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Looking like the worst possible outcome for the NE. Even more of our resources to placate the UK loyalists north of the border, and the moaning Mcs will moan even more about their "subjugation". Hoping the polls are wrong. Fairness says we should now have a poll on whether we want to be associated with a nation that is in a perpetual state of having its hand out for more! Not much hope of that though. Barnett has just said that his formula is grossly unfair to the rest of the UK, was only intended as temporary, and should have been scrapped long long ago. Instead our politicos have committed to heaping further pain onto the UK taxpayer. Come UK polling day I hope that people have longer memories than the main political parties give them credit for. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scottish-independence/11100400/My-funding-formula-for-Scotland-is-a-terrible-mistake-Lord-Barnett-admits.html Remember that £4.500,000,000 (and yet more again) when we are being told that we can't afford a few tens of thousands to keep this or that public service going locally!

I'd like to see a comparative review, but just at the moment the new Pana seems to be about double the price of the Sammy. No Xenon flash would likely be a deal breaker too, unless the Pana's LED one is way better than anything else so far.

LOL! Does he force people to buy those shirts? Anyway, it seems likely that he must have got that $5BN by doing more than just selling overpriced shirts. Will look into it and get back to you. Really?! And I honestly though UKIP was about quiting the EU so that we could give British workers first crack at the 800,000 jobs we currently advertise to EU workers. That would mean a lot less of those "evil" zero hours contracts as native unemployment falls and employers are much more willing to commit to guaranteed hours in order to retain their workers. The EU drives UK wages down, that's a hard fact that none of the three political parties will tell you. That's why Miliband won't even discuss the EU, and dodges all questions. The other two stooges simply lie about it! http://www.wageindicator.org/main/labour-laws/collective-bargaining/2013/news-items-2013/eu-sources-zero-hours-contracts-on-the-rise-october-21-2013 Got the connection?

Oh THAT Mike Ashley! Why don't you like him? What has he done to you? I think ever-increasing cohort of UKIP supporters would say that they are the least gullible section of the populace. That they've finally woken up as to how they've been manipulated all these years. They see people who vote for the three main parties (for no reason other than dumb and blind tribalism, and against their own interests) as the gullible ones. You see when the establishment is threatened they stick together to protect their own interests not ours: UKIP says let's break that mould; let's stop being gullible; lets make politicians truly represent us once again. It's our country and should be run in our interests, not that of the Westminster ruling elites. Anyway, I'm genuinely interested to know about Mike Ashley. And not just because (according to Forbes) he's currently worth $5.5 billion dollars.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/os/devices/#zte_openc The Alcatel One Touch Fire is being sold by national network TIM in Italy for less than sixty euros just at the moment, though they seem to have run out them for now. Out of the entire bunch the Alcatel One Touch Fire E seems to be the best proposition: Apparently they are being made available in: Czech RepublicGermanyPolandRAM is still limited to 512MB but it has a more usable 4.5" screen and a tad faster dual core CPU. qHD means quarter HD i.e. 960x540 which isn't at all bad for general use. The only price indicator I can find for the Fire E is 6000 Indian rupees (just over £60), which is pretty hard to believe for such a specification. I'm trying to get hold of one and will report here if/when I do. The models with 128MB RAM (or even 256MB) are avoids, and likely only made for sale other than in "the first world". One of the models is being sold on UK eBay I'm told, not sure which at the moment. I've no information that any UK retailers are stocking any just yet. The Android One devices look interesting too but it's still very early days here too. Microsoft now has real problems if it's intending to peddle Nokia devices with Windows Phone into the developing world.

But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane [you aren't alone] In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft a-gley, [often go awry] An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promised joy.

The heartbroken Phones4u Team Didn't work then? A faint suspicion here that the networks spied an easy way to remove a competitor. Collusion? Unthinkable!

I don't think you need to worry too much about that Sym. There are enough (ex-?)Nazis in Brussels to keep them occupied for a good while, and fascism is low on their priorities list these days. Our ruling elites have thoughtfully provided them with loads of work by allowing unlimited immigration (caution against it and you are a "racist"), and their further romps into other people's countries (a.k.a. new-age imperialism). All "in the public interest", of course!

