Sadly Sky High you are exactly right, and it greatly upsets me the way things are at the moment.
I’m not anti-NATO,UN or American, Its just the values just don’t fit in anymore and it seems the quest is driven by money and not human life.

I just feel the UN and NATO are very selective on what countries they help and don’t help and Syria,Bahrian, Zimbabwe, Iran and Belarus to name a few all seem to be allowed to be ruled and mistreated by insane dicators and Libya where oil is said to be of the highest quality and plentiful gets UN and NATO assistance.

My wife is from Belarus and still has family there and there is plenty of things very disturbing going on as Europe look on.

The countries economy is in freefall and the Belarusian rouble lost half its value over night. Partly because before the last election Alexander Lukashenko doubled public sector and pensioners pay and won the election by 79.42% of the vote. Although during this time most of the opposition leaders ended up with a spell in prison.

On the 11th April this year there was a bomb attack on Oktyabrskaya metro station that killed over 14 people and hurt many more. The security forces raided all the opposition leaders offices and arrested 2 so called terrorists on the next day their names were never publicly released and to this day the whole situation has a odd feel about it. At the time Lukashenko blamed “The West” for trying to distablise Belarus.

The Belarussian public can not protest without being brutally supressed, People are also queuing at banks to get their money out incase the banks are unable to give the money out. People are not spending roubles and instead dealing in euro or dollars and there has been some panic buying in last few days or so.
The Belarussian government has also recently thrown out Russian and European reporters and controls the media totally.
I remind you that Belarus shares borders with Europe and Russian gas comes through Belarus to Europe.

Then there is Iran, A good friend of ours is a reporter and was tortured while in Iran in ways I can not write here. Her family are still there and if she phones them the security services break in to the calls, Her internet connection is also tampered with whenever she uses it. Her family have had all their assests frozen and are arrested anytime she writes anything here, Her father has been tortured several times in the last few years. She can not return home and visit family at fear of arrest and torture and is in many ways isolated.

All I am saying is yes a agree that Libya deserves regime change, But the way NATO and UN cherry picks who they get involved with bugs me.

If we fail in Libya, The following will happen we will have lost more people who did not need to die, Spent more money we did not have,left a country more distablised then it was before and still not achieved the USA aim of controling the oil there.

As much as I do not like changing history in films, I think this over all is a good move.
Around 20 years ago a friend of mine had a dog calleed Digger they wanted to name him after N@gger but decided it could be embarrassing should he run off anywhere and you need to call him back.

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the thing that was a crime for fans of this show was that the last ever episode was absolutely dire ( even compared to the rest of the final run ) it was as if they didn’t actualy care about the signifficance of it !!

although no matter how good the stars were it lost it’s way once compo and nora had gone !!

From what I heard Roy Clarke had written another 5 or 6 shows that would of brought it to a more natural end. However the BBC wanted to end show sooner.
I feel its a Shame that such a long serving show was dumped the way it was it should of been allowed a more natural end.

Dave, Thanks for explaining the story behind the lost tapes, Its a great pity that the BBC do not explain this as an extra on the DVDs as I am sure many people would want to know.
Infact it adds to the history of the show and credit should of been given really.

I chose to stay out of commenting on the recent events on the forum, and do feel very sad the Grey Area has decided to resign from the forum as a moderator.
I hope he chooses to return even only as a regular forum poster, Sad day indeed.

Nobody has mentioned Green Wing.

Odd that, it was just about the funniest thing on television during its brief run.

Moggy

I never saw it for some reason