Here I discuss the absurdity of leftists accusing the Home Secretary of 'hate speech' when she spoke about control of foreign migrant workers in October of last year. This is an attempt by international communists to make it impossible for people to discuss these issues without being vilified for their independent thought. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/12/amber-rudds-conservative-party-speech-treated-hate-incident/ My Book Waking The Monkey! http://www.lulu.com/gb/en/shop/claire-rae-randall/waking-the-monkey-becoming-the-hundredth-monkey/paperback/product-22175832.html http://wakingthemonkey.blogspot.co.uk/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ErCFx3NQfU

Let's be clear about the purpose of the Leeds NGT Metro Trolleybus scheme Cllr James Lewis on 12 May 2013 at the Leeds Civic Hall Public Meeting said: 'The bulk of the cost of this scheme is [sic] [would be] going on building of the park and ride site, building of depots and building the physical infrastructure. The actual poles and wires and buses are in the order of 10% of the scheme, 90% is 'doing the other things' to make the buses flow freely and segregate them from traffic' ~ Which Cllr James Lewis doesn't specify, but involve compulory purchases of privately owned land and gardens, eviction of residents, demolition of buildings along the A660, cutting down of hundreds of mature trees and a massive road building agenda, costed at about 175 million pounds. His colleague Cllr Richard Lewis admitted on the 5 June 2013 at the public meeting at the Headingley Heart Centre...... "... and actually the whole NGT scheme is actually far more of a highways scheme than a scheme about a method of public transport." So there we have it. Mutually confirming each other, the Cllrs Lewis state that the intention of the 'Trolleybus' scheme is in fact to spend 90% of the money on building roads and the costs of doing that. They know that the trolleybus itself would only create traffic chaos, so they want to find an excuse, hidden in plain sight, which would allow them to engage in massive road building that would remain forever regardless of the future fate of the trolleybus itself. This is the truth of the NGT 'Trolleybus' scheme ~ "A Highways scheme, rather than one of public transport." Cllr Richard Lewis holds the portfolio for Development and Highways on the Leeds City Council Executive Board. The Executive members of the Labour group in LCC twice in 2013 imposed a 3-line party whip on its members to coerce them into supporting this destructive scheme by threatening them with expulsion from the party if they didn't vote for this scheme even though substantial numbers think the scheme has no merit. Democracy? For those viewers with an interest in human behaviour you may wish to pay close attention to the body language Cllr James Lewis in the first part when he states that only 10% of the proposed cost would actually be spent on the public transport system of trolleybuses, poles and wires. He displays what are known as 'displacement activities', which are clear indicators of feeling embarrrassment and unease at what he is saying, such as touching his face and his arms, scratching himself, hesitating and moving about somewhat awkwardly while he is talking. Obviously he was aware at the time that to do all this for a mere 10% to be spent on the public transport system when they are proposing to spend so much money and change so much through demolition and road building is bordering on the absurd to say the least. Not least when this would put Leeds at least a further £75 million or so into the red on top of the massive debt which the Executive Board have already gotten us into that has resulted in serious reduction in services for the elderly and the closure of well used facilities such as the Holt Park Centre and others. This debt would inevitably be passed onto the Council Tax payer for many years to come. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keY-efh-TsA

This is my brief summary of why, based on a very long history of aggression against Europe, Turkey and its Islamic ideology are unwelcome here, and consequently it's future inclusion in the EU is an extremely important reason to Vote Leave at the Referendum. I should thank Professor Bill Warner whose www.politicalislam.com and YouTube channel Political Islam I have found of immense value in my researches on the subject of Islam. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQF601e1k_E

On the day that Tolkien's 'Beowulf' translation, which he worked on while Professor of Old English at Leeds University in 1925, is published, I am very proud to make public the video of Dr Alaric Hall speaking about JRR Tolkien's time in Leeds which I recorded in the Brotherton Library's Special Collection on Friday 22nd November 2013. (Coincidentally the 50th anniversary of the death of CS Lewis and the assassination of President John F Kennedy) Dr Hall, who is the lineal successor to Tolkien in his position in the Department of English at the University of Leeds, covers the work which Tolkien published in his time here at Leeds, including Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and several poems he wrote while here, such as 'The Clerke's Compleinte'. He also gives some special analysis to the letter Tolkien wrote to Arthur Ransome in December 1937, which is held by the Brotherton Special Collection in the Ransome archive. Dr Hall has written a paper concerning this letter in which he demonstrates, I believe successfully, that Tolkien had really quite knowingly embedded 'The Hobbit' in the world of 'The Silmarillion', despite his later claims that this was little more than an afterthought. Tolkien's modesty often seems to have gotten the better of him, but here he is 'tempt[ed] grievously to a mythological essay' and although he restrains himself he nonetheless gives away enough for literary detectives such as Dr Hall to make something of. http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/78192/1/Hall%26Kaislaniemi_editorille.pdf I should like to express an extremely large 'Thankyou' to Peter Boocock of South Headingley for his superb work on reconstructing the 22 fragments of the video file which it had broken into due to a technical problem with the recording equipment, and without whom none of this would be viewable. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQu0V9Wplkk