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18th Mar 2017Hawke008 commented on:
Do you think Scotland should hold a second referendum?Rather a 'little Englander' than a rabid Scot who wants to be ruled by the EU.ViewDate:
25th Jun 2016Hawke008 commented on:
Who would you choose to replace David Cameron as Prime Minister?I can add nothing to that other than to agree with you that we do need the very best of people to take the exit negotiations by scruff of the neck and get it done and dusted without any histrionics about immigration. We also need the people that have had 'proper' jobs, not time served politicos that are divorced from the electorate.ViewDate:
25th Jun 2016Hawke008 commented on:
Who would you choose to replace David Cameron as Prime Minister?Jacob Rees Mogg and Andrea Leadsome.ViewDate:
25th Jun 2016Hawke008 commented on:
Who would you choose to replace David Cameron as Prime Minister?I do like that Lionel!ViewDate:
25th Jun 2016Hawke008 commented on:
Brexit new referendumSo, let me get this right, a bunch of whingers, lets call them remainers, want to bring in legislation, retrospectively, that says 75% of the population have to vote in a referendum and the winning side has to poll 20% more votes than the losers, so that last Thursday's losers can have another go at winning!ViewDate:
22nd Jun 2016Hawke008 commented on:
Do you have enough facts yet to make your decision about the EU?Markus Kerber, head of the highly influential BDI, which represents German industry, has said that his organisation will press politicians in Europe hard to make sure businesses in the UK and the EU retain full, equal access to each other's markets after Lexit. Anything less would threaten jobs on both sides and serve no-one – least of all the Eurozone, which is in desperate trouble. This intervention, which confirms what Leave campaigners have being saying for a long time, is a huge game changer, and should reassure voters that British businesses have everything to gain and nothing to lose if we strike out from the EU as an independent, self-governing democracy with full powers to enhance our trading opportunities worldwide.ViewDate:
22nd Jun 2016Hawke008 commented on:
Should Britain stay in the EU or is now the time to leave?Markus Kerber, head of the highly influential BDI, which represents German industry, has said that his organisation will press politicians in Europe hard to make sure businesses in the UK and the EU retain full, equal access to each other's markets after Lexit. Anything less would threaten jobs on both sides and serve no-one – least of all the Eurozone, which is in desperate trouble. This intervention, which confirms what Leave campaigners have being saying for a long time, is a huge game changer, and should reassure voters that British businesses have everything to gain and nothing to lose if we strike out from the EU as an independent, self-governing democracy with full powers to enhance our trading opportunities worldwide.ViewDate:
18th Jun 2016Hawke008 commented on:
Do you have enough facts yet to make your decision about the EU?Thank you Lionel, but no apology necessary. It is unfortunate that, as today's news reports have identified, there has been a nasty political element from politicians of all hues to the reporting and comments on this terrible act. I don't always see posts here as I tend to dip in and out of this site when I am not otherwise engaged, so please forgive me if I don't respond to you the same day, or sometimes the same week!ViewDate:
18th Jun 2016Hawke008 commented on:
Should Britain stay in the EU or is now the time to leave?Thank you for your comments. I am the same age as you and far from being ONLY able to use Twitter et al, I am still using modern technology in business environments; whilst officially retired I remain an internet consultant to a number of companies including start up technology companies. I have yet to find a '30 year old' who thinks I am past it!. From an admittedly fairly brief scan through your contributions it appears a common theme that you denigrate people that don't conform your views. You seem to think that all 'old' people lack the mental ability to be thoroughly savvy about modern business practices and the latest technology, in that you are sadly misguided. Perhaps, as you have such a low opinion of us oldies, you should find another forum to expound your views, as you clearly think we silver surfers are past it. It is clear from all your comments that you are allied to the 'in' campaign, so it is not surprising that you deride the comments of those who seek to remove the shackles of the EU from Britain. Regarding the last paragraph of my previous post I suggest that you remove the EU blinkers and look up Jean Monnet on your beloved Google. Monnet's statement was and is part of the blueprint for the EU; the vast majority of the steps set out by Monnet have been achieved over the past 40 years, that is a fact, as is the fact that successive British Prime Ministers have withheld the truth of what joining the EEC - Common Market - would evolve into. I tend to dip in and out of various social media sites as and when I have time, so if I don't respond immediately to your posts, it's because I have more pressing things to do.ViewDate:
17th Jun 2016Hawke008 commented on:
