The decision to keep open the Epping asylum hotel is a dark day for local democracy and a slap in the face to the people of Epping
A Labour government has once again used the courts to put the rights of illegal immigrants above the rights of British citizens
Their conduct is disgraceful. Children and women in Epping and many other towns will now continue to be at risk
The people of Epping have been silenced in their own town. Their council fought for them, but their voices were ignored. Labour’s lawyers fought tooth and nail to keep this hotel open, even after a migrant housed there was jailed for sexually assaulting a teenage girl
The only way to fix this is the Conservative plan to leave the ECHR and deport all illegal immigrahts within a week of arrival. No more bogus asylum or other protection claims. No more illegal crossings. No more asylum hotels
But Keir Starmer is too weak to do this and so Labour’s open borders crisis will continue 12:17 PM · Nov 11, 2025"
This is untrue. Just as every BBC item referring to a physical object as being real does not include a balancing contribution from a Berkeleyan idealist who doesn't believe physical object exist.
I have never once heard a 'climate sceptic' on 'The Life Scientific'. I cannot remember a scientist expert contributor to the Today prog, which I hear almost every day, being 'balanced' by the views of a non-expert illiterate.
The useful balance is different. There is a wide variety of expert views about how to deal with the probability of climate change; a wide variety of views about probable and possible consequences, and a wide variety of views about the details of the various elements which go to make up the broad and very general consensus that the world is heating up and will likely carry on doing so.
The BBC is less good at that; very good at generalised unquantified alarmism and over simplification.
Quite often BBC 'balance' consists of wheeling out caricatures and pantomime villains and claiming job done.
Farage, for example. You see it on Twitter all the time. 'BBC can't be left-leaning, because look how many times Nigel has been on Question Time!!11one11impart1al1'
Many of us who consider ourselves to be right-wing don't really think Farage is on our side or representative of our world view. And even if he was, he's primarily there to serve as a bogeyman figure for everyone else to rail against. It smacks of tokenism and not a lot of thought or effort.
Yeah, someone having thousands of pounds of tools required to do their job being stolen isn’t important.
The police do as much as for phone theft.
Until quite recently, you could find tools for sale at a certain East End market, with company details stamped into the tool body.
That stopped when some companies/individuals started going round and simply taking them back.
We had a load of stuff nicked. Found it for sale on Facebook marketplace - the chap selling it apparently worked for the "Ashfield fencing company"!
Plod were totally disinterested, even when we knew where our stuff was and had serial numbers etc to prove it was ours.
You should have told Plod they'd misgendered you. They’d be around like a shot.
When I worked in Acocks Green in Brum I heard a few tales of people ‘reclaiming’ nicked property themselves as Plod couldn’t be arsed. Sometimes a little persuasion was needed
In this neck of the woods, there is the name of a local security company displayed prominently on most of the most burglable properties (homes, businesses, schools). I met an individual from the company once when our neighbours were burgled, and talked to him at some length. 'Interesting' character. Essentially displaying the security sign says not that the property will be any more difficult to burgle, but that if you burgle it, people with surprising connections who care more than the police about these things will try to find out who is responsible, and then bad things will happen to the perpetrator.
Ronnie and Reggie would be proud and that is exactly what happens when mainstream law and order doesn’t bother.
Before he was banned old @Pagan2 said this sort of thing happened round by him
Our window cleaner recently had the grill nicked off his van. He had the right hump about it. I pity them if he finds who did it.
So I guess those who are keen to return the UK to the glory days of the 1950s and 60s should be quite happy about the Old Bill leaving it to the vigilantes.
This is untrue. Just as every BBC item referring to a physical object as being real does not include a balancing contribution from a Berkeleyan idealist who doesn't believe physical object exist.
I have never once heard a 'climate sceptic' on 'The Life Scientific'. I cannot remember a scientist expert contributor to the Today prog, which I hear almost every day, being 'balanced' by the views of a non-expert illiterate.
The useful balance is different. There is a wide variety of expert views about how to deal with the probability of climate change; a wide variety of views about probable and possible consequences, and a wide variety of views about the details of the various elements which go to make up the broad and very general consensus that the world is heating up and will likely carry on doing so.
