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I've searched the Internet for details of this outrage but couldn't find anything. Can you post a link? The only thing I found was a list of non native and invasive species and an old article from the Telegraph saying that grey squirrels wouldn't be allowed in zoos. Even in Zoo populations all animals are culled from time to time. It's a sad fact of zoo life. You only have space for one male in a herd and once you have sold the extra to other zoos what do you do with the rest?

Very true CT. One positive thing this week is that people seem to have rediscovered the power of protest and regained an interest in politics. That has got to be a good thing. Role on the women's march today. As to Melena and Trump, whenever I see them together I think of Richard Roper and his token wife in The Night Manager. I wonder whether, when she first fell for the super rich elderly tycoon, whether she envisaged this as part of her job description.? Looking at the expression on her face for most of yesterday I would say not.

OH just had a root canal and two fillings..took the dentist 2 hours..total cost 276euros and he got back 130 euros and we don't have a mutualle , My brother had the same thing done in the UK and it cost him £1600. My implant, done in France, was 2000 euros in total. I doubt it would have been any cheaper in Bulgaria. My dentist is Romanian!

OH bought a diesel 3 phase generator last week which he reckons could power the whole house. Come the Armageddon we could adapt it to run off duck fact. :)

Hardly modern Ernie... over 30 years ago. Don't know if it still happens but things don't change that quickly there.

Terrible place France..it's a wonder that any British people choose to live there. Point is, not that anyone thinks that burning cars is a good idea..but just that it isn't a new phenomenon in France.It used to happen in the remote part of Nova Scotia where I lived for a while in the 80s. You could go into a bar, leave the keys to your old wreck on the table and next day report it to the police as being stolen. They would find the burnt out wreck and you got the insurance money. This way bonfires are permitted from November until the end of February.

What I'm saying is that the symptoms of a cold (sore throat, blocked nose, fever), are caused by the immune system reacting to the virus. If your immune system doesn't work as well you don't get the same symptoms. You still have the virus but it affects you in a different way. I used to get headaches and general aches but rarely a sore throat or head cold, and for me, the symptoms were quite mild.

I've been taking immunosuppressants for the past 10 years. Never had a bad cold or flu in all that time. This year I stopped taking them and got the flu a few weeks later..and gave it to OH! I was at work the first day of the symptoms, but my ability to do anything other than sit upright was severely limited..and speaking in French was impossible! There is an explanation. The severe symptoms of a cold are due to an exaggerated immune response. If you don't have a very good immune system then you still have the virus with mild symptoms but it doesn't always cause so many upper respiratory symptoms.

MOH says condensation. The pipes are normally installed under the loft insulation, or the pipes themselves need to be insulated..in his opinion.

Thanks Norman. I don't think I've read that poem since A level English. I'd forgotten how good it is.

Ah Cajal.. I have wiped many a backside in my life..mostly of those considerably older than myself. Your thoughtful suggestions are appreciated, but it is the latex gloves that are the most crucial bit of equipment.

Well either way Chessie, whether you like it or not, the generation that you seem to despise so will be the ones running the country some day, deciding on your pension and wiping your backside when you are no longer capable of doing it yourself.

Quite..who cares what is 'banned'. In France now you are either monsieur or Madame; no mademoiselle , but this only applies on official business etc. In informal circles you can do what you want. On a practical level, it makes sense. In academic settings no one has used Mr and Mrs for years, adopting the American style of using the full name, and only using academic titles such as Dr or Professor. I've received plenty of overtly Christian Christmas cards from all over, so I can assure you they are not banned. However the tradition does seem to be dying out due to the high cost!

At the moment this forum is one of the more active!

I should add, I don't think the presenters on HIGNFY actually write their own jokes. It's scripted and they read them out. Still that won't worry The Sun who seem to have it in for Linekar whatever he does.

I'm not sneering Chessie. I do, however, think that it's easy to look back at our lives 30 years ago and think it's so much better than now. We forget that we were young, fit and beautiful and the world was our oyster! My life today is heaps better than it was in the 70s and 80s. I have never felt safer. Why? Because I was in London when the IRA were putting bombs on the underground, or in wastebaskets, and I had no choice about where I went or how I got there. I was close to one or two. For those living in Paris they may feel like I did then, but no different... No one is told not to celebrate Christmas for goodness sake. No one stops you going to church, or wishing people a happy Christmas, or celebrating with your family and friends. I knew all my neighbours in the UK when I last lived there five years ago and I'm still in touch with them. Why? Because I made the effort to get to know them..and they were and are a very mixed bunch. Life and your community is what you make it. Mine has never been better..which is why I think it's sad that people (not you personally) hanker after the past rather than making their present as great as it can be.

