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Are German 'left Wingers' Different To Our Own?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2286534/Left-wing-mayor-German-town-warns-Bulgarian-Romanian-immigrants-sent-crime-soaring.html /// Soeren Link, the left-wing mayor of the former industrial...

evedawn

Electricity Sky High???

Ok so someone pleaaaaaaaase tell my maths is wrong. We appear to be using 200 units of electricity per day (we don't have any gas supply so all heating showed etc are electric) My rate per unit is...

Gromit

Today's Bye Election In Eastliegh

My Eastleigh bye election prediction. 1. LibDem 18,000 2 Conservatives 16,500 3 UKiP 15,500 4. Labour 13,500 LibDem Hold. Higher turnout but Both Coalition parties lose votes. Labour come fourth of...

sir.prize

Hot Air From British Gas Again

Quote by Chris Jansen, managing director of services and commercial at Centrica, following an 11% rise in profits at British Gas residential: ‘’All we say to customers is let's do what we can to...

woolleysheep

House Shortage

how many houses are up for sale standing empty or unoccupied for several months of the year, could these not be purchased by the state and used by families requiring homes

anotheoldgit

Has This Christian Group Got A Point?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/borisjohnson/9890160/Christian-group-challenges-ban-on-gay-poster-campaign.html If posters such as these are allowed *** “Some people are gay. Get over...

tamborine

Prayer Rooms In Uni

Should they be closed down http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/muslim-students-take-legal-advice-after-city-university-shuts-down-friday-prayer-meeting-8507166.html...

ChillDoubt

Recession Just Bit A Bit Deeper

...and will continue to do so. http://news.sky.com/story/1055827/britains-credit-rating-downgraded As Blackadder would say, I think the phrase rhymes with 'Clucking Bell'....

Kathyan

Why Are They Allowed T Do This?

Why are MPs who have been suspended from their party allowed to keep their seat as an independent? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21472000...

infundibulum

Just What Do We Do With The Other 40-50% ?

"In the 1960's between 50% and 60% of household income was spent on food.....today its less than 10%." I have encountered this claim twice in the last week, both times arising from debate about the...

jake-the-peg

Is Horsemeat In Beef A Prime Example Of A Problem We Need The Eu To Fix?

We keep hearing people say they bought the "beef" in good faith. - Frankly that just isn't good enough, Do we not need a Europe wide system of food (or at lleast meet) quality enforcement and...

infundibulum

Details Of To Whom Uk Has Outstanding Debt

Do accurate and specific details of who is in posession of the UK outstanding debt exist ? If so : who owns it ? how much is it ? is there one % interest rate on it ? is there a specific minimum...

anotheoldgit

Gay Animals Where Are They?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/academic-takes-swipe-at-david-attenborough-wildlife-documentaries-for-ignoring-gay-animals-8487212.html One just couldn't make this up, after all the...

modeller

Free Schools Or Indocrination ?

Hundreds of Free Faith Based Schools are springing up in the UK. They are being touted as a new approach to improving education . Will it have that effect ? Will it have a divisive effect on our...

rojash

Chris Huhne Resigns As Mp As He Faces Jail Sentence

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/feb/04/chris-huhne-facing-jail-justice He said "having taken responsibility for something which happened 10 years ago..." Shouldn't that have been "having FINALLY...

infundibulum

How Long Until People Raise The Alarm About Britain*?

*http://www.businessinsider.com/how-long-until-people-start-freaking-out-about-great-britain-2012-1 one year on, many still unaware of our true economic situation, those in-the-know still determined...

infundibulum

British Jam.

I wonder if you can tell me if there was any British regulation as to what constituted jam before the UK was involved with the Common Market? I thought that the government had passed regulation about...