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.

The number of sham marriages reported to the authorities is just "the tip of the iceberg," while official figures are a "drop in the ocean" compared with the full scale of the problem, one of Britain's most senior registrars has warned.

Up to 20% of civil ceremonies in cities could be a sham, Mark Rimmer, the chairman of the Local Registration Services Association, told Sky News.

Home Office figures show the number of reported cases has tripled in the last three years to 1,800, the broadcaster said.

But in a stark warning Mr Rimmer suggested that overall figure could be nearly 10 times higher, believing 15,000 of the 173,000 civil weddings that take place each year in England and Wales could be bogus.

Posy 31120,

Perhaps, you were more naive in your youth than you are now.

But surely that is the markets and capitalism working at its best.

Getting the most out of what one puts in, or obtaining the best return for as little as you can give.



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Slash benefits for EU migrants: PM urged to act as those here without a job hit 600,000
European Commission found 73% rise in 'job-seeking' EU immigrants

Boris Johnson has urged David Cameron to demand change in EU law

Said migrants should work 'for quite a long time' before claiming benefits

67% of public want Cameron to take 'drastic action' to cut immigration

does "drastic" mean line them up against the wall at the point of entry and gun them down?

cynic. when do you shut the gates .

"Drastic" means put out a press release.

60% of the uk say immigration must be stopped .
do we close the gate when the path to the gate
is 100 miles long
in france hundreds of illegal immigrants with no money
being feed by soup kitchens waiting to enter the uk
france will not allow them to live in france .

"Drastic" means just stop the blah, blah, blah and actually do something about it.

well cynic give us the answer .

the gate must be locked .
the EU as destroyed the uk

vote UKIP lets get out

over 200.000 roms and bulg waiting to enter the uk IRELAND at breaking point
with the scum

Romania to release prisoners early if they leave the country

growing number of people coming back to home to find it as been taken over by
immigrants soon it will be to risky to go to work to come home to find immigrants
living in your home

you may say rubbish but not when it happens to you

Tanker,

"vote UKIP lets get out"

I would be delighted if UKIP leaves the country taking some of the right wing "tory riff raff" with them.

Preferably, after they have joined the BNP and voted for UKIP.

Mind after the next election with a labour - lib coalition government in place many of the bankers and city barrow boys will flee the country.

Unlikely. Labour have always cosied up to the bankers even more than the Conservatives.

fred it is all down to the lab left who fcuked up the uk brainless dimwits

I wouldn't have called the tory party dimwits.

PMQs. labour 10,Tories 0.

Excelent performance from Dennis Skinner pointing out that ATOS are a company that are a shambles.

468 deaths including suicides after their so called assesments of FIT FOR WORK, I D Smith should be sacked.

These people werent the skivers we all hate either. They were disabled poorly people., not the MR and MRS Hurty Back type.

gold yes a national disgrace

To be honest TANKER if we went back 20 years or so their would have been national outrage.

This is a terrible situation and one nobody from the government wants to take responsibility for.

To say that a person with eg, terminal cancer is fit for work is a total disgrace, I D Smith should hang his head in shame. ATOS (french company) should be sacked.

Doctors not admin staff should make an assesment on these people and should not leave it to a computer to say a person as so many points etc.etc.

Its a National Disgrace and should be immediatly looked into.

goldfinger, you made an absolute twit of yourself on the COMS thread early this morning. Well done.:-)