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.

doodlebug - My to the point post was tongue in cheek, just my sense of humour I'm afraid :O)

the world now as a new GOD CALLED MORSI .

H/S, There you go again trying to deflect your own incompetence, corrupt operating and usual very greedy Governments conduct onto others.. Try taking responsibility for once.. Your supposed to be the Government remember?

a new god is born called MORSI OF EGYPT . power gone to is head worse than the man they have just got rid over by far

You still in the pub Tanks? -):

Hays,

Being a tory is a mistake.

Your remark about credit rating would suggest that you expect the UK's to be lowered.

Wonder why?

WHERE IS THE GROWTH?

Our credit rating would be lowered if we stopped making cuts and borrowed more. I don't know where you expect growth to come from at present with the EU in recession. At least we are regarded as having one of the strongest economies in the EU. Labour might as well keep quiet as they lost the election and they are NOT the government (thankfully). If Labour were in power they would be borrowing more.labour have always been a tax and spend party and when they can't tax they become a borrow and spend party. Sometime they manage to do both at once. Their strategy just leads to more debt.

The usual 3 Party political rhetoric and over exaggeration about growth. The Tobin Tax should have been implemented decades ago. With the usually scaremonging about all institutions leaving London being ignored as it's lies.

Hays,

I would considered you reasonable on summary of Israel, Gaza and ME, but intransigent and rigid on out of date tory policies.

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Consider UK as a company and why companies are prepared to raise money by flotations or "borrowing".

Consider Mortgages as long term debt and why they are undertaken.

Consider borrowing to replace plant.

Consider infrastructure and plant.

Consider "education" and "social services" as resources for the oiling of "capitalism".

Consider what was eventually learned in the 1930s and early 1940s.

Consider Roosevelt's economic recovery with Dickensian economic and social responsibility of the present coalition.

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There are risks, but the rewards would be better that stagnation,

Another criticism of the tories is that their basic social policies consist of divide to "conquer".

Instead of allowing Education, Schools and Universities, Health services, Police and Legal services to bed down after almost constant changes for the last 25 years, they like other governments of all colours, have started the churns again.

They feel the need to interfere without evaluating the true losses and gains of previous changes and the effect on the moral within those “services”.

As can been seen many of the present administration's ministers are naive and meddling based on ideology rather than proper appraisal and thought out policy.

The way to be successful seems to move on from on post to another before your mistakes come home.

Also, what irritates is the constant looking for a quick buck or headlinegrabbing like spivs with no long term planning.

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George Osborne is "planning" for the next election and his own party rather than the UK as a whole.

The results are to be seen.

He is egocentric, like many of his colleagues.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/dec/06/george-osborne-credit-rating-

George Osborne warned: protecting AAA credit rating is lost cause



Cabinet colleagues tell chancellor that downgrade is inevitable and he should tell voters it will not affect borrowing costs


Patrick Wintour, political editor
The Guardian, Thursday 6 December 2012 20.05 GMT

George Osborne and Danny Alexander leave the Treasury before the autumn statement was delivered to parliament.

Cabinet colleagues have warned George Osborne not to try to protect Britain's AAA credit rating because its loss is now inevitable and voters should be told it is unlikely to lead to higher borrowing costs.

Osborne insisted he wanted to defend the UK's prestigious credit rating. He said: "The credit rating's important and the market is important, and the reason why this matters to people is because if you don't have credibility, if you're not able to show the world that you can pay your way, then interest rates go up for the government."

In the wake of the autumn statement, the credit rating agency Fitch warned the UK was at greater risk of losing its status. This was because of breaking its supplementary rule to ensure debt was falling as a proportion of GDP by the end of the parliament. Fitch put the UK on "negative outlook" in March 2012 – meaning the rating was under threat – but said on Wednesday: "Missing the target weakens the credibility of the UK's fiscal framework, which is one of the factors supporting the [AAA] rating."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2244608/Kate-Middleton-hospital-receptionist-duped-Australian-DJs-prank-dies-suspected-suicide.html

The two djs should be ashamed of themselves -

Royal Prank Call Nurse 'Commits Suicide'
Sky News – 5 minutes ago.. .
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Royal Prank Call Nurse 'Commits Suicide
A hospital nurse caring for the Duchess of Cambridge who was duped by two DJs pretending to be the Queen and Prince Charles is understood to have committed suicide.

The two DJ's involved have evidently been boasting about it on twitter ever since. I hope they like what they see when they look in the mirror every morning.

Agree . The security in the hospital has let her down. How could an outside call go to the ward and a normal nurse answer? Perhaps they should go on trial ?

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Some more news released -


A hospital nurse caring for the Duchess of Cambridge, who was duped by two DJs pretending to be the Queen and Prince Charles, is understood to have committed suicide.

Two Australian DJs pretending to be the Queen and Prince Charles tricked the woman into giving an update on the condition of Kate, who was being treated for severe morning sickness.

The member of staff was found at an address near the hospital.

A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "Police were called at approximately 9.35am this morning to a report of a woman found unconscious at an address in Weymouth Street, W1.

"London Ambulance Service attended and the woman was pronounced dead at the scene. Inquiries are continuing to establish the circumstances of the incident.

"The death is not being treated as suspicious at this stage."

London Ambulance Service said: "We were called at 9.25am to an address in Weymouth Street. We sent 2 ambulances crews and a duty officer, sadly the patient was dead at the scene."
news released -

I am sure the intention of their DJs' action was to produce the result which occurred.

I wonder what other factors and "support" played a part in the nurses demise.

Outside chance it was nothing to do with the prank Fred. It will all come out in the wash as they say. Very sad though.

A few years ago a radio presenter got through to the Queen and pretended to be the Canadian Prime Minister. The queen discussed what she thought of a number of world leaders. it was being broadcast live on Canadian radio.