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  1. To associate the good people of Clacton with the BNP is a slur and not worth of you Tony. Remember this was a solid Labour seat until new focus-group driven Labour took to the stage. Also remember that immigrants are supporting and joining UKIP, working for the party and even offering themselves as candidates. UKIP isn't anti-immigrant, it's anti uncontrolled immigration. How do you explain that Labour only held on by a whisker in Middleton, one of the safest Labour seats in the country? And they needed skulduggery even to manage those 600 votes. Only 300 more Labour switchers and that would be it for Miliband's cosy career (which is slated to end up in a Blair-like EU ambassador role, trousering millions more of people's money for doing precisely nowt!). The smooth operators who control New Labour won't face up to the social problems they have created. Miliband "forgets" to mention immigration in a hour-plus long speech. He also "forgets" the weasel words he wrote about the deficit Gordon Brown created. Then he doesn't even mention the EU, because he has no intention of doing anything about that either. People want government that faces up to issues, not sweeps them under the carpet. A government that listens. None of the establishment parties have been listening for a very long time.
  2. Suddenly there are no longer any safe seats for the establishment parties: A few more days campaigning would have done it in Heywood, but so keen was Labour to stifle debate that they defied convention and fixed the election before their MP was even decently buried! Their candidate was so shaken she was completely stumped for her well rehearsed focus-group words.
  3. The man has a point. Must be slipping didn't recognise a couple of those techno-terms.
  4. Hey, you really have been reading the UKIP manifesto! Countering cross border pricing by multinationals is something neither Labour or the Tories have ever wanted to get to grips with. That's where the real mega tax loss is. Soak the rich might be popular in loony-left circles, but there aren't that many of them; they vote with their feet; and they produce private sector jobs. Any economist will tell you that we are presently pushing our luck at present top rate tax levels, and further increases will surely be counter-productive. In fact a slight reduction in higher tax levels would produce more revenue. That doesn't square with the narrative of the jealousy and envy peddlers in Labour. But Balls is under no illusions, even if he allows his party to float the pretence of an intention to soak the rich. Basic dishonesty and contempt for their voter's intelligence is Labour's stock in trade. Of course public sector workers pay taxes, but where does the money they use to service those taxes come from in the first instance? Only the private sector workers generate real wealth. I'm not arguing that we don't need a public sector, and certainly not that public sector workers shouldn't be paid fairly. But having half the economy in the public sector is clearly unsustainable and the chief reason our national debt is spiralling. It's a point that is accepted by all political parties, even if they'd rather not talk about it, or detail its implications for what they will really do when in government.
  5. Standing logic on its head in the good old tried and tested way eh Sym! You don't need to look too far to find Nazis, so there's no need to invent them from decent British folk who've had enough of the Westminster snake-oil merchants. Instead of trying to apply the usual substitute-for-though left wing labels why not tell us exactly what is wrong with UKIP policies? You know, what it really says that you genuinely take issue with, and not what you'd like it to say to suit those tribal prejudices. Cherry pick as much as you like, and ignore everything and anything you might agree with. Ummm.. Waiting! Want to find Nazis? It's long, but you might actually learn something: Oh, and there's an instructive speech from a Jewish lady - who's family perished in Nazi concentration camps - explaining exactly why she joined UKIP, and why the loony-left completely p* her off for being so dumb-arsed stupid. But, I will spare you that.
  6. http://www.ukip.org/policies_for_people I particularly like: – UKIP will abolish the Department of Energy and Climate Change and scrap green subsidies. – UKIP will abolish the Department for Culture Media and Sport. Jobs for the boys (and girls) if ever there were, and a good starting position for the very necessary reduction in public sector spending that any government will have to face up to after the GE. What is Labour going to cut? We should be told! The lack of transparency of the three establishment parties is telling. £17,000,000,000 a year savings through leaving the EU and targeting foreign aid only where it will do good (and not try to buy political influence). When you hear a politico arguing "BUT, that will mean a loss of influence" then run; he's not talking about what is good for the UK, he's talking about what - in his dream world - is good only for the political classes!
