Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

I think the Labour party has more to worry about when Rebecca speaks. Blair and Brown were involved with Murdoch far longer than Cameron.

But as many would say that is yesterday's history.

We are interested in today's news.

How many E-mails did Cameron send.

Seems a to have a cosy relationship.

BofF.

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Some people obviously can't stop.....

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Parts of England are no longer in drought following heavy rain in recent weeks, the Environment Agency has said.

Drought has ended in south-west England, the Midlands and parts of Yorkshire following persistent rainfall, it added.

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Disagree.

I think method of interrogation is skilful and informative and exposes what many will see as a corruption of "said" democracy.

The costs are unfortunate, but in comparison with the price of a "battle ship" infinitesimal and the future value of the enquiry may be that it leads to some clean up of politics, which is long overdue.

I think the enquiry may prove more valuable than the battleship.

But I do wonder why many seem prepared to devalue and sweep away possible findings of the enquiry.

For me there appears to have been and are continuing "criminal" abuses of power.

(Some of which the present government is trying to cover with smoke screens.)

The abuses are not confined to this tory party leadership, but at the moment they are in the driving seat.

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Fred
None of it is today's news. Even most of the Cameron references are two years ago. The public cares not a jot about any of this.

Hi Mnamreh,

Fully agree, but that does not mean that we should stop giving these abuses of power a good kick in the crutch now and then.

Diplomacy if fine, but when someone is grabbed by the ***** at the same time, if focuses the mind more so.

The end is nigh!

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I miss read the headline of this story , i can't say the miss read word only black gangsta rapper's can do that without being arrested.


http://www.aol.co.uk/video/man-dances-with-huge-digger-in-latvia/517362508/

I think the UK banks are gaining market share as a result of the mess European banks are in. Even American banks like JPM are acting stupidly. £1.2bln is not much, but they lost it.

Are JPM positions short or long now? can we get such information?

Seek and ye shall find

aldwickk

you are right. i just found 50p down the back of my sofa. result
ha ha

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One last comment on Leveson enquiry. (For today.)

The public at the moment seem demoralised and politically apathetic.

The reasons being given for their disillusionment is that they think the government and a large percentage of politicians are corrupt and arrogant. Also, they resent the fact that the politician seem to think that they can get a get away with their often "criminal" actions.

From whatever political position you evaluate the evidence already given to the Leveson enquiry, it seems bad to me. If the problems are not seen to be remedied and penalties paid, similar attitudes will percolate down to the "lower" classes, who may think they can get away with other ways of "thieving" or "robbery".

Already, we have seen mass civil disobedience and open criminality once this year.

(Was it copycat, or emulation of what they have seen the political leaders doing in a slightly different way? (An abuse of others.)


If a tree is rotten at the top, the disease, more often not descends, to its roots. Public figures should be seen to be attempting to be cleaner than clean.

The enquiry and its findings may expose problems and possible actions to resolve some of them.

If heads roll, as many expect, so be it. But the results of this enquiry may lead to a cleansing of politics.

Probably, the above is a little hopeful.

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Hays, I am surprised by you evaluation of what the public care about.

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You can wake up now ......... his finished posting for the day

Nothing seems to be of any importance so far in the enquiry. It all seems to be a waste of money. Brown doesn't come out of it very well.