Bassingbourne55

As for Bass’s comments – all that has happened is that we are an open door for floods of cheap labour .
We will soon be flying the Polish flag !!!

I thought the Poles had started to give us up as a bad job. We ARE Europeans, so it’s impossible to hate ‘them’ without hating ourselves! Do I detect an English Nationalist????

I think Obama will win. I also think possibly Condoleesa Rice stayed away from the race this time because she thought the Republicans were destined to lose and go into a period of refelection. I wouldn’t be surprised if she runs next time round, and wins to become the first woman president of the USA. So Americas first black (partly) president…[Read more]

I voted tree-hugger – I like cars and I’m interested in them but a world without trees would be worse than a world without cars!

The punishnment for causing death by DANGEROUS driving is the major offence, and in my view it should normally carry a mandatory LIFETIME ban from driving AND a prison sentence. There is a distinction between blatantly dangerous driving and careless driving in terms of blame, even if the tragic result is the same.

Drunk driving in itself, when…[Read more]

I’ve always been very pro EU and pro Britain joinung the euro. But I admit that various silly decisions and ideas have come out of Brussels but no more so than from the governments of the individual nations, including ours!

When all is said and done, we are citizens of the EU, and have official status as such. This grants us rights throughout…[Read more]

Whether Mugabe was ever a good man is debatable. But his badness is cumulative. He wasn’t perceived as being as bad in the early days of independent Zimbabwe as he is now.

Saddam Hussein specialised in active cruelty and barbarism, like having people fed into industrial shredders while the next victim was made to watch.

Mugabe has his bully…[Read more]

Politicians are accountable to the voters. By voters I mean not just the national electorate but the members of their own parties, who are in effect an electorate within an electorate.

Also there is nothing wrong with supporting local farmers, they have been getting screwed over by the super markets for years

But this is rough justice for all those years of subsidies, concessions and EU handouts that farmers took with one hand while condemning the EU with the other. Where has all the money gone that farmers got paid for…[Read more]

I don’t get all this fuss about the supermarkets at all. They provide a huge range of good foodstuffs and they do it cheap. Isn’t that what we want as customers?

Oh, silly me! Of course not, we all want to go and buy expensive manky food in brown paper bags from a farmers’ market – much better!!!

You’ll always be able to find examples of ‘micro fascism’ carried out by individuals, gangs, rogue policemen etc. But that doesn’t mean the government is fascist!

As for speed cameras and CCTV, they are a good thing. Only wrongdoers need to worry about such devices – they are there to protect the rest of us.

The BNP verges on fascist in the…[Read more]

“accused” and “arrested” don’t really count – we want to know more about convictions!

Actually, the number is quite small. fewer than I’d have imagined. It’s not good for racial integration but it’s really an accident of demographics. I dare say it would be possible to find a small primary school somewhere that, although being a mixed school, has all girls because there happen to be no boys who go there!

More worrying is the…[Read more]

Since all this hoo-ha is about air miles and the environment, has the Chefalissimo given up his gas guzzling high-performance cars? Or is it only food that we need to be all greeny-weeny about?

Why do people always borrow bags of sugar? Is it some sort of tradition. I’ve never borrowed a bag of sugar and I don’t think anyone’s ever borrowed one from me!!

Oh well, the way the property market’s heading, people will be hesitating over whether to BUY a house for £150 in a few months time!!!! :lol: :lol:

I think I’ve always been Bassingbourne55 except I did use the name White Hat for a few postings some years ago before the big JC wipe-out.

I think that all divisive forces are harmful to our society. BNP, SNP, Plaid Cymru, Religious fundamentalists of the Christian, Muslim or any other kind, Socialist Workers Party, Animal rights extremists…… the list is endless.

I’m all for diversity, but within a common belief in our basic freedoms and shared interests.

Anyway – welcome to Just Chat!

Is that why tyre fitters call us ‘sir’ or ‘madam’?

Why don’t they hold the parade in Glasgow?

I remember looking at a particular pedal car in a department store before Christmas and receiving a similar one as a Christmas present. I was not quite 3 at the time.

I also remember meeting a 90 year-old woman who showed me a scrapbook of old cards etc. That was 50 years ago when I was about 3, so she would have been born about 1868!

Other…[Read more]