mj.scuba

As long as they've passed through on the M1 at some point in their lives, that's a close enough affiliation

Let's blockade their ports. With gold painted ships. All named Jessica Ennis.

If Jessica Ennis was competing on her own as an independant country, she would be ahead of Burkina Faso on the medal table.

If you're still talking about the US, I suggest you do some reading about intrusive TSA pat downs and body searches before contending the finger of suspicion is only pointed at Muslims, and which are an inconvenience all air travelling Americans.

I agree that anybody/group with an extremist ideology should be monitored, but I must thank you for providing the perfect example of how a single incident by a white extremist is used to talk up the "threat" from what you would term "right wing extremists" for which you try to include for example the EDL. The fact is more people were killed and more property destroyed or damaged during just a couple of days of rioting in August last year than in hundreds of days worth of EDL protests, yet they are still termed as "extremists", whilst last years rioters receive sympathy. I don't deny there are extremist elements within the EDL, but lets have some perspective and proportionality. G20 riots? Student riots? Each caused more £££'s worth of damage than the EDL have ever done, yet it is the EDL that are still apparently "extremists". Even when they suspected of being the targets of an Islamic terror plot (which pretty much proves the EDLs arguments), it is still the EDL that are the "extremists".

Hmm it never seems to cause much of a stir when we find out famous people have done drugs, so why such vitriol directed at Mensch? Could it be just because she is (a) a Tory (b) a woman © well educated (d) a bit posh (e) combinatioon of all the above?

No why should they? Same goes for Muslims when there is an Islamic terror attack etc

Since 70% of worldwide terror murders were committed by Sunni Muslims in 2011, but less than 1% by "Neo-Nazi/Fascist/White Supremacist” groups, I doubt it. They should keep an eye on the far left tough who take the second spot for most terror fatalities in 2011, they committed 25 times more terror murders than the far right. In fact, of all terror category groupings, the far right committed the least terror murders in 2011. But no doubt it will still be used by the left to convince the masses of the threat from the far right and by association anybody who doesn't follow a left wing consensus. http://cnsnews.com/news/article/sunni-muslim-extremists-committed-70-terrorist-murders-2011 http://www.nctc.gov/docs/2011_NCTC_Annual_Report_Final.pdf

Good luck to Louise Mensch for the future. Lets hope UKIP pickup the seat.

I think we can do better, we need to make sure it can be seen from space.

That's the main drawback of 24hr news imo, when a serious incident occurs, in the absence of facts and in the clamour for a scoop, the BREAKING NEWS, they tend to report rumours, but they cover themselves with words like "purportedly" or "reportedly" which I've never understood as they're the ones reporting it. --

Try the USA.

I don't see why you would think a long period of recession (shrinking) would be good, people losing their jobs, higher welfare bill, fewer tax receipts.....but, a stagnant economy is not necessarily bad, a maintenance of the status quo. For some reason, we've become conditioned to expect a limitless period of growth, like the economy can just grow and grow and grow indefinitely, a bit of a false promise we've been fed I'm afraid, especially considering a lot of the growth of the last decade and a half has been fueled by debt.

And of course it will continue to increase whilst ever we are in deficit, but we're a long long way off being in surplus in order to start paying down the national debt.

http://www.migrationwatchuk.org/briefingPaper/document/256 I would like to see more of our own people being trained in medical professions if the demand is there, but it has to start with a better education system. But as we know, the left wing in this country don't particularly want people to excel, they see doing well and being highly intelligent as elitist which is why Labour outlawed the building of new grammar schools.

Such a sad case, it must have been such a burden on the sister, I'm glad she had the courage to finally put her parents where they belong.

Eurozone manufacturing activity 'hits three-year low' So not just a UK problem then, and of course, if there is a manufacturing slump in the Eurozone, that hits our manufacturers who export components to the continent.

Sounds a bit harsh on Beirut.

Maybe that's because immigrants are not a single homogeneous group. Clearly, not ALL immigrants are benefit scroungers, and not ALL immigrants are here to work and pay their way either.

I reckon he must have set up a company to buy up a load of that gold he sold off cheap.

I don't disagree with you, I'd like to see it banned, would just seem hypocritical somewhat to bring the full force of the EU down on a tiny island when Spain has it's bullfighting etc. though it could be argued that trapping migrating birds has a far greater impact with them being wild and being important for biodiversity in other countries too.

And impose sanctions on Spain for bull fighting? Sanctions on France for fois-gras. We ourselves have only fairly recently got rid of blood sports. Too many other EU countries are far from whiter than white, so sanctions are a non-starter.

15 years not long enough. I'd have been happy if they got 40 - 50 years each.

All over Malta there are little stacks of bricks and stones in the open country so I asked what they were for. Apparently they put small birds in wire cages on them to attract larger birds of prey to attack them, then they pop up to blast them out of the sky.

Balanced immigration is the ideal, welcoming to people who we need, closing the door on people we don't need. My son's primary school has seen an influx of Slovakian children over the last couple of years, to the point that some classes are now almost half non-English speakers. You have to question how this effects the learning of all. Plus the school has had to give up a significant amount of space to dedicate to teaching the EAL pupils, and the school now has two interpreters at a time when budgets are being cut on everything else. None of the Slovakian parents work. When I drop my son off at school, you can see who is dressed for work and who isn't. Even some of parents that aren't, I know some of them work shifts and are off shift. All the Slovakians EVER wear are tracksuits. They are not on their way to work. They are not on their way from work. They do not speak a word of English. So where are they getting their income from for their living expenses, one wonders? One can only conclude it must be from the state, or illigitimate means (crime). Their children are being educated, they get NHS medical care, all courtesy of the UK taxpayer, without contributing anything.