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Are you suggesting there are no quasi fascist in the UK?

In that case, they should change the shop name to "Previous".

The actor Jason Lee who did "My name is Earl" is also a professional skateboarder.

OR "People will remember me for my hair and not what is beneath it". .. Unless Trump gets there first.

Maybe she has seen the film Alien. The special effect of the creature in the egg (just before it leaps out and attacks Kane) is just Ridley Scott's hands inside a pair of kitchen gloves.

1. Table Mountain, 2. Botanical Gardens, 3. Monkey House, 4. Clifton, 5&6 Watefront, 7&8 Near Cape Point

I was in Cape Town in December since that is where I got a flight to St Helena. The hop on hop off buses were useful. The red route includes the cable car station where you go up Table Mountain. The queues seemed long but actually fairly quick. The blue route includes the Botanical Gardens, then the Bird Park (where you actually go inside the cages and there are also adorable small monkeys that clamber all over you if the assistants let them) then Hout Bay then a drive around the coast until you are back at the Waterfront. The bus to Cape Point includes a beach that has a large penguin population and you get incredibly close to them (although you are on a walkway that stops you getting too close).

Maybe he is colour-blind and is actually SandyCromarty's biggest fan. Just an idea.

Sorry. I meant his brother Grant.

I think this has been the key problem with Corbyn. He has spent his entire career as a protestor. Even when Labour was in power he was constantly defying the whip. Maybe if you examined each of these issues in turn you might agree with him but nobody does that and thus he is simply seen as somebody sitting in the back seat going "I don't want to be here. I don't want to do this".

You mention Cueta and Mellilla but Spain has additional possessions on the continent of Africa. I read somewhere that one is the equivalent of Eilean Donan Castle where the castle is part of Spain attached to a mainland that is part of Morocco and apparently this really is the world's shortest border but I need to check on this.

Thank you for your detailed response which is certainly more than I know about Northern Rail or maybe even need to know. On the point of nationalisation, if Corbyn suggested this solution it would be seen as ideological and he hadn't thought it through. He is seen as the ghost of Hugo Chavez and would probably have nationalised Blockbusters when their business model failed. Yet when the Tories suggest nationalisation (for Northern Rail) and say the franchise approach simply doesn't work nobody challenges them at all. To be blunt, if Corbyn said we need more vitamin B12 he would be called a lunatic. If the Tories say we need more vitamin B12 they are seen as worldly wise and of course it is obvious that is what we need. Inconsistency is the word. IMO.

Okay. Temporary madness is totally fine. I understand.

So Corbyn and Labour propose re-nationalising the railways and that is seen as total madness and a reflection of how out touch they are with reality. Yet today on the news Graham Shapps and the Tories announce that they are going to renationalise Northern Rail because the current system clearly isn't working. Go figure.

On the subject of enclaves you just have to look at Turkestan which Stalin deliberately split up into 5 republics with arbitrary borders. There are enclaves of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan within Kyrgyzstan and similarly the reverse. There have been numerous flare-ups. Having an enclave in somebody else's country is not a good idea. It is easy for them to blockade it and you look weak if you do nothing about it. The Berlin airlift illustrates the point. Any Israel/Palestine agreement that involves enclaves would be a disaster. They would be constant flash points.

I wonder if they send any experts to Scotland to see how the A835 was used to link up the various parts of Cromartyshire

Deprived not depraved!

Access to the beach.

You are assuming everybody carries silver bullets with them all the time. Not sure if that is true.

Richard Branson did a show called Rebel Billionaire which was similar to The Apprentice. One difference was the two bottom candidates faced a challenge. In every episode the challenge involved heights. Examples included walking across a plank between two hot air balloons. Another involved climbing up the outside of a hot air balloon to attend a tea party on the top.

You are forgetting that Boris Johnson is unpopular - but not as unpopular as Corbyn. You are also assuming Brexit will be a success story and everything will go right for Johnson. Corbyn had a lot of baggage. He was seen as a career protestor and not as someone who really wanted to be prime minister. If any of them can be more effective at PMQs than Corbyn was then that might change things. Also the role of Prime Minister-in-waiting needs to start immediately as soon as whoever becomes leader.

More people than Scotland on an island smaller than Mull. I don't think they have much choice.

The technical term is Panic

I think the media down in England is more savage than elsewhere and not just towards politicians. Members of the royal family, celebrities, social workers and almost anyone. I think that influences opinion more than any papers in Scotland can.

The issue with IRA was perceived to be part of an anti-British and anti-Western world view. "We should never have had a British presence in Ireland, we should never have allowed the state of Israel to be created and we should not be friends with America". At the same time he appears less critical of countries like Russia or China or Iran whenever they are being criticised. Some people saw this as unpatriotic.