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.

There is nothing a relatively cheap upgrade to the signalling and rolling stock wouldn't achieve. Spending £60-80 billion + on dave's legacy is a step too far.

He is also pissing off a lot of conservative voters.


Why?

It matters little what we think as it is going ahead. The vote is at 11:00pm tomorrow? From what I know of it, I am in favour. Thee is never a suitable time to start costly infrastructure projects. If we hope to compete internationally we need projects like this. The same goes for new runways and airports. Just build them and argue about compensation later. It is a Labour project that now has good cross party support.

Here in Northampton, we could do with some of this 'easily found' £50billion of government HR2 money to fix some of our thousands of pot holes.

I will put some photographs up for you later to give you a bit of an idea.

And don't tell me it's down to our local council to fund repairing them. I actually pay my Road Fund Licence to the government.

At night we can't even see lots of the pot holes either. Half the street lights have been switched off.

There are often two schools of thought on driving through potholes: speeding up to "jump" over them and jamming the brakes hard to hit them as slowly as possible. Both might work occasionally but the best way is somewhere in between. :-))

It is now called Vehicle Excise Duty. The term 'road fund licence' was dropped in 1936 at the same time that the money was transferred to general taxation. Originally roads were to be self financing. That also stopped in 1936. There are now NO taxes earmarked for specific purposes. All of it goes into one bottomless pit.

I like the Italian method of fixing holes in roads in rural areas. Ever so often you see heaps of gravel and tarmac by the road. Sometimes they are in large rectangular bins. There will be a designated road mender who is paid a small retainer to fill potholes. They are given some training on the job and contact the depot when supplies run low or a hole too big to fill. The process saves a fortune as it stops most holes when they are very small. Perhaps it could work here, but the council would have too many regulations.

Norfolk has all the good road surfaces and new bypasses. :-))

And generally outside a local councillors dwelling.

I nominate Hazy One for chief potty filler!

What would be the result of a referendum taken in the UK, excluding Scotland, on whether we want Scotland to stay in the union. I think that the Scots would be better off with the UK, but would we be better off without them? I am getting used to the idea of Scotland leaving and I think I like it.

It would be a definite NO from me regarding letting them have the pound. While we are at it can we get rid of the Welsh as well. I would keep NI as the majority there want to be part of the UK.

That's not very inclusive of you Haystack.

I mean, whats wrong with the Jocks making their own spending decisions (within greater €uropa) and sending the bill to Whitehall?

The EU has now banned the import into the UK of the 'Alphonso' "king of mangoes" variety of Mangoes from India.

Why? Well they MIGHT just be pest ridden because SOME shipments have been found to actually have tobacco white fly.

The solution? Ban importing the bloody lot! This ban starts on Thursday this week.



For anyone involved with this fruit, the consequences of the ban are going to be devastating!

I just cannot wait for the EU in/out referendum because I just can't just wait for us to leave the EU.

More at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2614138/Bang-mangos-EU-bans-16million-India-amid-fears-theyre-pest-ridden.html

tobacco white fly would be a real disaster for uk ....... but what a shame to lose alphonso mangoes; they really are delicious though they don't travel well

They don't travel well?

Well, that's not a problem anymore.

How have we managed to survive so long with all these lurgy's flying around the place?

Haystack - 27 Apr 2014 20:33 - 39992 of 39997

What would be the result of a referendum taken in the UK, excluding Scotland, on whether we want Scotland to stay in the union. I think that the Scots would be better off with the UK, but would we be better off without them? I am getting used to the idea of Scotland leaving and I think I like it.

It would be a definite NO from me regarding letting them have the pound. While we are at it can we get rid of the Welsh as well. I would keep NI as the majority there want to be part of the UK.






The overwhelming amount of Welsh want to remain in the UK and support Scotland staying in the UK and for that matter probably a bigger percentage than NI are in favour of the Union.

Only thing that pisses us , the Scots and the Irish off with the English are idiotic opinions like yours.

Thinking about it ... it's probably just the Home Counties that p*ss everyone off including the rest of England.

Stupid example but typical ... 2 foot of snow Scotland , Wales and many parts of England is quite common and everyone gets on with it.

3 snowflakes in London , place falls apart , top news item , rest of the UK laffs.

Bemisia tabaci

Bemisia tabaci is a worldwide pest and virus vector. Originally known as a pest of sub-tropical crops, the species is now widely distributed under glass in temperate areas including most of Europe. It is not established in the UK but it could establish in protected environments, where it has the potential to be a major pest, particularly of glasshouse salad crops such as tomato and cucumber. The UK has Protected Zone status against this pest. A review of the UK's protected zone status was undertaken in 2011 with strong support to retain it.

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The fly is a vector of viruses to a greater variety of more crops than stated and can devastate them.

Maybe a mango against whole scale pesticide spraying!


Seems sensible actions until the spread of fly can be controlled sensibly!

Well bagged Fred (40000)


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At last I have won! something!

8-)