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.

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

Here is an item for believers in conspiracies

All Passengers of Missing Flight MH370 Alive? Russian Intelligence Claims Plane Hijacked by Terrorist Called ‘Hitch’, Landed in Afghanistan

Russian intelligence sources have claimed that all passengers and crew members aboard the missing Malaysian Flight MH370 are alive and the plane was, in fact, hijacked and flown to Afghanistan. (Also Read: MH370's Co-pilot Made Mid-Flight Call from Mobile Phone)

A source in Russian's FSB secret service has reportedly said that the plane was hijacked and flown close to the Afghan-Pakistan border and all people aboard the plane are currently being held hostage.

The intelligence source provided the data to a correspondent of a Russian newspaper, Moskovsky Komsomolets.

"Flight MH370 malaysia Airlines missing on 8 March with 239 passengers was hijacked. Pilots are not guilty; the plane was hijacked by unknown terrorists. We know that the name of the terrorist who gave instructions to pilots is "Hitch." The plane is in Afghanistan not far from Kandahar near the border with Pakistan," the source was quoted as saying.

The Russian newspaper has said that the passengers have been divided into seven groups and are living in mud huts with almost no food, according to Daily Star.

The report said that 20 passengers who were Asian have been smuggled into a bunker in Pakistan. It is also claimed that the terrorists are possibly seeking to bargain with either America or China.

The news, however, has not been confirmed by authorities either in Malaysia or China and must be taken with caution as there are no credible evidence to prove that this is what has happened. Also, the news cannot be independently verified due to the anonymity of the source to the Russian newspaper.

cynic - 16 Apr 2014 07:45 - 39612 of 39622

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......................ends

well you, you prawn posted more political posts than anybody yesterday.!!!!!!!!

MaxK - 16 Apr 2014 08:02 - 39613 of 39623

So where is the money going?

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

syphoned off to private companys, thats where the money is going.