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I will be taking a short break flying out to Spain this afternoon, hope to visit the El Acebuchal later this week to see the renovations for myself and do a post for my new food blog other than that I hope to do a little bit of swimming little bit of reading quite a lot of eating and drinking, the weather is better here than there so I am taking my raincoat.

Gordon Brown accused the SNP of a “transparent attempt to manipulate the political system for purely partisan political purposes”.

Gordon Brown won’t let England and Scotland split - Telegraph

Pot Kettle Black Lisbon Treaty!

This From John Redwood

The Prime Minister should grasp that the biggest constitutional threat to the Union come from EU developments. English people are not going to be happy until they have a vote on the Constitutional Treaty, and have their view taken seriously that we want less EU power over us, not more.

Thank heavens for Jeff Randall. In all the coverage of last week’s devastating Government report on the collapse of our postal services, nowhere was there any mention of the key part played in the disaster by the EU - until Mr Randall broke media silence in Friday’s Daily Telegraph.Yet the report itself made no secret of the fact that the trouble has been our dutiful compliance with EU postal directives, compelling us to “open up the market” by allowing 19 private operators to cream off all those parts of Royal Mail’s operations which enabled it to run at a profit.

To make it worse, these companies take the money for collecting mail from big businesses - mainly bulk postings - but then rely on Royal Mail to deliver it, at a knockdown price.

Failure of Royal Mail: Booker

Story covered by EU Referendum on Friday