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.

CNBC G osborne boosting about how he has cut pension benefits
how he is making people work longer and saving the country billions
and keeping down saving rates to help the house buiders .

and to cap it off he said MPs should be paid more at least 82k

They should. Then we might get some more intelligent MPs.

T, if you put some detail in to your rants it would help. I do not know, how many hours does an MP work a week ? They may be worth the 82k salary, I again do not know do you ?

Tanker - are you posting from the pub these days?

Do you really think so H?
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Hays,

Do you mean more jobs for the boys in Old Etonian Cabinet!

Some of whom don't even seem to pay their taxes at present.

Fred got a brilliant piece for you. Hope you watched the party. political broadcast on TV last night.

Give me a hour or so and Ill post it. On lap top at moment away from main PCs.

Trust me youl like it and backs up what Ive been saying for a while.

osborne was bragging that he had taken money off PENSIONERS
with a big grin on is face . if he had said that is would kill them off
if we had some bad weather it would not have been so sick

and has a old tory ashamed of him

vote ukip

10% in front of Torries before Daves EU speech and party election broadcast.......

NOW after speech etc

electionista ‏@electionista
UK - YouGov/Sun: CON 31%, LAB 43%, LDEM 11%, UKIP 10%

12% Labour lead.

Fred that article I was on about...............

David Cameron tells porkies about Britain’s national debt - @frasernelson on @Spectator_CH http://specc.ie/VXi6Rt

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2013/01/david-cameron-tells-porkies-about-britains-national-debt/

Even ultra right winger Tom Winnifroth commented today on twitter about how misleading Cameron has been.

GF.

Thanks.

I will look at it.

GF.

Supports what I have thought for last 18 months.

I am as stated before a political atheist, but the government is in mind the biggest bunch if self interested lying and incompetent "fellows" I have witnessed in 60 years of being observational and interested in politics.

Government is complicated and b. difficult but as is obvious to Europeans Cameron's stances are those of self interest and not that of the whole of Europe. The same is becoming more and more obvious to the electorate of this country.

Self interest is a necessary "evil", but the strength of all is related to the strength of the weakest and is sensible to recognise this.


http://cdn2.spectator.co.uk/files/2013/01/PSND2.png

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It will take a long time to reverse the previous governmental spending policies, especially that of a Labour government which did nothing but spend from the moment it came into power until the moment the voters had seen enough. Doubling the national debt in what was mostly a period of prosperity, quite an achievement.

I see Milliband was left floundering in the wake of Cameron's speech when he declared Labour's definite position on a referendum. Definite until the spin doctors reversed his categorical statement. U turns?

Political aetheist? You're as red as the red on that National Debt chart, you couldn't vote anything but Labour if your life depended on it

Chuckles,

Never voted Labour.

you evade the question ..... at the very least, confirm that you did indeed vote at the last general election, if not giving the party - and what about local elections?

I didn't vote.


Just for your information:-




UK Total Government Debt
Current – Historical – As Percent GDP
Current UK National Debt Numbers
Gross National Debt
FY 2013* $1.16 trillion
FY 2012* $1.04 trillion
FY 2011 $0.91 trillion
FY 2010 $0.76 trillion
FY 2009 $0.62 trillion
FY 2008 $0.53 trillion