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.

A story that got little coverage was the EU requirement to have the head office of a bank in the same state as its registered office. This requirement would mean Lloyds and RBS moving their head offices out of Scotland.

Manuel,

Often, I consider you to thick to be bothered with answering your questions.

When you are given answers your response is either abuse or simpleton's response I can't be bother to read the post.

Whether, you vote, or not, is of very little importance to me and even with your obvious intellect I cannot see that it will materially alter things for me or others.

But you do seem fixated with my intentions.

However, if you wish to have a dictatorial state, where Manuel's law dictates to others that they should vote, good luck.

Again I don't think you will have many followers.

But, as an observer, you do seem to overvalue yourself and your opinions very frequently. It would seem to me that you suffer from self grandiosity

You maybe lucky, as you can have treatment many be possible for your condition.

Check with your daughter-in-law.

Alders CEY.......no. Im getting a bit worried about the outcome of the legal action so I moved to ABG late last week.

Mind CEY have had broker BUY updates today, so they might know something I dont.

Certainly will get back in when and If it goes CEY way.

Haze.

Maybe, that is what a lot of said supporters of Ukippers want.


But you can see from the present problem with Russia and the Ukraine the advantages of a more united and coordinated EU would be.

One which is not fragmented by whipper snappers on the periphery.

If Cameron was PM after the next election, he would do everything in his power to stay in the EU. and a lot of the hierarchy around him would do the same and a lot of the said renegotiation would be window dressing. (Do your own homework.)

Farage and his motley crew knows this.

fossy - your gob issues the standard garbage and no answers at all ..... will that surprise anyone? .... assuredly not

The campaign against Scottish independence retained its lead in the latest poll by Ipsos MORI, with the largest gap in favor of staying in the U.K. among female voters and in more affluent areas of the country.

The survey for broadcaster STV found 55 percent of people wanted to keep Scotland in the U.K. with 29 percent in favor of independence and 16 percent undecided. The No vote was unchanged from the company’s poll in December, while the Yes vote slipped two percentage points.

Among women, 59 percent wanted to keep the status quo with 27 percent backing independence versus a split of 54 percent to 38 percent for men, Ipsos MORI said. In richest parts of Scotland, the gap in favor of remaining in the U.K. was 51 percentage points compared with six points in the most deprived areas, the survey found.

Ipsos MORI questioned 1,001 people by telephone on Feb. 20-25. No margin of error was given. For voters who were certain to vote, the gap was 57 percent to 32 percent and when excluding undecided respondents it widened to 67 percent to 33 percent in support of staying in the U.K.

This Pistorius case in South Africa is a case for Hercule Poirot....a case tres difficile I might add....I reckon he shot his partner in a temper perhaps trying to scare her terribly in a moment of rage confident of missing her and perhaps after the first bullet hit her then realising he had to finish her.....drugs perhaps or alcohol....?....4 bullets fired....would anybody fire four bullets into your own toilet/bathroom ?...insane....the danger of the wrong people owning guns once again....

The danger of anyone owning guns!

I reckon your absolutely right rf, they had a row, she locked herself in the loo for safety and he was in such a rage that he lost the plot. He seems to be quite a creep really, I remember when he didn't win his second gold medal at the Olympics and threw a hissy fit, complaining about the guy who beat him supposedly having blades which were illegal. I think he was tested for drugs and alcohol after he was arrested and both tests proved negative. His defence council seems to be doing a good job at the moment, unfortunately.

I think you have hit the nail on the head rf.


But guns dont kill anyone, as you well know, it's the loon behind the gun that's does the damage.

Yesterday there was evidence about when he discharged a gun in a restaurant and injured his friend in the foot and tried to get someone else to take responsibility. That was a month before shooting girlfriend.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/05/oscar-pistorius-gun-shot-restaurant-reeva-steenkamp-trial

In my eyes hes as guilty as sin.

No ifs and buts, you can tell hes a hot head.

Been like that on the track for last 10 years.

