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Species caught in 2020: Barbel. European Eel. Bleak. Perch. Pike.

Species caught in 2019: Pike. Bream. Tench. Chub. Common Carp. European Eel. Barbel. Bleak. Dace.

Species caught in 2018: Perch. Bream. Rainbow Trout. Brown Trout. Chub. Roach. Carp. European Eel.

Species caught in 2017: Siamese carp. Striped catfish. Rohu. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Black Minnow Shark. Perch. Chub. Brown Trout. Pike. Bream. Roach. Rudd. Bleak. Common Carp.

Species caught in 2016: Siamese carp. Jullien's golden carp. Striped catfish. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Alligator gar. Rohu. Black Minnow Shark. Roach, Bream, Perch, Ballan Wrasse. Rudd. Common Carp. Pike. Zander. Chub. Bleak.

Species caught in 2015: Brown Trout. Roach. Bream. Terrapin. Eel. Barbel. Pike. Chub.

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On a slightly more serious note, the thing with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) seriously ticked me off. I know perhaps a dozen doctors who have done some amazing humanitarian work with them and up until very recently, they had remained strictly apolitical - which gained them trust around the world and ensured their safe access pretty much universally.

 

They have now thrown that neutral political position away to facilitate an illegal mas migration into Europe, liaising with people smugglers and even going so far as to turn off their vessel's transponders to try to hide their rendezvous with migrant boats 12 miles off the Libyan coast.

With their political reputation went their humanitarian reputation as the migration route that they have created has facilitated the new slave trade in North Africa.

Species caught in 2020: Barbel. European Eel. Bleak. Perch. Pike.

Species caught in 2019: Pike. Bream. Tench. Chub. Common Carp. European Eel. Barbel. Bleak. Dace.

Species caught in 2018: Perch. Bream. Rainbow Trout. Brown Trout. Chub. Roach. Carp. European Eel.

Species caught in 2017: Siamese carp. Striped catfish. Rohu. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Black Minnow Shark. Perch. Chub. Brown Trout. Pike. Bream. Roach. Rudd. Bleak. Common Carp.

Species caught in 2016: Siamese carp. Jullien's golden carp. Striped catfish. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Alligator gar. Rohu. Black Minnow Shark. Roach, Bream, Perch, Ballan Wrasse. Rudd. Common Carp. Pike. Zander. Chub. Bleak.

Species caught in 2015: Brown Trout. Roach. Bream. Terrapin. Eel. Barbel. Pike. Chub.

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I'm not entirely sure about the very notion of voluntary donations to charity for the absolute essentials,

 

The government sets itself up as the arbiter of all that is right and proper for its people and I believe that they should be responsible for what is required.

 

One aircraft carrier every now and then should cover it.

 

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I'm not entirely sure about the very notion of voluntary donations to charity for the absolute essentials,

 

The government sets itself up as the arbiter of all that is right and proper for its people and I believe that they should be responsible for what is required.

 

One aircraft carrier every now and then should cover it.

 

The health and social protection bills are already ten times the total defence budget, so I'm not quite sure what you're getting at.

Species caught in 2020: Barbel. European Eel. Bleak. Perch. Pike.

Species caught in 2019: Pike. Bream. Tench. Chub. Common Carp. European Eel. Barbel. Bleak. Dace.

Species caught in 2018: Perch. Bream. Rainbow Trout. Brown Trout. Chub. Roach. Carp. European Eel.

Species caught in 2017: Siamese carp. Striped catfish. Rohu. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Black Minnow Shark. Perch. Chub. Brown Trout. Pike. Bream. Roach. Rudd. Bleak. Common Carp.

Species caught in 2016: Siamese carp. Jullien's golden carp. Striped catfish. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Alligator gar. Rohu. Black Minnow Shark. Roach, Bream, Perch, Ballan Wrasse. Rudd. Common Carp. Pike. Zander. Chub. Bleak.

Species caught in 2015: Brown Trout. Roach. Bream. Terrapin. Eel. Barbel. Pike. Chub.

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The health and social protection bills are already ten times the total defence budget, so I'm not quite sure what you're getting at.

 

Are they not are already paying for those from the public purse? That's not charity - it's an existing government commitment.

 

The cost of an aircraft carrier now and again (over £6 billion the latest two - and probably more by the time of delivery) would go a long way to cover the funds required for that which charities currently provide.

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Why should tax payers fund lame donkeys or dead elephants?

 

Well actually we do via 25p in every £ raised and reduced pretty much everything on what they use to raise it.

