Youtube comments of Derek Taylor (@derektaylor2941).

  1. LUCKY? Lucky is when you hear "Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to your destination. The time is X, the temperature is Y and please remain seated until the aircraft arrives at the terminal.
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  2. I was told in Waterstone book shop (UK) that "...we should never be like the nazis and should burn this book..." I replied to this silly girl- a part time worker who was, unbelievably, studying modern history at university- that the nazis would have been proud of her plan to burn books she didn't like. Oh the irony.
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  3. How refreshing to see a video that not only has presented the facts correctly, but is not sensationalist and as a bonus, presented by a real person and not an irritating AI voice. I can only imagine what it's like for those on a sinking ship. I was once 'lucky' enough to participate in an emergency crew simulation of an evacuation- ironically from Mariella's sister, Olympia. On the upper decks with great windows and plenty of doors leading out to the lifeboats, it's not so bad. But imagine being down in the bowels, with the lights switched off, the emergency lights deliberately deactivated, using only torches and the corridors full of dry ice to simulate smoke and you understand how they really pushed up training post Estonia. Oh and of course, we were in port with the deck level and not listing nor tossing about on the open seas.
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  4. This "expert" that they've wheeled out is a yacht rental and sales broker. This is like using a travel expert, such as simon calder, and asking him to comment on the causes of an aeroplane crash- which they actually have done. What IS IT with the media? They should have asked an experienced Mariner, Salver or boat designer instead.
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  5. Recently I had to remove a GPS tracker from an item of stolen and recovered machinery as it had been damaged during the theft and needed replacing. It had a small lithium ion battery in it about 1 inch by 2 inches by 1/4 inch (25mm * 50mm * 5mm approx). I caught the wires to the battery with the angle grinder and shorted it, fortunately it was loose at that point and fell onto the ground. I've never seen something glow as bright as that - it was briefly like looking directly at the Sun and was still warm hours later. Now compare this tiny battery to the ones in these buses that have to be loaded in by fork lift they are so big and heavy. Yes, exactly.
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  6. The reality- I am sorry to say- is that Jaguar's core w/wide image was once of a British Gentleman's executive car, evoking feelings of rolling countryside, golf clubs, country retreats and so on. But in 2024 that is not in demand. Brand Britain is broken and people don't want it. They can make more money asset stripping our battery knowledge and taking it back to India.
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  7. My first Jaguar was a 2001 XK8. Back when it was built, few production cars could catch it (yes, still a fair few but 99.9% couldn't). Designed by artists and engineers alike, put together by skilled craftsmen. I recently went to look at a XJ. A little 3 litre diesel with nearly as many horses as the XK8, but the build quality... Err, no thanks. It looked nice enough, but no different to say an Insignia or Mondeo or whatever. You used to know a Jaguar when you saw it- a bonnet with a saloon attached to the rear. Now they just look so same as.
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  8. stop calling people 'boomers' if you want to be taken seriously.
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  9. I managed to 1:52. Anyone else beat that before stopping it? I cannot stand Patel, one of the most self-serving of all tories. But it is Christys; not only is he a deeply unpleasant fellow but he is a poor presenter. The simple question that any decent presenter should ask is "Do people feel better or worse now compared to 2010." I will never forgive that repulsive individual for his view that we British are second class citizens in our own Country. Sack him and replace him with Dan Wootton.
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  10. Not a chance. Choose the battles we might win. RPUK has no chance in London. The best thing they can do when they win the GE in 2029 is abolish the role of MoL.
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  11. We elect the Government to manage the Civil Service. We do not elect the Civil Service to manage the Government. It is time that those at the top of government understood that when you want the top job titles, you have to have the top job to go with those titles. boris was a prime example of that. He always did want the job titles but never the job that went with it.
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  12. Like Estonia, most accidents do not occur due to a single event, but many. Even an inch of water on the car deck won't automatically sink the ship. One inch of water on a RoRo 575 ft long, 100ft wide (about the Estonia or a Mariella class size) is about 130 tons of water. On a calm day with little movement, you'd not even notice that in the handling of the ship. Even on a violent sea, 130 tons is not going to capsize the ship- that's going to make it handle about the same as a badly loaded deck with 3 lorries on one side... With a ship weighing 37,500 tons (as with Mariella- don't know about Estonia) you won't sink from that. In any case there are drains all over the deck- named scuppers- which will either drain straight to the side or will have active pumps which switch on when detecting water. A clearer example of multiple events leading to a RoRo sinking is MV Herald of Free Enterprise... there were so many failures that happened and if only one failure had been detected and prevented then it would never have capsized- same with Estonia, perhaps (HOFE: bow door open, bow trim tanks flooded to match the linkspan, shallow water, increased speed, turning to port... take away any one of those and accident avoided). Re being trapped: I took part in a crew training event on Olympia (sister to Mariella, though just changed fleet) right after Estonia. When you're down on the lower decks, below water, with the power off, using torches because they even deactivated the emergency lights, with dry ice to simulate smoke and trying to get up to the top decks... that was not pleasant and that was in port and not on a ship in a storm. HTH.
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  13. Adding a comment to bookmark this for later.
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  14. How can there be any debate over who won that spat? Olukemi has tried to claim that she has seen the code driving that counter. The thing is that this website, in common with 99% of modern websites uses server side scripting, not client side. That is to say that the server simply outputs the results of whatever script it is running, so whether it is a legitimate database or fake counter it cannot be determined from your PC/phone/tablet, but only by looking at the code running on the server. She clearly wouldn't have had permission, so can we assume she's admitting to the criminal offence of hacking? As for her further claim that once this was highlighted, REFORM moved their codes... Again with server side scripting you cannot possible know that either way. REMEMBER that Farage has offered to have membership audited- which the tories declined. I think this is game, set and match to Farage.
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  15. A company in that position would do well to be fully rid of someone like you. I've worked for a good company that got into trouble. We all- or nearly all of us, we had a couple like you- pulled together, waited for our wages and helped the company around. When it achieved stability, we received a big bonus on top for our loyalty and became ideal candidates for promotion. Understood that some people cannot wait and will have to leave, but to make a blanket generalisation as you have done is not good.
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  16. People often forget about the non-aircraft traffic moving around the airfield. I was pased to drive buses airside, though at a small airfield (UK) before the low cost aviation boom. You need eyes in all directions and ears on all frequencies. For part of our airfield, navigation around the apron was (for ground vehicles) entirely visual and only requiring ground contact for crossing taxiways. It's a very strange experience driving over a taxiway in a 30ft bus when you're surrounded by aircraft.
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  17.  @SaintAaron-l4l  I've seen the full length video too. He panicked, drove forward, hit some pedestrians who then in turn thought it deliberate and so attacked him much harder leaving him in fear. I'm not condoning his actions nor condemning them. At the moment, facts are far more important than opinions.
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  18. Except there wasn't. Waterspounds (Tornados over water) very, very rarely form at night. One that is large enough to sink that ship? They are so rare as to be irrelevant. There's more chance of his co-defendant being knocked off his bike in a hit and run on the same day as... Oh, I see your point.
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  19. Although not anything like as serious, I had two work vehicles (lorries) lifted by police due to reports that they were stolen. Despite me attending with proof of ownership/ lease and evidence of a malicious campaign against me, it made little difference and they went. Ultimately that started the road (no pun) to my business closing. The problem with UK police is they are very much "I am only obeying my orders..." If you dispute what they say you're supposed to meekly comply and then apply to appeal their decision at a later point. No, that's not policing by consent. Police are out of control.
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  20. @ bash labour? They're both making statements of fact. What's the problem with that? The destruction of UK has been going on under successive tory and labour governments. What? You're not some sort of labour supporter, are you?
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  21. That the Court of Appeal could possibly rule that evidence questioning her guilt cannot be admitted because she failed to use it at the initial trial is utterly shocking. I understand why appeals need to concentrate only on what was available to the trial Jury/Judge at the time and why that rule exists. But to make no directions when there is a clear risk of miscarriage of justice makes the whole system unfit for purpose. If we, the public, no longer have confidence in the judicial system then why should any of us submit to it? The consequences of that are truly alarming.
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  22.  @erikgoossens1 again without drawing any conclusions either way, an assurance from any Western government official is not something I would rely on. There are some very far fetched conspiracy theories, such as smuggled soviet nukes- which are obviously false, but at the same time the cost of encasing a large ship in concrete inevitably raises questions, especially when this is not the norm. Even here in UK, our gov. has signed an International agreement to prohibit any British person or company from going near the wreck. That's very unusual. In fact, unprecedented.
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  23.  @ashleystyles6888  the bloke they arrested that the police published does appear to be the same bloke. However, if you can find a copy of the longer video, you can see him driving quite normally and seemingly bemused by the road being blocked when he was attacked by football thugs. Of course, I don't know what if anything happened before that- maybe he looked at them in the wrong way or dared to sound his horn. But then he drove off in a panic and my guess is he lost control.
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  24. 3:50 no, the reason for the 727 having its engines where they were is because that's where they were placed by Hawker Siddely on the Trident. Apparently on early 727s some of the parts were stamped HAWKER SIDDELY as Boeing forgot to erase the designer's markings. The British aviation industry wasn't just infiltrated by Russians stealing designs for Concordski. We also 'shared' a lot of data with our American "friends and allies."
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  25.  @ardeladimwit  'waterspout'? Be sensible. The size of waterspout necessary to sink a ship- yes, ship, not boat, of that size is something that is very, very rare indeed. I have sailed the Med many times, the Atlantic several times and I've seen all sorts of weather patterns. What is YOUR experience of the subject?
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  26. farage would never allow it. He'd destroy the party rather than let anyone else lead it.
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  27.  @sferg9582 of course there's the question of what is extinguished? To you or I we might say when there are no more flames or smoke being generated. But to the Senior Fire Officer present, it might be a very different rule. I saw a factory burn down. To me the fire was out in about 90 minutes but the Fire Brigade was there for more or less 24 hours pouring water on it (likely gas cylinders on site as a guess).
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  28.  @roberthoman4789  dear me... where to start with that? Firstly that ship had a carbon fibre mast- metal would have been too heavy. If the hull was struck by lightning then it would be safely conducted to 'ground' (in this case the sea). There would be no hole in the bottom. The 'bilges'? Do you mean bilge PUMP? A vessel of this type should have several means of powering them and even have manual pumps if needed. But that ignores the fact that it wasn't hit by lightning anyway.
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  29. As a transport manager, this is why I always insist on my drivers leaving their tacho on rest even if they're on a weekend break in the truck- that way there's some mitigation by demonstrating that the driver had no intent to drive under the influence. The oddity is (and you'd need to ask a Barrister for the full details) that proving intent to drive in contravention to a tachograph is a different matter and can only be proven after the event. NB in Europe, especially Germany (but not France) coppers are fine with you drinking in your cab and they'll only ever say "don't let me catch you with it in your blood when you drive." We must also remember that not every UK copper is an utter bastard.
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  30.  @sylviaduffin4812  £200K is all he put in. Christ, if I had known I could have bought the party and had a free farage thrown in, I'd have offered them £201K. It's not a lot of money really.
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  31. Then you need to spend more time looking at what has just happened.
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  32.  @DIS-JOINTEDJOINERY  you could always crowd fund for a Judicial Review into the gov's actions. They might not be able to DO anything about it but it would certainly cause the gov some embarrassment if the Court ruled against.
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  33.  @integinteg9222  oh come off it. tories, labour... they're all as bad. The judiciary has been weakened and corrupted since 1997- roughly half that time under lab and half under tory. They're all the same.
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  34.  @Cameron9182  good then you can have him over there. I doubt he'll get a visa though.
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  35. In fairness you are writing nonsense. TM was put in prison for breaching a Court Order not to repeat proven lies.
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  36.  @JulietCrowson  I agree with Mark. Although I haven't qualified in psychology, I am a very experienced amateur and was taught by one of the very best. To most people, sociopaths and psychopaths (they are NOT the same thing, as many believe) are undetectable and to most people that's true. But to those who have trained in such matters it is quite easy to spot the 'tells'. You have to be VERY good at DELIBERATELY hiding it from trained analysts and I simply don't believe she has the experience or ability to do so. Give me a photo of 10 people who superficially look the same, but 1 is a sociopath or psychopath and 9 aren't and 99% any analyst will spot the odd one. NB the photo needs to be in the natural element, not staged such as a line up.
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  37.  @paulwhite6745  boris was out of control though. He was telling so many lies that even he couldn't keep up with them.
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  38. As a white man who is ashamed of his race I felt it imperative to watch the videos of this incident myself, just so I could face up to the evils of being a fellow white man. I know the police were calling on white men to forward all videos to them and not look at any online, but I'm only white and felt I had to see the fellow white man's conduct just to ensure I felt enough shame. But what I saw was very different to what I expected. I saw a white man patiently driving his car when attacked by several football supporting white men and he appered to panic as he drove away, suggesting this was a terrible accident and not deliberate. However, as he is white it is likely he'll be in prison for a long time.
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  39. I've known Farage longer than the media has. Not personally, but having worked with him in the early days before he was famous. What you see is what you get. He is playing his cards much closer to his chest now and I do not blame him one bit. What you are really trying to say is that because he isn't getting down on one knee for Tommy Robinson that you no longer support him. Fine- go and support starmer or whomever. The fact is that too much time has been devoted to talking about Robinson and this is suiting the likes of starmer perfectly. The more people squabble over TR's membership of REFORM that he's never even asked for, the less people have time to talk about the grooming gangs. You've walked right into the manufactured trap and that is precisely why Farage doesn't want TR supporters in REFORM.
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  40.  @daversj  are you saying that the keel fin was 30 feet on this vessel? 1/6th the LOA of the ship? I'm not sure about that. As for making noises, I've never noticed that myself and that's on a vessel half the size of this. This boat would have absolutely every creature comfort and I am trying to think of a legitimate cause of noise coming from a lifting keel that would be louder than the sound of a 'storm.'
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  41.  @msromike123  mrsmike makes one mistake. Just one mistake and I'll sack them, says any boss reading this.
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  42.  @erikgoossens1  it is unusual though, compared to other ship wrecks. Whilst I make no judgement either way, I can understand why the conspiracy theorists believe there is something inside the ship that they want to remain there. Thanks for explanation.
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  43. ​ @foo219  yes, I've heard that explanation too but it doesn't stand up to scrutiny. A fairly experienced recreational diver can go down to about 30 metres. Anything more than that and you really need support infrastructure such as decompression chambers and even then the limit is 60 metres. The Estonia is at nearly 90 metres. So you need submersibles- and there are relatively few companies that have the equipment and none of them conducted any trips down there. Whether it was just incompetence on the part of the OOW (the Captain I believe) in ordering excess speed for the conditions or whether it was carrying weapons as claimed, I don't know. But I have never heard of any other ship being so treated in secrecy.
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  44.  @Weffi76  that is not my experience. Bow loading still takes place.
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  45. The last time I met him in person was 2016. I was a steward at a Brexit event when he arrived HOURS late due to a big lunch and after people waited several hours, he arrived, talked down to them for 10 minutes, then went round collecting donations- very important to him- and then got on his bus. When we said "Nigel, people are asking for photos and handshakes etc..." he responded "tell them I'm busy." After people waited HOURS for him. All they wanted was a few photos and to shake his hand. But then recently he was quoted as saying he didn't like meeting people as they would only talk to him. He is not a good man. I first met him with Sir James Goldsmith and he was introduced to us. He was an arrogant POS back then too.
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  46. A friend of mine is service manager at a fairly large JLR dealership and even though servicing is carrying on, the overall loss to his franchise is apparently so big they may have to close anyway due to lost sales.
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  47. I'm calling you on this one. I am surprised at BBB taking this at face value for if you and I were called as 'expert witness' in a case, you would have just speculation to support the claim where as I would have evidence that it is not the case. On this basis were BBB representing a claimant against a DIY centre, I think he'd lose. You need to look at the volume of paint and how much it would expand as a % per degree of heat applied and then how much it would pressurise the remaining ar gap at the top. Now consider that you need a screwdriver to lever the lid off the tin and you realise the force due to pressure of expansion would be well beyond that which the paint is capable of generating due to heating UNLES you've taken it from a shed in mid winter and put it in front of a furnace.
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  48.  @susanburch3202  with respect, REFORM is no longer just a default choice for those disaffected by tories and labour, but a real party that is showing that it can- and will- govern for the benefit of all. I'm sure you didn't mean it in a negative way, but if you're going to vote for REFORM then do so out of a confidence and belief, rather than just the only party left to try. Many thanks.
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  49.  @TimHoward-l5p  two of these delightful thugs in uniform seized two of my work's vans due to reports they had been stolen. Despite me attending with identification, DVLA records and a letter from my solicitor to a third party warning them about abusing official channels in their dirty war against me, the police still took them. That was bad enough, though in fairness to them when they realised they'd been caught out, they released them. All I can say is that I will never make a formal complaint against these vile people ever again. I would advise everyone that unless you're prepared to sacrifice everything- your business, your livelihood, personal relationships, everything, that you don't take on the police for they will destroy you. They are nasty, horrible people who you should never trust. I apologise to the good coppers out there, but the other 99.9% are giving you a bad name.
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  50. Most people don't understand the difference between server side and client side and its significance in this case. You are quite right that in order for her to have seen what she claimed she'd needed to have hacked REFORM's servers- something which Farage, REFORM and media haven't yet picked up on. Yes, the figures from the database are going through some clever graphics to make them spin from 0 up the total, but ultimately that's doable with JS. What is interesting to note is that the membership increase per hour is not static... So if it is faked then it has some complex programming to make it appear random.... Some hours it was one or two, some hours it was dozens.. Possible to fake but unlikely.
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  51. I'm afraid your quite reasoned approach is dangerous when dealing with people who are themselves not reasonable. Suppose they see you have a TV. Suppose they note you have an aerial on your roof. Suppose they see your remote control conveniently beside your favourite chair... To you and I that's easy- a redundant aerial, the TV is used to watch on demand or DVDs. But to them, that's borderline enough to get a warrant to come back and "catch you off guard."
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  52.  @MarieChapstick  so you are voting reform just because they are the only ones left? Unwise. I HATE writing this, but reform under farage would be a terrible danger that cannot be allowed to happen. Be very sure that it could be even worse than tories or labour. Do you want a single person governing the whole Country in splendid isolation? Who will utterly destroy anyone who speaks out against him? That's danger.
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  53.  @ColinMill1  apart from it wasn't hit by lightning. Was the top half of the mast not carbon fibre anyway?
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  54.  @erniecolussy1705  do you remember the story of the Korean cargo 747 that crashed out of Stansted, UK, some years back? He made not too dis-similar errors and was too proud to admit them. He was one of Korea's most highly decorated (former air force) pilots. 'Low functioning' is perhaps a pejorative term that should be disapplied and instead more objective language used.
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  55. I'd like to point out to the interviewer that tony blair, robert mugabe, josef stalin and adolf hitler were all the best known politicians of their Country and era when they took office. I don't like comparing UK politicians to these dictators but sometimes it's appropriate. As for popularity being any benchmark of quality: No- if it were then McDonalds would be a restaurant of fine dining.
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  56.  @cherriberri8373  'wage theft'? Feck off.
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  57. ​ @foo219  did you read my comment? I think you need to read it again. I never suggested PROFESSIONAL divers couldn't do it. But even very experienced divers will need extensive equipment- you won't turn up in a pedalo and dive down to Estonia. The sort of organisations capable of diving down to the wreck are relatively few and you just wouldn't need to cover the ship in concrete. In any case, look at the Countries that have signed into law to make it a criminal offence for any of their citizens to dive down to it. When was the last time you saw any laws from any Country that affected you when you aren't even in that Country? I can think of only two from UK, which is a signatory.
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  58.  @SW-ok8qr  same law, different mentality back then compared to now.
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  59. Put in solitary for his own safety, I think you'll find. His own legal team demanded it.
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  60. How can we have an issue with homeless when the whole World is trying to live here? I don't know to be honest. I'd have thought we had unlimited resources and space for them. I mean, it's not as if we're a small and overcrowded island or anything, is it?
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  61.  @Dekedence  there's only around 30 of them issued PER YEAR in the whole UK.
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  62.  @lentilsoup460  really? Liz Truss outlined some quite sensible policies, but did so in a clumsy way and was set up by the merchant banks who saw that the idea of putting money into OUR pockets rather than theirs was a bad idea. A little different from the risk of courting nuclear war.
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  63.  @El.Cid17  and that's the bench mark of how we judge people? How much money they make?
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  64. Really? The Reform membership counter is still increasing.
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  65. 'Former Traffic Officer.' I am going to guess you have been out of the job for a while. I wonder if those who have taken over your former duties have the same wisdom and experience as you. Your comment reads as that of someone who has seen a lot, done a lot and has no time for utter stupidity. Sadly, the recruitement standards of Police now is very different to when you joined, I'll wager. Old-school Traffic Police used to be the best, so professional, also courtesous too.
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  66. "Evening, Sir. Can I ask if you would give a voluntary specimen of breath for our anti drink-drive campaign?" "No, sorry. Not unless it is mandatory." "Sir, that you failed to volunteer is unusual and as such I now have reasonable belief that you may have been drink-driving. Blow here please..."
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  67. The problem is that any Reform cabinet would look like this: Prime Minister: Nigel Farage Chancellor: Nigel Farage Foreign Secretary: Nigel Farage Home Secretary: Nigel Farage Transport Secretary: Nigel Farage Defence Secretary: Nigel Farage Speaker: Nigel Farage Leader of the House: Nigel Farage The man's ego destroys everything that he works so hard to create. Don't get me wrong, I think he has a good heart and wants to do the right thing, but even so his refusal to work with anyone means he would become a dictator whether he wished it or not. We cannot allow that to happen.
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  68. RL has asked for just that. NF has refused it. QED
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  69. I used to travel regularly on Hoverspeed in the late 90s/ early 2000s (mostly on Superseacat III, sometimes on the Danmark or Great Britain when they were on relief duties). I was so regular on it that one time I was invited to take part in a crew emergency training session whilst alongside in Calais. I played the part of the intoxicated non English/French speaker. I have to say that the way the crew performed was very reassuring and had it been a real emergency I'm sure we'd have been in the best possible hands. I miss Hoverspeed. Every Tuesday or Thursday I had to drive a relief National Express coach from London to Pencester Street, Dover and that was it... so head over to Western docks, catch the SSC3... off for beer and lunch in Calais, then back again. A wonderful ship, with wonderful crew. A shame it's all gone now. NB mentioning driving+beer.... It was only a one way trip I drove. I went back as a passenger.
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  70. Lots of references to inditements. I thought this was an American term. Are we now being tried under US laws?
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  71.  @christophermonahan8571  I really hate to use these people as comparisons, but so were tony blair, robert mugabe and adolf hitler. I don't normally make those comparisons but in this case I'll make an exception on the basis that they were all absolute rulers who broached no criticism, no dissent, no complaints. Being a good speaker is nothing- half the local travellers are great speakers, but would you trust them?
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  72. @ entirely changing the subject for a moment, but have you noticed ever since then that farage has watered down his talk about mass migration? farage is just about farage and money. Nothing more.
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  73. Having been in a 'non-normal' landing myself, I would second the praise for cabin crew. Until that time landing in a crippled 747, I used to call them flying waiters- as most people did back then. But when your life depends upon them, you start to develop a hell of a lot of respect once you see what they have to do.
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  74. To paraphrase Donald Trump: "One or two more false accusations against us and we'll be sure to win."
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  75. I wonder what we will be capable of in the FUTURE.
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  76.  @brucewilliamsstudio4932  that amounts to saying "I'll never make a mistake." A very dangerous claim for anyone who claims to be an airline pilot.
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  77.  @fenrifegads5571  the problem for us on the right is that we have a share of people like you, making outlandish conspiracy theories and it makes it so easy for the left to tar us all with the same brush. If you were to look at this logically for a moment, IF- and it's a huge IF- Mossad had a real interest in UK domestic politics do you really think they'd push farage to become pro-islam?
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  78. Did anyone ever say why? It's the first time I've ever heard of a ship- civilian or Military- covered in concrete.
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  79.  @markrutlidge5427  that's not a unique view. May one ask what your professional qualifications are and how you would re-arrange RoRo decks to facilitate stern load/unload?
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  80.  @markrutlidge5427  the video is about a conventional RoRo of a designed used in countless locations around the World. It is perfectly safe if the rules are followed properly. The only move seems to be from bow visor to bow clam doors as these seem to suffer less stress in bad weather. Anyway, when you're putting forward theories that go against the grain then it is customary to put one's expertise and I was wondering what yours is. Captain? Engineer? Designer? Certitying Officer or Surveyor?
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  81.  @foo219  with respect you're still not talking a couple of blokes in a kayak to dive down to Estonia. I am not going to say that it is impossible for amateurs to do this, but equally you're not talking about something straightford or cheap. And it comes back to the same question- just how many ship wrecks are there around the World and yet this is the only one slated for special covering in concrete.
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  82. If you ever wish to know who your true rulers are, just look to whom you may not offend. My word, this gay, black, disabled transexual mu5l1m who self identifies as a squirrel is mighty powerful.
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  83. 1) the size of tornado necessary to sink a ship of this size is a very, very rare phenomena indeed and it would be sufficiently powerful that any other vessel moored nearby (and there were two that I could see on AIS) would be in trouble. 2) You KNOW that the keel was retracted or you are guessing. 3) Yes, it is a very high mast- but then it's one of the largest sail boats so what do you expect? 4) Speculation, speculation, speculation. You might be right. Or not.
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  84. Racism relating to climate change? If that does not summarise all that's wrong with UK these days then we're beyond hope. Now, I'm off to the Bus Drivers' conference on nuclear physics and its affect on bio-diversity in Southern Yemen.
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  85. Surrey police... It's always Surrey police.
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  86. There would be more or less no risk to Elon Musk. Why? Simple. He's about to become part of the USA's government and as such if he came he would undoubtedly be as an accredited Diplomat and even starmer isn't stupid enough to arrest a Diplomat. That would be a breach of such an unprecedented scale that I would imagine Trump... well let us just say I doubt he'd be happy...
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  87. Stephen, what do you expect the salesman (not even a technician by the sound of it) to find driving like that which he wouldn't have found out with a moderately fast drive? I'm curious as I've only been fixing engines for 20 years and I need to learn from people like you who comment on subjects they clearly know little about. Tell me- if you had a 2.0 Mondeo- would you expect that to be redlined (6,500 RPM as a guess) just because you could?
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  88. Out of curiosity does anyone know if Norwegian caused the 2008 economic collapse? Does anyone know if they brought the World to a standstill with Covid? Unless the answer is a certain 'yes' to both of them, young Peter here is really out of order with his statement that airlines should not have been allowed to re-start unless [insert whatever his demands were]. No, there was a lot of help for people in Western Countries but very little for companies. He's wrong on this.
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  89. from what you've written, I think your oath stands firm. You are simply questioning the legitimacy of those claiming to be able to give you orders. I stand with you.
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  90. No point investigating it then as you've already decided... WHY is it much easier to be "knocked over" when the keel is up? What do you think the lifting keel actually does? It relies on movement of water past it in order to 'generate' any force (in fact it doesn't generate any force at all, it reflects it). Think of an aeroplane wing when it's parked at the terminal... Yes, you could argue that it might generate some resistance to lateral movements when induced rolls, but I'd say not enough to make any difference. Now onto the centre of gravity- and PLEASE don't tell me the lifted keel will greatly effect this, as it won't. the sails were in and stowed at the base of the mast along the spar/boom. Where was the centre of gravity? Remember that it is indeed a tall mast, but a damned big hull attached to it. As a GUESS I'd say about 5/8 of the distance from the fixed keel to the main deck. With a beam of perhaps 30ft that's a fairly stable platform.
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  91. judge INMAN? You've got no chance.
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  92.  @op3129  that 'yacht expert' is entirely inappropriate for the interview. His job is a broker- a salesman of yachts- and that is like asking a frequent holidaymaker to comment on the cause of an air crash just because they fly a lot. They need a Captain, Chief Engineer or someone who actually knows what they're talking about.
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  93. How can the UK government dictate the policies of a USA company with its servers in USA? Yes, they could petition the UK subsidiary but that's bound to failure anyway. What have I missed?
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  94.  @mariemeredith1906  let us look at Farage's experience, shall we. HOW MANY people have left parties because they cannot work with him? Whether Lowe was wise for giving an interview or not, the response from farage has been out of proportion. A good leader would say "I disagree with what Lowe has said, but I have agreed to meet with him for an honest and frank exchange of views and we'll sort this privately between us." But that's not farage's style. He seeks to destroy anyone who disagrees with him. That's great for a protest party but NOT for a government in waiting.
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  95. It's always vague predictions with him "...within a year..." well who thinks otherwise? It's short enough to make it sound interesting but long enough so that by then people will forget your prediction and even if they do remember you can say "ah, but things changed in a year that no one could have predicted."
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  96.  @Guitar387  I think TR has done a valuable service by highlighting what has been going on. But he is a political activist and not a politician. If he were to join Reform, I would leave and so would many more. You overstate his support, I think. Now to appease you rabid and mad TR supporters, I will throw you one little bit. If he joins a party then he'll be expected to act in accordance with its rules, which means he can no longer be an activist. He can no longer arrange his own marches, he can no longer arrange crowd funding for you daft fools to fund his lifestyle. Which would you prefer?
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  97. Oh God please don't let labour in as how will we ever cope without the tories- the natural party of government- there to run the Country as perfectly as they have the past 14 years.
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  98.  @csb178  How do you know whether he's done it before? Playing Devil's Advocate, maybe he's terribly in debt, can't feed his children, has bailiffs at the door. In a desperate position people do stupid things. I am not condoning what he's done and wouldn't do it myself, but then I would always take the view that a penalty should be proportionate to the offence. He will have learned his lesson by now.
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  99. @philiphaseldine1135your response is not helpful. Bad law is bad law and giving another example of an equally bad law does not prevent this example being a bad law. If we want laws to work in a democracy then they have to be by natural consent, otherwise we have a bigger problem to deal with, Few would argue that drink drivers should be prosecuted to the limit, but in the example from NTW above- really?
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  100.  @Nunn_the_wiser  you put your response far more eloquently than I, but I agree 100%. I fear for people these days who do not quite appreciate the concept of laws by consent.
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  101. If this repulsive individual had been there, he'd have been fighting for the Germans. He despises this Country and everything it stands for. Don't be fooled by his demeanour here. Look instead at his many interviews and political comments. It is surprising considering he comes from a Military family. Just take his comment that Britains (sic- it's Britons, you semi-literate marxist filth) are magnetically drawn to defeat. This is the same Britain that at one point ruled 2/3 of the civilised World? The same Britain that brought something like 90% of all known technnologies, that came up with the most respected and adopted legal and political systems ever, that is the oldest democracy and the first to give rights- clear and unalienable rights- to the common (wo)man, long before his beloved Russia and Europe did. Don't be drawn in by him of his depraved landlord act. Oh and if he wants to sue me for defamation- as he's threatened previously- be my guest. I'd love to debate his conduct in front of others.
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  102.  @peteconrad2077  ah yes but we're all too stupid to understand, peter. That's why we smart youngsters like you in order to educate us.
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  103.  @saxon-mt5by  HER? HER? Have you ASKED how s/he/they/them self identifies? Shocking. Beyond words that you should be so cruel and... sorry, my sarcasm is getting a bit played out.
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  104. Already I disagree with BBB at 0:48. I do not think we should support UK police- and I write that as someone who used to support them fully, but not now. Let me briefly explain why you shouldn't either. Recently I was the victim of police error and was detained, my property confiscated; it was a simple error of identity on their part and had they agreed to learn the lesson from it then I would have let it drop, but they tried to cover it up. Then the abuse started. Please people, if you ever find yourself on the wrong side of these thugs- always resist arrest, keep in view of CCTV and make sure you tell someone- anyone- where you're being taken. In my case, although not an armed-response grade incident, it was armed officers. I politely offered them documentation to prove who I was and my property was legitimately mine. It was refused and no amount of reasoning- politely- would do any good. They had their orders and they would obey them come what may, with hint of Nuremburg about it. What sort of a copper is let loose with a gun who cannot stop and think "hang on a moment, something is not right here, I think we should listen." After all, when the police murdered Jean Charles de Menezes, didn't the inquiry make the point that armed police need to stop and think? No firearms were used here but the same mentality applies. More generally, the police have not resisted the desire from politicians to make motives into the crime. In days gone by if you, for example, beat up a black man because you don't like black people, the crime is assault or GBH and the motive for the crime is racism. That way people were all punished equally for the crime. But then when the motive became the crime itself we saw the birth of two-tier policing and if we are to believe in policing by consent then we must all be equal before the law, which we are not. If we are not all equally protected by the law why should we equally comply with it? Policing by consent is dead in UK. Do not trust police- ever. Yes, I know there are good police officers doing a damned difficult job, but the other 99.9% give them a bad name and until they have you alone without witnesses you can never be sure whether you've got a good or a bad one- remember they all wear the same scruffy bin-man-like uniform, with no badges saying good cop or bad cop. PS I should add that the above is Northants and not Leics police. In Northants they were led by a compulsive liar who fought at the battle of Trafalgar and singlehandedly sank the Bismarck and Belgrano.
