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Wouldn't seem appropriate for here. I was thinking about organising a www.ashington. domain + hosting + software for you. We could affiliate it and cross-link though. It's open to democratic forces on an Ashington forum here, but you could hardly expect Ashington folk to come flocking to the opposition!

It could easily be organised if you want to run it! PM me if you are interested.

How many minutes after the publication of the latest opinion poll results was "some time"? Three hitherto silent Tory grandees at the weekend; two cabinet ministers yesterday; now no less than The Pres. of the US of A offers: "you probably want to see if you can fix what's broken in a very important relationship before you break it off". How high can this go? Tomorrow expect God to pronounce that the EU is broken (by divine portent - obviously!). Amazing what can happen when dumb tribalism breaks down and people start forming alliances based on hard logic and mutual interest.

I saw it from the front and all that really mattered at the time was the way the press span the news as an assault; Internet stop-motion was still in its infancy! Anyway, good find! Now go find why UK Coal are losing money. The truth is out there!

It would bug me if we didn't own great chunks of overseas stuff too. Amazing what British firms still own in the States - the late Lords Hanson & White showed them how to do it over and over again. Half the world's aircraft fly on RR; City of London, and we punch well above our weight in many areas. Only reason the French dominate European nuclear and we have to buy their power is that we let them, and having decided on 5 or 6 new (French built) nukes we are still dithering! What sticks in my craw is the slow steady march to a European super state by yesterday's men with last-century ideas - the Fourth Reich by the back door! Think she saw that one coming!

A totally warped view on Mrs T. Adam. She didn't hate anyone but passionately cared about our Country, all the hatred came and still comes from the hard left. I simply couldn't believe how stupid the Ashington lot could be the day they physically attacked MacGregor, who was simply there to explore the possibilities and see what could be done. MacGregor was no puppet, and contrary to popular belief it was actually Jim Callaghan who first persuaded him to return from the States to help sort out the total mess at the nationalised British Leyland. He was a tough no-nonsense Glaswegian who was no stranger to hard manual work himself, and had a deep respect for hard working people. Scargill tried year in year out to provoke a strike and in the end when his membership wouldn't support him he called one anyway - an illegal strike! He had no interest in other than causing even more industrial chaos, and, when his illegal strike dragged on, would not negotiate. Neil Kinnock has recently said as much. "a deep hatred for miners because they helped make the government she was part of in 1974 lose the general election" I can assure you that in no way did Mrs. T. ever blame the miners for losing the 1974 general election. If she blamed anyone it would have been that waste of space Edward Heath. I didn't support Harold Wilson but in retrospect he did a lot better struggling against the odds (the uncontrollable union leaders who actually ran the country) than Heath ever did. He was twice the man Heath was, but the unions thought they owned him and ran the country, so he really didn't have a chance. I really respect some of the old Labour lot as although their ideas were often quite wrong-headed the actually believed in something, and came from hard times that you couldn't imagine today. Anyway Ted Heath had massive help in losing that election from the Arabs; research the 1973 oil price shock. Tell me why your nationalisation will succeed when all other forms of management have failed? You've listed three reasons why UK Coal has a liquidity problem, but you haven't told us why they aren't profitable. If they were reasonably profitable they'd be able to cope with those losses, and would at least be able to raise more capital on the markets.

That vote was in the Commons, at least that's what brought on the general election.

Bloody capitalist lackey! Nationalise the lot I say! Seriously though coal is in a bit of a renaissance at the moment and Lavery should be looking at why UK Coal isn't profitable instead of encouraging state dependence. A commercial loan isn't a commercial loan if it can't be repaid, and easy money will just encourage an appetite for more state handouts - even if the EU will permit one. There's certainly plenty of demand for coal currently - at the right prices!

Cosy for your "career politicians", and mighty costly for us citizens. And it's the world's biggest cartel. Interesting that the definition of cartel has now spawned a second - political - meaning. Maybe "the revolution" has two cartels to bust then? We can probably nail them with one stone though!

Got it! I've just abstracted the bit from the recent More or Less programme which deals with the statistical facts surrounding Cleggies daft claim. Completely damming as it's from Iain Begg - the very guy the LDs got their figures from in the first place! Prof Iain Begg - LSE.mp3 Skip to the very end if you don't want to listen to the whole five minutes. Thanks for that wonky. I too have a couple of large discount 12V panels bought in a clearance a while back, and you've given me the nudge to get them lashed up to a couple of car batteries for standby power. Maggie: the debate is won, it's just that the head-in-the-sand politicos don't want to act! Anything which threatens to derail their gravy train is going to be the subject of a rear-guard action to the bitter end. Support the real class struggle and use your vote intelligently - against the political class and not for! The Miliband Bros are both millionaires, and have never done a real day's work in their lives, they are every bit a part of the system as the Eaton School mob, if not in league with them!

...you should see what I can see when I'm cleaning running windows.

