John McDonnell is doing very well this morning on LBC and David Mellor asking questions on politics something Nick Ferrari didn't.

John has been very honest and has answered all questions. Very refreshing.

Hopefully this timezone difference nonsense will end after the EU referendum is won and we stay in. Time to get rid of these ridiculous 'quirks' of ours that pass for British culture nowadays.

First on the list: adopt CET like everyone else !

I'm sure the Irish & Portuguese will be happy to hear it's a British cultural quirk !

I think the map makes it obvious that us somehow requiring a different time zone is simply ridiculous:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_European_Time

Us still living in GMT/BST is a timewarp more than a timezone really.

Does Shaker Aamer, who uprooted his family and transferred them to Afghanistan (travelling on a fake Belgian passport) now have any rights to a life in Britain?

As I understood it, he has/had 'leave to remain' in the UK.

A cat sleeping in a dog basket does not become a dog.

But don't you give up those rights when you settle your family elsewhere and use a fake passport to do so?


So, are you saying that he should stay in Saudi where he was born or in the US where he spent most of his life?

I really don't know.

I don't care where he goes just don't call him British

I agree with you . . . . and I didn't.

Looking forward to him being up for a gong at the Pride of Britain Awards next year.

Just have to go to Spain this time of year for some truly absurdly timed sunrises and sunsets : a prime contender for of a bit of GMT ing .Ditto France for that matter .Both could do with losing an hour .Incidentally the latter has been in some sort of time warp for the past 200 years or so ,,,,just don't tell em

Tom Harris who says that we shouldn't talk to stop the war collection or the Syrian refugees when discussing if we should go into Syria has just been on LBC and made very nasty comments about an listener who text in and also attack Corbyn funny how he doesn't like it when Corbyn supporters express negative comments about Blair.

There's a lot of hoohah about whether Corbyn's nod was deep enough. I watched the Remembrance day service on TV and I saw his nod. It was no more and no less than that of the Queen. What I find disrespectful is that, every year, Prince Edward turns up in full military uniform. He couldn't even take the training and ran home after just a few weeks.

Yeah I saw Eddy all dressed up yesterday. I believe that he has some honorary position given to him which allows him a go in the dressing up box.

Charlie was togged up as well. I remmeber years ago they showed a picture of the 'ship' that Charlie was supposedly in charge of at the time.

Tommy Trinder said at the time 'I came back from Dunkirk in something better than that'.

Cameron is being very free with our money. What on earth is the point of throwing hundreds of millions of pounds at Africa? IMO it will mean that dictators will build themselves more palaces and it won't make a blind bit of difference to the immigrant problem.

was it not a condition of getting the money that they use it to help the immigrant problem, by taking some into Africa?

Yes. And you think they'll stick to that agreement?

If (any) Government say so, of course it will happen

A small wager, Martin?

A good article on this topic:
http://new.spectator.co.uk/2014/01/why-aid-fails/

49p it will happen! (Is that small enough for you? ;-

I think I can just about run to that.