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  105. BBB is, as ever, informative and even dare I say entertaining. But he has one drawback- at least so far as he presents himself- and that is he has faith in the law. He has faith in justice, freedom and democracy. I have recently been the victim of an action by a third party for something that was nothing to do with me. The police turned up and sided with the official, despite me offering evidence to the police. Now in the scenario BBB describes, it would be insufficient to simply refuse as they'd likely have police with them who are lacking in legal training, lacking in experience and lacking in moral fibre and they will take the official's side- likely even arresting you. In BBB's case perhaps he could then seek retrospective redress, but by then it's too late. Your 'phone or laptop has been seized and you have the devil of a job getting it back. BTW in my case, the police later on apologised and admitted they were at fault. I thought I'd add that in case someone thinks I'm just bitter. I'm not, just angry and looking forward to suing them.
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  106.  @unclecarl5406  if I had read your comment last year when you wrote it, I would have suspected you were lying. Now though? I believe you entirely. I had an experience where the police wrongly seized property from me (motor vehicles) based upon erroneous intelligence. Even though I proved this was a malicious lie at the time, they refused to listen to me or look at the evidence I showed them. That was bad enough. They did return the vehicles (with a vague apology) after a few hours, but I complained and that's when the lies and abuse started. What makes this all the worse is that these were ARMED coppers, although it wasn't an armed event and they were just the nearest unit. Now think about that for a moment... armed police who go into a situation with advance warning of what to expect but when confronted by something entirely different, refuse to listen or even look at evidence. This is the same sort of mentality that saw a London Underground carriage decorated with the brains of poor Jean Charles de Menezes when the Met Police murdered him. This incident above, whilst at the time just an unpleasant event started a chain of other events that brought my life to the point of near collapse, losing me my business, my other half and nearly lost me my house. I got very lucky on an unrelated matter and am building back up. But THANK YOU, Carl. After reading YOUR comments and those replying to you I realise that I CAN do something- not just for myself but for all the other wronged victims of these corrupt thugs in uniform. I have come into a bit of money, which is why I'm rebuilding my life and I think part of that money might well be used to bring about a legal complaint against the police.
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  107. THANK YOU to BBB for highlighting what E-NIC actually is. So many employees don't realise it exists. At my company, in addition to the mandatory statements on a payslip, they include the ENIC as well, showing the real % of tax paid by each employee. When you look and see that even a basic earner is on 40% or thereabouts it's frightening and shows just how out of control UK government*S* now are.
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  108. 14:47.. talking about Reform in the PAST tense. I'm sure that was just a Freudian slip, but it is one that I agree with. I think Reform is finished. Were Farage capable of learning from mistakes he could ride this out in 4 1/2 years. But he's not, so he won't. The polls are still showing growing support for Reform but there's one thing they've overlooked: all those people on social media that Farage is dismissing as 'not reality'- well, we're all the activists, the active members, the candidates, the people who go out knocking on doors. I'm not the only one who has resigned from that. 15:50, yes Farage IS a good campaigner. But he is a terrible leader. A PM in waiting must be a good leader above everything else.
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  109. What court in the land has the power to refuse you legal representation? None.
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  110. Who else expects Mr BBB here to be known as Mr BBB MP from 2029 and shortly after Mr Attorney General BBB? I'd lay money on it. There's too many of the wrong kind of lawyers moving into politics- he'd be a bloody good one. Imagine him in charge of the Ministry of Injustice, Ant Middleton as Minister of Defence, similarly finding a real finance expert to act as Chancellor- a real government of talent. What a Country we would be.
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  111.  @apepeterpan  WHAT theory and 'debunked' by whom?
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  112.  @checkbox1234  are you being deliberately obtuse?
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  113. I doubt it. Firstly, what makes anyone sure it was retracted. Secondly, the keel fin acts a little like an aircraft wing- it generates a force proportional to the speed of the vessel. In my experience (70ft sailing, so about half this size) it doesn't do a damned thing at anchor.
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  114.  @salnaturile8653  that is shocking. I have an ex London decker (B7) at work. I'm sure that's about 9,000- but 1,000 between designs is nothing. Double the weight for an EV is shocking... Excuse the pun.
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  115. What is surely worrying here is that parliament is made up mostly of lawyers. Yet their drafting of this legislation was fundamentally flawed and it is entirely clear from interviews at the time, the concept of being liable for prosecution for using a 'phone whilst parked in a bay at Tesco was not one which they had thought of nor intended. Was there not a case- unrelated to this- when a Court ruled that whilst the defendent on trial had committed the offence it was held that there was never any intent by lawmakers to have had this result and therefore he was acquitted. Does anyone remember that and if so, whether it is relevant here? Personally I feel we have a moral obligation to refuse to comply with bad legislation.
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  116.  @MoA-Reload...  On SSC3 one time in fog they steered HARD to starboard, presumably seeing something visually or on a display, and it threw some people off balance and knocked drinks off the bar at the stern. How that translated into degrees per second etc, I really don't know, so presumably that is because of what you mention about the steering. I don't think I ever went on SSC3 in bad weather. I did go on SS GB (??) in poor weather and she seemed a good seaboat at speed but alongside on departure and arrival, you could feel the movement with the weather beam on. I really envy you, I really do. I found a love of the sea at too old an age to make it a career. NB after I finished on coaches I spent time managing a travel company and the P&O fleet then became my second home- especially the Bilbao. I know the Hoverspeed crews were great people, at least at Dover, I never tried Liverpool unfortunately. They must have been great fun to work with.
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  117.  @MoA-Reload...  that's fascinating to read. My 'best' experience in weather was on Pride of Bilbao... we came up from Spain and encountered the Round the World Tall Ship Race and our Captain- the famous Robert Ross- took us incredibly close to the Russian ship Sedov (by permission of course and the helming from both ships was incredible)... That night we had the worst ever storm I've experienced, even the Billy was struggling to make headway and we nearly had to turn about and help the tall ships, but remarkably they all signalled they were clear. The worst in the English Channel was on the PO Dover. As I said before, I don't think I've ever been on a SSC in bad weather and only once on the cat (I can't remember which one, but the similar design to the Great Britain... Maybe Danmark?) What role did you have on ship, if you don't mind me asking?
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  118. RH David Davis PC MP today said that after his investigation he is, on balance, more inclined to believe she's innocent. He will now start asking the right questions in the HoC- such as "why are so many people languishing in prison with serious doubts about their conviction but the appeals process is so cumbersome and not up to the job."
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  119. Tommy Robinson this, Tommy Robinson that... No one else is getting a word in edge ways and everything is revolving around him. What his supporters don't realise is that this is playing right into starmer's hands. The more people fight among themselves the less chance there is of a unified response to the criminal grooming gangs. Is that what you want? Is that what your Messiah wants? No. Give your brains a chance- PLEASE.
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  120. There you go, Simon. If you had the ability to understand the difference between a politician calling for legal action against a group Vs someone agitating for riots, you'd get somewhere. But you can't so you won't.
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  121. @ you wrote that it's 'not fair' that Farage can criticise the gov but your tommy cannot. I pointed out that there's a difference between a politician making a statement on news and in HoC and a professional agitator leading protests in the street. Your response was that I cannot understand how the law has been weaponised. But I can, and I agree. That is why I know a wise man must be careful to stay within the law when making a point. A wise man doesn't give the gov an opportunity to do anything unpleasant. That is why Farage is leading a party and will be PM in 4 years time when TR will probably be back in prison yet again. Do not make the silly mistake of thinking that those who make their point within the system are less interested than those who agitate. If you hit a metaphorical mountain, you can go over or round it... or you can waste your time shouting that it moves out of your way.
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  122. The fact that you can feel disgust by watching that video suggests our species is not all bad.
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  123.  @Farweasel  that's exactly why they're doing them. As a transport operator, I sit in on various meetings and that was more or less what they said is their aim. Even the Police liaison officer wasn't too sure about this.
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  124. 4:11 BBB is, as usual, correct from a technical point. Everyone is always "obeying the rules", but collectively, the whole sorry lot of them are failing the Country and its people and none of them are being held accountable. We're already seeing people say they don't care whether it's police, court, politicians- all they know is that we, the public, aren't to blame and we want something done about it.
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  125.  @ColinMill1  except there's a video of it heeling over and there was no lightning strike. I doubt it would conduct enough down to the hull before the mast evaporated. But it's an option. PS the mast would not have been solid. A good point about the carbon fibre though, but again boats are designed to conduct electric strikes through to the sea anyway.
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  126.  @Thurgosh_OG  There's really no need to. The others are currently busy doing other things. It would be entirely irrelevant to have them all sign it and probably lead to accusations that they cannot think for themselves. No, Lee has got this right.
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  127. Good grief who is the woman interviewing him? I've seen enough politicians that can't reply unless they've got a cue card, but rarely a presenter/interviewer doing the same.
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  128. Sorry BBB, but you're trying to defend the indefensible this time. You know the law of any democratic land is based upon consent. That consent is at risk of being withdrawn and you know what the consequences of that is. There is nothing you can do to explain away the two tier justice in this Country- something not seen on this scale since the 11th Century. If you ever want to know who rules you, just look at whom you cannot offend. I have no faith in law and order and what you call 'justice' any more. I try to avoid it, for I cannot afford the price of UK justice anymore. Few can. If you ever insult an ethnic minority, as she has done, then you better hope you don't have an ethnic minority judge as happened to her.
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  129. I wish politicians would remember that the role of Opposition- His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition- is an official position with status and not just a waiting room to doss around in whilst you wait to form the next government.
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  130. And yet people are wandering our streets with machetes unchallenged.
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  131. marxists and islamists both have something in common. The swear loyalty to a non-state organisation or concept and to them the idea of Patriotism or any form of loyalty to a state or Nation is unfathomable. That's why you often see marxists and islamists work together so well... Who has seen all the 'qwerty for islam' type signs at protests? The problem for marxists that the islamics will use them while they serve a purpose, but then destroy them when no longer needed- no right to adopt islam, just a simple destruction. We've seen this in Iran, Lebenon, Iraq, Syria... Iran being the best example as the marxists thought that the pro-West interests in Iran could be harmed this way. The thing is that islamics aren't stupid. They worked on the simple basis that if the marxists could betray their own people once, they could do it to them too. So they had to go. There is nothing more stupid than a follower of marxism.
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  132.  @zalidthebur it has already been explained that using your 'phone for this purpose in a drive through is permitted.
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  133. I'm old enough to remember when Netherfield et al were brand new and they were really modern and attractive.
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  134. She's Bulgarian. I thought you had to be British to become a police officer. Yes, that includes naturalised Britons- but then they should call themselves British and not their former Nationality, if that is the case.
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  135. Too much emphasis on the lifting keel (centreboard). That wouldn't greatly change the metacentric weight of the vessel. We're not talking about a little 30ft racing yacht here. The keel generates forces when underway. It has very little effect when anchored. It will cause some resistance to roll, but so little as to be not worth including. Remember that this is rigged as fore and aft, not square and the sails are fully reefed home- low down. What is there for the wind to catch and act as a turning moment?
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  136. That could prove counter-productive, given the vast range of accidents that occur. Do you wait for the Captain to order an evacuation? What if he's dead or the PA is broken? Or what if you assume and go ahead only to find out you make matters worse. Do you open that door and jump? Have you checked that engine is shut down...
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  137. Re Troy, the real story of Troy is far more important than the still disputed location of the City. Many people still believe Homer's story that a group of defeated Greek Soldiers built a large wooden horse, hid inside it and waited for it to be wheeled inside. The trouble with this story is that it has been translated from (ancident) Greek to Latin and then to English and other modern languages. Those who can read not only Greek but ancient Greek will tell you a different story. In short: a few Greeks were welcomed into the peaceful City of Troy, where they worked their way up in status, encouraging more Greeks to come to the welcoming City of Troy. Eventually there were so many Greeks that the Trojans had no choice but to adapt their own ways to suit the newcomers, eventually being out-numbered by them. This is supported by a study of migration flows around the World since. Here in England, I know that about 1,200 years ago my Germanic ancestors did the same to the indigenous olde Englishmen. Indeed this is happening to many populations around the Western World today. NB no political or social comment intended- just a narrative of history.
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  138. @donk3ypunchzero there is a reason that UK has been sinking since post WW2 and it's not just economic. It is no secret that in the inter-war period there were people who sympathised with the soviet movement... think about it, the interwar years were economically depressed and it's natural for people to feel aggrieved. WW1 to most commoners was how we view Iraq war these days. The soviet union was not blind to this in the cold war era and they formed many cultural ties with UK. Does anyone remember the gift to coal miners during the strikes, supposedly from Russian miners in solidarity but actually came directly from the Kremlin? They did the same thing in America, but fortunately McCarthy was more productive at stopping them than our series of weak "leaders" post war. Now it doesn't need the Russians. This whole cultural marxism has taken on a life force of its own; group think is dangerous and once it's all over no one will ever admit to it. Sadly I think we must see society completely collapse before we can see it reborn. In that process countless people will be harmed or even killed- some of us commenting here won't survive it. Indeed, probably most of us.
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  139. The issues affecting Britain aren't new. The concept was first recorded over 6,000 years ago when the Greeks started settling in Troy. Once the Greek migrants had risen to power within Troy, they began favouring Greeks- both fellow Greeks within Troy and Greeks back in Greece. 6,000 years later we're seeing the same thing happen. I know some people are daft enough to think that the story of the Trojan Horse (should be Greek Horse) was about half a dozen Greek Soldiers hiding inside a wooden horse that was wheeled into Troy one night, but people who still believe that daft story should ask their carers to explain allegory.
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  140. As an aside, I am developing a sizeable website for our work and our legal department moaned that I didn't have any cookie warnings when they loaded up the site. But of course I don't need them- it will only apply cookies on pages where it is required (purchase, registering for information etc...) and the rest of the pages are entirely cookie free. This means that 99% of our customers (transport passengers) who are just looking for information can find it without having cookies tracking them.
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  141. This isn't the only time an aircraft was lost over Saudi Arabia due to fire. In fact I think MP channel made a video about it and, if I recall correctly, that had significant questions about the conduct of the flight crew too. A Boeing 707, if I remember correctly. This story is utterly sickening. A dream job for many to fly an aircraft and yet there are those who get the job- and the top job in the left seat at that- and don't treat the position with the respect it deserves. There is no excuse for being this incompetent at anything.
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  142. 15:30 compare and contrast farage to Trump; at the start of Trump's rallies, he thanks all his volunteers and staff and those who have gone to see him. He seems to genuinely be humbled by how well he's regarded. farage? Well, I've been a steward at Ukip events when he was leader and the way he talked about the assembled masses was quite appalling. He liked talking down to us from upstairs on his open top bus, but hated going down and shaking hands and having photos taken.... 'bloody commoners'.
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  143.  @TheSooty1975 I agree with you entirely. I just hope Mr Right-Bleeding Bastard doesn't show up to check the telly licence next. Still, if he does then he'll find the lions in Neil's bedroom the hard way. (anyone else reading that who didn't understand your TYO quote won't have a clue. Doesn't it make you feel old?)
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  144.  @aaronaaronson7600  Both Habib and Lowe have been openly critical of unlimited migration from mostly muslim Countries.
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  145. OK this bust up with the labour minister in December 2024 was so serious that labour didn't even mention it nor leak it to the press? Bullshit. That Rupert Lowe threatened the WEF islamic yusaf three months ago but no one reported it until last week? Bullshit. Farage is full of bullshit. I'd like to see the whole of reform form a new party without farage, tice and the thug anderson.
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  146.  @timhocking7512  AND Ben Habib? AND Howard Cox? In fact the list of people that farage has pissed off over the years is quite tremendous and not just at RPUK, but Ukip too. Farage has always been arrogant, but over this last year or so he has become worse. I wonder if you have given any thought to how he would perform as Prime Minister; he'd likely sack the cabinet and run the government with just him and zia yusaf. If you cannot see the danger in that then you should not be allowed to vote.
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  147. I worked for a large express coach service in UK just as they went through a process of recruiting mostly women- I was the token bloke for the region. It was at the time the biggest express coach operator in the Country and was the best by far. Within a few years it came close to collapse. Was it because women weren't able to do the job? Not at all- some of them were absolutely brilliant at it, but most weren't and were recruited purely because the company wanted to look good to investors. Well it backfired spectacularly and they lost all their new rail franchises in the process. In the end I was fed up doing all the hard work whilst they pratted around with their environmental and social nonsense and I left. As did just about anyone who knew what they were doing.
