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Fair point...

Leaving Rayner aside for a moment.. ( I've been spelling it incorrectly..Raynor was my late Father in Law's stage name..) Truss's performance on the telly yesterday ... She comes across as seriously deranged and in deep denial. And she wants Trump back. And she supports Farage. And she opposes anti smoking measures Obviously not remotely influenced by the Tuffron Street mob..

Not the sort of language I normally associate with you Jim. Do you mean in general, or just in relation to any ALLEGED wrongdoing? You know that she is probably more feared by the Tories than any other Labour politician, including Starmer hence the Tory feeding frenzy. I mean, is it normal for a Senior Tory to write a book entitled 'The Unofficial Biography of Angela Raynor'? Seems quite creepy to me. As I understand it, there were two properties involved and that she was at some point separated from her husband/ partner. This may be the root of issues/ con

I'm confused. I was under the impression that the Police had already decided to investigate Angela Raynor's tax affairs a couple of weeks ago. Yet it's headline news on the BBC today, Of course, the sight of well known fraudster Grant Schapps getting all indignant about supposed 'hyoocrisy' on the part of Raynor is irony of epic proportions.

Thanks... I'll do my best... I could lingering for weeks...

Makes my issue seem trivial. I seem to be going down with a cold! I get so few of them that I can't just shrug them off like many do.. they do tend to KO me... So you are probably all in for a week or so of me moaning incessantly... "Nothing new there!" .. I hear you cry.. I've done a Covid test because we've still loads of the things that are going out of date.. so might as well, but looking negative..

P.S. Just checked the box and it says mine was 'Made in Europe'..but that doesn't mean the components weren't all made in China. The UK address for Wahl is: Wahl (UK) Ltd Sterling House, Clipper Close, Ramsgate, CT12 5GG See what they did there?

Wahl Clippers. Full story here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahl_Clipper From which: So that clears that up then ..

I'd keep the ear plugs for emergencies Lizzie. Just because I don't like Yes doesn't mean you won't.... No accounting for taste.. Now.. Taste.... there was a band...

Smart move by the CCP. Cheap heat and cheap booze will have the masses too sedated to cause bother.

Pretty much all speculation on my part but I'd imagine there's a 'pay off' buried somewhere in a trade agreement with China. Maybe something to do with securing Chinese investment in Oz. There was a period here where UK Govts were falling over themselves to attract Chinese investment. I think that the penny might be slowly dropping, that the Chinese Govt. just doesn't play fair and the Huawei debacle with British Telecoms is a fine example.

Speaking of trimmers and hair cuts... The first time I cut my own hair, during lockdown, I used a No.3 10mm comb, to do my hair and then changed to a No.2 6mm comb to trim around my ears. After a final check around I decided there were a couple of stray bits at the back so attacked them, forgetting to change back to a No.3. .. Results were, as they say.. somewhat patchy.. I'm rather better at it now... but like Margie.. I have to be very careful not to forget to fit the right comb. @Brew I have a Wahl Hair and Beard Trimmer. About 50 quid from Boots. It's not an 'indust

Sorry Lizzie, I know next to nowt about Yes as I'm not into progressive rock either. I can say they had a hit album called 'Fragile' and another called 'Tales From Topographic Oceans', but there were many others. I'm afaid their music does nothing for me. Check them out on Wikipedia. I suppose if necessary you could casually drop in "I really like Fragile and Topographic Oceans, but probably 'Oceans' better.. but then if they ask you which track you like best you're in trouble Possibly better to employ the old "I don't know much about them but I've always enjoye

But doesn't the fact that they even thought that way make you think? They considered how their oil revenues could help ALL of their population. I saw no evidence of such thinking here. I still don't.

Capitalist Running Dog!

I possibly took you comment on 'ideas' too literally, by which I mean they (Labour) have ideas of their own beyond just Childcare. We all do. I haven't followed their share price, so it's possible that you cut your nose off to spite your face.. but it was a noble gesture nonetheless and far from pointless. We need more of such altruism.

I'm afraid that sentence doesn't make sense. Same as you accuse me.. you see what you wish to see. You seem to miss the bit where I say I favour a mixed economy, a reduction in 'Legal' migration etc. (Nobody on here has an answer to Illegal Migration) And of course you will see 'left', I'm a left winger..what would you expect me to do.. quote Mein Kampf? You seem to stuggle with the concept of 'centre left'. From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre-left_politics From that definition, I'd argue that the Centre Left is more in favour of

I think it was 19th C, but whatever. I was simply trying to illustrate that having a major economic ranking is no guarantee that all citizens benefit. I'm not so sure. The UK started producing significant oil in around 1975, peaking in 1999. Those were extremely lean years for many in the UK. Meanwhile, the Norwegians created a fund to 'save' much of their oil revenue, which was similar to ours and that fund is now one of the biggest in the World. From: https://eandt.theiet.org/2021/01/20/north-sea-oil-tale-two-countries

No bit as far as I can see. I don't understand your point. There's no doubt they've flipped a bit, but I see nothing wrong with a review. On the evidence of the last 14 years, reviews either reflect the veiws of those commissioning them, or they get shelved. Whilst I've already accepted that Labour are not yet pronouncing on policy.. they have watched the Tories pinch a couple, so I can understand their reticence. I have no more idea than you on their exact plans. What more do you want me to say? As opposed to sleepwalking into the only too we

That doesn't say they don't have any ideas of their own. And if I read the article properly, Labour say they would make the childcare expansion plan workable, which is more than can be said for the current shambles.

Have I missed something or has Radfordred just stopped posting? Nothing from Albert for a while.. which is concerning. Anybody?

It doesn't say that at all. Read it again Jim.

More balanced than the DM, Telegraph and Times, and even comics like the Sun and the Star. Whether you like it or not, the Guardian is by far the most balanced and it is the only major paper not owned either by Murdoch, or some other foreign, absentee who wants to interfere in British Politics and Public Opinion. Just because I no longer buy or read neswpapers, doesn't mean that I never have. It barely registered with me because it was a 'non story'. It still is, until anything is proven and even then it might concern £1500 quid. If she's done wrong I'll be disa

I'm saying that there has been a steady growth in living standards which was a pretty much inevitable result of post war economics, technological progress, increased democratisation in much of Europe, the development of the EU, etc. Remember Spain and Portugal were both Fascist Dictatorships. WEST Germany was crippled by the aftermath of Nazism but became pretty prosperous post WW2. Deliberate investment by the West as also with Japan.. etc..etc..Germany is also now 'recovering' from reunification, and in its own way doing a damned sight better at its own 'levelling up' of the former GDU, than

Firstly, apart from scanning the headlines in the Newsagents, I do not buy or read newspapers. I hear about stuff on the BBC News and occasionally on ITV, or Sky News. I didn't say the newspapers 'hush up' scandals. I said that the right wing, (I.E' most of, the UK press) pursues what it chooses to define as 'Looney Lefty', Woke' etc.. far more vigorously than it does the Right. The Daily Mail specialises in such tripe and lies.