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.

Rooty yes hes a relation of mine.

GF,

Paragraph 8,

Do we still have more than a gunboat left?


I thought Cameron and Osborne had flogged the rest to pay down the UK debt and bolster exports, which should improve with higher interest rates etc..

GF,

Cons don't apologise.


That is part of their indoctrination.


I wonder if we could have an enquiry about what is taught at Eton.

Think there is some far right indoctrination carried out there!

Cut their tax relief, charity status and subsidies at the expense of the poor tax payer!

Rates have always been based on bedrooms etc. It is nothing to do with Thatcher or Poll tax. Poll tax was based on working age occupants.

Im led to believe Fred we have 2 cariers but no planes to put on them.

I think Teresa May as her eye on them as provision for floating prisons when the Riots start this summer.

Problem is Boris's cannons dont fire that far, so I understand Theresa is secretly negotiating with Call Me Dave to set them up as temporary fountains to be sited in Trafalgar Square.

i sometimes despair of you two numpty comedians :-)

fred - i know you tease, and no i didn't go to eton, but it really is a very very good school indeed even if badly and sadly maligned by you lefties with severe shoulder-chips

The Rates were the brain child of the tories the fore runner of the poll Tax , so their you are, you have admitted the Tories invented the bedroom tax.

Your just playing with words hays.

Forget anything H/S has to say today if I was you, as he's posted this twice within a couple of hours on here.

"I an just having a messy lunch of chicken fajitas at Chez Bob in Belsize Park, Hampstead. Those food bank customers should lunch here, much nicer. The white wine was excellent."

I would have some more food with that wine if I was you -):

At least it makes a change from the repetitive drivel you've been posting recently about going to live in the Shetlands (or wherever it was) then!!!

One of these prisoners on the run, serving a LIFE SENTENCE.

Just been on radio 5.

89 escaped in total.

Oh dear Theresa what on earth are you doing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Domestic rates based on your property has been around for many years before Thatcher. I used to pay it in the 1960s. As far as I know it has been around since before WWII.

i do wish you'ld try to post stories accurately for a change

One of these prisoners on the run, serving a LIFE SENTENCE.
when did he escape?

89 escaped in total.
over how many years, and how many in each year subsequently?

I did post it twice. I am having trouble with the WiFi here.

Lunch over. On the coffee now. I may go for a walk.

Yep rates were forerunner of Tories Window Tax.

Bloody hell Cynic its been the main news since just after Lunch, thats obviously why you said I was posting rubbish, you werent aware were you, you little devil.

Just google it and itl give you full details.

You thought I was pulling your leg.

Sorry no.

Its FOR REAL.

They have all ESCAPED AND REPORTED TODAY YOU PLONKER.

tories weren't in power in 1696, and nor did they introduce its precursors, the chimney and the the hearth tax

no they have not!

to repeat 42437 .....
sticky - warped reporting of yours i'm afraid, though it is indeed an indictment of Ford's security .... below is the TRUE story!!

A convict on the run from an open prison is one of nearly 90 currently at large from the same jail.
Police have warned that David Blood, who absconded from Ford Prison in West Sussex on Thursday, may pose "a threat to the public".
The 48-year-old is one of the latest inmates to go on the run from the jail, with Sussex police revealing there are 89 convicts missing from Ford, including a number of murderers, and some who have been missing for years.

Window tax was William III

Manuel,

P 42455

Best playing fields in London.

It is the academic curriculum, ethos and doctrines which worries me!

Some seems to have have percolated down to you.

You didn't have a girl friend there!

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GF,

He didn't want to serve a life sentence!

So he walked out!

The party of Law and Order comes to mind.