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.

if the MPs are not happy with their salary then you should just put in your notice
their are plenty to take the job

if MPs are there for their salary, it is better for us that they leave their job.

there are many dedicated individuals to do the job better, and not only for money!!!

Cameron 'f****d things up' on gay marriage, blasts Norman Tebbit as he suggests he could now be able to marry his own son

I posted this two days ago .
good way of passing on your house and money marry you son or daughter its not illegal in gay marriage
Cameron is a simpleton doing anything to get votes .

"Cameron 'f****d things up' on gay marriage, blasts Norman Tebbit as he suggests he could now be able to marry his own son".. You sure he isn't already?

it open the doors to pass over all your cash before you die .
to your children tax free and if you need care .

That would be good.

hay yes a nice loop hole .and married by name only

So it's official then .. the "Con" Party "are" full of inbreds -):

this "gay marriage" nonsense
if most even if not everyone was happy enough with "civil partnerships", what is now the big deal?
if it is to put such partnerships into some sort of legal framework, again so what?
if such formalisation allows such couples to claim the same sort of tax relief and other attaching responsibilities and liabilities, rather as a "normal" marriage does, then i cannot see the objection

I think the more enlightened may agree.

It could come in the future for everyone to have civil partnerships. It wasn't considered at present as it would have delayed the current legislation.

Hays......... poll of polls yesterday had labour 8% ahead still.

Ill try and find it.

Here we are.......

electionista‏@electionista19 May

UK - average of polls, 7-day change: CON 28.7%(-0.7), LAB 37.1%(-1.2), LDEM 9.2%(-1.3), UKIP 16%(+1.8)

Thing is this leads the back door open for a labour overal majority.

Commentating on the figs.......

David Buik‏@truemagic6810h

Its time to call time on the coalition! PM Cameron should go it alone. Why let an economically illiterate Labour party in by the back door?.............


LOL David not one Torry economist in the cabinet. Labour have 900% more qualified personnel in the shadow cabinet and Rachel Reeves is reputed to have the highest marks ever achieved at the London School Of Economics all bar 1, the late great Harold Wilson.

sorry sticky, but if the so-called economists (and share pundits) were that good, they'ld all be living in barbados or switzerland or similar (bermuda is far too claustrophobic)

Averages of polls are even worse than actual polls. It gives the illusion of being as c curate, but they are pretty much useless. If there are some badly wrong polls in the average then it distorts the average very much.

Cameron is an economist, with a first in PPE. His tutor, Professor Vernon Bogdanor, described him as "one of the ablest"students he has taught.

Ed Balls did the same degree at Oxford and Cameron. And Ed Balls went to public school as well.

Don't forget that Vince Cable is an economist (was chief economist at Shell).

Most actual economics are handled by the Treasury. They calculate the effects of policies that the Chancellor is interested in.

i confess i find it extraordinary how certain people have this hang-up over where others were educated .... indeed, by rattling on ad infinitum, they effectively admit that private education tends to produce a far better end-product, which is not necessarily true in any case

ditto about their parents' background and/or economic status ......

what a load of crap! ..... ultimately, we are all dealt a hand of cards, over which we have little or no control .... some then make good use and advantage of that, whereas others fall by the wayside

even the bible alludes to that!

How did the bible get in here. Why not quite the Beano as an authority? It is probably just as unreliable.