Should Britain stay in the EU or is now the time to leave?A while back RoofTopCrow (RTC) derided a post on another Silversurfers forum that included material posted on a different social media site by one Betsy MacKay MA MSc. RTC posted that because Mrs MacKay had referred in one of her posts to her Christianity and her Christian beliefs she was somehow deluded and should not be taken seriously. Having briefly scanned through many of the posts on this and another Silversurfers forum I believe that RTC is quite possible a Remain plant, an agent provocateur, who possibly is being primed with information by the Cameron/Osborne apparatchiks. He has made comments that do not stand up to scrutiny, for example he has said that all the Commonwealth countries want us to stay in, but Australia and New Zealand to name just two say we would be better off out. He says he is 72 but then denigrates 'old' people, with the inference being that because people are old they have lost their marbles! He clearly states that old people don't know how business works these days and how much it has changed. Well I'm an old person who was once employed in 'traditional' industry, I changed tack some 40 years ago and over those past years founded my own businesses. I have been part of the computer age and am still part of the digital age. I have friends and many acquaintances of a similar age and background and I can assure RTC that we are all well aware of the how the requirements of business have changed; we are well aware of the reality of who we are today, we are not stupid or backward looking. I, like many others here, was fed a tissue of lies from politicians of all hues when the EEC or 'Common Market' was mooted and subsequently. Politicians who were well aware that the British public would have rebelled had we known the truth of what the Common Market was designed to transform into, hid their agenda to tie us into a united states of Europe led by Germany. The EU was conceived, birthed and nurtured in lies. Jean Monnet one of the founding fathers of the EU stated that, ”Europe’s nations should be guided towards the superstate without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps, each disguised as having an economic purpose, but which will eventually and irreversibly lead to federation.”.ViewDate:
17th Jun 2016Hawke008 commented on:
Should Britain stay in the EU or is now the time to leave?Read ' From Brussels With Love' by Sir William Cash.ViewDate:
17th Jun 2016Hawke008 commented on:
Should Britain stay in the EU or is now the time to leave?EU MPs may be elected, but they are purely window dressing for the commissars who run the EU. There are 736 MEPs in the EU 'parliament' with the UK having just 73, just under 10%. Our fishing grounds are not protected for British fishermen, but are open to all the other EU countries. It's a good idea to be factual and not 'spin' responses.ViewDate:
17th Jun 2016Hawke008 commented on:
Should Britain stay in the EU or is now the time to leave?If you can absolutely guarantee that the UK will be better, and stronger by staying in an unreformed, undemocratic EU then vote to stay. But, if there is no absolute guarantee that the UK will not be drawn into the Euro in 2017, as is it is bound to be by the terms of the Lisbon agreement; if you cannot absolutely guarantee that the UK taxpayer will not have to contribute to a burgeoning EU budget or bail outs for bankrupt Eurozone countries, then vote to leave. (Recently the EU gave France 60 billion euros to fill a hole in the French treasury.) If you don't want to live and be ruled by a corrupt organisation, one that its own auditors have refused to sign off its accounts for over 20 years; one that is little by little is destroying your rights, including the removal of your right to criticise the EU, its commissars, presidents and workings, then vote to leave. If you have not been awed or frightened by a remain campaign that comprises spin, untruths, threats and intimidation, vote leave. If you think Bob Geldorf making 'v' signs at British fishermen represents your views then vote remain.ViewDate:
17th Jun 2016Hawke008 commented on:
Should Britain stay in the EU or is now the time to leave?Honesty and integrity - Cameron? Please.ViewDate:
17th Jun 2016Hawke008 commented on:
Do you have enough facts yet to make your decision about the EU?Lionel, that was a highly well thought out piece and I thoroughly endorse your sentiments with regard to the callous slaughter of this well liked and respected MP. (Perhaps using the words 'blood bath' was not the most appropriate choice of words given the circumstances surrounding Jo Cox’s murder.) I have one minor niggle - your comment ‘apparently for her Remain stance' is not, and has not been supported by the current information about the person who carried out the attack. The alleged link to Jo's Remain views is attributable to the inflammatory and rather highly emotive speculation that has been screamed in the 'red top' media.ViewDate:
27th Apr 2016Hawke008 commented on:
