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I'm afraid you're wasting your time Wicky, I pointed out all this in this thread even before the referendum and several times since. Brexiters simply won't take any notice of the facts about our very recent history to date. Instead they substitute blind faith in us magically succeeding in a...

Actually I've hardly been watching it for some while, just a lightning dip in and post, then departing. I'm in the process of redecorating my property right through so little time for small talk. .

The pedelecs site is going into the fake news business it seems. This is going to need watching. .

How come you reported this as my quote? flecc said: BTW do you work for/with the BBC? It was vfr400 who posted it, nothing to do with me. Fake news!! .

Very much so, and particularly in Britain where it had its origins hundreds of years ago when we invented the Building Society. That uniquely started to give purchasing power far beyond normal borrowing, which until then had been limited by the extent of bank borrowing, typically ten years...

I did know about some of this, having been informed by the BBC. However that was mainly via BBC Radio 4 news programs. I suspect it may also have been reported on the BBC TV News Channel where lesser international events are often reported. And Belgium is very much a lesser country with only...

Although there's truth in what he writes, the problem in the UK is far more due to the financialisation of property. Treating land and property and particularly homes as investments has for decades put property on an escalator of both purchase prices and rents The outcome has been costs far...

Something I've maintained since long before the referendum, explaining in detail why leaving the EU is effectively impossible, unless wanting to do ourselves considerable and lasting harm. .

Untrue. He's given over 3000 Agrees, 521 Disagrees and only 196 Dislikes. Rob has a point, there's no value in communicating with those who only come in here to insult and abuse. Just indicating one's displeasure is enough. It's why I don't reply any more to Zlatan's boringly repetitive...

It's more than a rumour, at one time in the 1980s it was government policy. The situation that produced has created a problem ever since for successive governments. The trouble is now that the attempts to correct this continuing situation all too often target the innocent who really are...

Nonsense, what I posted was entirely justified, and the posts responding in support show that to be true. Are the people of the UK substantially more genetically disposed to be disabled, or is the truth that the disabled excess in the UK is made up of people who could be off the register...

I've already got the facts thanks, and looking behind the front line figures for the truth doesn't make me hateful, vile or disgusting, except in the eyes of the blinkered people like you. The stark difference between ourselves and Germany is the proportion of the registered disabled who are...

While I agree with our post, it's not just the government, the people of the UK share in the blame in so many ways. Just look at the ways in which they are unwilling to work, reflected in our very low productivity: We don't want to pick the crops we grow, too much like hard work and not enough...

Here you are Danidl, I've downloaded the podcast and put it onto my website so you can listen to it as an MP3 from the link below: www.flecc.co.uk/m/britains_future.mp3 and download it as well if wished. .

Yes, achieving sending half the population to university hasn't achieved anything else it seems. .

This might be of interest, a Radio 4 program in the series The Briefing Room, titled "Britain's Future". A sobering listen for those who still think Brexit and No Deal are good ideas: I-player link .

They'd be so proud at The Sun to be referred to as a news organ! .

The James Callaghan approach, though you may be too young, Fingers, to appreciate the below, so more for OG and my generation with good memories. I can just imagine Callaghan stepping off a plane and saying: "ISIS. What ISIS? .

As shown by the way we have handled Brexit with such aplomb. Sheer genius. .

That's very sensible, and an internally geared 250 watt legal hub motor will perform much better in stop-start traffic conditions than a large direct drive, which are slow accelerating off the mark though good for illegal high speeds. Although there's little risk of being prosecuted for an...