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.

France's NF leader Marine Le Pen said her movement was going to come to power and she said that she is planning to reintroduce the FRF. Recent polling suggested she would win as much as 33% in the first round of the Presidential election, beating both Hollande & UMP.

Vive La France!!

UK economy strengthening as services exports surge.

Clearly the economy is in safe hands with Dave and George at the helm. Contrary to the opinions professed by Old Bollock Chops and his Red Flag Flyers on this thread.

Who says I vote them back in? You presume too much Stan.
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Welfare State! http://pro.moneyweek.com/myk-eob-advcs-lwl/LMYKP701/

I watched it all. It is very interesting, but it is basically an advert for Moneyweek.

Yes - probably the longest most depressing ad I've ever seen - although, as you say - very interesting.

A message for Miliband and Balls from the past.

"We used to think you could spend your way out of recession and increase employment by boosting government spending,” boomed the Prime Minister, Jim Callaghan, at the 1976 Labour Party conference.

“I tell you, in all candour,” he went on, “that that option no longer exists. And in so far as it ever did exist, it only worked on each occasion… by injecting a bigger dose of inflation into the economy, followed by a higher level of unemployment as the next step…”

The above words are among the most important uttered in the history of modern British politics. For a left-wing prime minister to have admitted that too much state spending is dangerous, while being barracked by a rabble of bearded Trotskyists from among his own party ranks, marked a turning-point in Western economic policymaking.

Stan - please define "tough job" ...... most jobs are pretty tough in their own way, whether it's cleaning up after drunks have puked up in the back of your mini-cab, trying to run a happy and moderately successful restaurant while keeping the thieving to within at least acceptable limits or keeping a business alive when it's run into trouble

I found staying alive, just by itself, was hard.

9-)

Disappointed a few.

8-)

Manuel,

Enjoy the holiday, but be careful Van Gogh doesn't try to paint you.

A beautiful area, I am envious.

May wander down that area for my last trip around France and down to the Western Point of Portugal.

Probably, start that trip early September, when it is quieter.

But, having a look at the lakes near Troyes and Auxerre in a few weeks time.

Maybe a little fishing.


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it is indeed lovely down here ..... during the course of the holiday - i walk a few miles most days anyway - i'll probably do the 8 miles from here to st remy ...... up through the pine forest to the top of les alpilles (a little to the the east of les baux), then along and down past a very pretty semi-artificial lake ..... it brings you out by glanum and close to VG's asylum ..... the 8 mile return trip may be a bit tough on the old bones, but we'll see

A council boss was arrested today after allegedly giving himself a £26,000 pay rise while other staff had had their wages frozen as part of the national austerity drive.


Anthony O'Sullivan, chief executive of the Labour-controlled Caerphilly council in South Wales, was questioned by police on suspicion of fraud and misconduct in public office.


Most employees of the council have had their annual pay rise limited to just one per cent in a bid to save money - but O'Sullivan was awarded a salary hike of nearly 20 per cent thanks to a report he wrote himself.


His salary was increased from £132,000 to £158,000, and 20 other top bosses also received similarly outsized increases following a secretive meeting to determine executives' salaries.


The chief executive was suspended from Caerphilly County Borough Council in March, and the Wales Audit Office called in Avon and Somerset Police to investigate allegations of wrongdoing.


O'Sullivan and one other official were arrested


lefty labour greed put him in prison

ukip guys would never do such a thing .... they'ld just open up off-shore companies and accounts while berating others for doing similar

He needs that amount for living in Caerphilly.

(I never wrote that.)

Customers have been warned that a proposed change in European Union rules may force banks to introduce annual charges of £11 on debit cards and £25 on credit cards.

What was the threat they talked about in the Moneyweek promo? I couldn't be bothered to listen to the end.

The rising debt.

Cheers. If it all goes pear shaped we won't be able to afford a Moneyweek sub. So they're right to be concerned.

Actually like Moneyweek as a journal, just hate their promotional material.

Interesting to read that cyners likes to go out for a walk each day while he's on his Provencal hols.

:o)

"Walking stick in hand" - yes I'm sure they do!