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.

DC if your a trader rather than an investor you know you have to spend and take losses to make further gains in your portfolio. Its no diferent at government level.

Right off to watch spurs

Poor you :-))

Labour have never had a clue of how to create an environment that business can succeed in. Business is the engine that drives the economy. No benefits to society are created except by way of the wealth and success of businesses.

Its a slight bit different when the country is at risk. France has adopted that policy and gained nought, except being deeper in the red. Still think labour waffle and would not know how to handle the countries problems.

I agree with you Haystack.

Hays,

Do you think the selling off of the country's silver at the lowest going price was a brilliant idea.

Strange how many business owners I have known in the past thought they made more under socialist governments, (I was surprised at the time and will check why they said it to me. It wasn't to appear friendly, or humour me. I will have to look at periods of growth.

Also, reflect on the period of growth from about 200 on for a number of years.

The real problem may be the killing off of heavy and light industry under Thatcher and replacement and hype of the service and financial industries.

It isn't the production of wealth which is the problem, it is the purloining of it, that is the problem.

was it a good idea to sell off the gold?

industry was significantly helped down the road by militant (communist paid) trades unions with their restrictive practices and greed for more and more for less and less ..... you also choose to ignore that emerging markets such as china and india could/were/are knocking down costs so heavily that companies could not afford other than to go elswhere

finally, a good bit of meaningless and populist rhetoric that actually has no meaning let alone substance It isn't the production of wealth which is the problem, it is the purloining of it, that is the problem.

LOL Cynic the torries sold off far more than Browns Gold.

1. North sea oil revenues, to keep unemployed ....unemployed

2. Utilities...at knock down prices.

3. Council Houses........... now owned 66% by private landlords

4. Sale of Northern Rock at give away prices

5. Proposed sale of nationalised banks at knock down prices.


Their are more.

Your talking shite and posters here know this after you chickened out earlier today.

Cyners Ive let you off the hook up to now as i think your a good guy and online pal but please dont press me too much further as I will put to you what I had in mind yesterday evening and believe me you wont like it.

What a strange person goldfinger is. I thought Fred was odd, but goldfinger takes the biscuit. He spouts more rubbish than even Fred.

sticky - i'm sorry to say that you falsely accuse ..... i told you what i promised to do ..... you said i promised more ...... i challenged you to prove it by c+p from my posts .... you have signally failed to do so .... put up or shut up is the succinct response to you

btw, lest you should think otherwise (i'm sure you would!) i shall be off-line almost completely from now until sunday afternoon

Morning slaphead.

You might kid yourself what the chalenge was but everybody else knows what it was and youve chickened out Old Boy.

ps, have a good weekend at your sons.

thanks sticky .... chicken was not on my menu :-) ..... like i said, on this issue, i know what i offered to do, and showed the skeleton that i could/would do so..... so like i said, put up or shut up

he he.. ohhhh never mind cyners your still a good un.

Always will be.

Hays,

This sums up the present tory party.

Now this what happens when your chancellor goes walk abouts trying to con the public. Just 2 days ago the torries were only 7 points behind with the same poll, others have a far bigger gap.Now its 12.

Can you see what I mean cyners, right wing loons. You cant kid the electorate these days and get away with it. They will not be fooled especially the younger ones who have increased fees to attend UNI.

UKIP further denting torries.

Now this onelectionista‏@electionista53m
UK - YouGov/Sun poll: CON 30%, LAB 42%, LDEM 11%, UKIP 12%

Have a look at North Korea's leader. 9 facts are:

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/05/17601453-nine-facts-about-north-koreas-kim-jong-un-he-loves-the-nba-disco-and-his-grandfather?lite

ahoj..........hes a nutter.....a nutter.

I think, with a little respect, the west can generate a good link with the young leader. He is like Westerners. See his cloth, wife, haircut, having iMAC on his desk, etc...

He wants to show its power to his people. We can work better with a powerful leader than a weak one.

If he opens the country, it will change fast, much faster than anyone could imagine.

BUT, some western companies like war so would be interested this issue to continue. They need it to sell their product, so may not let any direct discussion take place if Obama agreed with it.