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.

Cynic your forgetting the Euro elections which come dangerously very close to the general Election.

They could put UKIP right back in the picture and you havent to forget some of these polls can be rougue polls aswel.

We shall have to see.

In the meantime its just a bit of sport between me Fred Hays and others who like their politics.

Update - Labour lead at 1
by YouGov in Politics
Tue October 15, 6 a.m. BST

Latest YouGov/ The Sun results 14th October - Con 37%, Lab 38%, LD 10%, UKIP 10%;

Private Eye front page mocks Hugh Grant and MPs with 'press regulation special'


Felicity Morse Author Biography

Tuesday 15 October 2013





Satirical current affairs magazine Private Eye has reiterated its acerbic opposition to the Government’s plan for press regulation, printing a a satirical front page mocking MPs and Hacked Off's Hugh Grant.


This week is a ‘press regulation special’ according to the front cover and imaginines what the magazine would look like should the government’s proposed royal charter be made law.

It shows a cluster of kittens praising MPs and Hugh Grant’s new film, suggesting the new plans would choke the freedom of the press, reducing them to a state mouthpiece.

Private Eye’s editor Ian Hislop has long been against statutory regulation, telling Channel 4 News earlier this week that state regulation of the press would be “dangerous” and “that internationally [press regulation] has a bad record.”



more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/private-eye-front-page-mocks-hugh-grant-and-mps-with-press-regulation-special-8880763.html

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No N.

Puddles.

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Printing error Hays, should be a 2 not a 7 for Tories.

I see Osborne wants to make London the money laundering centre for the World.


I thought it was.

But fully agree with him wanting the Chinese banks unregulated.

Think the same should happen to the UK Banks.

Forgot they are already.

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Does he think that China will not make Beijing the "Business and Financial Centre" of the world over the next 10 years and leave London as a play ground with an interest past history.

Their newly acquired colony.

8-) or ;-(

Yep Fred I have some negatives on this.

Great to see new jobs etc etc, but they can pull the plug when they want and hold us to ransom.

So it has its good and bad points.

i confess i too do not like dealing with the chinese for they have, shall we say, a different set of rules from the west
however, it would be stupid indeed to pretend that china is not already a significant economic force and becoming ever more so, so to shut them out on a matter of principle (see fred and RMG!) would just be damn silly

by the way, who let in abramovitch and the other russian "snow whites"?

http://richardwillisuk.wordpress.com/2013/10/15/new-yougov-poll-tories-cut-labours-lead-to-1/

The Conservatives got 36.1% of the vote at the 2010 election and now have 37% support.

apprenticeships
i wish i knew more about the dutch education system, but it would seem that the schools and colleges have much closer links to business .... true work experience and apprenticeships are therefore much easier to come by, and indeed is mandatory for many courses

It is certainly true of Germany. One of the reasons that Germany has had so much success is that apprenticeships are regarded so well in their society.

Nobody wants to be an apprentice, they have higher aspirations.

That's part of the problem. In Germany apprentices are regarded as well as graduates. It is a bit like the way that being a waiter in France is a good job. A well trained French waiter is a different thing from a British waiter who drifts into the job.

MK - who says? ..... apprenticeships lead to great things, and why would you or anyone else think otherwise? ...... as i have frequently voiced before, a graduate with a 2.2 in say media studies from some 3rd rate university is of no earthly use to the real world, and will only have any value a while down the line when real experience has been gained

Haystack, cynic.

You summed it up in your posts 70 + 71.

I was an apprentice (electrical engineering), and it served me very well.

Hays........they didnt get an overal majority. David Camoron has the liberals to thank for being the PM.

Haystack - 15 Oct 2013 13:51 - 31066 of 31071

http://richardwillisuk.wordpress.com/2013/10/15/new-yougov-poll-tories-cut-labours-lead-to-1/

The Conservatives got 36.1% of the vote at the 2010 election and now have 37% support.

CYNERS...........who you supporting tonight Poland??????????

Relate back to the thoughtless destruction of the Technical Colleges.

At that time and previous many apprentices did the theoretical part of the training in TCs..

Also, the TCs had good working relationships with industry and institutions and many getting HNDs, City and Guilds qualifications went on to high quality research and more "theoretical" pathways.

Who destroyed them and why?

But less people like getting their hands dirty, like MK2 all being even I would advise my grandchildren to do a degree at the majority of university.

Another problem is that clock do not like being wound backwards.

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Another thing which confuses me is why everybody (other than the idle rich) should wish to work harder.

I thought technical advances and computers were to enable "all" to do less work or retire earlier.

What energy is going into the unnecessary production of trash for barrow boys to make money on.

UMMMMSMSM SOS