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.

you have now , twice

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

how some of the Tories on here have very short memories.

It was actualy the coalition that comissioned an independant report into Food Banks and got the results in February last year, but because the report proved their was no self fulfiling relationship between the banks and the users and that it was because of welfare cuts that had led to the boom in them they SUPPRESSED the report hid it and sat on it.

It was only one of those freedom requests that the report had to be published to the blushes of IDS and his little female snarling dwarf Ester.

Now come on lads if your going to debate food banks PLEASE dont ignore previous debates and evidence provided, it only leads to manuel and a few others getting nasty and saying we are talking too much politics.

Cameron quizzed over 'suppressed' food bank report
22 January 2014 | By Laurna Robertson

David Cameron was asked whether the government report into food poverty and food bank use has been ‘suppressed’ in Prime Minister’s Questions today.

food bank food poverty David Cameron
Huw Irranca-Davies, Labour MP for Ogmore, asked the PM why he is afraid of publishing the report that Defra commissioned in February 2013 and told him to ‘publish and be damned’. He said the report was shown to ministers late last year, but still has not been released to the public.

The PM used the opportunity to promote the fall in unemployment, 7.1 per cent in the three months to November to 2.32 million, but did not answer the question.

Stephen Twigg, Labour MP for Liverpool West Derby, previously asked during the same session if Mr Cameron would meet with the Trussell Trust to discuss the situation.

Earlier this week, the Trussell Trust said it is now offering ‘kettle boxes’ to people who can’t afford to switch on their cooker to boil pasta or rice.

Mr Cameron was asked in October whether he was proud of food bank use tripling. In the same month, research by Christians Against Poverty found that 78 per cent of its service users were using payday loans because they wanted money for food.

Manuel.

I would suggest that you reread my posting.

I was paid to be careful when I wrote anything.

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Exec,

I always thought trading, or simply buying and selling shares etc. was a gambling.

Also, I doubt that somebody, who has acquired a little cash, sitting in a chair pressing B. or S. etc. does less harm to society or more good for a society than somebody sitting in chair with a bet on the horses or dogs and drinking a flagon of ale.

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Not saying that the life "styles" of many at the bottom of the heap could not be "improved", but when I think of Manuel waiting at table for a crust or Hazy one getting out of his mind at Claridges I think the same could be said about them.


(But, anybody wishing to change my life style should expect a fair bit of resistance.)

Fred

Exec,

I always thought trading, or simply buying and selling shares etc. was a gambling.

Also, I doubt that somebody, who has acquired a little cash, sitting in a chair pressing B. or S. etc. does less harm to society or more good for a society than somebody sitting in chair with a bet on the horses or dogs and drinking a flagon of ale.

I will agree, that a little bit of most things is good for one, Fred. The odd bet, the odd cigar, the odd drink....

It's the addictions that spoil it. Gambling, Smoking and Alcohol particularly.

And girls!

BBC Radio 4's PM programme said John Bercow, the Speaker, told them that "seasoned parliamentarians" boycotted PMQs out of embarrassment and that some female MPs did not want to take part in the session.

The Messiah is losing his grip!

David Cameron stung by jellyfish on holiday in Lanzarote


It is reported the Jellyfish has died!

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Mind Cameron doesn't look happy after hearing of Fauxpage recent surge in polls.




Imagine seeing the above coming out of the sea.

Update - Labour lead at 2
by YouGov in Politics
Fri April 18, 2014 6 a.m. BST

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 17th April - Con 33%, Lab 35%, LD 11%, UKIP 15%;

electionista ‏@electionista
UK - @UKLabour hires Obama adviser @davidaxelrod for 2015 UK election.


Look out Lynton Crosby, your times up.

Labour majority 40 seats!

From the level of the following why Hazy One ascribes to the torrid party:

"A couple of weeks ago someone sent me a link to a “poll” in the Tab (which, one understands, is some form of newspaper for students) that claimed to show Conservatives were in the lead amongst students. Nonsense of course, it was an open access voodoo poll with no attempt to get a meaningful or representative sample (hell, 10% of the sample were Cambridge students!). Of course, it was only a poll in a campus newspaper so I didn’t bother writing rude things about it, the only other media I found foolish enough to cite it were Vice and Breitbart.

Just for the record though, today’s Independent has a properly conducted poll of students by YouthSight (we’ve met them here before, under the name of Opinionpanel). This was a panel based survey amongst undergraduate full-time students, recruited via UCAS and validated through an ac.uk email address, weighted by type of university (Russell, pre-1992, post-1992, specialist), year of study and gender. In contrast to the voodoo poll above, it shows Labour with a solid lead amongst students who say they are likely to vote – Labour 43%, Conservatives 24%, Lib Dems 6%, Greens 14%, UKIP 5%. Compare and contrast.
"

One really good cure for a jelly fish sting is apply warm urine or even to urinate on it.

Not that I'm suggesting it would be a good idea for our Prime Minister, you understand.

ah well you see, never believe what you hear, let alone read ..... a bit like some or even most of those silly poll results some are so keen to post here

the fact is that urine is actually not much use for curing jellyfish stings at all, and with some, it can actually make it worse

Evening chaps and chappesses.

How do you get the video thingy to post?




Why is Ukip still stealing conservative voters?


By Telegram Politics Last updated: April 18th, 2014


http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/telegram/100268181/why-is-ukip-still-stealing-conservative-voters/

That was an amazingly silly video.