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.

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....................

Your up late gf., or am I up early?

Darling urges spending caution

Former Chancellor Alistair Darling has urged Labour to be cautious about committing itself to future spending plans right now amid a growing debate in the party over the issue.

Reports that Labour has decided to go into the next general election pledging to spend more than the government have been dismissed by senior figures.

Ministers say Labour is "turning left".

for all that, both the tories and lib-dems will be walloped in the local elections ..... i suspect the fringe alternatives will fare well, as is so ofteh the case in mid-term elections anywhere in the world .... i doubt labour will have much justification in crowing either, though i'm sure they'll spin enough to do so

I hate that txat Suarez, to call him an animal is to insult animals. Dirty cheating little sxit. No doubt the FA will come up with the usual garbage. Typical Red Shite, "You'll Never Bite Alone"

You mean this Chewy Suarez, cc?

That's the one hils :O)

Oh, that's good. For a moment I though you mighta meant this one.

Suarez carrying his lunch

Posting 24197

He is almost as good looking a George.

When are the next economics figures out?

They should go down well before the local elections.

Here is another winner from the left wing Fabians/Labour

Pensioners should 'share the pain and pay more tax'

The high level of pensioner home ownership makes for an unfair housing market, says think-tank

Pensioners should share the pain of austerity cuts and pay more tax to make the housing market fairer, a think-tank has said.

As middle-income workers' wages stagnate and they can’t afford to buy a home, the Fabian Society claims high levels of home ownership among older people threaten fairness across generations.

The society argued that pensioners' taxes should increase, their benefits be cut, and a tax on property wealth should be introduced.

The key policy should be to raise taxes on pensioners so the 27% they pay as a portion of their gross income would rise to 33%, in line with working age households with the same income.