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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!

Reckless actually said that if Britain leaves the EU migrants should have to have a work permit, and IF they don't bother to get one they should only be allowed to stay for so long. That's exactly the situation right now with Brits in Italy; even as a EU citizen you are only allowed to stay for 6 months without a residents permit (and you don't get one of those without an inquisition at the town hall, a stiff means test, and the local mayor likes your face - all with no right of appeal). There's absolutely no prospect of work, even if you wanted it - it's the southern Euro-zone, there ain't any work! Locals who want work leave for the UK or Germany. Hey, it's pre-election day, all sorts of crap is doing the rounds. Tories have certainly been telling the posh parts of Rochester that if UKIP gets in their house values will plummet! And Labour has certainly been telling their supporters to make sure that they vote TORY!

There was no international cooperation in space before the world's largest cartel got in on the act. And look, there have been no wars in our neck of the woods either - if you ignore mass genocide in the Balkans, and the little local difficulty the expansionist EU has stirred up in Ukraine. A club that is defo worth the ever-climbing mega one-way entry fee - having our bananas compulsulary straightened; our country overrun by immigrants; and our centuries-old law subverted - even though it was sold to us on a blatant lie from the political classes, and continues on the basis of multiple subterfuges! Of course a cynic might say that: for a mega state that is now putting together its first centrally commanded military force, having all the very best ingredients for spacewars readily at hand is a mighty subtle move. Ever closer union - mein herr! It's clear that those voices-off warning of the next round of history repeating itself - like the DM - are simply good old-fashioned war mongers, who, in the course of history, are always proven wrong! We always learn the lessons of history (over and over again). Peace in our time!

Global deflation beckons. And, when the flood gates burst, all the cash slopping around will cause completely uncontrollable mega inflation. Instability is increasing by the month. That bitcoin has full credibility illustrates just how much actual credibility national currencies have these days. Interdependency has traded manageable national boom and busts for global boom and bust, and we've yet to experience the first global bust. I.e. no one has the faintest clue as to when, how deep, and even if it's recoverable from.

Nope, just more establishment propaganda Tony! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/apple-virus/ Because Apple is so secretive they are wide open - they simply don't cooperate with the people who are expert at these things. So, when the crunch comes users are up the creek without a paddle. http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-and-reddit-shut-down-the-iworm-virus-2014-10 Next time join the (other) people's army and buy yourself a democratic Droid. Or, if you do have type Apple megabucks to spend then buy a Sammy S Series, and get a vastly better bit of hardware for the same megabucks. Install a free copy of Avast and you are home. i.e. far lower cost of ownership too.

Not so! I used to stay overnight at Rochester and Strood regularly, and parked up and walked the place several times. It's an intensely working class area - particularly on the East side of the Medway. Labour thought they could grab it back at the 2010 GE. You probably didn't see Newsnight last night interviewing people at South Shields; not one person they could find had a good word to say for David Miliband. They managed to find one Labour tribalist supporting new-old-new-Labour though he sounded like a glib politico. D. Miliband was described by someone who'd talked to him as slimy. I certainly couldn't disagree with that. Even the liberal-lefties at BBC couldn't disguise the fact that the establishment was in big trouble in the North as well as in the South. Miliband was bussed in to SS as it WAS considered a rock solid Labour seat. Why didn't he stick around as an MP to support his brother? I think he saw this one coming, and his strategy now is to wait and pick up the pieces - he more than anyone knows how hopeless Ed is. 53% of Labour voters say Ed isn't fit to be PM, and most of the rest won't say.

The price would be a fast and fair referendum on our membership of the EU, and it won't be a coalition as we've seen it recently - just HoC votes to keep Ed in power until he hangs himself, and spare us another rapid GE with another inconclusive result. What's amazing is that Labour has been telling Labour voters in Rochester & Strood to make absolutely sure they vote Tory! This is a seat that was #9 on Labour's entire list of winnable marginals in 2010! That the LibLabCon establishment is now in utter panic and fears for it's very existence couldn't be more evident.

A lot more than would have turned up last year, but not as many who'll turn up next I'd imagine. Look at the last bye election result in South Shields for a pointer. There are no longer any safe Labour seats! More and more working people see through the LibLabCon stitch-up and don't like where the County has being going for decades. Balls proposed what amounts to NHS cuts at the Labour Party Conference, and the rows of dummies (those who weren't asleep) actually applauded him! Can Ukip revive the Coal Industry? I don't know; but one thing's a known - Labour never even tried!

