Bandit – the existence of op Journeyman was not news to anyone

its the fact that op journeyman was a bluff – they never actually removed the Argentinian forces from Corbeta Uruguay, but left them there undisturbed, as callaghan refused to use force – that led to the Junta believing they had the upper hand in ’82

Ransos – you should really do your own research properly:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Thule

4 minutes 40 😆

Such as Jim Callaghan? I suggest you look up what he did with regard to the Falklands, and reflect on which PM took the best course of action.

What – left them there unopposed?

http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/written_answers/1978/may/12/southern-thule
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/written_answers/1978/jun/28/southern-thule-argentine-presence

It’s rarely heard why the Unions were in such a position of strength that they “needed bringing down”. Most of British industry was suffering from a lack of investment.

OR perhaps just as accurately, the managers were unable to invest in newer, modern & more efficient machinery, as the unions threatened to go on strike because it would have led to their members being out of a job.

See computer operated CNC machines vs hand operated lathes for an example.

Face the facts, the unions went from protecting the working man to being a protection racket which held the country to ransom – British industry was destroyed by the unions. Maggie restored sanity.

Ernie – Wow, Thatcher being blamed by the Left for something that it turns out was a trend that started years before her, and continued years after, including on their watch

Where have we seen that before?

Edit: Hora –

Manufacturing: http://fullfact.org/factchecks/Growth_Labour_manufacturing-28817
Miners: http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/rp99/rp99-111.pdf

I dont think we had shit hole sink estates prior to thatcher or totally **** and ruined towns and areas

Were you actually alive in the seventies Junky?

So long to the last prime minister with principles rather than focus groups

I heard they were planning burial at sea!

pay it off asap

your kids will get far more out of life with happy chilled out parents who maybe take a bit more time off work to spend with them and have a couple of nice holidays every year, than a bigger house with a garden and parents stressed out about paying the mortgage and always at work.

Whats temperature is your thermostat on?

By the way – if there’s one thing the lad doesn’t need right now – its a good spanking 😆

Soil type?
current agricultural use?
single payment scheme?

to be honest, what you need is a proper forester local to you, contact the ICF:

http://www.charteredforesters.org/directory-of-consultants/

and with their help, you can more than likely get a grant to pay for most of the cost of a woodland management plan and a lot of your planting/creation costs

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/ewgs-funding-farm-woodlands.pdf/$file/ewgs-funding-farm-woodlands.pdf

At least you know which side of the fence he’s on!

I reckon that you should take him out for a slap up dinner, or at the very least not make a big deal of it – its entirely natural, maybe just a little early – but that may be down to friends or something he’s heard somewhere.

He knows he’s done wrong, leave it at that.

maybe he needs a hobby, something to keep him off the internet a bit – Magic maybe?

Mike Cotty?

All that proved was that governments are stupid and not scientists. They had no right to make the claim about beef.

And you wonder why parents refused to believe the categoric reassurances that were given to them about MMR?

indeed!

To be fair, the MMR scare has to be put in the context of its time

Its was only a few years after the whole vCJD fiasco, when public trust of government scientists was at pretty much an all time low!

For what its worth – our eldest daughter got separate injections, and has confirmed diagnosis of ASD, and our youngest got MMR, and they are assessing her at the moment…

Interesting that the Lefties are all referring to George as Gideon again..

I don’t remember them referring to Gordon as James!

What was that quote from the CRU Emails?

The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.

climate change would lead to heavy snow occasionally returning and causing chaos.

See that word there Ernie, “occasionally” – Thats your problem!

One problem though Grum… I didn’t post it!

Pwned 😉

You can hear the phone call in the morning:

Ello la, is dat claims direkt like?

Well, its dat daily mail, dey went an published a piccie of me lookin goppin! I wanna know if I can get any Compo for it?

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Ok. So the local predictions weren’t right.
Does that mean the whole thing is a fraud?

Nope, but it means that if you’re fundamentally out in your conclusions, you go back to the drawing board to figure out why you’re wrong.

