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.

Well you can put all the arguments you want up against siding with private health care and private education but it doesnt sit well with me.

Just because you have money doesnt mean its right to gain an advantage at the start of your life with education and likewise going on towards the ends of your life why should your mother or father be seen before someone elses mother or father who may have been sick for a much longer time.

Its nothing but que jumping and high time it was ended in this country.

This is not responsible capitalism, in fact its 'playing with God'.

And the likes of Hays who use pathetic excuses for its existence should hang their head in shame. Its deeply moraly wrong, and this is supposed to be a country that believes in morals if you take note of the liar David Cameron.

sticky - that's very much your personal choice with which i don't happen to agree, or only marginally in places

but tell me about pre-booking your seat on a flight
do you?

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hays .... your write "you have to agree to your child being randomly searched", which by implication tells us that the school does indeed have its drink and drugs problems - all schools do (and probably paedophile teachers too), and day schools, for fairly obvious reasons, are the more prone

No I dont pre book a seat.

I can fall asleep on the town hall steps (and have done) (plus Rochdales) I have no fear of flying and can relax very easily. Her indoors is a bit nervy, but she'd rather sit at the side of me than someone else.........well most times.

so you don't have any objection to people who do spend a couple of shillings to pre-book their seat?

cynic
I think the searching is to prevent there being a problem. There are schools in the general area that do have problems, so it may be a reaction to that.

Cyners, yes, first come first serve service.

Must dash, just off to my local Trustle Food Bank, I hear they are giving out hot cross buns this evening.

Better hope Edwina isnt peeking in on me when I draw up in the Rover taxi.

Get a copy of today's Times if you can. Lots more details of the case against Farage. It looks like much more solid evidence from may whistleblowers. Farage expelled committee members who asked what was happening to substantial funds amounting to millions of pounds in donations.

This story will run and run. The Electoral Commission is now involved.

Hes innocent.

Just Tories want revenge for Miller.

It is looking like the original article is triggering further revelations from ex UKIP people. Today the Times has half the front page and all of page 6 devoted to Farage..

sticky - in that case you're truly pathetic! :-) .... surely flying is elitism in its own right anyway; after all, think of all those poor buggers who can't even afford a coach trip to scarborough

It is good to see that inflation is "going" down.

It is good to see wages going up compared with 4 years again and George is not crowing.


But wait a moment, perhaps I am wrong, part of the lower inflation is due to lower "fuel" costs.

Ah, is that due to good capitalist principles or over production, or lack of "need", depress production of goods, bit money sloshing around hand to hand.

But, in that the Ukraine is a large supplier of Europe of "fuel", what are the future prices of "fuels", especially for Germany and its economy?

Where does that lead to as far as production costs (inflation) or wages (devaluation)?


Ummh. I will go back to chess, at least I can see my problems then, even if I don't know what to do!

8-)

Think of the poor buggers who don't want to go to Scarbra or similar. By the way, where is it?

Yep where is it? he he LOL.

Dont be silly flying isnt elitism at all. Its cheaper to fly to Alicante and have 2 days in a hotel there than it is to go to Blackpool for the same thing. Chuck in a bull fight rather a ride on the donkeys too.

Yoooooooooooooooooooooooooou really are out of touch.

Update - Labour lead at 3
by YouGov in Politics
Wed April 16, 2014 6 a.m. BST

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 15th April - Con 34%, Lab 37%, LD 10%, UKIP 13%;

Old report that Hays, this just out 1 hour ago...............

electionista ‏@electionista 1hour
UK - YouGov/Sun poll:

CON 33%
LAB 39%
LDEM 9%
UKIP 11%

Tomorrow's Times

What happened to the £287,000 donated to Farage’s local branch?

Almost £300,000 in Ukip party donations were paid in to Nigel Farage’s local branch and withdrawn as unspecified “other costs”, raising further questions over the party’s funding.

Ukip insiders have repeatedly raised concerns over £287,734 spent by the party’s southeast branch in 2004 and 2005. The money was not used for campaigning, communications, property rental, utilities or auditing and was described only as “other” running costs, according to accounts filed with the Electoral Commission.,,...........

The Electoral Commission wasn't interested at the time the accounts were submited so why would they be now ?

They tend to respond to complaints rather than do much in an active way to check accounts.

sticky - so you support gross cruelty to animals then? .... are you backing the move for the return of cock fighting and bear baiting? :-)

btw, prob worth having a look at TW again

Watch out, David Cameron: my Tory friend is voting Ukip

We were out walking the dogs the other morning when my friend Deborah announced she was going to vote Ukip in the May local elections. I nearly fell over the poodle.

Deborah is the most 100 per cent cast-iron solid, loyal Conservative female voter since Margaret Hilda Thatcher. Why would she suddenly throw in her lot with Nigel Farage and his motley crew?

“If the Prime Minister thinks that people who hold views like mine are swivel-eyed loons, then I want to give him a bloody nose,” Deborah said sharply.

My guess is that she’s far from alone. Ukip posters are blooming in some unlikely windows. It’s no longer just alienated country folk; I’m told Fulham is now (ahem) a hotbed of Faragistes.

There is a sense that David Cameron has taken his traditional Tory voter base for granted. As Deborah said to me: “He has raped the nice ladies in hats and suits who turned up to do his flower arranging. On gay marriage, even his own mother was saying: 'I know, but he won’t listen.’”

Yikes. The truth is, Ukip is no longer just a protest vote for cranky Europhobes. People read about that comprehensive school in Leeds where all 314 pupils are being taught English as a foreign language and they see, with dreadful clarity, that politicians long ago lost the immigration plot.

Operation Trojan Horse, an investigation into an alleged plot by Islamic extremists, will focus on claims that religious hardliners tried to overthrow secular head teachers in Birmingham schools, and segregated boys and girls. While politicians and police bickered this week over whether a former counter-terrorism man should lead that inquiry, the rest of the population was simply slack-jawed with disbelief. How on earth had this been allowed to happen in our lovely, tolerant country?

Why was Santa Claus suddenly banned from handing out presents at Ladypool Primary School in Birmingham to delighted, mainly Muslim children? Last year, Vicky Hubble, the teacher behind the event, was told by the new head that Santa’s visit would be cancelled and there would be “no mention” of Jesus being the son of God.

The Prime Minister should stop showing his white, hairless legs in Lanzarote, put some trousers on and get back to deliver a stirring Easter message to the Deborahs, before they give him a bloody nose.



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/mother-tongue/10770366/A-12-year-old-mother-is-a-case-not-for-the-midwife-but-the-police.html