You'll get the answer to that from the good citizens of Clacton on the 9th October Vic! And, not all of them will be old Tory buffers mourning the fact that their world is long gone, desperately hoping to wind the clock back. I think perhaps a majority will be ex-Labour voters who realise that things only got "better" for the political elites; that they were thoroughly conned by Teflon Tony and his spin doctors, and that Miliband is just another new Labour con artist. That Labour hasn't even bothered to sideline Ed Balls - the guy who as chancellor broke our economy - shows how much contempt they have for voters. Now Clegg is trying to buy votes from youngsters by promising to rob pensioners of their rights in order to fund third-price bus passes for them. He's betting on them having shorter memories (remember his tuition fees promises?) than most, and that there's a new crop of of wet behind the ears voters there. And Duplicitous Dave? Well, it all depends on what his focus groups tell him he has to say this week. But, what he actually does will be to pursue his own agenda regardless. All "in the public interest", of course!

If you really want to understand why things are going so badly wrong, and why things will only get worse, then read this short article by the brilliantly analytical Janet Daley: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11092499/This-isnt-what-democracy-is-supposed-to-be.html It sums up what I've being trying to communicate for a long time. In fact if there is only one political article you can be arsed to read this year then read that article! What she doesn't add is that there's nowhere that this elitism is more prevalent than in "post-democratic" Brussels. No solutions are offered to this thorny problem. But - at least as far as the EU is concerned - there's a very simple one, already arrived at by a majority of our electorate. How long can those elitists duck and dodge the democratic will? They are betting on indefinitely, and have been remarkably successful so far. My money is still on the old adage that you can't fool all of the people all of the time!

Might be a good site to add to the new directory Adam? He will surely appreciate the extra traffic for his efforts. I can spin-off a new category for historical interest later. Thanks Tony.

https://www.google.it/maps/@55.1407265,-1.5684749,3a,75y,247.54h,68.97t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sCx_kW8LWAxMB5SeyDcC__w!2e0?hl=en February 2009

This is very true, Cameron's crying won't help a mickle! In his Westminster cocoon, surrounded by spin doctors, he gets the public opinion stuff very wrong most of the time. That's fatal for a politico who has no real principals and trades on public opinion. I'm all for leaving UK and the UJ just the way it is. It wasn't us who left! On the other hand if we were to change it just to make the point that we've been released from a whinging and dependant marriage partner, who always thought that they could have done better, then, I'm open to persuasion. This could sit nicely with a new self-reliant start outside the EU, and say the UK is open for business again. Without the fiscal drain of Scotland, and pointless EU membership fees, and without the dependency mentality that comes with this and "Scotland's oil", we can afford to invest in infrastructure and outlying areas like the NE. We don't want to kill the cash cow that is London, but we do need to wean the country away from the London centricity of our entire economy. Unfortunately what looks likely is that just enough Scots are savvy enough to know that the UK benefits them greatly, and that Salmond is a false prophet (or profit?). That, his one-party-state and command economy will tax and spend the ever diminishing oil revenues, whilst enterprise will get out of his control by hitting the road to England. He won't honour his undertaking that the referendum will be the end of the matter, and will continue to whine whatever powers he gets. The best we'll be able to make of a bad job is to decouple the Scottish economy as much as is possible. The inevitable result of the ScotNats is that Scotland will become ever more dependant on the rest of the UK as they stew in their own greed, jealousy and stupidity, and their best talents continue to leave. One can only hope the opinion polls are wrong, and they get what the ScotNats wish for! No, that would be to adopt a ScotNat mentality and be entirely wrong! Let's face it: we are stuck with a less-than-ideal partner who has a few redeeming features (though just at the moment these escape me )!

I don't think any of the Westminster mob ever considered this; so - like many other matters - there is a complete lack of planning. Isn't it 40 Labour seats plus a handful of LD ones (4?) from the borders etc.? It might mean that a Miliband government would be very short lived. Perhaps not a bad thing for up and coming parties who do surprisingly well, but not well enough, next time around, and are still building credibility for the final breakthrough. Particularly those that plan for the medium term, and have a little more vision and purpose than the present gi's-a-cushy-job lot! But, the lack of UK planning is going to be nothing to the lack of plans on Salmond's behalf. There are many essentially loyal and nationalistic (with a small 'n') Scots who will simply go through with their threat to move to England. There is no way that we can avoid border posts; having to show documents there, and the free flow of goods will cease. There'll be mony a solid English pound to be made by nipping back and forth. The Scot Nats are living in Cloud Cuckoo Land if they think they can cherry pick benefits without suffering a financial disaster, or that the UK will accept their demands meekly. And, when it all goes TU for them, they'll do what they always do - blame the English! Scotland has produced cohorts of the most brilliant and industrious people on the planet, but, for the most part, these people do what they've always done: take the high-road that leads him to England (and beyond) as quickly as they are able. You could easily be forgiven for thinking that this must apply a self-fulfilling filter to the gene-pool north of the border! The living proof of this interesting theory could well be Alex Salmond!