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  148. Jim, operating buses in MK has been incredible difficult for a number of reasons with plenty trying, getting their fingers burned and pulling out. The issue is the way that the incumbent operator has monopolised the super busy routes (that historically generated the profits to support the minor routes). However, that is changing. The Cllrs in charge of this subject now have a very good grasp of their remit and are working behind the scenes with bus fleets to try and address this. I can tell you all this is true from first hand experience of the subject. Bear with us.
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  149. 44:15 'aviation is so safe today'? When Mentour Pilot produces a video announcing there are no new incidents to report- then I'll say he's right that it's safe. That this aircraft landed safely in the end is clearly down to luck more than judgement. One thing I am really surprised at is after exceeding the a/c performance levels so extensively that they continued their flight at all.
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  150. ​ @AvvrYT243  it was a little tongue in cheek. I am 2/3 of the way through qualifying for a private licence and I'm fine when at the controls of a tiny Cessna with its piston driven Lycoming engine- statistically a less safe type of aircraft. But I absolutely hate the idea of being cooped up in an airliner with someone else flying, even though statistically it is viewed as safer.
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  151. You don't need to watch the video and its many adverts to know that the 737-Max effectively duplicated the 757.
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  152. I said on day one that I just could not see this incarnation of the labour party making it through until 2029 and I am still convinced that I am correct. Add in now this week's madness of even discussing sending British Squaddies into a war with Russia and thus legitimising UK as a Russian target, is beyond anything I've seen in my lifetime. You know that when you have to choose david lammy as Foreign Secretary that you are in serious trouble- it's akin to promoting diane abacus to Chancellor of the Exchequer (and before anyone reads any racial prejudice into that, don't bother... There are plenty of non-white people who have served the Country with distinction- just not those two). I can't see Charles III intervening, despite his primary role being a check and balance to parliament. The Military? Chatter from serving friends shows the lower ranks are fed up of dying so that politicians can make money, sell books and retire early. The officer corps? They'll mostly say whatever is necessary until their pension and once they've left office- and only then- will they speak up. REFORM are only 5MPs and can't change the views of 645. And so we have to face a very real possibility that things are going to prove less than perfect for the next few years.
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  153.  @Jakdaw diesels tend to have a longer stroke, therefore they don't like being revved so hard. But as an 'expert' you of course know that. Don't you.
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  154. Paul, I've changed my mind. I no longer think you are a fecking idiot, but I agree with you. So with that in mind- and bearing in mind that I too have had many performance cars, including Jaguar XKRS, Aston Martin V12, Pontiac Firebird over the years, can I BORROW YOUR CAR? I will take it up and down the Country, redlining it at every possible opportunity just to prove how right you are. After all, you've just told the World that it won't do it any harm...
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  155.  @Paul_Y_T if you're routinely driving like that then you're driving beyond the limits of your car. And your driving ability. A real performance car doesn't need to be taken to the limit. Mine doesn't.
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  156. @Nbomber good Lord no! I initially made the same point as you, received gibberish replies for it so I decided a different tack. So I made the point that would HE feel happy for ME to drive HIS car in this way. We both know he wouldn't let me do so. Why wouldn't he do so when he has just condoned this care salesman for doing this? My current fastest car is a Jaguar XKRS. 5l supercharger. I will be honest and say that I redlined it ONCE when I got it- I'm only human. But the point of a REAL performance car is that you never need to push it to the limit. People who do so are usually running pretty basic engines that have just been re-mapped and really aren't capable of it. Much like F1 cars- what are they now? 2litre? They're only so powerful because they have a huge RPM range, but in return a short life span. I have no respect at all for the idiots who claim red lining is reasonable driving. He's probably got a 1 litre punto that he's remapped and put an aftermarket turbo and thinks the height of good driving is going around Tesco carpark with his mates on Friday. To me, good driving is being able to share a road with these idiots and survive it.
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  157.  @Paul_Y_T  and you've got all of those, have you? You missed the Bugatti. Can I offer you some advice? When in a hole, stop digging.
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  158.  @Paul_Y_T  oh come on paul, I'm not expecting great things from you, but give over on the strawman stuff. It is not about whether you can retain perfect control at high revs/high BHP, it is about whether it is appropriate or necessary. This was a test of someone else's car. If you want to drive your car like a cunt then that's up to you. But don't do it to other people's.
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  159.  @Paul_Y_T  thou doth protest too much. Anyway, excuse me as I'm off to the airport in my custom made solid gold Aston to fly my Learjet out to the Bahamas where I'm planning to board my 190ft Sunseeker before possibly wintering in my undersea volcano in the Pacific. (photos all available to 'prove it'.)
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  160. 5:00 given the number of people who have died at the hands of police using "reasonable force" I am not sure if it is wise to comply or take your chances with them. If you look at the Manchester airport incident, although I agree with the majority that the would-be passengers were to blame, there is a very important issue being missed. In the past a UK copper would have been able to properly subdue the attacker and have him down on the ground as they were trained in how to do so. But that officer clearly wasn't and stamping on someone's head, no matter what the provocation, is not the sign of a well trained officer. I have seen a Spanish copper on recently take on someone MUCH bigger than him and he had him on the ground and in handcuffs and clearly he was well trained. He didn't stamp on his head out of fear. Just remember that most coppers in UK are so morbidly obese and badly trained that they'd go down like a sack of spuds if you resist.
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  161. Agreed. I think he is referring to the initial type approval (or whatever the system is being called this week).
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  162. WHO are the complainants though? Maybe a tiny number of ethnic minorities but those making the noise will be white, middle aged, middle class socialists (the irony of the last part of the description will be lost on them).
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  163. David Gunson answered this back in the 1980s. It's at the back because they never knowingly reverse into hills and if you want ultra safety, find where they've put the black box, because if that's the only bit they expect to get back, you want to be fastened to it. (David Gunson, What goes up, Might come down- available on Amazon etc, also YT...)
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  164.  @LeeGee  'Dear Olukemi, whilst you're consulting your Solicitor regarding your impending libel and slander case against Nigel Farage, could you perhaps ask him/ her about the penalties for breaching GDPR, which clearly require that you only hold data for as long as is reasonably required. You do not reasonably need to retain my details any longer. Goodbye.'
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  165. Another sodding remoaner...
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  166. BBB is absolutely right. The English legal system is not perfect and no system ever can be. But with 1,000 years of history behind it on balance it has been a force for good more than it has been a force for harm- unlike many Countries. What is the alternative? Have a system when Barristers and Solicitors instead of going on the facts known to them were to instead prosecute/ defend based on their own beliefs? Then if so you might as well get rid of Juries and for that matter, Judges too. I fully support BBB's comments here.
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  167. Good grief, people have been locked away for DECADES based on lies, deception and failure to follow procedure. I wouldn't risk my future based on the hope of a miscarriage being declared.
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  168. Just a quick reminder that when we had Prime Minister rishi sunak- the self-confessed "son in law of India"- he gave away billions to tata to develop battery designs here. tata were expected to put up a couple of hundred million in return for (iirc) 6 BILLION of OUR money. Anyone see tata building lots of battery plants here? No, but you DO see them asset stripping our knowledge and taking it back to India.
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  169. I was a steward at a pre-Brexit rally when his Holiness the Messiah was due to speak. He was several hours late and we were told to tell people that it was a 'security' issue when in fact he had an extended lunch. He eventually turned up after several hours- yes, several hours, you did read that right- and very briefly spoke AT them (us) and then made a big speech about donations. Then he hopped back on his bus, telling people he was far too busy and too tired to have photos taken with his fan club; it wasn't just that he refused what would have meant so much to them, but the way he said it. He doesn't care about his members, he doesn't care about UK. He cares about prestige. With hindsight, I think Brexit was more about him sticking two fingers up at the eu than it was about getting UK a good deal. PS I have been told by 'someone' claiming to be from Reform that I need to stop saying this or I'll be sued. To them I say go on, bring it on. I'd love to get him in the High Court and argue these points.
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  170.  @billybatts8283  because most of us know that the few mouthy ones are talking bollocks. TR needs to be congratulated for keeping grooming gangs in the public eye- we all should thank him for that. But let us please stop pretending he's a political prisoner.
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  171.  @shylinh5939  it doesn't have the capacity to do that to EVERYONE. But that doesn't matter if you're the one it selects. That's how they work. You have to remember that these people in power now are students of the East German system of government. They were brought up under the British communist party principle... and unless you know what that entailed and why/ how the BCP disbanded, it's pointless going further.
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  172. It is interesting to note, however, that Mrs Braverman remains a member of the tory party- a party that had 14 years to organise an enquiry and even now is voting with labour to stop one from happening. Only REFORM wants an open and honest enquiry.
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  173. "Is it because I'm black, Officer?"
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  174.  @peterwait641  the oath is to HMQ and her heirs...
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  175. I have experience of ICL's Point of Sale systems from when I was a petrol station manager and at one time I was 100,000s of litres short and was under investigation. Fortunately an internal auditor used a calculator and cleared me. This begs the question why the Post Office was not notified by ICL when something similar happened there. BELOW IS HOW IT 'WORKED' AT MY COMPANY: 1. start with 25,000 litres of fuel in your tanks 2. Take a delivery of 25,000 litres from a tanker. You physically have 50,000 litres but until you tell the computer about the delivery, it thinks you have 25,000 litres only. 3. Sell 35,000 litres of fuel. You physically have 15,000 litres of fuel but the computer *SHOULD* think you have -10,000. BUT a bug in the software makes -ve numbers absolute, so it thinks you have PLUS 10,000 litres. 4. So now you enter your 25,000 litre delivery notice from the tanker. You still physically have 15,000 litres of fuel in your tanks but according to the computer you should have 35,000 litres. Where is that 20,000 litres? You stole it and sold it, didn't you? No, actually... It was easily cleared up by listing ALL transactions of fuel sold to customer's cars and comparing against delivery notices in. The same would apply to Post Office accounts and my bet is at some point this same bug occurred in their software, turning negatives to positives and inventing incorrect accounting. No accounting package is trustworthy if it doesn't have double entry systems. I am lucky for that one auditor (Mike Morrell) and if he ever reads this then thank you for not letting us go the same way as the Post Office.
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  176. But this is a nonsense. Look at the force you need to exert on the lid to lever it off. OK... 1 litre of paint expands by 20ml. The airgap at the top is going to be 100ml... So the air expands 20%, so 20% of 14psi... that's just not going to be enough to push that lid off like that.
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  177.  @print-master  I have never taken anything that large to sea, my largest being 70 feet and that was with a fixed keel. But I am going to suggest that at anchor it would really make little difference. It wouldn't lower the metacentric gravity of the vessel as some are suggesting here. Think of it a little like an aeroplane wing- that doesn't generate lift when it's sitting at a terminal building, only when there's air going past it. The same applies to the keel fin- it affects stability when it's underway and I'm really not sure that it would have any relevance to this case whatsoever. NB that's my opinion. Others may have differing opinions. I maybe right, they maybe right.
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  178. The Jaguar brand was marketed around the World not just as a fast and powerful car that was well specified and well made, but also exudes the classic 'Britishness' that was once so well admired around the World. See a Jaguar and you think rolling English countryside, castles, golf clubs and so on. But in 2024 that is just no longer seen as desirable. BEFORE anyone seeks to shoot the messenger, as a Jaguar owner and enthusiast- and I mean PROPER Jaguars, not tata tat, I abhor what tata have done. I would also go further and say I'd like to see Indians banned from owning majority shares in UK companies. Why? Am I a nasty, horrid racist who dislikes Indians? No, not at all. But as a Britisher I could never buy the majority of an Indian based company- only Indians can. That is unfair.
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  179.  @alansharman3644  I don't know... The events of 1648 did leave us with a system of government that gave franchise to most, which all but eliminated political corruption and was in fact the only Military coup in history where the deposed were, at first, offered the choice to return to power if they would do so without continuing to rule in a corrupt manner. It is ironic, don't you think. that the first two civil wars happened under King Charles I and King Charles II respectively and now we have Charles III on the throne. Another dullard, ill equipped and lacking judgement or wisdom for the throne.
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  180.  @Cameron9182  gosh! That's terrible. What did he say...?
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  181. I used to manage a DIY store and in my several years there I never heard of this. I've heard of people not following instructions to keep it upright and on a flat surface, but never this. You need to look at the volume of paint and how much it would expand as a % per degree of heat applied and then how much it would pressurise the remaining ar gap at the top. Now consider that you need a screwdriver to lever the lid off the tin and you realise the force due to pressure of expansion would be well beyond that which the paint is capable of generating due to heating UNLES you've taken it from a shed in mid winter and put it in front of a furnace.
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  182. Super injunctions about the PM would be pointless anyway. Any opposition MP (or indeed any of his own if sufficiently disgruntled) could make a statement about it in House of Commons under Parliamentary Privilege and once it is made in this way then it can be freely reported by any media source. I'm sure BBB could elaborate on the legal technicalities better than I can but I am making the assumption that Parliamentary rules cannot be usurped by an injunction- ie if the leaders of the land are not free to speak then how can they lead? And the media are permitted to report on anything that is said in HoC. I suspect this is a hangover from the days before internet and even televised Parliament when such a paradox couldn't have been foreseen.
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  183.  @alangood8190  lefties cannot do so. If they could- if they had the ability to logically think and explain rather than just insult, then they'd be on the right and thus pro-Trump.
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  184. Of course BBB is explaining the law as it stands and I never doubted his legal knowledge. But if we are to agree to comply with the law by consent- as any civilised democracy must- then it has to be seen to be just, even if unfair at times. That you can personally commit a crime and have your punishment determined based on whether you acted alone or in a group of X is quite ridiculous. Whether by design or incompetence, we have a two-tier legal system in this Country and that is just not on. You will have to go a long way to find more than a handful of people who are stupid enough to believe we are all equal before the law.
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  185. Imagine the picture at the pearly gates, you're met by St. Peter: "So, my child, how did you die so horrifically?" // "Well, after I watched another one of BBB's videos I decided it was MY RIGHT to walk across the outside lane of the M25 at which point an 18 wheeler ran over me. Parts of me ended up in London, parts of me in South Hertfordshire and some of me was removed at the local Volvo truck dealership. I DEMANDED that the lorry driver gave way to me, but no he just said something about inertia and then I was a gonner." (Yes, I know that's a different scenario and yes I know motorways are sans pedestrian, but I'm making a point here). I would dearly love to see BBB go driving through London with me and see what the real World is like.
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  186. @homie3461did you bother to READ my comment?
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  187. @homie3461 it's not that at all. You've got people as stupid as you that will do dangerous things because it is "their rights." Well the problem with you people is that you know all your rights but none of your responsibilities and that is why you are so entirely useless for anything. You are not even worthy of further discourse, so will be ignored and blocked if needed. Except to say that if you try a stunt like this with me, I'll take the points just to teach your sorry arse a lesson.
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  188. The same boris who locked us all up for 2 years, whilst not even stopping flights from China to UK? That told me all I needed to know. As for his miraculous re-birth on Easter Sunday, whilst I am pleased he survived (he hasn't turned me quite into a sociopath yet) I didn't believe the way it unfolded; do you remember the way he jumped in front of the TV cameras with 2 thumbs up and his inane grin? That's not the way someone who'd spent 2 weeks in intensive care would react, even boris. No, the man's a compulsive liar. If he cannot even be straight with his own family then how can he be straight with us?
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  189. They've taken an engine and pushed it to the performance limits and people are surprised it needs more maintenance? Would they be surprised to learn that an Aston Martin has a shorter maintenance interval than a Volkswagon Golf?
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  190. Because Syria is now controlled by isis... What do you think they'll do with her when they get to her camp? Lock up one of their own members, or free her to commit more offences against UK?
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  191. You should leave it there, BBB. Be the bigger man. If you report him for fraud and he ends up on a list that may well cause his life to unravel then you will be doing it only for revenge. I can tell you that I used to believe in revenge for the sake of revenge. But in the end fate will come back and bite you. Let it go and hope he's learned his lesson. If the £60 is that important, I'll send it to you myself.
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  192. No they weren't. There is no way of detecting a TV back then or now. They'd be looking through windows or listening, that's all. Think about it for heaven's sake... A tv that gives off anything strong enough to be received out in the road is going to have countless health warnings for anyone sitting in the same room as it.
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  193. OK, I'll accept that Reform cannot function with Rupert Lowe. Got it. Understood. Let us then see how it functions without its core supporters. Dismiss us all as social media keyboard warriors if you like, but we're proportionately more likely to be members, active members, door knockers, leaflet deliverers, and candidates. Half my branch are either resigning or talking about it.
