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.

fred - i think you and i are much the same age .... that being so, we were brought up in an era of eat a peck of dirt before you die, and therefore built up significant tolerances and immunities .....

while admitting that food processing and the like has almost certainly increased the number of "nasties" that are around, i'm pretty certain that today's obsession with hygiene in all areas of our lives, means we are now much more suspect to infections of many kinds

Tanker your post above 27392....... Haystack ie, the Bill part of the duo Bill and Ben(cynic).

Yep your right he just ignores other peoples findings and true facts but at the same time he uses his own and Bens as though they were written in law.

Just look at his analysis of the Poll findings each week. If labour have had a good week.......he says ohhh not a big enough and accurate reflection of the public...BUT..... if Tories have had a good week hes shouting from the roof tops.

Just ignore the weak man and filter him, honestly hes just a waste of time as is his bum chum Ben.

And when did Labour have a good week in recent history? Never.

Hays,

That must be one reason for you being such a miserable B. Treat yourself to cocoa with fully cream milk and a large dollop of condensed milk.

Used to drink similar after potholing when I was young an slim. Daren't now.

Cynic.

Yes and No. Some contaminations are more virulent and less responsive to treatments and also naivety of younger generation in food preparation, conservation and application of simple hygiene.

Anyway, and more important, you are 10 years junior to me.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/labour-told-ditch-balls-to-lose-ghost-of-brown-8759330.html

Labour told: Ditch Balls to lose ghost of Brown

Ed Miliband came under fresh pressure to ditch his shadow chancellor today after a poll showed voters increasingly putting their trust in the Tories to best run the economy.

The ICM survey for the Guardian showed David Cameron and George Osborne extending their lead for economic competence. The proportion of people backing them rose from 28 per cent in June to 40 per cent this month.

The numbers of those backing Mr Miliband and Ed Balls also rose, but from 19 per cent to just 24 per cent. One Labour MP suggested shadow chancellor Mr Balls was the problem.

The senior backbencher said: “It’s unfortunate that every time Ed [Balls] stands up to speak you can see the ghost of Gordon Brown standing behind him. He was not Ed Miliband’s first choice, but if you look at the other people around they are just not ready yet.”

The backbencher said that while Mr Balls may survive the summer reshuffle Mr Miliband is believed to be considering, the shadow chancellor should be moved before the 2015 election to bring in “fresh thinking”.

He said: “[Shadow financial secretary to the Treasury] Chris Leslie has a very endearing, calm and intelligent manner. The contrast between him and a sneering George Osborne could be incredibly beneficial for the party.”

Earlier this week there were reports Mr Miliband was also being urged to sack shadow health secretary Andy Burnham for his close connections to the Blair/Brown era. Mr Burnham stirred controversy at the weekend after voicing concerns that Labour should be “shouting louder” if it wanted to win the next election.

Meanwhile Labour MP for Blackley and Broughton Graham Stringer this week questioned the shadow cabinet’s “deafening silence” over the summer recess.

Labour’s overall poll lead on voting intentions has fallen from a high of 13 points in February to an average of just five points last month.

Today’s ICM poll showed 35 per cent of people intended to vote Labour. The Tories were on 32 per cent, the Liberal Democrats on 14 per cent and Ukip on 10 per cent.

gold you are correct .

they are blind and you have to feel sorry for them
cynic lives a lie echo just agrees sad but fact

I was playing chess with my grand son on holidays and I noticed he was stalling.

Then I realised he was waiting for me to make the usual mistakes.

I think Ed is doing the same with Wavy Davy and Boyo George.

Why try to hang a man, when you can see him jumping off a high cliff.

They can twist and turn but can't flap forever.

their was a poster on am around 15 years ago called tanker1 wonder if he is still alive

fred - if that is so, no wonder you're so curmudgeonly .... now i know what to look forward to :-)

Moneyam wasn't here 15 years ago.

You will be wanting this Welcome

When did money am start?.

Think I was in first 30 or so posters. Might be wrong but I was in early and I think that was 1999.

Think aldwick was in just before me and think Hilary also was an early poster as was Tanker.

Bill and Ben were late entrys. (SLOW)

Click the link GF!

Sorry skinny what part of link am I looking for?.

Post 27946.

Who was Hilary?

Can't recall that name.

Then drink your cocoa! :-)

Yep opened that link, what am I looking for?. A bit drugged up on ibuprofen at moment so its slowed my brain down to haystack speed. ...............well a bit quicker.

It was in response to your post 27947!

Hypocrite Harman has stopped her vilification of bookmakers, I see her son has landed a top job with a leading bookmaker. Any connection I wonder, surely not, a woman of principle is HH.
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