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.

Can I ask why you have not included yourself. You have left yourself wide open. lol
Perhaps 5 posts have to be made for you to see one. :-))

Fred ''I think the immigration policies linked to apprenticeships is sensible.

Would lead to the increase of workforce skills and lead to a reduction in immigration''.

I thought you being so educated would have thought this to be a ludicrous suggestion.
How on earth will it be policed ?

Dreams,

I think they should have taught you to count at school.

Even you, with a little help and cramming, would have enabled you to do that.

8-)

Perhaps if you used posters names it would help more ? new1 lol

Springtime for Merkel and Germany....

fred's still waiting for someone to found the Socialist Workers' Utopian Party before he'll even consider voting

in the meantime, he's happy to bask in the freedom afforded by our current though flawed democratic system, to whinge incessantly about the system and those empowered , but to invoke his democratic right not even to vote for the least worst option

Cynic.

You are a strange little fellow.

It is strange that you "claim" to be a "democrat", but at the same time seem to refuse the "right" of showing "dissent" by not voting.

Ummh.


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But have you notice the triumph of the this Cameron, Osborne and Lansley's NHS reforms and Management,

Imagine the present group of political adolescents being in "power" for another period.

So much for safe in "Our Hands". Those hands are slippery like the rest of the cabinet's


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By: Lucy JohnstonPublished: Sun, September 22, 2013

NHS fails to meet A&E waiting time targets

NEARLY 40 per cent of NHS ­foundation trusts are breaching national A&E waiting time targets, new figures reveal.


NHS-trusts-made-20-per-cent-less-savings-that-they-planned-for-this-year-GETTY- NHS trusts made 20 per cent less savings that they planned for this year [GETTY]

Data from the hospital regulator Monitor shows twice as many of the 145 foundation trusts missed targets to see patients within four hours this year compared with the same period last year.

It found 38 per cent of trusts missed the four-hour target compared with 16 per cent last year. Health officials fear ­winter pressures will push emergency departments into collapse.

Monitor also uncovered record levels of debt among foundation trusts: 48 are in deficit compared with 36 last year, with an overall debt of £74million.

The report found trusts were struggling to deliver efficiency ­savings due to increased demand for services. They made 20 per cent less savings than they planned for this year.

Jason Dorsett, financial risk and reporting director at Monitor, said: “Our analysis shows patients are still waiting too long at A&Es in a number of foundation trusts.

“The increased demand has also prevented trusts from delivering their planned financial savings.

“We expect to see trusts planning now for how the increased demand will impact on their finances, so they are not storing up trouble for the future.”

The NHS is not safe in the Torys grubby hands.

Cynic a democrat LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL...........where did he dream that one up.!!!!!!!

Might aswel call Hays a socialist LOL.

David Cameron and George Osborne 'lack of vision' for growth, says IAG chief Willie Walsh

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/10327605/David-Cameron-and-George-Osborne-lack-of-vision-for-growth-says-IAG-chief-Willie-Walsh.html

fred - showing dissent by not voting is doing nothing of the sort .... it merely says, "get on with it chaps, and i'll sit in my over-stuffed armchair and whine and whinge and complain and generally pontificate" ..... at least alf garnett would have put a cross on the ballot paper!

So Manuel, it's Alf now is it?... Brilliant! -):

manuel, being spanish, never got to vote in uk elections!

He has the right to, if he is British National.

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he was probably working as a casual in those days

How casually do you work?

8-)

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surprisingly seriously much of the time :-)

Labour party conference LOL Start the music maestro DA DA DA DA DA DAT DAT DA DA DA IT's THE MUPPETT SHOW TONIGHT!!!!! OR BRING IN THE CLOWNS!

Has anybody else noticed the amount of infrastructure work increasing over the last 6-12months as the con party prepare for their defeat in the next election?
It is strange how a slash, burn and hoard government has quietly done another u-turned in preparation to the next election.
They have been financing (pouring money in) into the economy to boost it, in an attempt to save their bacon.
Why wasn’t this done 2 ½ years ago, because delay is politically motivated.


“Priorities
In 2013 our priorities are:
• to improve the economic infrastructure sectors (energy, transport, waste, flood, science, water and telecoms)
• to continue working on the government’s top 40 projects identified in the National Infrastructure Plan
• to secure £200 billion of investment over the next 5 years, the majority of which will come from private sector
• to supports major infrastructure projects where there is capital investment from the public sector (for example, Crossrail, Broadband Delivery UK, and Smart Meters)
• the UK Guarantees scheme, introduced to avoid delays to investment in UK infrastructure
Who we are
The unit is made up of civil servants and private sector commercial experts. We’re based in HM Treasury in Whitehall.”

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The CON party appears to have been manipulating the economy for its own corrupt ideology. It stinks of a politically corrupt party.

I think they have left the “u-turns” and “boosting” too late.

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Interesting that Labour can't be trusted to run the economy.


However do you trust Cameron?

Interesting how the NHS is being managed

called on Ministers to justify the award of a multi-million pound contract to provide highly specialist cancer services after reports that the winner, Hospital Corporation of America International, has donated to the Conservative Party.
This week the Mirror reported:
The multi-million pound deal with Hospital Corporation of America was pushed through quietly just days before the Government handed responsibility for cancer care to NHS England.
A Mirror investigation has discovered that HCA has given the Tories at least £17,000 since they came to power.
Opposition MPs last night described the decision as “scandalous”.
Labour MPs are particularly angry because London’s University College Hospital – one of the best NHS brain treatment centres in the country – has been told to stop treating brain cancer patients and send them to HCA.