Search though I may I can't find any info as to how much RAM they've fitted to the 6 and 6 Plus. The usual reason this becomes a state secret with any device and any manufacture is that it's far too little. Spill the beans Apple: have you really fitted a measly 1GB RAM to a top of the range; way overpriced; year 2014 device? It should be at least twice that at this stage of the game!

Well... I guess the Ruskies got it dead right again! http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/9/6122731/iphone-6-apple-4-7-inch-display-announced The watch doesn't look at all bad, but I haven't seen the pricing yet, and its slated to be highly proprietary (tied securely into the Apple ecosystem). No camera though. The camera and its connectivity is one of the best parts of the original Galaxy Gear, despite what those 48 hour experience reviewers claimed. And... the third generation Gear is stand-alone on both GSM and WiFi, which has a lot of appeal to someone who swaps out their phone rather frequently, like... Interesting to see how many Apple sells. The eventual adoption of NFC (as noted in the Ruskie video) can only help everybody, but once again trashes the myth that Apple is a market leader.

Wow, is he THAT old! Happy birthday, and many many more!

Watchtowers with haggis deflecting screens - well planned! I caught Milipede on the radio extorting Scottish voters to vote no - because - wait for it - only Labour would freeze their electricity bills. Well... not exactly freeze, delay any recovery of increased charges for a while. Haven't we been there on a much grander scale before? The Prices and Incomes Policy I think it was called. Yeah, that was really successful! So there you have it Scotland: a short term loan of someone else's £200 against your national sovereignty for all-time. A really difficult call that one. And remember, there's the alternative promise of loadsa stuff from the more-free-stuff party - if it turns out they can afford it. Take the money or open the ScotNat Pandora's box? But first... the yes-no interlude!

Is it really possible that Snake Oil Salmond can con (and intimidate) enough people to vote for "an Independent Scotland"? Well it's looking like the Scots may just return to form, allowing their jealousy, greed, and envy to overtake their common sense. There's quite a number of telling examples of this on the history books; one quite new to me was the Darien Scheme which featured in a fairly recent TV documentary. Salmond's whole proposition is predicated on their being sweetness and light between his loony-left-nationalist Scotland and the rest of the UK following a break up - he and his more-free-stuff party will get all their own way. It's not going to happen my friends (and ancestors) over the border! No UK government can be seen to be playing less than hard-ball, that would spell electoral disaster. There are massive UK votes in saying the obvious: enough is enough, and it's your choice that we are not bailing you out any more! The acrimony and bitterness that will be stirred up here will last centuries. Even a No vote is going to cause resentment (both ways) as Scotland is seen to be getting an even more unfair slice of the UK cake; one for which it is forever ungrateful. Two things are for sure: a No vote won't end the matter in the slightest, and a Yes vote will turn out to be a financial disaster North of the border, and an even bigger disaster for relations in our island. Who will rid us of the moaning macks? Certainly not Alex Salmond! Whichever way this thing goes there will be nothing at all to celebrate and one should dread the result.

Snap, so do I: http://www.gsmarena.com/alcatel_pop_c3-5687.php They sell for about £65 here now, and are amazing value - dual SIM too! But that's just for regular things like making phone calls, a little Skype, and Internet radio. For other stuff I deploy the "big guns"! ..and - if you are wondering where the iMoney (from Brits who queue all night and sleep on pavements to pay far more than even the US buyers will pay) goes: Sneak drone shots from inside Apple's security fence last month. Remember this is prime Californian real estate, and not a green field site in Nowheresville. It's also in addition to and not instead of. Go full screen HD and skip to nearer the end to get an idea of the scale of this thing. Nothing will actually be made here; that will be done for the most part in Chinese sweat shops. To borrow from an old stock market saying: Where are the customer's spaceships?

