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.

He wasn't torn to shreds, but he was made to look a buffoon. He laughed along with the panelists, but they were laughing at him and not with him. The object was to make him look like a figure of fun and ridiculous; it was successful. Surely no one could take him seriously after that performance. I detect an underlying steak of nastiness in him. When he was at public school, one of the teachers wrote to the headmaster complaining that he should not be made a prefect as he had fascist views. He used to shout racist abuse at some pupils and had marched through the streets with some supporters singing Nazi songs. The letter is viewable on the internet.

i don't really agree with either of you about NF's imaging on hign4u ..... however, while NF probably didn't do himself any harm, any more than boris does when compering, i don't think it remotely enhanced his image as a serious politician, let alone statesman

What a novel idea.....



Unthinkable? Ministers who know their stuff

If practical experience were made a precondition for ministerial appointment, politicians might regain what they crave most of all – respect


Editorial


The Guardian, Friday 11 April 2014 22.36 BST

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/11/unthinkable-ministers-who-know-their-stuff


The former children's laureate Michael Rosen could be on to something. Mr Rosen's view that the new culture secretary Sajid Javid ought to be knowledgeable about culture has been mocked.

It may seem obvious for condescending insiders to dismiss such suggestions as naive. A lot of people, though, will think Mr Rosen's view is common sense. What is wrong with knowing your field? No one wants a gifted amateur, still less an ungifted one, to conduct hospital operations, to give university lectures, to defend murder suspects or to be placed in charge of a nuclear submarine. Much better, surely, to give such jobs to people who know what they are doing. So why ignore that same rule in government? On that basis, there may even be an entire government-in-waiting on the back benches at Westminster consisting of people who actually know their business. Would a cabinet that fielded, for example, Conservative GP Dr Sarah Wollaston as health secretary, Labour benefits expert Kate Green at work and pensions, Lib Dem barrister Sir Menzies Campbell as justice minister, ex-diplomat Rory Stewart as foreign secretary, former lecturer Barry Sheerman at education, former parachute regiment officer Dan Jarvis at defence or successful entrepreneur Margot James as business secretary be significantly more lightweight than the current team? If practical experience were made a precondition for ministerial appointment, politicians might regain what, with the exception of office, they crave most of all – respect.

The are far too many posts to be filled to find experts on the subject matter amongst the MPs. It is even more difficult when you consider that the person has to be capable of performing as a minister. In a particular ministry there are experts who do most of the work.

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That is obvious from the present Pm, cabinet and lower rung ministers. As Manuel might say some of them are idiots as well as corrupt.

If they didn't have department experts to restrain them, God help the UK.


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I tend to appreciate individuals who can laugh at or mock themselves.

But, as is said bad publicity is better than no publicity.

It would interesting the panto figurer Cameron on "Have I got News for you".

He would go down like a damp squib.

Bur it seems he is to much of a political coward to have an alive debate with Farrage.

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What about volunteering the Hazy One onto the show would be quite interesting.!

Sorry, that would be unfair









to the audience!

In support of hazy

Cameron, don't turn round your party will get you anyway!

There is a new Populus online poll out today which shows Labour’s lead over the Conservatives down to just 1%
Conservatives 34% (no change)
Labour 35% (down 2%)
Lib Dem 11% (up 2%)
UKIP 12% (down 2%)

And what does your poll show?


Even if it was representative, all it does is reinforce the position that there is now no real leader regardless of party.

Dave is a dead duck, and so are the other two headless chickens.

UKIP wont win the election, but it will bugger up the other two/three incumbants nicely!




Why not abandon elections altogether and simply install a €uro Union appointee?

Good idea, or why not borrow Putin for a few years?

For Haze's breakfast reading

"Two new polls tonight (YouGov/Sunday Times is still to come) and both showing six point Labour leads and UKIP increasing their support.

The online ComRes poll in the Independent on Sunday/Sunday Mirror has topline figures of CON 29%(-3), LAB 35%(nc), LDEM 7%(-2), UKIP 20%(+4). The 20% for UKIP is the highest that ComRes have shown to date, the 7 for the Lib Dems the lowest.
Meanwhile Opinium in the Observer have topline figures of CON 30%(-2), LAB 36%(+3),

LDEM 7%(-3), UKIP 18%(+3). Opinium tend to show higher UKIP scores anyway, so this isn’t as record-breaking as the ComRes figure, they’ve shown UKIP at 20 and 21 in the past."

meanwhile, scenario in ukraine continues to get uglier :-(

Yes!!!!!

But look around the rest of the World.

It resembles a boiling pot.

Doreen Lawrence 'Could Be Labour's Candidate For London Mayor in 2016'

I don't think that would be a good idea , can't see her getting tough on black crime when most gun & gang crimes are by young blacks in London. What other expeairance as she got to run London?

Another topic entirely;;;
Am I the only one irritated by a chatting woman (or man, even) that appears without end... looks like someone using airspace to promote their angle on Finance in the US.

I can switch it off, but Windowes is so dumb that this affects the beeps and other warnings, also on other sites everything is silent. Arrgh.

On my PC she's chattering as I type.... very distracting..... please, let's have an Add-off button.... and make it a large one.

Maybe I've found the Solution....
If you hover over the picture, some control icons appear - slide the VOL to zero. Now on the Desktop, return the VOL to max.

Tried it...but that interruption returns next time you visit another page (or Home etc.)... so you have to move the audio-slider for each page visit..... Grr.

( Pausing it is a simpler operation, BTW ).

Alders,cheers mate..............a big thumbs up.

Isnt it funny how you fall out with someone originaly and then find out you have assesed them wrong on your first meeting/contact.

I took alders to be a kid from a screaming rich family, how wrong I was, just goes to show you have to use a lot of discretion when summing somone up on the first contact.

I mean look at cynic what a tosser i thought,.........and now.........what a tosser........wink, only kidding.................but I know you like it.

hangon.........welcome to the OLD FARTS THREAD............more more more.....please.

Hangon,

If you are using Chrome download Adblocker, install and follow the instruction.


It works!

Had fixed it in firefox but the b, seems to no longer accepting it blocker.


Have to have another look!

i just turn the volume off on my deaf aid!

Consider it to be your retribution!