On the day that any government anywhere starts a biz producing anything that people actually want to buy I will modify my view Sym. Anyway, that view seems to accord with the deeds (if not the precise spin) of new-age Labour. Their stated view on worker's cooperatives is interesting. That I'd like to see, particularly the logical extension which is that trade unions should take over industries, and so put their money (or, I fear ours) where their (oversized) mouths are!

Was there a Sylvia Curley "in the picture" there Tony? I have memories of that very able lady.

No I don't! HMRC are ruthlessly efficient - certainly compared with other countries. When they do a deal it's genuinely in the public interest. That there's huge tax dodging going on is a myth promoted by the jealousy and envy party. It's a convenient way of explaining away how undeliverable promises of more free stuff to buy votes will be funded. This is not confined to Labour of course, but they are the principal shysters. Conflating avoidance and evasion is their stock in trade. The reality is that multinationals - perfectly legally - get away with murder by transfer pricing, and using the creaky, insane, politics-before-economics, structure of the EU to move profits around. Ukip has the solution - a turnover tax which ignores the creative accounting. Simples! Why won't LibLabCon copy this? Can't you work that out for yourself?

Twas one of my little attempts at humour - or a hedge against Adam pointing out that everything under the sun works better when nationalised - you choose.

I hope the CABs do house calls then - the prospect of their customers catching the #9 bus for that assistance is disturbing! Maybe the Italian system of er... mutual obligation has some good points after all?

As Adam said. The old Bedlington Fire Station - when we had one - was around there too, but that's perhaps beyond living memory now. I think it was originally established by a cooperative of insurance companies. Those were the days when, if you had a policy with the wrong company, they wouldn't turn out. Nowadays, they don't turn out anyway - because they are on strike!

...unless we quit the EU fast, cut foreign aid to those few worthwhile projects in countries where that aid is life or death to poor people, reign in quangos and all the state machinery which provides no direct benefit to ordinary people, and put a stop grandiose projects which make this country even more London-centric, etc. Basically, all the political hobby-horses of a self-aggrandising establishment.

Local councillors? In Italy the local politicos are always offering their services to "fix" things - for obvious reasons. They are the natural go-to. Again, I think it comes back to the nature of the problem. What's at the back of my mind is the huge cuts we are about to face whoever gets in at the GE. There'll likely be nothing safe - even the supposed ring-fenced stuff will suffer at the hands of inflation. That's essentially what Balls said on the NHS, though it went completely over the heads of the LPC audience, who actually applauded his spin on a post-inflationary cut!

I didn't say I'd deleted it Maggie, or that I pressed any buttons to delete it. The reason was purely technical - if you don't count the two glasses of wine. I am still grovelling apologetic though! From what I still remember there were some good points. My point is that if a CAB is really important we should unify on this.

OK, you aren't aware of my normal inherent sarcism then. The apparently we don't need one anyway could have been phrased others seem to believe we don't need one but I suspect dual standards at work there. I'd still like to know what kind of questions a CAB would field. I'm sure things have changed a lot since they were originally devised. I'm also puzzled why local councillors can't help, or is this also politicised to the extent that people don't ask people of the "wrong party"? You don't know if an issue is confidential unless you tactfully and respectfully ask, and at some point that person has to confide in someone. If only I'd known is too frequently heard these days - generally well after a tragic event. The state is very bad at handling such things, and voluntary organisations seem to do much better. I'm suggesting that an ad-hock voluntary organisation consisting just of one, concerned, motivated person - the person being asked about help - could sometimes be the best and most immediate option. People may decide not to take things further and simply give up when all they need is a little encouragement; that sometimes has tragic consequences. =============== It's the moderators job to close off (lock) threads that have come to the end of their useful life, but it's never a good idea to overdo this. I've seen boards moderated to death. Here I'd have split the original topic first to let the discussion run under a new title, then closed off the original thread after a satisfactory answer to the question. That would certainly have applied to other forums, but here I (personally) would have let the thread run. It's always better if you leave someone else to moderate a thread you are actively involved in yourself. I'm not suggesting that anyone here would make a bad call, but it avoids any suspicion that someone has been gagged.