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The source is BBC news website. Basically the French are saying if nobody else is prepared to take on Iran, they will.
No I don’t think all gay people are born gay. Many probably are, but others are shaped by circumstances like having a bad experience with a member of the opposite sex or through living in a single-sex environment at formative stage in their life.
Also people brought up in a more prudish type of C of E environment where all sexual desire is seen as sin, homosexuality might not seem much more sinful than hetero.
All the precautions they are taking completely ignore FMD possibly being spread by wildlife – not much can be done about that. As I say deer can catch FMD and pass it on and they roam the countryside. Birds can’t catch it but they can carry the virus on their bodies.
You can disinfect as many wellies and lorries as you like, you can close all the footpaths you like, but that’s a bit like putting an extra bolt on your front door to stop wasps coming in your house and then leaving all the windows open.
As I said before, I’m firmly behind Great Britain staying together as a single nation. OK, I want it to be a republic, not a monarchy, but we talk about our ‘island nation’ and that is how it should stay. Notice I didn’t say UK. I haven’t brought Northern Ireland into the question not because I don’t think it should remain part of UK but because its future is uncertain and should be determined by its population and nobody else.
But in Great Britain the nationalists are at large doing their damage. The treacherous Welsh Plaid Cymru leader is now talking about ‘nation building’ in the province of Wales.
So if Britain is to split up what should happen to England? England should disappear and be split into autonomous ‘nations’ of Cornwall, Wessex, Mercia, Anglia, Northumbria and Cantabria. Then our political scene will be made more interesting by the pompous uttereances of our own little treacherous leaders!!!!
But only by agreement, though. If the IoM wanted to have its own foreign policy it could, an presumably it could also, in theory, raise its own army or paramilitary force as long as it was all under the crown.
Is this latest case in Egham close to the route taken by some the lorries that transorted culled carcasses all the way to Somerset for incineration?
Again, nobody has mentioned deer yet on the news. Deer can catch and transmit FMD and yet they roam over large areas. Deer seem to be the ‘elephant in the kitchen’, or the ‘John Deere ploughing tractor on the bowling green’, as it were, in this FMD outbreak.
The Isle of Man IS an independent country in the way that Canada, Australia and New Zealand are. It is a crown dependency, you are right, but it is not part of the UK in the way that England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are. It has its own parliament and passes its own laws. It is not a member of the EU. In practice the IOM passes laws similar to English laws but that is only out of practicality and it doesn’t have to.
As an aside, while we are talking about odd states of sovereignty, Andorra in the Pyrenees must be one of the strangest. It is a monarchy with two princes as joint heads of state. These two ‘princes’ are the Bishop of Seu d’Urgell in Spain and the president of France. While these thrones are not genetically hereditary any more, they are unelected and automatic in that whoever is president of France or Bishop od Seu D’Urgell automatically becomes a prince of Andorra.
Whatever the recent developments, we still don’t know any more of the truth.
One important factor concerning the samples found in the car hired 25 days after Madeleine’s disappearance: If the car was hired locally there is a chance that it might have been hired previously during those 25 days by someone else who could have transported Madeleine.
It’s bad enough the head of state is a woman, let alone being guarded by them, this country is going down the pan more by the day.
Nothing wrong with having a woman as a head of state – it’s the hereditary monarchy that is wrong. We are a grown-up country and should be able to choose our head of state and boot them out when we don’t want them or when they’ve served long enough.
OK, let’s not rock the boat while Elizabeth is queen, but when the inevitable happens and a new coronation is due, I hope there will be an upsurge in Britsh republicanism that sees off the monarchy, whose very existence demeans the people of the country. It wouldn’t be so bad if we had a so-called ‘bicycle monarchy’ like some European countries, where the monarch lives quietly with minimal involvement in pomp and ceremony.
BUT…..If there is the overwhelming support for the monarchy as claimed, and it is not abolished, then why not privatise it so all the hoardes of sycophantic monarchists can contribute their hard-earned pay to this super-rich family while the rest of us can spend ours at Ikea, happy in the knowledge that the royal family no longer enjoys any constitionally superior status above its former subjects.
Republic of Britain – swan on the menu for all!!!
it appears we have a secret islamist terrorist army embedded throughout Europe and probably in Russia too. This is no time for the West and Russia to be falling out in the face of a common threat.
