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I think my calling her a Chinese Lady has something to do with the traditional Chinese costume she was wearing the last time I saw her, and the fact that I was there shortly after they opened the restaurant a few years back. This indicates to me that she's proud of being Chinese, and wants the World to know it! Most people are in fact justifiably proud of their ethnicity - except creepy pseudo-British lefties who are thoroughly ashamed of theirs; their nation's stellar history, and can only cite negatives about it. Oh, and on the subject of restaurants and restaurateurs: here's a link for Sym to check out another potential self-hater, the MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincs.

Umm... seems those LG-whatsit folk are kippers themselves - how can this possibly count when they are already despicable wacist scum? There's a lot of jockeying for the nomination in this seat because it's very likely to go Ukip at the GE. I suspect he was set up and the leak came from inside - yes, mega-surprise, insider dirty tricks in a political party! Says he was on strong pain killers, well... Anyway, does referring to someone as a "Chinky Lady" really rate Ch***y Lady being scrolled across the BBC News 24 screens fourty times every hour for most of the night, and given news headline precedence over evidence of British government involvement in CIA torture? One suspects that it wouldn't have got remotely as much exposure if it had been uttered by a member of an establishment party (on strong pain killers ). BTW did you know that poor people can't cook? Well... there's an general election coming! Thought: maybe she was a very nice Ch***y Lady, and the word was being used as a term of endearment! I used to regularly send out for a Chinky, and am booked to go out for one at Christmas - a brilliant restaurant where there's a very pretty umm.. Chinese Lady serving - yum! If the 'Ch' word has now been completely redefined (even in darkest Essex), I really really do need to know - and soon!

All these black Kippers suffer from self loathing then? That's Hillingdon BTW, and the same is repeated in many constituencies. Simple fact: immigrants have more to fear from mass immigration than native Brits. A fact very recently confirmed by an academic on the Beeb who'd extensively studied global population shifts and the economics of immigration. The Beeb thought police must have been having the night off!

His tastes aren't that expensive Sym. Dunno where the champaign socialists are going to get their tipple from though. Not that they'll have anything to celebrate when they work out that they've neatly put Salmond into the driving seat, and that the deep deep cuts Balls will be inflicting fall largely on England (in order to "preserve the Union"). This is why most of the Labour old guard are quitting now. They can see the end of anything which even vaguely resembles traditional socialism coming up very fast indeed. The Blairite PPE technocrats are best equipped to spin the tale that the coalition deficit forced the cruel welfare cuts on them. They'll have those graphs Brand so despises to show that debt spiralled under the coalition. So the fairy story that they'd have done all the right things at the right time will be believable to just enough voters (of that ever-decreasing 33-35% target, topped up by always grateful immigrants). It's a one-term dead-duck government coming anyway, and Kippers don't really care whether it's Lab or Con on the nameplate, because essentially the same dither is going to happen. This is a fact totally lost on Cameron as he bleats on to people about vote Ukip get Labour - in fact in the North exactly the opposite is true, and voting Con now will surely get you Labour. Most Kippers I've spoken to are happily prepared to bide their time whilst even more voters come to their senses. A Cameron pretend re-negotiation of the EU treaty will likely be worse than a bury-head-in-sand, treat the electorate as utter dummies, Labour approach, and it will be a lot harder to undo. Cast-iron Dave has mega-form in ducking promises anyway, and has quite simply lost all credibility, even to much of his own party (the reason for the Tory MP defections). There's also a fair chance that the EU will implode in the interim, but for the Country's sake we really need to be out long before this happens! Getting back to the original subject, Desmond's game isn't short-term either. It's a game of falling circulations in the dead tree biz i.e. who's circulation falls the least in order to bag the available advertising bucks. Cutting through establishment propaganda for an ever-increasing audience is his plan.

Can I buy the film rights? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/11292152/Crane-crashes-into-house-as-Dutch-proposal-goes-wrong.html Stay well clear of Paris this weekend, he might decide to serenade her on the Eiffel Tower.

