Utterli | andrewB | Activity https://utterli.com/members/andrewb/activity/ Activity feed for andrewB. Mon, 22 Jan 2024 16:31:21 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=12.1.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 44469294b6a4118fdae1517b4373af81 replied to the topic Sir Christopher Chope in the forum Banter https://utterli.com/Discussions/topic/sir-christopher-chope/#post-937 Tue, 19 Jun 2018 12:59:42 +0000 I know very little about parliamentary process but judging by his voting history Chope has a remarkable facility for always being wrong.

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]]> 9277b369acf923f5ded9c6b47fcfbfa3 andrewB posted a new activity comment https://utterli.com/latest/p/496/#acomment-499 Thu, 29 Mar 2018 11:11:49 +0000 “Why so much extra in the UK – inflation perhaps in set up costs (when was Germany set up) but running costs shoudl be comparable?”

Because the average UK resident will have to be forced to adopt it, just comparing the rubbish on the roadside verges of the two countries shows the different attitude to litter in general.

In reply to - posted an update Currently in the news, with the BBC reporting the following: “The German system is estimated to have cost about £600m (726m euros) as an initial set up, and about £700m (793m euros) annually f […] ]]> dc1b803bf8ebcce2272fe58b25dad614 andrewB posted a new activity comment https://utterli.com/latest/p/477/#acomment-480 Fri, 23 Mar 2018 11:39:57 +0000 Well, to be in keeping with the smoking campaigns then it should be a picture of clogged arteries, rather than actual people. We don’t victimise smokers by puting pictures of actual people dying of cancer on the packets, but rather the pictures of their lungs.

Surely we need to ban people buying unhealthy food before they become fat, rather than…[Read more]

In reply to - posted an update Fat could soon be the new smoking! https://news.sky.com/story/obesity-could-soon-be-the-new-smoking-cancer-risk-study-shows-11300817 When this happens and obesity is killing more people than […] ]]> b1e9e876e352b160eda19250a78c63d4 andrewB posted a new activity comment https://utterli.com/latest/p/466/#acomment-472 Thu, 15 Mar 2018 16:12:03 +0000 Just to clarify a point here. Almost all the tribes of south Africa (both white and black)were at some point ,invaders/colonists. The africaana farmer has as much historical title to the land as any Zulu.It is one of the great mysteries of southern Africa ,why the place was so depopulated prior to the late 1700 s . The idea that the land was…[Read more]

In reply to - posted an update South African government confiscating land from white farmers! I read an article today about South African government plans to take land from white farmers without compensation. There doesn’t seem […] ]]>