Its a classic case of the real world data not matching the model – and that tells you that there’s something wrong with your model

Warmer air holds more moisture, which can mean more snow.

But in just 2007, they told us:

Experts predict that the impact of global warming on the weather will mean increased temperatures, hotter, drier summers, milder winters with less snow and more intense rainfall

And, quite specifically, that decreased snow coverage was a key indicator of climate change in wales

I’d be more inclined to listen to the people who say we are changing the climate if they would actually agree on how we are changing it.

This!

Back in 2004, the scientists were telling us this:

The snow is disappearing from Snowdon, scientists have claimed.
A study of the snowline on Wales’ icon mountain has found its winter cap has retreated over the past 10 years.

and, importantly that:

The figures indicated that this winter Snowdon is on track to have less snow than any of the last 10 years.
The results appear to back the growing body of evidence to support climate change.

and that:

“What we have found is that it is not so cold as it used to be…Minimum temperatures do not plunge as low as they used to which means that the range of temperatures we experience has decreased…And if recent trends continue a white Christmas in Wales could certainly be a thing of the past.”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/4112137.stm

Now – thats all pretty unequivocal! Then in 2007, we were being told that:

Snowdon may lose its snow cover within 13 years as a result of climate change,

and that:

Snow has been disappearing for some time from the peak, the highest in Britain south of the Highlands, but the Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) disclosed that this winter’s accumulation is the lowest since records began 14 years ago. With only a couple of snowfalls this winter, the total depths measured are way down on previous years and, if the trend continues, any kind of the cover could disappear by 2020.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/snowdon-will-be-snowfree-in-13-years-scientists-warn-432596.html

I can even point you to two official government documents that specifically state that snow coverage on Snowdon is a key indicator of climate change

http://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum_dg/groups/dg_digitalassets/@dg/@en/documents/digitalasset/dg_073021.pdf

http://ukclimateprojections.defra.gov.uk/media.jsp?mediaid=88430&filetype=pdf

and then we get the Welsh Minister in 2007 stating

Welsh environment minister Jane Davidson said last night she was shocked by photographs taken ten years apart, one showing Snowdon covered in snow and the other more recent picture, without its white peaks.

in an article that also states

Experts predict that the impact of global warming on the weather will mean increased temperatures, hotter, drier summers, milder winters with less snow and more intense rainfall

“http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/2007/11/21/snowdonia-shows-signs-of-global-warming-55578-20137434/

allied to this photo:

Photos reveal global warming sweeping snow out of Snowdonia

So – sorry, but when this happens:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-21952080

Its simply revisionist nonsense to move the goalposts and tell us that the colder, snowier weather is down to climate change, as the global warming alarmists have quite undeniably and quite consistently been telling us for the last decade that the opposite would be true.

Girls or boys?

My daughter is sitting here saying she would recommend the Enid Blyton books

Naughtiest Girl
Faraway Tree
Malory Towers
Wishing Chair

etc.

Can’t believe people are still buying this. Are Labour The Tories to blame for the financial problems in Ireland, Greece, Spain, Cyprus, the US?

What impact did Labour’s The Tories policies have on the sub-prime housing bubble in the US? Eurozone?

HTH! Maybe worth considering next time you’re telling us how Evil Tory austerity is preventing recovery…

I assume that the population is growing faster than job creation

that plus

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9963012/900000-choose-to-come-off-sickness-benefit-ahead-of-tests.html

so perhaps employment is growing slower than the pool of ‘could be employed’

What I mean, to put it very simplistically, is that in certain circumstances under the existing system, you can be as well off, or nearly as well off, working 16 hours as opposed to 37 hours – as the more you work, the more benefits you lose.

if you’re losing 90p worth of benefits for every extra pound you earn in wages, then it provides a perverse incentive against working full time, however if you look at this another way, it can be utilised in a very positive manner, since it allows someone such as a single parent with kids to earn nearly as much as they would working full time, but still spend time with the kids.