Here's an interesting snap sneaked recently at somewhere mega-posh: You might recognise the guy on the right as Grant Schapps, the Tory Party hatchet person (read Chairman). He's been mentioned here before by Sym. But who is the guy he is in earnest conversation with? It almost looks like Schapps is expecting something. Well.. the guy he has in earnest conversation is no other than media baron Richard Desmond (Daily Express, The Star, Channel 5, etc.). Why is this significant? Well Schapps is doing what all political parties do with an election coming - going for a media endorsement, and a big cheque, from natural allies. Whoops! Desmond is taking a huge risk in deserting the establishment. Broadcasting licences and many other perks are in the gift of establishment politicians, and they have very long collective memories. It really doesn't matter which of the establishment parties you decide to help, the roundabout keeps on turning and your free ride will come before too long. It's not cricket to spoil the game for other players when it's your turn to bat. But... turn your back on the game and you've rejected the entire system - you are out in the bleak cold! As far as I can tell Desmond's move outside the establishment is unprecedented in modern history. Desmond is no fool though, and knows what his editors have been telling him for some while. He's banking on a sea change in British politics, and has calculated that he can ride out everything that Schapps and all of LibLabCon can throw at him - and you can be absolutely sure that they will! My money is on this (new) Porn Baron, Mr Camerband!

Actually, at core I don't think Tony has views that vastly differ from me. He believes in solidarity, and well.. class war, for want of a better term. I'm simply appealing to him to broaden his solidarity a little, and to see the class war in the modern context, and not the context of fifty or one hundred years ago. Tribal support of the present-day Labour Party is entirely illogical for trade union members. The Labour Party we all knew was dead set against the EEC. In their book the "Common Market" was a device of the bosses to force wages down. Now that these traditional Labour beliefs have some meat on the bone we see a modern Labour party standing on its head, and being more Tory than the Tories could ever have imagined. Miliband & Co go out of their way to avoid discussing the matter. They draw on a stock of carefully rehearsed tactics to avoid EU related questions. I really want to hear how Tony and other trades unionists think about this. You mean you aren't convinced that Ukip is the way to a solution to "something is very wrong in the UK political balance of power at the moment"? Well spotted - Ukip does represent the majority view of its members (many of whom also contribute to the popular press). Pretty revolutionary having a party where the grass roots members discuss and decide on policy, and hand it off to their representatives to put before the electorate. Let's call this entirely new process representative democracy. Joking aside I'd love to hear from you why these populist policies "cannot actually" be provided? The EU is a huge hidden drag on the possible. If you proceed from the hide-bound position of the establishment parties that's surely true - even debate about the possibilities is rapidly shut down. Sure, there will be mistakes and even mass delusion at times, but those mistakes will (once again) be owned by the voters. They won't be the mistakes of a manipulative elite who's sole intent is staying in power, and padding out their pensions with euro non-jobs. The blame game won't be eliminated, but it will become a lot more acceptable to a re-empowered electorate. Farage is keen on saying that there are two types of politicians: ones who take up politics to be something, and those (rarer ones) who become politicians to do something. The ones I see in Ukip at the moment are (almost) exclusively the rarer kind. At this stage of desperation and dis-empowerment that alone is worth a vote!

Ah, you spotted the probably! Did you spot the "I'm coming for you Farage..." threat from the invited Socialist Worker's Party activist when Brand was faltering under direct audience questioning? The Beeb did, so they'll be inviting her back quite soon.

Tony, what made Dad's Army so endearing is that - however feeble their efforts - they really BELIEVED in their country, and in its civilised values and general compassion. They didn't need a state apparatchik to tell them about caring for their fellow citizens. You also knew that if things came to the crunch, however feeble and comedic their individual efforts, as a combined force they'd be formidable opposition for any dictator. They wouldn't cave in like our continental cousins did. How do you square your belief that "he would defiantly destroy the health service" with the reality of Ukip policy? You clearly weren't listening to QT or you'd know that Ukip is the least interventionist of the parties in letting the doctors get on with running the service without the political baggage. Miliband has told supporters that he wants to "weaponise the health service", by which he means he wants to use it for his narrow self-serving political purposes. The party that has it withering under £300BN+ of Private Finance Initiative debt, for Gordon's short-term political gain, wants us to believe that we should fear a tiny percentage of the service continuing to be being farmed out to whoever can provide the best service for the available cash. That £300BN PFI produced only around £50BN of new hospital building! The £250BN difference is what Labour mismanagement robbed the NHS of! Put that into the context of the £2BN that Labour proposes to steal from many asset rich but cash poor old people - those who happen to be living in the wrong place - in order to inject much needed cash into the NHS. Yes, the so-called "Mansion Tax" is a joke at the expense of the vulnerable; the stolen cash will disappear into the black hole that is ongoing mismanagement of a vital national resource! Labour's "Privatise the Health Service" is just another of those sound-bite labels that has absolutely no meaning, but is intended to frighten vulnerable people into voting for a manipulative liberal elite who believe they have a divine right to rule! Labour used private companies extensively to plug Health Service deficiencies when it was in power, and will continue to do the same if re-elected. Other parties will do just the same (when faced with reality in those many areas where the NHS simply can't cope). All the rest is just political BS of the worst kind; the kind intended to frighten vulnerable people into voting against their own best interests! In my book a party that blatantly lies and manipulates in order to gain power, and whose management record of our country is utterly appalling (every one of Labour's administrations ends in economic disaster - ultimately wished on the most vulnerable) is worse than one which unpretentiously advocates trickle-down economics through the class system. However, a plague on all their houses; we need fundamental change in this country, and just at this moment only Ukip can deliver that! If you are not an "I'm all right Jack, pull the ladder up, socialist" you should be supporting the millions of decent people who now see that we need to reject the whole of the LibLabCon alliance, and restore some true democracy to our country. Stopping here, before I get back to Dad's Army!

