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First catch your lion, but will you not be swapping one sort for another?

It was something of a jest PF

According to the RSPCA site you could "shoo them away by shouting or clapping"... simples!

Read the report fully and it turns out that the vote for an overarching authority of governance and a single mayor did NOT gain a majority.. The vote was 43% for - 45% against, something they chose to ignore. The hierarchy will be: East Midlands Combined County Authority - 1 The city councils - 2 The county councils - 2 The district/borough councils - 15 The town councils - 351 The parish councils... ?? There will soon be more chiefs than indians. It was mentioned as Stuart says on Pages 110 and 125. My

It came about after the 2015 spending review. In 2016 the EU referendum took place when the civil service had the smallest workforce since WW2. More were needed to prepare for the breakup with the EU - then came covid. The growth in numbers from there on just never slowed down. .

To have merit, or to merit something. To be worthy; of consideration, investigation, attention... Much like saying "there's some truth in it" I'm sure you don't need me to explain that stereotypes are over simplified generalised descriptions; but can serve to convey an opinion in short form. That's just left wing rhetoric... And three non-specific replies reads much like obfuscation and akin to Starmer's refusal to face facts... --------------- If so many functions have been moved to the private sector as you s

£49 buys a USB player and facilitates recording on to discs or pen drive you can play in the car. No doubt Col will be along soon and sell you one for the price of a small bungalow you can only play under armed guard.

Whether we agree with it or not at least someone is finally doing something positive and not just bleating about some ill-defined, hodgepodge plan no one, not even the proposers understand. Actually that's classic political debate. Every political party regardless will always claim to have an answer to a problem, just as they will always have a reason why it didn't work, and a place, or someone to lay the blame upon. It's not a particularly right-wing gambit. It's always been a popular axiom that something easy is "like a job on the council". An urban legen

I was also named after an uncle, my mam's elder brother. Serving in the Sherwood Foresters he was sent to the far East, taken prisoner, survived the Burma railway only to die when torpedoed by an America Submarine, USS Sealion. He was on the Rakuya Maru, one of the infamous hell ships whilst being transported to Japan.

Off what? You rarely participate so why on earth would you read it? The only reason someone dislikes something they read is when they don't agree with it, if they do they will not object. Perhaps Col's sometimes perceptive and erudite observations are a little too close for comfort to dyed in the wool Tory supporters? Maybe defending one of the most disgraceful parliaments in living memory with not go down well with others. It's been said before that we all have memories but they are finite and once recalled can only become repetitive, and quickly kill this forum

Somewhere up there ^^^ I criticised NCC for making decisions based on very few people's opinions. Today in a debate in the mother of all parliaments discussing topics supposedly of national importance, only 10 Tory and 6 Labour MPs could be arsed to turn up. I'd stop their pay.

And if it's you that's on the menu?

When something doesn't fit Col it means you're using the wrong size hammer

I have my own ideas of events but it's probably libellous to publish without proof. It seems his particular peccadillo led him to a dating site and some 'bad people'. What happened in the flat, what they did and why he was locked in is something to ponder - except I'm really not that interested.

No visit to the Railway Museum PF?