The reason there is no MACR is because the crash occurred in an area where the US authorities had access and the aircraft was not missing, and so there is a Form 14 (Report of Aircraft Accident) for the loss instead, which is listed. The photographs of the crash site are marked as having come from the accident report.

I have only seen wartime deaths of US service personnel registered before the US entry into the conflict and the Isle of Man. It would appear there was an arrangement made to exempt the US services from having to register deaths in the UK for the duration. Post war, and I am not entirely sure when it occurred, deaths began to be registered in the UK.

The crowns are a military mark, it’s on a jacket I have, not quite dress uniform, it’s plain green but definitely more ceremonial than a working uniform item.

Edit: I should have added that it is a Swedish military mark.

Did I see a short piece in one of the national papers saying he had been asked to leave the rally while in the Sudan/Ethiopia area after carrying out a forced landing on that sector?

From my understanding of Mercury, and it isn’t that great (never really studied it during my contaminated land studies), is that elemental Mercury as it would be in the steel containers is not too much of a problem in so far as it is not easily absorbed into the natural environment. It is heavy enough that if a lot were to escape most would settle to low spots but it could be distributed by ocean currents and wave action and become broken up into lots of small beads which gives a greater surface area on which reactions can take place with other elements/compounds in the sea. If it reacts with anything around it to form compounds then it can usually be easily absorbed into living organisms and being a persistent poison does not leave again and then accumulates in larger predators. That is why eating a lot of Tuna can lead to raised levels of heavy metals, especially Mercury, they feed on the fish which feed on the shrimp which feed on the plankton which are the first to absorb Mercury from the sea. You certainly wouldn’t want to touch shellfish from somewhere which was contaminated with Mercury.

MBS, do you go out of your way to find the most right wing anti-immigration videos you can on youtube to repost here or is it entirely accidental? Seems like a game to see how far can you push the Mods before getting yourself red carded.

Clearly you don’t wish to repeat the Office for National Statistics report figures because it will undermine your position John, so I’ll help you hole your own ship. The most recent report is the month of April 2016. The deficit on goods & services in April was £3.3Bn, taken as goods alone the deficit was £10.5Bn, and those are monthly figures. The quarterly figures were moving in our favour with reducing deficits, this may well change but we shall have to await further reports to be sure of that. Figure 1 of the report shows just how volatile the balance of payments can be, it will be very interesting to see what happens next.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/bulletins/uktrade/apr2016

As an aside, when the next government fails to secure an agreement with the other 27 nations of the EU (if the Brexit camp stick to the ridiculous idea of halting/massively curtailing immigration, see four core principles of the free market) and we lose the passporting of services I could see that balance of payments going well into the negative as it is services which currently keep us at times to within £1Bn of being a net exporter.

Sovereign Parliament and Justice system, good one there considering that Parliament is already sovereign and has the power to repeal any Act that it has passed.

All EU legislation has to passed into UK law by our Parliament and before it arrives at our shores goes through a scrutiny process which is more rigerous than our own and it is a process we have a veto over anyway so if our politicians really don’t like it then it’s vetoed before it becomes EU law.

As for the justice system, well when we created the UK Supreme Court in 2009 a court was created to finally replace the House of Lords in the UK justice system, yes there are courts in Europe which affect us (you’re going to bang on about ECHR & ECJ). The Supreme Court & Europe page on the Supreme Court site makes for a slightly interesting (if sleep inducing) read and sets out why while they consider whether legislation is compatible with the ECHR they can where appropriate overrule their decisions and send them back to Europe so they can be ‘reconsidered’, and they have done that.

Beyond that we have the undemocratic House of Lords full of appointed cronies, hereditaries and men in frocks. I think i’d rather have the extra brake in Brussels & Strasbourg.

I’ve stayed away from this for over a week, good to see it’s still going. John, as one of the 48 I will whinge and carp all I like thank you very much for I am about to dragged to a place I did not and do not want to go to and don’t intend to go quietly.

The out vote has lit a touch paper beneath British politics which has the main parties tearing themselves apart leaving the country like a headless chicken at a time when we need clarity. I have found that my MP is utterly useless, he’s too busy retweeting that odious Andrea Leadsom’s nonsense to actually answer legitimate concerns of his constituents or say anything about the overt racism which we are hearing more or less daily now in the local area (last week it was hard to go to the shops without hearing somekind of racist remarks being made). It’s a sad day when the least worst option seems to be Mrs May, I am just hoping that the Police find something to fit her up with as they hate her even more than most people.

The people’s verdict was more or less a draw, with the number of people now coming out regretting having voted leave a re-run tomorrow would almost certainly go the other way. It would only be a true verdict if it was overwhelming, which it wasn’t.