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I remember singing ‘Rule, Britannia, Britannia rules the waves. Britons never, never, never shall be slaves.’ Germans still sing: ‘Deutschland, Deutschland uber allas’. (Germany, Germany over all).

The film’s disturbing nonetheless.

A scenario has been developing in my mind which could lead to a holocaust against white people in a few decades time. It is basically that there are many ‘ducks’ of resentment against us floating in the pond of world politics. Some of the resentment might be justified but it’s not going to help us if we just go roung crying ‘oh,woe! oh,…[Read more]

I am sure no one can deny IS responsible for what he is talking about – ie the continuous plundering and poluting of OUR planet.

Chinese people are ‘sort of white’, I suppose, while many Indians have quite pale skin – I mean in a few years we can be as green as we like but those up-coming superpowers will be ‘plundering and polluting’ the planet…[Read more]

I’m not suggesting Churchill thought of himself as a prophet.
When I was looking up more on Churchill I came across his feelings about the use of poison gas, which was basically that it was no worse than shredding people with shrapnel from exploding artillery shells. He advocated the development of ‘knockout’ gases that would temporarily disable…[Read more]

I agree to some extent. Pakistan and Indonesia might have had female leaders in the recent past but such a prospect looks remote now – not just because there aren’t any up and coming female candidates either.

The extreme right is a retrograde force too, but it is very small and unorganised. The extreme left is also a retrograde force, as are…[Read more]

‘Muhammadenism’ certainly was not in it’s infancy, indeed christians virtually wiped out the muslim faith before the inquisition, some 800 years ago.

This was also “many summers ago”. What Churchill said was very relevant to today’s reality on the ground.

Prophet = prophesying the future. I don’t mean like Mystic Meg or anything, just an astute understanding of a situation and where it might lead.

Oh!

I used to be keen on recycling but now it’s gone too far. We have a weekly recycling collection including little brown bins for waste food and a box for paper, bottles and tins. All fine, except perhaps the rotting food! But the problem is the main bin collection is now evert 2 weeks instead of every week. There are only 3 of us and the…[Read more]

We should have a near zero alcohol limit for driving, allowing for no more than a residual trace.

So mamy people that go binge drinking one night get behind the wheel the next morning, unaware that they are still over the limit. It would be interesting to see the results of random breath tests on drivers on their way to work on a Monday morning.

When I typed in F,C,UK (without the commas) it automatically changed to French Connection UK!

Lots of people wear T-shirts etc. that carry grossly offensive words, messages or images. I think that the law should be tightened to make it illegal to wear such items in public. That
would see off the silly FCUK label!

I think I’ll just nip off to the local T-shirt printers and get one saying: “Spread rabies – smuggle a bat.” or suchlike or…[Read more]

We already pay for having our rubbish collected through council tax.

If they introduce a ‘pay as you throw system’ it will just mean an increase in illegal dumping of rubbish. There is enough of a problem with fly tipping already without offering an incentive!

Others who don’t want to break the law will have rubbish heaps in their gardens and…[Read more]

Notwithstanding Israel’s over-response to the Hezbollah situation, he disregards the fact that Hezbollah started lobbing missiles into Israel and that probably had a bigger effect omn bringing about the war than the kidnap of the soldiers did.

Hezbollah might have seen sense and that might have an effect on Iran’s behaviour, but it will not have…[Read more]

I’m patriotic but I don’t have any emotional attachment to the pound (except for the ones in my bank account!). A common currency makes sense as long as it’s stable and now the Euro looks just as stable as the pound.

My original posting was about acceptance of the Euro in UK shops rather than opinions on the Euro! Never mind! And the thread has been off topic into the land of mud slinging and back.

So……

In my opinion we should have joined the Euro when it began, and we should definitely be seeking to join ASAP. The government could impose a two month…[Read more]

I hardly ever drink tea but I drink loads of coffee.

What constitutes violence?

Exactly! Perhaps there is a definition, I don’t know.

If its described by the government, isnt that state law, dictatorship, totalitarianism, fascism. Why do we collectively assume left wing is nice

We don’t. The left / right thing has more to do with private / public ownership, social equality etc. than freedom…[Read more]

We are possibly in the ‘golden age’ of the internet at present. While its technological capability might continue to improve, its unregulated nature is likely to be curtailed. Also as the web matures, more and more free sites will become paysites.

Will websites about boxing or historic fighter aircraft become illegal as they glorify violence?

I didn’t think they had to poison our food – the Americans are doing a great job of that already – been to McDonald’s etc lately?

There aren’t any Americans working at our local McDonald’s. Anyway, nobody’s forced to go to Mcdonald’s. I never go to our McDonald’s because it’s just across the road from KFC and Pizza Hut!