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.

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!

islamic extremism in schools - 'Is it true that Birmingham city council was warned about these allegations in 2008?'

did i read that correctly?

Probably not!

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i thought wed have to go back to the previous government.

Yep blame it on labour as per norm.

4 years in government and they are still trying that on.

Thats why the electorate are leaving the Tories they are fed up of their excuses.

And Goves new policy on subjects that should be DROPPED. totaly PATHETIC.

He should be sacked hes lost all control.

i merely asked a question :-)
as you know, i find most of the political polemic that you and fred perpetually post singularly dull and not worth the reading for they always lack balance

Explain your definition of balance.

i have no need to and can't be bothered to anyway

Well in future dont expect me to clarify points you want answering then. ill just ignore you in future if thats your ignorant attitude.

Just remember that.......................................ALF.

Manuel.


Well, you comments are in a similar vein.

You are becoming quite repetitive.


Something to do with Alzheimer's?

repeat.......... A cynic selfie.............

do whatever you like, including posting totally unbalanced political polemic, but it doesn't mean that i or anyone else has to bother to read it
i suppose hays might, but then he's equally as rabid as you and fred

lak xxx

Alf, If I've told you once I've told you a dozen times ...get back to work! and get back to work now.

i've got a proper director's job this morning - filing, and it's boring :-(

Cynic, don't knock the easy jobs... I'm credit checking and would swap for some nice easy filing any day... just watch out for those paper cuts!!

BRUSSELS, June 4 (Reuters) - Lithuania meets all the criteria for joining the euro, the European Commission said on Wednesday, clearing the way for the small Baltic state to become the 19th member of the single currency from the start of next year. To adopt the euro, a country has to have government debt no higher than 60 percent of gross domestic product, a budget deficit below 3 percent of GDP, low inflation and interest rates and its own currency has to be stable against the euro. For a factbox on all the criteria see ID:L6N0OL28E . Out of the 28 countries in the European Union, only Britain and Denmark do not have to adopt the euro because they have negotiated formal opt-outs. All the others are obliged to switch to the single currency at some point provided they meet the criteria. The Commission assesses such compliance every two years in what it calls a convergence report. "The 2014 Convergence Report concludes that Lithuania meets the criteria for adopting the euro. As a consequence, the Commission is proposing that Lithuania adopt the euro on 1 January 2015," the Commission said. The formal decision to accept Lithuania into the euro zone will be taken by EU finance ministers in the second half of July, at which point the ministers will also agree on a conversion rate of the litas currency into the euro. The remaining seven countries that still remain outside the euro zone -- Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Sweden -- do not meet all of the criteria to adopt the currency. ID:L6N0OL24P With the addition of Lithuania's 3.4 million people, the euro zone will have a total population of 336 million people and a GDP of approximately $9.5 trillion. The single currency was launched in 1999 and started trading as notes and coins in Europe Jan. 1, 2002.

Of course Greece and Italy and a couple of others met the criteria and later it was obvious that they fixed the figures.