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I saw a nice two bed bungalow with a decent garden sell for £200,000 - my father built it and sold in 1960 for ..................................... £999.

As they work on a spiral that's unlikely.

You forgot most of the rest of the world. However do the USA, Canada, Australia, Japan etc. manage? It must be hell for them.

Unmployment has fallen? Only because of the way it's classified. We've 9,000,000 economically inactive. 380,000 Asians on benefits. Per capita GDP has stagnated for 20 years.

Successful economies are not run to suit the poor.

Have a look at America ... They're obviously doing something right - their annual per capita GDP is $30,000 higher than ours.

A headline in the local press - Cornwall Christmas tree grower is so good it's supplying wreath for the Prime Minister. I didn't realise he was dead. :LOL:

A reason there may well have been but an apology would have been nice.

I used Record jaws on a Nova chuck. Afaik Record, Nova and Sorby are interchangeable.

the Conservatives were to blame for the massive economic crisis in 2020? Covid was to blame - much of what the Tories did was wrong, but if there was a Labour government it would have been worse.

Other Countries recovered in a matter of months. What Brown did obviously didn't work. He didn't exactly put an end to "boom and bust" did he?

Thanks to Gordon Brown.

It further goes on to report that English language skills seem to improve with time spent in the UK? No $#it, Sherlock!

As they outnumber the others five to one it would odd if it wasn't.

I assume it's mains not solar. :)

It's been taken hostage.

The fence on my old Record bandsaw was near impossible to adjust accurately, so I had an idea. The centre knob is redundant, I'm not really sure what purpose it served anyway - all it did was push the fence out of square. Two printer springs, about £6, already machined dead square at the ends...

Well, here it is. A bit Heath Robinson, but it's made of stuff that came as firewood. 75mm castors, I pop riveted two pieces of ali on the brakes so I can operate them by hand. The original base is off to good home. :)

I've yet to read of 1,400 cases in one town anywhere involving white men - have you? I don't "hate foreigners", I just don't want millions more of them living here. It's a very convenient stick with which to beat people who just think the Country's overpopulated, though.

You would hope so as 85% of the population is white.