Vince Green

No but you devalue your own credibility by taking swipes. In a previous life I did a lot of training on conflict and its resolution. One of the things I learned was that as soon as anybody lost their temper and/or starts 'shouting' everybody stops listening to what's being said.(watch Jeremy Kyle) Insults count as shouting Now I believe we should leave the EU but I believe that because, my assessment is, that the EU is broken beyond redemption. It was never constructed with a proper blueprint and at least ten of the members were allowed to join when they blatently didn't meet the conditions for membership and now have equal voting rights despite making no financial contribution but now over rule us on every issue . The single market doesn't benefit both sides, it only ever benefits the seller nation. The buyer nation is disadvantaged by the same amount, and to the same extent financially. We are now trading between £70-100 billion adverse so how is that, in any way, good for us? In simple terms its not Yet we pay a huge subscription to be a member of a club with no benefits for us, roughly a million pounds a day in hard cash, and part of our subscription goes to French, Spanish and Italian farmers who are fraudulently, and cynically claiming huge subsidies they are not entitled to. A lot of the rest of our money goes not to promote growth or expansion but just to sustain corrupt and lazy practices. Why can Germany and France flood us with their cars despite the fact we could buy cars cheaper from Japan, USA or Korea but are not allowed to without the EU putting a 10.8% tariff on cars that WE buy. Nothing to do with them. And we don't see the 10.8% that's yet another stealth tax by the EU I have looked at this long and hard but I can't see what the remainers appear to be able to see, ie a good side to the arrangement. For us its just pay pay pay and lose lose lose . If you want to engage on this as a discussion, feel free but don't tell me I am a thick middle aged white racist who doesn't understand because that's the Lib Dems view and one day soon that is going to come back and bite them.

Do you think that is the way to have your contribution taken seriously?

Didn't realise he was Jewish

Not personally but I have had family members living in Germany, my stepdaughter's father was German, and my friend tried to retire to france a few years back and set up a business as a battlefield tour guide. Both have experience of negative red tape from the countries that suggests to me that they don't embrace free movement the way we have for their citizens

You try going to France, or Germany to claim benefits or even get a job or set up a business.

I agree completely, a .22 rifle is a tool made for work, not a fashion accessory

lidl are doing a nice looking one at the moment for £9.95. Don't know what its like but I have found most of their stuff to be very serviceable.

How many pay tax? How many are claiming child benefit for kids back in their home country? how many are sending money out of the country? BUT ITS OUR STUPID FAULT for letting them.

Just seeing you wouldn't put it off, they encounter random humans all the time and don't bother too much, but the advice about giving the caller a rest might be sound.

Don't underestimate the Socialist Workers Party, they are evil

Technically all the colonists were British Subjects and still remained British subjects after the war of independence. None had their status revoked. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and virtually all the signatories on the declaration had family, land and monies in the UK and for decades after, many of their decendents still do. Maybe even a century later they and the majority of the colonists still did their banking and got letters of credit etc through London when purchasing farms etc. When the USA bought Louisiana from the French and Florida from the Spanish both transactions were paid for with letters of credit issued in London. The truth is, and this is hard for Americans to understand today, the British regarded the American colonies as worthless land, potato farmers with few prospects. That was not a bad call at the time. It was only years later that cotton in the south started to generate an export trade for the US and as soon as Washington started to try and tax that trade Carolina said no way, left the Union and sparked the Civil War Instead the British fought hard and long to defend Canada against the French because the fur trade was the real big industry worth defending

"Most" (as in a very significant percentage) of new BMWs and Mercs are either leased or sold to company fleets of some form initially from new so they can rectify issues on the quiet as free service items without getting involved with damaging recalls. Recalls are expensive and damaging to their image, having to arrange for hundreds of customers to bring their cars in is an admin nightmare. This way you take your car in for a service and they say "Oh and we have fitted an upgraded exhaust sensor free of charge" and you think "Yes that impressive customer service" its all in the way its done

We have just got back from Florida today, we have been going this time of year for several years, prices have definitely gone up noticeably year on year. Or I should say tourist prices have gone up noticeably.

Absolutely right! if there was a second vote remain cannot be an option on the paper, that has already been voted out and is now dead.

The only problem you are likely to find is that things like new printers, games apps etc wont be compatible, but the probably aren't now. That's just designed obsolescence.

That's 100% right. The European Parliament has no powers at all, it cannot make laws or influence policy. So we have to ask why does it exist? I suspect it creates the illusion that a democratic process is taking place when in reality it is just there to fool the public. Its a sham, a charade If that is true it shows that a high level of conspiracy existed right back to day one when all of this was being set up. Why else would they create a European Parliament with no power?

I think it could be a tensioner tool for the brake cables on a trailer, with the bit that clamps the cable missing. maybe?

I think the suggestion is its a corroded wheel that's been sealed with something? If you get the tyre off you are still going to have the problem of the corrosion

Start by finding out what you can source locally, that might have more influence on your choice than anything we say

Their protest is about momentum flexing its political muscles and very little to do with climate change in reality. Don't look at the gullable fresh faced kids at the front of the protest. Look at the usual old suspects at the back with radios and loud hailers winding them up

The Labour party has to maintain a poor underclass because it is predominantly the underclass that votes Labour. Plus a few museli eating Guardian readers of course. If they ever solved poverty and dependency on handouts they would shoot themselves in the foot Italy? Greece? Israel? how many more do you want?

Anybody who believes in PR is off with the fairies, It just produces endless stalemate, if that is what you mean by consistant they you are probably right, but its a bad idea all the same. I agree the first past the post system is flawed but PR is more flawed

I'm like that about Costa Coffee too, like drinking mud. I agree with Walshie, McD coffee has got a lot better

In many (most?) cultures around the world having a large family is what gives you financial security for the future, it affords all kinds of other protection in countries where there is no other form of assistance.

I wonder if they would work as fox decoys?