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They don't get it, but then has any of them ever worked for a living in anything resembling an everyday workplace. (i.e. not a bank or a political research dept.)? They would gain some support if they massively reduced immigration, both legal and the other kind, and started undoing the vast array of benefits contrived by Gordon Brown which allows spongers, wasters, layabouts and loafers to live in comfort whilst thumbing their noses at the mugs who actually contribute to the country!

Thanks for the kind words but in the unforgettable words of the Urologist I saw initially: "They can keep you going for a few years but it'll get you in the end!" The oncologist said it more pleasantly but hey, I've had 3 years of full fitness so far...

I have advanced cancer and it's critically important to me to be as well nourished, healthy and fit as I can. I also take a range of carefully researched supplements to enhance my immune system and it's ability to attack cancer cells. I'm simply not prepared to have my immune system tinkered with by having foreign substances injected into me, and especially not vaccines which mess with my RNA or DNA. I had the 1st release of the Covid jab before my diagnosis but none since. My wife and I have both had Covid 3 times altogether. The last time was spring 2024 when my wife - who'd had the Covid booster - had it at the same time. She was under the weather for about 2-3 days whereas I was a bit low for one day. I've never had a flu jab and likely never will. I had a brush with flu in January 2018 felt rough for about 4 days and that was it. My philosophy is that simply because you're not actually sick or ill, don't assume you're healthy. I will be 79 in May still have all original joints etc,. and whilst I have an implant injected every 3 months to inhibit my testosterone, I'm not on any tablets for any of the normal stuff like BP, Type 2 or cholesterol. Maybe it's luck or maybe it's 55 years of healthy eating and living.

True enough but there's one huge issue that no one dares talk about which, simply put, is that if everyone in the country ate mostly healthy food, maintained a healthy weight along with some fresh air and a reasonable amount of exercise, the NHS would be half the size it is and less than half as greedy for cash. Just saying...

I'm not really a grumpy old **** but I well remember getting to school early on icy days so we could build a huge slide then get about 10 of us to go down it together. These days they shut the school in case little Mohammed slips and hurts bumps his knee.

I wish they'd invest a bit more effort into getting more accurate forecasts and a bit less effort into writing stupid alerts telling us things like "ice is slippery".

My cars have been exclusively Mazdas for more than 25 years with a cumulative of about 200k miles. None of them has ever broken down - touch wood - but the latest one is so incredibly complex that I doubt if a breakdown engineer could deal with much more than a flat battery or a puncture. Over the last week I've done about 400 miles on various motorways and there did seem to be more broken down cars than usual. Perhaps the RAC & AA are dealing with many more call outs than usual.

Oh God. Did some Kawasaki 750 3s survive? Surely up there with the most dangerous bikes ever. The one I used to ride in Australia certainly was...

I'm probably older than you and I can assure you that, no matter how anti Brexit you may be, it's nothing to do with that. Back in the mid 80s I was flying out of Heathrow on business about 8 or 10 times every year. I can vividly remember seeing 747s arriving and unloading hundreds of Asians almost every time I was in the international terminal. What irks me is that no one seems to have any idea how to even slow it down, much less halt it. We don't need Starmer's grovelling Brexit reset, what we really need is a moratorium on permission for uneducated, unskilled or otherwise unemployable immigrants. Perhaps then the multi thousands employed to manage and administer the 1.22 million people who settled in the UK last year or the 3.4 million visas issued, could find more useful employment.

Absolutely. The elephant in the room is the vast flow of legal immigrants arriving in their thousands every single day.

It's easy to sneer at the Rwanda project but it slowed down the illegal migrant traffic. So, during the summer, the illegals sat waiting for the election and when the time warp student activists took power and immediately cancelled Rwanda, the idiots now running the country laid out the welcome mat thereby encouraging multi thousands to flood in. As and when the barmy army in Westminster start shipping them back at a confirmed 1,000 or so per week I'll applaud it, because then the illegals might be more inclined to dump themselves on an EU country rather than here.

Just another 500,000 to go then...

If there was so much as a single shred of proof that CO2 was causing climate change I would be rooting for Nett Zero. What the hysterics don't grasp is that the supposed personal opinion of a scientist, or even a group of scientists, is not the same thing as science. As John says above, the combination of Nett Zero lunacy dead set on bankrupting the country and kowtowing to the union Mandarins means it's all downhill from now on. Vauxhall & Stellantis are just the beginning and I can't see Jaguar surviving much longer. The end of vehicle production in this country is coming and it's not far off. Thank you climate change hysterics.

It's the same old, same old Labour. 1970s buffoon Denis Healey reborn as Wrecker Reeves. Totally unqualified to be Chancellor and for whom ideological hatred and revenge policies trump fiscal responsibility. Tax and spend, topped up with reckless borrowing has never worked, but our banking customer services executive pretending to have worked as an economist, appears to have no knowledge of economic history.

If say 20 million signed it, the King could choose to exercise his powers to dissolve parliament and thus force a fresh election.