Hays tonight......7.30 on ITV The Rise Of The Working Poor.

Forget watching Eastenders and your favorite soap actor cockney thug.... Phil Mitchel.

I wonder if Pretorius has been on the steroids. They can make you aggressive.

Hazie,

How do you know?

I thought you would be a 5 st. weakling.

Hays - STV headlines just now, Aberdeen City Council are enclosing a letter with Council Tax updates on the benefits of staying in the UK. Mr Salmond won't be impressed with that. :O)

The raison d'être of the SNP is leaving the UK. If Salmond loses badly in the referendum, what will become of him and the SNP? How long before the next push for a referendum? They can't have one every year. Would gap of a generation be enough?

Is it time to tell the yanks to f/off?



Ukraine crisis: US imposes first sanctions on Russians

US senator warns Britain that sanctions are "a test" of transatlantic relationship




Senator Chris Murphy, the chair of the Senate's Europe committee, warned Britain and other European nations that the US expected them to take a stronger stand against Moscow Photo: GETTY IMAGES


Raf Sanchez
By Raf Sanchez, Peter Foster in Washington

5:24PM GMT 06 Mar 2014


The US has imposed travel bans on Russian and Ukrainian officials deemed responsible for the Crimean crisis as a leading senator warned the British government that its willingness to place sanctions would be "a test" of the transatlantic relationship.


In its first sanctions since Russian forces seized control of Crimea, the White House announced visa restrictions banning "those who are most directly involved in destabilising Ukraine" from entering the US.


The Obama administration also granted itself powers to freeze the assets of individuals and companies involved in the Russian invasion, but said it had not yet put those sanctions in place.


"Anybody involved or complicit in activities that threaten the sovereignty, territorial integrity or stability of Ukraine is on notice that they may be targeted for US sanctions," a White House official said.


The American sanctions can also be extended to the subordinates of any Russian or Ukrainian officials judged to be responsible for the incursion.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10681360/Ukraine-crisis-US-imposes-first-sanctions-on-Russians.html

I think the US is right. We need to confront aggression and not ignore it. Ukraine may be in the balance. Putin could take advantage of weakness. The appeasement prior to WWII was partly responsible to Hitler thinking he could get away with his expansionism.

Aberdeen City Council has been accused of "promoting a No vote" in September's independence referendum by endorsing Scotland's membership of the UK in a letter circulated to council tax payers.

In a message outlining the council's budget plans, leader Barney Crockett writes:

"The Council's position is clear,as we agreed in our meeting in December last year we recognise that Aberdeen is stronger now and will be stronger in the future - economically, politically and socially - as a partner in the United Kingdom."

The statement goes on to attack the Scottish Government for giving the city council the lowest grant of any local authority in Scotland, saying: "This cannot be acceptable."

Mark McDonald, SNP MSP for Aberdeen Donside, accused the council of using public money to support the No campaign and claimed the Labour-led coalition running the city was "out of control."

He said "I have demanded to know who authorised the approach and that the Chief Executive must intervene to ensure that this attempt to misuse council resources is stopped.

"The simple truth is that this would be a grotesque misuse of council resources by the council leader, attempting to influence the voting behaviour of the citizens of Aberdeen and using local authority money to pay for it."

The row is the latest in a series of confrontations between the Scottish Government and the city council.

On Wednesday Labour councillor Willie Young suggested a motion calling for First Minister Alex Salmond to be banned from all council-owned facilities.

Mr Young claimed the First Minister "abused his position" by visiting Bramble Brae Primary school in the run-up to the Donside by-election last year.

He said: "Our relationship with the Scottish Government has reached an all-time low and all we are saying to Mr Salmond and his ministers is that Aberdeen doesn't want you here."

SNP councillors responded by proposing a motion of no confidence in Mr Young in his capacity as finance convenor. The motion was ruled incompetent and not debated.

(City council leader Barney Crockett and Donside MSP Mark McDonald discussed the row on Scotland Tonight on Thursday.).