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Capitalists like those in Hong Kong, today have a very good life in China. Those in Hong Kong who rose up against China wanting to have a single government for their one country were being very silly since they could only ever lose. Hong Kong is and always has been wholly a part of China, just...

Precisely because the numbers make control so impossible. To say the facts contradict that view is ludicrous when it is so widely accepted that to officially open the door with employment creates a multiplication of illegal migration. The whole of Europe during recent years is the proof...

It was an international scouting centre then, many of the scout groups camping were from all over Europe, even Russia! Amusing episode, out cycling by day I bumped into a group of French scouts asking for directions because they'd got lost after walking in the country area. A few days later...

Completely ignoring this fact I just posted: "If we start employing all the illegals, their numbers will hugely multiply to nobody's benefit, least of all those migrating." We cannot employ them due to the huge harm that will do, a mistake Germany made and has now had to get back under...

We sometimes have done, but it takes time. Those who fled from Kenya some years ago found their way into their former skilled jobs. But now we can't, since the priority is to stop uncontrolled immigration, not just for our own sake but for the sake of the countries who are being drained of...

Or just rely on wars to keep other people under their thumb, like the USA does. Almost all the societies the west have disapproved of have freely allowed that, particularly before we in the west started interfering. Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, China etc have all had huge number of students...

Ah yes, Frylands Wood scout camp. No motorbike riding there now, but the Beckenham Boys Club does hold bicycle races around a woodland paths dirt track circuit during the summer school holidays. Also archery. The local unregistered dirt bike riding youngsters are unofficially looked after...

A little lesson in reality. I haven't noticed rubber boat loads of pensioners crossing the channel. It's mostly the young who leave, those who due to their age don't own property and capital possession like cars to get taken. It's the young who rise up against their society, like the...

Parity with the dollar if we are lucky. Parity with the euro if we aren't. :( .

Of course, since all Arab countries have dictatorship, but it's rude to say that so the polite form is used: "A semi-presidential republic with multiparty representation." Meaning the boss and his relatives. .

Even in Britain that tends to be true. Fortunately in Britain our far right Tories are so bad at it that we even mess that up. Predominantly socialist leaning Europe does somewhat better, but Scandinavia is best at avoiding any far right drift and consistently maintaining popular socialism. .

I cant see how that answer relates to what I posted about the Syrian conflict. Like many other countries, Syria isn't a western style democracy. It's a semi-presidential republic with multiparty representation. President Bashar al-Assad, and his Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party have remained...

Agreed. In your opinion, not mine. Russia is a superpower, by dint of its size, by dint of its immense resources, by dint of its technological prowess in space and medicine and by dint of its continuing increase in potential as the world continues to warm. And of course they are at the top...

Yes indeed, they pursue the wrong politics, those that condemn with lethal force all those who do not follow their democratic model. Communism is just another political system, a variant of socialism which has right to exist, and other peoples have the right to adopt it. They should be able...

Reread my replies to Woosh and the latest to OG. Then ask yourself why you completely ignore all the far greater scale of deaths and misery the USA has caused. And for accuracies sake, the USA aided by Britain gave us today's North Korea by fighting against the communist Koreans, resulting in...

Utter, blind, unthinking nonsense. NATO, an invention of the USA specifically to oppose the USSR with overwhelming force was always a serious threat to Russia, albeit justified to a considerable extent. But when Russia conceded moral defeat by ending the USSR, releasing all the satellite...

And I can substitute the USA for Russia, responsible for far greater numbers of deaths over a far longer period of time using the most vile of weapons, and with ongoing misery over multiple lifetimes due to the horrors of agent orange. They had no just cause to do any of that, just a hatred of...

I believe you have been critical of my posts blaming the USA for Russia's actions over the last two decades. I'm not supporting either side's thuggish actions, but I believe in fair play when it comes to assigning blame. I've seen almost none of that in this thread, just a monotous one way...

The only helmet available in 1950 was the all steel ACU one used in racing, uncomfortable for road use so few wore them. I remember the first consumer helmet arriving to the trade, made of of compressed cork it was called the Corker and probably useless in an accident, especially as it had a...

Tuckton familiar from very long ago! I've either been fortunate or very careful, since in 54 years of intermittent motorcycling I've never crashed one on the roads. I did come off a few times in trials competition, yet even then never hurt myself. Maybe motorcycling on the roads being without...