Clegg V Farage

[ahinton]

London is bursting with concert halls and recording and broadcasting studios. :winkeye::laugh: No room to move ...

Lots of venues for Farage bands, then...

[ahinton]

Lots of wonderful green open spaces in Wales...well, when we are not being "swamped" by THE ENGLISH! ( that is a joke!).

And we have Charlie Church as our cultural icon.

And that isn't a joke - especially as you also have Kathy Jenkins as your deputy prime cultural icon...

Bliss to be alive.

...provided that - as the cliché has it - ignorance is bliss, one may suppose...

[MrGongGong]

Sorry I chose the wrong platform, but I was unaware of the political section. So far everyone is making reasonable posts.

I used to be very tolerant about immigration and having lots of nice foreigners living here in London. I notice a lot of the forum members come from nice parts of the world, but here in London the overcrowding is becoming intolerable. It is in fact now quite hard to hear English being spoken and if it is then its with a foreign twang. But then it serves us right I suppose if we live in a big stinky overcrowded city like London and others. The underground and busses are jammed packed as are the roads when I occasionally drive. Oh to live in the UK's green and pleasant land, if there remains much left which has not been built on.

Trouble is, London is bursting with concert halls and recording and broadcasting studios. :winkeye::laugh: No room to move ...

"Reasonable" ??? :laugh:

Have you been in an aeroplane recently?
Have a look
most of it (that isn't underwater) is rather green

London, of course, was never "overcrowded" in the past
(http://www.victorianlondon.org/publi...okeries-03.htm)

[Flosshilde]

It was moved (I see from the log) by one of the hosts, probably as a precaution given the number of times the subject has been aired and usually ended with the thread being closed or shunted off somewhere else.

Could you move it back then, please, until such time as it is derailed by the usual abuse - if it is?

[Beef Oven!]

Well, if that is indeed the case - and, of course, he wouldn't possess the power to have it dissolved anyway, even if he were Prime Minister and his party had a majority government (each of which is about as likely as David Matthews writing like Iannis Xenakis or vice versa) - one might ask why, if he therefore appears to consider it to be good enough for 27 other member states, why does he deem it to be so contrary to the interests of this one?...

Watch the broadcasts and he'll tell you.

[MrGongGong]

Could you move it back then, please, until such time as it is derailed by the usual abuse - if it is?

What on earth is your problem with people who don't take themselves too seriously having a chat ?

[Ariosto]

"Reasonable" ??? :laugh:

Have you been in an aeroplane recently?
Have a look
most of it (that isn't underwater) is rather green

London, of course, was never "overcrowded" in the past
(http://www.victorianlondon.org/publi...okeries-03.htm)

I've given up aeroplanes because long haul flights are the best way to abuse your body, or any flight for that matter.

London has been overcrowded in Victorian times, but not as much as now, and not by tourists and others. Have you been in Oxford Street lately? For every local bod in central London there are about 5,000 tourists ...

I'd love to give up London and go native in some remote place, but my wife needs to work here unfortunately, and continue with the daily grind of concerts, teaching and whatever ...

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

I've given up aeroplanes because long haul flights are the best way to abuse your body, or any flight for that matter.

London has been overcrowded in Victorian times, but not as much as now, and not by tourists and others. Have you been in Oxford Street lately? For every local bod in central London there are about 5,000 tourists ...

I'd love to give up London and go native in some remote place, but my wife needs to work here unfortunately, and continue with the daily grind of concerts, teaching and whatever ...

Its HELL being middle class...there really should be a Government help line or something....one to one counselling....tablets...

[MrGongGong]

Its HELL being middle class...there really should be a Government help line or something....one to one counselling....tablets...

:whistle:

And you can't go to Wales these days without people speaking Elvish in shops.
It's all gone to the dogs I say
Vote Bagpuss

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

In the part of Wales I live in we now just "grunt" at each other...the language of post industrial South Wales. Such poetry that Dylan never imagined.

[Alison]

Again ?

There was one
some people didn't seem to read what the question was
but don't blame me I was at school at the time

Yeah let's be 'aving another one.

Make the question as clear as possible. And trust the people.

[Serial_Apologist]

:whistle:

And you can't go to Wales these days without people speaking Elvish in shops.
It's all gone to the dogs I say
Vote Bagpuss

Come home to a warm fire - buy a Welsh country cottage!

http://www.cottage-holiday-wales.co.uk

[MrGongGong]

Yeah let's be 'aving another one.

Make the question as clear as possible. And trust the people.

Trust the people to what ?
It's odd that we never get to vote on things that are REALLY important
like surgery, flying aeroplanes or whether to double dot the semiquavers in Handel ?

I think the clue was in the words

European Economic COMMUNITY ?
What on earth did folks think they were voting for ?

I guess the question could be

Do you believe a pathological liar
or
a deranged rude buffoon ?

Bum choice innit

[Beef Oven!]

I think the clue was in the words

European Economic COMMUNITY ?
What on earth did folks think they were voting for ?

We thought the referendum was about an economic community, not a political union!

You'd just passed your 11 plus and would be off to a smart grammar school the following year, so leave it to us who can remember better! :winkeye:

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

"I think the clue was in the words
European Economic COMMUNITY ?
What on earth did folks think they
were voting for ?"

Well, as I remember, not a political union by stealth and a polity and policy framework dominated by corporate interests and neo-liberal lobbyists. The "social contract" days of Jacko Delors are well over. If they were ever more than earwash.

"The Project" as Ms Toynbee serenely calls it ...en Provence.