So you ARE an extremist. I claim my prize !

I didn’t imply you are lying. I said what I meant, that we only had your word for it, in other words no other supporting evidence. Memory is imperfect. As you confirm in your response by not recalling any of the detail.

Many callers do prefer to remain anonymous so when they say they are a teacher there is nothing but their word this is true. You seem to have accepted that word without thought. Stalin wasn’t anonymous. His actions confirmed his attitude.

If you trust your memory given the evidence you have provided yourself then you should not expect others to. There are no conclusions to be drawn, other than that you jump on things that you believe confirm your biases.

I have no idea why you are obsessed with making reference to “gas appliances”. It’s not revelant to the discussion and bereft of humour. So weird!

I say it because it’s my opinion. “We” means us, the voters, who collectively decided, by a small margin, they wanted to leave the EU. Which wasn’t a view shared by the majority of our elected representatives, who had the authority and opportunity to refuse to accept the result, given its closeness and subsequent revelations. Let alone the protracted negotiations over what was actually involved. It was a farce.

I think it has been evident from the day a referendum was first requested by UKIP this was a self defeating idea. We should never throw our future to the winds of chance implicit in a referendum. This was a monumental blunder by the Tories who agreed solely to protect themselves.

It was never going to produce a better outcome for the UK in today’s world. That was obvious to me from the start and nothing since has emerged to challenge that opinion. So it’s not too early to assess the result. It’s too late to stop it but never too late to reverse it. The sooner we recognise that we are now simply one part of Europe, it’s where we belong and how we will prosper, the better. The EU makes things simpler. Simpler is more efficient.

Of course you were implying that I was lying, that is clear and obvious. It is ridiculous to expect anyone to remember the exact time and date of a radio broadcast from which one remembered a particular item. Do you remember every detail of everything you have ever listened to?

I can’t recall any radio caller giving full details of their identity. You stance is that we should dismiss anything anyone says on the radio because they might not be who they purport to be and could be lying.

Whether Stalin was anonymous of not, his actions could well fit the profile of a far-right activist trying to discredit Communism (it makes you wonder about Steeleye)! Obviously, Stalin was not a right-wing agent provocateur, neither was the left-wing crackpot teacher who phoned the radio programme.

Certainly I trust my memory – far more than giving credence to your dissemblings.

You of course know full well the relevance of gas appliance references.

So essentially it's doing well thanks for clearing that up.