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 says labour throw money away.

How is it then that the Tories have racked up more debt in 4 years than Labour did in 13 years.

HAYS.......answer please??????????????????????

Breaking News......

Norman Tebbit says Maria Miller should be sacked.

He calls her arrogant.

She should not be sacked for being arrogant, she should be sacked for being crooked.
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5 STATS THAT UNDERMINE EVERYTHING LABOUR EVER TOLD YOU ABOUT JOBS

Our long-term economic plan is creating more jobs, giving hardworking people the security of a regular pay packet, and helping them get on in life.

Today’s employment figures show that our plan is working – and undermine everything Labour ever told you about jobs:

1) Labour said our plan would ‘lead to the disappearance of a million jobs’ (Ed Miliband, 25 Oct 2010) – but there are now 1.3 million more people in work than when Labour were in office. That means more hardworking people taking home a pay packet and having money to spend on the things that matter.

2) Labour said Britain is ‘in for a long lost decade… of high unemployment’ (Ed Balls, 28 April 2012) – but unemployment is now down 6.1 per cent since 2010.

3) Labour said our plan ‘chokes off jobs’ (Ed Balls, 17 May 2013) – but employment is up 4.5 per cent since the last election, so more people can better provide for their families.

4) Labour said our plan is only creating part-time jobs (Rachel Reeves, 18 Dec 2013) – but there are now over one million more full-time jobs than there were in 2010.

5) Labour said it was a ‘fantasy’ that the private sector would create enough jobs to lead the recovery (Ed Balls, 12 Oct 2011) – but there are now 1.6 million more private sector jobs than there were before the last election. That’s helping more hardworking families feel financially secure.

Labour don’t understand that the way to create more jobs is by backing small business and enterprise with lower jobs taxes and better infrastructure.

Labour can’t be trusted on the economy and would wreck the recovery.

Today’s figures prove our long-term economic plan is working – but there’s still much to be done.

Official Treasury analysis: Labour would borrow £166bn more in the next parliament

Over the last few days, Ed Balls has been trying to claim that Labour ‘will not duck the hard choices ahead’. They said they were serious about the economy.

But now we know that isn’t true.

Analysis by the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies has shown that his plans would allow Labour to borrow and spend billions more.

The front page of yesterday’s Times put the cost of Labour’s secret spending spree at an extra £25bn a year.

And today, official Treasury numbers have shown the full impact of Labour’s plans: a borrowing bombshell adding an additional £166bn to the country’s debt in just one parliament.

pensions rather than benefits

Today Labour confirmed that they would rather cut pensions than benefits.

Rachel Reeves, the Shadow Work & Pensions Secretary, said Labour would include the Basic State Pension in their cap on ‘social security spending’.

In other words, Labour would choose to cut the pensions of those who have worked hard and done the right thing all their lives, rather than cut welfare benefits.

Labour have no clear plan to fix the welfare system, end the something for nothing culture and control spending on benefits. It’s the same old welfare party.

Today’s news follows last week’s announcement that UKIP would oppose the triple lock on pensions – putting pensioners’ livelihoods at risk.

But the Conservatives are on the side of Britain’s pensioners.

Since 2010, we’ve increased the Basic State Pension by £650.

What’s more, we’re capping benefits to reward work – to ensure that no out-of-work household can receive more than the average family earns in work.

While the Conservatives’ long-term plan helps pensioners, Labour’s policy hurts them.

George Osborne adviser to ‘independent’ think tank which claims no middle class squeeze
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Sunday
Apr 2014

Posted by Tom Pride in hopeless naivety
Tagseconomy, open government, Osborne
(not satire – it’s the UK today)

A supposedly independent think tank called the Social Market Foundation has produced a report which is all over the press at the moment claiming the supposedly squeezed middle class does not exist and in fact most middle income households have done better during the recession.

But who exactly are the Social Market Foundation?

Well, a quick check shows that some of the Social Market Foundation’s corporate donors include Barclays Bank, BP, BUPA, the CBI, Shell and the Corporation of London amongst many more.

The Social Market Foundation was also apparently Tory Prime Minster John Major’s “favourite” think tank.

Oh ….. and George Osborne is on the Social Market Foundation’s policy advisory board.

Independent? Really?

I have just watched "Off Their Rockers" on ITV.

Could not help thinking of Manuel and some of the crew on Moneyam.


Hilarious.

Apolitical and one of the funniest programmes I have seen for a long time.

Nice to see the acceptance by participants. Don't know how much filming was cut.

Sometimes, being old is fun!!!

Which one was you Fred ? Turned it over half way through before I fell asleep.

When it comes down to the nitty, the only one of the big three who doesent speak with a "huge" forked tongue is Nick when it comes to €uropa.


Cameroon is Lying.

Millibandus is saying nowt, which is as good as lying.

Cleggy is the only one willing to stand up and state his case.


It deserves some respect imo.

Cameron is the only one telling the truth. Clegg is a wimp, Miliband is pretending that there might he a referendum under special circumstances, Farage can't deliver anything. Cameron is saying that there will definitely be a referendum after discussion about changes.

Miliband is pro-European and would be reluctant to exit from EU unless the price was too high.

That is what he has suggested.

Common sense.

Haystack.

Farage is going to decimate your party (and mine) in the €uro elections, you cannot keep dismissing peoples concerns as if they have no import.

He will do very well in the EU elections because it is proportional voting. It won't help him in the general election. I am not fussed what happens in the EU elections.

haven't you lot got anything else to ramble on about?

Yep looks like its going to be one hell of a sh-te start to the week on the market.

Batten down the hatches.

just wondering how many stocks IG Index will put on PHONE ONLY orders.

not many i should think .... it usually only applies when their specific book is overloaded in none direction
fingers x'ed that this is just a very short and sharp blip

Techs are getting hit bar my weekend chart one. just have a look cyners, up 18% from the off.