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Post by merse on Nov 17, 2008 3:56:09 GMT
Its good to be back Alan, Ive been in Morocco for a few weeks tasting the delights of Marrakesh.   Marrakesh eh..............but does it have a balloon?  Welcome back Humphrey. Of all the guys in all the towns.....................  |
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Post by joebarlow on Nov 17, 2008 12:36:51 GMT
The Herald Express has caught up on the story and no one seems to know where Chris Roberts is now wether he is in Reading or Scotland.
Also theres interviews with a few people from Torquay United, Ian Hayman said "It might have explained a lot of his decisions, which many thought, on occasion, to be irrasional. When he was at Torquay he was in regular contact with Czechoslviakia and he spoke fluent Czechoslovakian.
Colin Lee said: "Chris, I think, was one of those charecters who acted before he thought things through. He was very impulsive"
Adrian Sanders said "He was a Walter Mitty charecter. Obvioudly it was in his genes perhaps"
Miike Bateson said "I dont belive a lot of what I read in the papers"
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Post by witneygull on Nov 17, 2008 16:55:53 GMT
Blimey! I heard this story on the news the other day, and it never twigged it could be the same Roberts family.
No wonder those East German border police wanted to shoot him!
Oddly enough, I was in Morocco last month as well.
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Post by chelstongull on Nov 17, 2008 18:36:16 GMT
No wonder those East German border police wanted to shoot him! Pity they didn't  |
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Post by jamie on Nov 17, 2008 20:22:01 GMT
Like most others I hate the MOS and all the other right wing zenaphobic rags (i have even written a protest song which I performed at a private festival - hardly dylan I know but it got a few nods and a laugh!) The story itself is the usual attempt to discredit any polititions they don't like and clearly there is an agenda. It was not an exclusive and was in fact a few other papers during the week. That said I have to say it did give me a rye chuckle, the story of the " roberts experience" just goes on and on. You just couldn't make it up. Merse - I love your comment on the alaskan terrier, Mind you is it just me who thinks the world will be a darker place without her?? I mean she was such great comedy value. A gun toting, stilletto wearing , bear shooting right wing republican with a great pair of legs. I was never sure whether to be scared or aroused! Listeners to the radio 4 news quiz will know what I mean |
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Post by buster on Nov 18, 2008 13:00:55 GMT
Ah the famous balloon.
Has anyone ever seen it up in the air or spoken to someone whos been in it?
On every occasion I`ve returned to the bay its been trussed to the ground looking somewhat like a listening station I once stumbled across in Cyprus.
Has the bay community unwittingly allowed a surveillance device on its door step?
Ideal for detecting reactionery groups publicising ways around the parking restrictions.
buster
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2008 14:09:11 GMT
Buster,
It was flying five or six weeks ago so I took the opportunity.
Only two other people were up there with me - an elderly woman in a headscarf and a chap in his late thirties (who she called Chris). They seemed to be keen photographers as they were taking lots of pictures of the Rec with heavy-duty equipment.
I later saw them shopping for listening devices and satellite gear in Maplin in Exeter and, when I was next in the Bay, they appeared to be making a hurried getaway on the fast ferry to Brixham.
It was a Red Funnel ferry.
Makes you think, doesn't it?
Has the government resigned yet? I believe they were "rocked" over the weekend.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2008 22:12:28 GMT
Well, this week's Mail on S**** didn't come up with much more on the TRAITOR IN A HEADSCARF apart from, funnily enough, another picture of her in the aforementioned headwear together with a weak story about her trying to tap up a MI6 operative. A sure sign, I fear, that the story has lost its legs and is going no further than Daily Mail Land (meaning that all over 70s in Woking wearing headscarves have probably been reported to the authorities this past week. Possibly even to the extent of declaring themselves as dangers to our democracy?).
Nonetheless we're treated to an insight into the sophisticated briefing techniques conducted in the former Czechoslovakia:
STB officials were so excited that they even briefed her on the best route to the embassy from an underground station.
Part of the papers state: "Today I had a meeting with Hammer. She was familiarised with the layout, such as the entry path from the Malostranska metro station into the British Embassy."
Nothing like being well prepared, eh?
The article finished by mentioning the good lady's offspring: Roberts’s son Christopher has claimed his mother’s activities were the result of "youthful errors of judgment".
That, I suspect, may be the last we hear of the crisis that rocked the government to its foundations.
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Post by Rob on Nov 23, 2008 23:16:16 GMT
The article finished by mentioning the good lady's offspring: Roberts’s son Christopher has claimed his mother’s activities were the result of "youthful errors of judgment". Precise judgment in her dotage it is, then. |
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Post by merse on Nov 24, 2008 3:41:10 GMT
..............in Woking wearing headscarves have probably been reported to the authorities this past week. Possibly even to the extent of declaring themselves as dangers to our democracy?). In Woking they probably are....................as Islamic terrorists. Don't forget, Sara of Hampshire told us: "we don't know who lives in this country any more - so there could be thousands of foreign nationals waiting in the wings ready to destroy our nation's fabric at any time" I was standing behind the suspect Rigsby  on Saturday and I clearly heard him say to Lenin Ealinggull  he was hatching a cunning plan to get to the front of the queue to see "Santa"  in Bentalls before any of the kids got there so as to bag the best pressies; to which Lenin Ealinggull replied "hmmn, come the revolution my friend all will be equality...............equal justice, crackers and a nice reindeer roast dinner  for all" |
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Post by ealinggull on Nov 25, 2008 0:34:56 GMT
Communist - me? I drink Twinings all the time .. even though I know all proper tea is theft |
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Post by merse on Nov 25, 2008 3:52:17 GMT
I drink Twinings all the time .. Turned over a new leaf then!  |
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Post by chrish on Nov 25, 2008 6:41:25 GMT
Only over English Breakfast at Earl and Lady Grey's house with their two splendid servants Darjeeling and Assam. Lapsang Souchong is a frightful gardener though. ;D
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