The BBC is less good at that; very good at generalised unquantified alarmism and over simplification.
Quite often BBC 'balance' consists of wheeling out caricatures and pantomime villains and claiming job done.
Farage, for example. You see it on Twitter all the time. 'BBC can't be left-leaning, because look how many times Nigel has been on Question Time!!11one11impart1al1'
Many of us who consider ourselves to be right-wing don't really think Farage is on our side or representative of our world view. And even if he was, he's primarily there to serve as a bogeyman figure for everyone else to rail against. It smacks of tokenism and not a lot of thought or effort.
Yeah, someone having thousands of pounds of tools required to do their job being stolen isn’t important.
The police do as much as for phone theft.
Until quite recently, you could find tools for sale at a certain East End market, with company details stamped into the tool body.
That stopped when some companies/individuals started going round and simply taking them back.
We had a load of stuff nicked. Found it for sale on Facebook marketplace - the chap selling it apparently worked for the "Ashfield fencing company"!
Plod were totally disinterested, even when we knew where our stuff was and had serial numbers etc to prove it was ours.
You should have told Plod they'd misgendered you. They’d be around like a shot.
When I worked in Acocks Green in Brum I heard a few tales of people ‘reclaiming’ nicked property themselves as Plod couldn’t be arsed. Sometimes a little persuasion was needed
In this neck of the woods, there is the name of a local security company displayed prominently on most of the most burglable properties (homes, businesses, schools). I met an individual from the company once when our neighbours were burgled, and talked to him at some length. 'Interesting' character. Essentially displaying the security sign says not that the property will be any more difficult to burgle, but that if you burgle it, people with surprising connections who care more than the police about these things will try to find out who is responsible, and then bad things will happen to the perpetrator.
Ronnie and Reggie would be proud and that is exactly what happens when mainstream law and order doesn’t bother.
Before he was banned old @Pagan2 said this sort of thing happened round by him
Our window cleaner recently had the grill nicked off his van. He had the right hump about it. I pity them if he finds who did it.
So I guess those who are keen to return the UK to the glory days of the 1950s and 60s should be quite happy about the Old Bill leaving it to the vigilantes.
Coming from Northern Ireland - this is the system that has been enshrined (effectively) in the social fabric there.
Based on ONS data on conurbations derived from the 2011 census summarized on Wikipedia I would reckon the median seat would be part of a town like Swindon, Crawley, Ipswich or Wigan with a population a little under 200k.
I don't think anwhere can be a truly representive median. None of these places feel like a microcosm of Britain (or even England) as a whole, or even just a 'typical place'.
Ipswich, where I lived for several years, is strangely isolated and insular. When I was there it was trying to make something of the 'tech corridor' between itself and Cambridge, which failed because there was pretty much nothing in between the two.
Crawley is a few miles down the road from where I am now and I have to go to meetings there sometimes. It lacks an identity and feels dominated by Gatwick and out-of-town aviation sector employment. A dull, characterless place where I can't imagine people feel much of a sense of belonging.
Wigan just feels too overtly 'Northern' to be representative. Rugby League. Old Mills. Old Labour.
Swindon is the best candidate of these. Sits on the frontier between South East and South West, and feels quite neutral. I suspect middling scores in various demographic metrics. Tends to be a bellwether at parliamentary level. Has a largely forgotten old town and lot of new stuff. I don't like the place very much.
Based on geography, population, and general averageness in many departments, I'd be tempted to suggest... Peterborough.
Swindon is too overtly Southern. And Wigan is coal.
For some unknown reason as Swindon Town fans we sing 'West Country La La La'. I don't really know where the west country starts, but I'm pretty sure it isn't Swindon. Back in the 1990's the Central Match Live showed a live Div 2 match every sunday and Swindon was on the list, so they regarded it as central...
Wilts county *is* West Country. And Swindon was in Wilts the last time I passed through it.
But where does the west country start? Is it when you cross the Hampshire/Wiltshire border on the A303? Doesn't feel right to me.
Stonehenge
Nah, such questions always have a cultural answer.
