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.

i know what i wrote .... "oiks" as you so disparagingly call those who want or need starter homes, do not remotely spoil the area, though the homes they need may well impact the developers bottom line

by the way, it was 1996 Pommard 1er Cru (Boillot) to go with the new season's roast shoulder of lamb

You need to lay off the sauce c, cru or no, it messes with your reading ability.



"Unrealistic Section 106 agreements [which specify how many affordable homes should be built] result in no development, no regeneration and no community benefits," he added.

Actually planning permission for developments often includes a stipulation of a proportion of social housing. It is not usually a high percentage as the developers won't go ahead with such a cut in their profit. It is interesting that the last government did not build any social housing even during the period when there was a boom in the economy,

It's a pretty sad state when an individual can't say that we're a Christian nation. Peter Tatchell yuck, makes me feel ill.

Its not what he said but the fact that its Cameron trying to win back votes from Ukipers after the gay vote.

Hey GF........ Your silence on the football thread is deafening! Not one meant ion of "DAVEY IS OUR LEADER, DAVEY IS OUR LEADER!!!!" :O)

Looks like "The Grim Reaper" job done at Goodison LOL!!!


Newcastle next stop for Moyes?

Toast

Morning Chris, yep looks like Moyes is on his way, feel a little sorry for him really, Fergie knew he was handing over a team of pensioners.

Biggest factor is the board arent going to trust him spending 250million on the likes of Fellani, ex everton crap. And dont want that doderer at left back being brought in.

Best for the club a change, and a new face to lead the biggest and most famous football team in the World.

I would think another few weeks and Rooney will start his usual I'm not happy routine. Man Utd answer = offer him more money.

Yep agree, shouldnt be anywhere near on 300 grand per week. far better strikers in the league on far less.

Morning GF, sympathy for Moyes, Nahhh, his career choice! :O)

Fergie saw him coming.

Wonder if Fergie will get a cut of Moyesys six million pound salary for ten months disaster. Davey laughing all the way to the bank will ease the pain :O)

I wonder if this is the end of the Fergie love in,they can't be happy with his choice. New man also means new backroom staff. Will we see Giggs and Co gone as well. They are also like every other club now, I you don't perform your gone.

Is there such thing as a football bubble?

If so, can it burst?

I seem to think Giggs did perform. I must check his stats during the Moyes era.

My guess is that someone like Giggs, who was/is/has been studying for this type of job, might well be given the task of holding the fort as a temporary minger, sorry manager.

Other players respect what Giggs can bring to the game, as well as his prowess in bed, and this will give some breathing space. Because what is needed now, are some 'good games of football' played by a team and managed by someone who knows the MU ethos and essence.

This season is virtually over and there is nothing much left to lose.

Since Danny Welbeck has expressed a desire to leave, is Ron Atkinson still available?

Tee hee hee. :-)

Nice little thought to make Manuel and Hazy One happy.

"On April 15th strategists at Credit Suisse told clients that they were no longer ‘overweight’ UK reflation trades, given the risk that the first rate hike may come before March 2015 (as per the current market consensus), political uncertainty and valuation.

As regards the first of those factors, they pointed out how the ‘output gap’ for the UK economy could close by the second quarter of 2015, wage growth is picking up and the fact that the dis-inflationary impact of past sterling strength is likely to fade.

The political backdrop, the second of the aforementioned factors, is also a headwind for stocks and comes on the back of the third biggest structural deficit in the OECD. Thus, they put the chances of a victory by Labour at the next elections at 60%, which would entail looser fiscal policy but tighter monetary policy settings. Even if the Conservatives won, that would mean a 40% chance of a vote on EU membership taking place. "

Multi-millionaire Paul Sykes explains in the Telegraph today, as to why he is personally and directly paying the advertising bills for UKIP for the forthcoming MEP elections:

No more surrendering to EU bureaucrats

An outright victory for Nigel Farage will be nothing less than a political earthquake
One in ten who voted Tory in 2010 has switched to Nigel Farage's Ukip, a poll has found.
By Paul Sykes 8:44PM BST 21 Apr 2014

Comments (979 of them as I type) are at: Comments

In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Brutus speaks of a tide in the affairs of men that, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Miss the tide and only shallows and miseries lie in wait.

