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.

immigration
very interesting comment in today's ST by the founder of Big Issue who says that 1/3 of their "employees" are from eastern europe and primarily from the roma communities

he is scathing about labour's open-door policy, saying more should be (have been) done to help them out of poverty in their own countries

Minister apologises for 'crude' Nigel Farage comment

Anna Soubry apologises for comments made on breakfast television described by Nigel Farage as a "foul-mouthed attack"




Anna Soubry, MP for Broxtowe, left, and UKIP leader Nigel Farage Photo: REX




By Matthew Holehouse, Political Correspondent

1:16PM GMT 22 Dec 2013



A defence minister has apologised after making a crude personal remark about the leader of United Kingdom Independence Party on breakfast television.


Anna Soubry, the minister responsible for veterans and soldiers' welfare, made the unprompted comments about Nigel Farage on the BBC Andrew Marr show shortly before 10am.


After Rory Bremner, the impressionist, impersonated David Cameron and Nigel Farage, she quipped: "I always think he looks like somebody has put their finger up his bottom and he really rather likes it’."


Mr Farage was unamused, and said the Conservative Party should be "deeply embarrassed" about the "foul-mouthed attack".


"Soubry has stooped to the levels of crudity that any politician would spend a life time apologising for. This is supposed to be a professional woman representing her political party on a national television programme on a Sunday morning," he said.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/10533408/Minister-apologises-for-crude-Nigel-Farage-comment.html

tons of prudery on immigration subject as usual short sighted.true is the system do not be abused should be upgraded with no hard feelings in mind.there shouldn't be any excuse for keeping on board lazy/fraud masses.. thus let them swim off..:)
I can imagine they got no idea how to override equality issue between inbound lazy/fraud masses and born bread lazy/fraud masses..

The comments about Garage were quite funny. He did say that he wouldn't hold his breath waiting for an apology.

At least on this occasion Soubry she seems to have formed a reasonable opinion of Farage.

While, Manuel seems to pay scant attention to information provided by others, dismisses opinions out of hand, basing his decisions more often than not, on personal bias rather than actual knowledge.

One thing which appears to me, is that his postings are becoming woollier and woollier.

I wonder sometimes whether his father was a goat or an old ram.

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Hazyone,

You seem to be a man of the Polls.

Do a poll on who the voters would prefer and think would make the public would prefer as PM or Chancellor at the moment,

Cable for PM against Cameroon?

Cable for Chancellor against Porky?

Might be an interesting result.

Cable would be a terrible Chancellor and luckily he stands no chance of getting the job.

Should charity bosses be paid six-figure salaries?

New research reveals that the number of chief executives receiving six-figure salaries at the 14 leading foreign aid charities has risen by 60% in three years. Do they deserve it?


theguardian.com, Sunday 22 December 2013 12.15 GMT


Theres no story with this article, it looks to be an excuse for DEBATE.

READ THE COMMENTS:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/poll/2013/dec/22/charity-bosses-six-figure-salaries

fawlty - we have no idea who or what your parents were, but it is abundantly clear to all that you're closer to the bull than the tail I sometimes cook ..... i'll re-phrase that so you'll understand it ..... i think you're an absolute arsehole (and it takes one to know one) and i'm amazed how many here concur with that view

that is why I rarely bother to read any of the hopelessly partisan nonsense you post here, for we all know exactly from where it's angled, and if anyone disagrees with you - which most seem to - then they are classed by you as being total buffoons or worse

oh dear; we're so upset we'll all go into the garden and eat worms - hahaha!

"The Conservative MP Anna Soubry has rekindled her war of words with Ukip leader Nigel Farage by suggesting that his often animated facial expressions come from the fact that someone has “put their finger up his bottom”.

Unbelievable that coming from Soubry, as anyone watched her in the house of commons, she pulls the most ridiculous faces and is such a silly women.

Always sits on the top right hand side on the back row, you cant miss her. What an ass licker of an MP she is.

Cant stand her.

Cynic.

Returning to form.

Doesn't read the post but forms an instant opinion about the contents.

But I admit to thinking of you as a buffoon and would suppose you know more about the orifice you often seem speak through than I do.

By the way I knew both my parents. Did you?

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GF.

Similar opinion of the lady concerned.

Would add McEvey to list of torrid lovelies.

surprisingly, it doesn't take long to recognise an arsehole and what it produces, so further intimate inspection is not required, unless you are of the type who really cannot believe its own eyes after the first several investigations

strangely some arseholes cannot recognise themselves even when viewed daily in the mirror

Is your opinion based on, or reflection, or formulated by experiences at your old school and past.


Just asking?

mine is a carefully considered opinion of you having watched you here for the last 1/2/3 years

i may not write very eloquently, but then i lack your suave, pontificating pomposity that you have honed over the years .... on the other hand, my meaning is clear and set out with brevity

merry xmas.

I SEE MARKS AS KILLED THE TURKEY WILL NEVER GO IN THEIR STORES AGAIN
a company run by filthy management with no brains .the CEO WILL RESIGN NEXT YEAR AND A PROFIT WARNING COMING

a company by filthy what?

Merry christmas TANKER.

Dave Camoron ‏@EtonOldBoys 1h
The last time The Red Cross provided Emergency Food Aid in the UK was during World War II, something for the Tories to be very proud of

goldfinger mery xmas to you and a great new year
and your family

my family have shopped in M/S for as long as I can go back
we will now BOYCOTT the stores . will never go in again disgusted .