I remember when I was in Australia, people used to debate where the ‘Outback’ started. As a first time visitor, driving all around southern Australia, the answer seemed obvious - once you pass a car on the road and the other driver waves to you - if only by lifting a finger from the steering wheel as you passed by - then you were in the Outback.
So perhaps you’re in the West Country when you’re obviously well west of the capital, none of the locals commute to work in London, and strangers say ‘hello’ when they pass you on a footpath?
This is untrue. Just as every BBC item referring to a physical object as being real does not include a balancing contribution from a Berkeleyan idealist who doesn't believe physical object exist.
I have never once heard a 'climate sceptic' on 'The Life Scientific'. I cannot remember a scientist expert contributor to the Today prog, which I hear almost every day, being 'balanced' by the views of a non-expert illiterate.
The useful balance is different. There is a wide variety of expert views about how to deal with the probability of climate change; a wide variety of views about probable and possible consequences, and a wide variety of views about the details of the various elements which go to make up the broad and very general consensus that the world is heating up and will likely carry on doing so.
The BBC is less good at that; very good at generalised unquantified alarmism and over simplification.
Quite often BBC 'balance' consists of wheeling out caricatures and pantomime villains and claiming job done.
Farage, for example. You see it on Twitter all the time. 'BBC can't be left-leaning, because look how many times Nigel has been on Question Time!!11one11impart1al1'
Many of us who consider ourselves to be right-wing don't really think Farage is on our side or representative of our world view. And even if he was, he's primarily there to serve as a bogeyman figure for everyone else to rail against. It smacks of tokenism and not a lot of thought or effort.
Yeah, someone having thousands of pounds of tools required to do their job being stolen isn’t important.
The police do as much as for phone theft.
Until quite recently, you could find tools for sale at a certain East End market, with company details stamped into the tool body.
That stopped when some companies/individuals started going round and simply taking them back.
We had a load of stuff nicked. Found it for sale on Facebook marketplace - the chap selling it apparently worked for the "Ashfield fencing company"!
Plod were totally disinterested, even when we knew where our stuff was and had serial numbers etc to prove it was ours.
You should have told Plod they'd misgendered you. They’d be around like a shot.
When I worked in Acocks Green in Brum I heard a few tales of people ‘reclaiming’ nicked property themselves as Plod couldn’t be arsed. Sometimes a little persuasion was needed
In this neck of the woods, there is the name of a local security company displayed prominently on most of the most burglable properties (homes, businesses, schools). I met an individual from the company once when our neighbours were burgled, and talked to him at some length. 'Interesting' character. Essentially displaying the security sign says not that the property will be any more difficult to burgle, but that if you burgle it, people with surprising connections who care more than the police about these things will try to find out who is responsible, and then bad things will happen to the perpetrator.
Ronnie and Reggie would be proud and that is exactly what happens when mainstream law and order doesn’t bother.
Before he was banned old @Pagan2 said this sort of thing happened round by him
Our window cleaner recently had the grill nicked off his van. He had the right hump about it. I pity them if he finds who did it.
So I guess those who are keen to return the UK to the glory days of the 1950s and 60s should be quite happy about the Old Bill leaving it to the vigilantes.
This is untrue. Just as every BBC item referring to a physical object as being real does not include a balancing contribution from a Berkeleyan idealist who doesn't believe physical object exist.
I have never once heard a 'climate sceptic' on 'The Life Scientific'. I cannot remember a scientist expert contributor to the Today prog, which I hear almost every day, being 'balanced' by the views of a non-expert illiterate.
The useful balance is different. There is a wide variety of expert views about how to deal with the probability of climate change; a wide variety of views about probable and possible consequences, and a wide variety of views about the details of the various elements which go to make up the broad and very general consensus that the world is heating up and will likely carry on doing so.
The BBC is less good at that; very good at generalised unquantified alarmism and over simplification.
Quite often BBC 'balance' consists of wheeling out caricatures and pantomime villains and claiming job done.
Farage, for example. You see it on Twitter all the time. 'BBC can't be left-leaning, because look how many times Nigel has been on Question Time!!11one11impart1al1'
Many of us who consider ourselves to be right-wing don't really think Farage is on our side or representative of our world view. And even if he was, he's primarily there to serve as a bogeyman figure for everyone else to rail against. It smacks of tokenism and not a lot of thought or effort.
