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.

Hmmmm Milliband slumps to new low with voters - in the Express today.

United got the equaliser at west ham...................Valencia.

Hope UTD win, cant wait to tease winnie.

Ha ha ha ha the express........ WHATS THE WEATHER LIKE TOMORROW.........

T B'liar made teflon a mainstream term of derision?

lol goldfinger, the weather in the Express, lets say no more. lol

London South East - drizzle in the morning, sunny in the afternoon. Not that bad for the Express. :-))

Ed Miliband slumps to new low with voters
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But an ICM survey yesterday revealed that his personal ratings have sunk to a record net low of minus 23.

A majority of 51 per cent thought he was doing a bad job against just 28 per cent who believed that he was doing well.

It compares to Tory Prime Minister David Cameron’s net rating of minus 10 and minus 29 for Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg.

Mr Miliband’s rating is even worse than the minus 17 he scored in December 2011 when Labour was behind in the polls and his grip on the leadership looked shaky. ICM also found Labour with 38 per cent support, still six points ahead of the Tories, although the gap had narrowed by two since last month and is half what it was in February.

The Lib Dems were static on 15 per cent and the UK Independence Party up two on nine.

No modern opposition has won a general election without being at least 20 points ahead

Left wing gobshites almost make this thread as miserable as the weather. United were shite tonight GF, typical United fan glory hunter born and bred in Yorkshire, speaks volumes. No kin wonder you need therapy.

fred - i heard the Red Brigade were after me and also needed to stash away a few million in cash in my secret offshore bank account where hmrc will never think of looking .... i'm afraid hays will have to paddle his own canoe for a day or two

Chris Carson, goldfinger played for united's first team in the 80s, didn't you know?

Aye what position inside out? :O)

Morning, first dip in the pool this year, feel great.

Windy but warm in down....town Holmfirth.

Now for 2 raw eggs and a grapefruit.

Looks like spring has arrived at last.


Going for a work out down the boxing club.

A potential game changer!

Super-powered battery breakthrough claimed by US team

A new type of battery has been developed that, its creators say, could revolutionise the way we power consumer electronics and vehicles.

The University of Illinois team says its use of 3D-electrodes allows it to build "microbatteries" that are many times smaller than commercially available options, or the same size and many times more powerful.

It adds they can be recharged 1,000 times faster than competing tech.

Hey thats brill, fantastic post skinny.

The startling revelation that some of the highest-paid civil servants have turned themselves into private limited companies to avoid income tax is the latest manifestation of something that began many years ago.

Margaret Thatcher, as we know, believed in inequality of income as a spur to ambition – but 1981, when the UK was in the grip of a recession worse than the current one, was no time to be upping the salaries of people who were already comparatively well paid.

Under pressure to raise MPs' pay, which was not keeping pace with inflation, the Thatcher government introduced the system by which their income was supplemented with generous expenses, thus laying the first seeds of the MPs' expenses

But Osborne's new rules – as KPMG makes clear – give "UK based multinationals an opportunity to significantly reduce their tax rate". In other words, using "tax arrangements abroad" the largest multinationals won't pay even the new all-time-low headline tax rates.

Through the "general anti-avoidance rule" and a regular stream of smaller specific anti-avoidance announcements, such as this weekend's move against a national insurance dodge, Osborne will sustain the illusion that tax avoidance is being fought on all fronts, confident that his bamboozled audience will never notice the abject surrender on the most important one of all.
osborne is a liar

Well I was a top civil servant tanker and pay in them days was below the private sector.

It was the generous pension they offered that attracted me, nothing else.

Must admit though some craking birds, and great at christmas partys.

Spot on about the tax avoidance in your second post. Osbourne is coning the electorate.

Fact is his number is up anyway.

Vince Cable is on the quiet rumbling against him.

gf i have many friends and all tory now we are leaving the party and voting for UKIP
osborne and cameron are just LIARS and not fit to run the party you can not have LIARS running the country they are worse than most in prison .
the conservative party will be wiped out
when you get voters like myself and friends who have voted tory all our lives switching to UKIP and most of the people i speak to in the clubs and pubs tells me UKIP are going to do very well the only problem is it couldopen the door to labour
but would now sooner have them than these LIARS


a ex right wing tory

terrible news from TEXAS