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.

True Cyners CPI isnt worth the paper its written on.

RPI is more accurate but we do need a new way of calculating inflation, AND its all very well comparing wage inflation to to these dodgy inflation calculations we use now, but as you say in your post above we have still to get wage inflation to 2008 levels to see any living standards improvements.

ps, got a stinker of a cold so not posting too much

double ps, I havent commented on MPs sons and family joining the gravy train, i was pointing out my post was refering to an earlier post on the Tory myths of the present government.

treble ps, cyners have you checked out SPG on the chart thread, looks like a buy again, please see chart.

fred - not mine ..... c+p stuff

sticky - spg are the heavy mob that used to beat up peeps at notting hill carnival ..... try sgp :-) though it's not one of my faves

Why capitalism isn't now working and a few clues as to what might happen if and when Labour get elected:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/12/capitalism-isnt-working-thomas-piketty

eg. Piketty says:

.....And then I started to look at other countries and I saw a pattern beginning to emerge, which is that capital, and the money that it produces, accumulates faster than growth in capital societies. And this pattern, which we last saw in the 19th century, has become even more predominant since the 1980s when controls on capital were lifted in many rich countries."

So, Piketty's thesis, supported by his extensive research, is that financial inequality in the 21st century is on the rise, and accelerating at a very dangerous pace........

.....................As poverty increases across the globe, everyone is being forced to listen to Piketty with great attention. But although his diagnosis is accurate and compelling, it is hard, almost impossible, to imagine that the cure he proposes – tax and more tax – will ever be implemented in a world where, from Beijing to Moscow to Washington, money, and those who have more of it than anyone else, still calls the shots.

Ratpocalypse is coming..............

BEWARE!

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/monster-rat-scooped-spade-after-3417094

There are loads of these thins being caught around the country. Be very wary about loud scratching noises in your loft!

Quote:

“They had to cut a hole in the ceiling to reach it and when they grabbed it, none of us could believe it was the size of a cat.”

Ms Walters said it was terrifying to think such a huge rodent could be living there.

She added: “It’s quite scary a rat can grow this big and strong, especially when you have kids in the house.”

Extermination experts said it is one of the “bigger” rats they had snared.

Pest controller Marcus Giusti, who captured it, warned an invasion of monster-sized rats was possible after changes to EU law limits the use of poisons to kill them.

Huff Post/AOL , scrapping the barrel to find a story to discredit UKIP

Am sure they could have found a better picture of Farage if they wanted to.

electionista ‏@electionista Apr 14
UK - ComRes poll:

LAB 36%
CON 30%
UKIP 12%
LDEM 9%

Couldn't we have something else apart from politics on here ?

Have a look at the Eagle huntress on the BBC website(world)....fantastic pictures.....

RF please read the header.

Its up to the individual to set an agenda at anyone time on here and to make it suffeciently interesting to keep a thread going with that subject. Any subject can be discussed (well within terms and conditions of money am)

You can always pass the politics by. Tip toe around it.

Dont forget their are a few on here who genuinely like the subject.

i am very fond of oysters and lobster, but even the idea of having to eat them day after day would quickly pall the appetite

So where is the money going?




Britain has fewer hospital beds than most European countries, OECD says


Group says UK had three beds per 1,000 people in 2011, compared with 8.3 in Germany and 6.6 in Poland


theguardian.com, Wednesday 16 April 2014 05.59 BST




http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/apr/16/britain-fewer-hospital-beds-european-oecd

"i am very fond of oysters and lobster, but even the idea of having to eat them day after day would quickly pall the appetite".. Well don't eat them both together next time fish face -):

Stan,

No.

He just needs to improve his culinary repertoire!


That would also apply to his political tastes as well.

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By the way who is Cameron trying to protect now?

I know it the successful Con party's Food Banks.

The major tory success of 4 years of misgovernment.

I do hope the tories utilize their minister of self employment Esther Louise McVey!

She expresses the real face of the con party!

haha Stan .... rather hoped i would provoke more barbed comment than that :-)

The economic miracle continues.....



Report: 450,000 recently 'self-employed' Brits would rather just have a normal job



Nigel Morris Author Biography


Deputy Political Editor


Wednesday 16 April 2014



Hundreds of thousands of people are being forced to register as self-employed after failing to find jobs elsewhere, new research has discovered.





Figures today are expected to show another fall in the overall unemployment rate, which has dropped by more than 300,000 since the end of 2011.

In a further fillip for the Coalition, separate statistics are likely to reveal that wage rises have finally overtaken inflation for the first time in four years.

Part of the explanation of the downward trend in unemployment has been a steady rise in the number of people becoming self-employed since the economic downturn.

However, a survey by the Resolution Foundation suggests that many previously jobless people have opted to work for themselves because they have no alternative.

The number of people in employment in Britain has risen to just over 30 million, of whom 4.5 million are registered as self-employed.

A Ipsos Mori survey for the think-tank found that more one quarter (28 per cent) of people declaring themselves self-employed over the last five years would prefer to be employees, a far higher proportion than among people who have self-employed for a longer period.


more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/report-450000-recently-selfemployed-brits-would-rather-just-have-a-normal-job-9262913.html

i dare say most miners or steelworkers would rather have stayed in those industries too, but life isn't like that and times and circumstances move on

however, i'm quite surprised how LOW the % quoted is for those self-employed for 5 years, and that then drops away significantly as further time elapses .... so what does that tell you?

not a convincing article at all, but then it was primarily about creating an attention-grabbing headline than content