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.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23953573

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23953573

Hays,

When you were a little boy, did you use to say "stupid mummy" when she said something you didn't like.

No effect for Syria vote except damaging to Miliband.

Update: Labour lead at 4
by YouGov in Politics
Wed September 4, 6 a.m. BST

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 3rd September - Con 33%, Lab 37%, LD 9%, UKIP 13%;

The GMB union is to cut the affiliation funds it gives Labour from £1.2m to £150,000 in the wake of a row over reforms, it has announced.

The union said there would also be cuts in spending on Labour campaigns.

The changes will take effect from the start of next year.

The GMB said its decision to reduce its funding for Labour reflected its estimate of the number of union members who would be willing to affiliate themselves to it individually following Mr Miliband's change.

At the moment the union automatically affiliates 420,000 of its members to Labour, at £3 each per year,

It estimates about 50,000 of the 650,000 GMB members would actually choose to affiliate with Labour. This figure is derived from the number who took part in the Labour leadership contest in 2010, it said.

The move comes despite Mr Miliband's plea to unions to campaign to get their members to sign up.

Now all we have to have is Aschroft and his cronies outside the country do something similar and the stench around tory party finances may improve.

It is amazing how Labour change their minds to their sound bites. Labour have been whining for a couple of years that the coalition policies would produce no growth and their policies were the only ones that would work. Now we have growth and yesterday the OECD estimated that growth was going to be even more, they say it is the wrong sort of growth. Labour are now saying that only they can bring sustainable growth.

Labour said public job losses would not be made up in the private sector. Of course, as usual, Labour is wrong again as over 1 million private sector jobs have been created.

Please stand back as Labour are flushed down the drain of history.

"over 1 million private sector jobs have been created"



If you call a 1 hour contract a "job".

H/S,

As you seem rather infatuated with all things Labour Party.. What's in the Mirror this morning then?

Of course it I'd a job. A 1 hour or zero hour contract is a job. People don't actually work 1 hour as it would be pointless employing someone for 1 hour. Flexible contracts are very useful for employees. All the polls taken of zero hour contracts employees has shown they are in favour of them. The contracts provide flexible working for parents and carers. Employers find the contracts useful to grow their businesses. Without zero hours contracts many businesses would not he providing any work.

Stan
I don't recollect reading the Mirror over the last few years.

I have just taken a look at the Mirror online version. It seems to be a sort of adult comic. There is very little content worth reading. The reading age needed to read the Mirror is almost the lowest of any newspaper. Only the Sun and The News of the World have lower reading ages.

asda to start using ZERO hour contracts . the staff are not happy .

Germany now stating assad used the gas .

Cameron with is attempt to be a world leader fcuked up the man is a prick

but my view is let them kill each other and keep out of MUSLIMS killing each other
its fcuk all to do with the west .
the usa is just concerned with ISRAEL not the Syrians .

vote UKIP

Hays,

Are you sure you were not reading the Daily Mail and Telegraph.

The clue is in the names and spelling.


Forgot the Express, paper for real bigots.

8-)

Express is another comic. The Telegraph is a bit too right for me, but it does have the biggest percentage of news items. Of course the Guardian has the least.

I am sure somebody can dig out the real number of hours worked in the UK per week.

Also, the wages and "salaries" paid per week.

Also, the cost of subsidies given to the said "private sector businesses", which are paying "low wages" , saving on their "costs" and relying on their "work force" being given or dependant on "state handouts" to survive on from Taxes. (I.E partially nationalised industry comes to mind.)


Another future argument is that the tories are distorting employment figures by the rise of the "school leaving" age.

As I said I wouldn't trust Cameron and the present Maites further than I can spit.

Not even that far.

FRED your last post is SPOT ON .
hays you are just a simpleton with no brains just full of water

Praise indeed Fred, from the resident nutter! You must be so proud :O)

Hays,

They do have intriguing cartoons.



This one must apply to the tory party and UK politics in general.

Is that HARRYCAT sitting on the sofa with Cameron? :-)