If you didn't catch it this particular one is probably worth the 59 minutes and 34 seconds of your life. You've probably worked out already that the QT audience isn't at all representative of the general population. That's because a fair proportion is "invited" by the liberal leftie elitists at the Beeb, and doesn't go through the normal ticketing process. This "invited" section - all in the interests of political balance and making the program more interesting - is seated separately from the plebs in order to distribute them around the hall. The master plan then involves producers carefully noting where these interesting people are and cluing-up Dimbelby before the start of the recording. He's thus able to pick contributors with "random" opinions quite "randomly". Normally this device produces the approximately desired result for the opinion formers at the Beeb. On the Brand program last night this broke down badly. Brand's hand-picked supporters went way over the top, and the good people of Kent didn't just sit there and take it. One extra-vocal Brandite (who coincidentally was seen spouting right next to Brand in Downing Street on a C4 report last week) was dressed-down by a truly random member of the audience, and in no uncertain terms. Brand himself became uncharacteristically quiet after being faced with the logical consequences of what he was saying, and being offered the possibility by Farage of putting his views up to public scrutiny at an election. By contrast Farage didn't indulge in personal attacks and restricted his remarks to both the logical absurdity of Brand's statements, and those of the regular party hacks. Apart from that the only person to shed any light on any of the questions was Camilla Cavendish of the Sunday Times - she was certainly worth her fee. Another own goal for the superficial Brand, and a few thousand more recruits to "the people's army" seems to be the general impression.

Yet another Microsoft "technology" meets the dustbin of history. They sold you it but they won't fix it!

The elites don't like coal - clean or otherwise - it creates that horrible CO2 stuff that only plants like! Let's throw our money at things which create jobs in China, and only work when it's warm and sunny, or windy and wet. Coal burning is only for those foreign folk, so's they can use the coal-fired energy to make solar panels that Ed. can subsidise with other people's money, to make him feel good about his green credentials. I wonder what the alternatives to this are? Ah, yes, those fruitcakes and loonys are the only ones to differ from the proven wisdom of our ruling elites:

Well... it's certainly a fluffy bunny story to pretend that allowing a foreign city the size of Newcastle full of shiny golden cupolas to build every five years in your small country is a jolly good thing to do! Multiculturalism is a historical and logical absurdity. When the birth rate of that foreign culture is well in excess of the host culture the hosts are saying goodbye to their hard won history and whatever made them who they are today. They are giving the 'v' sign to their ancestors.and everything their own country ever stood for. And, to exactly what purpose or agenda you might ask. The execrable Harriet Harman has just been on the radio, once again pedalling the lie (aided and abetted by a willing liberal-elitist BBC) that mass immigration is good for our country. It is being done on economic grounds we are told, as she cherry picks from a report that ignores the demographic (the possibility that immigrants - like ourselves - get old and make increasing demands on social services), and the cost of the necessary infrastructure to support the ever increasing population. In Harriet's world immigrants don't have dependant families, or any of the same aspirations as us. The real fluffy bunny story is that she is not working against the very interests of the social group she claims to represent, and not "working hard" to sell her own country out. That's pretty much the way it works. If politicos find a need to put "Democratic" in some name, you can be sure that it's fundamentally undemocratic, or that that democracy is strictly reserved for an elite. By extension if we are being warned about something catastrophic then it's principally about control by the elites. The War on Terror being a interesting recent example of this. It's masterful that we plebs can't be told what's really going on (or more importantly what's not really going on) in the national interest.

