goldfinger
- 09 Jun 2005 12:25
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.
mnamreh
- 02 Nov 2012 13:50
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TANKER
- 02 Nov 2012 14:20
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what about MPs swaping homes to claim 20k a year and say say it is legal
for them to swap homes to dop it.
its bloody theft simple as that the police should arrest these crooks
greekman
- 02 Nov 2012 14:44
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Hi Mnamreh,
Thanks for that, there were so many of the fiddling barstewerds, that I lost track of what happened to who.
Due to the committees comments, I will still wait and see what if anything happens, then will contact the Police to see if they will re-consider.
I doubt they will, but it can't do any harm.
TANKER
- 02 Nov 2012 14:51
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do you know why cameron hestine clegg and a lot more do not want out of the EURO LAND there familys get MILLIONS in land subsideds .
try and get the info on this its hard but I found away
Shortie
- 02 Nov 2012 16:24
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Chuck the info up then please as should be an interesting read. The vast majority of politicians are crooks, and are not even qualified or have relevant experience to hold the offices they do. MP's should be made up of a proportion of professionals who have relevant business experience. My view is the political system doesn't work, we need something else, what exactly I'm not sure. Maybe the government should be subject to audit in the same way companies are so we could understand where all the tax revenue really goes...
TANKER
- 02 Nov 2012 16:32
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SHORTIE that is the best post that has ever been post on this thread .
Shortie
- 02 Nov 2012 16:45
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Tank you remind me of Anders Breivik reading some of your posts.
skinny
- 02 Nov 2012 17:15
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Greek - I took "He was now considering his position" to mean lower or top bunk?
greekman
- 02 Nov 2012 17:18
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Lol, and also as long as he considers his position before he picks up the soap.
On a serious note, I have contacted The Telegraph as they were the main instigators of exposing the expenses scandal, to see if they will bring pressure to bear on the CPS.
The CPS do not have an e-mail address, so can only be contacted via telephone or letter, so will wait a while yet before I start trying to press a few buttons.
magicjoe
- 02 Nov 2012 17:25
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CROOK OF THE DAY
MP's expenses: Denis MacShane resigns as MP

Denis MacShane has been suspended by the Labour Party
Former Labour minister Denis MacShane has quit as an MP
after a watchdog ruled he had fiddled his expenses.
A Parliamentary committee found he had submitted 19 false
invoices which were "plainly intended to deceive"
Parliament's expenses authority.
The committee said it was the "gravest case" which has
come to them for adjudication.
Biography
MP for Rotherham since 1994 by-election
Minister for Europe from 2002 to 2005
Chaired Commons inquiry into anti-semitism in 2006
Born in Glasgow as Denis Matyjaszek, to Irish mother and Polish father
Changed his name when he worked at BBC as reporter and newsreader from 1969 to 1977
Sacked by BBC for using fake name to call radio phone-in
many around are on the same game one way or another, don't tell anybody,
they will have a few sleeping nights for sure for a few days.
TANKER
- 02 Nov 2012 18:08
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parliament is full of thiefs the police should investigate the whole shower .
and there non tax paying friends .who they will not pursue to charge them
with tax avoidence . yet a person on benefits would be hounded and be in court .
as SHORTIE said we need to alter our MPS who at best are just working class
people and the ones with money got it from there family not by being bright .
CAMERON AND OSBORNE ARE JUST LIARS .
osborne on pensioners he told massive lies .
we have just over 2 years to grin and bare these liars .
TELL ALL YOUR FAMILY TO VOTE FOR ANY ONE OTHER THAN THE 3 PARTIES.
MY FAMILY WILL VOTE UKIP.
Chris Carson
- 03 Nov 2012 01:07
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TANK get a hobby for fks sake, you are Knobhead no. 1 trust me :O)
tabasco
- 03 Nov 2012 07:11
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I have spent many hours in my own little way campaigning for this legislation… I’m sure elephant man is not amused!… anyway….at last!
New trading rules introduced by Britain’s finance regulator could lead to an increasingly bullish mind-set in the City.