Nope, I don't believe ANY political party will ever deliver everything it says. Not even half of what it claims. But, when you have all the establishment parties going in one direction, and public opinion going in the exact opposite, democracy has badly failed. When the result is that a party pops up to represent public opinion - policy comes up from the bottom - that's the only one a non-tribalist can support. Racialist is one of these loony left substitute for thought labels. Some of those so labelled will undoubtedly be bigots (though one often wonders if there's more of that on the part of the labeller than their target); most will have genuine concerns which at very least deserve listening to. One of the ways the establishment uses to attack UKIP is to point to the demise of the BNP. Fact is that the BNP still has its hard core of bigots, but there is now an outlet for those with genuine concerns that there wasn't before. Actually, if you were a member of the BNP or kindred organisations you have to look to other than UKIP, because you fail the membership test - though of course UKIP can't stop you voting for them. What the loony left were doing was to drive otherwise reasonable people into the BNP fold, because they had no other way of expressing their concerns. Even bigots are better in a fold where reason and fairness can be applied by gentle social pressure. These days you don't have to make a case for preventing radicalisation! It really suits people on the extreme left to apply labels and try to demonise others; this makes them feel so much better about themselves and their failure to use their own god-given intelligence. The right doesn't go in for demonisation, rather it regards the left as simply those who haven't seen the light. Unfortunately, explaining why someone has over-simplistic wrong-headed ideas takes more than a sound bite - a hard fact which delights the left, and they do try hard not to miss a trick! What I'm saying is that at a membership level UKIP is as flawed as any other political party. When it gets power it will have exactly the same sorts of problems. But, just at this moment, it's much better able to deal with those problems. That's because it - like the very early Labour Party - is grass roots, and ... and here's the big one ... it is under intense attack from the establishment media machine, and simply has to keep its house in order. There may come a day - there probably will be a day - when it's no longer worth supporting; when naked tribalism takes over from genuine policy. But, until then, it's very worthy of support, because it offers the only chance of the change we need, and it is genuinely democratic.

How's your Russian? Why for sure? Because it exactly matches all the other leaks of component parts from far-east contractors, and they've split it open to see the works! Plus the source has rep for not pulling hoaxes. There's going to be two models (4.7" and 5.5") of course, as Apple have been losing out big time to much larger and much more usable smartphones. So... yet another Steve Jobs myth bust: this time the ideal size of a smartphone. But, the Apple marketing machine is really good at rewriting history, and in leaving its past customers high and dry. That might be excusable at half the price, but when you add on the UK price premium they demand - plus the high cost of ownership - Android is a vastly better proposition for all but rather wealthy technophobes. Anyway, that it's going to sell and sell there is no doubt. iSheep will be lauding the usability of the sensibly sized screens and queueing overnight to boost Apple's coffers even more. It's a funny old world and competition is good, even if you have to accept a degree of brain washing in the mix! The important things are to keep blinkered technophobes very happy, and make megabucks doing so!

I think you miss the point here. It doesn't take very many people willing to work for less than "a living wage" to skew the market. Rather like the odd distressed house sale in a street dropping the value of all the other properties. I'm not arguing here for high uncompetitive wages, just pointing out the obvious dishonesty in Labour's policies. They are saying one thing to their traditional supporters whilst pursuing policies that can only hugely disadvantage them. Their complete silence on the EU says it all - like Rotherham it's something Guardian readers can't talk about rationally if at all, because - to them - the truth is ugly! Labour (and what's left of the LDs) are no longer rational political parties, they're fully certified religions! For goodness sake don't apologise for raising "inflammatory" points. Rational discussion is what has been lacking in this town for many decades. Lots more please! On the EU: all the LD's can come up to justify membership is the "three million jobs" that will be lost if we leave. This isn't scaremongering then? (Ignore the fact that the guy who actually did the counting says the loss claim is nonsense.) There are few if any economic benefits (providing you're not a politico). Name a single advantage that we'd not get from a simple customs union, and I will quote you ten disadvantages of membership. The EU boils down to paying lots of money in to a central bureaucracy in the hope that you might get a little back here or there. But the gotcha is that you only get it back if you agree to play the bureaucrats silly games. This week it's hunt the big vacuum cleaner. Its all about a "post democratic society". Not a new idea really; I think Stalin and Hitler filed patents! Sure you have elections, but the people you elect get to sit in a shiny expensive building and talk endlessly, whilst the commission (commissariat?) do the actual ruling. However flawed Westminster is there's the distinct possibility that the electorate can push for change, and even say no to wars that the ruling elites scheme at in order to extend their power-base (Ukraine anyone?) Whether you look at it economically or socially, the EU fails miserably as a way of directing society to a better future. And, as far as the UK is concerned, it is predicated on a lie: we voted for an economic union and got a political one. We now know that you can't have one without the other - or so the politicos hope. So, the next best thing is a simple customs union. Yes, please, politicos. Why exactly are we waiting if it's not to con us yet again? (Oh, and look Mr Cameron; one of your own has just said that he's had insider info that's exactly what you are planning.) That's the UKIP position, plain and simple.

I was wondering where Cher was for a few seconds - until, it came to me that this must be the tolerant face of Islam. The one we must all embrace in the name of PC-loony-left multiculturalism! Was that Rotherham?