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.

Next national election, I can't see many voting Tory, Lib/Dem, or perhaps what could be your favourite party, the BNP.

Greek
Mixed metaphor.
Dig yourself into a hole.
Paint yourself into a corner.

I will be voting Tory , because i don't want Labour or a Lab/Lib or a Con/Lib in power.

What i would like would be a Con/UKIP goverment. The tory's always get in were i live.

I thought you were the ghost of yesterday!

Strange how quiet this thread has been on Syria.

Also interesting to reflect on Asma Assad. President Assad of Syria’s wife apparent statements in 2008.

I can’t find original statement, which I thought was at an address made at United nations, but below is taken from

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/pariah-states-first-lady/story-e6frg6tx-1111118301574


Strange how actions are different from expectations/

““She is adamant, however, that Islam has been unfairly demonised. "When we associate extremism with religion, we're being too narrow," she says. "It can exist everywhere, in politics, in society and in attitudes. But what does religion actually teach us? All three monolithic religions teach us about the dignity of the human being, respect for others, openness and the value of human life. To disfigure religion and associate it with violence and terror is just not humane. It's not the religion that's wrong; it's those people who are using religion as an excuse."
Such reflections have given an urgency to her drive to tackle poverty in Syria. "There is no time to waste," she says.
In a recent speech in Italy, she said: "Take a second to ask yourself ... Where would the extremist preach if poverty did not provide the audience? Where would a terrorist recruit if poverty did not line up those in despair?"
"We tend to assume poverty only exists in the Third World, but you find even in the US and Europe there are pockets of extreme hardship and that's not something that people pay enough attention to," she adds now. "The reason it is so important is because it affects us all. When people are poor they have no hope and when they have no hope they become desperate, and desperation can breed some bad, bad things." Poverty is an issue in Syria, too, with a per capita income of about $1915. She is particularly concerned that Syria's economic progress - and last year its economy grew by about 6.1 per cent - is not unfairly skewed towards the cities. Her largest undertaking, Firdos, the Fund for Integrated Rural Development of Syria, focuses on micro-finance for small businesses, scholarships for bright pupils and teaching information technology skills.”

Is this the same woman who defended her husband on what he is doing to his own people in Syria

Yes.

The bad new's is The Tories have slumped to a 14-point deficit behind Labour, according to an opinion poll published in the Sunday Express.

The survey puts David Cameron's party on just 29% - compared to 43% for Labour.


But the good new's is UKIP are now level with the Lib/Dem's on 9%

Would love to see Farage gain a couple of seats. Only politician i have any time for...

A few home truths, he likes to tell it exactly as it is!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llDYLb7HoIk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez-88_hIrLY&feature=related

U-Turn and U-Bend are doing a superb job for Britain.

I suggested to the French that they could have the pair of them.

I won't repeat their responses.

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By the time they have run out of excuses and others to blame the next election will have arrived and then you will see the rats leaving a sinking boat.

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Who cares what the French think

Hi Davai,

Fully agree.
People moan like mad about the EU and the way it rules the UK, and yet they will still vote for parties that 'wont give us a referendum'.
Yes, voting for UKIP would mainly be a protest vote, but surely thats what this country needs, a 'Bloody Big Protest', to put our so called leaders in their place.

Hi Aldwickk,

The French, Germans, Italians, Spanish and most other countries put themselves first and quite rightly, whilst the UK who still thinks it is the big benevolent uncle of the world, puts everyone else first and ourselves second.
Why else do we still give foreign aid to India, Pakistan that both have their own nuclear and space programs, and also to several other countries, who all flick us the proverbial V in return.
And of course remember our Argentinian friends, who whilst trying their best to cause us financial harm, are still receiving UK backed loans.

Still we can hold our heads high knowing that this money is going to the desperately poor of these countries (official line).
Of course we all know it goes to the political elite rulers and hangers on of these countries to buy luxury goods like top spec cars, private jets etc, not forgetting the odd palace.

But of course, its not our politicians money, its ours.

I think that for many years, other countries have felt that we are the laughing stock of the world.

Moaning already, and is only Monday.

Greek.

David Cameron's daughter Nancy left behind at pub

David and Samantha Cameron were at the pub having Sunday lunch with their children and two other families
David Cameron and his wife, Samantha, left their eight-year-old daughter, Nancy, in a pub after having Sunday lunch, Downing Street has confirmed.

She is reported to have spent about 15 minutes at the Plough Inn at Cadsden in Buckinghamshire, before Mr Cameron returned to collect her.

Number 10 says the couple were "distraught" when they realised Nancy was not with them.

It said it happened "a couple of months ago".

The pub is near Mr Cameron's country residence at Chequers.

The Camerons were at the pub with Nancy and their other children Arthur, six, and 22-month-old Florence, as well as two other families.

After leaving, Mr Cameron went home in one car with his bodyguards and thought Nancy was with his wife and their other children in another car.

Mrs Cameron had assumed her eldest daughter was with her father. The mistake was discovered when they got home. When the prime minister returned to collect Nancy he found her helping staff.

A Downing Street spokesman said: "The prime minister and Samantha were distraught when they realised Nancy wasn't with them.

"Thankfully when they phoned the pub she was there safe and well. The prime minister went down straight away to get her."

The real face of Caring Conservatism.. I think you'll agree.

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I love the comment on Radio4 earlier - "I've never left any of my children behind, but I have been tempted to many times!.

As a Con voter I wonder what Ruth would have said? Actually it's probably better not to.

At least someone in Europe has got it right and it's not a politician !







Baldrick: "What I want to know, Sir is, before there was a Euro there were lots of different types of money that different people used. And now there's only one type of money that the foreign people use. And what I want to know is, how did we get from one state of affairs to the other state of affairs"


Blackadder: "Baldrick. Do you mean, how did the Euro start?"


Baldrick: "Yes Sir"



Blackadder: "Well, you see Baldrick, back in the 1980s there were many different countries all running their own finances and using different types of money. On one side you had the major economies of France, Belgium,Holland and Germany, and on the other, the weaker nations of Spain, Greece, Ireland, Italy and Portugal. They got together and decided that it would be much easier for everyone if they could all use the same money, have one Central Bank, and belong to one large club where everyone would be happy. This meant that there could never be a situation whereby financial meltdown would lead to social unrest, wars and crises".


Baldrick: "But this is sort of a crisis, isn't it Sir?".


Blackadder: "That's right Baldrick. You see, there was only one slight flaw with the plan".


Baldrick: "What was that then, Sir?"


Blackadder: "It was b*ll*cks".

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N,


She possinbly had the keys to the car and was supposed to be driving them home.


I wonder what else U-turn forgot!

What has not been released by No 10 is that Nancy Cameron was left in the pub playing with her dads official lap top which contained a multitude of government secrets, including the codes for our nuclear missile capability.
Although these codes were encrypted to a high security standard, it is understood that Nancy had cracked the inscription by entering her families date of births.
She was just about to put these codes on Facebook, when the lap top was taken off her.

This morning, Baroness Warsi has defended Mr Cameron stated that it was a minor error of judgment and that she has full confidence in him and that he has her full support.

David Cameron has personally thanked Chris Huhne who having heard what had happened, offered to drive from his home in Eastleigh to collect Nancy from the pub stating he could get there far quicker than any Police escort.

Of course he would be delayed slightly as he would have to make a quick detour via Heathrow for reasons he refused to disclose.