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.

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.

CAMERON HAS JUST TOLD BIG LIE IN HOUSE OF COMMONS
LET ME TELL HIM I NO A LADY OF 41YEARS OLD WHO WAS BORN
WHO CAN NOT WALK AND LIVES IN WHEELCHAIR
HAS BEEN MADE TO MOVE OUT OF HER ADAPTED HOME BECAUSE SHE AS TWO BEDROOMS FACT NOT FICTION HOW MANY MORE HAVE BEEN KICKED OUT

A MP as just asked the most important question in the commons
about the land subsides that the rich get in the uk over 20 tory MPs
get millions from the EU ever year including CAMERONS FAMILY

this government is the lowest scum that have been in power
a party of smear and lies .
and we have not yet started to fight the next election
it will be the worst campaign ever for smear and corruption .
Cameron is a evil disgusting person who is sticking iss fingers up to the voters .

Why should people who own land not get land subsidies from the EU? Do you imagine that there are no Labour MPs or Labour donors that get land subsidies?

and yes I have sent him loads of E MAILS in reply to is but alas will not answer the questions . and the reason is because the truth hurts .

hays . the reason being is that they have interests to stop in the EU

Hardly anything said by Cameron on the NHS because he knows hes on a sticky wicket and his health minister has taken the flack from not only the press but the Lib/Dems this morning.

Excelent question from a labour bank bencher re- to Camerons record of not answering questions and using statistics and lies to worm out of tight situations.

He kept on about the unemployment figures (fiddled as we all know if we tell the truth) but no mention of the latest industrial production fall.

Corrupt Tory party and little wonder they are losing smaller donation providers.