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.

Skinny,


You must get more sleep. Take dreams with you.

BuT I did think you might enjoy the music!

Skinny,

Perhaps you can remember this one;

cynic

Have you ever tried a wine called Pleiades? It is made by a Californian winemaker called Sean Thackrey and comes in editions rather than vintages. I think they are up to edition XXII. It is a blend of high quality wines. Some years it is a bit difficult to get. Oddbins sometimes have a few bottles at the odd branch. Majestic have had it in some years.

Thats right Fred he also gave something like £970,000 to the tax payer I seem to recollect so he must have had a decent wad saved away.

Just thinking what a plank Camoron is going to look if it comes out the twins get £2o/£25 million apiece.

Wouldnt be suprised.

Tony Blair and the £8million tax 'mystery'

Official accounts show a company set up by Mr Blair to manage his business affairs paid just £315,000 in tax last year on an income of more than £12 million. In that time, he employed 26 staff and paid them total wages of almost £2.3 million.

The accounts provide the strongest evidence yet of the huge sums generated by Mr Blair through his various activities since quitting Downing Street in June 2007.

"This amusing viral video casts the Iraq war alliance between George W. Bush and Tony Blair in a whole new light. Created by Johan Söderberg for a Swedish television program called 'Kobra,' this parody synchs up images of Bush and Blair singing Diana Ross and Lionel Richie's breathless ballad "Endless Love." Their war may have gone horribly awry, but their hearts still beat as one."


Bush and Blair's Endless Love

Thatcher and Blair in the same box.. now that is worth hoping for.

LOL skinny.

SHAME on Tony Blair. Thanks for pointing that out skinny.

Dont think for one minute Im just a one party fan,Im not.

Ive voted twice for both major partys but found Thatchers era to be the most corrupt.

Now followed far by the 2 clowns we have now in Cam and Osbourne. If we had decent tory leadership I dont think milli and balls would have a chance.

Its just a case of supporting the best of a bad bunch alround.

Maggies biggest mistake I remember besides greed factor wasnt the closing of the mines BUT the lack of a policy to regenerate them areas once the mines had been closed down.

It was crimminal and she took no major responsibility in trying to promote new business and enterprise.

Basically northeners just saw her as looking after southerners.
Hence the major divide. And its still the same now.

he he........

Dave Camoron‏@EtonOldBoys11m

Panic selling forces gold to two-year low, you was right to sell the shit Gordon @Telegraph http://soa.li/8auXE2M

France finds most horsemeat in EU DNA tests: EU sources

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - France found more cases of illegal horsemeat in beef products than any other European Union country, early results of DNA tests ordered in the wake of the scandal.

Brown sold our gold at $300 an ounce. The current price is around $1300/ounce. Well done Brown!

Yep - nice one Gordon (is a M*)





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"The sale of UK gold reserves was a policy pursued by HM Treasury over the period between 1999 and 2002, when gold prices were at their lowest in 20 years, following an extended bear market. The period itself has been dubbed by some commentators as the Brown Bottom or Brown's Bottom."

Had horse meat in a goulash over in Belgium on football tours for three years running. Gorgeous it was rather dark with a yellowy fat.

Chips with it mind. Belgians love their chips.

But very tasty and not off putting. All the lads wanted seconds.

Have to say tho when its not marketed as horse meat...... a big NO NO.

True skinny but hindsight is a wonderfull thing.

He was by the way taking advice from City Experts, same City Experts in the main who had advised Maggie.

A great deal of Gordon Brown’s economic strategy would strike a sane man as troubling. Not a great deal was mysterious. The orgy of consumption spending, frequent extensions of the cycle over which he would “borrow to invest”, proclamations of the “end of boom and bust”: these are part of the armoury of modern politicians, of all political hues.

One decision stands out as downright bizarre, however: the sale of the majority of Britain’s gold reserves for prices between $256 and $296 an ounce, only to watch it soar so far as $1,615 per ounce today.

When Brown decided to dispose of almost 400 tonnes of gold between 1999 and 2002, he did two distinctly odd things.

First, he broke with convention and announced the sale well in advance, giving the market notice that it was shortly to be flooded and forcing down the spot price. This was apparently done in the interests of “open government”, but had the effect of sending the spot price of gold to a 20-year low, as implied by basic supply and demand theory.

Second, the Treasury elected to sell its gold via auction. Again, this broke with the standard model. The price of gold was usually determined at a morning and afternoon "fix" between representatives of big banks whose network of smaller bank clients and private orders allowed them to determine the exact price at which demand met with supply.

The auction system again frequently achieved a lower price than the equivalent fix price. The first auction saw an auction price of $10c less per ounce than was achieved at the morning fix. It also acted to depress the price of the afternoon fix which fell by nearly $4.

It seemed almost as if the Treasury was trying to achieve the lowest price possible for the public’s gold. It was.

Gordon Clown did take advice from city experts but, unfortunately, he chose to ignore that advice.

The advice was that gold trades in approximately 10 year cycles and that he would be far better off waiting for a decade or so if he wanted to sell.

Yes haystack which right wing publication did you copy and paste that from?.

In destroying the Unions, she set the scene for the grabbing of all the proceeds of growth by the wealthiest in society. The point at which the wages of the top end started diverging from the rest of the population is firmly on her watch. Britain's Unions may have been a particularly dysfunctional breed, but they did serve a purpose in defending the least well off in society.

Moreover, the idea that she transformed the economy as a whole is something of a myth. In the 30 years prior to 79, Britain grew around 150%. In the 30 years after, it grew 100%. Some transformation