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He makes outlandish claims fuelled by hatred of somethings he doesn't understand and when challenged doesn't even try and debate. He just comes back from another angle with more rubbish. So much anger. So much stupidity. All in one person.

Perhaps you should have asked for a personal import arrangement designed just for you. That scandalous Independent graph shows the difference between the UK and Germany as a fraction of 1%. And if you read a properly independent forecast the UK is tipped to beat France and Germany in 2023. Newspapers feed on people like you. Angry, stupid people.

The first point that you make is false. Check the dates. The rest is just your take on it. There are shortages on car parts throughout Europe. A friend who lives in France has to wait over 14 months for a new body panel for a three year old Renault. Another friend tried to order a German motorhome only to find that the usual 6 to 10 month waiting time was now almost 3 years. Covid has been a factor, but the European vehicle manufacturers are also on their arris because of the diesel / hybrid uncertainty. There is a bigger picture out there. But you only see what you want to see.

Some food prices have gone up 100%. Did you read the article? Some types of cornflakes and some Italian cheese. Hardly a crisis especially as this situation is shared with the rest of Europe if you read their newspapers which I doubt that you do. Grain prices shot up after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Grain is used to feed pigs, cows and poultry as well as to make many products for human consumption. Oil prices have also rocketed for the same reason. That adds cost to every part of the farming, manufacturing and distribution process. Same with electricity and gas. These are not restricted to the UK. The devaluation of the £ was overdue according to the BoE and IMF. You can find the article in Full Facts along with an explanation on how the same financial pundit who works for the Guardian consistently gets his doom and gloom predictions wrong.

First the price of food has gone up all over Europe. It is not linked to Brexit. BCC is just one opinion. The BoE does not share it. Raw sewage discharges were happening during the period that the UK was part of the EU. It didn't start after Brexit. Immigration is a complex matter and governments are ham strung by international laws. At least the government is exploring options even if the lawyers are blocking them. Don't forget that it was Bliar, Broone and Meddlesome who kick started the illegal immigration. Not the Tories.

According to independent sources Full Facts and Briefing for Britain, the UK is doing OK outside the EU and once the full divorce bill is paid the UK will do a lot better.

Why would the BBC have to sell MOTD? It is not as if the host is the star, football is. There are plenty of pundits who will take his job should the oppertunity arise. He compares the UK Goverment with the German Government of the 1930's. That regime rounded up all the opposition politicians and put them in front of firing squads. The same regime encoraged the population to commit atrocities against German Jews and ultimately invaded Poland and Czechslovakia. Really Gary?

A couple from the local waters. The chub was taken from my local stretch of the River Vienne and the carp from a lake that feeds the River Charente.

Nice to see them being caught again. Its ages since I last caught any. Double maggot was the best bait, 2lb line max. This was about average for a six hour session.

I was questioning the 95 year old

Suddenly?

Shrinkage of the inner felt or foam mat caused when the fire goes out?

The burbot's stronghold used to be the Yorkshire Ouse system, the Trent and as said, the East Anglian systems where they were so numerous that they were fed to pigs. There are questions as to why they were not found in the Thames as historically that was part of the Rhine system along with the above named systems. Strange also that the early English writers did not mention them. There was a scheme around 20 or so years ago to reintroduce them to the Trent using stock from central Europe. The authorities declined to issue a licence for the restocking on the basis that the reason for their sudden decline has not been discovered or addressed. The last burbot to be caught was reputed to be in a Yorkshire river and in the 1920s they featured in match anglers catches on the Ouse at York. Forty years later they had gone.

Even if you were right. And you are not, that still leaves a great disparity between Greenland and the UK which some would find insulting and others amusing given the current state of your own country. Where exactly is your naval battle group - have they managed to locate it yet? Will they actually build 'The Wall'? And how many of Trump's other election promises will actually materialise? The USA is going down the pan without a plan, whereas the UK is taking steps to avoid being dragged down within a failing EU. It never ceases to amaze me how little that you know about UK & European angling and politics and how willing you are to continually demonstrate that. It has also reminded me why I stopped posting on here. Over and out.

How exactly? Interesting article here: http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/french-presidential-election-a-battle-of-left-right-extremes-a-1143745.html It debates KenL's question of what would happen if MLP and Mélenchon got through to the run offs. The one likely result either way is Frexit And if Frexit follows Brexit then there will will be some really cheap office space to let in Brussels and Strasbourg. What I like about the Spiegel's articles is the sheer ignorance of the public's opinion of the EU. The Germans are carrying on regardless because being in the EU suits them. One of their top bods recently argued that every Euro they contributed came back to Germany many fold. And it is true, They give Bulgaria and Romania € millions in subsidies and grants and a lot of that money is then spent on German products, so effectively they are subsidising their own industries by laundering money through the EU. So if the EU does fold quickly it will be Germany who will suffer the most as their industries are geared up for continued growth.

With a nuclear arsenal, the fifth largest economy and the world's leading financial services provider, plus a spy and information network that is the envy of most countries I don't really see your comparison with Greenland. As for the last paragraph; any city these days could be obliterated in a micro-second. But I said built, not destroyed. You can't build a city in a day. And to make the last killer move in a chess match the player has usually followed a four, five or more move plan. The British GE isn't a knee-jerk reaction. It is one part of a multi-stage plan designed to achieve the desired end result.