Should Britain stay in the EU or is now the time to leave?The following, copied from social media, makes a significant comment on the machinations of the EU. It is a little long but read to the end. For those people who think our future lies within the EU, read the following and share. BETSY M MACKAY wrote.......I, probably like most of my generation, knew very little about the EU. I had done a Masters degree in the 70s; brought up my family, and by the early 2000s was ready to return to University. I was privileged to return to University to complete a Second Masters Degree; this time in European Policy, European Law and European Economic Analysis. Words cannot describe the horror I felt as I delved into the truth of the EU. Sends shivers down my spine to this day, remembering the horror of the realisation, that we had been hoodwinked into the EU by deceitful, disingenuous, intentionally devious means. The populace of the UK was never intended to find out the truth behind the EU, until they reckoned it was too late. Truth it is almost....almost...almost too late. We already are, in the UK, all but a federal state in the United States of Europe. You never quite realised that, did you? Why? Because ' they very deliberately decided not to tell you! They deliberately created a political elite who knew full well that power was being ceded , systematically, Treaty by Treaty, to the EU. But who knew? They did! But were we the UK populace ever informed? Absolutely not! Why? They made mega millions from EU scammery & we the minions were shafted day, daily, monthly, yearly & forever. Where did your pensions go? Where did your schools, your NHS, your housing, your social services go? Well, £55 million per day, every day, every week, every month, every year..... Guess what? That is why UK is bankrupted for generations to come, with a £1.5 trillion pound debt. I wish I could enlighten the populace of the UK to the real truth about the EU. I spent a year studying the EU in depth, visiting both the EU Parliament and EU Commission in Brussels. Every word I heard in lectures, hundreds of hours of lectures, every word I researched for my thesis and every thing I saw in Brussels, lead me to the inescapable conclusion that the EU is an utterly corrupt, profligate, political monstrosity which has destroyed British jobs and bankrupted the UK for generations to come. The EU operates on lobbying, which is the technical term for bribery and corruption. Whatever Cameron says, EU law has supremacy over our UK law unless there is Treaty change. He may say so but the truth is that 27 other countries will never agree, this side of eternity, to change the Treaties. So …..what is the connection between the EU, the Bilderberg Group and the almost completed TTIP? (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) The Bilderberg Group meet in secret each year and they are a group of phenomenally wealthy men and women from the worlds of big business, banking and politics, coming from across Europe and the US. The TTIP represents an integral component of Bilderberg’s attempt to rescue the unipolar world (New World Order) by creating a “world company,” initially a free trade area, which would connect the United States with Europe. Just as the European Union started as a mere free trade area and was eventually transformed into a political federation which controls upwards of 50 per cent of its member states’ laws and regulations with total contempt for national sovereignty and democracy, TTIP is designed to accomplish the same goal, only on a bigger scale. The treaty is likely to advantage the corporations of both the US and the EU, while disadvantaging their people. It presents a danger to democracy and public protection throughout the trading area. The Bilderberg Group are focussing on how to derail a global political awakening that threatens to hinder Bilderberg’s long standing agenda to centralize power into a one world political federation, a goal set to be advanced with the passage of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), Bilderberg globalists are aghast and there is panic in the ranks that their planned EU superstate is being eroded as a result of a populist resistance all around Europe, mainly centred around animosity towards uncontrolled immigration policies. And just who might we expect to find at such a secret gathering? Angela Merkel, Herman Van Rompuy (ex President of EU Council), Jean Claude Juncker, (Present President of the EU Commission), Martin Schultz,( Present President of EU Parliament), David Cameron, George Osbourne, Tony Blair, Ed Balls, Rona Fairhead, (Chair of the BBC Trust), Michael O’Leary of RyanAir, Stuart Rose (ex M & S, and BSE Chairman), Bill Clinton, Barak Obama………..…and many more. What do they all have in common? They are all trying to persuade you to stay in the EU. Why? Because it is in their warped self interest to do so! Is any of this in your interests? Absolutely not! Their modus operandi is that truth becomes lies and lies become truth. Sound familiar? No possible option available, other than to get Out of EU ASAP. Vote Leave! Credits to : Betsy M MackayViewDate:
27th Apr 2016Hawke008 commented on:
Do you support or oppose junior doctors in all-out strike?While I believe Hunt is wrong to impose a settlement, it takes 2 to negotiate; while Hunt make be digging his toes in on this remember that 1 of the junior doctor's ring leaders does not want to work at weekends because he has a very lucrative sideline in wedding photography; weekend working for the NHS would put a sizable dent in his sideline income. My sympathy for the junior doctors case disappeared when they decided that they would not provide emergency cover for babies ans children.ViewDate:
8th Nov 2015Hawke008 commented on:
Do we drink too much in the UK?I drink as and when I feel like it, never more than a glass or 3 of red wine during a weekend and an occasional Cognac after a good meal! Enjoy a cold lager during the summer when working in the garden. As for the 'poll' re alcohol problem can't say I've seen this so don't know how many people were polled or how the questions were phrased, but among circle of friends and acquaintances nobody binge drinks, or drinks to excess.ViewDate:
13th Sep 2015Hawke008 commented on:
