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Post by badge on Jan 30, 2019 13:52:17 GMT
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Post by porkystone on Jan 30, 2019 13:56:07 GMT
That's astonishing - I never knew that - shows how non league football can be a force in the battle to educate & inform ! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2019 17:07:20 GMT
That's astonishing - I never knew that - shows how non league football can be a force in the battle to educate & inform ! Harming a swan is punishable with a long prison sentence and the Queen is the 'ONLY'person allowed to eat one but I doubt she has exercised that right. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2019 18:06:19 GMT
I wonder if the same goes for eating swans eggs?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2019 1:53:16 GMT
10/10 for the potential comedy value in the Mayor's name. Although someone might be getting on the boat first as the article states he is to be 'pipped in'. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2019 1:56:38 GMT
Is there any link to this on youtube? The BFI don't let me watch from overseas. Then come home to Blighty dear boy your missing everything stuck out there in HK. Missing a bunch of childlike politicians deluding both themselves and the public over some supposed vision of Brexit which in reality will lead to the decimation of the UK economy by withdrawing from one of the largest global trading blocs? Hmmmmm, let me think on that one for a moment..... |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2019 4:55:19 GMT
Then come home to Blighty dear boy your missing everything stuck out there in HK. Missing a bunch of childlike politicians deluding both themselves and the public over some supposed vision of Brexit which in reality will lead to the decimation of the UK economy by withdrawing from one of the largest global trading blocs? Hmmmmm, let me think on that one for a moment..... It could be worse, it could be raining. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2019 2:04:04 GMT
Welcome back badge ,glad you decided to remain with us 😊 |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2019 9:22:33 GMT
Then come home to Blighty dear boy your missing everything stuck out there in HK. Missing a bunch of childlike politicians deluding both themselves and the public over some supposed vision of Brexit which in reality will lead to the decimation of the UK economy by withdrawing from one of the largest global trading blocs? Hmmmmm, let me think on that one for a moment..... I think you mean strong and stable government... |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2019 9:59:28 GMT
Missing a bunch of childlike politicians deluding both themselves and the public over some supposed vision of Brexit which in reality will lead to the decimation of the UK economy by withdrawing from one of the largest global trading blocs? Hmmmmm, let me think on that one for a moment..... I think you mean strong and stable government... Over the past two and a half years so much time and effort whether it be parliamentary, legislative, commercial, media, public etc etc – have been diverted on the wholly nugatory exercise of Brexit. The sum total of all this effort has resulted in a ‘deal’ that has painted the UK into a corner with no demonstrable good way to escape.
In starting to pursue a vision, which became a dream, and then this nightmare, the UK has seriously weakened its economic and political stock. I am tiring of being the UK expat that everyone laughs and points at as 'you stupid Brits'.
After 30+ years in the automotive business, it is certain that any 'No Deal' will decimate the UK car industry. All of the major manufacturers are foreign owned and have alternative factory locations elsewhere. They are currently here as the UK is the most attractive EU beach-head. The intricacies of car production have only just been touched upon, such as the BMW Group have an articulated truck transiting the Channel every 5.5 MINUTES, 24/7 & virtually 365 days a year. JLR production sequence steps, prior to vehicle assembly, are measured in 0.1 SECOND steps for each process. I can only speak for the auto industry but am sure the same applies to other manufacturing (or shall we call it wealth generating) industries. You do not make money in an economy by counting other peoples money but by taking a lump of metal out of the ground for a fiver and selling it as a Rolls Royce for a million. Any developed economy lives on the back of value added manufacturing that generates wealth and allows the support industries (from accountants to coffee shops) to profit.
Brexit is a fool’s errand and the current ‘deal’ a hopeless compromise – virtually all downside & scant upside. Since the ruinous and corrupted referendum there has not been one scintilla of hard evidence for these supposed bright new horizons. Plus, planning for a lower carbon, lower energy future, should we be focussing on trading with markets on the other side of the planet, when the best in the world is 30 km away?
