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.

Two good looking men. lol

Pretty active for their age, not best handsome, there again Mick never was as far I was concerned. Still pulling the crowds in though, gl to them as well. Thank heavens I don't use hair dye and grateful for estee lauder keep young cream wooow, lots would beg to differ. Even myself sometimes, haha!!

Look at these young blades - Wild Horses actually written by Keefff!

lol

Harriet Harman was on TV yesterday getting very shirty about the Falkirk/Unite selection process saying that it was a one-off and Labour's selections are fine and above board.

Now we come to today and Labour has referred two London constituencies to the Police - Lewisham and Ilford. How many more are there?

Will union plan get Miliband off the hook?

Ed Miliband is planning an important speech with a mighty big claim: he will try to sell his plan to reform the way his party works as the biggest in a generation.

The question is whether his proposals - which have yet to be finalised, let alone spelt out in public - will live up to the billing.

it seems to me that labour has managed to drop itself into a deep cesspit, for which the tories and the fringe parties must be exceedingly grateful.

that EM looks a close cousin to gromit does not exactly help labour's electability.
however, the country at large will shudder at the thought that the wrecking militant unionism that we had all hoped was thoroughly buried, is now resurrecting itself like dracula, using (it hopes) the labour party as its mouthpiece and face of outward respectability.

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no doubt sticky and fred and MrT will now start jumping up and down and performing their usual clown antics ...... ditto hays

meanwhile, i shall adjourn to buy the croissants for our customary civilised breakfast in the gentle , early rays of the provence sunshine!

Very close!

but now on a very frivolous subject ...... i just picked this up on yahoo headlines

Poor old George Clooney has been dumped by his girlfriend Stacy Keibler - what did he do wrong?

Answer - nothing at all of course; she has just finished her contractual time to act as GC's arm ornament in his customary charade

Looks like the tory party evolution.

I hope Andy washed after leaving No 10,

"Puppets 'Chasing the Dream' ,trying to hitch their wagon to anything that looks like a winner. Similar to unpopular Roman Emperors that tried to use the Colosseum & gladiators as a way to garner public attention and approval, while not having anything else to offer the public, and trying to deflect from their own failings.

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MPs families have been buying RBS shares they have been given the info
so you can rest assure the bad bank will go ahead and the holders of rbs will
not have the bad part of the bank

insider dealing or what

Sad, but hardly surprising.

Killers' life terms 'breached their human rights'

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled the whole life tariffs given to murderer Jeremy Bamber and two other killers breached their human rights.

The court ruled there had to be both a possibility of release and review to be compatible with their human rights.

Quite a good analogy for the current Labour/union debacle.

What are you bleating about?

In that the labour party is supposed was derived to represent of the the Class 3,4,5, of UK society I find it obvious that there would be attempts to influence "political goals". (Old nomenclature.)

If there is corruption it should be investigate, just as the corruption of MPs and lobbyists etc.

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And just a starting point for looking at "bribes" and leaves out the so called hidden payouts, or expectancy payments.

But just for balance about back pockets and corrupting tea parties at No 10. (centre for con operations).


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The Puppet Masters pulling the con party strings


Top 5 donors by sector

City

Hedge Funds £1,384,070.58
1. Michael S Farmer £316,600
2. Stanley Fink £218,700
3. Andrew E Law £101,000
4. Christopher Rokos £100,850
5. Paul M Ruddock £68,666

Financiers £1,305,806.52
1. David Rowland £1,160,936.52
2.The Funding Corporation Group Ltd, IM House £130,000
3. Vincos Ltd £50,000
4. Selina Burdell £25,000
5. Peter M Steward £15,000



Fund and Asset Managers £1,158,000
1. Gloucester Research Limited £166,600
2. Shore Capital Group Plc £125,000
3=. FIL Investment Management Ltd £100,000
3=. Vivian Imerman £100,000
5. Investors in Private Capital Ltd £80,400

Banking £607,771.70
1. Flowidea Ltd, Arbuthnot House £68,800
2. Richard Q Hoare £55,000
3=. Simon Robertson (Sir) £50,000
3=. Jeremy Isaccs £50,000
3=. David L Mayhew £50,000
3=. Adam Fleming £50,000
3=. James R Lupton £50,000

Private Equity £565,400
1. Alexander Knaster £100,000
2. Edmund G Truell £69,000
3. Jonathan P Moulton £53,600
4=. Roger Nagioff £50,000
4=. Graham Clempson £50,000
4=. Jitesh Gadhia £50,000
4=. Jeremy Isaacs £50,000

Trading, Broking and Dealing £473,253
1. IPGL Ltd, Park House £163,350
2. Peter A Cruddas: £123,600
3. CMC Markets UK Plc £100,000
4. Neil Record: £35,050
5. Nicholas Finegold: £22,600

