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.

Hundreds of millions of pounds may have been wasted on a drug for flu that works no better than paracetamol, a landmark analysis has said.

The UK has spent £473m on Tamiflu, which is stockpiled by governments globally to prepare for flu pandemics,

The Cochrane Collaboration claimed the drug did not prevent the spread of flu or reduce dangerous complications, and only slightly helped symptoms.

The manufacturers Roche and other experts say the analysis is flawed.

The antiviral drug Tamiflu was stockpiled from 2006 in the UK when some agencies were predicting that a pandemic of bird flu could kill up to 750,000 people in Britain. Similar decisions were made in other countries.

Hidden data

The drug was widely prescribed during the swine flu outbreak in 2009.

Drug companies do not publish all their research data. This report is the result of a colossal fight for the previously hidden data into the effectiveness and side-effects of Tamiflu.

It concluded that the drug reduced the persistence of flu symptoms from seven days to 6.3 days in adults and to 5.8 days in children. But the report's authors said drugs such as paracetamol could have a similar impact.

On claims that the drug prevented complications such as pneumonia developing, Cochrane suggested the trials were so poor there was "no visible effect".

Goldie'

Here it is , 1.30 hours drive from Manila airport in Marikina city

Exec,

"ONLY Labour MPs commit expense fraud."

I would recall this and and consider.


"Expenses claims[edit]
Main article: United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal
In May 2009 Jenkin was reported by the Daily Telegraph to have used £50,000 in expenses in order to pay his sister-in-law rent on the property he uses as his constituency home. Jenkin claimed that he was just paying "an honest and reasonable rent" for the property.[3]

On 27 October 2009 it was initially recommended that Bernard Jenkin pay back £63,250 by expenses auditor Sir Thomas Legg. This is the highest amount known to have been recommended after an audit of MPs' claims on second homes expenses.[4][5] This amount was reduced to £36,250 following an appeal.[6]


And of course if you live in a "duck house in a moat" there is a different interpretation of the laws!


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I wonder sometimes about the departure of the Fox Liam and The Hunt and Murdoch.

But what do I know!


If you pay £50 for a bottle of wine that is petty cash, but more than somebody deserves on the "dole" when they can't get a job.

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Stuff it.

This government standards stink.

Perhaps the cartoon has a solution!

CALL ME DAVE, DAVID CAMERON, LEVESON, MARIA MILLER, MPS, PIANO WIRE, THE POLITICAL CLASS, UKIP

Maria Miller axed but for how long? The political class just do not get it
Thursday 10 April 2014
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- Tom Winnifrith

And so finally the greedy pig Culture Secretary has quit as a minister. This vile woman is an expenses cheat. Someone who has stolen taxpayer’s cash for vast personal enrichment. In the private sector she would not have been demoted (from minister to MP) but fired. And then prosecuted. And would never worked in her chosen career again. But she is an MP so it is different. The greedy pig Miller will be back.

Who says so? Call Me Dave Cameron says so. He looks forward to welcoming her back to Government. Like David Laws and many others before him the thief gets a temporary demotion and when we poor saps, the plebs, the peasants, the taxpayers who pay for this stinking farce have become a bit less angry, the crim will be allowed back into Government. Cameron has said so explicitly.

I am not sure what makes me most angry. Is it the thievery of Miller? Is it the way that she then pretended this was merely a media witch-hunt against her because of her role in driving through gay marriage legislation and in implementing the Leveson gagging of the press? Just to smear anyone who challenged her thievery as a bigot is just loathsome. But that is what politicians always do when challenged – they smear. Or is it the way that the political classes will now rally round to look after one of their own? You can already hear it: “Ms Miller is the real victim today, she made an honest mistake, she has paid a dreadful penalty, done the honourable thing etc., etc.”

Bollocks. The pig stole my money ( as a taxpayer it is my money) made a million quid and will be back in the cabinet if the Tories win the election next year. She tried to tough it out but (quite rightly) the media hounded her. That is what the media is there for – to act as a check on venal politicians who refuse to do the honourable thing even when 97% of their constituents when polled think they should do so.

At every level I am angry and so are most folks. The political classes don’t care. They won’t listen. Miller will remain an MP and be a minister again – it is not as if the political classes give a flying fuck about right and wrong or what the plebs think. And even more of us will give up on the system.

Piano wire for the lot of them is my solution. Failing that I will vote UKIP in May. They may be an unattractive bunch with some crackpot and unpleasant ideas and an egomaniac as a leader, but a UKIP vote is the clearest two fingers I can send to all three established parties.

Final paragraph could be equally descriptive of Winnifrith himself.

lol

Hes right though this time Dil.

This market at the moment is so volatile. Very frustrating.

Wondering wether to shut everything down and take a long spring break.

Doesnt seem to know where its heading next.

European shares retreat in jittery trade

10 Apr 2014 - 10:49
LONDON, April 10 (Reuters) – European shares turned negative in choppy trade on Thursday, with traders citing a big sale of Euro STOXX 50 futures while disappointing industrial output figures from Italy and France dented sentiment. [ID:nR1N0HJ02B] [ID:nP6N0KN024] The FTSEurofirst 300 < .FTEU3> was down 0.5 percent at 1,330.85 points by 0943 GMT, retreating from an intra-session high of 1,345.34. Trading volume on the cash index was thin, at just over a third of its 90-day daily average.
Charts, however, showed a spike in volume on the Euro STOXX 50 June future from 0830 GMT as the contract swung into negative territory. Traders said this fall fuelled selling pressure on other indexes.
"It’s really light volume trading (on cash indexes)...any decent sized order is going to move things around, so if there is a big offer in the Euro STOXX it would weigh across all of the indices," Matt Basi, head of sales trading at CMC Markets, said.

Miller nonsense not harming City conservatives in polls

Update - Labour lead at 3
by YouGov in Politics
Thu April 10, 2014 6 a.m. BST

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 9th April - Con 33%, Lab 36%, LD 10%, UKIP 14%;

GF,

The market is a b a the moment.

Put a few bob long on TW.

An interesting poll looking at the Party of cons.


Meanwhile a new TNS-BMRB poll also has Labour in first place, but only narrowly ahead of UKIP with the Conservatives in quite a distant third. Topline figures are CON 21%, LAB 30%, LDEM 9%, UKIP 29%.



Real success there Haze!

I think Tom Winnifrith's use of language is disgusting. He could surely try to get his message across in the public domain without using foul-mouthed abuse.

DB4,

I think he is trying to point out that the message through impenetrable thick skulls of MPs and this government who attempt to brush their dishonesty aside.

The behaviour of many of the government is arrogant.

Very arrogant, especially IDS Camoron and Giddeon.

goldie

did you see the picture of my business in the philippines

Fred, if he's trying to get his message through to MPs then he's not going to have much success using language associated with yobs. I agree that many MPs are arrogant, but it doesn't just apply to the Tory party.

Where can I put a bet on, that before 31 December 2018, we will cease being members of the EU ?

DB4,

Wouldn't suggest that arrogance is owned by the tory party yet.

Even I, myself, have been told that I am occasionally arrogant.

Mind I don't value those, who held that that opinion!

8-)

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Exec.

Should be able to put your bet on in a local madhouse!


8-)