Yeah, someone having thousands of pounds of tools required to do their job being stolen isn’t important.
The police do as much as for phone theft.
Until quite recently, you could find tools for sale at a certain East End market, with company details stamped into the tool body.
That stopped when some companies/individuals started going round and simply taking them back.
We had a load of stuff nicked. Found it for sale on Facebook marketplace - the chap selling it apparently worked for the "Ashfield fencing company"!
Plod were totally disinterested, even when we knew where our stuff was and had serial numbers etc to prove it was ours.
You should have told Plod they'd misgendered you. They’d be around like a shot.
When I worked in Acocks Green in Brum I heard a few tales of people ‘reclaiming’ nicked property themselves as Plod couldn’t be arsed. Sometimes a little persuasion was needed
In this neck of the woods, there is the name of a local security company displayed prominently on most of the most burglable properties (homes, businesses, schools). I met an individual from the company once when our neighbours were burgled, and talked to him at some length. 'Interesting' character. Essentially displaying the security sign says not that the property will be any more difficult to burgle, but that if you burgle it, people with surprising connections who care more than the police about these things will try to find out who is responsible, and then bad things will happen to the perpetrator.
Ronnie and Reggie would be proud and that is exactly what happens when mainstream law and order doesn’t bother.
Before he was banned old @Pagan2 said this sort of thing happened round by him
Our window cleaner recently had the grill nicked off his van. He had the right hump about it. I pity them if he finds who did it.
So I guess those who are keen to return the UK to the glory days of the 1950s and 60s should be quite happy about the Old Bill leaving it to the vigilantes.
Coming from Northern Ireland - this is the system that has been enshrined (effectively) in the social fabric there.
Re tactical voting. I live in Gloucester. I am a Liberal Democrat but I think Reform would be a disaster for this country. I will therefore vote for the party most likely to beat Reform. At this time it is hard to identify. We have a Labour MP and Lib Dem run City and County Councils. I suspect I will look at the MRPs close to the election and will vote for the one closest in the poll to Reform (that assumes they have not imploded before the election). It might be the first time in my life I have voted Conservative but it is still three plus years away. I might move to a mile away from where I currently live to the Tewkesbury Constituency where I could happily vote for my preferred party knowing they are most likely to beat Reform.
Just remember that it was an MRP that persuaded Heathener, formerly of this parish, that her seat of Newton Abbot was a Labour target and so she should vote Labour to defeat the Tory MP. The actual result - predicted by many of us including me - is in the lead article. Heathener now has a LibDem MP but sadly disappeared from this forum (or changed her tag) shortly after her tragic misjudgement.
This is untrue. Just as every BBC item referring to a physical object as being real does not include a balancing contribution from a Berkeleyan idealist who doesn't believe physical object exist.
I have never once heard a 'climate sceptic' on 'The Life Scientific'. I cannot remember a scientist expert contributor to the Today prog, which I hear almost every day, being 'balanced' by the views of a non-expert illiterate.
The useful balance is different. There is a wide variety of expert views about how to deal with the probability of climate change; a wide variety of views about probable and possible consequences, and a wide variety of views about the details of the various elements which go to make up the broad and very general consensus that the world is heating up and will likely carry on doing so.
The BBC is less good at that; very good at generalised unquantified alarmism and over simplification.
Quite often BBC 'balance' consists of wheeling out caricatures and pantomime villains and claiming job done.
Farage, for example. You see it on Twitter all the time. 'BBC can't be left-leaning, because look how many times Nigel has been on Question Time!!11one11impart1al1'
Many of us who consider ourselves to be right-wing don't really think Farage is on our side or representative of our world view. And even if he was, he's primarily there to serve as a bogeyman figure for everyone else to rail against. It smacks of tokenism and not a lot of thought or effort.
Yeah, someone having thousands of pounds of tools required to do their job being stolen isn’t important.
The police do as much as for phone theft.
Until quite recently, you could find tools for sale at a certain East End market, with company details stamped into the tool body.
That stopped when some companies/individuals started going round and simply taking them back.
