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.

Haystack - 25 Apr 2014 15:02 - 39942 of 39947

No one will care about the FOI case to be ruled on in 21 days time.............ends

ohhhhhh is that so Hays. Well I happen to be privy to further legal developments since the TRIBUNAL yesterday at which the DWP DIDNT EVEN ATTEND.

This is a tinder box ready to go off.

I have been asked to divulge no further information I have received, but rest assured I will report back to you my loyal muckers here on this thread when the shit hits the fan...........BIG TIME.

Osbourne in big trouble with RBS.

200% bonus isnt enough the bwankers say. God help us.

This is a non party political post.........we have to do something and forget party politics and also embrace international cooperation.

Lets face it its now got to the point where this group of people are holding the World to ransom.

What would you do gf?

GF,

Agreed.

Europe first.

Those of the "free world" who agree!

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Max, just report back what as happened, BUT this is explosive stuff. Very explosive stuff when the Media get thet hands on it.

Sorry i cant be more specific at this time.

Hays broadly knows what I mean, but hasnt latched on yet as to why its such a sensitive issue.

Lets just say the DWP didnt turn up to a tribunal and therefore left themselves bare assed open to the attack that took place on them. The tribunal team were to say the least not very impressed by their actions on the day.

Hays says 21 days, it could be a lot faster than that, watch this space.

ps, sorry wires crosssed Max on my post s above.

Your meaning what would you do re- Bankers bonus as is Fred.

Ill post over the weekend.

Im falling asleep here at the wheel.

Been out fishing ohh that fresh air and the ale that follows, lethal combination.

goldfinger

With CFD and spread bets , would you have to extend the time frame of the trade if the amount you have to trade is small , say 1 day to 4 or more with an amount of only £500 to £1,000 to bet because of the cost of small trades , you would need a higher % gain

Revealed: Labour's 'stealth raid' took £118BILLION off pensions, 'paving the way for the end of final salary schemes as they were suddenly unaffordable'

Gordon Brown scrapped tax relief on pension firms' dividends in 1997
Move blamed for wrecking industry and decimating final-salary schemes
Published: 00:17, 26 April 2014

The devastating impact of Labour’s infamous raid on pensions can be laid bare today.

Official figures reveal that the tax grab has saved the Treasury – and cost workers – £118billion since 1997.

In one of his first decisions as chancellor, Gordon Brown scrapped tax relief on pension firms’ dividends.

The move is blamed for wrecking a once thriving industry and fuelling the closure of many final salary schemes.

Analysis by the Office for Budget Responsibility shows it has saved the Treasury almost £7billion a year – £2billion more than Mr Brown had expected.

The annual gain is expected to top £9.7billion this year with £117.9billion saved between 1997 and 2014.

The OBR quietly published the figures on its website this week.

Ros Altmann, a former Downing Street pension adviser, said Labour’s move marked ‘the beginning of the end of the gold standard pension that British workers could rely on from their boss’.

She added: ‘This is money that has come out of people’s pensions. It paved the way for the end of final salary schemes because it made them so much more expensive. They were suddenly unaffordable.’

Since 1997, the number of private sector workers with a defined benefit pension has collapsed from 5million to 1.7million.

In 1997, 34 per cent of staff at private sector firms were in a final salary – or defined benefit – scheme. By 2012, this had slumped to just 8 per cent – just one in 12.

Asda scrapped its scheme in 2010 and Sainsbury’s shut its scheme to new members eight years earlier.

Let's hear it for my Tory MP, Andrea Leadsom, who is definitely going to get my GE vote (after I've finished voting for whoever the hell happens to be my UKIP candidate (can't be bothered to look, really) in the MEP Elections).

Everyone in our parliamentary constituency, who knows anything about her, feels very lucky to have her!

Anyhow, moving on.....

She has just been appointed as the new Treasury Minister, is just into the job, has only just wiped her desk clean and arranged the flowers in her new office and already wants to scrap HS2.

Yeah! Come on Andrea!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/10789512/Treasury-minister-I-will-fight-against-HS2-rail-project.html

Hmmm?

I wonder if Andrea would consider standing for Leader?

She's not "on message" yet then.

Hazy One.

"Revealed: Labour's 'stealth raid' took £118BILLION off pensions, 'paving the way for the end of final salary schemes as they were suddenly unaffordable'

Gordon Brown scrapped tax relief on pension firms' dividends in 1997
Move blamed for wrecking industry and decimating final-salary schemes
Published: 00:17, 26 April 2014"


Yes, because it was a tax dodge introduced by the Con party previously at the expense of the tax payer. Many could not afford to set up pensions.

I wonder if NF's liver will last out to the next GE.

One of the country's greatest ever Prime Ministers liked a tipple or two.

I'm thinking of Winston Churchill.

His liver lasted out too.

greatest ever Prime Ministers in war time , but in peace time also ? I don't know his record of running the country after the war , but have read that he was not outstanding.

Ryan Giggs will be 'doing a Winston Churchill' at around 5:20pm or so tonight.

At very important times, neither NF, WC or RG bother with booze. They keep a clear head.

did anyone watch Have I Got News for You last night?
very funny and scurrilous as usual, one of the highlights being NF being interviewed about his german-born PA - aka his wife

The public can see that there is a big effort by the main partys and their backer's in the media to discredit UKIP , and i think its going to backfire on them.

Britain's Poles sign up to Ukip: The party branded ‘racist and anti-Europe’

ANTI-Europe party Ukip has been recruiting new members – from Poland.