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.

This woman "specialises in teaching troubled children"!


Thatcher death party organiser made £150,000 on her council home which she bought under former PM’s right-to-buy scheme
•Romany Blythe doubled her money on a Islington townhouse bought in 2006

•Teacher purchased from council in 2006 for £141,000 and sold it for £298,000
•45-year-old held death party and encouraged revellers to 'p*** on her grave'


By Martin Robinson

PUBLISHED:11:12, 19 April 2013| UPDATED:11:30, 19 April 2013

The teacher who organised vile Thatcher ‘death parties’ and compared the Baroness to Hitler, bought her council house using the Iron Lady's right-to-buy scheme and then doubled her money, it was revealed today.

Romany Blythe, 45, made £150,0000 when she sold her North London home four years after buying it off the local authority in Islington.


Lady Thatcher wanted to increase house ownership in the 1980s after she came to power, so she let council property residents snap them up for bargain prices from local authorities.

And it appears that extreme anti-Thatcherite Miss Blythe used the scheme to make a huge sum of cash.


Thatcher hater: Romany Blythe invited 5,000 to a party celebrating the Iron Lady's death, but years earlier bought a council house (right) using the landmark right-to-buy scheme, selling it for double what she paid

Sale: Documents show that Miss Blythe bought the house in Islington for £141,000 and then sold it four years later for £298,000

In June 2006 Miss Blythe, of Worthing, West Sussex, bought the leasehold of a flat in a pretty Victorian townhouse from Islington Council for £141,000.


Just four years later she sold the North London property for £298,000. If she had sold it within three years she would have had to repay some cash to the council.

Speaking next to a burning effigy of the former Prime Minister at a demo last weekend in Trafalgar Sqaure, she said: 'The council houses were sold, what a wonderful thing to be able to own your own home and I have no problem with poorer people being able to buy their own home but that money went straight to central government.


'It wasn't used to build more council houses for people for affordable rents. Teachers have to come in to work from miles away. People can't afford to live in central London.'

Protests: Miss Blythe, who specialises in teaching troubled children, wrote: 'Who wants to p*** on her grave?' as she encouraged people to celebrate Lady Thatcher's death

She added: 'I think Thatcher was a despot. She was cold, calculating and she knew exactly what she was doing.

Surgery: Romany Blythe was given breast implants on the NHS because she complained of low self-esteem, it also emerged

'I don't care about Thatcher, I didn't care about her dying, I don't care about celebrating her death. I care about the issues and I care about being able to mark that.


'I am not interested in celebrating someone's death, I am interested that there is a whitewash of who she was, and that she is not made out to be some wonderful woman.


'History does not forget'

Mss Blythe was unavailable for comment today.


Romany Blythe called Lady Thatcher a despot and said: ‘They danced in the streets when Hitler died, too’.


The 45-year-old – who was given breast implants on the NHS because she complained of low self-esteem – had sparked outrage by creating an internet page called: ‘The witch is dead.’


On it she urged more than 5,000 people to attend a death party in central London on Monday.


Miss Blythe, who specialises in teaching troubled children, wrote of Lady Thatcher: ‘Who wants to p*** on her grave?’


She later attempted to defend her behaviour by claiming she was ‘the voice of reason’.


‘I didn’t do the rioting – I just organised a Facebook page. I’m actually the voice of reason. I didn’t fan the flames. It was a way for us to come together and create unity and solidarity.

Bombers are reported as brothers from Chechnya. Main religion there is Sunni Muslim. The dead one was wearing explosives. The one they are looking for has a local driving licence.

doodlebug - I worked with plenty of people like that in the 1980/90s - double standadrs doesn't come anywhere near it.

Romany Blythe

She seems to have been applying typical tory standards.

Image far more attractive than those said to be of "Cyns".

How predictable....

Haystack Posting 24175


Is the second image your wife or Maggie?

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Didn't know your wife's name was Penelope or that you put out to work.

Nice hands though!

In spite of Hays saying it doesn't matter Fitch has downgraded UK Bonds!

Interesting, how the tories and George have been justifying their failed economic policies on the need to maintain the UK's AAA rating, George has blamed labour policies of 5-10 years ago, the failings of Europe and the rest of the world over the last 3 years and now for his own failures.

Cameron load your gun and sharpen your knife.

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How will miliband fund this? He has said they will raise taxes! So we are back to the tax and spend party with a bit of borrow and spend thrown in.


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/exclusive-labour-bets-the-house-with-pledge-to-outspend-tories-8579179.html?origin=internalSearch

Exclusive: Labour bets the house with pledge to outspend Tories

Ed Miliband rejects lesson of 1997 when Tony Blair promised to match the Tories' budget limits

Labour is preparing to fight the 2015 election on a bold but risky pledge to spend more than the Conservatives.

Ed Miliband and Ed Balls will reject the more cautious approach – adopted by Tony Blair in 1997 – of sticking to the Tory government’s public spending limits in favour of a “new economic settlement” for Britain.

Some Labour figures believe that repeating Mr Blair’s landmark move would help the party regain economic credibility, on which it still trails the Tories. But there is a growing consensus inside the Shadow Cabinet, which includes its Blairites, in favour of reducing the deficit over a longer period than under the Coalition’s plans in order to finance “investment”, such as a huge house-building programme.

Strong support for this approach will come in a study to be published next week by the Labour-affiliated Fabian Society. Sticking to George Osborne’s plans, it found, would mean that “non-protected” areas of spending such as police, justice and local government face cuts of about 35 per cent between 2011 and 2017.

It doesn't seem to matter which political party you support these days, they are all at it.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10005980/Lord-Hanningfield-pockets-21000-in-expenses-since-return-from-jail.html

The expenses are for attending the House of Lords. All peers collect £300/day for turning up. That applies to Labour, Conservative, Liberal and other non party Lords.

Boston PD seem to have access to a serious amount of sophisticated logistics. Puts our Ford trannies and Skoda Fabia panda cars into perspective!!!

Very true. An amazing operation.

The bomber had been captured.

There is an interesting loophole in the US regarding reading people their rights (Mirandarising someone). The principle is that when you read rights you draw attention to the right to stay silent and anything said can be used in evidence. It also included rights to lawyers

The FBI are allowed to 'interview' people without reading rights provided that anything said is not used in court. This means the FBI will grill the guy for quite a time before he gets his rights. This allowance is for intelligence matters and extreme situations in connection with security and has been upheld in the Supreme Court. They will use this to check for associates.

Top Republican senators urged President Obama on Saturday to hold the suspect captured in the Boston Marathon bombing as a potential enemy combatant -- denying him a government-appointed attorney and other legal rights under the "Law of War" so investigators can learn about other possible attacks.

This would put him in a similar position as the residents of Guantanamo Bay and he could be held indefinitely.

There is something fishy about this case. I have read all the tweets on his Twitter account and you get a picture of a normal teenager at college. The tweets continue normally after the bomb explosion and only stop about the time that the video pics were shown. It is as though he didn't know he was involved in the bombing at first.

He was lucky to be found as it looks like he was close to bleeding to death. He certainly couldn't have treated his own wounds.

The other strange thing is that he said to his captors, "I am safe now".

His brother seems to be the prime mover and may have conned his brother in some way.

All I can say is that I hope tomorrows events at the London Marathon goes well and good look to everyone who attends and may they return safely - God be with them all.

Sorry that should have read good luck to everyone to attends and participates. Not "look". Security increased there so hopefully things should go well . Same applies - God be with them all.

Yes and i agree with you 3 monkies look after them and make sure they come home.

mick ......... all for England....................