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.

at least rbs 16p cheaper to buy today then last night

yes cynic you have to watch the market i have bought today
did not buy before results update never do .
double in 12 months

remember the consolidation 10.for 1 so sp is 33.6p less shares in issue

Yum Yum Legal loophole allows banned mechanical meat in UK sausages

The BBC has learned that European meat suppliers are using a loophole in the law to sell a banned low quality material to UK sausage makers.

E-mails indicate that suppliers are selling a form of mechanically recovered residue under different names so that it can be legally termed meat in Britain.

oh wowee, there's a surprise ...... as was said by a commentator, "you get what you pay for" ...... thus, buy cheapest sausages (and burgers) possible, and what do you expect?

Brings a tear to your eye - Thousands of litres of whisky flushed down drain in Dumbarton

Thousands of litres of whisky have been flushed down the drain by accident at a bottling plant in Dumbarton.

It is understood the mix-up happened at Chivas Brothers during the night shift on Tuesday while equipment was being cleaned.

Instead of draining away waste water, the workers on duty somehow flushed out thousands of litres of bulk whisky.

The smell was so strong that sewage workers reported it.

Sounds a bit like Whisky Galore to me.

I would be looking for hose pipes to a white van park in the lane outside.

Skinny and Stan,

Something to while away your time while you are looking at the screen.

Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qwhx0

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What has the market got against CLLN? Seems undervalued.

Fred - Carillion wins new and probable orders of £650m

I guess terms such as "Although markets remain challenging," and "Probable orders" don't inspire.

Thanks, similar thoughts.



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Good by-election result at Eastleigh for UKIP.

Tories need a comedian, perhaps Boris.

much more sensibly than the above - it certainly shows that the general populace needs a lot of convincing that uk's future remains best served by staying with europe

however, is it my imagination or are not both labour and lib/dems pledged to stay in europe?

ukip may be a good repository for a protest vote in a by-election, but it is very unlikely indeed that they will score particularly well when it comes to the "real thing" in a general election

At least Labour were pushed into fourth place. Just a bit above the 'Elvis likes pets' party.

Labour have the "we are not sure how we feel about Europe" cop out strategy.

Cynic,

Were you on your knees when you wrote your last post?


9-)

labour were never going to be anywhere else, so their vote can be discounted

fred - please elucidate

for myself, whereas i was very pro when we joined, i am now among the undecided and shall listen carefully to what is said when the whole matter is debated ..... i shall then decide which way to vote, but assuredly vote i shall, even if for the "least worst" choice - unlike you, who will probably stay sat on your arse as usual

Probably, I will dissent, which is my democratic right and continue to observe from my lofty post. I wouldn't want to lead anybody astray by voting for them.

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After a lot of huffing and puffing by some R and L wingers over details, I guess and hope, that after the present economic storm blows out, the UK will engage more, and integrate more deeply in the EU over the coming 10-20 years.

It will be economic and political (international) suicide for the UK, if we don't do so.

You can see this from what Europe is doing as far as some Banker regulations, etc. are concerned. Cameron, due to his previous belligerence, being seen as an outsider appearing more and more as an international Enoch. (Sorry Eunuch.)

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A method of diffusing one of the Banker's Salaries problems, maybe to pay the bonuses in shares which have to be held by the receivers for a 2-3-5 year period before being cashed.

This may concentrate their minds on the success of the corporations.

(There are difficulties, but maybe it could be made to work.)

conservative party get rid of human rights for illegal immigrants and terrorists
stop all benefits for immigrants stop all free health for illegals deport them
the same day they are arrested . or UKIP WILL DO THE JOB

over a 11000 in EASTLEIGN voted ukip about immigration numbers

immigration is only good for companys to employ cheap labour at the cost to tax payers funding the services for them .imigrants coming here to clean cars .
disgusting

wake up cameron get them out

It's been a good 12 months for Nigel Farage. His party is on the up, with good performances in by-elections in Corby and Rotherham. UKIP will expect to keep that going. Winning would have been stunning - the major breakthrough that's proved so elusive. It would have catapulted Farage, like a grenade, into the mainstream, breathing down the neck of many a marginal seat Tory MP. Beating the Tories was the goal here. If that meant coming second and pushing the Conservatives into a humiliating third place it would feel like a significant victory. The worst case would have been a Tory win with UKIP coming in third or fourth, failing to deliver the 20%+ support that the polls suggested it could expect. This was the first test at the ballot box of UKIP support since that big offer from David Cameron of a referendum on the UK in the EU. If evidence emerged that it had dented UKIP's support it could signal that the good times are over for the party.

What happened: The march of UKIP continues, Eastleigh was their best-ever election performance. They pushed hard on EU migration and an anti-establishment theme. They were the only ones to put on a significant number of votes. It's clear they are now the new "protest vote party". And don't ignore the fact they came close to winnin