We had a load of stuff nicked. Found it for sale on Facebook marketplace - the chap selling it apparently worked for the "Ashfield fencing company"!
Plod were totally disinterested, even when we knew where our stuff was and had serial numbers etc to prove it was ours.
You should have told Plod they'd misgendered you. They’d be around like a shot.
When I worked in Acocks Green in Brum I heard a few tales of people ‘reclaiming’ nicked property themselves as Plod couldn’t be arsed. Sometimes a little persuasion was needed
In this neck of the woods, there is the name of a local security company displayed prominently on most of the most burglable properties (homes, businesses, schools). I met an individual from the company once when our neighbours were burgled, and talked to him at some length. 'Interesting' character. Essentially displaying the security sign says not that the property will be any more difficult to burgle, but that if you burgle it, people with surprising connections who care more than the police about these things will try to find out who is responsible, and then bad things will happen to the perpetrator.
Ronnie and Reggie would be proud and that is exactly what happens when mainstream law and order doesn’t bother.
Before he was banned old @Pagan2 said this sort of thing happened round by him
Our window cleaner recently had the grill nicked off his van. He had the right hump about it. I pity them if he finds who did it.
Old Pagan2 was distinctly unlucky when it came to crime. He must be the only person to have a gun pulled on him in Windsor (at a John Otway gig no less) since the days of Dick Turpin.
This is untrue. Just as every BBC item referring to a physical object as being real does not include a balancing contribution from a Berkeleyan idealist who doesn't believe physical object exist.
I have never once heard a 'climate sceptic' on 'The Life Scientific'. I cannot remember a scientist expert contributor to the Today prog, which I hear almost every day, being 'balanced' by the views of a non-expert illiterate.
The useful balance is different. There is a wide variety of expert views about how to deal with the probability of climate change; a wide variety of views about probable and possible consequences, and a wide variety of views about the details of the various elements which go to make up the broad and very general consensus that the world is heating up and will likely carry on doing so.
The BBC is less good at that; very good at generalised unquantified alarmism and over simplification.
Quite often BBC 'balance' consists of wheeling out caricatures and pantomime villains and claiming job done.
Farage, for example. You see it on Twitter all the time. 'BBC can't be left-leaning, because look how many times Nigel has been on Question Time!!11one11impart1al1'
Many of us who consider ourselves to be right-wing don't really think Farage is on our side or representative of our world view. And even if he was, he's primarily there to serve as a bogeyman figure for everyone else to rail against. It smacks of tokenism and not a lot of thought or effort.
Yeah, someone having thousands of pounds of tools required to do their job being stolen isn’t important.
The police do as much as for phone theft.
Until quite recently, you could find tools for sale at a certain East End market, with company details stamped into the tool body.
That stopped when some companies/individuals started going round and simply taking them back.
We had a load of stuff nicked. Found it for sale on Facebook marketplace - the chap selling it apparently worked for the "Ashfield fencing company"!
Plod were totally disinterested, even when we knew where our stuff was and had serial numbers etc to prove it was ours.
You should have told Plod they'd misgendered you. They’d be around like a shot.
When I worked in Acocks Green in Brum I heard a few tales of people ‘reclaiming’ nicked property themselves as Plod couldn’t be arsed. Sometimes a little persuasion was needed
In this neck of the woods, there is the name of a local security company displayed prominently on most of the most burglable properties (homes, businesses, schools). I met an individual from the company once when our neighbours were burgled, and talked to him at some length. 'Interesting' character. Essentially displaying the security sign says not that the property will be any more difficult to burgle, but that if you burgle it, people with surprising connections who care more than the police about these things will try to find out who is responsible, and then bad things will happen to the perpetrator.
Ronnie and Reggie would be proud and that is exactly what happens when mainstream law and order doesn’t bother.
Before he was banned old @Pagan2 said this sort of thing happened round by him
Our window cleaner recently had the grill nicked off his van. He had the right hump about it. I pity them if he finds who did it.
Old Pagan2 was distinctly unlucky when it came to crime. He must be the only person to have a gun pulled on him in Windsor (at a John Otway gig no less) since the days of Dick Turpin.
