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.

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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.

It is good to see Wavy Dave, the Captain Marvel of U-turns, is getting in control of the Education of Birmingham and bringing it back into the control centre of No 10 with his sub-lieutenants Teresa and Gove.

Hear he is taking responsibilities of his hirelings under his control. Going to apply Etonian rules to the problem.

Or was that the Bullingdon club smoke in night rules.

Teresa and Michael are spending more time on their plans to succeed after Dave's departure.

Also, nice to hear this government seceding its responsibility for management of the economy to the BANK of England. Mind any good news will be put down to Porky and his "policies"!

"Also, nice to hear this government seceding its responsibility for management of the economy to the BANK of England. Mind any good news will be put down to Porky and his "policies"!"

LOL... Carney is the only Governor to do exactly as he's told. Now he'll do as he's told and try and convince us it was his idea.... Could a puppet have anymore strings???

LONDON, June 9 (Reuters) - Britain's top school inspector said on Monday that an investigation into an alleged plot by extremist Muslims to take over the running of some schools in the city of Birmingham had found that a culture of "fear and intimidation" existed. In March, an official investigation was sparked by an anonymous, unverified letter which claimed there was a plot to force some state schools in Birmingham with majority-Muslim pupils to adopt a more Islamic culture by installing school governors and teaching staff who would support a conservative Islamic religious agenda. "Some of our findings are deeply worrying, and in some ways quite shocking," said Michael Wilshaw, head of the Ofsted schools inspectorate. "In the most serious cases, a culture of fear and intimidation has taken grip." He added that some schools had not taken their responsibility to protect children against religious extremism seriously enough, and that in one case a guest speaker with known extremist views had been invited to speak to pupils. David Hughes, Vice-Chairman of Park View Educational Trust which runs some of the schools implicated, rejected the conclusions of the report, saying the Ofsted inspections had been carried out in a climate of suspicion. He said the schools did not tolerate or promote extremism of any kind.

Shortie,

I thought the Bank was independent!

Nice to know its in cahoots with the government!

MMMMMH!


Some of the suggestions must be true!

Goldfinger

I still haven't started trading yet , just been scanning trading tips . Your 2-2 system, is it called that because its 2% of trading portfolio per trade and a 2% stop loss per trade ?

Been reading a book called Bets and the City Sally Nicoll's spread betting diary , is about a first time trader who takes bad advice from friends as well as getting pro advice from experts like John Piper ,Greg Secker and John Bartlett.

One for Goldfinger?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/disabled-mum-died-alone-penniless-3662850

This afternoon

Populus’s twice-weekly online poll – that had topline figures of CON 35%, LAB 36%, LDEM 9%, UKIP 14%