pilninggas

Ttask i am passionate about my nation as are many others, i just worry many in England are not, as its been made un-pc and children are educated to be British. In terms of smaller parties, i voted English Democrat in the last election (EU nonsense), and i think they got 800,000 votes in England and Wales (yes, some people in the marches and Monmouth consider themselves English, due to the history). With the whole Cornwall thing, i think they would love to have devolved power, but as a Cornish Royal Marine once said to me (as a passionate Cornishman) was that they would struggle to stay solvent even if they aligned themselves with the celtic countries. However national identity must be respected so they would have to be given a decide their own destiny. Labour still want to divide England up into devolve assemblies (their way of cutting the head off of the indepedence movement); John Prescott is a tosser! What gives me hope is that many Celts show empathy towards the English on this. I'm glad that whatever bad blood existed in the past is still not used as weapon against the English (when i go to Germany i don't keep reminding the Germans about the 2 World Wars).

It truly is a sad state of affairs; being English is abhorrent to the liberal-left pc brigade and as a result it has been crushed by mentality of being 'British'. I am English first, that is my nationality and my identity. I am British second, Great Britain is the name of the Island i was born on (much like some unionists, call themselves Irish, as Ireland is the name of the Island they were born in). The English have been let down by various governments - Labour don't want to be perceived as Anglo-centric and so try to make the English British, whilst trying to brown-nose the Celtic nations. The Conservatives full name is Conservative and Unionist Party and they try not over emphasise England as they don't want to sour already-weak grass roots support in the other nations of the UK. The truth is that most people in England are not really bothered, if asked in the street are you English? they would say yes; equally they would respond the same if asked if they are British. Maybe the apathy is a sign that most English do not have a chip-on-their-shoulder about nationality. It probably is because there is no mandate in England to reinforce nationality, unlike the other constituents of G.B. I can only see it getting worse; none of the people who can effect a change (organise the UK as a federation of states) will do so. It would mean many politicians being 'made redundant', and lets face it turkeys don't vote for Christmas. Imagine a Westminster that served England, a Holyrood that served Scotland, A welsh assembly that served Wales and NI assembly in Stormont directing policy in 'Ulster'. Equality taxes raised could be spent in the territory where they are generating preventing patently racist nonsense like the Barnett Formula; something i personally find very offensive. I really hope that at some point the UK will become a Federation or will devolve into individual states and England can begin to find it's own direction; no longer will we be accused of running Scotland remotely (to be fair Scotland is over-represented in Westminster) and real identity will be affirmed to all. Damn haven't type this much into a post in yonks!!!

lol

Having been a taxi driver (proper hackney), the last thing you want is anything that can be pulled around your neck.

Shocking Foamy; a car and worst still its a Suzuki!!!!!!!!! remove this filth from the interweb at once!!!!!!!!!

hi malthus even for greater london, at your age it seems high. when you get qoutes, bear in mind many insurance companies will not class it as an import if it has imported from within the EU or if it is to UK spec - you need to check this out. Good qoutes can be got from bikeinsurer.co.uk or google rampdale and phone them. Did you buy from an official yamaha dealer? if yes are you sure it isn't 'redirected stock' - ie yamaha europe didnt reallocate it to yamaha uk and that is all that the 'import' aspect means? hope this is of use. ps there is a yzf-r125 specific forum in cyberland somewhere.

this is the perfect blue peter pop performance, enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD02PU28NNw

george white tend to hold quite a bit of stock, however i have bought a new bike from there in the recent past and their customer service sucks. keep calling them.

nothing about a sproket here: http://www.vosa.gov.uk/vosa/apps/recalls/searches/search.asp however it might only be a yam recall. i'd phone a yamaha uk and enquire.

http://uk.video.yahoo.com/watch/6338139/16440695

u have pm

mine does this, it seems like road-noise from the tyre conducting up the front end, i just put it down to a trait of the bike, it isnt obtrusive.

i'm sure i could charm her with my west country charm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ruddy hell, who would have thought it

the reply above this one threw me for a second, as i am also a merv!

barker google rachel grant

Rosbifs by the french. Limeys by the americans

well im picking up an xj6 on saturday, so im hoping its gonna be good. Gotta say its light and looks well made (well done yam). I think efi on modern bikes is the way to go(4 worn out carbs can be a total bind).yes i know it aint gonna be as quick as my old EXUP, but i think thats got to be good for my license and petrol expenditure. Best bit £4200 new - hell a GS500e was almost that in the mid nineties.

This is the banana boat song, the famous version is by harry belafonte. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpg-KIKD5gU

about 4 years ago, a taxi driver i know was caught doing 60mph in a 30! He emailed pepipoo.com, and the guy who set up, came up from cornwall (to bristol) and represented him in court, got him off on a technicality! didnt ask for any money or anything! doubt he'd do it now, but still thought it was a fine act.

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brilliant

get the seller to clearly mark the price (less is good, though not legal) on the outside of the package. When it comes in, it will be held at your local bonded post office/courier company and you can collect and pay the VAT on it. the post office will charge something on top, which i think is the bigger rip-off. At one time you could get the seller to write gift on the package and it was exempt from duty, unfortunately C&E dont go for this one anymore! not much you can do about it, as long as you still make a saving and you are sure the vender is bona-fide still a good way to get stuff.

haha, i may have passed you on the autobahn coming back, i just been down to munich on my fzr1000, was going to austria/italy/stelvio-pass, but the bike was acting up so came back via holland/belgium. central europe is always great.

also, you are picking a brand new bike up. Make sure the dealer gives you a thorough brief about the controls, any accesories etc. Make sure they have completed the service book pre-delivery service details. go safe and have fun.