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Delusion #2: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scottish-independence/11046740/Sir-Ian-Wood-15-years-of-oil-left-before-independent-Scotland-spending-cuts.html Not what Salmond wants to hear of course! And the truth he's trying to conceal about current production:

Robin Williams had 'serious money troubles' before his death

An major opportunity was missed in not converting the old Dr/A Pit line into a light-rail rapid shuttle service to The Market Place. It would have keep our "main" station operational too. Not a huge project, and would have gone a little way to undoing some of the wrongs of the past in not putting us on the main line as Stevenson envisaged. With a little station in the Market Place all the other proposed development, that has always stalled, would have followed on naturally. The synergy would have fed into the main rail project, and relieved commuter congestion on the road network. A complete lack of foresight and cohesive planning by local politicians I think.

MT doesn't need any apologists, she did what she had to do for the entire country! I don't have any problem with trades unions, they too do what they have to do. I do however have a problem with people who have highly selective memories, and people who demonise others, and particularly with people who feed subsequent generations half-truths. Scargill was not the trade union movement; or even the NUM; or even that part of the NUM he split! He isn't a demon either; or evil; or any of the silly mindless substitute-for-thought left-wing labels you would apply. He's actually a rather sad old guy who is still at odds with his own union, and thinks they (and the rest of the world) owe him a living. I don't take any delight at the NUM throwing him out of his subsidised flat - he's still living in his own dream world, and still way beyond any rational argument. I do sympathise with those who were taken in by him, but I do not sympathise with their entirely misplaced and soul-destroying bitterness. The world is a lot more complex place than people who chant mindless slogans, and blame others for their own lack of foresight, can admit to! Problems are deep rooted, and there are few simple solutions, and certainly none that don't require a bit of personal pain and effort. Feeding future generations thoughtless crap in order to perpetuate your own bitterness is about as mindless as it gets. It might make you feel better about yourself, but it doesn't help you, or anyone else - now or in the future. Oh, and I gave the video 5*. Not for its historical accuracy, or balance, but for capturing the nostalgia we all share.

I bet those side-by-side bikes were loved by politicos on holiday - they can steer in both directions at once! :blink:

I have, in my hand, these pieces of paper, and they bear the assurances from my ex-Nazi friends in the EU that following a Yes vote Scotland will enter a period of peace and prosperity. Peace and prosperity for our time!

Yes indeed, "WAKE UP ENGLAND" and "DOWN WITH THE GOVERNMENT"! Whoops, sorry, should have posted that on the http://www.bedlington.co.uk/community/topic/3492-crash-2-the-sequel/ thread! Anyway, Lady Houston, Nige needs your massive cheque now! "Three million unemployed"? In your dreams Lord Clegghaw!

Just sometimes original (old) English spellings are preferred, as opposed to pretentious (and Germanic influenced) Victoriana. Our internal review on this matter will be completed in the Fall.

Poor lad indeed! Umm... Chronicle - try again on Attlee!

I was amused to see Facebook described as a "rapidly fading media now only used by old people". Obviously I'm way beyond "old" here as I rarely, if ever, bothered with it. I think the principal is that once commercialism cottons on to the possibilities the proposition rapidly fades. Anyone who invests in fashion industries like FB or Twitter (or Apple!) needs to time their exit better than I ever could hope to. The very forces which catapult them to mass usage rapidly kill them off. Hence not only am I Out, I wouldn't even dream of being In. Friends Reunited, MySpace, anyone?

What do you expect from a rag that is now owned by The Daily Mirror group? I guess it was written by some journo who'd never set foot in the town, and likely never will! Without other evidence I'd back the Leader, they probably even managed to spell Attlee right this time!

Background info: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/aviation/11033148/Two-Lancaster-bomber-planes-fly-together-for-first-time-in-50-years.html

Things could be moving faster than I reckoned: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/11032571/Italys-Renzi-must-bring-back-the-lira-to-end-depression.html But, then again, one should never underestimate the capacity of a Europhile to pig-headedly ignore reality. Anyway, logic says it's going to be a Friday night jobbie. After which can France be far behind? At which point you can safely say auf Wiedersehen to the entire "Euro experiment" - it really won't matter what Spain, Portugal etc. do. I hope it happens before next May, as that will lend further weight to what UKIP has been saying about the whole sorry state of the EU. Whenever, it's going to be very messy, and it really needn't have been, with even a modicum of foresight by the Euro politicos.

This is true. Banks don't lend like they do in the UK, for instance if you want a mortgage you can get maybe half the asking price and the rest you need to find from family resources or savings. Though what actually happens - in the countryside at least, and often in towns - is that you buy the building materials you can afford and build so much. This inflation proofs your money, and you can always sell on the incomplete project, or pass it on to the next generation. Hundreds of incomplete buildings is puzzling to Brits; they say just get a mortgage and finish the thing, not understanding that what they are looking at is not an unusable home, but inflation-proofed personal wealth that's almost beyond what politicians can screw up. In 2006 and shortly thereafter, I got entirely the wrong impression seeing hundreds of semi-abandoned small tracts of land in the countryside. It rather looked like a complete abandonment of land where you could grow things we really value in the UK. In fact the was great stuff growing wild you could just go help yourself to - Italians still do! But what I was seeing was the peak of the delusion that small agriculture was a thing of the past. Over the last few years things have completely changed and people have returned to the land. Not just the few eighty-odd year olds like before, but middle-aged people, bringing with them youngsters to help work the family plot. That's the most obvious testament to the disillusionment with the EU to me. It's easy to see where Bepe gets his 25%+ support from. There may be minor differences of emphasis from UKIP, but the ideas are broadly the same.

