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.

Situation normal.....




Chaotic UK e-borders scheme failing to stop terror suspects

Border control system was so overwhelmed that 650,000 smuggling alerts were deleted, watchdog reveals


Alan Travis, home affairs editor

The Guardian, Wednesday 9 October 2013


The Home Office's flagship "e-borders" programme, which has taken 10 years to develop and has so far cost more than £500m, has yet to deliver significant benefits to controlling immigration and has had only a limited impact on tracking terrorists, an official watchdog has concluded.

John Vine, the independent chief inspector of borders and immigration, reveals in a report published on Wednesday that high-profile e-borders alerts are not even being routinely used to stop "high-risk individuals" – such as terror suspects, war criminals and those who have previously been deported from Britain – entering the country at ports and airports, apart from Heathrow.

The e-borders programme, which requires passengers to provide airlines with their personal details before they travel to and from Britain, began in 2004.

The declared intention was to "export the border" to improve immigration control and to ensure passengers considered a threat to Britain could be prevented from boarding their flights. But it is thought that only two airlines have so far signed up for the pre-departure screening checks needed for such no-fly lists to work.



http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/09/e-borders-scheme-failing-to-stop-terror-suspects

We are all in together.

£600000 for a pad in London and

WEDNESDAY 09 OCTOBER 2013

Vice-chancellor of Oxford Professor Andrew Hamilton calls for £16,000 tuition fees
Elite universities should be allowed to charge far more, Oxford chief argues


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/vicechancellor-of-oxford-professor-andrew-hamilton-calls-for-16000-tuition-fees-8867323.html
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"Vice-chancellor of Oxford Professor Andrew Hamilton calls for £16,000 tuition fees
Elite universities should be allowed to charge far more, Oxford chief argues".....ends


Yep saw this on later Sky news paper talk Fred.

I had suspicions under the tories that this might happen.

And so the top universities should be allowed to charge what they want. You don't want peasants getting into Oxbridge!

Bye gum Fred , the elastic on these drawers are tight , Stan what time are we meeting Goldielock's for that pie & pint ?

Fred ......Torries will drop a few more points on the polls on that £16 grand proposal alone.

Its all coming good for the Socialists.

PMqs should be good today.

You don't want the oiks going to uni anyway...

You couldnt make it up.

After yesterdays IMF upgrade we get the real state of the economy..........

Markit Economics ‏@MarkitEconomics 30m
Manufacturing output across the UK down 1.2% m/m in August, fastest decline since January (Reuters poll +0.4%)

Do these people know what they are doing ie, the IMF. Perhaphs the credit rating agencys should start to grade them and downgrade them immediatly.

City A.M. ‏@CityAM 31m
Disappointment for UK manufacturing as figures decline in August......

http://www.cityam.com/blog/1381307255/disappointment-uk-manufacturing-figures-decline-august

The International Monetary Fund has upgraded its growth forecasts for the UK by more than any other advanced economy in an embarrassing u-turn for the global financial institution.

Britain is now expected to grow by 1.4pc this year, double the rate projected in April when IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard singled the UK out for criticism and accused George Osborne of “playing with fire” with his austerity programme.

The following month, the Fund urged him to borrow as much as £10bn this year to pay for infrastructure investment and business tax cuts in an attempt to boost growth.

The IMF appeared to moderate its position in its World Economic Outlook, saying that "public investment can be brought forward to offset the drag from near-term fiscal tightening, while staying within the medium term fiscal framework". In May, it said action was "essential".

Instead, it acknowledged the UK’s sharp turnaround, saying: “Recent data have shown welcome signs of an improving economy, consistent with increasing consumer and business confidence.”

Up 2% from monday, i knew the Uni admission fees would go down badly......

electionista ‏@electionista 3h
UK - YouGov/Sun poll: CON 33%, LAB 39%, LDEM 10%, UKIP 10%

UKIP could be bigger than Tories by 2018, says think tank

http://www.ukip.org/newsroom/news/912-heseltine-is-an-out-of-touch-dinosaur-with-racist-slurs-says-amjad

The uni admission fees were not mentioned when that poll was taken. The best universities need to raise their fees.

No, it wasn't a think tank. It was just a UKIP member saying that and as usual it can be ignored.

A tum te tum a rum he dum dum..........

UKIP coulde be bigger than Tories by 2018, says think tank
Posted on Tuesday, 01 October 2013

The Conservatives could have fewer members than the UK Independence Party within five years unless the Tory leadership fixes its “broken” relationship with grassroots activists, a think tank has warned.

The Bow Group called for an electoral pact with Nigel Farage’s party to stop members abandoning the Tories because they disagree with David Cameron’s policies on gay marriage and the European Union. Tory membership has almost halved, to just 134,000, since David Cameron became leader in 2005.

Read the full report in the Telegraph here.

A rum te tum a tum tum tum. ...........

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/10343241/Ukip-could-be-bigger-than-Tories-by-2018-says-think-tank.html

Hi ho hi ho its off to work we go, with a shovel and pick and a walking stick, hi ho hi ho.

A poll earlier this month found that 30 per cent of Tory backbenchers were “definitely not” attending the party’s annual gathering in Manchester.

David Davis, who fought Mr Cameron for the Conservative leadership, said that the “tame” conference revealed how the conversation between the party’s leadership and activists had “broken down”.