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.

Arf,

Means all -------- or something!

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Being self employed for much of my life, I would like to have left the country on many occasions for far less.

Are you from across the valley from GLan y Llyn?

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Suffering from N's disease.

Fred, don't suppose you could get the chart on your CHG header to update automatically please. I keep looking at it and forgetting that it shows 2011!!!

EDIT - Cancel that. Misread the chart! One day it will go up and then I won't be so confused!

Listening to some of the present LIBOR Enquiry, part of it seems irrelevant.

The "false level fixing" was important but I would have hoped that the Bank of England and finance ministers were discussing the rates with the Banks including Barclay's in an attempt to calm the "frenzy" in 2007-8-9.

That is different to falsely fixing it.

See the tories have skidded to a stop and done another U-Turn.

They will be doing wheelies next.

I wonder if the Cabinet are inhaling strange substances as they did in the bullingdon club days.




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But the tory coalition is now in control of the Right wing Euro-phobics.

What a government.

Harry,

I got out of CHG before the split, would have done better to hold to 700.

Thought it a reasonable bet at the time in 2007, but double top was a give away.

The yield at present is good and growth promises are good PE is about 6. Perhaps, I will have another look.

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What an absolute shower they all are

Smoking ban's impact five years on

The sight of employees smoking outdoors in all weathers is now commonplace. Smoking areas in bars, pubs, restaurants and hotels are long gone.

It is five years since England became the last part of the UK to introduce legislation banning smoking in workplaces and enclosed public spaces.

Pub Talk.

A little earlier I overheard in the pub a few imbibers slating off the government and its incompetence at managing the economy and its success at “stimulating” a double dip recession, with falsification of unemployment figures and suggesting that there are now three part timers holding the jobs of two people, on lower wages than previously.

One of them said he was thinking of sending “Economics for Dummies” to Cameron for reading during the Parliamentary recess. (Holidays, for normal people.)

Somebody else suggest that the he ought to send another copy to Osborne. (Not quite that language.)

The last comment from one of them was that it would be B. useless as neither of them can read, or if they did they wouldn’t understand the books anyway.

They were all drinking bitter, which seem to be in keeping with atmosphere.



I do hope Cameron and Dave hang around for another 2 and half years. Perhaps, they could go to the upper house then.

If you have half an hour, do listen to The Castle - played earlier on Radio 4 and very funny.

Same old shite from Fred, getting boring now, keep on whingeing!

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What an absolute shower they all are

Pub Talk.

A little earlier I overheard in the pub a few imbibers slating off the government and its incompetence at managing the economy and its success at “stimulating” a double dip recession, with falsification of unemployment figures and suggesting that there are now three part timers holding the jobs of two people, on lower wages than previously.

One of them said he was thinking of sending “Economics for Dummies” to Cameron for reading during the Parliamentary recess. (Holidays, for normal people.)

Somebody else suggest that the he ought to send another copy to Osborne. (Not quite that language.)

The last comment from one of them was that it would be B. useless as neither of them can read, or if they did they wouldn’t understand the books anyway.

They were all drinking bitter, which seem to be in keeping with atmosphere.



I do hope Cameron and Dave hang around for another 2 and half years. Perhaps, they could go to the upper house then.
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Fred

What pub was that ? The Hammer & Stickle or the Arthur Scargill Arm's

Hear the tories are now having punch ups, before they get into the bars.

Hitting each other with handbags and powder puffs.

What a crew, getting more like the UKIP and BNP everyday.



Bring back the ermine.

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It is not possible to falsify unemployment figures these days as they are now issued separately by the ONS (Office of National Statistics). Years ago the figures could be massaged by the government in power, but that is not the case now. The people you were listening to were probably of low intelligence and can safely be ignored.

Was the location of the pub 'up north' as that might explain the general ignorance? By 'up north', I mean anywhere north of Hendon.

Ps. Some should be behind bars.

Waiting for Leveson's report on the Cameron and Brook's affairs.

Perhaps, Dave can go horse riding during his holidays.

Hays,

One of my daughters worked at the ONS and was "amused" by the distortion of "said statistics".

(She was a statistical analyst there for a number of years.)

" Hitting each other with handbags and powder puffs."

Sound's more like what Fred & Stan do after a few pint's