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.

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 .

when i need your nonsense opinion, i'll let you know

the only words the immigrants understand is free BENEFITS fact not fiction send them back home vote UKIP
the poles were in M/S saturday stealing

They use (misuse) human right to get benefit and those making decisions are either ignorant or, most likely, biased towards helping foreigners.

Our politicians think about nothing but to gain votes!!!

ahoj when i reported the polish the security asked me to be a witness i said why
the courts will let them off .
the same polish girl was the one they caught a few weeks back they go from store to store that is what they do for a living

ahoj the one that we customers jumped on in tesco took is shirt off and called us english ever name under the sun then the police came and pretended they did not understand send the scum back home
he knocked the security guard to the floor the girl run off

have you posters always noticed cynic never answers a question
just abuse that about sums is upbringing up

Cynic, I fully understand that there have to be cuts - the country is in a mess. I feel that some of the cuts are rather severe and to implement them is going to probably cost more than they will save. Why change DLA to PIP? for example. Ex PM's or at least the ones who left office years ago should pay for their own security at the end of the day they can or should be able to afford to!!!! I have worked all my life and have never claimed umemployment benefit - jobs are very few and far between these days, the ordinary person cannot find full time, most positions are part time.

Job centres I believe are handing pages of vacancies to people but when they apply which has to be done on line now (so heaven help people without a computer) when they do apply there hasn't even been a job in the first place or they have been taken.

One cannot educate a child who does not want to learn, extremely sad but true. End of rant.

Yes I would like your new recepies.

3m,

I agree with you on something.

This government will be known for its "meanness", it is earning the name of the Nasty party.

I know there are abuses of the welfare system and they should be addressed.

It does seem a little daft that somebody can occupy a 3-4 or more bedroom house indefinitely when the occupying family is of one or two.

But, if they have lived in those houses for 20-30 years or in their late 60s or 70s, their families coming back to them, or the look after their kids, or their offspring, while their children are at work, or have need of another room for medical carers or facilities.

Making the occupiers of the “too large property” move out of their property into smaller properties, (which are not available) in that area where they have their support systems is cruel. This leads to further fragmentation of families and social unity.

(One of the glories of the Thatcher government was the selling off of “social” housing.)

If money had been poured into “local government” social housing building of various “sizes”, then the problem of “under occupation” could have been addressed in a more sensitive way and also the cash utilised, would have filtered into the local communities and into general economy as stimuli.

The Thatcher period will be remembered as the selfish and nasty period of modern government and this government will leave a stench, self-interest and corruption and misgovernment.

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Ahoj,

Osborne and Cameron as little politician using populist techniques and rely on tub thumping followers.

The tories were on occasions a respectable party, the are now the party of opportunists with little sense of the future in the long term.

3 Monkies,
I think the issue is with changing culture or varying culture in the UK.
Thos who live on benefit for life don't know where their money come from. So, they are happy with their life, which is more relaxing than those working hard.

They just read that the former head of RBS gets £700k a year tax free. So they believe 20-40k a year is nothing, so what they get is their right.

n fact both are wrong, giving away£700k salary to former RBS boss for destroying the bank, and alowing benefit for life.

david milaband to get £300.000 a year for is charity work
some bloody charity will neve give another penny to charity and i give
over 16k ever year not a penny more

i do agree with cuts to benefits not not via bedroom tax
unless they refuse a smaller home .
but this bedroom tax is just plain EVIL the work of NAZIS

bowel cancer in men going up and all down to the takeaways that they eat full
of fat salt and meat that isnot fit for consumtion

if you do not want cancer KEEP OUT OF CURRY HOUSES

Chinese takeaways 'far more likely' to give you food poisoning than a kebab




By Katherine Faulkner
UPDATED:09:18, 29 May 2010

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Chinse takeaways are more likely to give you food poisoning than a kebab, curry or fish and chips, a survey has shown.

More than half - 55 per cent - of Chinese outlets failed to meet hygiene requirements.

Kebab shops and Indian restaurants also scored poorly, with 53 per cent of kebab shops and 48 per cent of curry houses failing to clean properly.

3m - i'm afraid there is suddenly a(nother) flood of tripe appearing here .... when i get a chance, for it takes a while to do, i'll write up the recipe for jambon persille and post it on the recipe thread ...... now i've worked out how to get the right gelatine set - i use trotters rather than packet stuff - it's really good but also very rich

the stuffed loin of pork will follow in due course

by the way, i tried putting slivers of anchovy (the new fad!) in my shoulder of roast new-season's lamb ..... it's ok, but neither Beloved nor myself felt that it added anything worthwhile, so won't bother in the future

Hays,

Thank you for posting the Julian Assange video, it was an interesting summary.
I am grateful for the internet and its ability to exposed issues such as this.

I was interrogated back during the 1970s in Yugoslavia by the local mafia of the Tito regime.

Interesting experience, and was relieved and felt lucky to drive out of the country.

We felt lucky at the time.

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