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.

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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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.

Fred1new - 04 Jul 2012 15:45 - 17467 of 17470

Late Announcement.

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

If they have his particle they can clone him , no problem Fred don't worry.

Just like to mention Eric Sykes.......one of the greatest comedians ever....that has passed away...unforgettable humour.....

F1N, have a better day than what? A better day than you say?
Every day is a great day for me it doesn't need to get even a tiny bit better, but I can see why you would say such a thing, so much baggage in that tortured mind that thinks calling someone Aids is somehow an insult. No need for me to read past posts, nothing deserves that response. You have my sympathy. Try and improve tomorrow, one day at a time is best.

rf - For what it is worth I will second those sentiments, Eric Sykes legend!
Fred - Sorry Gobshite of the year, keep breaking the records, undisputably your the man! Hypocrasy unquestionable keep up the good work :0)