Reports of his death sadly not a rumour! Some really weird stuff published over the last few weeks if you do a trawl, but the truth could be a lot simpler: the personality that made him so interesting killed him?

Triple dip are the words I've heard - but personally I've lost count! Third generation euro-puppet Renzi is constantly preaching about reform of this and reform of that, but what he's actually pushed through so far is minimal; certainly the Italian equivalent of the CBI isn't at all impressed. It's still very much a society which doesn't trust banks (and justifiably so), which is geared to live with inflation, and has no appetite for private debt. Trying to couple it directly to the German economy was insanity, and there will be no solutions until the link is severed. It took Berlusconi many years to reach that conclusion, but anyone who opposes the euro-mafia is eliminated.

Hole discovered in the Euro's lifeboat? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/11020183/Germany-close-to-recession-as-ECB-admits-recovery-is-weak.html Easy to see why she's resisting sanctions on Russia. Farcical really, when the EU is the prime initiator of the little local difficulty in Ukraine. That Ruskie missile might just have taken the Euro out!

Word on the street has it that Miliband has recently been warned by advisers that UKIP now presents a serious threat to Labour in places they previously considered safe as a rock. This is interesting because they've previously applied the one-trick-pony label to UKIP electoral success. Labels are something Labour excels at because they are a substitute for thought, and if Labour voters actually started thinking, well... I think the "should not be taken for granted" words have been applied, so maybe they've been reading bedlington.co.uk? First Cameron is pushed into an complete about think, now it seems Labour is catching the drift that people are fed up with London-centric, wealth consuming, lefty liberal mob that spins and manipulates its way to six figure salaries for achieving nothing, and doing precisely nowt! If you have read some of the recent exposés on consultancy fees, believe me that's just the tip of the iceberg where "our betters" are concerned. The profligacy and waste of the Labour years has only been tinkered with, and the foreign aid budget remains a major public scandal when communities like ours are being starved of resources. That's not to mention the huge net sums of our money which go to the EU to prop up that even more ghastly temple to privilege and profligacy. What will Miliband actually do? Well, in reality BA, but I'd expect we are in for some whistle-stop tours to show he really really cares, honest he does! Pondering on what he actually cares about I will leave as an exercise for the reader.

Ah, thanks for the heads up merc. That "Trust" guy had used up my full quota.

You don't have an "IP address" as such! It's allocated from a pool depending on your ISP. How long it's allocated for depends on a lot of factors, but it can be from minutes to weeks. (I'm not talking about special ISP arrangements here). So... it follows that a website admin can't make such a statement; the only entity who knows precisely who was using any individual IP at all times is your ISP. Obviously websites can map IPs to user-names in particular timeslots, but they can't prove a negative (who has the same IP when you are not logged in to them). However... you need to be confident in the security of your WiFi. Make sure you are not using WEP for a start. Wired Equivalent Privacy isn't what it is stated to be! And, of course, make sure you use a secure pass-phrase for your WiFi. One that can't be guessed, or inferred, or is similar to any other passwords you use. If you've given it away to anyone in the past then change it (and the SSID too). Dunno why you can't PM me. Does anyone else have a problem here? Feel free to do a test.

I sort of suspect that the site that informed me that the Asus ME180A had an AMD x86 CPU was one of those! Ah, those completely unbiased user reviews; say whatever you want but if we don't like it no more goodies will ever get sent! Now, for a completely unbiased look at technology, this site takes some beating! As a matter of fact I get all my Android news from there.

Another factor why the East is first to go strongly UKIP then? Though, I think our case is not so much about to-region distribution, but what happens when it trickles down to town level. That we put up with constantly being shafted is ample testimony to the combined dumbness and disinterest of local voters. It's all very well electing a few independents who refuse to join in the establishment conspiracy, but they are neutered unless you deliver a shock to the system at both the regional and national levels.

Interested to hear your reasoning on this one. Suspect that you could be one of the many (mainly in Scotland) who haven't thought this one through fully.

Ah, you must mean the sixteen-year-old kids who have absolutely no experience of politics or political machinations? Jihadist suicide bombers come to mind here. Part of me rather wishes that Salmond gets his crazy way - it would certainly be great for the North East here - but the other part has a lot of sympathy for the entirely sane Scots, who seem to be in the majority!

It looks like ya may be able to gain a new understanding of them though, Scotty! http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-07/31/nasa-validates-impossible-space-drive If this is a real affect then it's quite revolutionary, and has implications not just for space travel. If there is something previously undetected to "push-against", then scientists are going to go to seventh heaven. The nature of the something could create all sorts of engineering possibilities. There have been false dawns like this before, but we can still hope. Dark matter immediately comes to mind here. It could be interesting to hear the explanations of why a British guy in his "shed" can discover something $5.5 billion a year of EU money has failed to detect in many years! And... why only Chinese scientists had the common sense to listen. Update: The UK website is here: http://emdrive.com/ It's not the most exciting site in the world presentation-wise, but some of the information snippets are quite stunning. The August 2010 "A Technology Transfer contract with a major US aerospace company was successfully completed." is Boeing, and Boeing are keeping ever so quite about it!