Whitey Grandad

Oh yeah? http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/26-per-cent-of-british-births-are-to-foreign-mothers-9106602.html

So what's stopping you doing it if it's that easy? You have to underwrite the applications and have some sort of deposit.

I put both my sheds up on wooden runners to keep the floors ventilated but forgot to put something to stop the rates getting underneath. You have been warned!

So who's getting the handouts here? The landlords have to buy and maintain the place but the tenants are getting it for free?

Excuse me?

Too much sense to be taken seriously.

Very good, a multi-chuckle read.

Those are ONS census figures which vastly understate the true population. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/comment/city-eye-facts-on-a-plate-our-population-is-at-least-77-million-395428.html (UK I.e. Includes Scotland)

But the climate hasn't changed significantly, at least no more nor less than it has been doing for as long as we can tell.

Quite so.

Not in recent decades it wasn't. What's the actual population of the UK now? 70 million? 80 million?. Many millions if these are recent immigrants of all sorts. We can't build over every scrap of ground, we have to call a halt somewhere.

So any change in the weather is down to global warming?

A few storms and a couple of heatwaves prove nothing either way, we've been having those for centuries. We can only tell after several generations whether the weather has any definite trends. There are all sorts of natural cycles with durations of several decades. I have seen nothing in my lifetime to suggest that there are any significant changes so far.

Let's not make the same conclusions as the Mail. That article says 'may' in lots of places and 'According to Prof Francis, it is too soon to tell.'

I have a book here that my mum (aged 94) gave me. It's called 'Highways and Byways in Middlesex' published in 1909. It describes '...wide stretching market gardens and pasture land. In woodland and meadow, in quiet lanes and flowery fields, there is yet much to appeal...'. Middlesex has now been concreted over to satisfy the demands of a mass migration and is a collection of boroughs of Greater London. It should essential reading to all would-be planners.

Totally unenforceable and if he were sacked because of it then I would think that would count as constructive dismissal. I can't believe than any normal employment contract would dictate who or what you could do in your private life.

Oh no it isn't, there's barely room to move, unless you want to build all the new houses in Scotland. Besides, there's a lot more to providing land for a house than just the plot it's sitting on.

It just seems to confirm all the head-butting preconceptions. Who's the bloke in the blonde wig with all the eye makeup?

Please don't underestimate our respect for your achievements, I've been to Canada many times in the past (well, Toronto mainly but that's the same thing ) so I understand the excitement you must all be feeling. Over here they've all gone mad about the curling for some reason. Whatever I write is respectfully written in jest although that may not be immediately apparent. Enjoy it for all it's worth. How did the Americans get on, by the way?

Hmm... let me see... Paris or Southampton?

I always though hockey was played on grass? At least it was when I was at school.

Yes, not available until mid March. London - Portsmouth trains are diverted along the coast line through Woolston etc. http://www.southwesttrains.co.uk/alerts.aspx

You're welcome. Thanks for not point out the missing apostrophe It's corrected now.

MOTD showed that it hit J-Rod's hand, not the defender's.

Isn't that what snakes and crabs do???