If by "strong government" you mean throwing our weight around in the rest of the world, then the answer is a decisive no! Beware the politico who warns we will lose influence. Influence in what; who controls that influence and to precisely what aim? It generally reduces to influence for him, or his party! Producing the right kind of goods or services at the right price is the only kind of influence any country needs; cartels are to be avoided, they all end in tears. Really?! The British establishment builds entire careers out of avoiding it! Take "the deficit" for example: they are not talking about reducing the debt we all have to pay interest on, they are simply talking about reducing the rate that debt is increasing. Try that out on your bank manager! That's just one of many ways of avoiding the truth - because they believe that if they did tell the truth they wouldn't get elected!

In a democracy the worst deeds are done in trying to hang on to it. When the levers of power are to hand it takes a very decent person not to use them to their own advantage. Contrast and compare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal to http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11277432/Jeremy-Thorpe-scandal-New-claims-over-plot-to-murder-Norman-Scott.html A reasonable conclusion might be that the British establishment has always had things off to a much finer art than our transatlantic cousins. What the Torygraph article fails to point out is that presiding over much of this was a Labour home secretary!

And... today's effort by the establishment media to make Ukip look loony is the headline "Farage blames M4 traffic delays on immigration". Some establishment papers have even extended this further to claim he blames being late on immigrants. All of which he didn't say! He simply echoed the thoughts of the present immigration minister James Brokenshire that mass immigration is putting pressure on Britain's road system, and added that those who say all the sums "proving" that immigration is positive for the economy don't factor in the pressure on a host of public services and the general infrastructure. (It's also a short-term calculation because it totally ignores the demographic). So, it's OK for an establishment figure to point out the bloomin' obvious, but when when Ukip do so, try to extend what is actually being said to make it look irrational. Unite LibLabCon brothers to protect our divine right to rule from those ignorant plebs, else tomorrow we might have to face the tragedy of finding real work - for the first time in our lives!

'Eees not a banker, 'eees just a very naughty metals trader! And... don't believe the LibLabCon propaganda machine Tony; they are masters of distortion!

Only if we fail to vote Ukip. Seriously though, the 24:1 per-head spend differential between London and the NE should be the very first thing we should be demanding redress for. Like Malc I believe that the reason we don't get the jobs is because we don't have the infrastructure, and we don't have the infrastructure because we've always keeled over and mindlessly supported establishment parties. As long as we sell our votes on the cheap we'll forever be put in the cheap seats. The Scots are now out to milk the UK for every British pound, so it's high time we demanded a fair proportion of the England infrastructure spend as the price of our votes.

Sym: You don't get fair dos from LibLabCon! Money stays where the liberal elites stay. Or... in the case of HS2, it's a build-out from where they stay to the provinces, with the North East at the never-ever end of the queue for crumbs.

Good news, and he certainly didn't miss the photo op. Hey, did you know that there's an election coming! But, let's put this into context: London gets a ludicrous 24 times as much infrastructure spending per head as the North East does, and that's despite the much larger distances to cover here! Fair dos would have seen this done decades ago. Not to mention a light railway shuttle to the Market Place along the old colliery railway route, as part of an East Coast railway revival project.

Lol! Score one for Channel Four. No amount of fast talking from the man who swallowed a dictionary can disguise the fact that he's effectively a member of the do what I say not what I do liberal elites. Essex boy made good, he'd be worthy of more respect if he'd made his millions selling second-hand cars. He disguises the fact that his father is a "working class" Tory too, though seems to share some of his footloose characteristics.

Snowing even! http://www.bedlington.co.uk/live.html

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When you awake you will appreciate that I'm not responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people; the ongoing massive instability and slaughter in the Middle East; the terrorist threat we currently face; the... Tony Blair is innocent, says Tony Blair

In much the same way as those peeps who wear ...Ad Astra badges aren't astronauts, I'd imagine that no goats were harmed (or even wrangled) in the production of this place name. The nearest goats were likely on the breeze - still too close for my liking! Hence the reference to Guidepost. I am of course assuming that Bede or whoever wasn't a jokey dude, else the - Monty Python type - possibilities are endless. Show me a sign, Lord!