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.

It is interesting to see France using the same policies that Labour would use on our economy. They are sinking into the abyss and Hollande now has only 27% support amongst voters. We are fortunate that the public were not persuaded to vote Labour.

http://m.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/29/president-francois-hollande-france-support

Underscoring the gloom, the government announced Friday that France missed its deficit target for 2012 of 4.5 percent of gross domestic product, hitting 4.8 percent, as total government debt rose to 90.2 percent of G.D.P. from 85.8 percent in 2011.

With rocketing unemployment, stagnant growth and record-low personal popularity ratings, Hollande made a direct appeal for the French population to cut him some slack, given the scale of the country's problems.

Ten months into his mandate, Hollande has the worst presidential popularity rating since 1981, according to a TNS Sofres poll for the centre-right Le Figaro magazine. Surveys show the French president has the support of only 27% of voters.

Even leftwing supporters who backed Hollande in the May 2012 elections have been questioning his handling of the economy, which is teetering on the brink of recession amid a spate of industrial layoffs and unemployment at a 15-year high. Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault's rating also fell 5 points to 28%.

Unemployment figures on Tuesday showed the number of jobless rose to 3.17 million last month, the highest since July 1997. Hollande has admitted that stuttering growth would make it harder to fulfil his pledge to stem the rise in unemployment by the end of 2013.

april 1st

mosely's successors have taught you well how to rant and rave, but little else ..... imo, one of the biggest and easiest savings in electricity would be if offices turned off their lights at night

cynic it was in the business page in tele
my thoughts it must be a april fool joke

cynic yesterday GRANT SNAPPS on tv
well having listened to him then HItler was not has bad as the jews
could not believe how evil snapps is hitler was a saint
history was wrong about hitler or is it just this GOVERNMENT that are EVIL

That's quite a distortion of history. By the way his name is Grant Shapps and that is not what he said.

I for one have an obsession about leaving lights on when not necessary - I hate giving unnecessary money to electricty companies. I often wonder when Christmas comes how people can afford all the decorative (some competitive) lights they have outside their homes!!!!! Perhaps that is me being tight. I do agree with cynic about office lights - by the same token do all the royals need lights blaring away in practically every room in view to the public - not that I am against Royals. So much wasted money is spent in security with past obviously more past than present Prime Ministers Security, it is obscene. It would be a better idea to make cuts in all that crap than keep griping on about NHS cuts etc.

Plenty of shops have lights on 24 hours a day..

is comments on the houseing benefits is a disgrace
he claims more on exspensives in one month than they get in two years
he is a horrible person and very dishonest
and i wish him very bad luck .

hay it was a april fool joke april 1st
i new cynic would reply and he did sad man

hay will never support jews again down to shapps

I am very disappointed with all you so calleed males out there who have not got the guts to agree with my last post, however it does not surprise me. Why are we paying for past PM's security - e.g. John Major living in Luxury in Norfolk? He is only onne? Many more are in and around our country. We now are facing benefit cuts poor people etc. So why is this so!!!! ! Too much monies going to the rich and not enough to the needy! Not worried whether you agree or not - as sure as hell I will make it an issue.

Tanker

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ask permission to grow beards or moustaches and this applies equally to women crew members.

The MoD is working on a new "non-specific" flag because the White Ensign is considered to be offensive to minorities. The Union Flag had already been discarded.

The newly re-named HMS Cautious is due to be commissioned soon in a ceremony conducted by Captain Hook from the Finsbury Park Mosque who will break a petrol bomb over the hull. She will gently slide into the water as the Royal Marines Band plays "In the Navy" by the Village People.
Her first deployment will be to escort boat loads of illegal immigrants across the channel to ports on England 's south coast.

The Prime Minister said, "While these ships reflect the very latest in modern thinking, they are also capable of being up-graded to comply with any new legislation coming out of Brussels ."

His final words were, "Britannia waives the rules."

what they going to protect the uk is a cesspit since this gov came to power
it is the rest of the world that wants to be protected from these nazis

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greek that about sums it up

The wording of the letter that landed on Nick Clegg’s desk almost exactly two years ago makes clear the desperation of its sender.


Complaining about the ‘improper’ behaviour of one of his MPs — renowned womaniser Mike Hancock — it was sent by recorded delivery on March 9, 2011, to the Liberal Democrat headquarters in Cowley Street, Westminster.


‘What he did to me is shocking,’ wrote 37-year-old Annie from Portsmouth in Hampshire — whose real name can’t be revealed for legal reasons.



another lib and MP the uk 2013 run by dishonest people

the uk needs to rid it self of the 3 main partys vote for a clean start voteUKIP

3m ...... i think there are very good security reasons why ex PMs and the like have continuing security once they leave office, whether or not they have their own assets, usually in bricks and mortar and the like .... surely you do not require that to be explained?

benefit cuts
there'll always be a level at which some people will be in the grey area on the fringe; it cannot be avoided under any system ..... more to the point, perhaps you should question whether or not benefits should indeed be a lifetime sinecure as you imply - and yes, i do know it is very difficult for many to find work, especially for those who left school barely able to read and write (often if not usually their own or their parents' fault)
i'll refrain from rabbiting further about the futility and stupidity of children with limited academic ability being persuaded to go to 3rd-rate unis to get 5th-rate degrees that are totally useless in the real world

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btw, i have at last got my recipe for jambon persille properly sorted ..... loin of pork stuffed with brandy-soaked prunes and walnuts is pretty good too!

cynic the teachers spend most of their time trying to understand immigrants
and have no time for teaching the children sad but true .