The rule changes, which became effective today, promise to put the brakes on rampant short selling by allowing the regulator to publicly disclose short positions, fine firms for short sales that aren’t settled in time and give counterparties the right to force the ‘shorter’ to buy stock back.
It is thought the rules could make short selling - as a purely speculative pursuit - higher risk and less attractive. Shorts covered by stock lending will however not incur the penalties.
Under these new rules, traders will have to disclose where they are short of more than 0.2% of a company’s shares, and if short of more than 0.5% the trader’s position will be made public.
Making short positions public knowledge could potentially leave the ‘shorter’ vulnerable to rival firms.
This is particularly significant in the small cap market where there are fewer participants. In some cases only a handful of brokers make a market, and institutional dealers can have a big influence.
“I think we’ll see the larger institutions flexing their muscles because they can at last,” said Steve Asfour, head of sales trading at Fox Davies Capital.
“If they can see that X, Y or Z broker has a big short in one of their companies, let’s be honest, it’s not going to be difficult for them to squeeze someone by the short and curlies and make them close their short.
“It often doesn’t take a lot to move these kinds of stocks.”
Asfour says the effect of the rule change can already be seen as some small cap stocks have moved strongly in recent days driven by the covering of short positions before they had to be disclosed.
“We’ve already seen a squeeze in some stocks, as the rules have come in, but I think the real squeeze will come at the back end of next week when trades put on now are either covered or forced to buy back.”
In the longer term however he believes the ruling could have a more lasting impact as it may alter the way market makers and traders approach the market.
“A lot of people have been trading with a bit of a bear hat on, that’s just the way people have had to trade, and they’ll now have to tweak their stance and trade with more of a bullish hat on.
“And to be fair with where some of these small caps are, frankly on their backsides, being bullish in them could be quite profitable.”
“I think, and this is just my own opinion, that we’ll see quite a sea-change in the way traders approach this market.
“I don’t think we’re going to see so many people approaching it from the bear point of view, trying to short any stock that’s up on the day.”
“I think they’ll have to trade smarter now and look for bull stories over the bear stories for a change, which is the complete opposite of how a lot of people have traded in recent years.”
dreamcatcher
- 03 Nov 2012 15:42
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A bloke walks into a Glasgow library and says to the prim librarian,
'Excuse me Miss, dey ye hae ony books on suicide?'
To which she stops doing her tasks, looks at him over the top of her glasses and says,
'Buggeroff, ye'll no bring it back!
dreamcatcher
- 03 Nov 2012 19:40
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Scottish bar stool for kilts
TANKER
- 04 Nov 2012 08:29
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Your local cabbie... the Rwandan 'war criminal linked to a million murders' who can't be deported due to human rights laws
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2227440/Your-local-cabbie--Rwandan-called-Modeste-linked-million-murders.html#ixzz2BEynBsJi
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human rights need to be abolished it only protects murderers
cynic
- 04 Nov 2012 09:07
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typically preposterous baby and bathwater reaction from the village rabid bigot.
while the human rights act as it stands is far too protective of the perpetrators of almost any crime, there certainly needs to be some sort of protection in place
quite how one rejigs such legislature is another matter altogether, let alone how one would get it universally accepted
an analogy is along the lines of one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter
TANKER
- 04 Nov 2012 16:24
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any one who bites the hand that feeds it is not fit to live .
deport any one who cheats our system and if they are british
put there pictures in the streets and stop there benefits and make them go to the soup kitchens .
TANKER
- 04 Nov 2012 16:28
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if action is not taken soon the kitty will run out then you will have a civil war in the uk .
bring on the gold dawn in greece the people say they are the only hope for its people
and in 2 years they will be no illegal immigrants in greece.
they are made with balls not knitting needles
magicjoe
- 05 Nov 2012 10:00
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re - human rights need to be abolished it only protects murderers
Maybe is not complely right the above, but it does benefits too many undesired people that do take advantage of that law.
Maybe the lawers are the ones at fault, on taking such cases knowing well what is going on with the law, I am sure some will put them on the guillotine if they had a chance.
As usual if a law is too weak then it comes with a on is too strong, till the right one is find and every one is happy ever after.