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6 July 2016 at 07:42 #53121
I don’t know how accurate this is, just recieved it.
Just for info for those who were wondering what it was all about
Just in from an expatriate Brit!
Read it and weep!
A short list of financial and industrial FUBARs from the EU…Cadbury moved factory to Poland 2011 with EU grant.
Ford Transit moved to Turkey 2013 with EU grant.
Jaguar Land Rover has recently agreed to build a new plant in Slovakia with EU grant, owned by Tata, the same company who have trashed our steel works and emptied the workers’ pension funds.
Peugeot closed its Ryton (was Rootes Group) plant and moved production to Slovakia with EU grant.
British Army’s new Ajax fighting vehicles to be built in SPAIN using SWEDISH steel at the request of the EU to support jobs in Spain with EU grant, rather than Wales.
Dyson gone to Malaysia, with an EU loan.
Crown Closures, Bournemouth (Was METAL BOX), gone to Poland with EU grant, once employed 1,200.
M&S manufacturing gone to far east with EU loan.
Hornby models gone. In fact all toys and models now gone from UK along with the patents all with EU grants.
Gillette gone to eastern Europe with EU grant.
Texas Instruments Greenock gone to Germany with EU grant.Indesit at Bodelwyddan Wales gone with EU grant.
Sekisui Alveo said production at its Merthyr Tydfil Industrial Park foam plant will relocate production to Roermond in the Netherlands, with EU funding.
Hoover Merthyr factory moved out of UK to Czech Republic and the Far East by Italian company Candy with EU backing.
ICI integration into Holland’s AkzoNobel with EU bank loan and within days of the merger, several factories in the UK, were closed, eliminating 3,500 jobs.
Boots sold to Italians Stefano Pessina who have based their HQ in Switzerland to avoid tax to the tune of £80 million a year, using an EU loan for the purchase.
JDS Uniphase run by two Dutch men, bought up companies in the UK with £20 million in EU ‘regeneration’ grants, created a pollution nightmare and just closed it all down leaving 1,200 out of work and an environmental clean-up paid for by the UK tax-payer. They also raided the pension fund and drained it dry.
UK airports are owned by a Spanish company.
Scottish Power is owned by a Spanish company.
Most London buses are run by Spanish and German companies.
The Hinkley Point C nuclear power station to be built by French company EDF, part owned by the French government, using cheap Chinese steel that has catastrophically failed in other nuclear installations. Now EDF say the costs will be double or more and it will be very late even if it does come online.
Swindon was once our producer of rail locomotives and rolling stock. Not any more, it’s Bombardier in Derby and due to their losses in the aviation market, that could see the end of the British railways manufacturing altogether even though Bombardier had EU grants to keep Derby going which they diverted to their loss-making aviation side in Canada.
39% of British invention patents have been passed to foreign companies, many of them in the EU.
The Mini cars that Cameron stood in front of as an example of British engineering, are built by BMW mostly in Holland and Austria. His campaign bus was made in Germany even though we have Plaxton, Optare, Bluebird, Dennis etc., in the UK.
The bicycle for the Greens was made in the far east, not by Raleigh UK but then they are probably going to move to the Netherlands too as they have said recently.
Anyone who thinks the EU is good for British industry or any other business simply hasn’t paid attention to what has been systematically asset-stripped from the UK. Name me one major technology company still running in the UK.
We used to contract out to many, then the work just dried up as they were sold off to companies from France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, etc., and now we don’t even teach electronic technology for technicians any more, due to EU regulations.
I haven’t detailed our non-existent fishing industry the EU paid to destroy, nor the farmers being paid NOT to produce food they could sell for more than they get paid to do nothing, don’t even go there.
I haven’t mentioned what it costs us to be asset-stripped like this, nor have I mentioned immigration, nor the risk to our security if control of our armed forces is passed to Brussels or Germany.
Find something that’s gone the other way, I’ve looked and I just can’t.
Still want to stay? Well it must be some consolation that you have Cameron to negotiate in Europe on your behalf.
And of course, the real deal-breaker …. Democracy, transparency and independence. We can vote out our MPs – BUT the European Commission who dictate 55% of UK laws, which are legally binding, are ….. guess what, untouchable, unelected and hidden from view.
Missy
5 July 2016 at 09:15 #53102Great cartoon, thank you.
@puroandson;
Explanation and apology accepted. The language of the police gets dafter by the year. “Person of interest,” instead of ‘suspect” just one example.
Missy
4 July 2016 at 09:44 #53085For cying out loud! Am I domed to be misunderstood?
The ‘police are treating this as a suspicous death.’ This was reported on the early news show yesterday.
My point was, one would suppose that finding a body in a suitcase, floating downstream, would be somewhat suspicious. I was being ironic.