Mainly the second. They bought Britannia in 2009, and it seems the vendors did a great job of offloading their questionable loan book on commercial properties. So, in a fair world the gongs should go to Britannia directors for "services to their shareholders"! Pity Lindsay Anderson wasn't still around, a sequel to Britannia Hospital would be a classic! What is interesting is the way the Beeb are handling this. They haven't gagged Robert Peston but they kept the matter well out of the headlines. Doesn't take too much imagination to work out what may have been going on behind the scenes there, or indeed in government generally.

http://www.dailymail...-boss-quit.html Haven't we been here before with Northern Rock? That's more or less what the silly b***h (lady director) told us a few days before all hell broke lose! "There will be no devaluation" etc. etc. - in finance if you need to say it loudly then likely the reverse is true. We called her bluff then and were right. This time I hope we are very very wrong as it's a far bigger fish and the Co-op Bank directors couldn't possibly be as thick as the local twits that ran Northern Rock! They were on the radio a couple of weeks back implying the the Lloyds Bank branches purchase was a near done deal then we hear it has fallen through. No more surprises, please! The real problem with this bad-news-in-easy-installments sort of thing is that it kills confidence in the entire system as people wonder what other loses aren't being admitted to, and where they might be.

Past Hartford Hall and over the river to Plessey. On the left as I remember. Not sure what the factory is now, assuming it's still there. The factory shop was well used by locals. Brentford Nylons, became Brentfords, became part of Lonhro (who rescued it from bankruptcy), and was ditched by them to become part of Rosebys (who were picky about what bits took for well below cost), who in turn ditched the name as it was too "down-market". Those TV ads featured DJ the late Alan Freeman ('Alright? Stay bright!'). His nickname of Fluff had more to do with his presentations than the what came off the product.

Oh, I think Mr. Jose Manuel Barroso can be taken at his word. All 27 nations?! Goodness, he must know something Dave didn't tell us! Still, it will be all right in the end, we have Dave's "cast-iron promise" - again. I've been researching what the LD's official policy on the EU is these days, in particular where Cleggie gets his shock-horror claim of 3 million lost jobs. The last place to look is the LibDem website though, they seem to have done a search and replace exercise on all the relevant EU keywords! The only stuff I've found are discussion documents on new policy from ... 2008! Their EU policy seems a bit like one of those films where a whole population gets frozen at a point in time by an alien force field, and all that still moves is a wheel slowly rotating on an upturned vehicle. Maybe that's the bit of science fiction JMB has in mind?

Having just read the drivel from Emma Reynolds MP, Shadow Minister for Europe on why talk of leaving the EU is "dangerous" I came across an article on cheap solar panels, more on which later. Anyway, apparently it's all about horsemeat: Sounds like a very good use of eight billion pounds a year then? But EU regulation didn't actually prevent this and maybe facilitated it - oh, the answer is more euro regulation then?! A disaster when we pull out; all the phone lines will be cut the instant we fail to pay our euro subs, and no one in Europe will ever talk to us again. International cooperation on food standards never happened before the EU and will never happen after. But I trivialise - just remember all those jobs that depend on the EU! What jobs are those? I never remember a large surge in employment after we joined, but I do remember we pxxxxd off a lot of commonwealth countries when we turned inward and turned our back on them. I also remember that we had a fine free trade area going called EFTA that didn't impose stupid regulations or fund too many politico's jollies. We threw that away too when it could have showed Germany and France how to do free trade without all the political nonsense. Anyway, back to those solar panels. You'd have thought that anything that facilitated and encouraged "green energy" would be popular with the politicos in Brussels. After all they harp on about renewable energy all the time. The economics of solar are finely balanced, even in extreme Southern Europe the sun is not entirely reliable, and critically it's useless for most of the 24 hour cycle. The further North you go the more government subsidy is required. Just shaving the capital cost by 5% can make the difference between success and a white elephant project. The Chinese, seeing a vast market, have geared up for this and can now produce world-class solar panels at a price that makes many previously unviable projects interesting to potential backers. The installers and construction firms are overjoyed at this, it means more business, more jobs. But hang on - German and other EU manufacturers have all the EU regulatory baggage to contend with, they can't produce at anything like the cost. In a free market they'd have to shape up or quit - the market dictates that, and why should all other sectors of the economy be penalised because of their inefficiency? That's not the reaction of Brussels though; they want to impose swingeing 47% tariffs on the Chinese product - a level which makes the German product just slightly cheaper. So much for free trade; so much for encouraging investment in "green energy". Here the EU is exposed for what it really is: not the world's largest single market, but the world's largest cartel. It's a cartel largely working in the interests of Germany, supplying Germany with "cheap" labour and keeping down the value of its currency in order to facilitate German exports whilst putting up trade barriers to more efficient producers in other parts of the world. A cartel we'd be a lot better off without (the eight billion pounds a year membership fee is just a starting bonus). Nigel Lawson has just come clean on this after many years of keeping quiet so as not to embarrass the Tory leadership, and many other intelligent people who have looked at the pros and cons have concluded the same. The LibDems are totally wrong on this matter and always have been. Labour is in reality split, and the official party line is completely untenable - many Labour supporters know this but are keeping quiet. Cameron is totally at sea, and going to do all he can to "rescue" the European political project whilst pretending he's listening to the public and the majority of his party. The time has come for ALL politicians to start listening to the nation. The old political tricks of delay, misdirection, and subterfuge will no longer work!

