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The facts of how badly we did before joining the EU are well known facts. A continuous decline, losing our major manufacturing of bicycles, cars, trucks, buses, trains, aircraft, shipbuilding and a vast range of lesser businesses, followed by losing much of our commerce such as our merchant...

That is true, and often the supposed giving by the stars of entertainment is nothing of the sort. For example, the Variety Club of Great Britain donated minibuses are funded by donations from businesses gained from cold calling by a team of paid operators. Giving to charity is fraught with...

The charter requires the BBC to inform, educate and entertain. Creating something to then inform about it is a distortion of the first aim, dare I say fake news, creating the story, then disseminating it. The same factor invalidates the education aspect. And these amateurish productions...

The BBC is not a children's charity, I for one would rather is concentrate on doing what it's chartered to do, something it's signally failing in. .

Kenneth Williams' immortal line "Infamy, Infamy, they've all got it in for me", in Cleo, was actually taken from the Jimmy Edwards radio show Take It From Here, written by Talbot Rothwell's* friends Frank Muir and Denis Norden. *Rothwell was the screenwriter for the Cleo film. .

Here's a clarification of the groups in this referendum issue: Remainers: They are the knows since remaining is what we've already got. Don't knows: They are those finding the issue too confusing for their capabilities. Leavers: They are the "Don't want to knows", preferring to stick with...

I can't even watch it and haven't for some while. I don't even think the BBC should be doing this anyway, it's far outside of their charter and just a cheap way to fill many hours of programming. .

And proved totally wrong since the opposite happened. Our EU membership put an end to the decline into the 1970s that he enunciated, returning us from decline and IMF management to growth and self rule. He ranks with Enoch Powell in the pantheon of false prophets. .

I take it you mean Galileo? If so that is not true. We will have exactly the same access to the Galileo GPS signals as the rest of the world outside of EU membership. But as a non member we cannot have access to the highest resolution signal, partly because because of the defence implications...

Indeed, prosecuting the perpetrators. So in the case in question it's the UK companies who so willing evaded their due taxation who should be prosecuted. The Juncker's facility that they used was not criminal, only the use of that is criminal. For example in our own arena, companies can...

No, the inference was contained in the part you deliberately omitted. That questioned whether Ireland was free of drunks and gangsters. You and I know very well that Ireland has and has long had it's fair share of both, certainly more than the EU employ to manage the union's affairs. It was...

I don't understand why Brexiters say this, it isn't true. The EU is merely saying we can't have the membership benefits without being members and paying in like the others. That's not punishing, it's being entirely reasonable and it's the same with all organisations. Agreed, but it's the UK...

You're still getting confused. We've been discussing the departure deal and that is finalised and cannot be renegotiated. The trade negotiations are yet to start of course. The three stages of Brexit negotiation were spelled out by the Commission as soon as the out vote was known. We've...

I did not post that Ireland was a drunken nation. I responded to a post sourced from Ireland accusing the EU of being run by drunks and gangsters. My response was a challenge, "Ireland has no drunks or gangsters?!!" In no way did that accuse the nation. If Tommie doesn't like reaction...

Once again, you really have to be kidding after some of your own posts. Look back through all my posts and all interchanges with you in this and other threads and you'll find civility was the norm from me, but often not from you, If you can't take it, don't give it. .

Not illegal though. Certainly the ethical standards fell far short of the minimum acceptable, but that does not make someone a gangster. It just makes them opportunists. The real villains were the companies taking advantage of the opportunity to avoid taxation, UK companies figuring very...

Yes there was framework as I pointed out, the basis that no exit deal could be better than membership. This was first specified even before the referendum vote and constantly reinforced since. Why do you think I knew Brexit would be a disaster and voted Remain? It was obvious to those of us...

The difference is that there were clear rules to follow and the specification that a leave deal could not be better than being in. This lack of latitude rendered negotiation somewhat pointless. Once again, no they are not. They passed that to the EU Commission and it was specified that...

You posted this incorrectly so I had to sort it for you to be able to quote. You must be joking about an apology, Ireland has no drunks or gangsters?!!! You might start by apologising for your unfounded accusations of there being gangsters running the EU. .

That's rich, coming from Ireland. Jean Claude Junker's presidency has very limited functions, but one of those has to been get the UK to implement EU policies. Little wonder if that has driven him to drink. He has no meaningful executive powers so his footwear doesn't concern me and his...