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  194. If you wouldn't walk down the high street telling people something at the top of your voice, then don't write it on SM either.
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  195.  @AladdinSane65  what is Stephen telling us about himself? Nothing really. Except that he doesn't recommend social media.
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  196.  @AladdinSane65  maybe and I've an opinion on you based on your posts too.
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  197.  @AladdinSane65 I've completely forgotten. Something to do with you criticising someone unfairly I think. I don't remember now, but either way I didn't think we'd become life long pen pals over it. Can't you go and find someone else to bore?
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  198. @ 'truth'? How about facts? Aren't you also going to suggest I go away and educate myself? Learn to see things the proper way or whatever else your sort usually spout out?
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  199. @ oh good for you, lad. I'm convinced. Now go and convince the Court.
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  200. @ the Court ruled that he was repeated lies. You don't need to convince me- convince the Court.
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  201. It appears to me there are several legitimate concerns about her conviction though stating a doubt over someone's conviction is a big step away from declaring them innocent. After all, there may have been one or two 'bullseye' points that absolutely did nail her conviction beyond the reasonable doubts of any normal person. My question is: if that is the case, what were those 'bullseye' points and why have the prosecution not simply released a statement to that effect? It seems to me that when people such as David Davis MP, Robert Rinder etc are questioning whether this might be a miscarriage of justice then people need to pay attention. One thing for certain, if this conviction is overturned I can see her making a substantial claim against some of the tabloids for their horrendous pejorative writing.
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  202. 1:42 what a decent bloke for saying that. I personally have been in a very vulnerable position in the past, close to losing absolutely everything through no fault of my own and I know how terribly lonely people can feel in that position. I was lucky and had an ultra-small group of people around me who with friendship, encouragement and just having a shoulder to lean on, I got through it and I am beating back one at a time all those who wronged me. Think Count of Monte Cristo on steroids. If you are going through a difficult time yourself, take BBB's advice- and mine. Fight. Fight. Fight. But ultimately, if you are in the wrong on something then sometimes, as a wise friend of mine told me at the worst point, your only option is to "come out of the woods with your hands up" (a Military euphemism for accepting you're going to lose and seeking a negotiated settlement.) But when you're at your lowest, you'll feel in a war of attrition with the World. You CAN beat it. I did. Good luck. NB there are some people on yt who know me personally and may seek to gain capital out of reading my comment. Go ahead. Better people than them have tried in the past.
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  203.  @julianmeagher9020  is starmer lying? I think he's being quite open about his determination to destroy the Country. That he's openly admitting to everything worries me far more than boris' lies... With boris he was trying to hide his tracks so presumably giving him a chance of re-election. starmer clearly doesn't care how unpopular he is and for a politician, that's unusual... So he must have a personal plan that benefits him for him to so readily give up what he's got. A dangerous man indeed.
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  204. Good grief- how many times do you need telling. It's even in the video- you can use it at a drive through for this purpose.
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  205.  @tims9434  well written. Look at the masses being written and spoken about TR already and the only beneficiaries are the grooming gangs and labour, they're loving this. Now if TR fanatics get their way and he joins Reform (which as far as I know he's not even asked for) then what will the media do? Spend the next four years talking about TR.
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  206. I wouldn't say the driver was impatient. S/he approached the junction as you would in a car and then braked very heavily. The Pan 19 brakes on an Enviro 200 aren't the strongest and to make the nose drop down like that means heavy handed braking at slow speed. This tells me the driver was inexperienced and from that point became solely focused on "I must complete this turn no matter what." So not impatience, incompetence though lack of training.
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  207. Every few weeks in the media you will see a house fire from a dodgy mobile 'phone battery, which is tiny by comparison.
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  208. that's the problem. He thinks he's bigger than the party and that's why he is so authoritarian. That's fine as a protest party but not for a government in waiting. Four years isn't that long.
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  209.  @davidgreenwood5241  there is no disputing that farage is good at campaigning and promoting a party- very much like boris was for the tories. But if you are talking about being a government in waiting that is very different and it is precisely what Rupert Lowe was saying: farage has always been a terrible leader. A great campaigner, but terrible leader. That is just not good enough for someone who hopes to be PM in less than 5 years. The problem with him is that he just won't listen to any criticism and so he cannot learn from his mistakes. That makes him entirely unsuitable for what is after all, a leadership position.
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  210. Policing by consent is in peril in this Country at the moment. I myself recently witnessed a crime and apprehended the criminal as the police were too slow and too dim to understand. I- a normal law abiding bloke- told the copper with 100% sincerity that either he and his colleagues dealt with the problem in town from this group or we would do it ourselves. When normally law abiding people are making such statements it suggests that policing by consent is more or less dead. To think this mad bitch here has a warrant card and can arrest people. The question is- who would comply? I wouldn't. I would not care about the consequences, I would not comply. As someone brought up to respect the police I never throught I'd write the above.
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  211. According to the dullards at the failing hate mail, it was "consumed by flames" earlier.
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  212. I wonder how many people around the World have heard of her. I wonder how many people around the World have heard of gb news. Yes, exactly. This is the sort of rude and abusive attitude that is losing you the few viewers you had. I used to watch daily, but now only when there's nothing else to watch. It's pretty poor to be so rude about the Head of State of one of our allies.
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  213. A vessel of this size will require a watch keeper AT ALL TIMES, even when at anchor. Unlike a large passenger or freight carrier, this does not mean s/he will always be on the bridge and s/he may also be assigned rounds- checking all areas of the vessel- but there will always be someone on duty who is competent and licensed for watch duties. Waterspouts- tornados over water- of the size necessary to sink this vessel are incredibly rare- vanishingly so. If we are to believe that this was just a tragic accident and his co-defendant on the same day 1,000 miles away as just a coincidence then there will be a close watch on whether the ship was prepared for bad weather. Ie was the tender garage locked up, lower cabin windows secure.
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  214. There is one thing MP could do to immediately increase his advertising revenue: Ask people to watch the video right to the end as there's usually two adverts there. Be honest, how many people even knew that and of those who do, how many watch them? I'm sure if he asked, people would oblige.
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  215. As usual, he is quite correct. I was at a meeting when these were first being discussed- they were not universally liked by those voting on them. They are not compliant with regulations (Road Traffic Regulations Act, IIRC) and so aren't enforceable in any case. What was discussed, which our learned friend here didn't mention, (either to agree or disagree) is that if you are involved in an accident whilst exceeding the 'recommended limit' then whether a Court could be persuaded that you were driving without due care and attention or worse. On the basis that the council might argue that they specifically warned and you ignored... Even the Police liaison officer in the various meetings was not certain. But that's WNC for you.
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  216. Have you ever been in a Country in a state of civil war or anarchy? Of course you haven't otherwise you'd not be stupid enough to make such a comment. I have. I worked for the FCO and went to Yugoslavia just after the war and I've also seen the results of the Rwandan genocide. Trust me on this, if law and order broke down you'd s**t yourself and hide in mummy and daddy's spare room under your computer.
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  217. I have a question for BBB. Do you believe that in a Western democracy, law and order is underpinned by consent or do you believe that law and order is underpinned by force? There can of course only be one answer to this and that it 'by consent' for otherwise the notion of democracy fails there and then. I fear the judiciary- indeed the whole state- is backing itself into a corner from which it will never be able to admit the above and will instead turn to force. For force read violence... all law, when not by consent, is enforced at the barrel of a gun.
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  218.  @jamesmaybrick2001 perhaps you've not got enough friends to have ever been invited out. Seriously, what sort of moron are you that would seek to penalise someone for going to the pub with their car- say for dinner or one small drink- and then decide to stay longer? Those who then choose to drive home deserve being caught, but people who then leave their car and go home by other means? Tell me, James, do you have any knives in your kitchen? How would you feel if your local coppers smashed your door down and hauled you off for potentially stabbing someone to death in the future?
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  219. 40:35 Mr Lowe is well aware, but being cautious of saying it... Why are "we" letting all these illegals in? "We" aren't. Look at those in charge of the home office- you won't find too many Mr and Mrs John Smith from Croydon working there, do you understand? Christ- it was only 6,000 years ago that the Trojan Wars happened and we still haven't learned. For the benefit of those who believe the silly story of the wooden horse with Greek Soldiers inside- it's allegory. The horse was and is the symbol of Greece. Some Greeks moved to Troy, then favoured their Greek migrant friends and before you know it there were so many Greeks there that they effectively dominated the place. It's not exactly hard to understand, but so many miss it.
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  220.  @Mark-yk1ny  which is it then? It can't be hard to open AND easy to burst open due to pressure from expansion. There's just not enough potential to generate that pressure. These are cases of not fitting the lid properly.
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  221.  @newagainautoreconditioning  I don't doubt your car clearning credentials, but you are very wrong about the cause of the spillage. The paint won't expand enough to cause an explosive force (I've already posted twice why this is and don't want to do so a third time). What you are seeing is a case where the lid has not been pushed on properly. Most DIY stores (my former store included) has a hydraulic ram that applies just enough pressure to secure the lid without deforming it. The clips are just added as a bonus. Now aside from the physics of why what you claim is impossible (and I am really surprised at BBB not examining this more closely as if this was a real case, he'd have lost) simply go and try to open a tin of paint with your bare hands. Not easy, is it? You need a screwdriver or similar. Now consider how much force you've had to apply- there is just no way you will generate explosive pressure sufficient to push that lid off and even if you could, it'd creep up slightly- not suddenly explode. (5 years DIY management, 0 claims like this though several for lids not being put on properly by staff).
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  222.  @Liberty_Freedom_Brotherhood don't try to be funny. Judges will listen to the evidence provided by both sides and then make a decision. One does not need to be a Judge to understand that there is only speculation on one side and evidence on the other. I have a great respect for BBB and I am genuinely surprised that he has taken these claims at face value without any verification. However, this is a youtube channel and not a Court room and I am sure that were he to legally represent someone in such a case then he would perform due diligence. So nice try at strawman tactics and points for effort, nil points for technique.
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  223. GB NEWS should shut down and stand aside to avoid splitting the viewing figures with ITV, lest ITV fail and leave us only with BBC. I wonder how well that will go down in GB towers.
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  224.  @uncleoldman9639  that on its own is not an arrestable offence.
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  225. ​ @chriscurtain1816  Chris, which law are you referrring to? RTRA I guess? I have never seen the reference you mention. Could you possibly quote, please? There are so many laws relating to roads now it's hard to keep track of them all. TIA.
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  226.  @daryllportas8453  what has Farage said that's a lie? As for contempt for his supporters- I agree with him; you haven't a brain cell among you.
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  227. Only a few days back I 'phoned police to report a driver on the wrong side of a 70mph dual carriageway. They weren't interested (true story I'm afraid). Tonight I saw 2 units sitting on side streets, lights off watching for drivers breaking the rules for the new box junctions their pals at the council have just installed- and this was 10pm ish when traffic was light. Just think on that.
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  228. 13:35 this may have clashed (timewise) with the news but the complainant re bullying has herself stated that the allegation of bullying wasn't even directed at RL.
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  229. Thank you for such nice words, my fellow Brit. Be very sure that it is not migrants like you that we're fed up of and I salute you as my fellow Brit and will have words with anyone who says otherwise.
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  230. @ sadly, yes.
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  231.  @barbaralindner426  as an active campaigner and candidate (withdrawn) I am sorry we- the party- have let you down. But look this way- a lot can happen in 4 years and one of two scenarios will happen: 1) The party recovers either by farage learning a lesson (unlikely as he never has) or by farage being ousted (possible) or by farage leaving for more lucrative work elsewhere (my prediction) in which case we can all rest happy and wish reform well. 2) The party doesn't recover, farage doesn't learn, he doesn't adapt from a protest movement to a government in waiting. At the moment, the media is giving reform an easy ride as it's more fun for them to bash liblabcon. But 18 months out from an election it'll all change and they'll scrutinise everything reform is doing, they'll refer back to March 2025 and show he hasn't learned and reform will fail. Either way, I cannot see that farage (as he is now) will survive the checks and balances that this Country does so well. Thank God.
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  232. Very different forces. The best conditions for sailing boats is when the wind hits the sail at 45 degrees, with the angle of incidence equalling the angle of reflection (best word I can think of right now) and that means the force drives the boat forward. But this also has a component acting to push the vessel to lee (away from the wind) hence why it heels over (or tilts if you prefer). The keel fin counters that, but the force it produces for keeping the vessel upright is proportionate to the speed of the vessel so when slow or moored it really makes little difference. The mast was very tall, yes, but still proportionate for beam and LOA. But it was also made of carbon fibre and aluminium and thus light weight. As for the lifting keel affecting the metacentric, I am not so sure. The weight of it in relation to the whole vessel would be minimal and in any case the heaviest part is the thickest at the top, closest to the hull and tapering off along its length. EVEN IF- IF- retracted, would it greatly effect the CoG? I can't see it.
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  233.  @Aaa-t5x  hello idiot. You DO realise that CPS prosecutes (or not) based on the evidence supplied by police? If you are so stark raving mad that you think there's no connection between police and CPS then you need your head examining.
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  234. One of two things is going to happen to Reform: 1) it recovers from this by farage finally learning from his mistakes and developing a team attitude (unlikely), or farage being removed via EGM (possible) or farage realising he can make more money elsewhere (most likely- especially if he sees the writing on the wall) 2) farage doesn't learn, he isn't removed then the media, which is currently giving reform an easy ride, will do the tried and tested route of build them up and smash them down. At the moment the media is happy to use reform to bash liblabcon, but 2 years from an election you watch them start to scrutinise reform/farage. All the comments from 2025 will re-appear and they'll demolish farage as a single person party. In short, either way the current messianic farage will never become PM. He has to either finally admit to mistakes or he'll be close but not get power. That is one of the great things about UK still- we have checks and balances against dictators- even if this time it's the media that's the check balance.
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  235. What is laughable (you'll excuse the phrase, for it is not 'funny') is that half the reich would not have survived their own Aryan checklist were it applied properly. Two obvious examples being himmler and goering. For anyone who wants to get inside the mind of the top ranking nazis, you need to see 'der untergang' - DOWNFALL. The producers of that masterpiece neither glorify nor berate the nazis, but show it as matter of fact. You see them become weak and feeble creatures protected only by fear as they meet their ends. But the film also serves as a warning as you can be easily drawn into this and almost feel sorry for the broken hitler as he prepares to blow his brains out- then you realise, he's hitler so feck him. I think the producers did that deliberately just to show how easily the nazis managed to bend people to their will. This film is probably the closest you will ever get to understanding the mind of the nazi party and it is horrifying.
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  236. That is sickening. My own flight experience is around 15 hours in a Cessna, and from watching this channel. Yet I predicted everything that was going to be said by MP- and I'm sure many others did. How can an 'experienced' Captain make this many failures? Yes, brain overload etc... but this should have all been second nature. Sickening indeed. But at least flying is the safest form of transport. Apparently.
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  237. That's been an incredible video to watch. I have only ever donned SCUBA gear once and that was in my early teens as a so-called introductory lesson. Our 'instructor' in the Mediterranean (Crete) was barely older than I was and didn't seem to know much more. We didn't go down deep enough to worry about nitrogen gas in the blood, but lobster pots, yacht lines a generally overcast day made for a poor start. I do have a question for any experts, re the bloke whose stomach expanded due to trapped air. Was there anything he could have done to resolve that- ie slower ascent- presumably he'd have then had to burp/belch the air out, which I'm not sure about the practicality of doing so that far down. Or was it a case of once he's consumed that much air that "what is done is done and he needs to get to hospital ASAP." I've long understood the issues of nitrogen in the blood, but never thought about this scenario of 'gulping air.' Hats off to those who know what they're doing.
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  238. 24 hours after all the lefties said Lee Anderson was wrong for claiming islamics have lain siege to London, the said islamics have lain siege to London.
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  239. 3:37 as with so many of the cases highlighted by BBB, he does a very good job of highlighting the law as it stands without taking sides in what is becoming an increasingly partisan issue. However, as I am sure he will agree the law not only must be just, but it must be SEEN to be just. At the moment, like it or not, the perception is that the person highlighting grooming gangs is in prison whilst the grooming gangs themselves are at liberty. Now I know that is not strictly true, but that is the narrative that is being played out around the World and combined with the recent claims of 'two tier justice' it's not looking good for UK PLC right now.
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  240. @ ???
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  241. Again, with the greatest of respect to BBB, in a Western democracy, the whole justice system exists because we choose to allow it to exist. It is possible to quote any number of laws and judgements etc, but ultimately we still see one fact: Those who committed these terrible acts are free whereas those who speak out against it are in prison. This is not going down well. NB I am not a TR supporter. When even those who do not support him are speaking out, there is something wrong.
