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.

It is just the final result of the Labour culture of targets over everything. Like you, they only want sound bites.

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my god just listen to him.

3 years and you have let it go to the dogs.

The NHS cant be trusted with the torries.

Hays,

I agree with you the tories don't have any targets other than filled their own pockets.

They are other than that aimless.

this gov is a gov of LIARS and crooks

please can someone call the local funny farm and get this guy heavily sedated and then sectioned!


School leaving age
nearly every gov't plays stupid games to reduce the apparent level of (youth) unemployment.
previously we had the great con of creating so-called university places, but this latest bit of political chicanery is just too ridiculous (and transparent) for words and, as previously, fools no one.
leaving that aside, the REAL problem remains that there are not enough jobs in the market place, and quite how those are created is another matter altogether.
that so many children still leave school pretty much illiterate, and are therefore effectively unemployable is much too complex a problem for a one-liner.

Cynic, Hays as a right to post on here what he wants. You cannot be asking for him to be carted off to the funny farm.

Hays hays hays...............

electionista ‏@electionista 17 Ju
UK - Populus poll: CON 31%, LAB 38%, LDEM 13%, UKIP 10%

hahaha - i was referring to MrT of course, as if you didn't know!

17 July 2013 09:12

UK unemployment fell by 57,000 to 2.51 million in the three months to May, the Office for National Statistics says.
The unemployment rate was steady at 7.8%.
The ONS also said that the number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance in June fell by 21,200 to 1.48 million. This fall was the fastest rate in three years.

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 16th July - Con 32%, Lab 38%, LD 10%, UKIP 12%

silly question no doubt, but when was the last time the method of collating these numbers last "adjusted"?

Looks like the 16th! :-)

They don't appear to have been adjusted for several years. The government can't influence the figures as they are collected by the ONS.

Are they lobbyists?

The Office for National Statistics.

PMQs coming up in a few minutes. It will be interesting to see Miliband taking his weekly beating.

oh it's always good punch and judy stuff, whoever is pm

Surely not!

Formula 1 boss Ecclestone indicted

German prosecutors have indicted Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone for alleged bribery.

The charge relates to a $44m (£29m) payment to a German banker, Gerhard Gribkowsky of Bayern Landesbank. It was linked to the sale of a stake in F1.

Mr Ecclestone said he had paid Mr Gribkowsky to avoid a UK tax inquiry into the sale of Formula 1 in 2006, but denied the payments were bribes.

Mr Gribkowsky was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in jail in Munich.

cynic you are sick one on this thread
a person who hates the truth

Don't forget the £1m that Blair took for the Labour party from Ecclestone to allow tobacco ads in F1. Just another example of a corrupt Labour party.