Recent content by uglymonkey

Ah yes, but by then its some other governments problem

The only way to stop it would be to ruthlessly track down the gangs - and say something like " any small boat approaching our coast will be considered hostile and sunk" ( Not actually do that obviously) But we need every single one of them to come, get a job , pay income tax to support us all...

Especially when technology and its "answers" are supposed to be the be all and end all of all our problems sorted 8-)

I think we don't win is that the premier league always takes precedence.

"My latest beef with adverts is the "Visit the USA" ones which are repeated endlessly. They are only 10 seconds long, but manage to pack in a dozen video clips that verge on subliminal advertising." Ignoring the gun crime and the expensive health care !!

I thought they had ( or some of them had) that office block the other side of the bridge road ( same side of the river) for offices?

" fully electronic voting (a number of swipe card readers are dotted around the room and anyone can vote anywhere) ". Might also allow more of a free vote ( not being seen and stared at which lobby you walk into) as it would be easier to vote "unseen" as it were.

Birmingham - middle of the country. Good transport links. Make London an independent city state ( it's too different) and concentrate on the rest of England, which never got a fair shout when devolution was being given out!

"If you must smoke tobacco then choose to smoke a pipe" . High risk of mouth and tongue cancer I would have thought though.

Full metric system ? Driving on the right?

" It is a nonsense that so many peoples' votes just don't count at all."I think on average an election is won in a few "key marginals", the rest of the country doesn't need to bother as what ever they do it doesn't make a "jot" of difference".

Surbition to Kingston would be a contender, as you would have to change at New Malden, but reading that again, don't think its allowed as its not a direct service.

If it wasn't for the 150's, the pacers and "sprinterisation" a lot of the branch lines would now be overgrown country walks ( Exmouth, Barnstaple, Loo, etc. etc.).

I think the Thameslink units were designed from the outset to have most of the space "open" so room for tons of standing folks Cheek by jowl, you were not going to get a seat logically in the morning crush, so it didn't matter how cosy they were ( or not)

Is he on a career death spiral or something?