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  242. The aviation industry will tell you that flying is far safer than travelling by car. But that is debatable. If you look at deaths per passenger miles then of course aviation is safer based solely on the much higher passenger miles a flight includes (say 500 passengers for 3,000 miles=1.5 million passenger miles for a 747 UK/Europe to USA)... Compare to a commuter train 50 miles * 500 passengers= 25,000 passenger miles). However, you could probably use the same argument of passenger miles to show that space travel is safer than aviation using the same statistical model. Or you could use the fatalities per journey and that would show overwhelmingly that cars are much, much safer than aeroplanes. It's all about statistics. You can play Russian Roulette and the odds are in your favour. Same with flying. But if you're on the unlucky flight, you're finished in most cases.
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  243. 6:00 it has been explained by people with more qualifications than I that an end user cannot look at the back end code unless they hack the server. What you see on your PC, even if you select 'view source' is just the output. There is NO WAY to tell what is running on the back office (server) unless you've got access, either with permission or by hacking.
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  244.  @KimThomas-vp4vm  oh come on, you can't rely on banks. He was farage's best buddy then supported tories, dropping farage in it, then back to farage, back to tories, now seemingly back to farage. The other day he was taking a hard line against Rupert. The one to watch is Nick Candy. He defected from tories to reform and people operating at his level don't like being pissed about. He won't take kindly to introducing billionaires to reform only to then see reform implode as that will be seen as affecting his own judgement. My gut instinct is- and I write this without any evidence to support it- that "someone" with money and influence who sees reform is the last chance, will offer farage and muhamed something they can't afford to turn down and they eff off. If not then we're bolloxed as there's no way reform will win under farage now.
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  245.  @bazza224  yes that's a common view from people who are sticking their heads in the ground, putting their fingers in their ears and chanting lalala. Even some of the regional officers are doing it this weekend. But my question to you is- what chance of this being turned around over the next 4.5 years if nothing changes with farage and yousaf. If you think this pair, backed up by the thug lee anderson, is going to get better then I fear you are wrong. farage is utterly incapable of admitting to any errors and therefore he cannot learn from them. Someone said he's like boris- a great campaigner but a terrible leader. He is good at building parties, but then ends up destroying them with his own hubris.
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  246. There has been a similar issue where I live, though not due to someone's actions but instead due to the gross negligence of the contractors working on the bypass; it is 30MPH in one direction, 50MPH in the other direction, some of the signage from intermediate junctions is missing or covered and the 30 MPH signage is only on one side of the road and in one occasion they've put out the 30MPH signs and not covered the 50MPH signs 10 yards behind them. I know at least one person has been caught out over this.
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  247. steve, it's all nonsense. There are no bans. Come on, I mean give your brain a chance. Do you really think that if we were being banned from visiting USA then it wouldn't have been all over the news already? Especially given that President Trump takes over shortly and he is very pro-UK.
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  248. CLIP 1: If it is of interest, I can confirm the first clip found its way to DVSA and the Traffic Commissioners- both branches of the commercial vehicle licensing and enforcement. If you look closely you can see that the bus approached the junction much as a car would and then there was some heavy handed braking at slow speed and you can see the nose of the bus dropping down suddenly. This bus is an E200 and the brakes are Wabco PAN 19- they're OK but direct acting, no S or Z cams, so to get them to snatch like that you've got to put your foot down hard. Both of these are signs of a novice driver. S/he then seems to become confused and become so focused on completing the turn that nothing else momentarily matters. Some people might think that this amounts to me excusing the driver, but they would be wrong. The law says that once you pass a driving test then you are legally competent to make these judgements. But my issue is why a clearly inexperienced driver is in a 11.5 metre Enviro 200 on a school run with no mentor driver to assist. A mentor driver, if present, would have immediately recognised s/he had approached the junction poorly and would have recommended waiting until the oncoming cars had cleared to give more room to complete the turn and any competent mentor driver would have been shouting "STOP" when the bus went up on the kerb. Although I do not routinely teach people to drive buses, every one of our drivers when joining our company goes out with me or a similar manager for assessment, no matter their experience. I show them this video as a perfect example of how a minor lapse of concentration can, if not properly corrected, turn into a potential danger.
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  249. @@RollerballRocco-wr8zq It's not really about the name or the skin colour, is it? Braverman and sunak both have similar heritage. But one is as British as I am (and I can trace my history to the 1600s) and one is as foreign as they come. Why? Braverman lives here, believes in Britain, plans to become our next PM. The other has (had) a green card, his family is in India, his money is in India, he gives all our money to India- funnily enough to a conglomerate that is connected to his wife's family. sunak is not British. He'll thankfully be gone soon and Braverman will take over.
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  250. Any evidence that it's limited to 100 per year?
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  251.  @matthewarnold5531 the SC is simply following precedents set by echr.
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  252. ​ @matthewarnold5531  we are obligated via various treaties that we have signed and that is often called 'International law' for the sake of brevity, but it's a misnomer. As for your claim that pulling out of echr means an end to all rights that you list... I am actually really saddened that so many young and left believe that even though it is completely incorrect. Most of the rights we have originate pre-echr anyway. As for Rwanda being a dodgy regime- you do not know it is judged by your beloved UN as one of the safest states in Africa and it is a luxury holiday destination now? The civil war is decades in the past.
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  253.  @darlenechandler2403  it is common for a large yacht to be owned by a company rather than an individual. This is primarily for tax purposes.
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  254. @ no it is not. You need to go back and look at which company he is "democratising" and then look at which one is registered with EC. You're welcome. Oh and it needs 50% of all members to vote for a change- not 50% of respondents and even then it's only a request to the board- which he chairs.
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  255. 6:38 four years IS a long time in politics. But only if the Messiah learns from his mistakes. Look at the media scrutiny they'll be under closer to a GE. All this will be raked up and there will be analysis after analysis to see if he's learned anything from it, which he won't. Reform has hit its peak I'm afraid.
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  256. Sadly I think you really lack understanding about 1930s. Today every piece of information is available everywhere on social media. Back 90 years ago few outside of Germany would have heard of his book. Christ almighty, it was only a few years before the outbreak of WW2 that Germany was hosting the Olympics and meanwhile AKTION T4 was murdering the sick and elderly, but oh so cleverly so that no one knew... There is a very good article on wikipedia explaining how they got away with it. I don't know how old you are, but if you are under 35 then you'll never have known a time without the internet- if you did you'd understand why your comment is well meaning but fundamentally flawed.
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  257.  @jeffleverence4554  what utter nonsense. If you were right- which you aren't- then every car, plane, truck, bus would be a death trap, every food manufactuter would be killing you and every service provider constantly in the news for causing injury and death due to cost cutting. You are simply knee jerk reacting to what amounts to relatively isolated incidents. Grow up.
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  258.  @mennol3885  I am a capitalist at heart, having seen the alternatives when in Russia during the cold war. However, capitalism has one inherent problem and that is its eventual dominance by one or two market leaders. Here in UK in the 1960s we had over a dozen companies that were capable of designing and making aircraft from scratch; our neighbours the French something similar, as was Germany. In USA, despite being a larger company, probably had slightly less, but themselves much larger. Now Production is worldwide split between Europe/UK Airbus and USA Boeing. Yes, with a tiny share by others. Do you think there is any chance of a new aircraft builder emerging to take on the Boeing/Airbus duopoly? Not when the startup capital will be in the 10s of billions. Governments need to leave capitalism to generate money, for society needs it. BUT must have competition laws (anti-trust in USA) to prevent capitalism consolidating to form monopoly positions.
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  259.  @burtlangoustine1  tell that to the Russians who saw all their companies 'nationalised' and they lived in poverty for decades as a result.
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  260.  @Kat-amber-t2z  what's your suggestion then? Make everything state owned? That worked how well for the USSR?
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  261. How nice it is to see a video where everyone lives. Just this once, everyone got to live. Alas, it takes someone from outside the World of anti-gravity machines to point out that, yet again, it is computer going into mode b unless it is also in mode c then it will default to mode d but not if it is on a Monday afternoon in which case it will default to mode e... Somehow I doubt the Pilots of a DC3 would have failed to identify the faults...
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  262. But you are clearly not an experienced sailor. The Titanic hit an iceberg and is irrelevant. How do you know what precautions, if any, the crew might or might not have taken? How do you know the position of the retractable keel and on the subject of the keel, what do you think it would do? It 'generates' force when it is moving through water but at anchor it generates nothing. It might produce enough resistance to rolling movement at anchor but I doubt it. Or do you think it would noticeably change the CoG by being lifted? Hint: Not really. As for the sail snapping off- they were fully reefed (retracted) to the spar/boom at the BOTTOM of the mast. There was nothing really to catch the wind. Which now asks what DID happen. I'd like to know what the beam to LOA was. If you see the vessel at speed it has a fairly deep hull, but what is its beam?
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  263. 12:47 BBB mentions a viewpoint that others have suggested in which police forces should be merged into larger groups to assist with consistency. I would beg to argue that this is diametrically opposite what we need. We need smaller, more locally accountable police constabularies- much like we had for most of the 20th Century. The argument against is that this would make cross-constabulary co-operation more difficult, such as sharing intelligence etc. But this is wholly false. Back in the good old days when police came from the local area, knew the local area and cared about the local area they would still share cross-constabulary intelligence with their neighbours and that was before the internet. We now see senior police who have so much power, who rule over their multi-county fiefdom and they have become little dictators more involved with politics than policing. No, we need smaller, more locally accountable police forces- people who know about and care for their local places. The proof? OK- is crime now higher or lower than the past? Are police better or worse than in the past? Case for the common sense rests.
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  264. 8:40 and when Boeing couldn't get their supersonic aircraft to work, they turned to their government and said "we cannot allow anyone but flag saluting Americans to make a supersonic aircraft work. Make sure you cause as much trouble as possible for Britain and France- our supposed allies." This was, incidentally, about the same time that UK's greatest ally- America- was doing its best to destroy English Electric too.
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  265.  @apepeterpan  the theory that it has been 'debunked' has been disproven.
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  266. 11:43 BBB might not want to call the foreign project a waste of money, so I'll do it for him. Spending £25 million here there and everywhere while our pensioners have to choose whether to freeze or die of hunger, is a waste of money. Anyone who would favour killing their grandparents in order to fund projects in what is borderline a terrorist state needs to have a word with themselves. As for projects in the Maldives... No doubt some politicians or civil servants will have cheap holidays- I mean work related trips- out there to monitor it.
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  267.  @looloo4029  yes I'd agree BUT Germany has always marketed it strongly on statistics and build quality, not heritage. We did market on heritage, but have now lost that too. Terrible.
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  268. I know this is an old video but if anyone has any opinions on this: If you are stopped at a random roadside police check and they ask you to volunteer for a breath test, if you refuse then what? I wonder if they think that only someone guilty would refuse and therefore now they have reasonable grounds to believe. It seems pointless otherwise.
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  269. But Trump wasn't making those comments to the bbc nor anyone else around the World- except hamas. He was talking to hamas. Now if the left can give their tiny little brains a little exercise, try to imagine what hamas will be doing now. Will they A) declare war on USA B) take seriously the idea of negotiated peace. If you answered A then congratulations, you're a moron. If you answered B then congratulations, you are well on your way to leaving the left behind and actually using your brain.
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  270. Olukemi Badenoch has claimed that they have been watching the back end for days. The thing is that all modern websites, including REFORM's is written with server side scripting (probably PHP) and from the client side you can't tell what code drives the output and therefore even if it were a fake counter, she could not know that unless she has access to the server. The only way to get access to the server is with permission, which is unlikely or if she'd hacked it. So what is it, Olukemi? Are you admitting to the criminal offence of hacking? As for her claim that 'the code was swapped over when this was pointed out'- again that's nonsense. Whatever code is running on the server is invisible to the end user. Go to the page concerned, right click and select view source and you'll see there's pretty much nothing to it. All the hard work is done on the server. Farage has bested her by offering independent auditing. She's declined. He should sue for defamation.
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  271. At the moment the media is giving Reform an easy ride and instead using it to beat the liblabcon. But you wait and see 1 or 2 years out from a GE, if Reform is still polling this high then the media will start scrutinising Reform- and particularly His Fantasticness the Farage- and they'll bring up all the farage Vs Habib/ Lowe issues and see whether farage learned from them (which of course he won't do). In short, the checks and balances we enjoy in UK- in this case the media- will prevent farage from forming a government. He'll never be PM. My guess is that well before this he'll see the writing on the wall and drop out in search of the next big pay cheque. On a very personal point I would love to know what really happened with USA and why Trump dropped farage so suddenly... Not inviting him to his swearing in? His bestest mate in the whole World? That we even before Musk... Does Trump/Musk know something that they aren't telling us?
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  272. @ThatDebtDude I have some information that might be useful for you to add to your next video. As you may know there are about to be a lot of changes with gov debt, but some have already been tested with limited "customers." I think come April a lot of people are going to get a bit of a shock. Happy to help if I can. I have certain experiences myself but lack the ability to communicate out to people what is coming soon.
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  273.  @raven3212  someone once predicted that the right of tories would merge with what was then called The Brexit Party and the left would merge with part of labour, with another part of labour ironically splitting and merging with the greenocrats. I still wouldn't rule out that happening. Though there's so little left of the right side of the tories, whether it would make any difference... Braverman and Jennerick are the only two I can think of that would be welcome in REFORM.
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  274. There have never been any TV detector vans. Come on, your whole credibility is at stake here. What you are talking about is possible in a lab, but not in practice. As for catching people using scanners of prohibited frequencies- that's just them being careless and doing it in the wrong place. Nonsense. The whole lot of this.
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  275. Do you really think it would have made any difference? I don't. The tories have lost the confidence of the population. The leader now is irrelevant. I would like to see him and Braverman join REFORM. I'm surprised they haven't. Yet.
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  276.  @Dudley-x2c yes and if you want FACTS (or the admission that there are few facts) then read the official reports. Certainly don't rely on this highly speculative YT video.
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  277. It must be remembered that President Putin is a former GRU Colonel. He is not some former gangster from the slums, such as saddam hussein, robert mugabe, tony blair... He is shrewd. He will be well aware that even if people in the West do not like him or approve of his actions, that they equally disapprove of the actions of Western so-called 'leaders'. For that reason I don't expect that he will retaliate with all-out war, but more likely some of his hard squad will seek to 'ease out of the way' certain troublesome targets. In short, I'd not want to be a copper on close protection duties near Parliament right now. Ultimately this war cannot be won by attrition, as seems to be the game plan ever since boris the clown killed the peace talks. It is inevitable that eventually the ethnic Russian areas will declare independence and then what? Will zelensky end up fighting his "own" people to stop them? No, he won't and he can't.
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  278. How arrogant (4:00) he was standing for a small party that lacked any real operational support and he is moaning that people didn't come to him on polling day to assist. Well news flash sunshine, there was no army of staff or volunteers to help. This bloke is a bit of an idiot. Seriously, he received 3% of the vote so it was never as if he was in with a chance and Reform rightly had to play their assets where they'd do the most good.
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  279. "Idiotic"? I am really getting pissed off with this bloke. It's not idiotic. It was experimental. Some experiments work. Some do not. Like some channels are worth subscribing to and some are not. This one isn't.
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  280. 10:50 I have to laugh when people call British Airways the UK's flag carrier. A Spanish listed company chaired by a succession of Irish and Spanish CEOs, based in Madrid, flying American and Anglo-French built aircraft, with IT support provided by India, baggage handing supplied by an Arabic owned company and it is financed with Chinese money. A terrible organisation- both as an airline and a British Ambassador.
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  281.  @janebruce6625  what if Reform is going to prove even worse. Hear me out. Imagine they were in Government now and RL made a comment that Prime Minister Farage didn't like; for RL you can actually use anyone. A Government led by someone so autocratic that he will allow no different opinions, no criticism or dissent is dangerous. Even if, as I believe, Mr Farage's motives are true, the old saying of "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely" is perfectly true. Before you or anyone else dismisses me as a lab/con troll, I've been a Referendum Party activist, then joined UKIP and then followed Farage to TBP and Reform. But I fear the monster that he is creating.
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  282. If you think this is detailed then what sort of a degree did you do? This is elementary grade. It is sensitive in its explanation, but very cursory only.
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  283.  @wolfhugs2221  irrelevant.
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  284. Given that the tories are trying- on a daily basis- to invent new reasons for us to vote them out and into oblivion next year, I would not be surprised to find them changing the law so that a tax is required to watch any downloads as well as live TV.
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  285. Then you need to go back to maritime engineering school. It doesn't noticeably affect the metacentric weight at all when at anchor.
