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.

All the Tories have to do, is to 'UKIPise' about four of their policies and they'll walk it.

Where to?


8-)

"Not all data was positive today though as Britain's deficit with the rest of the world widened to £20.7bn from £6.2bn in the third quarter, equivalent to 5.1% of GDP - its biggest share of GDP since 1989.

Data also released this morning showed that UK consumer confidence deteriorated this month. The GfK Consumer Confidence Index fell from -12 to -13 in December, surprising analysts who had expected a small up-tick to -11."

LONDON (Reuters) - The British public's expectations for inflation over the next 12 months eased again in December, according to a survey published on Friday.

Inflation expectations for the year ahead fell to 2.6 percent from 2.7 percent in November, a survey by polling company YouGov showed.

Expectations had hit a two-year high of 3.2 percent in October.

Bank of England Governor Mark Carney has said the jump in expectations in October was probably pushed up by news of big rises in gas and electricity bills.

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LONDON (Reuters) - The British public's expectations for inflation over the next 12 months eased again in December, according to a survey published on Friday.



Jesus wept!

Just like old times

A portrait of Tony Blair – and zealotry



Read the comments:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/a-portrait-of-tony-blair--and-zealotry-9019065.html

MAX.

The thing missing in the Blair portrait is a rope.

Cheerful news for Manuel and the Hazyone.

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I have seen that stupid Moneyweek video before. It is designed into frightening you into taking out a subscription.

How many subscriptions have you taken out?

It is intended for gullible people like you.

Unless you read it, I would think it difficult to form an opinion.

Unless, of course, as it often seems, your opinions are preformed hand downs from the CCHQ.

(MGHY)

But, heaven forbid, sometimes Manuel and you seem more brainwashed than members of the old worn out CPRF.

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Happy Xmas.

David Cameron has warned that he will veto the admission of new countries to the European Union unless they accept tough new rules on immigration.

The Prime Minister issued the warning about countries such as Albania and Serbia that could be next in line to become EU members.

Speaking at a press conference during the European Council meeting in Brussels, he said: "I would make the point that, on new accessions, they are by unanimity, so they don’t happen unless everybody agrees.

"So you have a real opportunity, irrespective of treaty change, to insist on a different approach."

One idea Mr Cameron is keen to explore is requiring countries to reach a certain income level before free movement is allowed, or allowing individual member states to impose a cap on the number of EU migrants entering the countries each year.

This what happens when you have a socialist government as in France

French officials have fined a pub in Brittany €9,000 for “undeclared labour” after a customer returned some empty glasses to the bar.

For customers at the Mamm-Kounifl concert-café in Locmiquélic, carrying drinks trays and used glasses back to the bar was a polite tradition.

But for social security agency URSAFF, it was also an infringement of labour laws because customers were acting like waiters, French local newspaper Le Télégramme reported.

“Around half-past midnight, a customer returned a drinks tray. She passed by the bar to go to the toilets. That was when it all kicked off. My husband was pinned against the glass by a man. A woman leapt on me, showing her ID card and that’s when I realised it was a URSSAF check. They told me I had been caught using undeclared labour,” owner Markya Le Floch told Le Télégramme.

The authorities initially fined the pub owners €7,900 and briefly placed them in police custody. Customers vouched for the owners and they escaped charges, but URSSAF are still pursuing a social case and are now seeking €9,000 due to non-payment of the original fine.

What amuses me is that the Con party when they were previously a "government" agitated for an enlarged EU community. (Probably, in attempts to sabotage its development ) Many thought it to early to do so and would have preferred for a period of consolidation, review and modification of the "constitution" with further and closer integration.)

Of course, hand bag politics for party purposes took over.

However then the UK did have more clout than now.

I was reminded in Paris that little Britain is a little island off shore of Europe and getting less and less important and relevant.

All the prancing and blustering of Cameron for the right wing of the con party and his faint hope of political future are being recognised for what they are, and being dismissed by Europe as a whole. Probably there are a few far right winged and neo-fascist groups who may support him. (They have the same taste in perfume.)

However, many more in Europe would be happy to see the back of Cameron and prepared for the exit of the UK from the Union, if it was prepared to do so.

However, if that was likely to occur Cameron and his cronies would do another U-Turn.