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.

See where you fit in!

Where are you on the global fat scale?

Skinny,

Who initiated UFO investigations and why?

Fred

Your not going to blame Margaret Thatcher for that as well ?

Who?

For What?

Too little wit, to woo!

Anybody read the Sunday papers yet and can post the share tips ?

Theresa May has got to go. Beginning to think she new of this security cock up for the olympics a lot longer then two weeks ago. No doubt it will come out in the wash. I dont think the chief executive is to blame on his own. On the Andrew Marr programme
this morning it stated ministers have been in talks with g4 for atleast two months.
G4 had a impossible task to employ people for a couple of weeks only afterwards to go back on the dole. The government would be better off without this woman. Perhaps the airports fiasco will claim her, if this does not. Lets hope she has days left in her position, as I think she is doing great damage now to the government.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/9400365/Premier-Oil-braves-Falklands-hostility-from-Argentina.html#

Dreams,

The chances of Cruella standing down as you can see by a coalition led from the top is highly unlikely.

Hunt and other involved in the Leveson scandals are not fit for purpose.

But they have ethics of small cliques and the old boys' club.


That is why the tory party is 10% behind labour in the polls.

Nobody likes losers.

Good one Fred, she may not have a choice. Could be a knife in the back as to say. :-))

She has to go, be a miracle if she survives.

..Heathrow Border Staff Training Questioned
By Gamal Fahnbulleh, Sky News reporter | Sky News – 4 hours ago

Former border control officer Chris Hobbs tells Sky News that passport staff need proper training.
Heathrow Border Staff Training Questioned
....The Border Agency has been accused of allowing terror suspects on the Home Office watch list to enter the UK in the run-up to the Olympics.

A senior border officer has told The Observer newspaper that inexperienced recruits brought in from other departments and used to shorten lengthy queues are failing to carry out necessary security checks at passport control.

Speaking anonymously, the official said he was personally aware that three terror suspects, all registered on the Home Office watch list, had been waved through by staff on his shift since the start of July.

He told the paper: "It's all new faces. The rest of the staff, I have no idea where they have come from, how long they are here for, what their background is.

"These are people who have been forced by their own department to come here."

The crisis comes after the security firm G4S announced it could not provide enough security guards for the London Olympics.

The Government has had to call up 3,500 troops to meet the shortfall.

In The Observer article, the whistle-blower adds: " How many other misses have occurred?

"The missing of counterterrorism 'hits' is a huge thing but new recruits are not getting enough time to be taught."

His comments follow a report on Thursday into border staff being used at Heathrow airport for the Olympics.

John Vine, the independent chief inspector of borders and immigration, concluded staff with only basic training and little immigration experience were being used.

Mr Vine said some staff "remained concerned about the potential risks of employing staff on the immigration control who had received only basic training and who had no immigration background/experience."

The Border Force is also rehiring ex-employees as it prepares to deal with more than 100,000 passengers a day during the busiest periods of the Olympics.

Chris Hobbs, a retired police officer who spent more than a third of his service working at Heathrow, Gatwick and in Jamaican airports, said: "There have been major problems with the UK Border Agency since October or November last year.

"What is astonishing perhaps is that the problem hasn't been remedied - so we're going into the Olympics with the border force in crisis.

"The border is very vulnerable, so that can't be good."

In a statement, a border agency spokesman said: "All staff being deployed will have the necessary security clearance and will have received the training required to operate effectively.

"Contingency staff will only be carrying out tasks for which they have been fully trained.

"Contingency staff will operate individually, but are supported by experienced border force officers at all times.

"If they have any concerns or questions they are told to escalate those concerns immediately."

..

The security contract for the olympics was awarded to G4S by the Labour govt, yes? G4S make a mess of it and the Coalition govt get the blame. G4S have continually stated they would meet their obligations until literally a few days ago.

Any sensible person would now of course demand the resignation of a govt minister as he or she failed to call the CEO of G4S a liar. Give me strength!

The whole story does not add up. I for one minute do not think the top man of g4 has just come forward, two weeks before the games. Something does not add up.

Chuckles.

But this government is supposed to be in charge.

I would have thought anybody in charge of security of this "country" would have considered the "Games" as a likely target and "WOULD" have had daily or weekly updates and detailed appraisal of the risks and possible "remedies".

To me it seems that this has not been done.

If it hasn't it smacks of the type of incompetence, which is being expected of the ministers of "THIS" Government.


The "vetting" of overseas visitors and immigrants this country seems to be another "FIASCO".

In the state of management this country has at the moment I can see no need for a Parliamentary Recess, the Parliamentary part timer should be expected to work a full week and have reduction in holidays.

G4S is another example of private companies incompetence similar to the Banks having to be bailed out by the Public purse.

Incompetent management.

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Ps.

When Osborne,Cameron and others stop blaming the Labour party for their own mistakes, I would expect them to start blaming their own mothers for having them.

I do!

....

Apologies N's disease.

It will be a long time before we stop blaming Labour the list is so long.

Uncontrolled immigration

Not building more prison's

Building on flood plains

Not reforming an outdated expensive's system

Sending this country to an illegal war

Signing The Human rights treaty

Signing Westminster's power's over to the EU

Signing the one-sided extradition treaty with the US

24 hour drinking


Super casino's

Both Labour government U turn's


Uncontrolled government spending

I live now pay later society

An uncontrolled City casino

Easy credit [ teenagers being posted credit card application forms ]

Theresa May 'warned about G4S security fiasco 10 MONTHS AGO' as rookie Heathrow staff 'let in terror suspects ahead of Games'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2173798/London-2012-Olympics-Home-Secretary-warned-G4S-Olympics-security-shambles-10-months-ago.html#ixzz20iDFuLiH

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2173798/London-2012-Olympics-Home-Secretary-warned-G4S-Olympics-security-shambles-10-months-ago.html