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.

Dow down 35, footsie up 38, is that right or is it not? we normally follow them.

All this talk about horse meat in the burgers makes me wonder what they are putting in the sausages!

Hmmm! I wonder if they would shrink when cooked!!!!!

Are you sure thats a sausage in that pack .lol

That looks a rude sausage. :-)) thats not a sausage.

certainly would if dipped in a bucket of ice

Sorry to hear about your brother Tanker, one can only hope they (the medical profession) can keep some of the pain away and that he does not suffer for long.

Good to see Cameroon is keeping his word to Murdoch.

Bloody hell missed pankake day............yesterday.

About time U got me up to date mate.

now then, who was prattling about how lousy the uk's stance was on dealing with recession through austerity measures etc etc, and how the eu economies were knocking socks off the uk's through a softer policy? ...... come on, come on; hold your hand up!!

German and French economies contract sharply
Europe’s two largest economies, Germany and France, both shrank markedly in the last three months of 2012, suggesting the eurozone has slipped deeper into recession and throwing a first quarter recovery for the bloc into doubt.
The German economy contracted by 0.6 per cent on the quarter, official data showed on Thursday, its worst performance since the global financial crisis was raging in 2009. France’s 0.3 per cent fall was also slightly worse than expectations.
Worryingly for Berlin, it was export performance – the motor of its economy – that did most of the damage.
“In the final quarter of 2012 exports of goods declined significantly more than imports of goods,” the German statistics office said in a statement.
Back revisions to the French figures showed its output fell by 0.1 per cent in each of the first and second quarters of 2012, meaning the country has already experienced one bout of recession in the past 12 months.

W/See.

The result of Merkel screwing down her economy, like Cameron.

Have a look at what Obama is proposing.

and france? .... what's your bright comment there?

W/see.

perhaps you like the unemployment numbers in france and the HUGE tax increases ..... what are those numbers like in germany?

answer .....
The German adjusted jobless rate fell to 6.8% from 6.9% in November, the Federal Labour Office said.
UK is currently 7.7% which is very similar to USA

French numbers are hidden (wonder why!!), but admitted to be at their highest for 14 years

it does of course depend on how the numbers are calculated .,... for sure, each country manipulates as far as possible to suit the occasion

I am lisrening to Milkiband waffle on the news. No wonder he is unelectable.

Haystack, that's true but which of the rest of them is electable?

Hays,

W/see.

You are backing a loser.

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What are the odds at the moment for a Labour controlled government?

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The cabinet are a bunch of l. U-turn losers who have fallen out of the saddle and been suck up Murdoch's U-bend.

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At PMQ Cameron resembles a blustering, smug second hand car dealer.