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.

PS.

But I enjoy baiting Cynic.

He does wriggle a bit, too much sometimes.

Stan,

It good to see that they may be beginning to catch up.

Also, good to see they are beginning to look overseas for tax evaders and more countries are beginning to open their books.

EU rules and regulations will be changed, perhaps a reason for some in the UK wanting to stay outside the EU.

hey sticky, did no one ever tell you that harold wilson assuredly did not come from working class stock, was grammar school educated and that his flat hat, flat accent and pipe were no more than acquired props to promote his (false) image?

i confess i am a great fan of margaret thatcher's albeit that she went rather bats towards the end ...... inter alia, it was good to have a pm who was seriously tough - we haven't had one who could hold a candle(??) to her since - and who brought that virtue to bear not only against eu and argentina, but also against the communist-led/backed unions who were doing their level best to bring the country to its knees

fred - if you caught perch on a fly, then it must have been a lure, and assuredly not "the real thing" :-)

btw, i have no problem with anyone having a pop at me, whether seriously or in jest ..... unlike some, i am happy to live with the dictum of, "if you dish it out, then accept it back" ...... i only (eventually) draw the line with the real nasty spiteful few like MJ/MRSI ..... even Clubman (rip) had a good and humorous side once you got past the porcupine bits

Yes Cynic,

You couldn't have had a better mother.

A bit like Huhne and Pryce, both deserving one another.

maybe, but i always did wonder who my father was

I will start lol -

CC
I thought the big wall was to keep the ones who use their baths to keep the coal in from gaining access to the green and pleasant land of the south.

Once again gf is wrong with his facts. Margaret Thatcher did NOT stop school milk. She voted in cabinet against it. Free school milk was stopped for over 7s and she advised against the policy on the grounds it would "arouse widespread public antagonism". She was over ruled and as Education Secretary she had to implement due to common cabinet deep nsibility. Claiming incorrectly that Thacher stopped free milk is just the usually left wing tactic of misinformation.

Labour's Harold Wilson withdrew free milk from secondary schools in 1971.

She could have resigned.

Many wished she had done so earlier, before her own party chucked her.

(I hope I spelt that properly.)

out of curiosity, on what grounds did 'arold reckon the milk should be stopped?

You can't resign every time you disagree in Cabinet. It has always been a policy of all governments to accept joint responsibility in Cabinet. Otherwise everyone would insist on having their own way. It is called democracy.

Are you going to resign Fred ? :-))

Wilson stopped free milk for 11 to 18 year olds to cut the high rate of government borrowing at the time. It is interesting to note that Labour never repealed the Conservative milk legislation.

Funny how Labour has NEVER repealed any of the legislation brought in to curb Trade Unions. In fact you would be pushed to think of any Conservative legislation that Labour has ever repealed. So much for the rhetoric when they are not in government.

No Chance.

Wished there was some better opponents around.

Wait until 2015.

The reality is that Labour couldn't have been more pleased that the unions were slapped down by someone else. Labour had also suffered from excessive union power.

Hays - Baths? You were lucky.

Stan - Any chance of taking Fred fishing? Bit of luck he might fall in.