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.

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electionista ‏@electionista 18m
UK: YouGov #EP2014 poll

LAB 32%
UKIP 26%
CON 23%
LDEM 9%

Would be the first time in British history Tories not in top 2 in a national vote

electionista ‏@electionista
UK - YouGov/Sun poll:

CON 33%
LAB 39%
LDEM 10%
UKIP 12%

The polls appear to be not worth a toss if they can come up with those figs gf.

GF

Who's to blame for the crisis, bankers or benefit claimants?


A well written piece, but you could never expect Manuel or Haze to understand it.

A Manuel with his failing intellect would be unable to concentrate long enough to get past the first paragraph.

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By the time of next election I would expect that the torrid party elite will be fighting like rats in a bag for leadership of party after their failure to be elected to their rightful places.

I wonder what their new years honours list will be.

Cameron and OZ are becoming a comic turn in Europe and at home.

But,, perhaps they are becoming too sad to be funny.

A little like the Tweedledee and Tweedledum of Moneyam, Manuel and Haze.
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It is a beautiful morning in Birmingham.

Must go out for the rest of the day.

8~)

I see goldfinger has been surpassing himself in generating boring posts today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUKMUZ4tlJg&feature=youtube_gdata_player

an interesting snippet for you guys to work up a lather about .....

gleaned from radio this morning .....
apparently the the top 1% of earners in uk contribute 30% of income tax revenue

Labour getting desperate!!

Reeves Forced to Grovel Over Spiteful Vince Cable Attack

Reverse ferret! Rachel Reeves and Chris Bryant have spent the morning grovelling to Vince Cable after their petty attack over the minimum wage backfired in spectacular fashion. Playing politics, the shadow DWP team must have thought they were onto a right wheeze by pointing out that Cable had missed the vote on the National Minimum Wage Bill in 1998. Vince hit back:

“I did not particularly wish to raise this, but I am being asked personally to explain why I did not vote. It had a lot to do with the fact that my late wife was terminally ill at the time and I was in the Royal Marsden hospital. That is why my voting record at the time was poor on that and other issues.”

It has taken almost 24 hours, but finally Labour have backed down:

@RachelReevesMP

I have sent a note to Vince Cable to apologise for saying he abstained on introduction of minimum wage. He was with his wife at hospital.

Chris Bryant @ChrisBryantMP

I too apologise for heckling @vincecable yesterday for not voting on national minimum wage bill. I had no idea of his personal circumstances

Hays,

I think Reeves and Bryant, by their apologies, are just showing common decency.

I realise that is something you may find difficult to recognise.

No what you mean Cynic is that on paper they are meant to contribute 30%. Its no where near this figure and then add on the tax avoidance and tax evasion figure and you can see why we have to have spending cuts.

cynic - 16 Jan 2014 13:53 - 35476 of 35477

an interesting snippet for you guys to work up a lather about .....

gleaned from radio this morning .....
apparently the the top 1% of earners in uk contribute 30% of income tax revenue

and if this had been the reverse, say an unwarranted attack on EB, i bet you'ld have been shrieking and hollering from the rooftops like a banshee

LOL Fred. Mr ignoramus surpassing himself today.

no that is not what was said, nor what i wrote ..... i can't remember the exact source, but it was someone highly reputable

how much more is unpaid though legitimate tax avoidance was not the issue in question .... nor for that matter, did HMRC's ineffectual and half-hearted attempts at bringing to heel those who are evading tax come into the discussion

Then, he/she must have been a member of the CON party.

8-)

totally and utterly wrong again - but no surprise there either

and of course, if the figures are accurate, and i have no reason to suppose they were not, it would have been totally irrelevant if it had been a politician (which it was not) who gave out the info