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.

Here we are Alders should help you plus read the replys underneath.

I tend to go for about 60/40 on SBets, it all depends on your personal circumstances.

http://moneyweek.com/are-cfds-better-than-spread-bets-11506/

oh dear, Labour have fielded a political pygmy on QT tonight.

So far he's refused to confirm if he will rebel over HS2, resorted to 'chip on t'shoulder' class name calling (gold finger will have been pounding the table with glee at this juncture) and suggesting that the we should all boycott the World Cup in 2018 as appropriate retaliation for invading another sovereign country (Scotland of course won't have to worry about boycotting anything as they don't really have a football team).

QT also had a "teacher" who purports to spend 60% of her time doing admin/ticking boxes etc.

Now I know it's all the tories fault, but 60%?

A teachers contracted hours were as follows when I was with Kirklees Council LMS Education Dept... It was the same all over the country and I still think it is.


32.5 hours per week.

SPLIT

27.5 hours teaching time in the classroom

5 hours non- contact time in the staff room...............................................

I think that teacher on QT said she did 60 hours per week

20 hours in the class room.

40 hours filling in forms and ticking papers.

Must admit all that form filling sounds well over the top but lets not forget plenty of people on the staff working in the Private Sector are contracted do a 38 hour week but end up doing sometimes double that with no overtime paid. Retail and Distribution management, Local Authority workers springs to mind. Their are many others. (usualy dont have Unions)

So teachers arent the only ones who work well over their contracted hours for no pay. In fact they are lucky that they can take work home and do it in the comfourts of their own home. Others cannot.

But I think her main point was that the 40 hours filling in forms was a waste and some of it should have been working in the classroom. She was blaming education reform.

Nice one GF on your SB post. You can be a nice guy now and again :O)

Im always nice Chris, its just one person on some threads who as an agenda against me (for agreeing with another poster HERE on certain subjects, not all) distorting my profile and character.

In fact a character assassination one which would say is akin to being trolled. And we all know who that is dont we!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GF.

Thank you for the information regarding your trading.

Interesting.

Have to admit to reducing stakes and widening stops and watching a lot more than dabbling.

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I thought the only panellist on QT with "sense" was Val McDermid. It was otherwise the usual party mantras and Andy Burnham for an intelligent man comes over to me as wishy washy.

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and "This Week" I do wish Andrew would shut up sometimes and giggles bag would sit on a different couch.

Liam Halligan was interesting slant on Russian intentions!

But I do wonder why I watch it.

Update - Labour lead at 5
by YouGov in Politics
Fri March 21, 2014 6 a.m. GMT

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 20th March - Con 34%, Lab 39%, LD 10%, UKIP 10%;

Of course the Labour party loves the poor and unemployed.

Why else would they have created so many of them?

I realised last night why Porky enthused about the new pound.

It was because he had heard of coin clipping of gold "coins" and was collecting all the offcuts of the present £1 piece debasing its value.

Somebody tell him they are no longer made of gold.

Yep thats the problem labour lead at a constant 5% to 6% all the time.

Thats going to be a lot harder to overturn than some think getting nearer to the election.

Gone are the days of big leads for either of the 2 major partys, both are fighting for the same middle ground and even tho its Bullingdon Boys V Brown Owl boys neither will veer away from that sacred middle ground and back to the extremes of yester year.

Are we heading for a new big bang?





House prices really are exploding! Tiny Second World War gun tower with no running water, toilet or parking is sold for £200,000

Ten foot wide property, part of wartime sea defences, only has outside tap
Interest generated by building's location in upmarket Shaldon, Devon
Estate agents say the seaside building has beautiful views of the coast
Buyers attracted by potential to turn it into a one-bedroom holiday home

By Richard Spillett

PUBLISHED: 12:31, 20 March 2014 | UPDATED: 16:29, 20 March 2014








More tripe here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2585149/Second-World-War-gun-tower-no-running-water-toilet-parking-sold-200-000.html

Hays post...........sheer ignorance. if thats the way the Tories are now thinking along with Shapps gaff, labour will be in power for many years to come.

From 'Nightmare! He refuses to obey orders': Leaked emails reveal what Ed Miliband REALLY thinks of Ed Balls

Emails sent last week reveal the Miliband's team think Balls is a 'nightmare'
Show Labour leader is sick of shadow chancellor's refusal to obey orders
Sent on Wednesday in response to Bank of England Governor Mark Carney’s announcement that economic recovery had taken hold
Pair have long denied reports of personal and political tensions

Max one bed roomed holiday home.........what for a midget. Doesnt look big enough to swing a cat round in.

Hays seems to forget theirs people following Gove in the Tory party ready with a dagger behind 'call me daves back'.

Far worse than any riff between the 2 Eds............

Perhaphs its his effective exclusion here from this thread thats now getting to him.

Ed Miliband's Budget speech was 'repetitive' admits Labour

Labour has conceded that Ed Miliband’s response to the Budget was “repetitive” after it emerged that large parts of his speech were lifted from previous yearsEyebrows were raised about why Ed Balls, the shadow Chancellor, did not appear to pass any notes to Mr Miliband to help with his response during the Budget.

Later Mr Balls told journalists that Mr Miliband had had to discard pages of his speech because of announcements that never came.

Labour had expected measures to lift the tax burden on lower and middle income families after reading and believing speculation by journalists on Twitter.

Insiders spoke of “panic” in the office of Mr Miliband in the hours leading up to his speech as advisers worried about how to respond to the Chancellor’s speech.

Separately, new research on Wednesday, published after he had spoken, showed a fall in Mr Miliband’s standing among voters.

A poll by Edelman on Wednesday evening – hours after Mr Miliband sat down – found that trust in Labour has fallen by a quarter to 31 per cent since January.

The poll found that only 23 per cent now trust the Labour leader, a drop of 10 per cent since January.

One in five people said the Budget had reduced their trust in his ability to manage the economy.

ahhhhhhh but look deeper Hays........Emails sent last week reveal the Miliband's team

petty anyway when the tory party are on the brink of imploding.

Twitter blunder that left Ed lost for words: Miliband's response flopped because he based it on predictions from social networking site

Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls revealed his leader had to tear up large sections of his speech when Twitter rumours proved false
He said Mr Miliband hastily inserted jibes about Michael Gove's attack on Etonian influence in Downing Street
Mr Miliband was widely criticised for spending 16 minutes reading out political attack lines while barely mentioning the content of the Budget

Ed Miliband’s Budget response flopped yesterday because he had based it on misleading predictions on Twitter, according to Ed Balls.