Was Wild Willy playing at the same time ? A John Otway gig. Can’t imagine it was packed.
I quite liked old Pagan even though I pissed him off when I said I didn’t like the narrow roads in Cornwall 😂😂😂
Based on ONS data on conurbations derived from the 2011 census summarized on Wikipedia I would reckon the median seat would be part of a town like Swindon, Crawley, Ipswich or Wigan with a population a little under 200k.
I don't think anwhere can be a truly representive median. None of these places feel like a microcosm of Britain (or even England) as a whole, or even just a 'typical place'.
Ipswich, where I lived for several years, is strangely isolated and insular. When I was there it was trying to make something of the 'tech corridor' between itself and Cambridge, which failed because there was pretty much nothing in between the two.
Crawley is a few miles down the road from where I am now and I have to go to meetings there sometimes. It lacks an identity and feels dominated by Gatwick and out-of-town aviation sector employment. A dull, characterless place where I can't imagine people feel much of a sense of belonging.
Wigan just feels too overtly 'Northern' to be representative. Rugby League. Old Mills. Old Labour.
Swindon is the best candidate of these. Sits on the frontier between South East and South West, and feels quite neutral. I suspect middling scores in various demographic metrics. Tends to be a bellwether at parliamentary level. Has a largely forgotten old town and lot of new stuff. I don't like the place very much.
Based on geography, population, and general averageness in many departments, I'd be tempted to suggest... Peterborough.
Swindon is too overtly Southern. And Wigan is coal.
For some unknown reason as Swindon Town fans we sing 'West Country La La La'. I don't really know where the west country starts, but I'm pretty sure it isn't Swindon. Back in the 1990's the Central Match Live showed a live Div 2 match every sunday and Swindon was on the list, so they regarded it as central...
Wilts county *is* West Country. And Swindon was in Wilts the last time I passed through it.
But where does the west country start? Is it when you cross the Hampshire/Wiltshire border on the A303? Doesn't feel right to me.
Stonehenge
Nah, such questions always have a cultural answer.
I remember when I was in Australia, people used to debate where the ‘Outback’ started. As a first time visitor, driving all around southern Australia, the answer seemed obvious - once you pass a car on the road and the other driver waves to you - if only by lifting a finger from the steering wheel as you passed by - then you were in the Outback.
So perhaps you’re in the West Country when you’re obviously well west of the capital, none of the locals commute to work in London, and strangers say ‘hello’ when they pass you on a footpath?
Fair point. Round here (Dorset, so definitely West Country) everyone says 'hello' but quite a few do commute to London.
Taking a 100 year view, I predict: Average temperatures will rise by between 2C to 4C Sea levels will rise by between 0.5m and 2m Between 0.05% and 0.2% of the Earths's land mass will be covered by rising sea levels. Not a lot. Some areas (Russia, Canada) will benefit from more temperate climates and others (Africa) will see expanding deserts. Carbon free electricity will be cheap and plentiful. The world population will be steadily falling, particularly in developed nations. Migration will increase from lower latitudes to higher latitudes away from the heat. Developed nations will compete for migrants of working age to support their aging populations.
Re tactical voting. I live in Gloucester. I am a Liberal Democrat but I think Reform would be a disaster for this country. I will therefore vote for the party most likely to beat Reform. At this time it is hard to identify. We have a Labour MP and Lib Dem run City and County Councils. I suspect I will look at the MRPs close to the election and will vote for the one closest in the poll to Reform (that assumes they have not imploded before the election). It might be the first time in my life I have voted Conservative but it is still three plus years away. I might move to a mile away from where I currently live to the Tewkesbury Constituency where I could happily vote for my preferred party knowing they are most likely to beat Reform.
Just remember that it was an MRP that persuaded Heathener, formerly of this parish, that her seat of Newton Abbot was a Labour target and so she should vote Labour to defeat the Tory MP. The actual result - predicted by many of us including me - is in the lead article. Heathener now has a LibDem MP but sadly disappeared from this forum (or changed her tag) shortly after her tragic misjudgement.
Speaking of tragic misjudgements, I do hope Nick Mohammed can forgive himself in time.
