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  1. dutchman

    Spy Poisoning

    All former British spys have a secret service bodyguard for life. The British media are well aware of this but for some reason have chosen to not mention it.
  2. dutchman

    Oh Jeremy Corbyn

    Hadn't noticed myself, thought they'd all just rolled over and played dead. And if you think people will be voting for or against Brexit in a general election then you will have made the same mistake as Theresa May did when she called the last one.
  3. dutchman

    Spy Poisoning

    So of all the places in the British Isles where a foreign power could have used a nerve agent against a British resident they chose one which is practically next door to Britains biggest manufacturer of nerve agents, one incidentally which has a history of experimenting on unwitting servicemen...
  4. dutchman

    Spy Poisoning

    And after all, it's not as if the government has ever fabricated evidence about the use of nerve agents by a foreign regime of which it disaproves as a pretext to start a war.
  5. dutchman

    Oh Jeremy Corbyn

    Didn't everyone say the same thing about Donald Trump?
  6. dutchman

    Spy Poisoning

    Strange that there's no mention of Porton Down by the media despite the fact it's only a stones throw away from where the incident happened?
  7. dutchman

    Oh Jeremy Corbyn

    I think it's more an indication that British voters despise the Tories and everything they stand for.
  8. dutchman

    Oh Jeremy Corbyn

    Corbyn supporters are partying after Labour takes a dramatic poll lead | The Canary "Supporters of Jeremy Corbyn are celebrating after Labour took a dramatic seven point poll lead. Survation, the only polling company to accurately predict the 2017 general election result, has Labour on 44% and...
  9. dutchman

    The top three places you miss most from Coventry city centre

    It was a chemist's shop. It should actually read "BIRD'S". Owner Frederick Bird was an alderman, magistrate and local benefactor after whom the Hillfields school was named.
  10. dutchman

    The top three places you miss most from Coventry city centre

    I wish! We lived in a council house in the centre of Coventry, not a stately home in Soestdijk!
  11. dutchman

    The top three places you miss most from Coventry city centre

    My elderly housekeeper used to help herself to those little tubs of cream they gave away with coffee!
  12. dutchman

    The top three places you miss most from Coventry city centre

    Remnants of the factory survived as a garage in my day, during WW2 it was used as a temporary fire station. The bank had shops along two sides and office chambers above. The shop on the corner of Far Gosford Street sold fresh poultry and there were dead birds hanging up outside.
  13. dutchman

    The top three places you miss most from Coventry city centre

    Still is! Was originally an ex-servicemen's club. Fennel's original music shop was pulled down to make room for it for no good reason that I can tell.
  14. dutchman

    The top three places you miss most from Coventry city centre

    Walsgrave Road, opposite Gosford Green (right) and the bank on the corner (left) was Lloyds. Another view showing the White Lion:
  15. dutchman

    The EU: In, out, shake it all about....

    It's the ultimate aim of the EU and always has been.
  16. dutchman

    The EU: In, out, shake it all about....

    Did they also vote for a monolithic euro superstate becuase that is what they would have eventually got if Remain had won?
  17. dutchman

    The EU: In, out, shake it all about....

    Why would they have some proper policies on it when they were opposed to Brexit from the start, campaigned against it and made absolutely no provision in advance for the Leave vote winning the referendum?
  18. dutchman

    The EU: In, out, shake it all about....

    You didn't read that at all. You read that UK drivers *may* need an international driving permit *if* no mutual arrangement is agreed.
  19. dutchman

    The EU: In, out, shake it all about....

    And yet you do with a religious kind of zeal, bit of a contradiction there. To a non-EU supporter you sound exactly the same as an Islamic extremist: "Ours is the only way and if you disagree with us you are damned for eternity".
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