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.

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

What a silky story!

So I’ll leave you with the words of someone who is far more popular: Eddie Izzard, writing in (again) the Mirror:

“A million food parcels. How did our Britain get to be so hungry? Our country, where even after the Second World War, we still had the ambition to feed our poorest people and build a better country.

“This government said it wanted to reform the British welfare system. Instead, it has broken it. The proof is here in the desperate families who have had to turn to their GP, not for medicine, but for vouchers to be able to eat.

“Instead of supporting the most vulnerable people in Britain during the recession this government has hit them with a wave of cruel cuts and punishments – sanctions, Bedroom Tax, welfare cuts.

“The zero hours economy it champions is not enough to put food on tables. It’s done nothing to tackle food and fuel costs.

“No wonder that today, 600 faith leaders, dozens of charities and 40 bishops are telling David Cameron he is failing the country’s poorest people.”

Perhaps you are not affected, like all those new millionaires on whom the Tories are relying. Do you think that makes it all right for this to be happening here?

You can use your vote to share your opinion.

Silly story Haystack...it would be hilarious if it wasn't the truth.

This is under Call Me Dave's watch.



A 12-year-old mother is a case not for the midwife but the police

The story of Britain's youngest mother and father shows us how parenting in this country has gone seriously wrong



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