I don't think its the BBC its the nexus of science reporters and University Press Officers. The Uni press office likes to push interesting stories that the press will pick up. Stories such as "Climate Change is Worse than we thought" will always get more traction than "Climate change is probably not a bad as we thought".
Bad news is more interesting in the UK than good news, perhaps because most of us have at least an OK life most of the time? If we lived in a Gazan refugee camp, I imagine good news would be much more interesting.
Taking a 100 year view, I predict: Average temperatures will rise by between 2C to 4C Sea levels will rise by between 0.5m and 2m Between 0.05% and 0.2% of the Earths's land mass will be covered by rising sea levels. Not a lot. Some areas (Russia, Canada) will benefit from more temperate climates and others (Africa) will see expanding deserts. Carbon free electricity will be cheap and plentiful. The world population will be steadily falling, particularly in developed nations. Migration will increase from lower latitudes to higher latitudes away from the heat. Developed nations will compete for migrants of working age to support their aging populations.
That wouldn't be too bad, would it?
That's not too bad but I also predict that we'll all be dead in a 100 years, which dampens the spirits a bit.
Good leading article by Gareth. Certainly in rural Oxfordshire where I live, Labour is totally ruthless at leaving the field to the LibDems - not for the first time, Labour supporters in LibDem areas had access to the voting database cut off in mid-campaign, to "encourage" us to go and help in a Labour marginal. I'm not sure if this is reciprocated by LibDems in Con-Lab marginals?
But most people don't really think on a straight left-right axis - that's why you see apparent oddities in multi-member wards locally, with voters supporting a Tory and a Green or a Labour candidate and an independent. The Greens are doing well in polls after a long period of immobility because they have a fluent, positive leader, even if he hasn't grappled with any awkward choices. I think there's also an element of Tory and Labour minds being made up not to vote for the other lot, but they might vote for a third party.
Hampshire is in the West Country, Wiltshire (including Swindon) certainly is. However, I put Berkshire (once part of Wessex) in a Thames Valley region.
Gloucestershire, meanwhile, is properly in the Midlands.
I’m amazed it’s so low. We were constantly being asked to extend terms. 90 days was what we were expected to get before I left and if a supplier wouldn’t accept it had to be signed off by finance manager and general manager.
Friends of ours run cleaning company. They were offered 150 days terms to clean the new buildings Durham riverside. They said no.
Large companies abusing cash flow management of smaller companies is obscene,
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I remember when I was in Australia, people used to debate where the ‘Outback’ started. As a first time visitor, driving all around southern Australia, the answer seemed obvious - once you pass a car on the road and the other driver waves to you - if only by lifting a finger from the steering wheel as you passed by - then you were in the Outback.
So perhaps you’re in the West Country when you’re obviously well west of the capital, none of the locals commute to work in London, and strangers say ‘hello’ when they pass you on a footpath?
If OB did their job vigilantes wouldn’t exist.
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I quite liked old Pagan even though I pissed him off when I said I didn’t like the narrow roads in Cornwall 😂😂😂
Average temperatures will rise by between 2C to 4C
Sea levels will rise by between 0.5m and 2m
Between 0.05% and 0.2% of the Earths's land mass will be covered by rising sea levels. Not a lot.
Some areas (Russia, Canada) will benefit from more temperate climates and others (Africa) will see expanding deserts.
Carbon free electricity will be cheap and plentiful.
The world population will be steadily falling, particularly in developed nations.
Migration will increase from lower latitudes to higher latitudes away from the heat.
Developed nations will compete for migrants of working age to support their aging populations.
That wouldn't be too bad, would it?
But most people don't really think on a straight left-right axis - that's why you see apparent oddities in multi-member wards locally, with voters supporting a Tory and a Green or a Labour candidate and an independent. The Greens are doing well in polls after a long period of immobility because they have a fluent, positive leader, even if he hasn't grappled with any awkward choices. I think there's also an element of Tory and Labour minds being made up not to vote for the other lot, but they might vote for a third party.
Gloucestershire, meanwhile, is properly in the Midlands.
Friends of ours run cleaning company. They were offered 150 days terms to clean the new buildings Durham riverside. They said no.
Large companies abusing cash flow management of smaller companies is obscene,