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.

Whether you agree with what the couple did or not, the ruling statement is ridiculous.

On one hand the recorder stated that by refusing the couple access to a double room, Mrs Wilkinson had "treated them less favourably than she would treat unmarried heterosexual couples in the same circumstances".

On the other hand she stated that she accepted that Mrs Wilkinson was genuine about her Christian beliefs and had also stopped unmarried heterosexual couples from sharing a double bed.

So how could the couple have done both!

Personally, I think in cases such as this, that a person/s should have the right to provide or not to provide services as they see fit.

The "accommodation" could not drag individuals off the street into their accommodation and expect them to pay for utilising it.

I think the reverse is equally valid.

If they think homosexuality to be offensive, so be it.

If they prefer 3 in a bed so be it.

These are personal choices of "morality" or "beliefs".

yes fred you are correct . I would never allow them in my home .
and will avoid them at all times . sodom comes to mind .

I don't care much what other people think or don't think on the subject but if people are going to offer a service to the public then they should consider that people are free to conduct themselves in what way they like in "their" bedroom within reason.

When I say "their" bedroom I mean that it's their bedroom because they have rented it for a period of time.

Stan,

The only weakness I see is that there appeared to be a contract to put them up.

I believe in general that contracts should be held to.

But if I had a group of paedophiles wishing to use my premises, I would object even if the likely acts became legal.

I think both side have a right to their own morality but not to impose it on others.

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Believe I asked a few days ago, which policies would the government U-turn on first.

Didn't think Captain outrageous and Sargent Droop would have caved in so quickly.


They continue on the "Idiots Progress" with increasing signs of immaturity and ill thought out ideas of 6th form debaters.

They would be laughed out of the Cambridge University Debates Society.

What a naive group.

Mind good to see Cameron telling the EU what the "SHOULD DO"..

I can see it is past your bed times.

Take Georgie and Davy with you they need to sleep.

Sylvia Kristel, star of Emmanuelle, dies

Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel, who starred in the 1974 erotic French film Emmanuelle, has died aged 60.

"She died during the night during her sleep," her agent, Marieke Verharen, told the AFP news agency.

The usual suspects now trying to get publicity out of the B+B story.

You don't say!

UK experiences 'weirdest' weather

The UK has experienced its "weirdest" weather on record in the past few months, scientists say.

The driest spring for over a century gave way to the wettest recorded April to June in a dramatic turnaround never documented before.

The scientists said there was no evidence that the weather changes were a result of Man-made climate change.

But experts from three bodies warned the UK must plan for periodic swings of drought conditions and flooding.

stan freedom to do what they like in the bedroom .
and thebb owners should keep there noses out of it ,
so if I have a bb or a home I rent out I should leave them to it
leaving them to grow canabis make bombs have guns .us it as a
drug bash.
then the police blame the owner for allowing these to go on.
and this is happening loads of time and the police say the landlord
should check out these people .
and I agree owners should have the right to evict stop any one they dont want
public house the landlord can stop any one they like from going in.
stan you are wrong that is why people in the bbc have got away with crime.

Any Ex. Boxers here? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19998710

ED: Tanks, please read my post again and note the words "within reason."

Publication of the names, which was supposed to take place on Thursday, may have exposed any MPs who were renting their homes to one another. The loophole means MPs can build up capital in property at taxpayers' expense, despite official attempts to stop the practice after the expenses scandal.

Sources at the expenses regulator said a small number of MPs rented their properties to one another.
they are stealing your money these MPs should now be charged with stealing tax payers monet this is corruption ,

Did they steal the tax payers Monet On the Bank of the Seine?

Tanker,

I agree with your sentiment in post 18714.

It still amazes me how corrupt politicians seem to have got away with cheap apologies over attempts to fiddle their "expenses" and yet have the gall to vilify said "benefit scroungers". Often the former spends more on a meal at the Carlton Club than the "scrounger" gets in a week.

Wisteria Dave and Andrew Mitchell seem to me, to have shown the true character the present government.


If you can get away with it, do it.

the police need to be informed of the crime

http://www.moneyam.com/InvestorsRoom/posts.php?tid=15824#lastread

Good old Tories -):

MPs are above the law they can steal money and make it legal in there minds .
the leader of the house is doing all he can for the vpters not to find out about the latest fraud by MPs

•Halifax MP Linda Riordan renting her taxpayer-funded second home
•Fellow Labour MP Iain McKenzie pays her £1,560 a month in rent
•She is one of four MPs involved in the controversial practice
•It means she has three properties, two of which are funded by the taxpayer

•Speaker John Bercow in bid to prevent the naming of the others involved



eXCLUSIVE By Jason Groves and Christian Gysin

PUBLISHED: 23:41, 18 October 2012 | UPDATED: 08:33, 19 October 2012

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Three properties: The socialist MP for Halifax Linda Riordan

A left-wing MP is pocketing £19,000 a year from the taxpayer by renting out her second home to a Labour MP – while claiming thousands in expenses to rent a third property for herself.

Linda Riordan is today revealed as one of four MPs involved in the controversial practice of renting out their taxpayer-funded second homes to fellow MPs for profit.

The practice is technically permitted under the supposedly tough new expenses regime imposed in the wake of the expenses scandal.

But critics last night warned it broke the spirit of the rules – and recalled the worst excesses of the scandal that heaped shame on Parliament three years ago.

Commons Speaker John Bercow has now launched a bid to block the publication of details

What does it matter if an MP rents his accomodation from another MP. Better that they rent from an MP than another landlord.