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.

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.

leaving on some travels later this morning so a bit short of time especially as have to complete a tender before i go ..... missing you already :-)

This will cheer you up...........

McVey and her underground TAX
Uncategorized April 6, 2014

How many times dear reader have you heard Esther McVey say the bedroom tax is NOT A TAX. TAX IS WHAT YOU PAY ON INCOME IT IS NOT A TAX IT IS A SPARE ROOM SUBSIDY. Yes that would be the same McVey in whose constituency we find that 94% of all new HB claims since the election have come from private tenants who get £3.2m more each year in LHA than social tenants would get in HB (Now that is what a real subsidy is!)

ITISNOTATAXITISNOTATAXITISNOTATAXITISNOTATAXITISNOTATAXITISNOTATAX – ok you get the picture.

In fact you should really get the picture below!!

You may well know that McVey is the MP for Wirral West which is separated from Liverpool by two road tunnels for which you have to pay a toll. The tunnel toll is supposedly going up again and so today at a protest we see McVey holding up a banner and posing for a photograph.

What do you think it says on her banner?

Yes it does say “Axe the Tunnel TAX “

You could have chosen to hold up a banner saying “Say No to Tunnel Tolls” and as you can see there are SEVEN such banners to hold up and pose for the picture; yet you, the very media savvy Esther McVey chose to hold up one of just two banners calling this a TAX!

Is the gentleman behind you is looking at your other face? Poor chap!

Feel quite strongly about this, to the point I felt sufficiently galvanised to email the PM's office re misappropriation of public funds, ie, theft. I'm pretty sick of the 'noses in the expenses trough, syndrome.

I'm sure Call Me Dave will be on the case as soon as he gets your mail.

Comment

"I see the idea of free schools as a very positive one - the one that can run in parallel to the state schools, unions and the vested interests and eventually out-compete and make state schools redundant.
Particularly if the State is prepare to throw money at them it refuses to spend on other schools"


Cash for the icon to tory failing ideology, none for the weakest in society.

These are the torrid days.

Hazy One.

A cartoon for the walls of your party HQ.





Ps.
I wonder who he is referring to as badger.

I know the rat in a hole!

Steve Richards has written in the New Statesman about the mood of paranoia and suspicion around Ed Miliband. His fearfully supportive team resembles the North Korean inner circle daring not to offer even constructive criticism of their dear leader:

“Miliband’s staff are loyal to him personally but in their determined or fearful supportiveness there is little space for critical candour. Nearly all those who work for Miliband are dependent on his patronage. He chose them and they are pleased to be close to him. They do not want to say things that he does not want to hear. The contrast with Tony Blair’s office is marked. Blair had to plead with Alastair Campbell to join him, going out to see him while Campbell was on holiday in France as part of the energetic wooing process. Campbell could be brutally candid because he knew Blair wanted him so much. Other advisers, such as Peter Mandelson, had been senior to Blair in the 1980s. They, too, could be ruthlessly or constructively critical, sometimes both. This does not happen very much in Miliband’s office; indeed, the opposite can happen. I am told that sometimes his staff applaud him when he returns from making a mediocre speech.”

Hazy One,

You seem to me, out of touch once again.

Even Norman Tebbit is telling you that.

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My feeling about the Labour shadow cabinet is that they are preparing to be elected and working hard and quietly to formulate and consider sensible policies to present before the next election.

While the tories are failing more and more to con the public by rushing to press and media to present new policies and old mantras they haven’t scrutinised.

It is not only Wavy Dave but wavy tories waving good bye.

(Welcome to you new Wavy Party. No wonder the old cons are rushing to the party of kippers.)

I think Miliband is a shrewder cookie than many give him credit for and which he should be with his background.

Cameron and crew are digging bigger and bigger holes for themselves and while they are doing that it suits him to watch and wait.

Max, I'm sure Dave will see the light and sack the thieving ****

Has Maria got anything on Dave.

In the majority of cabinets her feet wouldn't have hit the floor on the way out.


But I forgot that Cameron is a principal man with, or without principles.

An icon of standards for the party and the public to look up to?

Call Me Dave's vanity project comes off the rails....




HS2: this environmental report should be the final blow

The Commons environmental audit committee has demolished any green pretensions the high-speed rail project may have had


Stanley Johnson


theguardian.com, Monday 7 April 2014 08.49 BST


The faster a train goes, the more energy it needs. An HS2 train travelling at 225 mph would use three times as much energy as an Intercity train travelling at 125 mph. According to the committee's report, HS2 "told us that the possibility of lower train operation speeds had not been considered".

Happily, the committee makes good that omission by recommending that "the government should examine the scope for requiring a reduced maximum speed for the trains until electricity generation has been sufficiently decarbonised".


If anything is a killer paragraph, this is it. Decoded, it means that the committee is in practice recommending that high-speed trains should run at normal speeds, since nobody realistically imagines (short of a massive switch to nuclear power) that electricity generation is going to be "decarbonised" in the foreseeable future. But if high-speed trains are to run at normal speeds, why do we need them at all?


Full story here: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/07/hs2-environmental-report-final-blow-rail-project

Max,

You are not suggesting that another U-turn is on the cards?


Now, that worries me!

It's a cock up Fred!


And the Miller burd is still hanging round his neck, I wonder what that's all about?

Rather him than me.

But like for like?

It is not Cameron's vanity project. In January 2009, the Labour government established High Speed Two Limited (HS2 Ltd) and Labour had been discussing it for quite a while before that. Labour are still behind and the project. So, in reality it is a Labour vanity project that has been passed on to the Conservatives.