The big losers would be the farmers, many of whom live in family homes. And of course older people. There will be exceptions for those on low incomes that will encourage people to make sure they don't earn too much. :)

An interesting article. It is an opinion piece, not a factual report, but as opinions go, I thought it was good. A question for the avid leavers..when brexit happens, if it doesn't work out how you imagined what do you think will happen? Will you be looking for another group to blame or will you just say..' oh well, we tried, never mind'? I watched HIGNFY on Friday. One of the few funny programs left but probably not everyone's taste. Gary Linekar was in the chair and he made a very mild brexit joke, which apparently offended The Sun so much they slagged him off for being a 'spokesman for the liberal lefties' FFS, the man is a sports commentator with a sense of humour. Has brexit given everyone who voted leave a sense of humour failure? To me that is a much bigger problem than in or out of the EU. A country run by a bunch of humourless barstewards is doomed to live it it's own misery forever.

My partner lived in France before the current EU arrangements. He had a job and was sponsored, but even then he was not legally allowed to transfer enough of his money back to the UK to pay his mortgage on his house there. Remember those days of currency controls? Yes it was possible but it was very much more difficult. The 70s are not a period I would like to return to personally; when there were very few older people because many people died before then of diseases that are now treatable and rampant sexism. It's sad that people want to live in the past.

Facebook and Twitter activity were the only things that significantly predicted the win for Trump and the Brexit vote. Opinion polls got it wrong, but in both cases 'leave' and 'trump' had greater social media activity than the opposition. You may think it unimportant but the respective campaigns took it seriously. That's why I've started to read discussions there, from all sides. It's more up to date than the news.

I've seen nothing in any of Woolly's posts to suggest he has a personal axe to grind? I think the people with the most to lose from brexit are the younger generation who will be denied to opportunities we have enjoyed. They may well have axes to grind in the future. I agree with you Woolly about the posts on Facebook etc. but even there I have detected a slowing down of righteous indication and shouts of OUT means OUT. In fact some of the ranting is very reminiscent of the "Life of Brian". Maybe the Russian hackers have other jobs to do now. I actually think the EU will be better without the UK. It may well change and adapt some of it's principals and ambitions, but in many ways the UK has been a thorn in it's side for a long time.

But this thread is about leaving the EU, not whether the government's immigration policy over the years has caused problems. Free movement policies of the EU have accounted for a small percentage of immigration to the UK. They are certainly not responsible for the ethnic population in Tower Hamlets. That has been there for as long as I've been alive, and before the Bangladeshi community it was a Jewish community and Polish and just about every other group at some point or other. Leaving the EU will not change anything in Tower Hamlets. And..people haven't turned to UKIP. They have still failed to win more than one seat in parliament despite two by-elections that were in prime areas.

But they can already decide for non EU migrants, who accounted for 50% of immigrants last year. So, out of the EU migrants, maybe a maximum of 5-10% would not come because they don't have a job? Illegal immigration may well go up. Nothing to stop someone entering as a tourist and working on the black.

I read the article this morning (the one that is the subject of the post) and I thought it was quite interesting and did highlight some of the many realistic concerns for people other than whether pensions and healthcare will be paid. Most British immigrants in the EU are actually working, have kids, and are worried about how their future might be limited. I can understand that. I can also understand why people, who have never known anything other than being an Eu and British citizen might feel that they are having something taken away from them. It's easy to dismiss these concerns by accusing people of whingeing or remoaning, but at the end of the day those that voted remain were not much less than those that voted leave and then there were many people who didn't vote. If those people's concerns are ignored the brexit project will fail as it will have the support of less than half of the country. This thread highlights one of the many confusions of the referendum. Being in or out of the EU will not make the slightest difference to the number of Muslims living in your street. It probably won't make much difference to the numbers of immigrants either since the health service, farmers etc are already saying they can't cope without the supply of seasonal and skilled labour. It will only reduce illegal immigration if more funding and resources are directed to the immigration services..who can't cope at the moment so imagine how much harder it is going to be when they have to include European citizens on their lists as well.

Sweden has the highest number of reported rapes in Europe and the second highest in the world.