Missy
4 July 2016 at 06:10 #53080To change the subject, h0w about this bit of news.
“>A gun store in the Chicago suburbs has come under critical fire after it announced it would hold a raffle to raise money for the victims of the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting – with the grand prize an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, similar to the weapon used by homophobic terrorist Omar Mateen in the June 12 massacre.”
On a lighter note:
A suitcase found floating in a river in Perth WA, contained a body. The police are treating this as a supicious death?
Missy
1 July 2016 at 06:33 #53031@stitchintime:
It was an awful film. Possibly not PM’s vault, but I don’t care for him anyway.
Missy
1 July 2016 at 06:29 #53030Puroandson;
The reason I ‘skim’ long posts, is becasue they are about something of which I know very little. I applaud all who can write such detailed posts (I was not criticising) and take the time.
That’s what I meant.
Missy
1 July 2016 at 06:22 #53029puricle: PS: from Son, welcome back @missy. I hope your router and wi-fi are working fine. We have trouble with hours. Its truly appalling, mum doesn’t get this really well. We have a huge Big Bundle of $86 a month and yet our bandwidth is sometimes as low as 370 kilobytes per second. That’s impossible when everyone is on the internet watching movies and playing my PS game (which I do on Saturday nights and on the school hols). I hope yours is quicker: if it isn’t, then I would recommend ringing optus or Telstra or whoever you buy your internet from -if you know what I mean?
Hello there,
Everything is working now – at last! It was the land-line telephone which caused all the trouble. My broadband (before NBN) was fast anyway, and the only difference I can see, is watching videos on YT, they are instant.
What annoyed me about the whole business, was that we didn’t have a choice. If you didn’t go with NBN you lost the phone and the internet. The phone because it is now fixed to my modem and all calls go through the internet.
However, I have no quarrel with my server iinet, they were wonderful.
We pay $59.90 pm not including any calls we make.
Missy
30 June 2016 at 12:26 #53009missrori: Instead, I wound up despising the ungrateful, cowardly Time Lords, coldhearted Ohila, and snotty Ashildr, and hoping he calls in his favors to Rigsy and Anahson and her mum sometime!
Oh, so did, and do, I.
I too reached for the tissues, but the scene that really made tears run, was when the Doctor kisses Clara’s hand at the end of the Raven. he has never done anything as tender before. It just finished me off!
Missy
30 June 2016 at 12:22 #53008@janetteb “Capaldi is so brilliant as the Doctor. Long may he wield the sonic.”
Hear, hear, say I.
Missy
30 June 2016 at 12:19 #53007Hello there and welcome. I cannot fault the writing for the final three episodes of series 9.
However, Heaven Sent stands very tall in my book, for both the writing and music.
Missy
30 June 2016 at 12:11 #53006I agree with the above.
Missy
30 June 2016 at 12:09 #53005Good grief! I didn’t notice the ‘wings’ on River’s costume – you are right!
I feel that demo would be a good thing, perhaps we could get thousnads of signatures to keep PC?
I’ve beaten your record of 4 for “Heaven Sent and Husbands of River Song” you can double that number.
Lawks I’m sad!
If your wine is fizzy, may I join you?
Missy
30 June 2016 at 11:55 #53004I’m baaack! Did you miss me?
I too enjoyed y9ur quote from Heaven Sent. It hasd a lot of pathos.
The political discussion I shall keep away from. Some of the posts are so long that I had to skim them.
Missy
23 June 2016 at 02:42 #52847Greetings fellow Whovians. Today I get linked up with the NBN (Australians will know what that is) this involves connecting a new modem, plus connecting our land-line phone to the modem. I have no idea how to do this, so a chap from my IP is going to talk me through it tomorrow.
I could go off air (so to speak) any minute now, so can’t read or answer any posts – yet. I simply wanted to let you know that I wasn’t ignoring you. It could take a couple of days.
Wish me luck,
Missy
22 June 2016 at 12:56 #52833Puros Son
Here I go explaining myself! It’s obvious that this phrase goes back a bit. when I said Arthur or Martha, it was used a lot when I was young. it means ‘coming or going” and no, I was not being offensive, at least not to my age group, but obviously to yours.
The modern meaning is, that men I have met (quite few) plus the odd one or two who have actually said this on Television, don’t know whether to hold doors open for women anymore, because some of these women were extrememely rude about it? How would some males feel when a man pulls the chair out for a women so that she can get up from the table, or offers to help her on with her coat, only to be told that they can do it themselves –thank you? They certainly aren’t encouraged to act like old fashioned gentlemen anymore. Hence Arthur or Martha, nothing to do with sexual preference. why do people nowadays seem to jump to that conclusion?
If that’s the new order of things, heaven help us. I hope this has cleared that one up.
Missy
22 June 2016 at 12:37 #52832To all who answered me. thank you.
I quite agree that it would have definitely lost impact had River been pretending.
