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Emm in London : Getting Lost in the Woods of Laggan Hill, Crieff

Wed, 21 Dec 2022 10:14:26 +0000

I hadn't realised you were still blogging, but you commented on my post and I am glad I found this. It looks beautiful. I don't know any of the places you mention but the experience of getting lost in the woods on a walk is very familiar! It is okay until you find yourself on top of a cliff somewhere with no particular idea where to go. Your post was in November, and it seems that in that part of Scotland, as well as further south, the weather remained pleasantly autumnal and it hardly felt as if summer had ended. Jenny.

http://www.conservativehome.com/ : Our Survey. Next Tory Leader. Johnson more than triples his score to come top - for the first time s

Wed, 22 Aug 2018 11:25:00 +0000

I am not sure he will really challenge May. He knows he can't do the job, we saw that in 2016 when he crumpled up at the chance of becoming PM and leading the party to Brexit. We saw how he quit being Foreign secretary after making a hash of it, by pretending he disapproved of some of the very views he held himself less than 2 years ago. Being PM is still a job he won't be able to do, but he's painted himself into a corner so I'll be interested to see how he gets out of it this time. Hopefully he will manage to jump free before he actually has to try. By then he will have done even more damage to his country, his party and any foolish enough to support him. What he really needs is his own TV show, perhaps someone can convince him to go for that.

http://www.conservativehome.com/ : Our Survey. Next Tory Leader. Johnson more than triples his score to come top - for the first time s

Wed, 22 Aug 2018 11:20:39 +0000

We've seen for ourselves that Boris achieved nothing as Foreign Secretary, just created embarrassment and was finally sidelined. We saw he was too timid to fight for the leadership that was in his grasp in 2016, because it was too hard for him. Now he has quit as Foreign Secretary by pretending he disapproves of views he held himself just 2 years ago. Being PM is not about the country chortling at a weak man's witty put downs and insults to authority figures, it is not a job for a quitter and coward, it is a deadly serious job on which depends our lives, our health, our security and our futures. To vote for a weak poser who can't show the voters ONE SINGLE THING he has ever done for them, is pure suicide for the Conservatives.

http://www.conservativehome.com/ : Lord Ashcroft: Special Report - Malta makes a strong case to host the EU outposts of British compani

Sat, 30 Jun 2018 20:06:47 +0000

International nuclear regulations are laws to ensure safety when dealing with nuclear materials. so I don't know why you think that's to do with "the EU being bloody minded." The UK, in refusing to remain in Euratom, has got in a huge mess because as a non EU country it won't be able to participate properly in cross border scientific cooperation without spending a fortune on making itself independently compliant with those much needed legal regulations about transporting radioactive materials, etc. Britain's choice, 100 percent. So, the supply of vital materials for some medical scans will be seriously disrupted by Brexit, with particular problems with the radioisotope Molbydenum which has only 6 hours of half-life and has to be shipped without delay from Holland. Warnings were given some time ago of potential supply problems with this isotope, we were estimated to need several cyclotrons to supply the needs of our own cancer centres, but this advice was ignored. So we are stuffed. One result will be that MRI and PET scan equipment in our hospitals lie idle, while Brits with symptoms of serious disease won't get the vital scans needed for diagnosis and treatment. Cancer radiotherapy will also be severely limited. It seems inevitable that many of these patients will just die like they did in the 1970s and before. Let's hope you, I and our loved ones will not be among them. I have no idea what your other point means about someone giving someone else £10,000 or something. Sorry Peter but it does not seem possible to have serious discussions with you. You seem to have got most of your info out of the popular press and it is vague and inaccurate enough to make serious discussion impossible. You had better go on believing everything you say if it makes you feel better, but when reality bites, don't blame the EU, blame the poor saps who desperately wanted a Brexit they didn't understand, fixed by shady billionaires who know EXACTLY what they intend to screw from our country at our expense.

http://www.conservativehome.com/ : Lord Ashcroft: Special Report - Malta makes a strong case to host the EU outposts of British compani

Fri, 29 Jun 2018 15:46:01 +0000

Posting on the same thread here... seems OK to me. Your comment used the word "bollocks" about the BMA's line, which implies a vulgar and generalised dismissal of all they say. I am quite prepared to believe you said it from a position of total ignorance but you can hardly expect anyone to take it seriously. That's all. As for the medical reasons for being gravely concerned over Brexit, anyone interested can take a look at these from the Lancet. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article... https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article... Also look up Euratom and see what effect Britain's current position will have, among other things, on the diagnosis and treatment of cancers since there will be no reliable access to certain isotopes necessary for some diagnostic scans in the UK, and radiotherapy treatment will be gravely compromised. People like Lord Ashcroft can afford to buy Maltese citizenship and get medical treatment there, but it won't be available in the UK for love or money since under the proposed arrangements the UK will not comply with international nuclear safeguards in handling the isotopes.. Yeah, bollocks, eh, Peter? God knows about the people in your local hospital, by the way, I don't have any information or figures on what their national origins actually are and I would lay a large bet you don't either.

http://www.conservativehome.com/ : Lord Ashcroft: Special Report - Malta makes a strong case to host the EU outposts of British compani

