Dick, dont lecture me about 'rude'. It is rude to intrude on a thread and post long political diatribes which have no relevance to the purpose for which the thread was perfectly obviously started. The miners' strike was thirty years ago, and it has no connection with jacquic's visit to the UK, so there is no reason whatsoever for any of you to grind your political axes on this thread.

Kindly start your own thread and take your buddies with you, there's a good chap. You can bluster there.