BBC studiously avoiding reporting top name for boys
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Breadvan72 said:
Yes - too many Isle of White Walkers, three eyed ravens and, worst of all, yachties.
its the cyclists that use to grip metalking of infamous relatives, on my mothers side
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michal_Morey
greygoose said:
del mar said:
Breadvan72 said:
Which suggests that we have muslims trying to kill us that have nothing to do with ISIS.Lance Catamaran said:
TooMany2cvs said:
Funkycoldribena said:
I'd go back to the eighties any day.
No mass speed cameras,proper telly,no one gave a toss about saying anything and blokes weren't generally wet and afraid of everything.
No green s
te,no mass h+s and you didn't have to wear protective equipment to walk through a warehouse. Oh,and no one was a wimp about 3rd hand smoke.
Good times.
It was especially the race riots that you liked, wasn't it? Brixton, Moss Side, Toxteth, Handsworth. Oh, and the miners' strike, of course.No mass speed cameras,proper telly,no one gave a toss about saying anything and blokes weren't generally wet and afraid of everything.
No green s
te,no mass h+s and you didn't have to wear protective equipment to walk through a warehouse. Oh,and no one was a wimp about 3rd hand smoke.Good times.
Still, at least there was no risk from terrorism. Oh, wait a sec.
And as for "proper telly" - a fourth channel for some of the decade, and the novelty factor of being able to watch tv first thing in the morning, instead of the test card. Woo. So what were the highest rated TV shows...? Charles & Di's wedding, the royal variety performance, Benny Hill, This is your life, Blind Date, Question of Sport, Minder... oh, and Eastenders started! http://www.barb.co.uk/resources/tv-facts/tv-since-... - ah, yes, truly a zenith of modern popular culture...
i bashing was a right old barrell of laughs as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Right?
kowalski655 said:
No. It had some good and interesting music and was probably the last era of proper "pop". But I'd score the 50s, 60s and 70s over the 80s.kowalski655 said:
Lance Catamaran said:
TooMany2cvs said:
Funkycoldribena said:
I'd go back to the eighties any day.
No mass speed cameras,proper telly,no one gave a toss about saying anything and blokes weren't generally wet and afraid of everything.
No green ste,no mass h+s and you didn't have to wear protective equipment to walk through a warehouse. Oh,and no one was a wimp about 3rd hand smoke.
Good times.
It was especially the race riots that you liked, wasn't it? Brixton, Moss Side, Toxteth, Handsworth. Oh, and the miners' strike, of course.No mass speed cameras,proper telly,no one gave a toss about saying anything and blokes weren't generally wet and afraid of everything.
No green s
te,no mass h+s and you didn't have to wear protective equipment to walk through a warehouse. Oh,and no one was a wimp about 3rd hand smoke.Good times.
Still, at least there was no risk from terrorism. Oh, wait a sec.
And as for "proper telly" - a fourth channel for some of the decade, and the novelty factor of being able to watch tv first thing in the morning, instead of the test card. Woo. So what were the highest rated TV shows...? Charles & Di's wedding, the royal variety performance, Benny Hill, This is your life, Blind Date, Question of Sport, Minder... oh, and Eastenders started! http://www.barb.co.uk/resources/tv-facts/tv-since-... - ah, yes, truly a zenith of modern popular culture...
i bashing was a right old barrell of laughs as wellhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Right?
kowalski655 said:
the closest i could get to a flock of parrotshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIpfWORQWhU
vonuber said:
Funkycoldribena said:
No rose tints for me.
Xr3s and 4s
Arnie films
The Tube
Goths,Heavy metallers,new romantics,kids had variation...
I have no problem if you want to live in the 80's, as long as you only use the technology and healthcare available then etc.Xr3s and 4s
Arnie films
The Tube
Goths,Heavy metallers,new romantics,kids had variation...
vonuber said:
Funkycoldribena said:
No rose tints for me.
Xr3s and 4s
Arnie films
The Tube
Goths,Heavy metallers,new romantics,kids had variation...
I have no problem if you want to live in the 80's, as long as you only use the technology and healthcare available then etc.Xr3s and 4s
Arnie films
The Tube
Goths,Heavy metallers,new romantics,kids had variation...
I have found the report that makes reference to the cost of Immigration.
Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration at UCL in 2013.
The Fiscal Effects of Immigration.
Published in 2013 to much Fanfare - the BBC ran it as a lead Item. "Recent Immigrants make a net contribution"
The initial published paper only looked at recent arrivals from the EU, these people do indeed pay 34% more in taxes than they receive in benefits as opposed to 11% for the Native population. Their Net Contribution was £22 billion.
The full report published quietly in 2014 read differently. When they factored in non EU migration the real figure over the period 1995 - 2011 was a cost of £114 billion with the potential to reach £159 billion.
So the idea that immigration is a benefit to the economy may not be true.
There will no doubt be issues with some of the data and the way it was collected but UCL is hardly full of right wing bias.
This was taken from The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray - you may not like the man, but taken at face value the report isn't that positive.
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Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration at UCL in 2013.
The Fiscal Effects of Immigration.
Published in 2013 to much Fanfare - the BBC ran it as a lead Item. "Recent Immigrants make a net contribution"
The initial published paper only looked at recent arrivals from the EU, these people do indeed pay 34% more in taxes than they receive in benefits as opposed to 11% for the Native population. Their Net Contribution was £22 billion.
The full report published quietly in 2014 read differently. When they factored in non EU migration the real figure over the period 1995 - 2011 was a cost of £114 billion with the potential to reach £159 billion.
So the idea that immigration is a benefit to the economy may not be true.
There will no doubt be issues with some of the data and the way it was collected but UCL is hardly full of right wing bias.
This was taken from The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray - you may not like the man, but taken at face value the report isn't that positive.
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del mar said:
I have found the report that makes reference to the cost of Immigration.
The initial published paper only looked at recent arrivals from the EU, these people do indeed pay 34% more in taxes than they receive in benefits as opposed to 11% for the Native population. Their Net Contribution was £22 billion.
They're the ones that "the UK has no control over"...The initial published paper only looked at recent arrivals from the EU, these people do indeed pay 34% more in taxes than they receive in benefits as opposed to 11% for the Native population. Their Net Contribution was £22 billion.
del mar said:
When they factored in non EU migration the real figure over the period 1995 - 2011 was a cost of £114 billion with the potential to reach £159 billion.
...while they're the ones the UK has, and has always had, 100% control over.The one thing that leaps out to me from that is that there's no timeframe on the "recent arrivals from the EU", compared to a 16 year period for non-EU.
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