OK, I'll step off the soapbox now and get my coat.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2019 13:45:53 GMT
I think you mean strong and stable government... Over the past two and a half years so much time and effort whether it be parliamentary, legislative, commercial, media, public etc etc – have been diverted on the wholly nugatory exercise of Brexit. The sum total of all this effort has resulted in a ‘deal’ that has painted the UK into a corner with no demonstrable good way to escape.
In starting to pursue a vision, which became a dream, and then this nightmare, the UK has seriously weakened its economic and political stock. I am tiring of being the UK expat that everyone laughs and points at as 'you stupid Brits'.
After 30+ years in the automotive business, it is certain that any 'No Deal' will decimate the UK car industry. All of the major manufacturers are foreign owned and have alternative factory locations elsewhere. They are currently here as the UK is the most attractive EU beach-head. The intricacies of car production have only just been touched upon, such as the BMW Group have an articulated truck transiting the Channel every 5.5 MINUTES, 24/7 & virtually 365 days a year. JLR production sequence steps, prior to vehicle assembly, are measured in 0.1 SECOND steps for each process. I can only speak for the auto industry but am sure the same applies to other manufacturing (or shall we call it wealth generating) industries. You do not make money in an economy by counting other peoples money but by taking a lump of metal out of the ground for a fiver and selling it as a Rolls Royce for a million. Any developed economy lives on the back of value added manufacturing that generates wealth and allows the support industries (from accountants to coffee shops) to profit.
Brexit is a fool’s errand and the current ‘deal’ a hopeless compromise – virtually all downside & scant upside. Since the ruinous and corrupted referendum there has not been one scintilla of hard evidence for these supposed bright new horizons. Plus, planning for a lower carbon, lower energy future, should we be focussing on trading with markets on the other side of the planet, when the best in the world is 30 km away?
OK, I'll step off the soapbox now and get my coat.
Far too sane and logical for the Brexit 'debate'. You should be glad you're on the other side of the world. Over here it feels like a lunatic asylum, where the lunatics have taken 'control'. The Tory party is basically shafting the whole contry in order to appease it's extreme right-wing. The sad irony is that, even if we do crash out, the Tory party will remain split. In the meantime "the will of the people" (almost half of whom voted to remain) gives them the excuse to f**k everyone else over. It's a complete and utter mess - over which we (ironically) seem to have no control at all. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2019 14:54:09 GMT
Not only the Tories shafting us. Plenty of brexiteers of all parties opposing the deal without putting forward any alternatives of their own. May, for all her faults was the only one who came up with any kind of a deal and everyone else just took the easy option of shooting it down without having to come up with or negotiate anything else. Currently it's a bad deal, but it's better than no deal and looks like being the only one we'll have, so in my view it's either that or forget the whole thing and stay in. I sincerely hope for the latter.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2019 19:52:08 GMT
Getting back to the Len - I noticed today that they've put different blocks down at the place where it runs under the bottom of Gabriels Hill. Plus a wiggly inlay that says "River Len"!
Nice touch, but I'm a bit peeved, as it took me some time to work out exactly where the Len ran under the road, and now every bugger knows!!
If memory serves (usual caveats), Gabriels Hill is part of a secondary Roman Road (Rochester to Hastings? - basically the old A229). So there must have been a bridge or ford at that spot before the town expanded? Imagine that now - wander down Gabriels Hill from the High Street, and at the bottom of the hill there's a river! If only we'd done a Canterbury and made something of our minor rivers, instead of just sticking them in a pipe...
Or, come to that, if only we'd done something with our major river! Most towns would kill to have a river running through the middle. But, instead, we've just isolated it by building a dual-carriageway between it and the town (a by-pass through the town!). I wonder just how many shoppers/workers in Maidstone, especially those who come in without going over the bridges, even know we've got a bloody great river just metres away?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2019 9:10:18 GMT
The crest of madginford school is of a water wheel, from the water mill in otham Lane, where the river len runs passed
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2019 18:52:25 GMT
There are apparently various tunnels under Gabriel's Hill.
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