Vince Green

He's lucky spitting images is no longer on TV that's for sure

Corbyn and Abbott have made a very good living without having to work all these years. But don't confuse reality with empty electioneering promises. How many Russian peasants were any better off after 1917? despite what they were promised?

I believe it was a student short service commission which would have ended when he left Uni Nothing has changed in the interim then

When a friend of my mum bought their council house years ago the council took care of all that for them. Talk about being handed it on a plate. No deposit to find, no solicitor's bill and they got the house for about half the market value.

YEP! could that be because they would rather have a dodgy labour candidate as the MP than admit the Brexit party actually won fair and square? at least until after the Tory leadership election.

Most US suppliers wont ship to anywhere outside US any more because they don't want the hassle and fear the ITAR rules even if it doesn't actually apply. Import duty into the UK has every appearance of being a random figure plucked from thin air by a disinterested clerk who doesn't read the paperwork Sometimes its nothing because they can't be bothered. Other times I have been charged way over but you can't appeal unless its over £2.5K. Then the Post Office charges you £20 (?) to collect it. I stopped importing stuff from US some years ago.

Does anybody believe that Rory Stewart's "People's Committee" (even the name makes me retch) would be picked from unbiased members of the general public? Or would it be rigged? The idea for having a committee sounds like a simple proposal but how would they be chosen? How the heck would you ever get agreement on the list of names? Where would all those people meet? Where would you put them all up? How would you pay them? What about their jobs and their families? Who does the school run while they are away? The more you think about it the more pathetic the whole concept gets

No I agree but a system that allows the feckless to increase their benefits and get bigger houses simply by banging out more kids is tragically flawed.

All the beggers in London at the prime locations are professionals, any genuinely hungry homeless person who wandered onto the patch by accident would not last 5 minutes before getting attacked, assaulted and told to clear off. Its good money too, one African woman with a baby who was filmed walking up to people on the concourse at Victoria Station and asking for money to buy food for the baby was estimated to be making £200 an hour. Not that she kept it, she was having to hand it over to her minders.

The trouble is that the Benefits system reverses the natural selection principal of Darwin

What they really mean is Party ownership

The other thing, people don't read the exclusions, which can be many and not always what you would expect. Horse riding, quad bikes, scuba diving, motorcycles, etc I don't know if you realise just how minimal the medical cover provided by some of those schemes are. My stepdaughter thought she was covered by hers till she looked into it, certainly not enough for USA or Canada. You are covered for lost luggage and cancelled flights but not much else

We get these calls practically every day

I believe they are not legal if they play a tune, but you can still fit them "as long as you don't use them" nudge nudge, and keep the proper horn

The thing is, its good you have the sense to take insurance, too many people believe they are covered by those stupid EHIC cards and don't realise they are variable at best and totally useless at worst depending where you are.

That's my view too but a lot of people are trying very hard to muddy the water

Its our legacy, we appear to have left a stronger love of cricket in the old Empire, India, Pakistan, Aus , NZ and West Indies than survived here. Having lived in former parts of the British Empire I came to understand the value of a game that lasted three whole days in a land where there wasn't a lot else to fill your time and life could be extremely tedious. Cricket was the ideal game Even in the late 70s in West Africa we had no TV, no internet, newspapers were a week out of date. So the arrival of a touring cricket team was like the circus had come to town. Three days of dawn to dusk cricket to watch, three evenings of discussing it in the bar, it was heaven. Back in more civilised times the visitors would have brought their rifles and the fourth day would have been a shooting match as well

Rory Stewart says "nice" things that "nice" people think sounds "nice" and it draws applause from the audience, and perhaps the viewers as well but when you actually break it down to the nuts and bolts you realise he hasn't got a clue and is hiding behind waffle not that any of the others had a clue either. They should have called the programme Pointless Politicians. Is this really what we have come down to? A contest to find the least bad ?

He was the sensible one. The debate was luke warm, the candidates all came over as shallow and damaged rather than enhanced my view of their suitability. The only winner was C4. Politicians are not TV personalities and should realise their limitations in front of the cameras.

For many years in London (I can only speak for London) single parenthood was the ONLY way most young working class women could ever get a place of their own They couldn't ever earn enough to rent or buy. So a free council flat, provided for them more or less on demand in those days, and a life on benefits was the route of choice.

EXACTLY! Its not rocket science is it?

That's a good point

Yes I remember that Israeli 9mm ammo, the cases were bulged after firing it was that hot. Perfectly reloadable cases otherwise but they would jam in the resizing die.

All the garden birds have declined round here, sparrows, starlings, blackbirds and thrushes are all much less common. There are quite a few parrots (as they are called) and more woodpigeon than I remember in the past.

S&B rounds were as cheap as reloads and stunningly accurate and reliable . Used to come in boxes of 25s as I recall