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.

Hays which form of Question Time were you watching?????????

Hain won hands down.

The conservative was like a fringe party representative.

QT

Thought Vince Cable done well to explain the Royal mail share price case.

Hain was poor

That fat lefty so called Feminist campaigner was gross

The other young woman was about the best.

The black fellow was ok , but he let some of the other's talk over him

Did someone say Cleggy didn't do to bad aganist Farage , think it was Hain

The serial killer who murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler has been awarded a £4,500 payout after being assaulted in prison.

The Ministry of Justice said it is "hugely disappointed" by the judge's decision.

Levi Bellfield was attacked by a fellow prisoner with a makeshift weapon in 2009 at Wakefield Prison before he went on trial for the murder of 13-year-old Milly.

He is believed to have suffered minor injuries but launched legal action claiming that prison staff should have protected him, the Daily Mirror reported.

How many of Cameron mates have "resigned" from his cabinet or government positions?

How many of his "mates" are having "enquiries", police enquiries or appearing in court at the moment.

Tory HQ is beginning to sound to me, more like the Mafia Lodge Meeting!

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This government is in almost complete disarray.

Hays

It won't matter if UKIP get more votes than the Libs. They still won't get any MPs

But it will matter in Europe and that is were the power is now , and UKIP will have more Euro MP's then the LIB/DEM's in the Euro election's

Iain Duncan Smith MP ‏@IDS_MP

This government WILL NOT TOLERATE Liars, Thieves and Fraudsters .

UNRELATED: @Maria_MillerMP U OK Hun?

Letters of Note ‏@LettersOfNote Apr 2

Alec Guinness, born 100 years ago today, writes to a friend as he begrudgingly prepares to shoot Star Wars:...........

sticky - go to ftse thread for a minute and read about latest usa employment numbers

Have done saw them at 1.15, leaked always are on twitter.

so why did you not take advantage?

Cant be assed these days.

Dont have same enthusiasm I had 5 years ago.

Getting older now.

bullshit becomes you my dear :-)

No true I dont have the same hunger now that Ive got most of what I really want in fact Id rather help other people and give something back.

if you get a socialist gov't, you'll be able to do that in spades :-)

Very funny.

Better than communists like Camoron and Giddeon.

I hear a load of Rusky kids are now invading our public schools and are potential Oxbridge boys.

Wonder if sanctions will be taken against them........doubt it, moneys involved.

certainly plenty of chinese and indians and the like, as has been the case for a couple of decades ..... if they're bright enough, then good luck to them .... sure as hell you can't buy your way into a decent uni, and even really good sports players no longer get a soft ride - loughborough excepted for obvious reasons

MPs' expenses: Why has the Standards Committee let Maria Miller off the hook?


By Peter Oborne Politics Last updated: April 4th, 2014

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peteroborne/100266391/why-has-the-standards-committee-let-maria-miller-off-the-hook/


One of the most disturbing aspects of the Maria Miller scandal is the refusal of the MPs on the Standards Committee to come out and justify their decision to water down the report of the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner.

The Commissioner, Kathryn Hudson, found that Maria Miller claimed more than £40,000 in mortgage payments to which she was not entitled. This was watered down to just £5,800 by the Commons Standards Committee.

We have been here before. The conduct of the Standards Committee recalls events when John Reid, then a rising Labour minister, was investigated for abusing his Commons office cost allowances.

But when Elizabeth Filkin, the newly appointed Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, set about her investigation she met with intense obstruction, with witnesses even being pressurised not to give evidence.

Filkin bravely ploughed on and duly reported that Reid had abused taxpayers’ money. The Standards and Privileges committee then threw out Mrs Filkin’s report in its entirety, while the government then encouraged a venomous campaign of vilification against Mrs Filkin, and then she lost her job.



It was one of the most grotesque and shameful parliamentary spectacles I have witnessed, and there are some echoes of the Filkin affair – both the watering down of the Kathryn Hudson report and also the challenges to the integrity of the Commissioner’s inquiry made by Maria Miller during the course of the investigation.

The involvement of the Conservative Chief Whip Sir George Young, who was marshalling Tory MPs to support Maria Miller in the Commons yesterday, is also problematic.

Sir George was himself chairman of the Standards and Privileges Committee in the years running up to the expenses scandal, a period when he turned a blind eye to abuses. The Prime Minister has been mistaken to seek guidance on issues like these from Sir George. Though personally untainted by expenses allegations, Sir George basically lacks the moral fibre to deal with a serious case like Maria Miller. Meanwhile the Standards Committee badly needs to explain itself.

from the smidgin i've read, she should have been hung out to dry long ago ..... appalling display by the commons committee(s) involved

Did you read the comment section of the torygraph c ?

An eye opener if they are conservatives.