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.

I always wanted her mummified James -):

Well, you got your wish Stan.

No doubt you are happier with Dave or Ed or Nick.


All the same, interchangeable, and as sincere as hell, they all love you so much, they want to fuck you!


Bend over Stan, it wont hurt a bit.

I say i wanted her as a mum Stan because i started having unhealthy dreams about her and so i thought if i adopt her in that way it would be better..

Maggie saved us from the scourge of the unions and Scargill in particular.

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all playing into tories' hands
fred and his left-wing federalist pals won't be pleased at all, but all those who want to see some major reform in the way this Strasbourg benefit is run will be delighted

There you go again H/S spreading the fear nonsense yet again.

Maggie saved us from a lot of things , i guarantee you Britain would not look like it does today if she had come along later.

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what hays wrote is 100% true
scragill's agenda, and that of his fellow soviet-paid union leaders, was to completely wreck the uk economy - and he damn nearly succeeded ..... that there was severe collateral damage is also a very sad consequence, not that scargill et al would have cared much

JB

There is no accounting for bad tastes.

Ask Manuel!

JB/

It would probably looked a lot better.

At least there might have been an industrial heart to the economy!

Also, responsible for the present state of diminished social cohesion.

As the War Crime of sinking the Belgrano.

She should have been hung with Blair on a gibbet!

Alf acting more like Alf then Alf -):

Fred the Red talking nonsense as usual. Remember HMS Coventry?

To remind Manuel of his place and his Mum!

Hays Hays Hays...................


Latest YouGov and Opinium polls
8 JUN 2014

There are two polls in this morning’s papers. The fortnightly Opinium poll for the Observer has topline figures of CON 31%(-1), LAB 35%(+2), LDEM 6%(-1), UKIP 19%(nc). Charges are from their pre-European election poll, so show the sort of increase in the Labour lead we’ve seen in other polls since the European election.
The YouGov/Sunday Times poll is here and also has a four point Labour lead: CON 33%, LAB 37%, LDEM 7%, UKIP 14%.

The trend is with LABOUR.

A year to go. The UKIPs will return to Conservative. UKIP + Conservative = 44%

The tories will have imploded by the time of the G/E!

Labour are looking more puny every day. No policies, very poor opposition, weak leaders, heading for defeat.

The way the EU top cat's with all the creme and the power acted on the anti EU vote by wanting to have more power to dictate to the UK how to run our country, UKiP can only get stronger , love to see a CON/UKIP goverment.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/arthur-scargill-tried-use-margaret-3024140

14 Jan 2014

Arthur Scargill 'tried to use Margaret Thatcher's right-to-buy scheme to buy London flat'

The National Union of Miners described Scargill as 'hypocritical' in light of the revelation

Firebrand ex-miners’ leader Arthur Scargill tried to snap up his council flat using arch enemy Margaret Thatcher’s flagship right-to-buy scheme, it was claimed today.

The left-wing union baron, who led the 1984 strike against the Tory PM’s pit closures, made a bid to purchase the central London pad in 1993 – but was turned down.

He was blocked because it was not his main home. His £34,000-a-year rent for the sought-after Shakespeare Tower flat in the Barbican was paid to the Corporation of London by the National Union of Mineworkers – of which he was president at the time.

The revelation sparked fury among his former colleagues today.

It was buried in documents which have emerged following a bitter court case last year in which 76-year-old Mr Scargill lost his legal bid to force the NUM to put him up there for the rest of his life.

He insisted he would have given the flat to the union had he been able to buy it.

But the NUM has said it has no evidence of that. He also failed to mention in paperwork that the flat was paid for by the NUM and it came out in the court case that from 1991 to 2008 the NUM national executive committee did not realise it was paying for it.

Mr Scargill, once known as “King Arthur” for taking on the Thatcher government, is now an outcast from the union after dragging it through the courts over his perks.

NUM general secretary Chris Kitchen, said: “The fact that Scargill tried to use Thatcher’s right-to-buy scheme is bad enough, but there is no evidence it would have been signed over to the NUM for the benefit of the members.

“We just have his word which 10 years ago would have been enough for me, but not now.”

He added: “Unfortunately the perception I had of Arthur, the great trade unionist, socialist, is nothing like the reality as to the man that I know now.”

Former Scargill loyalist Jimmy Kelly, a miner at the Edlington Main pit near Doncaster in the 1980s, said he was astonished to learn of the attempt to buy the Barbican flat.

He said: “It’s so hypocritical it’s unreal.”

Mr Scargill was not available for comment.