I think what threw me, was the fact that the bloomin’ Tardis was right there in front of her. so who else could have landed it there?
As my OH loves to say, “it’s in the script!”
Missy
20 June 2016 at 11:08 #52803@mudlark I have now reached the stage of being able to dispense with the crutches except for longer excursions outdoors, although still more tortoise than mountain goat, and it will be a while yet before I am fully fit.
Excellent news. I shouldn’t worry about being a tortoise, he got where he wanted to be eventually.
Keep up the good work.
Missy
20 June 2016 at 10:58 #52802There is a lot to say for all points made on this thread. I dare say, in fact I know, there are pe0ple who agree with my view about feminism and a female Doctor. It boils down to individual taste I suppose, and mine is leave it alone.
There are many who don’t like Shakespeare being modernised, strangley, I don’t mind thar at all, as long the acting is up to par.
As for women’s lib or feminism, I’ve had my say and shall leave it alone. Although why on earth ‘Arthur or Martha’ might be offensive is beyond me.
It’s astonishing, for over a week no one posted, then all of a sudden we’re off and racing.
Missy
19 June 2016 at 09:19 #52759I’m going to be haunted by the word ‘fix’ by the sound of it.
If a thing has worked very well for decades, leave it alone.
Missy
19 June 2016 at 09:15 #52758grannym: Yours won’t paste either – sorry.
River is a wonderful, strong character and supposed to be smart. Therefore she knew the ‘capsule’ was there, so the Doctor had to be there. You’d have thought she’d at least have queried the Surgeon’s credentials. Especially when he actually tells her who he is.
So I suppose, it was contrived, to make – as you say -the penny dropping moment more emotional.
I love the episode anyway.
Missy
19 June 2016 at 09:00 #52757stitchintime : I wonder why yours wont’ take?
The Doctor knows his companions and knew he could trust Clara not to get into trouble – well, that’s my theory anyway. *grins*
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Missy
19 June 2016 at 08:57 #52756Come on, you know what I meant. If a show is working and has been working perfectly and is popular as it is for decades, why change it?
As for the young feminists you mentioned, I can understand points ot view up to a point, but as everything else, it can go too far. Poor blokes, don’t know whether they are Arthur or Martha nowadays.
Ttfn
Missy
18 June 2016 at 11:16 #52749Intredting posts, thank you ichabod and mersey.
I am NOT a feminist, but that isn’t why I would detest the Doctor becoming a woman. It’s simply because I prefer it that way. It works and if it isn’t broken why fix it.
Ttfn
Missy
18 June 2016 at 08:00 #52746I’ve watched this several times and rate it as one of my favourites – I know, a favourite is a favourite not several – but I still have difficulty working out why River didn’t twig that the Doctor was THE Doctor.
She’d obviously sent for him and sent Nardole to look for a blue box. He found it, with a man inside who was ‘sort of’ a Surgeon – who else could he be?
Even though she thought there were only 11 regenertions, common sense should have prevailed, especially when he faced her and said that he was The Doctor. Where did she think her Doctor was?
Talk about slow on the uptake. I felt that this was the only bum note in the episode – a bit contrived.
What do the rest of the members think? Am I being unreasobable.
Missy
17 June 2016 at 11:36 #52733I couldnt paste your name stichintime.
At least you have something to keep you going.
Ttfn
Missy
17 June 2016 at 11:30 #52732Maxine Peake was in *Silk* and very good the series was too.
Everyone has a different slant on whether the Doctor should become a female, and it is said that nothing lasts forever.Thing is, why not?
To me, a female Doctor, would be as much fun as a female Robin Hood. One wonders how that would go down.
Ttfn
Missy
17 June 2016 at 11:22 #52731Fear not, I guessed your intention. *winks*
I simpy wanted to make a point about the inconsistences of the current *so called* English language.
Ttfn
Missy
16 June 2016 at 08:56 #52717You and me both! It feels like an age since the Christmas special.
Trouble is, I’m tending to wish my life away, what with the above and Sherlock around the same time.
*big sigh of resigantion*
Missy
16 June 2016 at 07:27 #5271616 June 2016 at 05:29 #52712Not in my book. I feel really strongly about this. The series simply wouldn’t be the same.
However, it isn’t going to be up to me, or any of us I suppose.
Missy
16 June 2016 at 05:25 #52711Ah, but then the word”Guy” is sexist when it is used to include any women in the room – but it’s done just the same.
Ttfn
Missy
15 June 2016 at 06:10 #52704Have any of you seen “The Illusionist?”
We watched it the other evening and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Missy
15 June 2016 at 06:06 #52703A female doctor? NO! NO! NO!
At least, not whilst I’m alive to see it.
Is nothing sacred? They’ll have a female Sherlock Holmes before long.
