badgerx16

The Celts originate from Austria and the Angles from Germany/Denmark

True, so whilst you are thick, everybody else on here is not !

You are not supposed to GOOGLE the answers !

Eight

15, I await the Immigration Service's deportation Police.

Beverley

Is this not a contradiction ?

Dunce, if this had happened to John Reid, would you be claiming there was 'nothing to see, please move along' ? This guy was present on more than 35% of Fox's overseas trips, including dinners with high ranking Pentagon officers. If he wasn't gaining from them as part of his 'defence related business interests', why was he there ? Fox has to go, and if necessary Dave has to show he's 'got a pair'.

OO should handle *.DOCX files, which are basically zipped XML documents, unless Micro$haft have been playing with the format in OFFICE10 to render an 'open' standard 'closed'.

Yes. Compatible with all Micro$oft file types - I use it on LINUX & WIn7 at home, and also at work which for everybody else is an MS OFFICE lockout.

too-wit ( too-woo )

Well, the Home Secretary seems to write her conference speeches on the basis of sensationalist, and completely b0ll0x, Daily Mail headlines. And I seem to remember "It's the Sun wot won it" after the 1992 election.

Given the proportion of the 'great unwashed' who are willing to have their opinions delivered to them in the media, and that media's bias, it is hardly surprising. Unfortunately image is everything, and DC has better PR and lacks a speech impediment.

Jobs was like Bill Gates, good at the commercial exploitation of other peoples ideas, and zealously litigating at the merest hint of a patent infringement. His particular gift was in creating apparently new niche markets and positioning his products as the life changing 'must have' that would make you wonder how on Earth we ever managed without them. All the overblown hype that surrounds the launch of the latest 'i'Gadget has never ended up curing cancer, ending famine, or solving the issues in the Middle East.

RIP. ( is there any truth in the rumour that just before he passed away they put up a blue screen around his bed ? )

In theory you are correct, in that I never actually turned it on.

You and your dad ?

Most of what happens in Westminster and Strasbourg/Brussels bears only a passing resemblance to democracy. The last General election returned a Government that was not on the polling cards, and the subsequent policy portfolio is a compromise between 2 manifestos that in parts were complete opposites. Almost all Government activity subsequent to being placed in office is effectively unaccountable - we elect them to make decisions on our behalf, ( bailing out the banks, invading Afghanistan, 'protecting the civilians' in Libya ), and very little of what they do has ever previously made it into electoral manifestos.

I think the constitutional position is that the Sovereign, after being advised by the Privy Council, selects who will be requested to attempt to form a Government. Generally this will be the leader of a party with an overall majority, but as we had at the last election, there can be a delay after the plebiscite until it becomes clear who might be in a position to attempt to form a majority coalition. It is entirely possible that a minority Government might be requested. MPs do not make this decision.

Here's the original http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1221353/Youve-got-cat-OK-stay-Britain-officials-tell-Bolivian-immigrant.html I like this from the 'sixth LibDem in the Cabinet': '"The victorious British, who had fought fascism, actually took the lead in drawing up the European convention of human rights … This was the idea to get values established across the former fascist parts of Europe, to make sure we got back to universal European standards at least of individual liberty – the thing for which the Conservative party stands most strongly inside the British political system." ( That's Ken Clarke if you couldn't work it out ).[/url]

So what I said isn't rubbish at all, the proposed changes will work in the Tories favour ! Isn't it nice when we can agree on something. And as for the equal population size, how frequently would you want the boundaries redrawn to compenaste for changing demographics ? Also, when the boundariess are redrawn, what attention is being paid to balancing the spread of potential political support ? It would be quite easy to realign boundaries such that the support for any specified party is diluted to the point of being ineffective.

And the proposed gerrymandering to reduce the number of MPs and change constituency sizes also works in their favour. As has previously been debated at length, the problem with FPTP is that only about 10-15% of electors, those in the 'swing' seats who are open to being manipulated by the respective manifestos, select the Government.

There is nothing 'normal' about that lot of self-serving sycophants.

The Communities Secretary, made a pre-election promise to the Daily Heil, and so they have, to quote a departmental spokesman, 'raided every biscuit tin in the building' to present this triumph of political planning 48 hours before the start of the party conference. It's probably the only 'good news story' they'll manage. Eric Pickles ....................................................... Jabba the Hutt