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.

Here they come, no doubt plane loads. His Mrs will be over soon, pregnant , and claim a council house.

As restrictions on the UK labour market were lifted today, Victor Spiresau (centre and right) has flown into Britain and plans to work in a London car wash so he can send cash back to his family in Transylvania. The 30-year-old, who earns 10 euros a day in Romania said: 'I don't come to rob your country. I come to work and then go home. My wife hopes to see me with a lot of money.' Labour's Keith Vaz was waiting for him and others in the arrivals hall at Luton Airport this morning and even bought some a cup of coffee. The MP for Leicester East also suggested there should be a referendum on how many EU migrants are allowed to come to the UK.

Will he have NI and tax deducted from his weekly pay packet. :-)) The local car washes round these parts only accept cash.

Run for those hills you Tories, run for those hills -):

A Labour MP is greeting them.

Run... for pete sake run.

Interesting comments!


"Current working Government Majority......75"

It nice to know some of them are working. A little like some immigrants.


"but merely because i could not see a purpose in being a member"


I am glad to see you are realising your impotence at last.


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a bad non seq stan :-)

and typical stupid and meaningless comment from fossy

Manuel.

I do hope you are referring to the Fosse Way of Imperial Rome, which was responsible for successful incursions across England.

But who knows what the thinker thinks, or if he thinks, or has whether he has the ability to think at all.

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But, Manuel a simple question for you to ponder over:


"Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?" ~Winnie the Pooh

The Conservatives should embrace a yes vote for Scottish independence now

Britain has fought many wars over self-determination, so independence for Scotland should not be treated as a privilege


Simon Jenkins


The Guardian, Tuesday 31 December 2013





This could be the year that Great Britain comes to an end. The prospect is historically momentous. Yet it is one that appears to evoke nothing more than a yawn from most English people. The reason, I assume, is that to them it does not much matter. They have moved on from such things.

We tend to forget that the confederacy to which most of us owe loyalty – the United Kingdom – was invented only in 1801 and lasted until 1922. The so-called UK survives only by the thread of Northern Ireland. As for Great Britain, it was a joint monarchy declared by James I in 1604, generously embracing Ireland and France. It became a single state under one parliament only in 1707 (without Ireland, then still a colony). If the Scots do vote for independence in this year's referendum there will doubtless be some new treaty to replace the act of union, but Great Britain will be no more.



More: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/31/conservatives-embrace-yes-vote-scottish-independence

i think i think or at least i always thought i thought and as i am i must think i think for which i think i thank descartes

Thought for the day for M and H.

Many people believe that they are think when they are merely actually are rearranging their prejudices.
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Those who attempt to think sometimes recognise their beliefs and prejudices and the limitations of those judgements and themselves, thus possibly allowing them at least the satisfaction of reconsideration and rearrangement of their prejudices once in a while.

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One question is what is prejudice attempting to protect one from?


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I look at the list to see if the Hazy one had got a gong for fawning to Wavey Dave and party HQ.

But alas couldn't see his name!

i think many learn their prejudices from their mother's knee, which is why their prejudiced utterances become their stocking trade

of course, other prejudices are not prejudices at all, except in the prejudiced eyes of others
these sogenannte prejudices may actually be the result of thinking about others' prejudices and then formulating their own
as time goes by, these prejudices may be perceived as prejudices by the holder of those prejudices, so they may move
in such a case, the holder will judge that his previous prejudices were indeed prejudices whereas the new positions are well thought out thoughts, or at least that is what he thinks they are having given much thought
on the other hand, even having thought that his prejudices were prejudices, he may conclude that those prejudices are not prejudices at all, though others may still consider those prejudices prejudices, whereas he thinks those prejudices are indeed the fruit of careful thought

and is there honey still for tea?

“Think to yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of you doing so too.”

Voltaire with a Twist.

"You have been pontificating here too long for the benefit of none but yourself. Depart, we all say, and let us have done with you, and let us enjoy the privilege of you so doing"

the likely opinion of most on this board

Na.

After you Claude!

Political class is to blame for new wave of migrants

AND so it begins. But do not blame the citizens of Romania and Bulgaria for flocking to our shores when our Government has extended an open-ended invitation.

Published: Wed, January 1, 2014

http://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/451430/Political-class-is-to-blame-for-new-wave-of-migrants


Which of us, if unfortunate enough to be born in one of the poorest countries of Eastern Europe, can say we would turn down the offer of access to the jobs market and benefits system of one of the richest countries in Western Europe?

Basic economics dictates that a westward flow of migrants will continue across Europe while the EU’s freedom of movement laws continue to hold sway.

Many of the new arrivals have come with the intention of working and it will not be their fault if the taxes they pay fail to cover the cost of the public services they consume or the welfare state entitlements they take up. Neither will they be to blame if their presence causes further downward pressure on wages or makes it harder for Britain’s unemployed to find work.

The minority – perhaps a sizeable one – of Romanians and Bulgarians who are coming simply to live off benefits deserve less sympathy. But even they are simply taking advantage of a system they did not create.

It was our politicians who did that.

They should not expect forgiveness any time soon.

sorry, but can you enlighten us as to which brand of politicians inaugurated this?
merely curious

Noo Labour, with the tacit agreement of both the other crews.