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.

Who, or what is Grant Shapps?

Somebody look for dirt on the BBC or anybody which will draw attention from fragmenting party of cons.

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Interesting that Cameron seems to be trying to close the guardian down, rather than address the abuse that Snowden has reveal about phone tapping.

Has Cameron being tapping (hacking) Ed's phones?

Wavey Dave is a an ?????

I like to see what action the government can do which is effective.


But Cameron is huffing and puffing and acting as firmly as blancmange.



The majority of the public see Snowden as doing a public service, by his exposing of corruption and illegalities.

Good luck to him.

I wonder what Cameron is trying to hide.

The opinion polls I would think.....

He can run, but he can't hide!

The majority of the public see Snowden as doing a public service ...... says who?
In any other age he would have been rightly labelled as a traitor and dealt with accordingly

A difficult call. He has exposed clear illegality on the part of the US government. The rest action of various governments around the world shows how important it is. It is somewhat of a double standard to complain of phone hacking and then the UK is monitoring our calls.

NoW phone-hacked for solely commercial purposes

if those who run the country's security feel they need to garner info from wherever primarily to ensure our safety, then I am very happy for them to do so, albeit within some kind of monitored framework

Hays Hays Hays..........

electionista ‏@electionista 1h
UK - YouGov/Sun poll: CON 31%, LAB 40%, LDEM 9%, UKIP 12%

It opens it's mouth, and guess what comes out?



Britain must say 'no' to eastern European workers, says Cameron

The Prime Minister says young Brits cannot "fully" compete with hard-working immigrants from Eastern Europe


"In 2011 official figures uncovered by the Labour MP Frank Field disclosed nine out of 10 new jobs had gone to immigrants in the first year of the Coalition."


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/10409062/Britain-must-say-no-to-eastern-European-workers-says-Cameron.html

2011?... but that's 2 years ago!

... So what exactly have the "Con" Government done about it?

Encouraged more of the same, what else?

For Manuel,

Fred, Please don't engage Alf to much today as he is getting further and further behind with his work, Also it appears that he was up rather late last night (during the working week is never good form) so someone needs to take him to one side and "try and engage" him.

Off now, be back later.

Stan,

Alf is really a bit of a pussy, just have to stroke him a little and he will eventually purr a little.

currently en route back from Norwich :-)

Stan: Off now, be back later.

Don't bother

Colonic by Emily Haworth-Booth

Emily Haworth-Booth has been awarded the Observer/Cape/Comica graphic short story prize 2013. This is her winning entry


The Observer, Saturday 26 October 2013 17.00 BST

http://www.theguardian.com/books/interactive/2013/oct/26/colonic-emily-haworth-booth-graphic-short-story-prize

Did THAT win a prize

UK mortgage approvals highest since February 2008

September figures likely to be seized on by those who argue government's Help to Buy scheme risks creating new bubble



Katie Allen

theguardian.com, Tuesday 29 October 2013 11.39 GMT


Mortgages approved by British lenders jumped to their highest level for more than five years in September, fanning fears the housing market was already heating up even before the latest government support kicked in.

Banks, building societies and other lenders approved 66,735 mortgages in September, the biggest monthly total since February 2008, before the global financial crisis took hold.

The figures, from the Bank of England, were just ahead of City forecasts of 66,000 and compared with an upwardly revised 63,396 in August. Mortgage approvals are seen by economists as a good early indicator of where the housing market is headed.


More: http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/oct/29/mortgage-approvals-february-2008-help-to-buy



Snippet from the comment section:


bill9651

29 October 2013 12:00pm


I fear that first time buyers are being led up the garden path and will end up with negative equity when the help to buy scheme is withdrawn and interest rates rise. And if they default, the taxpayer will pick up the bill.





FastCars

29 October 2013 12:04pm




The government don't really give a shit. They just need the bubble to last up to 2015.

perhaps before making one (yet another) of your silly political comments, you may want to have a look at historical mortgage information .... i don't have any idea of the answer, but i wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that, even before the so-called bubble got to a so-called critical mass, that mortgage applications were considerably higher

the number of houses on estate agents books and/or the speed with which they turned properties would also be interesting

Interesting grilling of Energy Supply cheifs by MPs.

Looks to me like John Major was correct a one off Wind Fall Tax and breaking up of the big boys is required to create competition.

This of course would be sorted By Milli during 2015 to 2017.

Torries idea of swithching eco taxes to the tax system is just a transfer of blame and would still leave customers with bigger bills.

Interesting the smallest provider reckons he can provide energy 13% cheaper than the big boys and very notable the big cheese are getting record busting pay rises whilst the rest of us suffer.

Milly should have a good PMQs tomorrow on the back of this.