  7. Remind me, are these the people who get 8% more than the equivalent private sector wages; have near guaranteed jobs and pensions; who's jobs had grown under Labour to a staggering 50% of our economy; and who's wages are paid by taxes on non-government employees? I think they should all be made to sit through the current episode of Panorama to see how many private sector employees are struggling to even put food on the table! Honest, decent, people who - if they work longer hours - have three quarters of their meagre extra earnings taken off them! One thing is for sure: whichever party gets in at the GE there will be a huge re-balancing, and then the public sector lot really will have an issue! There's now £44,000,000,000 of savings needed just to stop the debt getting even greater, and Balls has promised to be fiscally responsible this time around. This spells huge job cuts, OR bringing public sector wages into line with the private sector. Enjoy your strike NCC employees - reality is just around the corner!
  8. Yup, Fourgee had to go all the way to China to get hardware like that! It's particularly good a Peking in the dark (and spotting Chinese meals). He had to sail through a load of junk though, to find the right Wong.
  9. Maybe we can promote "Cap the Red Light Jumper" for local members? Rules: Snap a vehicle with both wheels between the rows of studs when both lights are on red and he little man is green. Setting up someone to press the button is an automatic disqualification. Red vehicles score double.Joking, of course. I think.
  10. Oh dear! Well... there are plenty of ex-pats who will be able to play here anyway. You licence payers will just have to play tiddlywinks! We could of course be naughty and rig a proxy for members only, but it might be almost as easy to produce our own version.
  11. My Geoguessr Score: http://url.geoguessr.com/8kU8 Beat me if you can! http://url.geoguessr.com/8kU9 I'm not sure how multi-player works, or if more than two can play, but it will be fun anyway. We can always compare solo scores.
  12. Apparently nothing like as posh for you boyo as this one: https://www.asmallworld.com/login It's the one for that mythical 1%. Still waiting for my invite - maybe if I'd studied for that PPE at Oxford?
  13. ..Swiss cheese? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/11131885/Kim-Jong-un-so-fat-he-has-fractured-his-ankles.html It rather looks like the little fat git has unintentionally done himself in, or there has been some brave "assistance" of his medical condition from those who get to observe him close up, and fear him. Let's hope that this time he's not playing games, and there really is the prospect of the release of the poor North Korean people from Stalinist tyranny and misery. Please, USA, leave well alone, and let other people work this thing out! The last thing the World needs is another US-led solution to its problems.
  14. Just a sec and I will compose one for you... Who is king of Scotland?Where do you queue for your weekly income?What are the vile people South of the border called?Which is by far the most important, Christmas or the New Year?Why do we all want to keep the pound (after we said we wanted the Euro)?Which month do we want the next irrevocable, once-in-a-lifetime, independence referendum?Which tiny country supplies most UK prime ministers (and always moans about the result of their rule).Who steals all our oil?How much more state funding per-head do we get than the UK average?Why isn't the above figure anything like enough? Rules: Pass mark 44.9% - new born babies can now take the test - Scots living outside Scotland are double disqualified - anyone failing the test is eligible for a seat in the Scottish Parliament - all who pass the test can vote on everyone else in the UK's local affairs. All answers on a postcard of Whitley Bay to: SNP, PO Box 1, Edinburgh, Independent Scotland (they don't have any answers themselves).
  15. Who would have though it would rain in Bedlington, of all places?
  16. Take the test: http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/can-you-pass-a-uk-citizenship-test-most-young-people-cant--gJ0v-H6BQx And... I strongly dispute the official answers to two of the questions which I got "wrong". It would be a spoiler to say more here. The pass level is 18 out of 24. And the indyits don't know how to code properly in javascript, so you only need one of the two correct answers (in those questions that require two). So, their version is a fair bit easier than the one immigrants have to pass.
  17. Dead right Maggie: we probably wouldn't have had any politics, and certainly no democracy, after gullible champagne-socialist upper-crust and ever-so-slightly-nutty Tone had (likely unknowingly) put his soviet-agent chums into government! He'd have been one of the first in the tumbrils as wholly expendable, once they were in firmly in control. http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/3665728/we-came-close-to-losing-our-democracy-in-1979/ Callaghan almost lost control to the communist infiltration of Labour in any event. The real tales haven't been told yet, but our democracy was a lot more fragile than most folks would have liked to believe. It was a near-run thing, and the threats were from both directions. If the Soviets had pulled all the strings they'd painstakingly set up in Labour and the unions (not to mention their sleepers in our old-boy-network and institutions) we'd surely have ended up like Greece. The military would have had the excuse they were looking for on any one of multiple occasions. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4789060.stm Scargill's was probably the last serious attack on our democracy. What a tragedy so many totally genuine local people allowed themselves to be so badly misled by a self-declared Stalinist! And, they are still under the delusion that it was a trade dispute! The real blockbuster is yet to be made, but too many people who will be distinctly embarrassed are still alive.
