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.

Before





After

Like the before picture hasn't been photo-shopped much. :-)

spoil sport :-)

Gotta love Googles self driving car. Who'd be seen dead in that Magoo contraption. .. lol

Am I getting old or is the burd in the red dress and brown hair on Bloomberg tv right now FIT....?????

Looks like someone I'd let in the door Shortie.

Hilary lets face it a slag like yourself filled with slap all over your face wouldnt be able to see or hear whenever a couple of people had changed their accent.

Must be a 2 hour job getting in and out of it every night and morning.!!!!!!!!!!!

Same with Christine Carson, their are rumours hes taking over on Benidorm from that tranny behind the bar.

Remember Chris Everton are a little club, outside Britain virtually unknown.

It all sounds so wonderfull, but can anybody spot the fly in the ointment? (if there is one)




Is this hospital a miracle cure for the NHS? It has a Michelin chef, happy patients and is run by doctors and nurses. And shock, horror, it's operated for the state - at a profit - by a private firm

The hospital is being run as a John Lewis style 'partnership' by its investors Circle

The hospital is expected to make a £2 million profit this year while improving patient care

Circle took over the failing hospital in 2012 and slashed the numbers in middle management

The company has a £1bn 10-year contract to run the hospital under the NHS 'brand'


By David Jones

Published: 23:52, 27 May 2014 | Updated: 09:02, 28 May 2014


Just imagine an NHS hospital whose standards match those of a top-quality hotel, with a welcoming reception area, polished floors, tasteful artwork on the freshly-painted walls, and menus inspired by a Michelin-starred chef.


A public hospital where the doctors and nurses — and even porters and cleaners — are free to decide what’s best for the patients, and to put good ideas into practice without waiting for the orders of some remote, out-of-touch mandarin.


Where the innovative working practices owe more to successful modern companies such as Toyota and Argos than a welfare state system created more than 60 years ago to cater for the needs of a very different Britain





In a week when the failings of the NHS have again been laid bare, with hospital trusts begging for bail-out loans to pay for vital equipment, and discharging thousands of elderly patients during the small hours to ease the pressure on wards, it sounds like a pipe-dream.


Unlikely as it might seem, however, last week I visited just such a hospital.


For someone like me, who grew up during the halcyon days of social healthcare in the Fifties and Sixties and has lived through its decline with mounting despair, my day at Hinchingbrooke Hospital, in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, was enormously uplifting.


And it was all the more remarkable because, barely three years ago, a health minister wrote off this same hospital as ‘a financial and clinical basket-case’, and placard-waving trade unionists were camped at the gates in protest against its seemingly certain closure.


Much more here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2641055/Is-hospital-miracle-cure-NHS-It-Michelin-chef-happy-patients-run-doctors-nurses-And-shock-horror-operated-profit-private-firm.html

Edward Snowdoen

Mr Kerry added that if Mr Snowden, 30, "believes in America, he should trust the American system of justice"

Wonder if he as booked his flight yet , some how i don't thing so

LOL.........

Cleggy on the wireless this morning (LBC) taking calls from the punters.

Lots of brickbats, but a surprising amount of support from people who said at least he was prepared to stand up on his hind legs and defend his position, unlike the other two reptiles.

He could bounce back imo.

better be soon before he keels over as he looks like shit

LOL, yep I was thinking that yesterday. Looks like hes been dragged through a bush backwards.

Clegg on hind legs!! That's enough donkey, its about time Cameron threw him a carrot or offered some kind of support for the DPM.... Cameron's silence isn't very coalition-ey is it, at times like this its clear their not in it together.

A quote from Shrek

Donkey: Hey, come back there. I'm not through with you yet.
Shrek: Well, I'm through with you.
Donkey: Uh-uh. You know, with you it's always, "Me, me, me!" Wll, guess that! Now it's my turn! So you just shut up and pay attention! You're mean to me. You insult me and you don't appreciate anything that I do! You're always pushing me around or pushing me away.
Shrek: Oh yeah? Well, if I treated you so bad, how come you came back?
Donkey: Because that's what friends do! They forgive each other!
Shrek: Oh yeah, you're right, Donkey. I forgive you... For stabbing me in the back!

cynic Send an email to cynic View cynic's profile - 29 May 2014 09:33 - 41611 of 41613

better be soon before he keels over as he looks like shit


I supposed that maybe better than being "shit" like Cameron and Fauxpage!

The UK Treasury has said the European Commission should not be asking for "yet more money" from EU member states.

The commission has published proposals to increase the 2014 contributions from members by 2.16 billion euros (£1.76bn) to cover increased costs for growth and jobs schemes, and help for Ukraine.

It wants 4.73 billion euros (£3.85bn) in total but some will come from other sources including competition fines.

The Treasury said the commission should use "existing funds" to cover costs.

Under a mechanism called the "contingency margin", the European Commission can call for extra funding for unforeseen circumstances.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27616021

I think for many the thing which sticks in their throats about "Clegg" is the feeling they have of being betrayed over the University fees.

If Clegg can somehow find a way to admit that and the reasons for the action which are plausible or acceptable to his disappointed followers, he may have the route back.

Being in the coalition may have brought a sense of reality, previously missing in the the Lib/dem party, but the do seem to have the problem of no "legitimate" replacement leader.

I think Vince Cable may have been a better party leader than Clegg, or recent previous incumbents, but even though a good few years younger than myself, I doubt he would relish 3-5 years in the political wilderness as party leader "of a demoralised party".

However, "if" there is a coalition government of Labour and Lib/Dems after the next election, I would anticipate Cable being in any cabinet formed, as he would be able to align himself more easily with their policies.

Interesting to watch.

Shortie,

How much did the coalition government short change the UK "hard working" tax payer when they sold the the Royal Mail to their "friends" in the city?

i know i posted this yesterday, but i am so incensed by this sharp practice, that i thought i'ld repeat .....

CHESS TELECOM
i very much hope that none of our "friends" here subscribe through this company.

as a very small example of their sharp practice ......
when your contract expires, should you not agree to renew, they charge you an admin fee of £99.00 (+ VAT no doubt) for closing the account
for doing what exactly???? ..... the account should be de facto closed because it no longer exists

apparently it is all in their so-called T&Cs, no doubt buried somewhere in the minutiae.
almost needless to say, rather like Ryanair, it is effectively impossible to get beyond the first poor sucker who answers the calls

Don't pay it c, they cant do naff all about a £99 bill.