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.

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.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=028_1364734534

John Nash, who worked for a private equity company with major education interests, will receive a peerage and become a schools minister. Mr Nash and his wife have given the Tories almost £300,000.

The announcement came just a day after another major donor was appointed to government.

Lord Popat, who was given a peerage in 2010, became a government whip on Wednesday. Lord Popat and his wife have given over £320,000 to support the Conservatives.

The reshuffle followed the resignations of the business minister Lord Marland and Lord Strathclyde, the leader of the House of Lords.

Lord Marland, who resigned to pursue business interests after less than three years in government, has also given the Conservatives over £300,000, leading to concerns about a donor’s merry-go-round of government appointments.

Mr Nash sponsors the Pimlico Academy and has been a non-executive member of the Department for Education’s board for the past two years.

Until Thursday morning, Mr Nash worked at Sovereign Capital, which specialises in the healthcare and education sectors.

The Telegraph previously disclosed that Caroline Nash, Mr Nash’s wife, had funded the office of the former Health Secretary Andrew Lansley while he was in opposition.

Mr Nash was previously the former chairman of one of the biggest private health providers to the NHS, Care UK.

According to Companies House records, he remains a partner at Sovereign Capital Partners, which is a private equity group.

Sovereign Strategy has previously backed the group Alpha Plus, which operates the exclusive Wetherby Preparatory School and Pembridge Hall.

It has also invested in the Greenwich School of Management. In its last review by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, the School was warned that the “quality of student learning opportunities at the institution requires improvement to meet UK expectations.”

Paragon, which organises government-funded apprenticeships, is also backed by Sovereign.

A spokesman for the Department for Education said that Mr Nash would “be stepping away from all relevant business interests while he is serving as a Minister”.

The Permanent Secretary will put in place “arrangements to ensure that no conflict arises between his Ministerial duties and his charitable interests.”

A spokesman for the Prime Minister said: “What counts, and why he is the right person for the job, is his extensive knowledge of the education sector.”

Lord Popat is a Ugandan-born tycoon. The former refugee founded the TLC Group, which owns a string of hotels and care homes across Britain.

The connection between political appointments and donations to parties has raised questions before.

In 2007, the cash-for-honours scandal led to a lengthy police enquiry, during which Tony Blair became the first Prime Minister to be interviewed by the police.

Since becoming David Cameron became Prime Minister in 2010, he has sent a series of political donors to the House of Lords, including hedge fund manager Lord Fink, the financier Lord Magan and businessman Lord Edmiston. Lord Fink has given the Conservatives over £3million

so cameron gives out honours for cash .
nothing these man does is a shock he is corrupt
worse than the SS.

Meanwhile back on planet earth - North Korea 'crisis gone too far' says UN's Ban Ki-moon

UN chief Ban Ki-moon has said the North Korea "crisis has gone too far" after Pyongyang announced plans to restart its main Yongbyon nuclear complex.

Speaking at a news conference during a visit to Andorra, Mr Ban called for urgent talks with the North.

The move by Pyongyang is the latest in a series of measures in the wake of its third nuclear test in February.

All political parties give cash for honours, this is old news.. Its why the house of Lords is so overcrowded and the numbers need cutting down... Who cares really anyway, the last non-corrupt person to enter parliament was Guy Falkes and we all know how that ended... The memory lives on though in the hacktivist group Anonymous who have reportedly hit N Korea with a string of DDos attack. I take comfort knowing that should UN sanctions continue to fail and if US threat of military force has no affect then at least 'Anonymous' is able to make the countries servers fall over...

Why is little weed so green ?

Because Bill & Ben flob a lot.

Tanker,

I agree with you.

This is corrupt mickey mouse government with the policies and morality of a banana republic.

At least, one knows the price of a peerage and themselves. What is like having others in your pockets.

Cameron and Osborne and his henchmen are running the UK as a thiefdom and becoming an embarrassment and one can see why they are ignored more and more in Europe and on the international stage.

If as many expect, the tories will lose the next election I wonder what the backlash will be?

lol

patronage of one kind or another has been the way of the world throughout the world since time immemorial, whether it is of the arts, jobs, business, government or "reward in kind for services rendered" or anything else, so why be so priggish about it? ...... forgot why; how silly of me; you are a prig

Prig - had to get the dictionary out, lol more a pr---.