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UKIP are back!
Defection on Kent County Council from Reform to Kippers.
Their sole representative at any level

Well we've left the EU but there are plenty more things we could leave.

Can the UK truly be independent if we're still in the International Convention Against Torture?

We all know what the big one is... Eurovision.

Eurovision has repressed Briitish music for over 50 years now. Only once British pop music can claim to be truly sovereign, can we truly be said to be a democracy.

The whole edifice is falling apart, anyway. Von der Leyen will not be able to stop contestants like Andorra leaving much longer, as much as her Wef masters complain .

New Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood first interview
- rules out running for deputy leader
- says UK will suspend visas for counties that don’t do return deals
- spells out long standing support for ID cards
- says will go further than Yvette Copper on boats
- styles herself the “whatever it takes” Home Secretary

https://x.com/SamCoatesSky/status/1965006144427966678

Supporting ID cards is no good.

Why

Don't like the idea of them.

It's a matter of trust. The cards themselves are not a problem; it is the database that sits below the cards. A database that might contain loads of interconnected data that might not be to an individual's benefit.

Then again, the big Internet giants have massive amounts of our personal data, and have shown no hesitancy to misuse that data. I fear the privacy parts of the argument died fifteen years ago. If not earlier.

Given the depth of data they want, this will undoubtedly mean religion, ethnicity and sex being recorded.

What would a Reform government do with a complete list of Muslims, addresses etc, as a single unified system. With no access controls. So your local Reform council could access the system….

That's more an argument against Reform (or worse) politicians gaining power than an argument against ID systems.

The other thing to add is that database doesn't require an ID card...

I've got an appointment at the hospital tomorrow morning when the x-ray will hopefully give me the all clear to start weight-bearing on my ankle, and so walking, again

It's been six weeks since I was last walking, and my calf muscle has shrunk to around the same size as my forearm. I need to get it built back up a bit before I get back to work, but more importantly get back to full foot fitness at work for my annual Spring peregrination

I'm planning to walk the west coast of France from Vannes to Biarritz, to join up my Brittany walk with last year's Pyrenees walk. I've been checking out the route for the first time. The centre of Nantes looks lovely, and I have to visit La Rochelle

I can't remember the name of my first French school book in the mid-eighties (Latin was Ecce Romani), but everything in it happened in La Rochelle

Hope you get back on your feet soon.

In my early teens, I had a leg in a cast for around six months. Halfway through, they had to change the (fibreglass?) cast as my leg had shrunk so much I could get my fist halfway down it. When they took the second off, my leg was a hideous mix of dead skin and hair, and I scratched it until I bled.

The worst thing was it did no good, and the problem persisted.

Hi everyone, I've just spent 4 busy days doing the North Coast 500 (and shooting 6 videos along the way).

Glad to see this poll getting an airing - as always the trend in your friend, and whilst the SNP have been out trumpeting this as signs that everyone backs them, its a poll showing them losing almost 25% of their support vs last time out.

Their strategy now is: VOTE FOR INDEPENDENCE. That's it. They keep mentioning bits of policy achievement but the sole reasongiven so far to vote for them is VOTE FOR INDEPENDENCE.

Based on talking to people in the GE last year there's an awful lot of pissed off voters more concerned by the state of things than the jam tomorrow promise of independence.

At the GE they lost 40% of their vote. So 25% in this poll may be just the start of their losses. DYOR...

We’ve been thinking of doing it. We’ve thought about it for a while hiring a VW Camper to do it.

I’d guess there’s plenty of stopping places.

Not as many as you might think. It's wildly overpopular at peak times/places. RP will have a view, but DYOR. Mind, I'd tend to go in May/
?June or September anyway for the nicest flora/birds/fewer midges.

Midges seem to see my body as an all you can eat buffet so avoiding them is a must.

Depends so much on weather on the day and location - our friends who did the route and came to see us in the Lowlands and 'camped' on our drive complained the worst midges were here!

But a warm humid calm evening lowland by a river through peat bogs in August ...

edit: get some of the smidge stuff, or Avon Skin so soft, or whatever is recommended nopw.

https://www.smidgeup.com/midge-forecast/
https://www.wildernessscotland.com/blog/midges-in-scotland/
https://www.visitscotland.com/travel-planning/midges-ticks-scotland

I camped at Kingshouse one summer's night. I had a couple of annoying midge bites, but one ?German? girl in a nearby tent had nearly been eaten alive by them, and was exceedingly miserable. I fear some people are more suspectable to the little blighters than others.

Oh, and I later found Avon Skin So Soft does appear to work.

Many years ago when my brother was still in the military he recommended I get Avon So Soft when we were going on a holiday up on the West Coast as I was dreading getting eaten alive by midges at that time of year as he and his mates swore by it as the best protection. I remember going into the little shop in Shieldaig and discovering that they were well stocked with the original product as as a midge repellent.

I've got an appointment at the hospital tomorrow morning when the x-ray will hopefully give me the all clear to start weight-bearing on my ankle, and so walking, again

It's been six weeks since I was last walking, and my calf muscle has shrunk to around the same size as my forearm. I need to get it built back up a bit before I get back to work, but more importantly get back to full foot fitness at work for my annual Spring peregrination

I'm planning to walk the west coast of France from Vannes to Biarritz, to join up my Brittany walk with last year's Pyrenees walk. I've been checking out the route for the first time. The centre of Nantes looks lovely, and I have to visit La Rochelle

I can't remember the name of my first French school book in the mid-eighties (Latin was Ecce Romani), but everything in it happened in La Rochelle

Good luck my wife's ankle hasn't been the same after her minor fracture on Easter Sunday..

Oh sorry to hear that.. was Mrs Eek's a complicated fracture?

Mine was very clean, so would have been simple to operate on and screw together, if I hadn't had loads of broken ribs which make the general anaesthetic dangerous

I'm hoping I've been lazy enough for the bone to have knitted neatly and not cause me ongoing pain

Lol.
UKIP are back!
Defection on Kent County Council from Reform to Kippers.
Their sole representative at any level

Well we've left the EU but there are plenty more things we could leave.

Can the UK truly be independent if we're still in the International Convention Against Torture?

We all know what the big one is... Eurovision.

Eurovision has repressed Briitish music for 50 years. Only once British pop music can claim to be truly sovereign, can we truly be said to be a democracy.

The whole edifice is falling apart, anyway. Von der Leyen will not be able to stop contestants like Andorra leaving, as much as her Wef master complain.

Andrea Jenkyns, Royaume Uni, Nul points!

No, no, you misunderstand. In a field of only one, the UK entry is bound to win.

Or come bottom...

If there is no other country in the contest then null points is guaranteed.

Lol.
UKIP are back!
Defection on Kent County Council from Reform to Kippers.
Their sole representative at any level

Well we've left the EU but there are plenty more things we could leave.

Can the UK truly be independent if we're still in the International Convention Against Torture?

We all know what the big one is... Eurovision.

Eurovision has repressed Briitish music for 50 years. Only once British pop music can claim to be truly sovereign, can we truly be said to be a democracy.

The whole edifice is falling apart, anyway. Von der Leyen will not be able to stop contestants like Andorra leaving, as much as her Wef master complain.

Andrea Jenkyns, Royaume Uni, Nul points!