THE BRITISH THREAD II

Largs! I've got relatives in Largs, on the Irvine Road.
Spent many childhood times there, at my uncle's.
Last time we were there, we took a steamer trip to Rothesay and round Bute. But not in the wintertime.

Margo something to warm your heart! The Aussies turned the 4th Test around on day 3. They're in batting, requiring 200 runs to win with 2 days remaining. Presently we are 0/30

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Do you know what Dutchy, strange as it may seem, these matches, although played in the colonies, do get reported here.

They may be reported - but not by BBC Scotland, except intermittently. Instead of Test Match Special, last night was some program about South American football leading to the World Cup. ABC online helps me keep track.

Heard on the BBC News this week: "A body of a woman with a serious head injury was found at Boscombe near Chichester...."

Indeed it must have been pretty serious.

It's good that Newsnight's compassion and care for us all has been suspended while the fat cats who make it are celebrating their success.

Something to make your new year just that bit happier.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-25590155

He's a slimeball. Did you see the comment of his spokesman about Michael Schumaker? Classy.

Ronnie Biggs' funeral, from today's Guardian:

The wicker coffin, draped in the flags of Great Britain and Brazil and an Arsenal scarf, and accompanied by an escort of Hell's Angels and the London Dixieland jazz band playing Just a Closer Walk with Thee, arrived at Golders Green crematorium in the midst of rain and storm. It departed at the end of a ceremony in which Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas and Oscar Wilde all received a mention, to the strains of The Stripper.

"This is," said the Rev Dave Tomlinson, with priestly understatement, "unlike any funeral I've ever taken."

No I didn't.

Source

Thanks.

A summary for our American readers-
The far-right BNP (British National Party) is a mess and is well past its sell-by date. It only gained some popularity in the first place because there were no other parties to speak out for the Brit people, but now its days are numbered since the more respectable rightwing UKIP (United Kingdom Independence Party) has leapfrogged way above it in popularity.

BNP leader Nick Griffin couldn't run a lemonade stall let alone a political party, it's due to him that the BNP has been losing truckloads of members who are fed up of his continual begging for "donations", and they're asking "where the hell is all that money going?", especially considering he also rakes in big money from membership fees.
According to my research, there are around 40,000 BNP members, and the standard annual membership fee is currently £48, so that all adds up to big bucks, yet Griffin has gone bankrupt!
(my calculator tells me 40000 x 48 is almost 2 million quid if i've pressed the right buttons!)

Complete shite, all the mainstream parties spoke for the British people, although some gave more emphasis to those who have money. The BNP spoke out for racists like you. UKIP speaks for narrow minded little Englanders who still think we should act like we've still got an Empire. They're full of ****.

Britain has been under the heel of the Big Three parties (Conervative/ LibDem/Labour) for many many years, yet Britain is in a mess, so who's to blame if not the Big Three and the people who voted for them?
"Which is the greater fool, the fool or the fool who follows him?"- Obi Wan Kenobi

Obi ******* Wan Kenobi? Bollocks. We could do with a change though, but not your ******* lot, someone who'll renationalise the Post Office, Railways and Utilities.

Now that's standing up for the British people.

It's IMMIGRATION that's at the forefront of everybody's mind, nothing else.
Is it right that we should let them come here in their hundreds of thousands to live off our welfare systems?
For examples there are coach convoys of Romanians and Bulgarians heading our way across Europe even as i write..

Don't blame me Romeo. I never vote.