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  286. @ thanks Colin. It's still a shame though as we're all broadly on the same side. It's like religion or that scene in Life of Brian when people who are on the same side are arguing over whether it's a shoe or a sandal. All the best.
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  287.  @RobertGabriel-u4q  and on what planet was all that taking place? It's very different from the one on THIS planet. Please stop putting assumptions on social media posts. You are factually well and truly wide of the mark.
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  288.  @RobertGabriel-u4q  I am certainly better informed than you are, that's for certain. From your post it appears that you're either not a member or if you are, you're not active, not a candidate, nothing like that? On that basis I think I'll stick to what I know and not what you THINK you know.
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  289. ​ @RobertGabriel-u4q  because, quite frankly, you're writing bollocks.
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  290. ​ @stuartrobinson1188  ah yes, we're all too foolish to know what we're calling for. Thankfully we have our sarcasm, eh.
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  291.  @lucasporto9285 very few submarines can go below 1,000 metres. These specialist submersibles, such as those diving down to the tiresome Titanic are the type shown in this poorly researched film. At 1,000 metres- well beyond most Naval subs- the pressure is 100 atmospheres and that will indeed crush you but it's nothing like as much as at the sea bed and as such the idea of a submarine pressure vessel instantaneously failing is ridiculous.
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  292.  @henriashurst-pitkanen8735  ah, someone who understands. The ability to commit this level of obscene violence is within you, me, the people near you, the people far from you. We have societies with written and unwritten laws and, for example, most Countries now have some sort of Justice/ remedial system where you can turn to if you are wronged and from that, we place our faith in "revenge" for want of a better word. Now imagine if the World societies all collapse overnight. There are no Police to report evil crimes, no Courts to pronounce sentences and the only justice comes from the force of violence. How long do you think it will take the human race 2023 to descend to this level of barbarity? The bad news is that slowly and surely this is just what is already happening. For the answer- just look at the likes of al quada or isis, who have set up some spectacularly evil terror and torture to advance their reputation.
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  293. With respect, there is no paradox. Fermi and co had a quick discussion over lunch and never proposed this as anything more substantial. We live on the outer edge of a spiral arm, far, far from the Galactic centre. Towards the centre we can be reasonably sure that solar systems are much closer together and indeed, maybe there are inhabitants who have made contact. This is a bit like living in the North Pole, wondering why you never see anyone and theorising about places such as London, New York, Paris, Tokyo...
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  294. Don't tell them to come back with a warrant, you wally. For that could be misinterpreted as a sign of guilt and that might, just might, persuade a naff Magistrate acting under strong representation to give one. Simply say "I do not need a licence. Goodbye." and shut the door. Don't be rude, don't be aggressive, don't do anything that makes you stand out from everyone else and thus become their office's standing No1 target. "I do not need a licence. Goodbye."
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  295.  @tonyslight826  that's a foolish viewpoint and I'm sure you'll realise it once you've reflected on it. Firstly, how do you feel about guilty until innocent proven as a concept of justice? Secondly how do you feel about farage ruling the Country alone, with anyone critical or dissenting being punished and destroyed? If you're not sure then look up any dictator you want.
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  296. Re pyramids... in any modern construction there will be skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled people involved. Why would the pyramids be any different? Slaves wouldn't have the skills to make the buildings so accurate and by the same turn would you use your best trained builders to haul massive stones across the desert? No. So why is the encampment only appearing to be 10,000 capacity and not 100,000? Well simply that the trained engineers of the day lived in accommodation that has left traces whereas the 90,000 slaves lived in tents leaving no trace. History is quite easy to work out when you look at modern practices and remember that our psyche hasn't changed much in all those years.
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  297. Perhaps everyone could calm down and look at this objectively for a moment. LOOK at the amount of time that is being devoted to discussing TR rather than the issues he has actually raised. Now imagine he was to join Reform- what do people think the media would do? Somehow though I think I'm wasting my time trying to help people think about it objectively.
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  298. No, there's just no ability for paint changing temperature to generate enough pressure to pop the lid off. Have you never noticed that you have to use a fair bit of force to lever the lid off to start with?
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  299. 7:27 despite BBB clearly mentioning E-NIC, most people won't even know it exists, let alone why it's important. In my company, it shows ENIC on the wage slip and shows how much that employer has cost the company through the year and how much tax has been paid overall and then shows the overall cost/tax ratio. It's quite shocking when you realise even a basic earner is paying near 40%. NB before anyone tells me this is illegal- no, it's not. It's illegal to not put the earnings/ tax on the payslip, but there's no law telling us that we cannot put more information on in addition to it as long as the mandatory is there and clear.
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  300.  @MephitisUK  as a point of note, in USA- at least some states- it is illegal to carry alcohol in the saloon of the car. I wouldn't put it past our finest MPs (joke) to try that next.
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  301. If a REFORM UK MP were to ask Reeves in the HoC whether she was an economist, she's got the choice of being honest and admitting she wasn't then surely she will have to resign. Or she can mislead the HoC and then end up having to resign for lying to them anyway. Either way, I cannot see how she can possibly carry on much longer.
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  302. I can see no legitimate reason for them to display information- such as "investigation started" in the second window on the envelope, so that anyone in the postal system can be made aware of my licence status; this is an issue if they (Postman?) doesn't understand the legislation and thus assumes I'm a law breaker.
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  303. Re the pub example; it is a terrible state of affairs when, for the last few decades our House of Commons has been made up primarily of failed lawyers, that our legislation should be so utterliy ridiculous. Laws only work in a democracy when they are sensible and proportionate. How many people drive to the pub for dinner and one drink and then end up staying there longer? Countless. In reality, no one is going to 'phone a taxi when they arrive for a pre-determined departure time, but instead wait until they're ready.
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  304.  @ancietman  perhaps that is more to do with the quality of labour and the tories. I wonder how much YOU KNOW about Reform. Are you a member? Are you active as a member? Are you standing for election? Have you knocked on doors? Have you met the hierarchy? Until you can answer 'yes' to all those, you need to listen to those of us who already can say yes. Farage is a great campaigner, that's true enough. But he is a catastrophically bad leader, a bit like boris. The problem is that he just cannot delegate and everything has to be about him. He was accused by Lowe of being messianic and his response to that was to say "everyone in Reform only got where they did because of me", rather proving the point. Imagine for a moment farage was Prime Minister. He would rule alone, or perhaps with yousaf. No cabinet, no advisors, nothing. Anyone who criticised him would be punished, have their reputation destroyed. Does that not sound a little worrying to you? It does to me.
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  305.  @cliffdixon6422  I'd forgotten about Carswell. I know he was a difficult chap, but he was just one of many on the list who couldn't work with Farage. farage came to visit our branch before the referendum. He turned up hours late, talked down to us for 5 minutes, begged for donations then cleared off, giving short shrift to those who wanted a photo with him or just shaking his hand. I know he was busy and had many people to see, but he was supposedly the leader, the focal point to look up to and it was the WAY in which he declined. But he has form for that... He has recently said that he hates meeting people because they want to talk to him. I've had a growing fear for a little while about him becoming PM and thankfully I can't see it happening now. Just imagine him and zia yusaf running the Country together, with no cabinet needed, no criticism, dissent or disagreement allowed from anyone. Even if- IF- he was working from the basis of a good heart anyone who works without advice, second opinions etc will become a dictator, whether they would wish to be or not. He cannot and must not be allowed to become PM.
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  306. @Rees-007 well I'm sure you must know best then- you watched an interview. (sarcasm)
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  307. Good grief. Imagine if this po-faced left winger (come on, she is, they always are) was around in 1939? Can anyone translate that into German for me? No- and that's because we were lucky NOT to have her sort around then. Safety is always a careful balancing act with adventure, learning and discovery. Her sort have taken all that away and now we have several generations of children (now adults) who don't even understand how to ask questions, let alone learn to answer them.
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  308.  @JuliusFawcett  how do you arrive at that conclusion? Because the leader of a party declined to accept his membership application?
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  309.  @JuliusFawcett  oh dear, we can't have that, can we? We can't have anyone not showing respect for your hero. Boo. Boo. Tommy Robinson for PM, President, King, Pope, leader of all the human race...
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  310. 5:50... IF he sues her? This whole video was on the premise that Andre had information that he was already doing so..
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  311. A 60ft racing yacht is designed for this very possibility. This was a cruising yacht and not so designed. It is more of an issue to understand what forces caused it to heel over to that point anyway. It's sails were in and as a fore-aft rigged ship, the sails are neatly stowed (automatically) near the base of the mast (the boom). That lowers the CoG. It would be interesting to know the beam Vs LOA.
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  312.  @talbenavraham1478  I would have said about 5 : 1 on this vessel, but either way, that's still a wide beam to heel over as we're led to believe.
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  313.  @WatThaDeuce  it COULD have. But it DOESN'T. You can clearly see on the photos that it stores in the boom. Likely fully automated too. Clever kit.
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  314. 7:05 Andre missed an option: FARAGE: "Sue Olukemi Badenoch? Quite frankly, I don't think it's worth it. She's done. Her party is done, I am not going to kick someone when they're down and done. I'm better than that." --> She's done and he looks great and I think that's what he'll do. He'd have instructed lawyers already otherwise. (just my guess, no claim of inside knowledge) NB how can the tories not have anyone who could have advised Badenoch on this matter in the first place? Surely SOMEONE in the tory party would have known you cannot see back end server scripts unless you have access to the server.
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  315.  @dbblues.9168  having had something sort of similar, but less intrusive, I can concur that it doesn't take much these days. Gone are the days when police would analyse information and maybe even go out and look for some basic evidence first. No, now they just go in like bull in a china shop. They're out of control I'm afraid.
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  316.  @greenpedal370  almost as bad as the supermarket in Surrey being under investigation for branding tampons as 'women's sanitary products'.
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  317. I've watched many, probably now most, of the videos on this channel and without a doubt this is the most disturbing. Why? Because we are ourselves throughout the World seeing a breakdown in society, the rules- both written and un-written that deal with how we govern others, are governed by others and how we seek 'justice' when wronged, are all quickly dissolving. Anyone who thinks we cannot reach this level of barbarity needs to remember that for all our technology, our individual psyche has evolved little in aeons. We are, as someone put it, chimpanzees with i-phones.
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  318. He HAS already. If it wasn't for him then we'd still be a territory of Germany.
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  319.  @Cdr_Mansfield_Cumming  policing by consent is dying. The myth is that I will obey police officers in return for their protecting within the law. If they are no longer protecting me, why should I obey them? When that dawns on X% of the population then we are going to see more than the failure of a few chinless wonders dressed up like bin men. But be sure, we will see this soon. I wouldn't cross the street to pee on a modern copper that was on fire. It's a shame as I was brought up to respect proper coppers. But that's a different era.
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  320. If I were starmer, I would be worried about finding a modern day Colonel Thomas Pride. Sadly, 99.9% of people won't even know who he was, or even care. But he triggered one of the most significant events in British history. Will the modern command of the British Army likewise think that Parliament has gone beyond the limits of its power? Will they honour the official command structure and obey starmer's orders or will they follow their tradition of putting Britain first. I can't wait to find out- I suspect the Army High Command will be as split on this as the politicians will be. It is ironic, for reasons that 99.9% will not realise, that we have a King Charles on the throne.
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  321. I would like to ask this channel presenter and indeed, anyone, the following question: "If hitler had not committed mass murder- from aktion t4, which was the mass murder of sick and elderly, to operation reinhardt, which was the genocide of Jews and others, and one took solely his economic policy, would hitler have succeeded? Would he be hated as he is today? Finally- the big one- COULD he have achieved his economic regeneration and modernisation without the evil cruelty or are they inter-dependent? I know some will look at the above in a subjective and emotional way and not be able to process the pure logical part of the question and if that's you then I suspect you've missed the whole point of this video, let alone my question.
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  322. Very inexperienced: yes. Tight turn: no, not at all.
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  323.  @brucewilliamsstudio4932  the way you come across is "There are some really bad pilots out there and I am so much better than them and would never make such a mistake." I'm not really interested anyway. I am a qualified psychologist and have assessed flightcrew before and this, together with other comments you've made, would be noteworthy to me. But to be hones, I'm not being paid to analyse you so I couldn't give a monkeys.
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  324. In short, thanks to david cameron's ill advised bombing of Syria when PM, isis eventually has taken control. begum is an isis member and so she'll be let go when isis reach her prison camp. Do we want an isis terrorist locked up in Belmarsh where we can keep an eye on her or free to plot her next attack from Syria? That's all Farage noted. He didn't even offer a conclusion.
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  325. The problem with farage being PM is that he wants to also be deputy PM, Chancellor, Foreign Secretary, Home Secretary, Defence Secretary, Health Secretary... he wants to run UK as a one man band from the Faragenbuncker and that's not a good look.
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  326. @jdhamer9356 there is some merit in your argument, that's for sure. However, this is precisely the very point Rupert Lowe was making. Farage can either be a one-man band leading a protest party OR he can be a LEADER of a government in waiting but he must choose which. Your final point of "well, otherwise it's starmer" is flawed and, with respect, utterly silly. If you think that's enough to get Farage elected then you really don't understand politics well enough. On a personal note, and it's entirely my view without evidence, just an opinion, I don't see any way back now for Reform. They are boasting of Friday's poll showing continued support, but all this happened over the weekend. The media are pulling apart and you can be sure tories and labour will next week. But a week is a long time in politics and 4.5 years much longer- anything could happen. Or could it? Can farage learn from this mistake? Well, he's never learned before, has he?
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  327. Never mind the rainbow poppy, that's a distraction. What about the massive cash reserves- the RBL has £70 MILLION quid in the bank. Yet Squaddies are living on the streets. For years I've been giving money-personally and via work- believing I was helping those who risked it all and the families of those who gave it all. Instead it turns out I'm paying for diversity 'champions'. Stuff the RBL. The thing is that I don't know who to give to. I WANT to do my part to help our brave protectors. But who to trust?
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  328. I have a theory- and you'll need to bear with me a moment- that the whole story is bollocks. One only needs to consider that, as an example, one person started the story of the Loch Ness 'Monster' as a story and now millions of gullible people believe it. Here in UK, much of our own history has been very significantly changed as a result of over-exuberant Victorians trying to gain one-up-manship and I'm sure the same is true elsewhere. A mix of Chinese whispers and fairy tales designed to frighten children of that age.
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  329. You don't believe the Intelligence Service is behind farage's behaviour, do you? Please tell me you don't. farage is just following the money as he always does.
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  330.  @mikeplaysit  every major Country does indeed keep briefings on all other major Countries, including allies and neutrals. That is correct. it is wise. But to put it into contrast, every major Country (certainly UK and USA) have briefings on how to handle a visit by extraterrestrials. In short, governments use their operatives to prepare for anything and everything. Now that is very, very different from the silly comments that suggest farage is a Mossad plant. He is simply a money digging, egotistical maniac who has now had his motives brought into the open. He's not a spy.
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  331. Have you reported it for misinformation yet?
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  332.  @Alexalbert13  just below the video at the right hand side will be three dots. If you click them then one of the options is REPORT VIDEO (or similar depending on browser type). You can report it for misinformation but I find reporting it for racial discrimination/ incitement sort of thing to be more effective. Remember it's all done on numbers so the more people who report it the better the chance of it being taken down. It's all AI BS anyway.
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  333. Surely this means the ETOPS rating for this configuration of 777 should be brought into question. No? I suppose not- too much money at stake. They're only passenger and crew lives and not worth damaging airline stocks and shares for.
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  334. ​ @hansvonmannschaft9062  I agree with you entirely. If it were up to me- and clearly most people- I would build up on the Jaguar heritage. Brand Britain has fallen in value because of one thing: we've let it. If you look now all the aspiring class are buying German, not British, and that is because Germany has built a reputation for reliability and modern style. What is OUR USP? Heritage? Gone. Quality? Gone. Managed decline in one way or another. I hate saying this and were it up to me I'd reverse it. It CAN be done, but it's not even in the control of Jaguar to make brand Britain attractive again. I would reiterate comments I've made already that I wouldn't have allowed Indians to buy any of our companies*. Why? Because as a Britisher I cannot buy any Indian companies- I can have minority shareholdings but the majority must be owned by Indians. *By Indians, I mean people living in India with Indian passports and not British people living in Britain who have Indian heritage- I've no problems with the majority of them.
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  335. In 10 years from now, REFORM will have been in Government for anywhere between 6 years and, well, 10 years. labour aren't going to make it to 2029 and I foresee a change of government later this year or at the latest, Autumn next. This is important as with the likes of Rupert Lowe at the top he'll see through the right changes- socially as well as economically- and you'll feel safe walking down the street, both as a pensioner and a Veteran. Have faith.