 

I agree there should be full funding for cancer etc but directly not by a charity ,with 180,000 charities and rising daily thats a lot of 25p's being given

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Why should tax payers fund lame donkeys or dead elephants?

 

 

First line of post 13.

 

I'm not entirely sure about the very notion of voluntary donations to charity for the absolute essentials.

 

 

I've got no problem with voluntary charities for Donkeys or Vagabond's steam engines or whatever else anyone wants to waste their time and money on, but I don't think the important stuff should be left to chance.

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First line of post 13.

 

 

 

I've got no problem with voluntary charities for Donkeys or Vagabond's steam engines or whatever else anyone wants to waste their time and money on, but I don't think the important stuff should be left to chance.

I dont disagree with donkeys ,trains ,windmills or greyhounds but tax payers money shouldnt be put into it nor cheap rents and business taxes either

 

The other option is trusting government who historicaly cannot be trusted to wipe their own behinds.

Perhaps "aid" (bribes to you and me to despots and the corrupt) should be ring fenced for research

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Believe NOTHING anyones says or writes unless you witness it yourself and even then your eyes can deceive you

None of this "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" crap it just means i have at least two enemies!

 

There is only one opinion i listen to ,its mine and its ALWAYS right even when its wrong

 

Its far easier to curse the darkness than light one candle

 

Mathew 4:19

Grangers law : anything i say will  turn out the opposite or not happen at all!

Life insurance? you wont enjoy a penny!

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical." Thomas Jefferson

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Minni driver has quit ,not that anyone cared lol

Believe NOTHING anyones says or writes unless you witness it yourself and even then your eyes can deceive you

None of this "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" crap it just means i have at least two enemies!

 

There is only one opinion i listen to ,its mine and its ALWAYS right even when its wrong

 

Its far easier to curse the darkness than light one candle

 

Mathew 4:19

Grangers law : anything i say will  turn out the opposite or not happen at all!

Life insurance? you wont enjoy a penny!

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical." Thomas Jefferson

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In the lead-up to, during and after the Live Aid concert in 1985 to raise money for the starving in Ethiopia, you could buy fruit (fresh and tinned) from.... Ethiopia.

Less well known is that between 1974 and 1991, Ethiopia was having a civil war between the Derg and Emperor Haile Selassie, and only ended when the Government was overthrown. Also, between 1961 and 1991, Ethiopia was at war with Eritrea.

 

(quote from New World Encyclopedia) The famine in the mid 1980s brought the situation in Ethiopia to the attention of the world, and inspired charitable drives in western nations, notably by Oxfam and the Live Aid concerts of July 1985. Funds raised by Oxfam and Live Aid were distributed among NGOs in Ethiopia. A controversy arose when it transpired that some of these NGOs were under Derg control or influence, and that some Oxfam and Live Aid money had been used to fund the Derg's enforced resettlement programs, under which millions of people were displaced and between 50,000 and 100,000 killed.

 

Instead of keeping the food produced in Ethiopia to feed the starving, it was being exported in order to buy arms and weapons. Indirectly, the charities set up to feed the starving were helping to fund two wars.

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Species caught in 2017 Common Ash, Hawthorn, Hazel, Scots Pine, White Willow.

Species caught in 2016: Alder, Blackthorn, Common Ash, Crab Apple, Left Earlobe, Pedunculate Oak, Rock Whitebeam, Scots Pine, Smooth-leaved Elm, Swan, Wayfaring tree.

Species caught in 2015: Ash, Bird Cherry, Black-Headed Gull, Common Hazel, Common Whitebeam, Elder, Field Maple, Gorse, Puma, Sessile Oak, White Willow.

Species caught in 2014: Big Angry Man's Ear, Blackthorn, Common Ash, Common Whitebeam, Downy Birch, European Beech, European Holly, Hawthorn, Hazel, Scots Pine, Wych Elm.
Species caught in 2013: Beech, Elder, Hawthorn, Oak, Right Earlobe, Scots Pine.

Species caught in 2012: Ash, Aspen, Beech, Big Nasty Stinging Nettle, Birch, Copper Beech, Grey Willow, Holly, Hazel, Oak, Wasp Nest (that was a really bad day), White Poplar.
Species caught in 2011: Blackthorn, Crab Apple, Elder, Fir, Hawthorn, Horse Chestnut, Oak, Passing Dog, Rowan, Sycamore, Willow.
Species caught in 2010: Ash, Beech, Birch, Elder, Elm, Gorse, Mullberry, Oak, Poplar, Rowan, Sloe, Willow, Yew.

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