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.

Crickets working class here Cyners, dont forget the late Johhny Wardle Yorkshire and England was my uncle.

Played in all schools, certainly not upper class in Yorkshire.

Ahhhhhh just remembered bowling yes bowling thats snobby so we'l bang a few bob tax on that.

Hays your getting more agitated by the day, you know its coming the revolution.

We will reap our revenge...........you can count on that as a certainty.

Manuel,

Get back in the kitchen.

Through all the "rye" humour one area which I think will be visited, if the there is a lib/dem/lab coalition after the G/E, will be tax rules, regulations on trusts and over sea "deposits"!


By the way, what is cricket?

Is it that girls' game where they all dress up in white and think they are doing a day's work!

IMF and Lagarde is right about housing!

Another out of touch unthought out policy for a U-turn.

Set Fred set.

if fred doesn't know what cricket is, sure as hell he'll never have even heard of tennis!

on a more serious note, i would hope that whoever gets into power will revisit sternly - no, not arse-first! - the rules on all sorts of overseas "funnies" ....... trust rules are already highly complex and are changed about every 5 years or so in any case

more interestingly would be whether or not there is not a non-destructive way of imposing corporation or at least withholding tax on income derived in uk ......
an awful lot of countries around the world, and it's growing, impose WHT ..... technically, it becomes just a timing issue, though in practice it's rather more complex to reclaim .....

however, at the very least, it significantly improves the exchequer's cashflow

Manuel,


I knew that would write sense sometime or other.

=======

I played tennis at and for the Priory and also squash for them.

Years and years ago, after playing rugby for The Wanderers and other clubs for a number of years.

But, cricket bored me stiff.

.
Impatience!

monkeys and keyboard old fellow

Even they get it correct sometimes.

Hence my remark!

See the tories are sorting out the National Debt by leaving it to future generations:


http://www.nationaldebtclock.co.uk/

when was it last in balance?
about 1740 at a guess


no, not even then, nor even in 1700, so obviously before that

1693--National debt begins in England .... though not quite sure what that means, as of course kings for centuries before that were always taxing all and sundry to pay for their wars and other sunday jollies

It beggars belief that the BBC think this is acceptable broadcasting;

"BBC criticised for 'obscene' comedy making fun of the murder of Lord Mountbatten

Radio 4 sitcom Blocked triggers complaints after lampooning the death of the Queen's cousin, Lord Lois Mountbatten, on the eve of the Normandy Landings anniversary."

Daily Telegraph

fred may disagree as he may well be an irish national having played for Wanderers

D-Day Veteran's Great Escape From Care Home

Police are called after an 89-year-old is reported missing by carers - only to learn he had found his way to Normandy.

An 89-year-old Royal Navy veteran has turned up in Normandy for the D-Day commemorations after ignoring a travel ban imposed by his care home.

Police were called to the man's nursing home in Hove, Sussex, on Thursday night when staff realised he had gone out at 10.30am and had not been seen since.

The man has since been named on social media as Bernard Jordan, a former mayor of Hove, and his carehome has tweeted a photo of him.

The pensioner 'went AWOL' wearing his war medals covered by a grey jacket and secretly boarded a coach to France.

Police initially searched the Hove area, speaking to bus and taxi companies and checking local hospitals in case something had happened to him.

Then, at 10.30pm on Thursday - 12 hours after he was last seen - a younger veteran called to say he had met the pensioner on a coach on the way to France.

He said the pair were sitting in a hotel in Ouistreham, Normandy, where world leaders have been mingling with veterans to mark the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings.

Mr Jordan is said to be safe and well.

A Sussex Police spokesman said: "We have spoken to the veteran who called the home today and are satisfied that the pensioner is fine and that his friends are going to ensure he gets back to Hove safely over the next couple of days, after the D-Day celebrations finish."

Chief Superintendent tweeted: "Love this - 89-year-old veteran reported missing to us by care home who said he can't go to Normandy for D-day remembrance. We've found him there!"

.

Good for him, one up the bum for the health a safety brigade :-)

Got stuffed in the Aberdeen Links Championship, Murray Cup FINAL tonight. Nice trophy, £100 voucher for the pro shop and a bottle of Famous Grouse which is going down very well at mo Hic!!!! :O)

MaxK - God love him! Don't talk to me about those H@S jobsworths, Gobshites the lot of em.

Typical Tories on watch......................................