Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

which bit of right wing faction can you not read?

it looks all too well organised to be just spontaneous and something that got out of hand ..... and still no arrests

Did you watch Newsnight yesterday ?

Well, the BBC gave it wide spread coverage last night, all 9 seconds of it.

You didn;t see News night then Max..

No, I didn't jimmy.

Can you give me the gist?

Hows the price of kippers just now?

2 kipper fillets £4.99 :-))

Cynic doesn't do in depth , he has predefined preferences that suit his thinking jimmy .

max it was a long piece with many witnesses , these women were assaulted and the police have obviously been told to tread carefully .

I'll say again ....did the men of Germany suddenly decide to assault women en mas ???

Like Rotherham jimmy , police turned a blind eye .

V - snipe as much as you like ....clearly you don't do in depth and have predefined preferences, for otherwise you would trawl back to see what i have been writing in recent months

No I do understand your previous posts and what you are about , I don't see your theory on this Cologne at all . We are seeing the start of big trouble in my mind and if Police don't clamp down well I pray we will suffer for it .

Yes but ideally they must be Local and or Organic (if thats possible) or failing that from here http://www.manxkippers.com/

bbc news

Police eventually evacuated the area because of the risk of injury from the fireworks.
But gangs of youths soon returned and carried out dozens of attacks over a number of hours with little apparent response from the local authorities until well after midnight.
Mr de Maiziere criticised police for allowing the attackers to return. The square was evacuated, he said, "and then later these events take place and they wait for complaints. The police shouldn't work like this".

Cynic wanted to know why there was no arrests at the time.

police union chief Rainer Wendt said a lack of resources had meant that the Cologne force had been unable to clear the square properly.

The mayor of Cologne has summoned police for crisis talks after about 80 women reported sexual assaults and muggings by men on New Year's Eve.
The scale of the attacks on women at the city's central railway station has shocked Germany. About 1,000 drunk and aggressive young men were involved.
City police chief Wolfgang Albers called it "a completely new dimension of crime". The men were of Arab or North African appearance, he said.
Women were also targeted in Hamburg.
But the Cologne assaults - near the city's iconic cathedral - were the most serious, German media report. At least one woman was raped, and many were groped.
Most of the crimes reported to police were robberies. A volunteer policewoman was among those sexually molested.

thanks V ..... unlike some, i don't take umbrage when people take a pop at me when i stick my head above the parapet

however, i hope you would agree that things should not necessarily be taken at face value, and i think this is one such instance

nevertheless, even if this was an orchestrated occurrence, it still highlights the concern felt among many germans

fred reckons letting in (all) the refugees into germany was a fine humanitarian and economically shrewd move .....
perhaps he is unaware that there has long been an undercurrent of racism (not quite the right word) aimed at the gastarbeite, and in particular those of turkish origin, but this is perhaps now becoming more crystalised

I do admire your posts c . I think I'm a bit scared for Britains future I don't like what's coming , I feel useless and powerless to be honest .

So you should VIC because the politically correct have gone stark raving bonkers ,we can turn this around and with what's going on i think folk might start to say enough ....

V - flattery gets you everywhere :-)

i know many of you think that leaving eu would resolve a huge number of problems, not least being able to stop all immigration, deport any who transgress etc etc
sounds great, but i'm sure the actuality and indeed the desirability of "shutting the doors" would bring plenty of other problems in its wake