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.

I see millipede is plagiarising Disraeli.

Apparently not!


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Good speech!

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Rubbish speech. A poll recently found just 3% thought milliband had charisma.

Dreadful speech, he tries hard but just doesn't have what it takes.

Even without "charisma" I have a feeling that he will replace the "Spiv" as PM at the next election.

But it is a shame that the Murdoch press has turned its back on the Cons.


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Hays,

The Poll was taken on a Friday night at the local Con Club.

They probably didn't know the meaning of "charisma".

Thought it was John Major's second name.

Have a look at tomorrow's papers.

Deluded as well as Demented.

Crisis, what crisis - Greece to spend almost €100m on building F1 track

Despite data showing Greece is heading for its sixth year of recession, the government is pushing ahead with constructing the track in Xalandritsa, near Patras.
The total cost of the project will be €94.6m (£75.6m) and it is hoped the circuit will be able to host a Formula One race in the future.

The news comes as a draft Budget for 2013 shows that the Greek finance ministry expects GDP to contract by 3.8pc next year after shrinking 6.5pc this year.

More bikes sold than cars in Italy for first time since WW2

In a radical departure for the car-mad country, home to legendary marques such as Fiat, Ferrari and Lamborghini, 1,750,000 bikes were bought in 2011 compared to 1,748,000 motor vehicles.

As austerity cuts deepen and petrol prices hit a new high, the purchase of new cars has dropped to levels not seen since the 1970s.

Families are buying bikes, ditching their second cars and signing up to car pool schemes – a major shift for a nation which has one of the highest car ownership rates in the world, with around 60 cars for every 100 people.

CC I agree but this lot we have in power are complete dimwits simpletons and bloody liars . that is why we are over run by immigrants destoying the uk. the services can not cope and the benefits these lazy idle immigrants are getting and yes I di no the facts of the cost to the uk. .

that poor innocent girl missing that man they have arrested would have given me the info about her in about one hour that is fact .bastard should be hung if it is him.

Its is good to see Cameron and Osborne have got on the wrong train once again.

Of course, they are not going to do another U-turn.

They are just going to park in the sidings!

Surely they can't be virgins any longer.

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What a crew!!!

It is not plan B, but plan A.A
Next change will be plan A.B

and so on. They are just playing with words, rather than doing their job right or accepting their mistakes

Unfortunately, the following words can be applied to the coalition cabinet we have at the moment:

"We live in an age of great events and little men."

Can't remember who wrote those words.

Wallace and Grommett? Ed Milliband "This is who I am" We all know who you are mate, the man who shafted his own brother, nuff said.

Ed Milliband still comes across as an overgrown schoolboy. He stands absolutely no chance of being elected. He is also transforming the Labour party back into the party that British people dislike. At least with New Labour the party could pretend that is something else and not socialist. Milliband looks like being as successful as Kinnock. The party knows they elected the wrong brother, but as usual they were in the unions' pockets.

Yet again another child is taken.
Sterner measures should be taken to protect our children from these predatory people.
In addition to convicted paedophiles being put on the sex offenders register, they should also be tagged for life, via a gps system.
That way at least a regulatory body would know where they are every second of every day.
This would indicate if they were loitering around play areas, school and the like and if a child went missing, a quick check would show if any paedophiles were in the area.
As a retired Police Officer, I know that in the UK the number of paedophiles' is far higher than the general public are aware, (if you knew just how many lived in your area would would be amazed).
It is imperative that they are tracked far above the present level.
Expensive, perhaps, but if just the life and safety of one child is saved it would be money well spent

I am sure the vast majority of the general public would welcome such a move, but no doubt the Human Rights Brigade would be up in arms, but its about time the human rights of children who are our most vulnerable victims is put before those of the offender.
I doubt that any politician would be strong enough to implement such a scheme, but something must be done and quickly.

If I state my preference as to how I would treat these people, I am aware that my post would be edited.

If you agree with my comments, I urge all to contact there local MP and the media re this.

I have recalled who wrote those apt words. Churchill.

Hays,

I seem to remember that I posted, before the last election, that the result of it would be a coalition government.

Your response was a forecast of a grand tory win, which was equivalent to a “load of rubbish based”, based on quoting “poll results” and your “wishes”.

How wrong can you be.

Also, at the time, I suggested it was a good “election” to lose. In one way I think I was correct.

But I didn’t realise how bad this coalition government would be.

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Ed Milliband, is young and I was surprised at the time he was chosen as labour party leader, and had some doubts about the choice at the time.

However, so far, he shows far more political acumen and is maturing rapidly, especially when compared with the two probable “flashes in the pan”, Cameron and Baron Osborne”.

Unlike the latter two, it is apparent to those who watch, that he does think about future labour policies and “pronouncements”, rather than rushing to the media with ill-thought out, “back of a fag packet” notions, or primitive “ideological, or incoherent ” platitudes.

Compared with previous periods of “the labour party”, I think the present “leadership group” are moving into or a more realistic phase and adopting more moderate and acceptable “ideologies and practices”, which will prove more acceptable to the more predominantly moderate and larger group of voters.

That means those who wish an inclusive, cohesive equitable society.

The problem with the tory party, is that when the “gloss and paint” has been removed what is revealed is a “hierarchical leadership” with “with some camp followers” stuck in the past with a firm “belief” entrenched in “elitism”. Their “veneer” of “caring and social responsibility” is soon washed away by “their actions”.

As far as brothers are concerned, I have had many ferocious arguments with my elder brother and still remain on good terms, although often have differing views.
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greekman. thank you for yourpost it is nice to see we still have good people in the uk.
can Iask you one question why have the police not got the innfo from this man .
I would get all the info from him in one hour flat .

liberty are a threat to all good humans so they are either criminals or lawyers .
and scum .human rights and liberty should be hounded out of this country .
they are parasites of the worst kind.

Hays,

I was in the same University as Kinnock, at the same time.

He was a poor bridge player, but one thing which I admire him for was standing up to the "loony left" of the Labour party. The labour party is grateful for that.

The Labour party has moved on, it is a shame the tories haven't and still puppets on a string to the Aschrofts and a small number of wealthy tax avoiders living outside the country and exporting its wealth.