Yes, I know. But as he is still several points behind I was giving an alternative and probably more likely scenario. The US elections were between two unelectable candidates. The French elections are between four unelectable candidates. It is a strange situation.

Interesting question. If Macron and le Pen are the two picked for the run off then it will come down to a pro-EU candidate who along with a German politician has published a platform advocating a continuation of European integration. They advocate the continuation "of structural reforms (like labour market), institutional reforms (including the area of economic governance). Or an anti-EU candidate with a clear mandate to hold a referendum on EU membership and limit immigration. The French election could come down to a simple decision on EU or no EU.

Why would anything to do with Brexit make waves on your side of the pond? It doesn't make much news in EU countries let alone America. Regards progress; You cannot expect there to be speedy process given the slim majority of Brexit and the intransigence of the monolith that is the EU. Remember that every one of the 27 member countries has to vote and agree on every issue. Given that two parties such as the Democrats and Republicans in the same country cannot agree on anything how can you expect 27 different countries with different needs to agree to everything? It would seem that TM has a rigid agenda to take the UK out of the Single Market, out of the jurisdiction of the European Courts and refuse to accept the Freedom of Movement aspect that Norway and Switzerland have had to agree to owing to their net profit in trading with the EU. The UK is unique in that it has an almost double deficit in EU trade so it doesn't have to jump through the same hoops as net exporters do. The GE should clear the decks of any Remoaners in and outside Parliament and allow her to achieve those goals. If the GE goes the way she hopes then she will have the mandate and authority to stick two fingers up to Brussels, refuse to pay anything like the €60 billion currently being bandied about, commence trade deals with non-EU countries immediately and let the industrialists of France, Spain, Italy, Holland and even Germany to whip their respective governments into shape who will in turn enforce themselves on the EU, and by August the tail will have stopped wagging the dog. Those countries need to trade with the UK more than the UK needs to sell to them. Spain, France and Italy would probably go under if they lost the UK market. Along the way Wee Jimmy Krankie, Tim Farron and Jeremy Corbyn will be destined into the dustbin of history. The UK will have five years without an effective opposition, but that is a small price to pay to unshackle itself from the monster that is the EU. Rome wasn't built in a day and chess matches aren't won by rash on the cuff decisions.

Western European countries simply cannot continue to absorb the current levels of immigration. They haven't got the jobs, schools, health services, etc, etc to cope with uncontrolled immigration. As such the chaos of homeless, unemployed migrants sponging off the state for ever, schools being over run with non national language speakers and health tourism would reduce if migration was controlled beyond that currently allowed by the EU. Terrorism would also reduce on the basis that most of the current attacks in France, Germany and Sweden were carried out by newly arrived immigrants. It would not stop terrorism totally as shown by the 7/7 bombings that were carried out by home grown criminals, but it would certainly reduce the risk of the unknowns sneaking in. Going back to the opening post; "The skullduggery has begun" The skullduggery began way before this week. For months candidates have been embroiled in scandal, financial misconduct and other matters for moths. Sarcozy grassed up his political opponent as soon as he lost the race to head the party hoping that he would be dropped and replaced by the Hungarian Emperor himself. All the current leaders of the leading parties have been indicted in fraud except Macron who is the French Tony Bliar in that he has taken a large part of the socialist party currently in power and reinvented it to lose the stigma of Hollande's reign. I keep telling my French friends that it is easier to vote this time as there will be only one not going to prison. Unfortunately it is the Bliarite Macron that has kept his nose clean best.

The NF is the only party that cannot fund itself using bank loans. Banks won't lend to them. As a result they have to raise money elsewhere, usually dubious sources which leaves then open to criticism from less then neutral commentators such as the BBC. Two years ago in the interim elections the two main parties conspired to field just one candidate between them for each seat thus reducing the chances of the NF winning any seats. This year the the first round is too close to call. But the French then vote for one or the other of the two who got through the first round. There is a saying in France that in the first round you vote for the candidate you like the most and in the second round you vote against the candidate you fear the most. On that basis le Pen might get through round one but she will never win round two.

Sounds like a place to avoid. I felt crowded out this afternoon when I discovered another angler on the 2Km of river bank I was fishing. You can fish 15 feet with a waggler using a sliding arrangement providing that the float stop or stop knot will pass through the tip rings of the rod. You just have to cast further than your baited spot to allow it to come back towards you as the shot pulls line through the float's eye.

Researchers in various countries studying tench using electronic tracking devices found that in daytime they are sedentary and favoured weedy areas particularly rushes and lily pads. They migrate in winter to deeper, more muddy areas, but spend the warmer months in shallower water. Given their natural diet I would be looking in shallow, weedy bays for signs of them. A lot of large still waters are fed by streams and rivers and these are often bordered by shallow, muddy areas. If you can find one of those areas that are on the lee side of a warm wind, i.e the easterly and northerly banks then that might be a good place to fish.

Sorry, I assumed from your opening paragraph that you were targeting carp on larger waters instead of easier small waters. Can't help you much with tench in large waters as it isn't anything I've done in the last thirty years or so. Last time I went for tench in a large still water was in Ireland. The only thing I can say with any confidence is that they aren't as nomadic as carp and bream and when you do find them you've found them for good. Or certainly for a few months anyway and they will be back there again the same time next season. Best of luck.