You’ve made a significant leap there Junky

Due to the marginal withdrawal rates, Its possible under the benefits system for someone to be better off, or insignificantly worse off, working part time than full time compared with being on benefits – so in a number of cases, they choose to do so, and in the process have maintained a better work life balance, and in many cases a work life balance thats actually better for society (e. single parents working part time, but still able to spend time with their kids rather than throw them in after school clubs etc.

Horses were not permitted under 193 so i doubt bikes would be

No, vehicles, carts and carriages etc (and yes, bicycles are classes as vehicles) are specifically prohibited from having rights of access on urban commons, whereas Horses were not mentioned as prohibited (or permitted) however caselaw has included them under the ‘right to air and exercise’ so they also have free rein on those commons too (and many would argue that in spirit should apply to us too, but we’re quite clearly banned) – it gets more complex when you realise that the landowner can give us permission to ride there, so 20 years of unpermitted and unchallenged use could potentially gain us a prescriptive right in perpetuity if we built up evidence and took it to court – however the fine on conviction in magistrates court is only £20 IIRC, so, you know, worth the risk I’d say 😉

You mean like this binners ?

David Cameron: Conservatives are for strivers not skivers

Precisely – Cameron never said the word skivers in the speech, but its become part of the myth…

Thats why they are politicians. They leave their friends in the right wing press to actually use those words on their behalf. While they indulge in a constant campaign of misinformation by insinuation. The end result is the same. As you are well aware.

I don’t disagree one bit – but the point is that the same argument goes both ways, when we see politicians on the other wing playing the same game, and their own pet columnists like Polly indulging in their own campaign that insinuates that ‘the tories are saying everyone on benefits are scum’ and sets forth myths like the ‘bedroom tax’ where even people on this site are left in confusion over who it will affect (see the earlier post about dalesriders mum, who as a pensioner won’t be affected!)

Are you for real? That is absolute cobblers! What about George Osbornes conference speech about benefit claimants ‘sleeping away a life on benefits’? That’s fairly unambiguous.

So you accept he didn’t call anyone a scrounger, shirker or skiver then?

All words that came from the Lefty outrage bus!

the government’s relentless media campaign to demonise ‘scroungers’ and ‘shirkers’

Actually, I’ve not seen the government mention it at all

what I have seen is a widespread media campaign by the opposition and their common purpose compadre’s to categorise perfectly reasonable reforms in the benefits system as an attack on scroungers and shirkers – and I’m willing to bet that if you go and do a search, you’ll find that the only politicians categorising people on benefits with the words ‘scroungers’ and ‘shirkers’ are from the Labour party

As midlifecrashes alluded to – the legal position of common land is, at the very least, “complex”

I would vote for ‘go for it’ and if anyone questions you, ‘play dumb’

The reality of this “Bedroom Tax” is it will hit some very hard, my mother who on a single pension of £107 a week and lives in a small 2 bed bungalow.

If she’s over state pension age, then it won’t affect her!

This is one of the biggest drawbacks of the hysteria – its made people terrified they’ll be affected when they’re not.

policies do nothing to address this, beyond punishing the lazy and feckless – for it is their fault they dont work

Well, to be fair, 878,000 have chosen not to continue their claim for disability.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9963012/900000-choose-to-come-off-sickness-benefit-ahead-of-tests.html

(note, dropped the claim, not been tested by ATOS, actually dropped the claim rather than go through with the medical)

Ian Duncan Smith – healed more sick than Jesus!

Did he say he could live on benefits, or did he say he could live on £53 a week?

Fair enough, however thats £230 per month after housing & council tax, and accounting for travel to work expenses etc, I’d be willing to bet there’s still a few on here getting by on not a lot more than that.

How much do you think military Captains get paid?

Enough to leave their kids a trust fund?

FWIW – I lived on £35 a week for three years as a student, allowing for inflation I reckon I could get by on £54 if I needed to – OK, we’re not talking luxury, but is that what benefits are supposed to be for (and to be fair, IDS isn’t under 25, so he or I would be on £71 per week – £307 per month after rent and council tax, I’d be willing to bet there’s a few people on here getting by on not much more than that!)