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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!

Latin, surely?! Ad = To ... whatever/wherever Gefrin is! Update: So it's to the hill of the goats - move over Guidepost!

Not at all, but that's really what Free Classifieds is for. Stick events under Misc and we'll create an events category. Events can also be placed on the Town Calendar - a very good place because there is an RSS feed from there to other websites. The Calendar is particularly good for events which regularly reoccur.

However I never imagined that this little prediction would have such a short gestation period. Read this and quake: http://www.euractiv.com/sections/eu-priorities-2020/court-auditors-warns-multi-billion-eu-budget-gap-310310 Our share of this further bill is coolly estimated at in excess of £33,000,000,000 in addition to our normal commitment to the EU pot. This is beyond all sanity, and those politicos falsely claiming we derive net benefit from the EU should be hanging their heads in shame at the ongoing deception. Any responsible and rational government should be handing our notice of leaving the EU in right away!

Ermm... have you seen the date on that one Malc? But, in Ronnie's book it's absolutely OK to be "ruled over" by first generation Germans, including ex-Nazis and their descendants? Also to pay them a net £50,000,000,000 over the last 4 1/2 years for the privilege of being so ruled over by them. Terribly confused people these professed socialists! Especially that after saying the above he adds that he doesn't want to abolish the monarchy. It's almost as if Labour politicians can totally reverse their beliefs at the drop of a hat, depending on who their present audience is - but, we know that can't possibly be true!

In another beautifully timed EU diktat George Osborne loses in the EU court, once again! The practical effect of the ruling is that the UK is now set up to lose some of it's very biggest income tax payers as international banks move them outside the UK. Just another one of the many hidden cost of EU membership. However you feel about banker's bonuses, totally capping them is severely bad for our financial-centric economy. Thus the German master-plan of establishing Frankfurt as the world financial centre (or certainly that of the Fourth Reich) moves relentlessly forward. The non-hidden loss to the UK from EU membership since the start of the present government in 2010 has been set at close to £50,000,000,000. So where are the compensating benefits for all this spend of our tax money? Back in the 1960's the principal benefit was touted as not having the costs of currency conversion in travelling/trading with Europe - seems that this one went out of the window long ago. You can confidently bet that EU mandarins are busy working on new ways to quietly screw us as you read this.

Notice the up-tick starting after Labour's first 5 year term? As the EU fails and we suck in more of Eastern and Southern Europe, then the green dashed line on that graph becomes a joke (we are then rapidly heading for 100 million in this tiny island). We can take in at most 50,000 immigrants a year before there's an impact on our social services, and there's no way this can be achieved inside the EU. Those in the Westminster Bubble know this, but they choose not to mention it because they think short-term and in their own interest, not the interests of our children. Far more immigrants have come into this country since Tony Blair took office than in the entire 1000 years before that! And, that previous 1000 years includes the "Windrush" years of the 1950's which caused such alarm. So don't fall for the establishment BS about historical precedent and always having taken in immigrants - there simply is no historical precedent for these ridiculously high levels, they're suicidal!

You are right, we have a special relationship with the Republic. I have an Irish friend who pops back and forth daily, even bought a second house in Ulster where his wife lives for the required qualifying period of the year. All so's his kids can get a better education in the UK.

Or looked at another way: Through their denial there was an issue LibLabCon have provided no moderate and rational place for the vast numbers of decent people who have serious concerns about the unsustainable levels of immigration to turn to EXCEPT to the BNP. i.e. LibLabCon has fuelled extremism! This proposition is proven by the demise of the BNP and other extreme right groups who are undeniably now down to a hard core of extremists members, and who no one takes seriously any longer. Look back just a very few years to see the chattering classes fretting over the then rise of the BNP. Ukip won't touch right wing extremists with a bargepole - most of the defectors have joined Labour, and Labour is so desperate it not only admits them as members, it allows them to stand for office!