Nigel Farage

[Rum]

..but you don't even make any sense.

[cronus]

..but you don't even make any sense.

..I've no political influence so don't you worry about that.

[Brian Peacock]

You haven't watched the video. Save your comments on it for when you have.

The 'population spurt' of the last 50 years is fully accounted for by the increased longevity of adults while the number of children born remains steady, and is set to remain steady for the foreseeable future.

As it said most of the increase has occurred in Asian countries. I've seen a similar documentary. And have no reason to fault the logic of following the line of best fit. In nature populations are dynamic and non-linear, surges and crashes are the norm. If it wasn't for my education in non-linear dynamics I'd buy the statistical argument. It is all a little 'just-so' regarding future developments though when you reflect on the massive changes that preceded into the past....being better educated might reduce the birth rate, certainly, but that is not the direction of educational standards in the West, and presumably else where as time goes on and the economic system continues to crumble....

Hopeless.

Farage, like his party, is one big assumption; that whatever he thinks counts as Britishness is a unique and discrete thing that is diluted when people who come here from abroad - as if just being born within the transmission zone of the BBC somehow endows one with the requisite quota of True Britishness - for which one must read True Englishness of course. His brand of nationalism isn't the kind that seeks to wrest political autonomy from the hands of an Imperialist power but the kind which is only ever about excluding difference; the tired new face to the tired old kind of bigotry that used to be reserved for gypsies, the Irish, women, and the ghays. The talk of England being overrun by foreigners is bollocks from start to end, both logical and factually, but it appeals to the intuition of the fearful.

What are you frighted for Crump? What are your frightened of? Who are you frightened for? Who are you frightened of? Why?

[Rum]

He's frightened of everything. Apparently on our behalf.

[cronus]

I'm tired of change I suppose. Seen so much upheaval. Consider BHS? Another standard of the high street vanishes and likely replaced by something holding a indo-chines-polish name and odd branded goods of dubious health and origin.

[pErvinalia]

Why do people bother responding to this doom laden word salad nonsense..and I'm not referring to Mr Peacock.

I'm starting to wonder that myself.

[cronus]

Why do people bother responding to this doom laden word salad nonsense..and I'm not referring to Mr Peacock.

I'm starting to wonder that myself.

Because you haven't any answers whereas Donald Trump has....

[Brian Peacock]

"Round them up and send them home" creates more problems than it addresses. The man is a hypocrite who has no problem employing immigrants and union-breaking at his gold plated Las Vegas hotel while championing unions on the campaign trail as, "About the only political force reminding us to remember the American family." Farage is cut from the same cloth, championing True British Values while, for example, blaming traffic jams on immigrants, asserting an immigrant crime wave that hasn't actually happened, and resisting calls to accept lone child refugees. But I guess if True British Values embrace ill-informed bigotry and a woeful lack of compassion then perhaps he has a point.

[Svartalf]

British values? you mean rum sodomy and the lash? a life that is nasty, brutish and short?

[Rum]

What century are you living in Svarty?

[Svartalf]

in the middle ages, mostly

[Rum]

Tte Revolution passed you by then!

[Svartalf]

I was safely abroad

[cronus]

See the BBC doing some propaganda about how the fishing industry in Grimsby will be effected by a Brexit. Nevermind the fact the old fisherman pointed out, quite correctly, the industry had collapsed and there are only the dregs of it left...a dozen boats from 400 in the seventies...and most of Grimsby's employment is with the industrial chemical factories along the Humber Bank these days, which can only profit from expanding to global markets.

[rainbow]

I was safely abroad

Did you enjoy the sausage?