Financial Services £193,157.40
1. Abduladem El Mayet £50,000
2= Barnford Industries Limited, Romeo House £25,000
2= Killik & Co LLP, 46 Grosvenor Street £25,000
2= Julian L Smith £25,000
5. Grahame N Elliott £13,200

Insurance £189,400
1=. Andrew Brannon £50,000
1=. Henry Keswick £50,000
3. Hampden Insurance Holdings, Hampden House £29,400
4. Windsor Partners Ltd, 71 Fenchurch Street £25,000

Sectors outside the City

Industry £913,410.60
1. JCB Research, Lakeside Works £300,000
2. Rainham Steel Co Ltd, Devonshire House £115,500
3. Tompkins UK Ltd, Danesmore House £76,700
4. William Cook Holdings Ltd, Parkway Avenue £65,647.10
5. J & H Sales (International) Ltd, Finance House £64,400



Automotive, Aviation and Transport £689,257.19
1. Michael Bishop £335000
2. International Motors Ltd £118,457
3. David C Ord £68,600
4. Dennis Keech £58,000
5. Thomas R Scott £50,000

Real Estate £617,665.55
1. IM Properties plc £69,401.50
2. Debbie S Fiorentino £64,329.25
3. CC Property Company Ltd £63,500
4. Realreed Ltd £53,137.60
5. Thomas F Harrison £53,012.84

Retail £551,100
1. Nicholas D Jenkins £102,000
2. David Whelan £100,000.
3. Bestway Cash & Carry Ltd, 2 Abbey Road £61,000
4. Simon Wolfson £53,600
5=. Babyway International Limited, Babyway House £50,000
5=. Catherine C Baxendale £50,000
5=. Julian Richer £50,000

Creative Media and Arts £271,166.77
1. Universal Music Operations Ltd £80,000
2. Christopher Ingram £50,000
3. Julian Kitchener-Fellowes £40,000
4. Charles Caminada £27,800
5. Michael Batt £20,000



Energy £252,600
1. Ayman Asfari £79,200
2. Ian R Taylor £65,600
3. Jeremy B Asher £52,300
4. Abdul-Majid Jafar £25,000
5. Scottish Power UK Plc £14,000

Construction £224,641.65
1=. Wates Group Services Ltd £50,000
1=. Leonard J Nike £50,000
1=. Aggregate Industries UK Ltd £50,000
4. Keltbray Ltd £24,500
5. Robert M Kirkland £12,642.65

Leisure £220,195
1. Edward Wray £59,600
2. Lord Dolar Popat £45,600
3. The A & S Leisure Group Ltd £25,000
4. Sandhya Popat £22,000
5. Annabel’s (Berkeley Square) Ltd, £20,000

Services £205,000
1=. Richard D Harpin £50,000
1=. John A Frieda £50,000
3. Rajasundram Seinthan £45,000
4=. Tiziana Cantoni £25,000
4=. Mark J Page £25,000

Technology £143,550
1. Anthony N Bickford £50,000
2. British Institute of Technology and E-Commerce Ltd £27,000
3. Microsoft Ltd £18,750
4. Jeremy J Oates £16,000
5=. John Maxted £10000
5=. Resilient Networks Plc £10000

Lobbying and PR (including City lobbyists) £62,800
1. Hanover Communications International Ltd £13,500
2=. Euro RSCG Apex Communications Ltd, c/o Havas Shared Services Ltd £11,900
2=. Bell Pottinger Communications Ltd £11,900
4. EUK Consulting Ltd, 176 Franciscan Road £9,000
5. Huntsworth Plc £8,500



Pharmaceuticals £58,500
1. Lord Ballyedmond, owner Norbrook Pharmaceuticals £50,000
2. Norbrook Laboratories Ltd, Station Works £8,500

Health £37,250
1. Nadey Hakim £10,000
2. Abdool R Ebrahimkhan £9,500
3. Churchill Retirement (Group) Ltd £9,250
4. HCA International Ltd £8,500

Political £28,000
1=. Chris Hudson £10,000
1=. Edna Davies £10,000
3. Graham Smith £5,000
4. The Association of Conservative Clubs Ltd £3,000

Agriculture £27,250
1. Malcolm Scott £16,000
2. Alexander Inglis and Son Ltd £8,500
3. Sir Richard Sutton’s Settled Estates £2,750

Education £26,000
1. Lifetime Training Group Ltd, £26,000

More diversion tactics to hide corruption in the Labour/Union relationship.

Perhaps, this is the reason why, political financing with xamine of spending on election "propaganda", "electioneering" and "canvassing" expenses should be examined, before we go further down the USA model.

I think legislation to limit the total spend by all parties and candidates should be introduced.

What the limits are, is the difficulty.

Smartphone becomes in-car head-up display

Sat-nav firm Garmin has made a portable head-up display (HUD) for cars that projects turn-by-turn directions on to a vehicle's windscreen.

The portable HUD works with a smartphone and Garmin app to generate navigation information.

The gadget can project directional arrows, distances, current speed and speed limits on the windscreen.