Thought we had to embrace "foreigners" or be demonised as racist! Just give the kids a balanced view, and let them use their own brains. You don't need to go very far (over the Irish Sea) to see what happens if you force the next generation to own your myopic view of the past.

This is often quoted - but completely out of context! Early on, as an MP she attended an Oxford dinner where she made remarks about society. The academics there - both left wing and right wing - immediately jumped on this and pointed out that this view was wrong-headed and that in the final analysis all that need be considered was the individual. They put up various cogent arguments which she considered for a while and then said something to the effect of perhaps she needed to do a rethink on this and give more consideration to the effect of political policies on the individual. A short while later she revised her views in the light of what she'd learned, and not what the political chattering classes liked to believe the World should be like. This wasn't the delusion of some out-of-touch person as Labour would have you believe, but someone who considered facts, realities, and basic fairnesses. Little mention here of the actual facts surrounding the miner's strike. The kids here are getting an extremely slanted view of what actually happened. No mention that Scargill wouldn't poll his members - because he knew he'd lose! No mention that the actual purpose behind the strike was to overthrow a democratically elected government! No mention that Scargill refused to negotiate, no mention of what had gone before. There are few countries in the World where an open revolutionary trying to bring down a democratically elected government. would be enjoying their retirement in luxury! Indeed there are many where he'd still be in a dark dungeon out of the public eye. It's really sad that local miners chose to follow this man, but no one forced them to do this. To demonise a Prime Minister who did more for their country than any other peace time leader is even sadder! But, the left always demonises when it can't put up a rational argument. The sad truth is that under Mrs T. the miners were forced to take off their rose-coloured spectacles and face reality - holding the country to ransom may have been OK under that pathetic excuse for a Prime Minister, Ted Heath, but it had to come to an end. Labour were very grateful it didn't come to an end on their watch, but the very last thing they were going to do was reverse any of the legislation which they themselves dare not enact. The country as a whole knew the reality, but sadly a lot of local people are still trying to hang on to their illusions. Her true crime: she burst your illusions! Get over it and stop living in the past; in particular stop teaching half-truths to your children and grandchildren, and forcing them to them re-live your mistakes!

It was always going to be a bad day for Eaton School, Brussels, the TUC, and Hampstead champagne socialists! Joe Public is wising up, and at an ever increasing pace. If 24% of South Shields voters can see right through the divide and conquer strategy of big politics (and its help mate the British class system) there's hope for absolutely anywhere now. Congratulations to you both, but do stick around a while longer - the revolution has really only just begun!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Z19vR1GldRI ..or maybe not!

Bored with their new toy - The Large Hadron Collider - CERN has decided to climb on the techno-nostalgia bandwagon by restoring the very first web page at the same URL as before. The fact that they are attempting to host it on the original hardware will become apparent when you try to download it! http://info.cern.ch/...TheProject.html What!? You expected pictures? You'll need to wait a few years (maybe for the very first bedlington.co.uk page?) for those. BTW notice that although there's a WWW in the URL the bottom level domain is in fact info. It was only later that "www." was widely adopted as the name of the machine that delivered an organisation's http: content. Even today CERN themselves are ignoring this convention and using "web." instead.

It was a Martins - Captain Mainwaring! For many years a Mr Bilton the branch manager. http://www.martinsba...rchive Data.htm Seems like Barclays won't allow the old Martins material to be published. Might just close my account with them - ooops I already did! ============================== Update: Though it doesn't appear to be linked to any longer there's still a brilliant page here: http://www.martinsba... Bedlington.htm - so shucks to you Barclays! Includes a pic of Mr R.Bilton, and of course Mr A. Charlton, who I almost forgot! They don't seem to be able to make their mind up if it was R.T.Bilton or R.L.Bilton, and I'm unable to help on that one just at the mo. In those days few were on first name terms with their local bank manager - unless, of course, you knew the secret handshake!

Ah yes, but the damp rag from Brussels isn't bright enough to work out how to cut off his funding of Ukip - funding which is likely to see a rather large boost quite soon! But it's only what all power-blocks (and parasites) do! Their primary purpose is to ensure their own existence if not growth. Of course that requires the continued existence of the host, but the hosts actual well-being comes well down the priority list! So, logically, it's only ever worth fully supporting organisations who's avowed and sustained aim is to put themselves out of jobs.

No, the... ...comment isn't me - I can spell adhered!

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