PortageeDoes HMX-1 (presidential flight) still operate their Ch46s or have they now gone all V-22 Osprey?
Sorry slight drift from the original USMC question.
PortageeIt’s not splitting hairs, differentiating Labour and Scottish Labour, because it’ll be the same Scottish Labour activists that will come to my door ahead of the next Holyrood election, beating the drum for a candidate who wants to save local services that their Westminster colleague they were promoting, has just voted to cut at a UK level.
Oh and Scotland and Wales are constituent Nations along with England that together with Northern Ireland form the United Kingdom. The SNP and Plaid represent the interests of these nations. Only if the SNP represented part of Scotland, or conversely presented candidates into Northern England could the area of interest possibly in the right circumstances be referred to as regional within the UK.
PortageeIt’s not splitting hairs, differentiating Labour and Scottish Labour, because it’ll be the same Scottish Labour activists that will come to my door ahead of the next Holyrood election, beating the drum for a candidate who wants to save local services that their Westminster colleague they were promoting, has just voted to cut at a UK level.
Oh and Scotland and Wales are constituent Nations along with England that together with Northern Ireland form the United Kingdom. The SNP and Plaid represent the interests of these nations. Only if the SNP represented part of Scotland, or conversely presented candidates into Northern England could the area of interest possibly in the right circumstances be referred to as regional within the UK.
PortageeAh, but once the Scots get power by the back door will they want independence still?
In retrospect the referendum vote was the luckiest thing ever for the SNP
Moggy
I admit that I was one of those that voted Yes at the referendum, even though I had doubts about whether Scotland would be as successful in today’s world as opposed to another few years building Scotland up within the current framework, letting Scot’s and other countries looking in, see what the Parliament in Edinburgh can has achieved and could achieve more. In some ways I think Westminster saw this and actually forced the referendum to happen whilst the economy was at a low, whilst Greece had pulled the Eurozone’s knickers down leaving it very exposed.
What Westminster didn’t foresee was what actually happened “a good defeat” for the Yes campaign and the SNP. That the SNP haven’t crumbled and crawled back into the Highlands, that the promises they as NO campaigners made hoping they wouldn’t have to go through with are not just being coming back to haunt them. But with a likely 30+ or perhaps even 40 SNP MPs they are having to act on them to the discomfiture of the Westminster establishment.
Once again you miss the point or perhaps I have failed to articulate it. Plaid Cymry and the SNP are NOT national parties, all the others are and therefore represent the United Kingdom. Labour, Tories and Liberals are contesting every Scottish seat and UKIP 41 of the Scottish seats. The SNP are not contesting any seats outside Scotland. Plaid and the SNP only represent Wales and Scotland respectively. So I do not accept your argument. All of this notwithstanding the deficiencies of our electoral system, about which we agree and accept is unlikely to change in the forseeable future.
None of this has anything to do with nationalist policies for separation, as you seem to suggest.
You seem to be mixing yourself up here by the National, of course the SNP are a National party that’s what the N stands for. Perhaps it would be better to refer to “Westminster Parties”, but still there is confusion. You suggest that the Westminster Parties are standing in all the seats in Scotland, yet the people with the funny rosettes in Blue, Red and LibDem Gold (as opposed to SNP Yellow) that come to my door all have the word Scottish written on them… Scottish Conservative, Scottish Labour or Scottish LibDem, their leaflets are all the same, pictures of Hod-it, Dod-it and Skelp-it (sorry that’s Cameron, Miliband and Clegg) with their Scottish Party name. Where are these Westminster or UK parties that you refer to. The only one I’ve seen that is a UK party is UKIP, and the least said about them the better in these parts.
I am voting for our sitting MP, Jack Lopresti he at least has served in Afghanistan and supports Military charities among others.
So there you are Paul 178 is voting Conservative. As long as me and my wifes Pension and disability payments are ring fenced the rest of the country can go to hell in a handcart. Selfish you bet but I have been through harder times than many people and I would like what is left to me to be secure and as comfortable as possible.
An MP should first and foremost be a constituency MP, and if you feel that this is the man for your constituency then I’m please that you have someone like that in your area. I’m sure that many of us would love the chance to show support for someone who has been there, not just talked the talk, but actually walked the walk. I hope that he is able regardless of his party influence matters in some way that makes life better for you and your wife.
PortageeAh, but once the Scots get power by the back door will they want independence still?
In retrospect the referendum vote was the luckiest thing ever for the SNP
Moggy
I admit that I was one of those that voted Yes at the referendum, even though I had doubts about whether Scotland would be as successful in today’s world as opposed to another few years building Scotland up within the current framework, letting Scot’s and other countries looking in, see what the Parliament in Edinburgh can has achieved and could achieve more. In some ways I think Westminster saw this and actually forced the referendum to happen whilst the economy was at a low, whilst Greece had pulled the Eurozone’s knickers down leaving it very exposed.
