Vince Green

There are none so blind as those who will not see

You clearly are not aware of the Red House (Maison Rouge) Conference held in Strassburg in August 1944 between senior Nazis and German bankers and industrialists are you? “The paper is aged and fragile, the typewritten letters slowly fading. But US Military Intelligence report EW-Pa 128 is as chilling now as the day it was written in November 1944. The document, also known as the Red House Report, is a detailed account of a secret meeting at the Maison Rouge Hotel in Strasbourg on August 10, 1944. There, Nazi officials ordered an elite group of German industrialists to plan for Germany's post-war recovery, prepare for the Nazis' return to power and work for a 'strong German empire'. In other words: the Fourth Reich. The three-page, closely typed report, marked 'Secret', copied to British officials and sent by air pouch to Cordell Hull, the US Secretary of State, detailed how the industrialists were to work with the Nazi Party to rebuild Germany's economy by sending money through Switzerland. They would set up a network of secret front companies abroad. They would wait until conditions were right. And then they would take over Germany again. The industrialists included representatives of Volkswagen, Krupp and Messerschmitt. Officials from the Navy and Ministry of Armaments were also at the meeting and, with incredible foresight, they decided together that the Fourth German Reich, unlike its predecessor, would be an economic rather than a military empire - but not just German.”

Generally, the trend is that the older editions of American loading manuals gave out higher loads than the newer editions purely because they have become more risk adverse but you can find quite a variation between say the Hornady and the sierra manuals sometimes. It can be very confusing. My first place to look is always the powder manufacturers tables, in your case Alliant to see what they say But as Walker570 said mid table loads are almost always more accurate (and cheaper, don't forget cheaper)

this but the PO employ a lot of casual staff these days, Yodel and the like don't even employ their drivers, they are all freelancers. Lots of stuff I order goes missing because we have a very similar address to another road nearby. we are 4 xxxxx Court and the next road is xxxxxx Way. 4 xxxxx Way gets lots of our post and vice versa

I don't think it was a decision based on military motives, its just a game of monopoly to them and they clearly don't mind cheating to win. However, the fact that they see us as a rival and not a partner is hugely revealing. All the EU cobblers about being a partnership crumbles to dust because they are not embracing the spirit of what the EU is supposed to be about. We are right to doubt their motives.

Agreed!

Which is not legal under EU laws to offer financial inducements to relocate. You really couldn't make it up! Good post

I really can't understand how you fail to see that the EU is like quicksand, it sucks all the member states down into a submissive form of dependence. This can't be accidental, its far from being a partnership of equals.. Our only chance is to break free, whatever the cost, before we are consumed

A very good post and I agree with practically all you say. I do have a difference of opinion with you regarding the steel industry. For decades Germany has illegally subsidised its own steel industry allowing it to undercut British Steel's sales in this country but also, and more importantly, strangling our ability to export. For many years this undermining has eroded the industry, preventing its ability to reinvest . China is only a late arrival, by the time it started making itself felt the damage was already done. The real gripe was that everybody knew what was happening but the EU appeared happy to allow the illegal subsidy to continue. To me that was a big red flag, if it was the other way round and we were damaging Germany's steel industry with illegal subsidies would we get away with it? Not a level playing field. I totally agree with you about the NHS, its like a bush that's been allowed to grow wild without structure. The key point is that at no time has the NHS employed a high number of EU nationals. I think at the highest it was 4.7%. Much less than Indian or Chinese nationals who have to apply for work permits. So the project fear assertion that the NHS would collapse if we left the EU was not true.

The Lib Dems are looking more and more like the Student Union to me

They make up a lot of words like that in Wales, I heard it as pingy ponger in the past The Cornish (well some of them) are getting very militant about their language now, wanting it to be taught in schools, street signs etc. The thing is its much less of a living language than Welsh, only about 200 actual speakers and most of them will be a good age. Even then not all of them can converse with each other, such are the regional differences. So if they do revive it they will be making most of it up..

In the towns bird tables feed the rats and mice

There are lots of people who believe the world was created in 4004BC by god. They are called Creationists. Evolution, according to them is a lie.

Cabinets have to be bolted to an outside wall usually and in an older house that wall can be cold. It then becomes a massive heat exchanger and condensation is not far away. Its a known problem If indeed it is bluing (as in chemically colouring the metal) and not a lacquer type coating which is more common on modern guns

Round the part of London where the OP and I live foreign registered cars are everywhere with nobody appearing to check up on them to see if they have overstayed their allowed 6 months. Its the same with driving licences. Its highly unlikely the car is insured but the police don't get involved because its a time waster from their point of view trying to chase it all up. Contact the DVLA but get somebody else to do it, not being sneaky but because of the point Mungler makes about keeping the dispute off the record regarding your property

The Lib Dems are the pointless party, they exist mainly to be middle of the road which is meaningless

I'm not quite so critical of Cameron as some on here appear to be. He offered a referendum and he delivered it - credit to him He tried to get the EU member states to back him and they shafted him, not his fault He didn't get the result that he wanted, when he realised things were not going his way he (and Osborne) resorted to project fear, getting more and more desperate, and more and more ridiculous. But that today shows itself up for what it really was - desperation When he lost he resigned, credit to him but I question why. he really threw in the towel. Sources close to him at the time said he had been both bruised and humiliated by his dealings with the presidents of some of the very minor states, keeping him waiting, talking down to him etc. when he was trying to get a concession to take back home to tip the balance I believe he knew that these states existed on ego and any Brexit negotiation was going to be toxic, and he wanted none of it.

I don't think the Lib Debs will be that impressed. Damaged goods are damaged goods, you cant reinvent a failed politician. Like trying to put old flowers in new vases.

We have a place in St Ozzle, and I travel back and forwards regularly now so I was going to say I could get stuff down to you but we are still a long way away.

Having lost the Conservative whip for behaving like a lemming he is now trying to keep his job salary as an MP by joining the Pointless Party. He knows he will be deselected by the Conservatives so this is an act of desperation. Will the Pointless Party save his career? By defecting he has shown everybody his desperation, not his strength or his principles. He is not highly marketable is he? Had he exercised a bit of common sense in the first place, he would have realised, you can't buck the system and survive. What has he actually achieved? Really? Independently wealthy MPs at the end of their careers may make flamboyant (but still stupid) acts of rebellion but for the rest its suicide

Female tattoos were always called slag tags round here, even by the girls who had them. As in "I'm going to get another slag tag tomorrow" There didn't seem much of a stigma to the expression

Oh right down there, yes I can imagine you do get a bit of a supply problem.

Where about are you in Cornwall?

Times have changed, even very smart and fashionable people have tats now but not that long ago it was a slag tag.

Well, this has a certain resonance for me. My OH has just come back from camping with her daughter and two grandsons on an expensive site on the South Coast and they were kept up every night by a big chavvy family group next to them drinking from early till late, smokey smelly BBQ, music and loud voices / laughter etc every night well past the !0pm watershed They found it annoying and asked to be moved, which they couldn't but the camp management clearly didn't want to get involved Other people's fun can be very antisocial. But if this story is correct as reported they would clearly be guilty of harassment in this country if "thousands turned up to attend a cookout" and the media published her picture. That is a no no . She has rights, even if you don't agree with her