Next month’s European elections represent such a moment in the life of our nation. Overwhelming public support for Ukip – the only political party advocating immediate withdrawal from the European Union – could mean we catch a tide that will restore our proud tradition of national independence. But if we miss our chance, we will be swept ever further into the shoals and sandbanks of a Federal Europe.

Once a loyal Conservative constituency chairman who served on the Yorkshire area committee, I have spent more than 20 years campaigning against the creeping power grab that lies at the heart of the EU. My initial focus was on keeping the pound in the face of mounting pressure from the political establishment for Britain to join the euro. It was clear to me that a single exchange and interest rate for a mixed bag of European countries, ranging from mighty Germany to struggling Greece, would never work. As we watch the Eurozone limp on towards ultimate failure, it comes as no surprise that I was right.

I have spent a great deal of my own money trying to raise awareness of the ways in which the EU has eroded our national sovereignty, and attempting to win the British people a democratic vote on what has stealthily been done in their name these past two decades.

Nowhere is this more pertinent than in the area of immigration. The Single European Act, signed into UK law in 1986, guarantees the free movement of capital and labour across the borders of the 28 countries that now make up the EU. Disgracefully, this measure was adopted without a referendum of the British people.

It was a cruel and heartless act because competition from people from much poorer countries has forced down the wages of British workers – to the shame of Labour MPs and the trade union movement. It also means 485 million people have the right to move to Britain at any time they please. We may have a UK Border Force. But when it comes to the 27 other countries in the EU, we have no borders, and no force.

Many think that Britain’s boundaries start at the white cliffs of Dover. They do not. They start in places such as Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria; they start wherever impoverished EU governments (Malta being the latest) offer to sell passports to the highest bidder, thereby granting people from all over the world the right to come and settle here.

David Cameron talks of reducing immigration to tens of thousands of people a year. But it is a pipe dream. The latest figures show gross immigration is running at 500,000 a year and net migration (deducting those leaving the country from those arriving) at more than 200,000 a year. This is an unsustainable state of affairs.

Which is why I have promised to do whatever it takes to help Ukip emerge as the winner in the European polls next month. I want to help Nigel Farage deliver what he calls a “political earthquake” on May 22. These European elections offer the chance to support a party – Ukip – that represents a complete break with the past, while the other parties, whatever their merits, remain content to work within the existing Brussels straitjacket.

The other parties cannot do anything about immigration or British workers being undercut by cheap foreign labour; they are vassals of the European Court of Justice and the closely related European Court of Human Rights, which stops us deporting foreign criminals and terrorists. The other parties are about to embrace new European controls over our policing and justice systems, they allow interference in our tax system, and they subcontract more and more of our foreign and defence policies to unelected EU bureaucrats.

True, Mr Cameron has promised an in/out referendum in 2017 if the Conservatives win the 2015 general election outright. But he renders that promise meaningless by insisting that he will recommend staying in irrespective of the outcome of his attempts to renegotiate the terms of membership.

In all but name, May 22 is a referendum on our membership of the EU, with a vote for Ukip being a vote for out. An overwhelming victory for the party will break the political mould in the UK, forcing Labour and the Lib Dems to back a full-scale referendum and intensifying the popular pressure for that to be staged much earlier than 2017. Such a result – combined with massive pressure from backbench MPs – would leave Cameron, Clegg and Miliband no choice but to pass a law setting a date for a referendum within a year.

Which is why I view Ukip’s new advertising campaign – which I am funding to the tune of £1.5 million – as more of an essential public awareness campaign. Yes, it is hard-hitting, in order to capture attention. But its real purpose is to show the British people just how many of their democratic rights and powers successive governments have quietly smuggled away to Brussels.

The time has come to take back control of our country and the right to govern ourselves. May 22 is our chance to catch a tide that can restore our freedoms and carry us forward to a glorious new chapter in our nation’s history.