on their Oxford PPE courses!

You many, of course, have bought into the storyline that Tone is simply making unwanted comments from the sidelines, and is no longer any part of the Labour Party machine. After all the LP mouthpiece tells us just so: But, can this be believed? Ed Balls met Tony Blair during US trip 20th Jan 2015 and... But, most of all, money talks: the huge fees Tony can still command from overseas clients aren't simply because he's "very much the past", they're because he has that influence thing politicos are so keen to bamboozle us with. Rather a lot of influence in the present! The Westminster-elitist smoke and mirrors machine that is today's Labour Party wills you to believe quite differently.

So Cast-Iron-Promise Dave tells minions to "cut the green crap" in Tory Party policy, but is he sincere about cutting the green payola? And just who benefits from those "green" surcharges on all our fuel bills? http://order-order.com/2015/01/13/so-much-for-green-crap-cams-cash-from-sam-dads-wind-farm/

A true "public informational" gem! Where do I get blue road paint? For the record, do we get to know who was Bedder's answer to Mason Dixon or is this a state secret?

Having looked twice there are actually many "things that just do not look quite right". There are a tiny few houses of the pattern of the houses in the foreground, but none of them remotely line up like that, and generally Westlea houses have decent sized front gardens. Save for highly unlikely demolitions and rebuilds there's simply no way this can be Westlea. Are we even sure this is was taken somewhere in Bedlingtonshire?

I don't see many marching bands in that picture Tony. Where do you draw authority for that from? I'd make a small bet that I've seen him on the Front Street several times over the years. He had a very long career in politics before he became Labour leader, and I think there are pictures in the gallery which will disprove it. In fact I'd have said he was one of the fairly regulars, not one of the mob who only turned up prior to GEs. I'm wondering if the guy on Bevan's immediate right (off his left shoulder) isn't Wilf Holliday the then local Labour Party agent. That's just a wild guess, but it would lend strength to the guess of other guy being a Holliday too.

As soon as I saw it I said Bevan! He was very concerned with post war housebuilding, so this would be late 1940's or more likely 1950's (when Labour was in opposition). Whilst it's true that post-war Tory governments built substantially more homes than post-war Labour, there's a strong case that the ones built under Labour were higher quality - I think evidenced by the fact that percentage-wise many more are still around. It's just a pity that Labour councils didn't charge that little bit more in rent, going towards paying down the cost, and not simply aim to service the borrowing. It would have still been affordable to the vast majority of tenants. If they'd done that they'd have had the capital to extend the public housing stock, and ultimately would have been able to stabilise, or even reduce, rents instead of constantly raising them. As it was virtually all rent money went into servicing debt, and they became hostages to the markets. The same short-termism plagues all Labour governments, and causes their demise. It's interesting that Bevan himself addressed this in more general terms: Bloke on Bevan's right shoulder looks a tiny bit like Michael Foot - stickey out ears, and I think glasses. Goodness, is that an early donkey jacket? Just found this picture of them together in 1953: Looks like he's sent Nye to zzzzzzzz, which would be par for the course! Could there be one or more Holliday's in there too? I'm thinking maybe the guy on the right with the hat and glasses.

Not really - they were business partners who in real life deliberately avoided any mutual socialising. Their long and profitable partnership stemmed from erecting Chinese walls and respecting them. Countless others in showbiz didn't do that, resulting in the inevitable acrimonious splits. There's a lesson in there for Europe and Europhiles!

Rereading. Mmmm... clever turn of phrase there; have you ever considered politics? Ok, ok, I will concede that one!

This is latest comforting assurance the establishment is promoting, after all the others have been systematically shot down in flames. History says different. If your tribal loyalty to Labour had some logical basis Tony I could understand where you were coming from, but you must see that Labour is now the real class enemy of ordinary British working people. Politics has become a sham; both major parties pretend to heed the needs of ordinary people whilst - each for their own reasons - completely selling them out to overseas interests. Look at what's behind the curtain; people like Mandelson are pulling the Labour Party levers. You THINK your union is pulling his strings, but Miliband was put there by other forces, and your union leader is just a patsy. It's Blairism all over again, they've simply inserted one more misleading screen that says we've turned left. They haven't even bothered to replace Balls for God's sake! All the old Westminster elitists are still there, and they've recruited even more to the gentleman's club. Surely you are brighter than this, or is the promise of more bread and circuses an eternal means to enslavement? The way out isn't the I'm taking this shafting on my own terms of Dennis Skinner, or the lame street protest of Russell Brand. It's to get right in there and sort the b's out by the same democratic process that they've subverted. At the moment that means voting Ukip - not out of any sort of tribalism, but because it's the only way to fix our broken democracy.

