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.

Clap them then tow them away to be crushed if they don't pay

simple cure, let them open their embassy in Peckham. There is a vacant lot next to Trotters Independant Traders Inc .

Should clear the National Debt.

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Just look at it as additional aid to some of those less fortunate then us. Right that's the PC brigade catered for. I'm with aldwickk here, but he hasn't said what do we do with their cars. ha! ha!
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" Separate figures show that Nigerian diplomats owe more than £67,000 on parking fines issued in 2011."

That's funny most of London's traffic wardens are Nigerian

Typical UK yet again.
I would think that our diplomats pay parking fines in other countries, as we tend to 'Play the game, and think that not to pay, simply isn't cricket.

Here's how they stack up:

Other countries owing fines to the UK.

China, 257 fines outstanding, £27,690 owing
Afghanistan, 245 fines outstanding, £25,820 owing
Turkey, 253 fines outstanding, £25,590 owing
Saudi Arabia, 169 fines outstanding, £15,440 owing
Cyprus, 140 fines outstanding, £14,500 owing
Pakistan, 128 fines outstanding, £13,120 owing
France, 120 fines outstanding, £11,900 owing
Ghana, 107 fines outstanding, £10,760 owing
Uzbekistan, 102 fines outstanding, £9,680 owing
Malaysia, 89 fines outstanding, £8,950 owing
Ukraine, 86 fines outstanding, £8,260 owing
Russia, 71 fines outstanding, £7,920 owing

Diplomatic immunity was originally to stop diplomats being set up for minor crimes by corrupt officials and to give immunity to certain search procedures.

And yet the murder of Evonne Fletcher, fatally shot during a protest outside the Libyan embassy at St. James's Square, London, in 1984 by an Iranian Diplomat was the worse example of diplomatic privilege.
The way this was handled was one of the most shameful acts of our Government ever.
No one had the bottle to state the obvious, that the diplomatic immunity act was not designed so that a person could get away with murder.

At the time of this shameful act, I was a serving Police Officer who had to watch helplessly as the murderer walked free, protected by colleagues of the murdered Police Woman.
It still rankles.

OK rant over.

It is not possible to make countries pay parking fines. Diplomatic immunity extends across all offences and crimes. If a diplomat kills a British citizen or anyone else in the UK, he will have immunity from prosecution. It is a worldwide agreement.

Diplomatic immunity is a necessary evil and has flaws. Perhaps the rules should be renegotiated internationally, and/or by agreement between the involved countries before acceptance of their diplomats.

Diplomatic immunity can be withdrawn from a diplomat by the country they represent and has been infrequently done.

While there are abuses of the system in this country, the system has also been frequently abused by the UK government in other countries. Of course the latter abuses were always excusable.


I would think in state of hostility, without the agreement the ending of war would even more difficult. (I suppose the Internet Video Systems may be a way around some of those programmes.)


Interesting breakdown:-



http://www.legalserviceindia.com/articles/dhuman.htm

big companys are planning to leave the UK .
it is going to cost thousands of jobs .
the leveson inquiry was bad news for uk plc .
who would now want to move business here .
with the vision that they could have there names
and private life dragged in to a inquiry .if you are now out of work you willnever work again .

the uk as gone down the pan it is time to kick out the three main partys .
they have failed the country big time .
lets start a new partywith educated people not rich thiefs who are worthless
like the two at the top of the pack .

“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing, after they’ve tried everything else.”
- Winston Churchill

TANKER, have you given up on CNA? beginning to look interesting again.

Sounds like T has given up completely, crikey my glass is usually half empty, but T's is smashed to smithereens.
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Yes 2517 T has been v quiet stockwise for some time..most unusual.

Just goes to show money can't buy happiness, although I would like the opportunity to give it a crack.
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op . I always said that when I was reaching 65 I would start to run down which I have if I am lucky I may have 15 years left time to start giving my cash away to family .
I have now decided that my self and my good lady will not bother voting again
why waste good time on liars .
best of luck op .
I start to pick up my pensions in 6 months 33k yes and will pay 5k tax I wish I had never bothered to go out to work . my brother as not worked since he was 34
he with all the benefits end up better than me .is benefits and no rent no cc no insurance to no maintence . I was a fool for saving and working . they dont tax benefits they can get 500 pounds aweek tax free . who are the mugs

I think you will find him over the road! :-))

op looking to buy apartment in almonte spain boder of portugal
via the bank 3 bed new 77k 2 bed 62k .

op my wifes pensions is over 16k tax just over 1k .
she is 3 years younger than me we both pick them up same time

"Sounds like T has given up completely, crikey my glass is usually half empty, but T's is smashed to smithereens.
2517"

He might enjoy a night out in this place then -):

"We are used to pubs launching happy hours but a pub in Yorkshire has bucked the trend and are running an unhappy hour where customers can unload about what a terrible week they have had with a prize for the best, or should that be, worst tale"