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.

Manuel,

Thank you for you opinion.

Go back to waitering at table.

But button up your mouth as you unlikely to get above the minimum wage and have to rely on tips.

The monthly Ipsos MORI poll for the Standard is out today and has topline voting intention figures of CON 32%(+1), LAB 35%(-3), LDEM 13%(+1), UKIP 11%(+1). Full tabs are here.


A labour majority of 50seats?

Fri March 14, 2014 6 a.m. GMT

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 13th March - Con 33%, Lab 38%, LD 11%, UKIP 10%; APP -21

Labour majority 60 seats.

don't be so bloody stupid!
even with the current skewed constituency lines, no (overall) majority of any kind is possible with just 35% of the vote - nor even 38%

perhaps you should go back to preaching to the uneducated and gullible peasants as the jesuits and catholics have done for centuries

I can't understand why Ukraine became so important these days.

As I understand Ukraine is a bankrupt country, which is and will be a liability for any country that overtake it (Europe, Russia, or combined). Without external fund, it will go down in a couple of months.

It is not clear who has done wrong during this revolution, European and Germans for supporting the protestors to remove the government or Russian by giving moral support and probably military support to people in Crima.

If we believe that history has any value, Kiev should thank Russia for keeping people in that part of the country busy over these period. These guys would most likely cause huge problems for the new government. I think, If Russia wouldn't support them, they would probably go against Kiev and cause bloodshed, like Egypt, Libya, and Syria, ....

Isn't the Ukraine crisis and that aircraft disappearance more important than the bloody opinion polls !.....jesus....give me strength....

missing plane
it's starting to look as though there may well have been someone rather important - in some field to some country - on that flight as there was a great deal of expertise and detailed planning to the operation


crimea and ukraine
some complicated sub-plot here, presumably to test the resolve and reaction of eu and usa
no doubt china (+ north vietnam) will be watching with great interest

meanwhile, it is clear that there will indeed be a referendum in crimea tomorrow, with it being a racing certainty that crimea will want to split from ukraine and join russia (as instructed!)
the big question then becomes, and now what?

Agreed, God should help and guide us all.

Any revolution over last 40 years ended up in disastrous consequences for the country and its people. Probably, the west should take care of Kiev and Russia look after Crimea. Everybody will be ok and the situation will be better, much better than Afghanistan and Iraq, never mind Iran, and Egypt or Libya..

UN was designed to make peace in the world, and provide help and support for the people regardless of their nationality, religion, etc, etc.

Ahoj,

Who wants England?

http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/debtclock/

If Europe (Germans, Sweden or Britons) is happy to pay Kiev to survive, they should go ahead.

i somehow don't think it's quite that simple :-)
for starters, i hardly think russia will take it kindly if "the west" annexes ukraine, not least because of the prime russian naval base at sevastopol

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PS - who wants fossy? .... clearly no one

I bet they would wince if you turned up.

If you turned up Fred it would be Lynch

The Island were they think the plane was heading for has an international airport . just had a look on Google earth.

Irony of the week

Posted on March 15, 2014 by Rev. Stuart Campbell

http://wingsoverscotland.com/irony-of-the-week/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=irony-of-the-week


Conservative MP for Carlisle John Stevenson has drawn up a “10-Minute Rule” bill proposing that should Scotland vote Yes in September, citizens of Scotland should be barred from voting in the 2015 UK general election, even though at that point it’ll still be at least a year until Scotland is actually independent.

It’s not an unreasonable point – we’ve previously noted the constitutional chaos that could arise from that election going ahead after a Yes vote. But we couldn’t help but smile at the MP’s outraged justification for the step:

“You just can’t have your government chosen by the citizens of another country.”

We couldn’t agree more, Mr Stevenson.

Agreed Max.
Who should we complain to?

What will the Union Jack look like without the Scottish flag in it?

much less messy :-)

cynic
The numbers of MPs above are not mine. They are projections by a professor at Oxford. They don't show an overall majority.

i was writing about fossy's tosh on posts 38231 and 38232

OK. I don't see his posts.

Presumably after independence Scotland won't be able to do the lottery. There must be quite a few things like that once they are a foreign country.

Anyone crossing the border would need travel insurance and what would happen to health care.

If the two countries don't have synchronised tax laws such as VAT, there will be smuggling across the border as there is and has been across the Irish border. Cigarettes, booze such as Whisky.