Fri, 29 Jun 2018 14:48:02 +0000

Paddy, this Peter bloke is the guy who doesn't know anything - he thinks the BMA's doctors are all talking bollocks but that it's irrelevant that he has no medical qualifications to back up his view, and he gave a very silly reply to something I wrote too. I think you will find he doesn't know much about the EU and globalism either. Very pro Brexit though :)

http://www.conservativehome.com/ : Lord Ashcroft: Special Report - Malta makes a strong case to host the EU outposts of British compani

Thu, 28 Jun 2018 19:58:50 +0000

Perhaps not just pathetic. I suspect that there is stuff going on which needs further investigation.

http://www.conservativehome.com/ : Lord Ashcroft: Special Report - Malta makes a strong case to host the EU outposts of British compani

Thu, 28 Jun 2018 18:14:16 +0000

I am not an economist so forgive me I'm wrong but isn't it also a matter of what kind of FDI? Some is beneficial when it involves improving training and boosts infrastructure - but it can also put a lot of control into the hands of people one might much prefer to have nothing to do with.

http://www.conservativehome.com/ : Lord Ashcroft: Special Report - Malta makes a strong case to host the EU outposts of British compani

Thu, 28 Jun 2018 16:16:38 +0000

Here's an analysis of why it's dropped by 92% since 2016, so it does seem a bit of a mystery actually .... but please explain more clearly the point you are trying to make? https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/foreign-investment-in...

http://www.conservativehome.com/ : Lord Ashcroft: Special Report - Malta makes a strong case to host the EU outposts of British compani

Thu, 28 Jun 2018 14:13:59 +0000

I used to live in Malta. Nice place. Great restaurant in Mosta too almost oppose the Dome. I think it's something to do with Lord Nelson.

http://www.conservativehome.com/ : Lord Ashcroft: Special Report - Malta makes a strong case to host the EU outposts of British compani

Thu, 28 Jun 2018 14:13:08 +0000

Haven't the Russians also been involved in the internal affairs of other countries?

http://www.conservativehome.com/ : Lord Ashcroft: Special Report - Malta makes a strong case to host the EU outposts of British compani

Thu, 28 Jun 2018 14:10:35 +0000

What are your medical qualifications, Peter?

http://www.conservativehome.com/ : Lord Ashcroft: Special Report - Malta makes a strong case to host the EU outposts of British compani

Thu, 28 Jun 2018 14:08:14 +0000

PeterBeater, I wrote I "feel " because I have not enough evidence to draw a firm conclusion, so asked Lord Ashcroft to explain his thinking. We all know there were innumerable warnings from serious sources of huge Brexit damage to Britain's economy before the referendum. They were dismissed as "project Fear" but many of those grave warnings now look likely to come to pass, so, rationally, one might conclude that Lord Ashcroft was catastrophically wrong before the vote. And, if he can get something so very huge, so very badly wrong, it's rather hard to see why anyone should wish to take his advice now. But in fact he does NOT think he was wrong; he goes on to say he still believes in Brexit. Therefore I would appreciate some clarification as to what exactly he believes are the benefits in store for us which will balance out (yes, only balance out) the job losses and problems already caused by Brexit, and further, which will bolster us against the tens of thousands of skilled jobs now at risk, should those disasters come to pass as a result of Brexit. If he isn't willing to go into that, I don't really know how he can expect anyone at all to take him seriously and people will of course draw their own conclusions. After all he has promoted and still believes in something which is now looking to many like a disaster for Britain, pushed by some very nasty people in league with our nation's enemies. I am not suggesting Lord Ashcroft is one of this circle. My own impression is that he has been a bigoted fool who is now scrambling to benefit himself at the expense of his own country's loss, instead of trying to do anything to help Britain. Believe me, I'd really love to be wrong that we have people like that in positions of power in this country. But I will check back on his next blog post and see how - or perhaps if - he responds. If he doesn't offer a sensible response, I don't think it's unreasonable for people to think badly of him. [re-post due to technical problems]

http://www.conservativehome.com/ : Lord Ashcroft: Special Report - Malta makes a strong case to host the EU outposts of British compani

Thu, 28 Jun 2018 11:12:50 +0000

Just wondering why you promoted Brexit when you must have known that it would result in a reduction in business for Britain? I am asking because it is very hard not to feel that many who promoted Brexit did so not because they were loyal to their country but because they were prepared to see it suffer in order to benefit from iits troubles. This is why I would like you to prove me wrong by letting us know what the benefits to OUR country, not the EU, is of the Brexit you wanted for us?

http://www.conservativehome.com/ : Is Osborne behind Chapman's idea of a new Democratic Party?

Thu, 10 Aug 2017 22:54:44 +0000

Don't care who is behind it or why. If it enables this country to escape from the humiliating, shambolic mess that has been made of Brexit by the present bunch of unprepared clowns, it will get my vote.

Emm in London : Koski Mehmet Pasha Mosque, Mostar: The Best View of the Old Bridge

Tue, 5 Nov 2013 23:14:54 +0000

I seem to remember how that bridge was destroyed in the war. I am glad to see it has been restored, and that the whole place, which once seemed so tragic, has picked up its life again. I hope that happens before too long in SYria. My recent post Potato Bonfire Averted

Emm in London : Walking Crumplehorn to Polyne

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 12:09:09 +0000

That first photo of the little lane is quite entrancing and so inviting. And what a wonderful name - Crumplehorn! :)