Vince Green

With luck Trump will be in jail where he belongs before too long

He's keeping Trump out of the White House that's good enough for me

Down here in Cornwall the coppers turn a blind eye to a whole raft of things because they always have, I think they call it 'Community Policing'

Because I was doing a lot of driving I listened to a lot of the speeches at the Labour Party Conference. Absolutely vacuous, nothing but cliche after cliche with no substance Ed Millibands was spectacularly bad he just waffled about having "more integrated policies " and other meaningless gobbledegook. Starmer was just as bad. "The time is now" as if he was saying just smile and nod, pretend you know what's going on What a shower of phoney politicians, they haven't got a clue. However bad we may think the Conservatives are Labour would be worse.

I think he did it too, but it's a massive escalation Although we won't avoid the fallout just be glad we got out of Europe when we did. At least we have some degree of autonomy

Several times down here in Cornwall I have been shocked to see tractors being driven on the back roads by very young kids. I'm guessing at around twelve years old. Also huge trailers on busy roads with no number plates, brake lights or indicators. Don't even get me started on Quad bikes......... Rural anarchists

PR doesn't work, look at Italy, one failed coalition government after another Also, how do you actually decide what is "proportional"? Only about a hundred different models for how you work out the quotas and how the seats are allocated. It's an end to MPs representing their constituents or being answerable to them. Instead it most likely results in a party being told they have xyz number of seats which then get handed out (behind closed doors) to the party faithful and cronies. Rather than candidates who have faced the scrutiny of being elected.

People who live in houseboats do so (generally) because they are unable to access more conventional forms of accommodation. Sad fact but increasingly true

Reported in the news this morning. A lot of the tension has been caused by fake news of attacks and incidents on social media that can only reasonably be seen as intended to cause the trouble that it did. Both sides are as guilty as each other. But it shouldn't be happening on the streets of Leicester

Socialism is both bitter and green eyed, by definition. Socialist politics needs to create a grievance and then feeds off it

To be honest, I don't think any of the counter proposals were any better. Deck chairs on the Titanic comes to mind

And if a train breaks down you just stop

And the train drivers are going on strike on Saturday because they want more money

Thameslink Trains are recruiting new train drivers, and the STARTING salary is £63,196 per year

I don't get this often trotted out line that meat production is a MAJOR cause of global warming. Really ? So all this stuff we told about fossil fuels is all rubbish?

If you go to Eastern Europe vodka is the name for all kinds of spirits. We had "vodka" that looked and tasted like brandy. Cherry vodka and some weird stuff with caramel and herbs

Where are you?

They tend to have a rather parasitic relationship with their tenants. I'm sure there is much more they could and should do My son in law's father was a publican for decades and from what I have heard his relationship with the several breweries he worked for was far from a happy one.

Yes but Weatherspoons has massive bulk buying power compared to a stand alone pub.

You have to give her a chance. She has inherited a poison chalice. Not a job any sane person would take on willingly

The old mines are not suitable for modern working practices. They were a throw back to victorian times where men with lamps shovelled out the coal by hand with picks and shovels into carts. Killing themselves slowly in the process But the old mines would have flooded and collapsed years ago.n Twenty first century now. Automation, robotics and ground penetrating radar now

The real reason the mines were closing in South Wales was the switch away from steam to diesel on the railways and ships. North Sea gas was making central heating a viable prospect in millions of homes country wide. North Sea gas,unlike the previous town gas, wasn't made from coal so it was a double blow to the coal industry. The demand was going through the floor and mines were being closed long before Maggie was on the scene Instead of trying to cooperate and help to introduce ways of increasing the output of many very inefficient mines that were still working in a Victorian time warp. The Unions blocked and obstructed every attempt to modernise, using bully boy tactics and secondary picketing. Until in the end it became cheaper for the power stations to buy coal from Poland to generate electricity without the constant threat of industrial action. Arthur Scargill, who wasn't the leader of the miners Union, he was the unelected branch leader of the Yorkshire miners decided to take on the Government. And he lost

Most are just opportunists. If you lived in a rubbish country and you could see better prospects elsewhere wouldn't you go for it? That's why so many are young men. Whether they find what they are looking for? I'm not so sure

It's not only the energy bills. The customers are going to disappear in large numbers because they too have been hit with big bills theycant afford.

There are special sat navs for lorries and coaches to avoid narrow pinch points and low bridges etc Down in Cornwall the big motor homes get stuck down the narrow lanes trying to use an ordinary sat nav Don't know where you get them from