What Westminster didn’t foresee was what actually happened “a good defeat” for the Yes campaign and the SNP. That the SNP haven’t crumbled and crawled back into the Highlands, that the promises they as NO campaigners made hoping they wouldn’t have to go through with are not just being coming back to haunt them. But with a likely 30+ or perhaps even 40 SNP MPs they are having to act on them to the discomfiture of the Westminster establishment.
Once again you miss the point or perhaps I have failed to articulate it. Plaid Cymry and the SNP are NOT national parties, all the others are and therefore represent the United Kingdom. Labour, Tories and Liberals are contesting every Scottish seat and UKIP 41 of the Scottish seats. The SNP are not contesting any seats outside Scotland. Plaid and the SNP only represent Wales and Scotland respectively. So I do not accept your argument. All of this notwithstanding the deficiencies of our electoral system, about which we agree and accept is unlikely to change in the forseeable future.
None of this has anything to do with nationalist policies for separation, as you seem to suggest.
You seem to be mixing yourself up here by the National, of course the SNP are a National party that’s what the N stands for. Perhaps it would be better to refer to “Westminster Parties”, but still there is confusion. You suggest that the Westminster Parties are standing in all the seats in Scotland, yet the people with the funny rosettes in Blue, Red and LibDem Gold (as opposed to SNP Yellow) that come to my door all have the word Scottish written on them… Scottish Conservative, Scottish Labour or Scottish LibDem, their leaflets are all the same, pictures of Hod-it, Dod-it and Skelp-it (sorry that’s Cameron, Miliband and Clegg) with their Scottish Party name. Where are these Westminster or UK parties that you refer to. The only one I’ve seen that is a UK party is UKIP, and the least said about them the better in these parts.
I am voting for our sitting MP, Jack Lopresti he at least has served in Afghanistan and supports Military charities among others.
So there you are Paul 178 is voting Conservative. As long as me and my wifes Pension and disability payments are ring fenced the rest of the country can go to hell in a handcart. Selfish you bet but I have been through harder times than many people and I would like what is left to me to be secure and as comfortable as possible.
An MP should first and foremost be a constituency MP, and if you feel that this is the man for your constituency then I’m please that you have someone like that in your area. I’m sure that many of us would love the chance to show support for someone who has been there, not just talked the talk, but actually walked the walk. I hope that he is able regardless of his party influence matters in some way that makes life better for you and your wife.
PortageeI think it’s hilarious, all of a sudden the English politicians have realised that Westminster could be strongly influenced by Scots, they conveniently turned a blind Eye to the Scottish Labour MPs that helped to make Labour majorities in their day, because they knew the MPs would be following the Westminster Party line even if it wasn’t good for Scotland.
Now though that it’s the SNP, the Westminster parties are terrified that Scots might actually have enough influence to change UK politics forever. To break up the old Westminster ethos of saying UK and meaning England, that’s from both Conservative and Labour. To do that doesn’t mean another referendum, it means holding Westminster to promises that both sides made to get No votes at the last one.
There will be fallout, the days of the Conservative or Labour Majority are gone forever, it might even lead to a change in the voting system, who knows. But I for one look forward to watching the Westminster parties flounder around in the knowledge that for the first time probably in generations, they will have to be truly thinking and meaning UK when they say UK.
PortageeI think it’s hilarious, all of a sudden the English politicians have realised that Westminster could be strongly influenced by Scots, they conveniently turned a blind Eye to the Scottish Labour MPs that helped to make Labour majorities in their day, because they knew the MPs would be following the Westminster Party line even if it wasn’t good for Scotland.
Now though that it’s the SNP, the Westminster parties are terrified that Scots might actually have enough influence to change UK politics forever. To break up the old Westminster ethos of saying UK and meaning England, that’s from both Conservative and Labour. To do that doesn’t mean another referendum, it means holding Westminster to promises that both sides made to get No votes at the last one.
There will be fallout, the days of the Conservative or Labour Majority are gone forever, it might even lead to a change in the voting system, who knows. But I for one look forward to watching the Westminster parties flounder around in the knowledge that for the first time probably in generations, they will have to be truly thinking and meaning UK when they say UK.
PortageeSurely it’s up to someone’s defence lawyer in a court of law to prove incapacity, and therefore have charges dropped. Not for someone within the CPS to decide not to progress the case to court in the first place.
PortageeSurely it’s up to someone’s defence lawyer in a court of law to prove incapacity, and therefore have charges dropped. Not for someone within the CPS to decide not to progress the case to court in the first place.
PortageeI’ve been up that way so often to Knockhill racing circuit I can’t believe I haven’t popped in there at some point.
