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.

it's all a jolly good jape...what?

I guess that they were laughing at Ed Balls.

That photo will haunt them come the next election day.

Like big kids. Bullingdon boys.

Dont get that from labour.

Dave Camoron ‏@EtonOldBoys 20m
I feel sorry for people who don't drink ! They'll never fully appreciate the comfort and coolness of their bathroom floor !

Dave Camoron ‏@EtonOldBoys 55m
Dont forget moronic brain washed plebs, the American sub prime was #alllaboursfault

lol

Dave Camoron ‏@EtonOldBoys 2m
If re-elected we promise to put Children back up chimneys and down coal mines, and when they are 18 we will put them in the Army off to war

An equivalent Labour tweet would be promising to let the unions run the country, tax everyone to the limit and spend the proceeds on under water Turkish disabled lesbian hang gliding clubs.

Sounds ok to me hays.

It seem's that the law is giving jail term's now , if a drunk person shout's racist abuse. I know this man was acting very nasty but he didn't attack any one no one was hurt , but he was drunk and when people are they are likely to say thing's they wouldn't say if sober.

If he was shouting abuse because she was fat or Irish
, would he be jailed ? why not a fine or community service .

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/12/07/keith-hurdle-racist-londo_n_4402923.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/12/07/muslim-patrol-jailed-london_n_4403374.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-news

MaxK

They were not drunk , it was not a one off offence

Drunk or not, the courts could have handled both problems without jail time.

Make all the parties walk around central London with signboards stating that they admit they are tossers.

Fairly cheap to police, and the humiliation alone would be a powerful turn off.


At least try the non custodial route before the very expensive jail time.

The first case might be suitable for some therapy and intervention. The second case is much more serious and sinister. There is the underlying possibility of violence and a trend that had to be stopped. A custodial sentence was needed to indicate that others should not try and emulate the behaviour.

MPs' 11% pay rise set to embarrass party leaders

Independent body will announce increase to £74,000 from 2015 despite opposition from Cameron and Miliband


Daniel Boffey, policy editor


The Observer, Sunday 8 December 2013

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/dec/08/mps-pay-rise-embarrass-party-leaders


David Cameron and Ed Miliband will face embarrassment this week when it is announced that MPs will be paid an annual salary of £74,000 from 2015 despite their calls for "cheaper politics".

The independent parliamentary standards authority, Ipsa, is to reveal its decision to increase salaries by 11% despite a lack of support from the prime minister and the leader of the Labour party. MPs' salaries will then go up annually in line with national wages.

To pay for the increase, Ipsa is imposing greater pension contributions on MPs and clearing up discrepancies in the expenses system. A Whitehall source said the "across the board" reform would not cost taxpayers more.

Funding for the salary increase would come from cuts to MPs' pension schemes that go far deeper than published proposals.

Ipsa was given full statutory control of MPs' pay and pensions in the wake of the 2009 expenses scandal.

Under the rules, parliamentarians do not get a vote on its recommendations but they automatically become law. Ipsa's decision will prove politically difficult for Cameron and Ed Miliband.Earlier this year the prime minister said the cost of politics should fall under the salary review and the above-inflation rise will be seen in sharp contrast to the 1% rise in public sector pay packets.

Miliband has said he will not accept a pay rise and legislate to reduce MPs' annual wage rises, which would inevitably mean the disbandment of Ipsa as an independent body.

Only the deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has accepted the independence of the decision.

Charles Walker MP, vice-chairman of the 1922 committee of Tory backbenchers, who has been championing the freedom of Ipsa to make an unencumbered decision on wages, said "a little more pain" on pensions was acceptable in order to "draw a line under the issue".

Read the comment section, the brothers and sisters are not happy.

Update - Labour lead at 5
by YouGov in Politics
Sun December 8, 2013 6 a.m. GMT

Latest YouGov / Sunday Times results 6th December - Con 34%, Lab 39%, LD 10%, UKIP 11%