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  336. To all the TR fanatics I would like to pass on keir starmer's congratulations. For whilst you're constantly bleating on about TR and arguing over whether he should become a member of REFORM or not then focus is shifting from the grooming gangs to the TR/NF manufactured argument. This is precisely why Farage doesn't want TR fanatics in Reform- it's because no matter what the subject, it's hijacked as a TR movement. I actually have some sympathy for TR- he did bring grooming to the forefront. It's his damned supporters that are the problem.
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  337. ​ @MarkFoster321789  he is only C in C in a ceremonial capacity, so I wouldn't worry. The real danger is that whilst there will be a sizeable percentage of the British Military that would potentially revolt at such a dangerous order, there will be enough career types who will see it through for personal gain; even the Army isn't immune to having those sort of people. We could well see the Army split upon this. If only we had a modern day Colonel Thomas Pride, eh.
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  338.  @changer_of_ways_999  yes I had the same thing in Waterstones, UK, some years back. This fat thing working there who wanted to tell me all her opinions, told me we should never be like the nazis and should burn the book. When I explained to her that one of the nazi traits was burning books they didn't like I said "yes, you SHOULD look embaressed."
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  339. IN AN ALTERNATE REALITY - FARAGE "I disagree with what Rupert has said, but I've arranged to meet with him for a pint to discuss it privately and I'm sure we'll sort it out." Result: The matter is forgotten in a day, both blokes approval rating increases, Reform wins in 2029. However, in this reality, I now can't see Reform surviving much less winning. Too many people are now aware of what farage is really like and the dangers of someone so unstable becoming PM are unthinkable.
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  340. 'sucks'? Hmm....
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  341. Hang on a moment, nigel... Looking at this ENTIRELY OBJECTIVELY for a moment, are we saying that muslims would automatically disapprove of the deportation of ch1ld r4p15ts? Surely as equal members of society they are just as disgusted by this as we are. I realise some will be choking on that last bit, but remember the word OBJECTIVELY... Either they are with us or they aren't. Which is it, Nigel?
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  342. I'm sure if you contact the MCA and make that suggestion. I'm sure they really need it. Not.
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  343. If inflation falls from 10% to 4% that doesn't mean food prices- or any prices- reduce by 6%, dullards. It just means that they aren't rising as quickly as they once were. Dear me, I realise gb news is a pretty shambolic organisation, little better than channel 4, but come on.
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  344. @BlackBeltBarrister it is not widely known but ICL supplied a derivative of this same software to a well known oil company. My area had this system and it resulted in some of us "losing" literally millions of litres of fuel. We were lucky that a proper internal auditor realised that for so many sites to suddenly have "crooked managers selling fuel for cash" was unlikely, especially after a software upgrade... So he manually went through all deliveries to site and all sales and- shock, they balanced. The relevance? The oil company notified ICL of this fault and it was rectified. This was around the same time as Horizon- BUT crucially it happened BEFORE many of the prosecutions against PO staff. There can therefore be no possibility that ICL were unaware of these faults. EDIT: I appreciate that this comment is effectively duplicating what BBB has already stated was known, but I think now showing ICL were aware from TWO fronts makes it harder for them to cover this one up.
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  345. For anyone interested, this is how it happened at my company: 1) Suppose you start with 25,000 litres of fuel in your tank and you receive a delivery of 25,000 more litres 2) Now you have 50,000 litres there but the computer thinks you have only 25,000 litres. Between the delivery and you entering in your fuel receipt you sell 35,000 litres 3) Now you physically have 15,000 litres but the computer thinks you have -10,000 litres. 4) The assumption is that you now enter your fuel delivery into the computer and it will balance? No... 5) The ICL system we used (and I'll bet it was the same modules in Horizon) couldn't understand -ve numbers, so it made it +ve. 6) So instead of -10,000 litres it thinks it is +10,000 litres and you add your delivery note of 25,000 litres so the balance is 35,000 according to thhe computer. 7) This means that the difference between the computer's record and your own record is 20,000 litres. If that happens twice per week over months... The faults in our system are so similar to the Post Office and given it's the same company that produced it. How can ICL or PO claim they were unaware when they were made aware of ours.
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  346. When BBB stated that this is the outcome that should have happened, he lost any and all respect from me. The law in this Country is supposed to be that which the average person would find just and fair. Judging by the comments below, BBB has misjudged this one. Let us be clear about this: an innocent girl was arrested unlawfully for a crime that doesn't even exist. Were this a single issue then perhaps a significant disciplinary would have sufficed, such as re-training in the law. But it isn't. This Constable has form for this. For the sake of faith in policing by consent she had to have been dismissed. But then Mr Shen-Smith here is not one of us and no amount of him pretending to be will ever change that. He is part of the establishment. He makes money not from defending the innocent from wrong, or prosecution of the wrongdoer, but simply seeing us all as a commodity to make money. I suppose that it is necessary for certain professional detachment that means he doesn't view anything except from the narrow prism of 'the law says.' Who was it that said we all have a duty to refuse compliance with bad law? Mr Shen-Smith might like to think on that; as part of the establishment peddling law, his reason for existence depends on our consent.
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  347. As much as I respect BBB's viewpoint and knowledge of the law- as well as the fact that sometimes he can be seen to tread a very fine line between what is fair and what is just. However, when it comes to road transport law I can often disagree with him. I am sure he's right and I would lose in Court if up against him, but when bad legislation is inflicted upon people he cannot be surprised when people rebel against it. If you think what the consequences of these new laws mean- and I'll use my real World translation: "If you even THINK that a pedestrian might step out in front of you at a junction then you must stop, block the road and even in this case block what amounts (or should) to a defacto box junction. At what point does a driver have to stop? When a pedestrian is crossing (fair enough), one foot on the kerb (hmmm...) but now it appears when they are walking anywhere in the vicinity of a crossing- as this bloke was doing when the van driver started his turn. This is bad legislation and what BBB needs to remember is that in a Western democracy the law exists only by consent. We are already seeing bad laws being ignored on a daily basis and that will continue to get worse. Incidentally, the company I work for has a similar policy that if the company (or its expert advisors) think our drivers are in the right then they'll underwrite legal costs of defence. I take issue with the claim that this company could be breaking the law- they never claimed they would give legal advice, only supply legal support which could be engaging someone like BBB. Caveat: I do note he said "might".
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  348. @homie3461yes, jeremy vine, whatever you say dear. We've seen what your clarifying law has done here. You get run over and killed, but so what, at least you had the MORAL right of way, eh?
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  349. @homie3461no I'm not. I'm just very patronising of people like you.
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  350. ​@homie3461 I've changed my mind entirely. YOU have 100% right to walk wherever you want and make the vehicles stop. I applaud you for sticking to your principles. BRAVO! Now off you trot and put it into practice. Then we might get some peace and quiet around here.
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  351. Farage supporters, notably Arron Banks and co, claim that this is a mere blip and there's four and a half years to go. I disagree. This has just been the latest in a series of debacles that shows Nigel Farage cannot learn from his mistakes. He is a fantastic campaigner, but as a leader, he is utterly terrible. Rupert Lowe has said that Reform needs to grow from a protest party into a government in waiting and he's right. Now the Prime Minister needs to be, above all else, a leader, not a campaigner. For that reason, the closer we get to the next GE the more scrutiny will be placed upon Farage and his inability to lead. He would be a terrible danger if he were allowed to rule by fear.
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  352. 0:20 "Aircraft today are built to aMAAAYZINg safety standards...." He says right before introducing yet another accident. (no offence intended; I've long given up my days of trusting luck over gravity).
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  353. Hah! youtube has just shown me a video advert for a diving holiday. No thanks.
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  354. If BBB is being criticised by left for being too right and right for being too left then he probably has it about right. Certainly I don't always agree with him, but where I don't, it's for an objective reason. I would add that sometimes he appears to be caught up in the whole mechanism of the law and forgets that it is under-pinned by democratic consent and that consent is not guaranteed. However, that's the perception and I don't think for one minute he's blind to that fact.
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  355. 7:30 I was recently the victim of a police incompetency issue when they came along and seized my company vehicles, based on clearly malicious claims that they were stolen. Despite having ownership documentation, they were not interested- not even enough to pause and say "You have 2 minutes to convince me..." nothing at all. They were "only obeying their orders." To make matters worse, these were armed police too, so no surprise poor Jean Charles deMenezes was murdered by these low lives. Until you have experienced police incompetence you have no idea whatsoever it is like. I have consulted those who have taken on the police and seen pictures of them in hospital after 'resisting arrest' even when CCTV shows they submitted. Yes, you did read that right, and I don't blame your scepticism- I didn't believe it until I saw it either. But then it's never really about their incompetence, but their lies to cover it up afterwards... Anyone remember Hillsborough? The police claims the fans were rioting. Anyone remember Jean Charles de Menezes who was quietly reading a book and hadn't been chased through a station as they claimed. Anyone remember Sarah Everard? How about Ian Tomlinson?
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  356. This is sheer nonsense. There were no vans in 1952 or any other year that could detect TV RECEIVERS from 100ft. You CAN detect a tiny emission from a TV set tuner, but you had to be so close as to be inside the TV. This has been debunked so many times that I am surprised this channel is presenting this as fact. If you are in doubt then ask yourself this one point: If emissions from a TV are strong enough to be detected outside the set, outside your house (through brick walls) and into the street, where is the government advice for you to sit behind two inches of lead armour? Exactly.
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  357. Don't worry, he'll be off to India soon with his family and that's where his money lives.
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  358. I manage a depot for an International transport company and I receive a call every week or so from a driver letting me know that he or his vehicle has come under attack. We now have a good working relationship with local commercial garages, who have repaired brokwn windscreens, stabbed tyres and broken locks. The Prime Minister is very badly mistaken if he actually believes this situation is getting better. As for the bleeding heart brigade- you want to go over there at night, on your own, and see what they're really like- they didn't call it the jungle for a fecking laugh. The idea that they'll all suddenly be law abiding when they get here is ridiculous. Anyone remember the night they broke into Calais port and rushed a ferry? I was there. Well, perhaps not the one you heard about but on one of SEVERAL occasions this has happened.
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  359. ​ @xaiano794  is that right? When were YOU last in calais? Not when was someone who knew someone who has heard of someone- when were YOU last there? This Country has a right problem at the moment and that is poeople are going on their personal ideals that match their pre-conceived ideas rather than on fact. Go on, have a day out in Calais and then come back and tell me the jungle has gone.
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  360.  @xaiano794 I am calling you out on this. I don't beed 'pre-conceived ideas' as I get reports from our drivers several times per week. Your whole argument, such as it is, reads more like someone who cannot get over losing a democratic vote 7 YEARS ago. Get over it and move on with your life.
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  361. Have you reported it for misinformation yet?
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  362. What an excellent video. I could not agree more; in fact, I could have written the script myself. I am a long term member and activist, starting with The Referendum Party in 1994, where I was introduced to this young man named 'Nigel somebody or other.' Then Ukip then TBP/RPUK. I personally don't see a way back from this for Reform now, nor should there be. I have had doubts about Farage's suitability to govern for some time now but this has been one danger warning sign too many with Rupert. Even if, as I suspect, Farage still has a 'good heart' could you imagine him as Prime Minister, ruling alone, without a cabinet- or a cabinet in name only? Even if you could tolerate that, could you tolerate a Prime Minister who punishes people for disagreeing with him? Would that only apply to MPs or would it apply to any of us? Kim Jong Un Farage, if you like. As a former candidate for GE and for May this year, I am devastated by all of this and to the point where I have to say that I would encourage everyone NOT to vote for RPUK; as it stands now, it would be a terrible risk of forming a defacto dictatorship. Whether it is farage or yousaf or both that need to go, I don't know, but those two running the Country would be terribly dangerous.
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  363. BBB is indeed a formidable lawyer. For he has taken consumer protection legislation right to the extreme to try and prove his point. No criticism intended- that's his job. But aside from the fact that this exploding paint theory can be demonstrably disproven, the argument of fitness for purpose, for example: surely this comes down to what a reasonable average person would expect and what would be expected of them. For example if you were transporting home some dangerous chemicals it might be expected that the amateur would need some specialist guidance- but carrying PAINT? As 100,000s do successfully each year? Come on BBB, you're pushing it a bit. The paint tins ARE designed to be fit for purpose; perhaps BBB has never done any DIY but if he did then he'd know those lids do not open easily at the best of times, let alone accident. CAVEAT: IF SECURED PROPERLY BY STAFF WHEN BEING MIXED. There's one question I'd really like BBB to elaborate on: As I understand it if in any situation a person is partly held to have contributed to their own loss (for example, a pedestrian who doesn't look where he's going and trips on someone's badly laid paving slabs) then they can see their compensation reduced. Well if I sell someone a tin of paint and the lid is not sealed properly and is clearly not and they take it and stick it on the passenger seat of their car, are they too not partly negligent? Checking a tin lid is secured does not require any expertise and I would argue it is in the ability range of any normal person.
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  364.  @BlackBeltBarrister thank you. Above comments very sincere, btw. I disagree with you on this one but you really are making a good argument and if a Judge doesn't have my background knowledge of the subject then I can see how you'd win on points.
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  365. MP reassures everyone that the aviation sector learns from each and every death to try and reduce how often people die in the future, and I think that deserves respect. But given there are certain similarities here to Tenerife, I wonder whether they do learn. Aircraft still keep crashing every now and then and yes I know, there's more chance being killed walking to the shops than in an aircraft (a statistical abomination that doesn't stand up to any real scrutiny) but equally it is hard to take seriously the claims of safety when this keeps on happening.
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  366. The conservatives have said they will vote with labour to STOP an enquiry. Work that one out. 14 years they had and nothing. Now? Nothing. They're all as bad. Only REFORM wants an enquiry.
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  367.  @NatMart9394  and what do you propose they do? Oh I'm sure that you could list any targets you want and they'd permanently ease them out of the way and 6ft under. But that is not the job of the Military. That is the job of police. The police failed. People were calling on the tories to have an enquiry. They failed. People are calling on the labour government to hold an enquiry. They failed. Indeed, even the tories are going to vote with labour to stop it. Sorry, I know you mean well, but you can't expect Special Forces to go and 'eliminate' criminals just because our legal system fails.
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  368. ​ @rhondasisco-cleveland2665  Machiavelli was not evil and nor was his greatest work, The Prince. In this book- which you have to remember has been through at least one translation, often two, that he was advising powerful people how to exert control, to protect themselves. He also steered them towards using violence is sparingly as possible. This might be right or it might be wrong and you'll have to compare it to the general sociopolitics of the time. But that is very far removed from a book that is effectively an argument for mass genocide.
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  369. ​ @mikewalker1885  I don't know. The issue is the beam of the vessel and as you wrote, that's a lot of weight low down in the vessel. From the pictures I've seen the vessel has a fairly high freeboard and a beam perhaps of 30ft- you'd have to get that at 45 degrees to begin to get water onto the main deck and to allow enough water in to sink it, that would have to be the case for several minutes at least. But that's not what we saw in the video.
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  370. As an aside, the specifications are clear to see for a zebra crossing. So every year when several councils paint them in rainbow colours, are they enforceable?
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  371.  @ianholloway3778  the same will apply.
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  372.  @ianholloway3778  no, that's in schedule 1 of this SI. S6a. I'm guessing you're a qwerty? Groan. Look, this isn't about you and I'm not anti anything really, but simply pointing out that these crossings, when defaced with rainbows, are no longer legally enforceable.
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  373.  @senseisecurityschool9337  oh no it's not- not outside the dirty unwashed camps of left wing marxists.
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  374.  @libusebuckova7603  the first reasonably balanced post from the "I know my rights" brigade. Tell me, how do you as an employee who'd show no loyalty to an employer, expect any loyalty back? When my company went into trouble through no fault of ours, most staff stayed with us as they were loyal- and when we sorted ourselves out, they received a bonus and pay rise and some put forward for promotion. Those who walked out on us and then came back afterwards asking for their old jobs back were told to foxtrot oscar.
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  375. He sounds like a gay version of Clarkson. Does this young lad have any qualifications in driving? Or is he just an average driver with an inflated opinion of himself?
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  376.  @benhewitt7824  I really rather think that anyone benefiting from his advice should not hold a licence. Indeed, I suspect most don't.
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  377.  @prismpyre7653  at 40K (above the service ceiling for the Tristar) oxygen levels are so low that you could kill the fire with depressurisation.
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  378.  @ladoga  cooled exhaust gas? From a gas turbine? OK... But why would you want the extra weight and complexity of ducting and cooling systems when you could have a couple of large nitrogen tanks. Flood the compartment with nitrogen and out goes your fire.
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