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It's near the 13-00 on mine If that helps.:)

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It's at 13 minutes in.

Well it says that when I watch it.

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It should be 1.25 because tuesday's session started at 11.34am and GJ stood at 1pm - 1hour 26 minutes later. Anyway, I'm showing 1.25 allowing for the previous winding up. I suspect we may be working on different systems. The important thing is that you can see what happens.

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I don't know what else you could call it, but a shuffle.

Unless it's animal magnetism in action, caught on film.

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Twas a little shuffle, G.J. did ok to me, shame many MPs dont seem to regard this as a problem,otherwise they would be present? perhaps those absent see fiddling as second nature?

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I think he did do OK. That's what I previously wrote. It's a shame the shuffle was caught on film - that was just unlucky - and maybe he was not aware of it, but that still does not justify his rant on here. He needs to calm down a little and accept the fun of the cut and thrust of civilised debate.

I suspect that the reason for the empty benches - despite all the recent media coverage on metal theft may be due to the fact that it was 1pm and some of his colleagues, being thirsty bunnies, needed to go down the pub.

GJ may be on another planet when it comes to public opinion on the EU, but he is perfectly right in what he is doing on metal theft (oh, and his work on the Toddy Curve, for that matter). The real question now is will the government give him & his colleagues sufficient parliamentary time through the second reading (20th January), through the committee stage and on to it's final reading? I don't know - I hope so. If there is sufficient cross-bench support then it should happen.

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PM MargaretR Less, sure she can help:D

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Back on topic -
a length of metal railings (about 5') has been stolen from opposite my home.

It was part of the fence which separates the roadside verge from the area of trees, and was on LCC property.

I didn't notice it had gone until my neighbour pointed it out to me. I don't/can't look out of my windows due to the scaffolding and plank walkways that went up over a week ago.

There are several lengths left yet to steal, and we expect them to go gradually. The wooded area will then be fully accessible as a dog toilet site.

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The next village to me in the East Riding has had 2 Kilometers of telephone cable stolen, and the whole village is now without Telephone or Internet access.How can someone steal 2 Kilometers of cable unless they have equipment to coil it up,lift it and carry it off?This suggests to me that the perpetrators are likely to be someone in the know ,like BT workers or Telephone engineers. And where do they dispose of the cable?There must be some dodgy scrap metal dealers around.Surely the Police can solve this? It cant be easy to carry 2 Kilometers of cable around, then find someone willing to buy it, with out someone seeing it.Whats the odds our police force never solve this case?Anyone willing to have a bet?

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Not me Jim

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My son lives near the Griffin Huncoat.
Last night his lighting went dim. On contacting the leccy people, he was told that the local substation had been broken into and the earth cables had been stolen.

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Pity they didn't manage to earth themselves:mad:

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It said on the news few weeks back the government were going to make it illegal for scrap metal merchants to pay cash for scrap and have to have documentation for all scrap recieved where it came from etc!

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That's a good one I'll have to pass it on to my MP!

Also did you know that MP stands for Muppet! :do-one:

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Government make legislation, but it doesn't mean its going to work, the holding of Hand Guns was outlawed, did it make any difference, no, the only thing it did was to push illegal fire arms further under ground. I remember at the time, how those harden criminals would be shaking in their shoes, "well that's it lads we can't go on with that armed robbery tomorrow the government has just banned us from having handguns, we either scrap the idea or we just stick with the sawn of Purdy":rolleyes: