From GUEST, Rahere – We get rifles; Queen Anne Salutes; Zen and the art of the Combat Rifleman – Ho Hum. All the rifle spinning, bullshit is all very well and looks good in a "mickey-mouse" American Marching Band Street Parade sort of way but it is of absolutely no practical use whatsoever – mind you as the Queen Anne they are going on about was most likely the Austrian one no wonder we never got involved with such bullshit. It does however look as though it would come in handy during basic training once you'd got to a certain standard that your D.I., would introduce it to relieve the boredom, (During my basic training they did that by letting every man in the squad "invent" a drill movement on the spur of the moment which he then had to "teach" the squad - lesson: Exercise in thinking on your feet - formulating commands - practice in giving orders and instructing).

As Musket, or Muskets, was addressing the transport and storage of guns then there was absolutely nothing wrong with Charmion's recollection – nothing whatsoever to do with, or about, carrying a gun in a hostile environment where you may have to carry it ready for immediate use.

"The thing about Teribus is that he's becoming an old man and it hurts him, he wants the world as it was and cannot bear the reality that it is as it is, he's in denial. "

Hey listen up "pal", what this "becoming" shit?? I am an old man – nothing at all wrong with that, on the contrary I am quite proud of it, considering the life I've led - and for your information I am in denial about S.F.A.

I would love to hear what this great change was that occurred in those ten years Rahere (I think that they exist mainly inside your own over active imagination) and I have not got the foggiest clue what your link is between patriotism and hierarchy.

As for politicians now being servants of the electorate? Well that is just simply laughable given the attitude and performance of the "professional politicians" who have been in charge of our country for the past couple of decades. Way back in the early to middle part of the 19th century leaders and leading members of political parties actually forced elections that they knew would turn their parties out of office in order that the matter could be put before the electorate if they thought their parties policies would hurt the interests of the Nation as a whole – Fat chance of any of the chancers currently in Westminster ever doing that today. And come to think of it there are far, far fewer people living in the United Kingdom today that have any concept of the United Kingdom being a whole Nation than there ever was in the late 18th century.

Oddly enough the bit I thought that was important in the Andrew Mitchell thing was the fact that it transpired that the police report in their official log was basically a concoction of lies contradicted by CCTV evidence and that an e-mail "eye-witness" account corroborating the concocted police version of the incident by a member of the public to his MP turned out to an e-mail sent in by an off-duty police officer who was not present at the incident – And the Police, the Police Commissioner and the Police Federation ALL thought that they could get away "Scot-Free" with that shit. And even when it was "investigated" and Mr Mitchell was accused by the Police of not co-operating with the West Midlands Police even that was proven to have been bullshit when the recorded interviews were transcribed.

"I've just been playing with Audacity on his {Ed milliband's presumably} voice, the Normalised setting reduces the nasal sneer and puts tonal warmth in which isn't there. It's subtle, and what I get at the end is still very recognisable. It irons out some of the high-frequency overtones, but I don't think he can do that himself."

If that is your idea of entertainment then you really should get a life.

Professional politicians in the UK have destroyed the faith of the electorate in all of the mainstream political parties – too many promises made, too many promises broken. David Cameron can guarantee to deliver a referendum on the United Kingdom's membership of the EU until he is "blue-in-the-face" there is not a single voter in the United Kingdom will believe him – because he promised that before and failed to deliver. Anyone who is even toying with voting Labour after what resulted from their power trip between 1997 and 2010 basically need to be committed, the Labour Governments of Blair and Brown are the ones who dumped the country in the shit and Labour supporters up and down the country should never ever be allowed to forget that.

We do not want professional politicians we want people who have at least earned a living and held down an actual job – sorry but working full time within the organization of a political party does not qualify. Someone like the Musket who managed to escape the thralldom of the pit to build his electrical goods empire, expand it world-wide thereby bringing work to the masses across five continents - even HE would be preferable to the complete and utter wankers in Parliament today. I mean he's already half-way to being a politician for me - I already can't stand the prat and think that he is a complete and utter idiot.

Frank Field – Too old

David Davies – Too young (Or did you actually mean David Davis perhaps? If so Too Old again)

Of course "Teribus is from the past" and you, you pillock, are also from that same past minus ten years. And just like you, you pillock, "Teribus is living in the present" just as you are – although it would appear that "Teribus is living in the present" a damned sight more contentedly than you are.

SNP holding the balance of power? Highly unlikely, the more they promote division in Scotland the greater will be the resistance against them. The referendum in Scotland showed clearly that the consensus in Scotland is that the UK should remain as a Union. The two year run up to that referendum opened up some extremely painful divisions and any political party that seeks a repeat performance of those last two years will be punished for it at the polls in 2015 (Westminster Elections) and again in 2016 (Holyrood elections)

"Black Friday riots??" Pray tell us what entitlements were being "fought for"? All I saw were some extremely unattractive "couch potato" types voluntarily partaking in scenes that would have disgusted the inhabitants of a piggery. Mind you it is probably the only exercise they get all year. Precisely why we have to emulate and instantly adopt every bloody silly marketing and consumer sales idea that we see broadcast from the USA I have no clue whatsoever.