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.

Right Ill have a look at RTN and FXT but please Cyners make sure I am aware.

You dont seem to have done this, i have.

Our e- mails work now so you could kindly please.

cheers.gf.

Has this suddenly become a share ramping thread? In that case, you guys should buy shedloads of COMS. :-)

gf

Bad news for you. Guardian for tomorrow morning

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jan/13/support-labour-shrinks-economic-recovery-icm-poll

Support for Labour shrinks as faith in recovery grows, ICM poll finds

Labour drops two points to 35% - three points ahead of Tories – as more people express optimism about their financial position

Support for Labour is sinking as faith in the UK's economic recovery builds, according to a new Guardian/ICM poll.

Ed Miliband's party drops two points on the month to stand at 35%, which is just three points ahead of David Cameron's Conservatives, who stand still on 32%. Labour's lead in the Guardian's respected 30-year polling series is thus squeezed to three percentage points, down from five last month and eight points in November.

The Liberal Democrats climb two, to reach 14%, and Ukip edges up one, to stand at 10%.

The scores of both the main government and opposition parties are now back to where they were last August, before Miliband's popular conference promise to freeze domestic fuel bills.

The economic news since has mostly been positive since, with falling inflation as well as unemployment, which could reduce the resonance of Labour's "cost of living crisis" pitch.

electionista ‏@electionista 4h
UK - YouGov/Sun poll:

CON 33%
LAB 38%
LDEM 11%
UKIP 12%

No way are the LIB/DEMS on 14% even you know that Hays.

These rouge polls occur every now and again.

a rouge poll?
i thought that was a euphemism for an old trollop in 17th century!

europe
phew! strong article in today's FT is worth reading .... not exactly pro DC!

Whats the gist?

this is the headline, but the article is worth reading in its own right .... if you're one of the rabid from either side, it won't make much difference

Cameron’s EU referendum gamble has failed
By Janan Ganesh
Eurosceptics keep winning concessions they said were ‘final’ before demanding more

35368 - the trouble with that ICM poll (in the grauniad) is that a mere 1005 people were polled, so all in all, just as meaningless as all other such polls ..... however, if that sort of result is produced consistently, then it certainly indicates that labour is losing its grip, not that it was ever very convincing

read the comment section....the brothers and sisters are in a perfect rage.

they think energy comes from windmills.


http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cartoon/2014/jan/13/david-cameron-shale-gas-fracking-steve-bell

on balance, i am in favour of fracking - and yes i do have a little more vicarious knowledge in that field than most of the idiot rent-a-mob
from what i can see in dorset - i forget the precise site (wych farm?) - with proper care and attention, these sites do not intrude on the countryside, very much unlike those accursed turbines

Sums up Cameron and his Con Party.

Hear one of the new F. Sites is Chipping Norton.

Going down well with the locals.

Lot of vans taking the money and leaving for South of France.

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Inflation has fallen to its 2% target.

Why?

lower fuel prices will have had a significant effect

Because food inflation has slowed faster than expected.

BBC
The UK inflation rate as measured by the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) fell to 2% in December from 2.1% the month before, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

It is the first time since November 2009 that inflation has been at or below the 2% target set by the government.

The ONS said the change was caused by a slowdown in the increase of fruit and meat prices.

Why?