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.

I don't have a problem helping to support the monarchy - the alternative to subsidising the Royal Family just doesn't bear thinking about, i.e. we could be subsidising a President Cameron or a President Milliband for example. Just think how much money this country would lose in tourism if we didn't have a Royal Family and Buckingham Palace.

The monarchy is a net earner for the UK. It brings in tourists and royal visits abroad generate trade. It keeps the commonwealth together. We may need the commonwealth for trade if we leave the EU.

The situation in many commonwealth countries is better than the EU. So, goo idea Haystack.

Mouse cloned from drop of blood




Scientists in Japan have cloned a mouse from a single drop of blood.

Circulating blood cells collected from the tail of a donor mouse were used to produce the clone, a team at the Riken BioResource Center reports in the journal Biology of Reproduction.

The female mouse lived a normal lifespan and could give birth to young, say the researchers.

Scientists at a linked institute recently created nearly 600 exact genetic copies of one mouse.

The rise to the cost of the monarchy is being reported by some newspapers as a pay rise for the Queen. Of course, this is silly. It is a rise in the cost of having a monarchy. The Queen won't get a penny for herself. The royal family are pretty frugal as a family. If you accept the concept of a monarchy then why not have one that is properly funded. Our constitutional monarchy gives us a unique style of government with a figurehead without power. We still have one of the best democracies with internal oversight and an independent judiciary.

Skinny,

I hope nobody kept a drop of the maggie's blood.

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Hay.

How much tax does the Duchy of Cornwall pay?


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The Duchy of Cornwall provides an income to Prince Charles of £18m, on which he pays income tax at the highest rate.

we must cut the pay of civil servants and their pensions .
we must cut all benefits to people of working age
we must restore working is better than being idle
we must cut immigration and stop immigrants using the nhs for free
we must stop all tax avoidance and take action against them
we must restore rates to restore people saving .

tax payers are subsidizing companies so they can pay low wages and the tax payers foot the bill for cheap labour.
via tax credits it is wrong and the companies should pay the living wage
not tax the public to subsidize the companies profits ,

Yep, the companies are getting cheap labour and profiting on daily basis.

Hays choke on this....... no more porkies please.

Taken after the Spending Review.

Before the Spending Review Torries had cut Labours lead to just 6 %.......NOT ANYMORE..............

electionista‏@electionista

UK - YouGov/Sun poll: CON 31%, LAB 42%, LDEM 11%, UKIP 10%

Labour lead now 11%. Looks like UKIP voters migrating to labour. Very worrying for Tory Party.

One other worrying thing is UKIP % FALLING AWAY.

TANKER any comments please. Is this Nigels hidden dosh?????

Question....... if we have all these extra people working that both the fat boys mentioned yesterday , how is it that GDP/output has only risen by 0.3%.

All twiddling thumbs?????????????

Of course not the figures mentioned are dammed lies.

We have these people in Zombie companys, plus the non contract workers who get a couple of hours per week if they are lucky plus the ever increasing number of part time workers. All counted as 1 unit same as a full time workers under this governments agency.

Its one big CON from the POSH CON BOYS.

gf my family and all my many friends will vote ukip
and ever one I meet say they are and not one has been asked their views .
polls are worthless till the election nears

the uk population has gone up 400.000 in the last 12 months
and the Cameron says they have cut immigration by 33%
liars . that's all the con party do now is tell lie after lie
T MAY what a bloody joke she is

Of course UKIP is falling away. That was to be expected. The Conservative figures are fine. Don't forget that the YouGov poll was an online one again and is a target for the activists to distort the figures. Normal polling methods are more reliable.

The stats you mention come from the ONS and are not subject to government influence.

GF,

Agreed once more!

The employment are false.

What surprises me is the apathy of the general public.

They may be keeping their powder dry, but also I don't think the cutbacks have really kicked in yet.

But I suppose Hays will be alright as there must be a food bank close to him.

Feel sorry for the Royal Family, perhaps the state could help out by relieving them of a number of unrequired bedrooms and other properties.

Open them up to the increasing homeless.

The figures on population come from the Daily Mail and even they mention that it isn't caused by immigration. It is caused by the high birth rate among people already here.

Hays,

I knew somebody should have cut your .. off.

8-)

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