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.

gf
I haven't had a drink for months. I rarely drink these days.

Off to Wales tomorrow to help my son bring back his stuff after his first year at Uni.

Hays........Patrick Mercer’s resignation of the Tory whip.

Cash for Questions.

Will leave UKIP with great chance of taking his seat.

Hays, you havent had a drink for months....... pull the other one.

Constantly asking Cyners about this and that bottle of wine and spirit.

Slurring of speech in an evening.

Anyway Hays it appears he was going to get the push for the cash thingy anyway.

He and Dave dont get on that well.

People in Wales are "extremely satisfied" with schools and the NHS but remain worried about finances, an official survey has suggested.

The National Survey questioned more than 14,000 people in the Welsh government study.

Of those questioned, 90% said they were satisfied with NHS hospital care, while 92% of parents were happy with their child's primary school.

gf
I used to work for a wine company and my mother's family used to own Threshers years ago, hence the interest in wine.

Like to know who the 14,000 surveyed are. All I hear is people really p.... off with the education system, falling way behind the whole of Europe. The bilingual system holds so many kids back.

It is impossible to assess the quality of education in the whole country based on survey of a group of people.

Statistics can be played with very easily, just choose the group that most likely give the answer you like. You have whatever you need to generate beautiful results justifying your aim.

Even our universities are pushed to tick boxes to receive money, so the data is played with so the maximum number of boxes are ticked! Does it mean that they are as great as their statistic show?

hays .its not the worst uni in the eu is it Aberystwyth.full of clowns all they do is
walk from bar to bar all night and foul mouthed

Unbelievable........

http://johnnyvoid.wordpress.com/category/tory-scum-3/

Acer,excelent point made.

Hays is known to be lets say......a little nieve and biased.

As far as the Welsh government was concerned, people were asked to rate it between 0 and 10 on whether it is doing a good job.

The average rating was 5.8 - compared to an average score of 4.3 for the UK government and 3.8 for governments across Europe.

Other highlights included:

96% of people who saw a GP or had a hospital appointment agreed that they were treated with dignity and respect.

92% of people were satisfied with the care they received from their GP at their last visit.

92% of parents were satisfied with their children's primary school, while 83% were satisfied with secondary schools.

48% of people said they could keep up with all their bills and commitments without any difficulties.

"We are committed to making sure the decisions we make take into account the views of the people we serve," said Finance Minister Jane Hutt.

"The National Survey is one of our key sources of information on people's views and circumstances."

"We will use these results to inform the development of policy, the delivery of public services and to find out about the well-being of the people of Wales - so that we can make Wales a better place to live and work," added Ms Hutt.

So have I got this right; Partrick Mercer is too crooked to stay in the Conservative Party, yet not too crooked to stay in parliament?.

Cash for questions is probably not an offence, otherwise some Labour MPs would have left in the past.

Now come on Hays lets stop talking bloody silly.

It is just against parliamentary rules. It is not a big deal. In other countries, their MPs or equivalent get paid as lobbyists. In the US it is fine as long as it is disclosed. Recently only 3 representatives did not receive 'gun money' to vote no in the gun legislation. A lot of fuss about not much.

RUBBISH....... just because they suit your purposes as per usual.

What I mean, is that I don't care about it. There more important things. You only care because he is Conservative. I wouldn't care if he was Labour.

Well thats rubbish aswel, im not a socialist I support the party that I think will do best for the country.