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.

Were still in front you plonker.

Same happened a few weeks back, soon up to 8 plus again.

Tory back benches 80 plus going for Camorons throat over Europe later this week.

Labour lead of 10 plus again.......EASY.

'Which Religion Cares Most About The Homeless?': Man Divides Begging Bowls By Faith

This is not a very nice question to ask but is Tanker still with us??? After my days voluntary work I came home quite depleted and just wondering.

If things are on the up an up, more peeps in work, business going gangbusters etc


Why is the social security bill still rising?

One of the causes is that the biggest component of the social security bill is pensions and we are living longer. The rise in life expectancy has been faster than expected. This is why there is so much pressure to raise the pension age.

I suspect Max means the Welfare component of the Social Security bill and the answer is part time workers having their wages topped up with tax Credits ie those who work 16 hours or less because the boss is too mean to set them on for more hours.

Plus the debate discussed this evening where IDS and Co are fiddling the unemployment figures going up to election by putting more workers on the sick a far higher paid benefit than job seekers allowance.

Strangely a related topic on news night tonight why are British workers so low in productivity.....again part time hours.

sticky - can't be bothered to wade through the latest verbiage, but i don't think you contradicted any point i made yesterday evening, and more to the point, as far as i can see, "your mob" did nothing at all to reverse what you now see as iniquity - but such is generally the case with the opposition when they come to power

topped up with tax Credits ie those who work 16 hours or less because the boss is too mean to set them on for more hours.
i sit in open-mouthed amazement that you (sticky) could make such a preposterous remark .... it really does beggar belief

Ohh shut up.

PATHETIC.........

Twitter parody accounts critical of government closed down on same day gagging law passes
29 Wednesday Jan 2014
Posted by Tom Pride in hopeless naivety ≈ Leave a Comment
TagsCoalition, open government
(not satire – it’s the UK today!)

Yesterday the government’s gagging law was passed by the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats – marking yet another nail in the coffin for freedom of speech in Britain.

And as if to celebrate the occasion, three parody accounts that were critical of coalition policies were closed down on Twitter after complaints from government officials.

@UKJCP – a satirical account parodying the DWP, @IDS_MP – a parody account of Iain Duncan Smith and @Skip_Licker – another satirical account were all suspended by Twitter.

Here’s a direct warning from the Department for Work and Pensions to @UKJCP just a week before it was shut down:

DWP shuts down satire

“it is not satire”. So now we’ve not just got government departments deciding what forms of public criticism are acceptable, but also deciding for us what exactly is humorous and what isn’t.

This country’s getting more and more like China every day.

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You can follow the new incarnations of @UKJCP on Twitter at @DeadParrotJCP and @Director_UKJCP.

Please feel free to comment.

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3 M.

There is little difference between Haze and the Tanker.

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Osborne's policy is at last working after 4 years mismanagement.

The "recovery" could have started "continued" 4 years ago, he and Cameron strangled it for political ideology and the faint hope he could hit boom time before the next election.

Manufacturing and exports are still below levels of 2007.

The financial services are stoking up new problems and Cameron and clique have not provided the regulations to contain the markets.

The housing ramping is putting the money into London and not across the board and into the pockets of those who have it.

NHS is beginning to fail as it did in Thatcher's period.

I will stop, without remarking about the supposed Welfare "reforms".

The list is endless.

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But think Haze has replace his religious "belief" with a belief in "Atheism" or belief in simplistic Darwinian concepts.

et tu brute :-) ..... at least i think you know when you're being a silly billy :-))

by the way, i know it's a real heavyweight, but i think you should look at SHP and GS's strong upgrade

i also remain strongly of the belief that iron ore and other connected metal prices will rise this year, despite chinese manipulation ..... therefore BLT remains my pick

Hmmm but what about excess inventory I keep reading about on US sites??.

it's actually china not usa that controls much of this, but certainly the consensus in our industry is pretty much unanimous that stainless prices will rise this year, and perhaps quite significantly

Hmmmmmm BLT ehhhhh ....looking.

Firm resistance at £20 and £22 ....thinking it over.

Update - Labour lead at 3
by YouGov in Politics
Wed January 29, 2014 6 a.m. GMT

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 28th January - Con 34%, Lab 37%, LD 9%, UKIP 12%;

The Labour party is to call on the government to issue an apology for the conduct of Margaret Thatcher's administration during the miners' strike of 1984-85, after recently released Whitehall papers showed a secret plan to close 75 pits.

In a sign of how Ed Miliband is returning the Labour party to its traditional roots, the shadow cabinet office minister Michael Dugher will say that the "shocking" conduct of the Conservative government warranted an apology.

Dugher will challenge the cabinet office minister Francis Maude to apologise in the House of Commons after Whitehall papers released under the 30-year rule showed that the Thatcher government considered deploying troops at the height of the strike, which lasted from March 1984 to March 1985.

The move by Labour will be seen as one of the most controversial attempts by the party to distance itself from its recent past under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown because the high court ruled in 1984 that the National Union of Mineworkers broke its own constitution by failing to hold a ballot. Arthur Scargill, the NUM president, was fined and the union's assets were sequestere

Neil Kinnock, the Labour leader during the strike who criticised the "suicidal vanity" of Scargill, said in 2009 that he regretted not calling publicly for a national strike ballot.

Lord Tebbit, the trade and industry secretary during the strike who featured in the recent Whitehall papers, said on Tuesday night: "This is plain absurd. Next they'll want an apology for freeing the Falklands. I presume Ed Miliband is doing this in order to get some more money from Unite.

"My recollection is that the police were principally used to protect miners who wanted to go to work but who were being prevented from doing so by Arthur Scargill's hate mob. Neither Labour nor Scargill has ever apologised for that. I trust the government will merely laugh at this ridiculous campaign."

Just about sums it up: