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Actually there was a lot wrong with them.. no arch support, no ventilation, so after a days use they stink...

I think you will find that police can change those rules any time they like. A licence or derogation signed by a senior official In the Home Office sorts that out. Why I have even seen policemen with machine guns.....

Scratch scratch ,itch, itch

Oh and Zathlan.. the EU must be reading these postings .. Remember your complaints about unfair senior representation if women in the EU ?

If you send Muppets ,they get Muppet positions.. How many of your Commissioners or high appointments were senior recently serving Ministers, Chancellors, PrimeMinisters?.

Sorry OG... It seems you do not get it. The EU is about citizenship of Europe. There is a huge difference between a servant of the state .. Civil Servants, Ambassadors, Soldier s ,Ministers ,who will be expected to defend the interests of the State and take an oath to defend it ..even lie...

I am supposing that the treaties setting up the EU Parliament did also assign them a certain level of autonomy..Else it would have no status. I am supposing that the decision of the Spanish central authorities , is a reaction to the Catalan crisis of a few years ago,and is more recent than the...

Actually I think you have got it wrong. And misunderstood the seriousness of my point . the MEP for Clacton .. wherever that is , represents the people of Clacton not of Edinburgh (i am assuming that Clacton is not a suburb of Edinburgh). It is an impertinence for the local central...

It am going to take a different view on the Catalonian situation than you. It is a long established right that Members of Parliaments are free to travel to and from their parliament. Now the decision of the Spanish authorities to require Deputies in the Spanish Parliament to swear an oath to...

Now they have shown their true colours. The Ode to Joy is one of the pinnacles of western culture.. up there in my opinion with the Periodic Table of the Elements,and Bach's Air on a G string

Ha!. Showing your youth again?. The Physics labs in my college had a few of these mechanical beasties ,by Olivetti,if memory serves .We were required to use them for the statistics of a Brownian walk... They would do addition, squaring,and summing the squares,

Huh!. I sussed that one out 55 years ago.

No. The church never pretended to be democratic.

.. well I had the day job as well..

For some reason ,I have not been able to vote for Ms Foster, or B. Johnson..both who are likely to have a greater effect on my peace of mind. .. So I am being affected without representation,is that democracy?. I never had a vote for Ms Merkel either. Not every public service post in a...

Again not so... I had a choice in electing the Irish Government, they then selected their taoiseach, He has a voice in selecting the major positions in the EU various Presidents. He and the Irish cabinet will select the Irish EU Commissioner. I had a direct vote and a choice in selecting...

Fine, but . Cameron was operating outside his authority when he said that.. What he could and should have said is that, "any cabinet that I lead will propose to parliament that which you decide ..."

If one looks over at the EU today, you will actually see democracy in operation. The top positions in the EU ..The presidents of various functions are being decided. There was an attempted stitch up by French,Germany,Holland a few weeks ago at the E20 meeting, but ... Other nations of the EU...

Well one at least has indicated his willingness to vote against...and it would not be seppuku as the father of the house intends to retire.

Would it not be the case that any person aspiring to the title of First or Prime Minister, would need a vote of the majority of the House?. As I see it, what is happening now is that a group of party members throughout the UK,will be voting their preference for the person to lead their...