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.

i rather thought that might be the case ..... more a case of a plague on all their houses

I am sure I know somebody.

The comments are interesting:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cartoon/2014/jan/05/martin-rowson-cartoon-michael-gove

what i find interesting in syria is that, as far as i can determine, (western) support has now switched back to the assad regime, presumably on the basis that the al-qaeda-led opposition is an even worse and more dangerous prospect ..... quelle surprise!

It was said at the time that the woman was an estate agent. This is a non story. What difference does it make what job she had.

H, I think the point is that she was not your typical struggling to get on the housing ladder person, I mean a £33K car. DC should have checked or had it checked out.
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Syria has got a lot worse since Miliband blocked the action against chemical weapons. Had he agreed then Obama would probably not sought support in his own government. The resultant action would have crushed Assad's military infrastructure by destroying command and control systems.

The lack of that action was taken as a lack of resolve by the West. Al Qaeda rushed in to take advantage of the hesitation by the rebels. I put the present situation down to a cowardly and self serving Miliband. I can tell you that the intelligence services here and in the US are of a similar opinion.

that's nonsense hays ..... al quaeda were already well embedded on the one side (so-called rebels) with, i am pretty certain, hezbollah on the other (assad)

The all Qaeda groups had not become so organised as they are now. They operate under a group called ISIS. As ISIS gains territory they are imposing sharia law and killing the original rebels. The lack of intervention by other countries has emboldened the jihadists. There was a critical turning point when the West failed to act.

who told you that? .... sorry old bean, but you really are talking rubbish

I've just been watching news coverage of people trying to get a close look at the waves crashing off sea fronts - are they completely bonkers? Other people in cars trying to drive down flooded roads with signs saying "ROAD CLOSED". Perhaps I've just lost my sense of adventure.:-)

I blame the Cameroon for the weather and mess.

I thought he could walk on water.

He can't even stop a drop of rain.

Useless.

I will never vote for him!

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he's usually ok on water a few months after easter .... must be the wrong kind of water

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What exactly is the problem with you right wing "Con" Party people on here?.. Almost to a man you do nothing but constantly moan, winge, accuse, insult and generally act like 3 year olds... It's a new year, so for christ sake promise us that you will try and buck up this year will you?

Your so funny Stan i can't stop crying

Hays,

If Cameron had won his vote, which he didn't by 285-272, I don't think Obama would have "gone in" to Syria.

I think he read the Syria problem as confused and the involvement would have been for another 5-10 years, "due rules of engagement". The last thing the USA wants.


He had seen the stupidity of Blair and Bush going into Iraq and Afghanistan and certainly the majority of Americans and British didn't want another LOVELY WAR.

Mind the "up and at them" brigade of Cons and UKIPs, who would be prepared to send others to their "patriotic" deaths may "feel" or responded differently.

I think Miliband was correct in his action and Cameron showed his own usual ineptitude.