PortageeI’ve been up that way so often to Knockhill racing circuit I can’t believe I haven’t popped in there at some point.
PortageeIncidently, this is a T.21b, not an A-model. Only one ‘A’ was built and it is no longer with us. Not a Sedbergh TX.1 either, since this particular aircraft was never used by the military, but delivered new to a civilian customer.
The listing I used was from the NMS’s own website…
http://www.nms.ac.uk/national-museum-of-flight/discover-the-museum/our-aircraft/aircraft-location/
PortageeAny of the missing ATC gliders would be great. A wartime Slingsby T.7 or T.8 stands out. They are cheap, and available. Slightly newer, a Slingsby Venture, on which many learnt to fly. Ugly as hell, but they are slowly disappearing from the scene and are now still available cheap and stock.
East Fortune has
Slingsby T.8 Tutor (Kirby T.7 Cadet TX.1) TS291,
and
Slingsby T.21A (Sedbergh TX.1) Se-SHK in deep storage.
Perhaps once they complete the overhaul work on the Hangers 2 and 3 they might be able to display this and their other gliders.
PortageeHaving downloaded and watched some of the content of the multi party debate there are a few things I’d like to say.
The SNP kept wittering on about getting rid of nuclear weapons which would entail Trident or its replacement. Whilst one might think this a good move I beg to differ, the armed forces have been decimated so much people simply do not realise how stretched they now are, you could stick the Army in a football stadium and they would not fill it…. But I’m drifting, let’s look at the nuclear deterrent and the advantages, take the Ukraine, they had a large stockpile and they disposed of them after the UK ie us and the good old USA promised to defend them against any incursion…. We have all seen how that went, we re aged and the a Ukraine is ravaged by war, do you think Putin would have even considered any of it if the Ukraine had the facility to turn Russia into glass?…… The answer has to be no and the answer to retaining our nuclear capability in this unstable world is yes.
[Counter argument – devils advocate]
If the UK Government doesn’t have to pay the day-to-day bills for the Trident fleet, an begin spending on the replacement. The defence budget whilst probably not getting all of that money would likely not have been squeezed as much. That would mean less cutbacks all around, more boots filled, less early withdrawal of needed Kit, less chance of totally dropped balls like MPAs.
The biggest question given how much money has been spent, what is the Deterrent actually doing these days?
Is it deterring Islamist Extremists from attacking people in the UK? …The 7/7 London Bombs in 2005, Glasgow Airport 2007, attempted suicide Bomb in Exeter in 2008 or more recently Lee Rigby, an off duty soldier murdered outside Woolwich barracks. That would be a resounding No !
Ukraine isn’t in my view a good example of what happens when you give up the deterrent, the Blacksea fleet in Crimea has always been a ticking bomb. unless your suggesting that Putin’s next move is to land the patrolling Bears in the UK as soon as the Tridents are gone?
[/Counter argument -devils advocate]
PortageeHaving downloaded and watched some of the content of the multi party debate there are a few things I’d like to say.
The SNP kept wittering on about getting rid of nuclear weapons which would entail Trident or its replacement. Whilst one might think this a good move I beg to differ, the armed forces have been decimated so much people simply do not realise how stretched they now are, you could stick the Army in a football stadium and they would not fill it…. But I’m drifting, let’s look at the nuclear deterrent and the advantages, take the Ukraine, they had a large stockpile and they disposed of them after the UK ie us and the good old USA promised to defend them against any incursion…. We have all seen how that went, we re aged and the a Ukraine is ravaged by war, do you think Putin would have even considered any of it if the Ukraine had the facility to turn Russia into glass?…… The answer has to be no and the answer to retaining our nuclear capability in this unstable world is yes.
[Counter argument – devils advocate]
If the UK Government doesn’t have to pay the day-to-day bills for the Trident fleet, an begin spending on the replacement. The defence budget whilst probably not getting all of that money would likely not have been squeezed as much. That would mean less cutbacks all around, more boots filled, less early withdrawal of needed Kit, less chance of totally dropped balls like MPAs.
The biggest question given how much money has been spent, what is the Deterrent actually doing these days?
Is it deterring Islamist Extremists from attacking people in the UK? …The 7/7 London Bombs in 2005, Glasgow Airport 2007, attempted suicide Bomb in Exeter in 2008 or more recently Lee Rigby, an off duty soldier murdered outside Woolwich barracks. That would be a resounding No !
Ukraine isn’t in my view a good example of what happens when you give up the deterrent, the Blacksea fleet in Crimea has always been a ticking bomb. unless your suggesting that Putin’s next move is to land the patrolling Bears in the UK as soon as the Tridents are gone?
[/Counter argument -devils advocate]
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