Yup, Nige's abject faiure to go on the Oxford - how to screw friends and BS people - PPE course, and get a real job (as a metals trader not a stockbroker) instead, defo disqualifies him from joining the ranks of the uni-to-gravy-train ruling elites. http://www.ppe.ox.ac.uk/index.php/a-future-with-ppe Note that you aren't properly qualified to Express an opinion without a PPE. This explains why Evan Davis won't let anyone he's interviewing get a word in edgewise and constantly answers his own questions, whilst the appalling Yvette Cooper never finds it necessary to connect her brain to her mouth. I will stop here before I get on to our Tariq!

Don't worry about network integrity Maggie, Ive got TOi (The Other internet) just about ready to roll. It's hack, and even electromagnetic pulse proof. Got a few teething problems due to spuggies perching on the waxed string, but I'm training some of the local moggies to patrol the network on quadcopters. We can't promise to match normal ISP speeds any time soon, but we do have a protocol to transmit your old 78's faithfully (including all the needle jumps and scratches). So, please don't turn any more into flowerpots! ------------------------ Seriously: Have a look at a Chromebook (there used to be several models). The great thing is that Google will keep it fully up-to-date and virus free for you, and you won't need to shell out serious money for applications. https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=chromebook_acer_c720_black_wifi_2gb

Oh come on! He (and the Greens) will be trashed by a party with real policies! http://www.loonyparty.com/about/policy-proposals/ I mean who can argue with the Food safety policy - certainly not ED! And watch out LDs:

Horses for courses Maggie. Really depends what you need it to do. Don't assume you even need a laptop these days. Tell me if you have any Windows™ software you absolutely need to run? I mean things like an accountancy package that you've already invested weeks of your time in. There are often cheaper, faster, easier alternatives to battling Windoze(zz)! Ongoing cost of ownership can be as important as the device itself. At the present time I think that many people aren't just running the wrong model for what they are doing, but also the wrong type of device, and the wrong operating system - all because they are follow the herd, or don't bother to ask someone who had no vested interest in selling something! CD's are very 20th century!

The point is - and I'm sure you didn't miss the general drift - that Attlee was a modest man. He was a solicitor, like our Tone, but a totally genuine person. He did what he did because he was motivated to improve general living standards without any thought of personal gain. In short he wasn't a career politician who constantly put his career before his principals. When politicos of the first half of the last century said something you could be absolutely sure that they firmly believed it, and that it wasn't, first and foremost, directed squarely at their next career move. Is there a single person in LibLabCon who you can say the same of these days? Present day politicians don't all take cynicism to the lengths that TB does, but to a greater or lesser degree they all have their fingers in the pie. Our problem is that current generations have forgotten that uncompromisingly public spirited politicians ever existed! When did the last politician ever resign over a point of pure principal? This was something which happened as regular as clockwork.

How Tony Blair Inc spent £57 million in four years Pretty remarkable for someone who tells us his total accumulated wealth is only £10M. Well... I suppose it's just that socialism has come an awful long way since Clement Attlee. Tony probably needed to form a lawn-edging consultancy subsidiary to get his trimmed. But, we must remember that Tone didn't get that lucrative non-job in Brussels he'd set his heart on because the nasty British voters send a whole bunch of Fruitcakes, Loonies And Closet Racists to rock the Euro gravy train. So... really... he does need to earn a few extra bob on the side. And, his office assures us:- Technically true, but how much is he sheltering in this unfathomable web of companies that the UK tax man doesn't even get to know about? And just how much are we paying for this squad of Metropolitan Police close protection officers that jet around the world with him? The arrangement for protecting ex-PMs never envisioned that ex-PMs would be running multiple highly lucrative businesses after office, or exposing themselves to risk here there and everywhere. I do hope that we aren't paying those £5000 a night hotel bills for them too. We really should be told!

There's still bad youth unemployment, so why ignore that and focus on zero hour contracts - people who are at least on the first step of the employment ladder? OK, so it makes a good doctrinaire political point, but back in the real world where compromises are generally required... Is it a coincidence that youth unemployment now just about matches the number of jobs being filled by immigrants from the EU? A high proportion of the EU'ers earnings is spirited out of the country straight away, and completely lost to the economy, whist every quid of UB has to be funded by the UK tax payer. The EU'ers earnings have to be offset by export earnings in ever-more-competitive (and now deflationary) international markets. The immigrant rate is accelerating, and there's nothing Gov-UK can do about it but pray that the EU won't go completely down the plughole. Another politico's social engineering experiment going rapidly TU!