Now there’s a thing – The good ol' BBC. Overly liberal-biased news broadcasting aside, the Beeb is a world-leading export, as many of us here who have travelled overseas, will know and appreciate.

Nothing produced abroad comes even close to the high standards of the BBC when it comes to their superb drama productions and documentaries, the natural history docs in particular. The rest of the world looks-on with envy. :yes:

Hell, the licence fee is worth every penny just to watch and listen to Carol Kirkwood present the weather forecasts! :tt1:

Thought of the day
 

That is really sad!
:rain:


I was reminded of an important concept contained in the earlier link to the BBC summary: the concept that it takes 2 or more entities to trade, and it has little to do with politicos and their "inteference" via trading laws.

The reminder was this:
The big cheese of Iran, Rouhani, is currently on a shopping trip in Europe, now that the assets of Iran have been released from sanctions.
a. He went to Italy and bought a few Billion worth of steel products from that country.
b. Now he has bought over 100 Airbus aircraft from France.
He probably doesn't really care that the wings of that aircraft are manufactured in Wales, so he is supporting UK exports.
Nor does it seem feasible for France to stop trading wings for the Airbus in the event of a Brexit decision.

Unelected suited crooks !!!
 

The European Union is futile, corrupt and saturated with fraud, Margaret Thatcher’s former press secretary has said.
Writing in the Yorkshire Post, Sir Bernard Ingham, Thatcher’s longtime trusted press secretary, asked why Britain should cast £12 billion a year down an assorted array of “criminal drains.”

"Europhiles might usefully address themselves not to the question why we should stay in the EU, but why we should ever want to be a member of it at all when the institution is corrupt and so riddled with fraud that the auditors have felt unable to sign off its accounts for nigh on 20 years,” he said.

Drivel
 

Also world class leader in Peado cover ups....Pro eu biased reporting....reinforcing government agenda....breaking its charter....putting out endless mind numbing drama and fake reality drivel. And worst of all.....Chris ######g evans.

No arguments from me over Chris Evans. :thumbdown:

You should get up earlier. Vanessa ****y Feltz rambling aimlessly about her mates. The Ginger Whinger is an absolute relief.

Andy

Anyone votes for Piers?

Good Morning Britain (2015–present)

I know, different toilet [ITV network]

In the picture below he reminds me of a film star, like ..

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Lassie having a sh!t!

That sounds like the perfect new Top Gear line up - Chris "Ego" Evans and Vanessa "Earplugs" Feltz. You'd just need to add Janet Street-Porter as a kind of reverse Stig - one that never stops talking, and you'd see a huge rise in the sales of TVs as people put their foot through their old ones. :rofl:

Here's a view from someone who lives in Sweden:-
"If you think it's not going to happen anytime soon, then you should try living here in Sweden for a while.
Most bank offices no longer handle cash at all. The very few remaining ones that do, will endlessly humiliate a customer and literally treat him like a petty criminal when he tries to deposit cash to his account, even a miserable sum like, say, 5,000 SEK (around 500 USD).
Shops, restaurants and other business, even state agencies, slowly follow the suit too, placing signs that they don't accept cash and citing "security reasons" and fear of robberies. (Did I mention that even doctors' offices and emergency wards get robbed in this country? Guess who commits such crimes - but that is another story.)
In conclusion - Sweden is a proving ground for many NWO phenomenons and experiments. Transgender children, extreme multiculturalism, destruction of nuclear family, all your nightmares begin here. Cashless society is only one of them."

An abstract from, What A Cashless Society Would Look Like | Zero Hedge
That article gives a few pros and cons about the cashless society concept, and there is a lot of commentary thereafter including the quote above..............
On the main topic, is a cashless system more or less likely inside the EU?

Makes it sound like some Orwellian dystopia where the inhabitants live in a form of state induced darkness. My son lives in Sweden at the moment after living in (as well as the UK) Holland, France and China and isn't reporting any form of unusual social circumstances. In fact he quite likes the way things work in the country. As it took him a few months to get the Swedish version of a social security number he's had to live in the "cash economy" during that time and didn't find it particularly restrictive - or never mentioned it if he did.

Whether the Swedes are more cashless than us or any other country can only be a matter of degree though as that's the way things have been moving for a number of decades and continue to do so. Whether this is driven by some kind of Machiavellian cabal, consumer preference or commercial pressure it is a fairly universal shift. Even "backward" countries - sub Saharan Africa, the USA etc have embraced it to some extent. For the most part it does make life on the road easier than it used to be. When I first started travelling we had to take most of our funds in cash (I never trusted travellers cheques). That was fine until one trip to Greece when the money bag fell off the bike and we lost it. It took two weeks to get money transferred from the UK. Try living in a cash economy with no cash.

Taxation is the least of it - see Common Law
 

I've been reading into this further and came upon a very fundamental, if not controversial, view.
It is a long article and an abstract is below, which gives a feel for the myriad of issues contained in the article itself.

"Just to clarify the situation, breaches of The Law are dealt with in a genuine court with a jury. All other matters, such as taxation, bank loans, parking restrictions, speed limits, and the like, are dealt with in a fake "court" which is a commercial company and part of a violent protection racket style scam which is wholly unlawful, but enforced by violence, threats and intimidation using bailiffs and police to protect the bailiffs from being attacked."

Abstracted from (and toward the end of the article):
http://www.yourstrawman.com/

Legal or Lawful?
 

For some kind of "completeness", it was this blog posting that led me to consider more about the issue of the law.
https://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2016/01...in-your-ear-2/

I believe the majority of the worlds lawyers practice in the USA, although some dispute this statistic.
In any case, practice probably does make for perfection.

Anyone else had one of these through the door. It's a very pro EU 'Newsletter' from the 'stronger in' department.

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You will get an increasing number of pro and anti communications over the next few months, all of which are likely to be misleading to a degree.

I think we need to wait until a draft settlement is actually agreed by the other countries in the EU before it makes any sense analysing what it means.

Not surprising nowadays
 

I find this disturbing:



EU twisting facts to fit political agenda, chief scientist says | EurActiv