Dangerous Dog related safety for the public and environmentOh do stop shouting!ViewDate:
13th Sep 2015Hawke008 commented on:
Dangerous Dog related safety for the public and environmentWell the 'blame it the dog' group are all well and active here. However, any reasonable person will be well aware that there are no 'bad' dogs, only bad owners. The media, normally the red top and tabloid papers, go out of their way to sensationalise any animal attack to satisfy the morbid curiosity of their readers. The stories are printed without any attempt to see whether there was a reason why the animal attacked. I have seen children, and adults, who thought it was great fun to torment, throw stones at and provoke dogs and then run crying that the nasty dog attacked me for no reason; is that information included in press. All animals have the right to be protected from As a dog owner for more than 50 years, the idea of bringing back the pet license is one that I would wholeheartedly support. With regard to most of the other points suggested by Sarne above, I suggest he looks at what sanctions the law currently has at its command. He should also ask local tax payers if they prepared to either pay increased council tax and/or lose another local service to pay for all the extra wardens and PCSO's. However, the vast majority of local authorities already have well trained teams of animal wardens, local emergency numbers and access to well established kenneling centres where stray dogs can be housed. I would be interested in where Sarne conducted his/her 'focus groups and street questionnaires', because I haven't seen or heard of these, nor have any of my friends, colleagues and fellow dog owners.ViewDate:
13th Sep 2015Hawke008 commented on:
Are you financially stable?I was born in 1944; does that make me a 'non-baby boomer' and therefore not a Silversurfer?ViewDate:
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14th Aug 2015Hawke008 commented on:
Do you get enough sleep?Wonder what government backed drug company marketing sleeping pills thought this one up???ViewDate:
14th Aug 2015Hawke008 commented on:
Should smoking be banned on British beaches?Brighton Council, that's the one that wants to put up parking charges to deter people visiting the town and spending money in the local shops and restaurants when the sun shines! Loony tunes!ViewDate:
14th Aug 2015Hawke008 commented on:
Should smoking be banned on British beaches?Great comment and a worthy reminder of all the other pollutants that the average citizen allows.ViewDate:
14th Aug 2015Hawke008 commented on:
Should smoking be banned on British beaches?The final comment by recycledteencomment was about children and exhaust fumes, not smoking in a car.ViewDate:
14th Aug 2015Hawke008 commented on:
Would you welcome your GP surgery being opened 7 days a week?That's OK if there is more than one GP, but there are still a lot of single GP surgeries around.ViewDate:
14th Aug 2015Hawke008 commented on:
Would you welcome your GP surgery being opened 7 days a week?Before Labour gave out permissions for doctors to earn vast sums for less work, many doctors were available 7 days a week.ViewDate:
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14th Aug 2015Hawke008 commented on:
Should the House of Lords be reformed?Why do we have an upper house comprising nearly a 1000 'lords' for this tiny island - population 64 million, when America - population 320 million - has an upper house of 100 Senators?ViewDate:
14th Aug 2015Hawke008 commented on:
MEMORIESHi Robbinn, silver thrupenny pieces, oxtails - slow cooked in a stew pot on the top of a Raeburn for up to 2 days, the meat just melted and the gravy - divine. I can just about get the same result using a slow cooker! 1960 - my first car, a 1933 ford 8 that was bought by me and 3 friends for £7.10s. Petrol - 4 gallons with change from a 10 shilling note. The late 40', 50's and early 60's such a great period!!ViewDate:
23rd Apr 2015Hawke008 commented on:
Which party do you trust to manage your pensioner benefits over the next 5 years?Ray1314 - the scots ARE well off compared to the English because English taxpayers provide more financial support per head to Scotland than is provided to England.ViewDate:
23rd Apr 2015Hawke008 commented on:
Which party do you trust to manage your pensioner benefits over the next 5 years?1Lofty - The scots have had 300 years of England propping it up, time it stood on its own 2 feet and didn't look to England to support it.ViewDate:
23rd Apr 2015Hawke008 commented on:
General election 2015 - NHS, Health and care party policies.None of these policies spells out how the increases in NHS funding will be met. Promises to increase numbers of GPs in 5 years? It takes 9years to train a GP. It takes 3 years to train a nurse and midwives longer.ViewDate:
23rd Apr 2015Hawke008 commented on:
Which party do you trust to manage your pensioner benefits over the next 5 years?While I despair of the current labour/liberal/conservative bunch, if the SNP get enough seats it will hold the UK to ransom, both Salmond and Sturgeon are boasting about how the SNP will run England by preventing any policies that are not in the SNP's interest from being enacted, will close defence establishments in Scotland thereby causing irreparable harm to the UK's defences. England should move the defence facilities out of Scotland and into the port facilities in England, then let the SNP tell all those Scottish workers who's jobs will be lost how the Scottish parliament will look after them.