I want it put on record, that I’m strongly against bantering, karioke, mime and a female Doctor!
So there!
Missy
14 June 2016 at 05:45 #52698@stitchintime
The whole episode deserves an award. Acting, special effectrx, directing, writing and the music.
Ttfn
Missy
12 June 2016 at 09:01 #52690Rather nice indeed, thank you @pedant.
I enjoyed every bit of it, and realised just why I loved. and love. every one of the Doctors.
Just need a tissue.
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Missy
12 June 2016 at 08:49 #5268911 June 2016 at 11:56 #52683Now that is where you are wrong, everyone is interesting, and I can understand you perfectly.
Who is your favourite Doctor? I liked all of them, but peter Capaldi is my favourite of all.
Ttfn
Missy
11 June 2016 at 11:52 #52682Hello there and welcome *waves*
Rose is my favourite too. Also Donna and Clara were good value.
This new companion seems to be promising.Ttfn
Missy
1 June 2016 at 12:15 #52635Steven Moffat is a teaser, as is Mark Gatiss, but they ususally let you off the hookand explain – sooner or later.
Missy
1 June 2016 at 12:08 #52634One other useful tool is to read your work, or some portion of it, aloud, and tape your reading. After a bit, you may find that you’re listening and catching problems as the words come out of your mouth, no tape needed. I’ve found this an excellent way to catch clumsy, ugly, or confusing sentence and story structure, unwitting repetition, and the whole music, pace, and style of the piece, so you can make all of that better. It’s a last stage for me in polishing an mss. for submission to an agent or editor. And it’s fun. I do the voices and everything . . .
Funny you should say this, my editor told me to do the same thing, except for taping it. It’s astonishing what you can pick up by reading out loud.
Missy
1 June 2016 at 12:00 #52633Thank you, it does indeed look like fun.
@craig
Emperor thank you too. I shall watch this tomorrow.@taplandia I shall watche these too. Thank you. and welcome.
I’m feeling spoiled.
Ttfn
Missy
1 June 2016 at 11:47 #52632Charming! The human race – or a fair amount of it – is going to pot. Too meny hard drugs snf respect for nothing or no one.
Be obsessed with something by all means, but try to remember it isn’t real.Thanks for posting,
Ttfn
Missy
31 May 2016 at 06:07 #52614@miapatrick Quite right. No one can really edit their own work. I found that there were several bits and pieces I’d written, which my Editor said I didn’t need. she called it ‘literary self indulgence’ and she was right. None of them added anything to the plot, but it’s difficult to see that for yourself.
Another thing, anyone who thinks about getting themselves an Editor is quite brave. Whatever you write, be it novel, novella, essay or poetry. it’s your ‘child’ and you become very protective of it.
I was fortunate in as much as the woman I asked to be my Editor, did it professionally, albeit Non Fiction, and I got what she called ‘mates rates.’@arbutus. I don’t feel that I need to write. I have a friend who has been published and she has this driving need to be published – and why not. As I said, my need was simply to prove I could write a book.
Ttfn
Missy
31 May 2016 at 05:53 #52613@stitchintime
I’ve never thought of it like that. Mainly because there is very rarely any bad meterial *grins* But, I know exactly what you mean.
I still consider “Heaven Sent” as a masterpiece for both writer and actor.Ttfn
Missy
30 May 2016 at 05:17 #52600@stitchintime
Superb isn’t he.
Ttfn
Missy
30 May 2016 at 03:22 #52598That’s good, much more encouraging for potential authors. I doub’t if I’ll attempt it though, all I wanted to do was to prove I could write a novel – and I have. Not to say that it’s any good, but I had a go.
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Missy
30 May 2016 at 02:06 #52597Admirers of MR James may already have discovered this video, but in case you haven’t.
Trawling through ghost stories on Youtube this morning, I found to my delight, a video about MR James:
MR James: Ghost writer 720P presented by Mark Gatiss. Thoroughly recommended and very recent.
I was delighted to hear that two of Mr. James’s favourite writers were Dickens and P.G. Wodehouse.
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Missy
29 May 2016 at 06:33 #52593Son of Puro
You are right. Fortunately I had a lot of time (excuse the pun) for all the Doctors, they all had their own little quirks.
I. like you. didn’t like Matt Smith at first, in fact I almost stopped buying the series because of him. However, deciding that one should not judge by one episode, I continued watching, and finally came to be as fond of him as the others.
Peter Capaldi is another matter entirely. In my mind, HE IS the Doctor, but some of his quirks would irriate some.
To me, he seems more human than the others.The BBC don’t pay millions, and that’s for sure, but they really are so good at ferreting out superb writers and actors.
Ttfn
Missy
29 May 2016 at 06:19 #5259229 May 2016 at 06:17 #52591Rather expensive too I’m told.
Ttfn
Missy
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