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.

No! more homes should not be built.. We are overpopulated on this island as it is.

except that there is still a shortage of housing, especially cheap, proper first-time buyer stuff .... and i don't want to hear gripes about them being like egg boxes

Loads of houses in this country that could be renovated if the government had the will.

I propose bringing back the Old Grant system where a young couple can get a grant from their LA subject to conditions ie, getting renovation done on time and making sure its for the purposes they say its for ie, to live in and they have to live their for at least say 5 years.

None of these Asian landlords corupting the system and doing dirty deals with the builder.ie, 50/50(reason why they were kicked into touch)

And then an inspector to check up every now and again.

The countrys full of voids. Look at Liverpool street after street all houses empty, same in loads of places, usualy ex mining towns, obviously the government would have to have a industrial regeneration programme going on in the areas picked.

is it necessarily the government's (taxpayer's) job?
there ought to be a way of housing trusts and housebuilders working hand in hand, though there was an unamusing story the other day about a housing trust gazumping would-be buyers
i have also seen odd occasions where local councils have offered derelict houses at very silly money, but with strings attached re renovating them and stuff .... but yes, another very good way forward

There certainly is "not" a shortage of houses in this country Alf as my right honourable friend G/F clearly states -):

surely liverpool already has a well-established regeneration programme, though of course these things still take 5-10 years before the effect can be felt

Nice place Liverpool

http://news.sky.com/story/1274468/pensioner-eaten-alive-by-dog-women-jailed

Stan,


We are bit be unfair to Hays.


A lot of posters on this thread laugh at him.


Pain is a staple of humour and laughing alleviates the discomfort or pity!

http://www1.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2014/06/03/yougov-finds-that-people-are-a-lot-more-negative-and-less-positive-about-ukip-now-compared-with-last-euro-elections-in-2009/

It’s not all rosy for the purple team

The pollster that came top in the EP14 polling accuracy table, YouGov, has issued comparative data about whether people feel positive or negative about UKIP compared with five years ago when they beat LAB for 2nd place in the Euro elections.

The data is in the chart and probably reflects that voters are now treating UKIP a lot more seriously than they were five years ago.

We’ve seen this trend in other finding to other questions from a range of pollsters.

This is how YouGov’s Peter Kellner viewed the findings:-

“..Overall, Ukip has not so much won new friends as polarised public opinion. Ukip did better this time at turning diminishing approval into votes, but it also alienated far more of the electorate. Millions more voters now regard Ukip negatively than in 2009, and fewer decline to take sides..”

There is a danger in first past the post elections that the candidate seen as being best able to beat UKIP might attract tactical votes.

We’ll see what happens in Newark on Thursday.

the newark result won't tell anyone much, unless ukip does badly, which is very unlikely

Are Americans more stupid than they appear?

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/06/03/creationism-myth-believed-by-staggering-number-of-americans_n_5438363.html#slide=3389904

NEW YORK -- A staggering number of Americans hold the view that God created man within the last 10,000 years. According to a recent poll from Gallup, more than 40% of US citizens subscribe to a literal reading of the Bible that insists the Almighty rendered man forth in his present form far more recently than the fossil record would otherwise suggest.

More than 30% of Americans believe that man evolved (according to natural selection) but with God guiding the process, while 19% believe that humans evolved with God playing no part in the process.

A 2009 survey for Christian think-tank Theos found that 80% of Britons did not believe in creationism or its rebrand intelligent design.

no, most americans are every bit as stupid and uneducated as they appear .... mind you, much similar could be levelled at the average illiterate british peasant

Like yourself you mean!!!!!

Hays Hays Hays 6 point labour lead.

Polls going labours way again.

YouGov/Sun – CON 30, LAB 36, LD 8, UKIP 17
3 JUN 2014

takes one to know one :-)

You are correct.

norman smith ‏@BBCNormanS 17m
Labour sources say " staggering no mention of immigration or NHS in the Queens Speech"

Denis Skinner ‏@BolsoverBeast 1h
So this is what it's come to. UK is facing serious issues yet the Mother of Parliaments will devote its time to 5p disposable plastic bags.

The girls are falling out with the boys.

Theresa May calls on Michael Gove to act on extremism in schools
Home secretary writes letter demanding tougher treatment of extremism threats in wake of Trojan Horse affair

The Guardian, Wednesday 4 June 2014
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Theresa May

In the letter May asks Gove: 'Is it true that Birmingham city council was warned about these allegations in 2008?' Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images
The home secretary Theresa May has gone public with direct criticisms of education secretary Michael Gove's handling of the Trojan Horse affair – suggesting an internal cabinet tussle over who can be toughest on threats of extremism.

In a letter released on Tuesday night, May upbraided Gove for the Department for Education's handling of allegations regarding Islamists in Birmingham schools for what she called "the inability of local and central government to tackle the problem effectively".


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The "old boys" need a strong new "Matron" to keep them in order:





Perhaps Cynic and Hazyone's new party leader!