  18. Listen very carefully to what Balls said at the LPC. What the delegates came away thinking he said (and probably want to believe he said), and what he got past them, are two entirely different things. They think he said that he will eliminate the deficit! What he actually said was that he will manage the interest payments and make no attempt at the principal. He also pulled a con trick on the NHS. Through all the smoke and mirrors - and taken quite literally - what he said is that he'll keep spending in line with inflation. This government has kept the spend about one percent ahead of inflation, and during the whole of Maggie's government the yearly increase averaged a full 3% ahead of inflation! So, despite all the "Tories want to privatise the NHS" B(b)alls, he's planning to spend even less that the current lot in order to meet national debt interest payments! The pretence is that "the mansion tax" and soaking companies will pay for a much bigger spend, but he knows that this will raise next to nothing, and is simply playing to Labour voter ignorance. Put simply, and by his own mouth: this crook is planning to spend far less on public services than the present lot, and clamp down on benefits even harder - because he knows he can get away with it! Taking candy out of the mouths of children comes to mind. Never underestimate the stupidity of a tribal Labour voter and you can't go wrong. Yes, he's got an Oxford PPE in that!
  19. Where do you propose to run this software? If it's on your computer then how is the usage of other devices connected to your WAP/Router going to be monitored? Some (if not most) ADSL home gear logs packets transferred, or can be persuaded to do this. You can approximately translate these into gigabytes by finding the packet size (generally about 1.5KB) and doing the math. Is your Sky box hard-wired to the Router/ADSL box? If so pay attention to the lights on the Ethernet port it is connected to. The Sky box itself may have a tiny activity LED on the Ethernet connection. Spin it around and watch this. Sky sounds to be the most likely culprit UNLESS neighbours or others are taking a free ride on you WiFi. I'd be watching my activity LEDs for a quick answer. What's going on will be broadly evident that way, without the need for exact measurements.
  20. If you are prepared to wear make-up and a wig I will sneak you in! Well, there's Google ___'ed then! I think it's meant to be read to this music: Pity about those ads YouTube! Did I mention we are starting GluTube.com? The one you stick with!
  21. Thanks for those useful info snippets Steve. As it happens I'm just testing a cheapo 32GB for integrity right now. I've been at this game since 4 bit processors were truly amazing, and suffered enough data loss to be almost paranoid. Currently I've got two NAS both with RAID drives, as well as numerous portable hard drives and flash memory devices. What I really need is software that keeps track of what is where and when! And - of course - something to tell me where the backups of that info are too! BTW there are no "old topics" here; there are quite a few that are simply resting though!
  22. Word on the street has it that Ello is picking up new users in droves due to its policy of no ads and no sales of user data. I seem to remember that someone here billed FB as a new paradigm, and rubbished Fourgee's assertion that FB was just a fashion that would go the same way as MySpace, Friends Reunited etc. etc. The thing about any mass phenomenon like this is that when the suits try to "monetize" it users are quick to cotton on to the fact that they are being exploited, and that their own time is valuable too. If I were a FB stockholder I'd see this as the writing on the wall.
  23. Hi Steve! Why don't you add that to the new Directory (link up top) so that it's permanently available to everyone. Posts tend to get buried. Anything else you think may be relevant to the town too.
  24. Thanks Vic but I can't take any credit, it's all Fourgee's project.
  25. Another members-only feature. More on the way! http://www.bedlington.co.uk/live.html Please note that there is no recording available so it is pointless asking for "replays", "tapes", etc. - such data does not exist! As Bedlington Live! is a members-only feature the tab will not appear on your main menu until after you've logged in. It is one of the features casual site visitors are not made aware of. Technical Note We don't currently support Microsoft Internet Explorer for streaming (there's no proprietary .wmv support). Windows users who are using IE should seriously consider downloading Firefox (or a similar open-source browser) for their own peace of mind - it's free! Bedlington Live! also works in both the standard Android bowser and the Android Chrome one, if your smartphone and mobile data connection are fast enough. Although currently untested we'd guess that it works with pure Google Chrome devices too. If you've got Apple or proprietary Microsoft hardware (such as a Windows Phone or Windows RT tablet) some other members will surely appreciate a report as to what works for you, and what doesn't. If there is enough demand we could be persuaded to find time to address clearly reported compatibility problems.
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