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.

Been to the computer Doctor as I tried everything everyone very kindly told me and it is now sorted - 5 minutes free of charge. I never knew there was a 'her indoors' women eh! we are mad species. Ah! well!

Here's one for you cynic, what do you think?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/leisure/10106202/Does-gorgeous-Surrey-need-golf-course-No-142.html

Would some kind person please explain to me why posting links to various newspaper articles etc. doesn't seem to work on this bulletin board. I've had problems posting links myself and I'm trying to access a link on the COMS thread at the moment, which isn't working. Is it another subscription only facility?

You need to click on the icon above the text area that looks like a chain link. It is the one before the right hand end. The next one is for links to pictures to make them visible on your post.

When you click on the link then paste in the link after getting rid of the http bit already there. Then click OK and your embedded link will be active.

Thanks Haystack, much appreciated.

For Dreamer and Sinner.

A good representation of Miliband as an ineffectual idiot.

Hays,

Have you been thrashed again.

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I have watched Politics of the UK for 50+ years and think this government under the main influence of the present tories as well as the most incompetent is the most blatantly corrupt I have witnessed.

I wonder whether this is due to a its appearance of being of an "inbred culture".

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Tim Yeo facing committee coaching claim

Ross Hawkins says Tim Yeo "intends to contest these allegations very vigorously indeed"Continue reading the main story


Government 'will reform lobbying'


Conservative MP Tim Yeo is facing allegations that he used his position as chair of the Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee to help a private company influence Parliament.

Sunday Times investigators secretly filmed the former environment minister.

He told them he coached the boss of a firm - owned by a company that was paying the MP - on how to give evidence to the committee, the paper alleges.

Mr Yeo denies this and says he intends to contest all the allegations.

These new rules are unfair


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22833136

What you doing back?.. just been released I assume.

BNP leader Nick Griffin has sparked anger on Twitter by posting a series of offensive messages about Nelson Mandela.

Good wishes for the ailing former South African leader have poured in from around the world, as the 94-year-old receives treatment for a lung infection.

But Griffin, the MEP for the North West, faced a storm of criticism after his messages:

"Saint #nelsonmandela on last legs it seems. Make sure to avoid BBC when the murdering old terrorist croaks. It'll be nauseating," he wrote.

He added: "'Statesmen' must be judged on results not rhetoric. Before Mandela, South Africa was safe economic powerhouse. Now crime ridden basket case."

A BNP spokesman told The Guardian the tweets were genuine.

Griffin is a really nasty piece of work. jmop

Nelson Mandela's favourite poem, he read this constantly during his time in prison;

Invictus

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.


William Ernest Henley

Griffin is a really nasty piece of work. jmop ...... quite so, and long may he continue to paste in similar vein as it plays into the hands of "normal" society

A classic case of shooting one self in the foot

Griffin has to be seen to be as anti as possible, because those that support him are as nasty as he is and wants someone to lead them like them.
What a shitty world we live in when someone as vile as him gets coverage.

Some of the Cons right wing and UKIP are just as nasty, but maybe they choose their words a little more carefully.

But the con leadership are fermenting the environment in which such can fester.

fred - you really do write such total rubbish at times, even if it is only for effect and (probably) to provoke hays

Cyns,

Better than writing rubbish all the time.

But, it does seem you rise to the same bait as hays.

(Size 9 hook would do.)

But it is nice to see Hays rushing to the defence of the indefensible.