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No self respecting young Italian male would be seen dead in an anorak, let alone want to be called one !!
Just noticed a few days ago a photo of OGH with Stephen Hawking and the Clintons in the White House... assuming photoshop was not involved, what story did I miss??
That's the sort of "balance" we expect from Question Time panels.
At least you would never be able to turn me into an appetising pie
And someone should inform Crick of AndyJS' superhuman effort in collating the candidate selection into one google doc (at least thats what I think that list of his is!)
I think Andy's summary of local election results by constituency is an even greater service to us anoraks.
Thanks, will see if I can catch up with @AndyJS if I find myself in the same thread as him!
I think I'm still owed an email from @corporeal too.
Then there is the difficulty in keeping it all updated, what with the number of defections and by elections each week (I suppose the latter is well covered here on PB).
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2492363/BBC-big-left-wing-ignored-critics-immigration-Brussels-head-news-admits.html
But it's mighty funny how these sort of managers keep quiet to whats going on until after they receive their golden handshake.
You should do nicely though in the vile "Linda McCartney" range.
I cant imagine putting a constituency bet on the next GE without consulting Andy's spreadsheets (if they cover the constituency). He deserves an honour for services to political betting!
Employed at great expense yes. Money that has always been spent wisely by the incompetent fops.
I'm a kipper but in the case of Godfrey Bloom he was right!
That could mean immigration up and that all what counts in your little labour bunker
Bloom going a bit Kilroy-Silk again is he? That's bound to end well.
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Could you cite some evidence for your assertion that the UK's infrastructure can't cope with more immigration?
From the Guardian no less:
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/sep/03/councils-shortage-primary-school-places
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/local/localbrad/9809113.Roads_in_Bradford_and_Leeds__most_congested_in_England_/
The EU - rightly or wrongly - has preached that countries have to (a) cut public spending, and (b) liberalise labour markets. This has tended to improve competitiveness, albeit at the horrendous cost of unemployment soaring.
France has neither cut spending, nor liberalised its labour market. If the EU and the Eurozone comes apart in the next 18 months, it will almost certainly be because France or Italy has chosen to ignore the Anglo-Saxon dogma that emanates from Berlin and Brussels.
Now, you can take the view (as AE-P does, and as Paul Krugman does) that austerity in the middle of a slump will only make things worse. What you cannot claim is that France's problems are due to them following EU dogma, when France is doing anything but following EU dogma.
Personally, I think that austerity and the liberalising of labour markets - while horrible for the unemployed builder in Southern Spain - is essential for having a long-term competitive economy. Trying to prop up an economy like Spain, where 20% of workers were in construction or related industries at the peak of the boom, is madness, and can only lead to disaster.
If AE-P wanted to make the point that austerity and liberalisation didn't work, he'd be better to go Spain or Portugal or Ireland or Estonia or Latvia, all of whom have wholeheartedly swallowed the bitter medicine dished out by Mrs Merkel. Instead he focuses on what I'd consider the new sick man of Europe, France. Which, alongside Italy, is the only country to refuse the medicine.
http://news.sky.com/story/1165923/detroit-girl-shot-dead-while-seeking-help
Good writer though. Soothsaying abilities not as strong as his prose. I think he has actually calmed down since the late 90s(?), which is about the last time I regularly read the print edition. Back then I had him down as a bit batty on his pet subjects, of which he had plenty.
Two minutes on the phone fact checking his article, or talking to anybody who knew anything about the oil industry, would have told him that the Green River formation in Colorado was not an extraordinary opportunity that could be opened up through fraccing.
Which reminds me: all the world's energy problems would be sorted if we could only work out how to generate power from righteous indignation. ;-)
Oh, and Godfrey Bloom is an arse. UKIP are better off without him. Sadly, as HIGNFY showed, he will always be connected with the party.They should have chucked him months earlier.
We'd all be safer if we had concealed carry laws. I'm all for carrying a gun here.
That massively trumps a bit of restricted elbow-room.
Is the clue too obvious...?
Saturday's Daily Telegraph front page - "Build new home now 'or lose planning permission'" #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/6yV7aFstAr
suttonnick
Trying to apply law to war, an inherently lawless activity, leaves one tangled up in dilemnas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_on_the_Rock
The article list is quite right, Dr. Parma is indeed number 1.
Those managers happily kept quiet about paedophiles raping children at the BBC and did absolutely nothing about it.
At the same time they launched an unbelievably hypocritical campaign against the Roman Catholic Church over clerical child abuse.
Time the BBC was abolished.
:oops:
* Not ethnicity nor religion. [Unlike the Bogtrotters.]
** Rule-of-Law and not EU part-time expense-monkees....
Seems to me the political elite are one and the same, this country needs change from the self serving, smug Liberal elite and the ordinary man and woman need to have their views, fears and concerns taken into consideration.
Not one of the 650 current MP's is prepared to do that, witness the smug preening of Nick Palmer to get some idea of where I'm coming from.
- You are clueless,
- You ignore the inbreeding that encourages Postal-Votes (Labour) within the UK and Punjab, and
- You are not very bright.
Easy to speak-of when you understand little. How happy you must be....