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.

The haul of gifts Tony Blair took with him when he left Downing St

Tony Blair walked out of Downing Street with a haul of gifts from his ten years as Prime Minister including guitars from rock stars and nine watches from Silvio Berlusconi, it was revealed yesterday.

Jewellery, ornaments, sculptures and even a dagger from Yemen were among the 76 items he and Cherie could not bear to part with when they left office.
The guitars from rock legends Bono and Bryan Adams are likely to be worth a small fortune if sold at auction.


Shameless: Blair's freebie holiday at Bee Gee mansion

Blair accused over his family's free Egyptian holiday

Inside Camerons' £9,500-a-week Italian countryside holiday villa... and unlike the Blairs, they're paying!

Skinny,

I never had any time for Blair. Nor do I have time for him now.

If he has transgressed, and committed any illegal or/and criminal act, you are entitled to take out a private prosecution, if not attempt a civil actions.

I would be happy for you to do so.

But I would like to see Wisteria in the same court and a few others in the same courts.



By obstructing a Judge's enquiry not only is the city beginning to stink abroad, but this government is seeming to be corrupt and hiding things.

The USA will put pressure and Europe will be delighted at "reasons" for pulling out its transactions and using other centres.

Perhaps. Osborne could explain to a judge false claims for a "taxi bill" claim.

But this pair are now in charge and and appear to many to be less the scrupulously clean.

There are good reasons for a completely independent enquiry.

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PS.

Because there were and probably still are bad apples in the Labour,Lib/Dem and UKIP parties doesn't mean that there are not villains in the present "tory" government.

Neither, does the above "excused" any of the villains for any "corrupt" actions.

Like the bankers, they should have "criminal" activities exposed.

Fred1new - 23 Apr 2011 11:04 - 11 of 45

I see Aids, the leading light of intelligentsia has written..........


A few days ago I noticed a thread entitled 'The' which by its title tickled my curiosity. As it turned out the thread was another political platform and full of petty rubbish, not worth reading really. But, the post above caught my attention as I has accused Fred1new of acting in the manner of an Internet troll by referring to another poster as Aids. I was told it was actually Alds, I stood corrected. Mind you the response from F1N did say I haven't referred to him as Aids recently which made me think a bit but I wasn't going back through 1000 of posts to check. As it turned out I didn't need to, evidence of troll like behaviour landed at my feet. It's beyond my understanding how anyone can refer to someone else as Aids, probably F1N finds it amusing. What a shame

Check a few more posts and you will find other references to relevant posts.

Put them in chronological order and they may even make sense to you.

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PS.

You don't have to read this thread or any postings made by me or any other.

The choice is yours.

Have a better day.

Higgs excitement at fever pitch

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are expected to reveal the strongest evidence yet for the Higgs particle in Geneva shortly.

Anticipation is high and rumours have been rife about the announcement.

The Higgs boson would help explain why particles have mass, and fills a glaring hole in the current best theory to describe how the Universe works.

This post is worth repeating

2517GEORGE - 03 Jul 2012 19:06 - 17448 of 17455

Felt this would be more appropriate here.

Interesting to see Ed Millipede calling for a Leveson type probe into the libor fixing scandal, was it not the ex-chancellor Buffoon Brown who ignored a report that libor was being fiddled, was it also not Buffoon Brown our illustrious PM when Labour (including Millipede and Balls-up) discounted claims from Tom Bond the whistleblower at Barclays.
2517

There are a few buffoons on this thread too.

Vote for Fauxrage.

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It will be interesting to hear Diamond account off said libor "events".

NS&I site a day late due to technical difficulties - quite amazing in this day and age that they can't update it by the 3rd working day of the month.

Eric Sykes has died.

" It will be interesting to hear Diamond account off said libor "events".

Spell check , Diamond's , of

It won't be very good reading for Fred's mate Gordon Brown.


Bank of England and Labour ministers were involved in rigging interest rates
Bob Diamond releases memo which points finger at Bank of England and Whitehall
Document suggests they leant on him to keep Libor rates down

There is a Twit about!

Don't like hearing the truth about the worst Chancellor and PM this country has ever had.

Anybody who would vote for another Labour government would have to be insane.

Blair and the rest of his gang should be charged with treason , for what they have done to this country.

Seems like the BNP have a likely candidate.

Nigel or Dave will miss him.


Wonder why Cameron is ducking a judge led enquiry into the LIBOR and the City. Seems as if they don't want a few things exposed, just like the Leveson enquiry and the snuggling up of the tories with Rebecca and Murdoch.

Seems that Labour are prepared to have any mistakes aired in public.

What are the tories trying to hide from.

This is a diversion from the failing economic policies and their split of the tories over Europe.

There is a need of a deodorant in No 11, or preferably a clean out.

Silly old fool

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PhD students from MIT's Media Lab have invented a way for simple objects to interact with your computer, tablet and mobile device. This new technology not only takes “gamification” to an entirely new level but also assists people suffering from muscular and neurological diseases through their daily routines.

Late Announcement.

A Higgs particle has been found, but now they have lost Higgs.

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"After a subdued PMQs, the politics of the Libor scandal has just been ratcheted up another notch. In an interview with The Spectator for this week's issue, George Osborne has said that those around Gordon Brown ‘were clearly involved’ in the discussion about how to keep Libor down during the 2008 financial crisis.

In the interview, George Osborne gives short shrift to Barclays’s accusation that the Bank of England urged it to get its Libor down. Osborne stresses that this change has been ‘specifically addressed, not just by our own investigators at the Financial Services Authority but also in the US Department of Justice and they are not people who will pull their punches and they’re very clear that the Bank did not issue instructions to Barclays to cut its LIBOR rate.’

But his tone is very different when it comes to the last government. He says, ‘As for the role of the Labour government and the people around Gordon Brown, well I think there are questions to be asked of them’. Discussing the 2008 paper on getting Libor down that was circulated in Whitehall and the note that Bob Diamond wrote referencing senior Whitehall sources after his conversation with Paul Tucker, he declares that ‘They were clearly involved and we just haven’t heard the full facts, I don’t think, of who knew what when.’

Osborne is also keen to keep the pressure up on Ed Balls. He tells The Spectator ‘my opposite number, who was the City Minister for part of this period and Gordon Brown’s right hand man for all of it so he has questions to answer as well.’

This intervention by Osborne will increase the political tensions around the Libor scandal. Expect Ed Balls, who vigorously denies that he has ever had anything to do with Libor, to respond forcefully.

The rest of the interview covering Osborne's views on Europe and the economy will be out in The Spectator tomorrow."

The enquiry by MPs on the Treasury Committee showed why it is necessary to have a Judicial enquiry.

The quality of the questioning in to-days committee was well below that which would be acceptable in by barristers or judges.

I think many of the participants were more motivated by party allegiance than getting to the bottom of any corruption which may or not be systemic in the "City".

The financial institution may be thinking of moving out of London.