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.

Today is the second reading of the 2017 referendum bill in the Lords. The debate is on live now on the Parliament channel.

After one day washing cars, migrant quits: Workers say Romanian met by Keith Vaz at Luton airport has vanished

Victor Spirescu was one of first to arrive in UK after border controls lapsed
Workers at Biggleswade car wash said that he disappeared after one day
One newspaper claims he was fired due to publicity surrounding his arrival


By Christian Gysin

PUBLISHED: 00:40, 10 January 2014 | UPDATED: 08:24, 10 January 2014


Romanian migrant Victor Spirescu’s career at a car wash lasted just a day before he quit, it emerged last night.

Spirescu, 30, arrived in Britain on New Year’s Day to be greeted at Luton airport by Labour MP Keith Vaz – the chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Committee.

Spirescu was one of the first to arrive as controls on migrants from Romania and Bulgaria lapsed.





More: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2536881/After-one-day-washing-cars-migrant-quits-Workers-say-Romanian-met-Keith-Vaz-Heathrow-vanished.html

A police officer accused of falsely claiming to have witnessed the Plebgate row today pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey

Pc Keith Wallis, 53, of West Drayton, west London, admitted misconduct in public office between 19 September and 16 December 2012, by saying that he had witnessed the incident and arranging for his nephew to support the claim.

He was charged after he sent an email to Conservative deputy chief whip John Randall, who was his MP, wrongly claiming that he had seen what happened in Downing Street on 19 September 2012.

The court heard that Wallis, from the Metropolitan Police Diplomatic Protection Group, had offered his resignation.

The Met Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said: "His actions have also negatively impacted upon public trust and confidence in the integrity of police officers."

UKippers moving over to support labour.

Must have been Question time last night poor showing from UKIP deputy........

lectionista ‏@electionista 5h
UK - Populus poll:

CON 33%
LAB 40%
LDEM 11%
UKIP 8%

goldfinger

Radio Merseyside , what did you expect

Update - Labour lead at 6
by YouGov in Politics
Fri January 10, 2014 6 a.m. GMT

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 9th January - Con 32%, Lab 38%, LD 9%, UKIP 13%;

Question time.

Nadine Dorries and the UKIPPER went down a bomb.

I suppose they are good representatives of their out of touch parties.

Never heard an audience of QT groan so much.

Bye the way how many Bulgarians and Romanians have invaded the UK since Jan 1st?

Woman claims lawyers should have told her divorce would end her marriage



Seeking damages for professional negligence, the British woman argued that the lawyers should have made it clear that a divorce would result in her marriage being terminated


Tomas Jivanda


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/woman-claims-lawyers-should-have-told-her-divorce-would-end-her-marriage-9051550.html

Friday 10 January 2014

Read the comments:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cartoon/2014/jan/09/labour-lib-dem-nick-clegg-steve-bell

http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/gwentnews/10924880.Driver_hit_98mph_in_30mph_zone_in_Newport/

Please sign the petition, as usual channel 4 focusing on the worst of the worst and portraying this as the norm.

http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/channel-4-channel4-stop-broadcasting-benefits-street-and-make-a-donation-to-a-relevant-charity-for-the-harm-caused

to be somewhat caustic, i don't hear any squawks here when the BBC has some pretty badly left-slanted programme ... for that matter, if right-slanted as perhaps this prog was and/or those on immigration

and talking of bias .....

slavery
the star of this latest film makes me cross
while he is quite right to say that pupils in english schools should understand the role that britain had in the slave trade and how it prospered from it, he and others conveniently choose to forget that the africans themselves had captured and traded slaves with the arabs for centuries .... for them, the english were just another export opportunity

and how about highlighting that britain championed the abolitiopn of slavery?
should one also mention that the likes of thomas jefferson also owned slaves?
and what about the brutality of the belgians in the congo that no one ever mentions?

I see that not only is Cameron and Cronies considering flogging the Railways to the Chinese but flogging off the Gas supply to France.

After this con coalition Cameron EU negotiations will he will have to negotiate with the Chinese.

GHU.

Did you watch the programme Cyners? truly awful and made benefit receipitents out to be thieves hooligans and scummy deadbeats.

They always focus on the worst 1% and misrepresent the other 99%.

Dont forget if your 65 YOU are in receipt of benefits.

no i didn't, but most assuredly wouldn't sign some nonsense petition even if i did .... in fact, i know how difficult it is for genuine cases to get the benefits to which they are or should be entitled .... nevertheless, there is a significant minority who assuredly know how to work and milk the system

as for my "benefits" assuming you leave aside pension, i think it's ridiculous that i am entitled to tax-free winter heating allowance and even some sort of bus pass (somewhere) .... i don't get any other to my knowledge

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fossy - as usual, you're spouting absolute rubbish

I do not wish to intrude cynic but if the government states that over a certain age gets an entitlement for winter fuel whether you are rich or not then take it with the grace which it is given or give it to someone you may know who may be less fortunate than yourself to help them keep warm - there are hundreds and thousands of them out there. Bus pass well I have one but have never used it and hope I never have to use it. If Tony Blair had the balls to be interviewed about his last child and whether or not he would take the child allowance and he stood/sat proud in front of the world and said "Yes" he would then why feel bad???? I rest my case.

Cyners youve forgotten your free TV license.