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.

Reduce their number of MPs.

Stop outside, or second jobs other than "writing and media appearances".

Stop candidates standing for election until they have 10-15 years experience of "non-political" work in "society".


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Slash the size and reform the upper house, getting rid of inheritary peers and making it mainly an elected body.


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Reduce the number of overseas vanity or PR trips.

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Then I would not see any reason for them be paid an appropriate figure for the job.

Horrific video shows Syrian Catholic priest being 'beheaded by jihadist fighters in front of cheering crowd'

Father Francois Murad's death was confirmed by Vatican news agency
Footage of 49-year-old’s gruesome death was filmed on a camera phone
The Syrian priest was killed last 23 June in Gassanieh, northern Syria


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get real . you can not arm terrorists

For Manuel.

He has been too quiet.

Pretty gruesome, but so is the economy!

fred the top riches people in the uk their wealth as gone up 58% in the last 3 years

fred the top riches people in the uk their wealth as gone up 58% in the last 3 years

Tanks,

Tell Hilarious that!

fred he is blind to the world .
thank god he is a nobody a nothing .

T--and therein lies the problem, in the main the masses are worse off and therefore unable to spend, so the economy struggles. The transfer of wealth needs to go into reverse.
2517

2517 I am a tory by nature but this gov is the worst this country has ever had
a party of liars and big liars at that . all my family and hundreds of friends are going to vote UKIP AND WE WILL NOT CHANGE OUR VIEWS

Cameron is the biggest dimwit ever to hold the post

Post 26598

No.

Wrong one.

I think that maybe Tensing.

Great to see LISIKI put Williams out at the Tennis.

What guts she had.

Lovely lass.

T--and therein lies the problem, in the main the masses are worse off and therefore unable to spend, so the economy struggles. The transfer of wealth needs to go into reverse.
2517

Then for christ sake George why do you lot vote Con. for? You must know by now that all they really and always have existed for is to shaft the masses and squirrel away disproportionally the benefits that society produces.

Hi Stan
Conservative thinking believes that we know best how to spend our money, whereas Labour believe they know best how to spend our money, and boy did they spend it handing over £720b deficit to the Tories, and that after inheriting a thriving economy.
I don't recall ever stating that I voted Conservative.
2517

Manuel is happily ensconced for the next couple of weeks in a very nice villa that he and his family have rented each summer for a number of years ..... he is enjoying walking in les alpilles and watching the serfs toiling in the fields or in the restaurants and cafes as the case may be

cynic
What do you think of Croatia joining the EU yesterday with 20% unemployment and 40% youth unemployment. They have been continuously in recession for the last 5 years. Why do we want them?

i never cease to be amazed by what brussels thinks is a good idea ..... no doubt the plutocrats like the idea of croatia as a cheap base for their luxurious holiday homes, for i believe it's very beautiful even if the standard of cuisine leaves something to be desired

George,
Never mind what their thinking is or is not, it's deeds that count, and why do you and people like you only think that there can "only be" the same 2 or 3 "party type" governments that can run this country? just because they have run it "badly before"?

The masses have been shafted election after election in this country and they are still to scared and weak to realise that "we get" what "they sell you" and not what is best for the whole over the medium to long term.

They have a very insecure border with Serbia which will make it easier for non EU to get in. The border is so bad that the EU is sending security staff to police it. Croatia has been trying for about 10 years to get in. It was agreed in 2011, but now the Croatian people are not so keen when they see the problems with the EU and the Euro.

so Stan, are you going to vote for some sort of collective, say an idealised communism?
and whatever your beliefs, what makes you so certain that "your" ideal is the best for the (amorphous) country or even the indviduals who comprise the population?

I would be a lot happier if we had a Conservative government with a big majority. They are too restricted by their coalition partners. Maybe next time.