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.

Don't come back waving a peace of paper and claiming peace.

Remember what happened!

Re: The Morrisons pub conversion.

This type of conversion seems to be catching on a bit. Here's a picture of the Globe Hotel at Weedon, where the A5 crosses the Northampton to Daventry Road. Tons of interior has been removed and lots of 'RSJ's put in to hold up the upper parts, thereby opening up lots of the ground floor. This place is now a superb Tesco Convenience Store.

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Here's a link to the article in the local rag, with a picture and mentioning the Tesco Express store opening and how it is also supporting the local community, who were coincidentally, 'up in arms' about it happening.

Actually, it is well worth a read to see how Tesco completely turned round, what was initially extremely bad publicity. They got the local school kids to open the place and donated £500 to the school:

http://www.daventryexpress.co.uk/news/local/new-store-opens-with-a-community-gesture-1-6075317

£500 quid, broke their hearts eh?

Update - Labour lead at 3
by YouGov in Politics
Wed June 18, 2014 6 a.m. BST

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 17th June - Con 34%, Lab 37%, LD 7%, UKIP 13%;

ICM poll for the Guardian CON 31%(-2), LAB 32%(+1), LDEM 10%(-3), UKIP 16%(+1).

Yawnnnnnnnn.

Gaffe-prone Ed Miliband scores lowest ever poll rating... even worse than Nick Clegg

Just 22% of voters think Ed Miliband is doing a good job as Labour leader
His net rating plummets to -39 points, lower than Nick Clegg's -37 points
David Cameron is highest rated leader on -5 points, ICM poll reveals

Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg have seen their popularity plummet to new record lows, according to a devastating new poll.

The Labour and Lib Dem leaders are under intense pressure from their MPs and party members with less than a year until the general election.

After a run of PR gaffes, Mr Miliband’s net satisfaction rating has dropped to -39, even worse than Mr Clegg’s -37 points.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/iainmartin1/100276617/is-ukip-putting-voters-off-euroscepticism/

By now, according to Ukipper orthodoxy, Britain should be halfway out the door at the EU. The supposed Eurosceptic tidal wave, which helped secure Ukip its victory recently in the European elections, should be rolling on, swamping the mainstream parties and creating a wasteland from which will emerge a new, proud, self-governing country liberated as if by magic from the monstrous tyranny that is the European Union, or something like that.

And yet, here's a poll this morning on British membership of the EU. Conducted by YouGov, it suggests that support for continued British membership has risen. If there was a vote, 44 per cent of those polled say they would vote to stay in while 36 per cent would choose the exit. The lead of 8 points for "in" is up on a fortnight ago, when the two camps were almost level pegging on 41 per cent and 39 per cent.

Support has also risen for the option of staying in after a potential renegotiation of our terms of membership by David Cameron. YouGov finds that 57pc would vote to remain an EU member in such circumstances, against 22pc opting to leave. A fortnight ago the equivalent figures were 53pc plays 24pc. The lead for "in" has extended from 29 points to 35 points in a fortnight.

All this has happened since Ukip had its great breakthrough amid much excitement in May in the EU elections. Could it be that the rise of Ukip is scaring some moderate voters and putting them off Euroscepticism all together? Might the Ukippers be tainting the Eurosceptic cause with all their shouting?

Smoke and mirrors Haystack.

If those figs were even remotely correct and could be relied upon, there would be a referendum next week.

There won't be a referendum until discussions about changing the rules. The net result will be us staying in the EU

There you go, you admit it, there wont be a referendum.

The €uropols are not going to change any rules (of consequence), the rest is just Dave and co blowing smoke up the publics ass.

If the Conservative get in there will be a referendum after discussions. I think the result of the referendum will be a vote to stay in.

H/S, the fond of all wisdom.. Not.

Stan,

Did you mean H/s is the fount.

I have to agree he is a bit of a drip!

Yes and yes Fred, my deliberate mistake.

It's nice to see someone is awake -):

BERLIN, June 18 (Reuters) - Battle-hardened jihadists returning from Syria's civil war are no longer an 'abstract threat' but a 'deadly danger' to Europe, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said on Wednesday. An estimated 2,000 Europeans, including some 320 German citizens, have travelled to Syria to fight alongside Islamist rebels, he said while presenting the German domestic intelligence service's (BfV) annual report. European governments are struggling to stop their nationals, some just teenagers, travelling to Syria where the conflict that began as a peaceful uprising to President Bashar al-Assad has become an armed rebellion is entering its fourth year. More than 160,000 people have been killed. The trip to Syria is often as simple as a low-cost flight to Turkey then passage over the border with a trafficker. "We had feared that those returning from the Syrian conflict might plan attacks here. We now know those fears were well founded. An abstract danger.... has turned into a concrete, deadly danger in Europe," de Maiziere said. British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday that British and other European Islamists fighting in the Middle East posed the biggest threat to Britain's security. ID:nEA6h00K7U BfV chief Hans-Georg Maassen said authorities had narrowly averted an Islamist attack in Bonn just before Christmas which would have harmed many people, and Germany remained a target. The French citizen suspected of killing four people at a shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels last month spent time fighting in Syria and passed through Frankfurt airport, he said. Germany has introduced anti-radicalisation programmes and hotlines for families worried their children might be planning to leave for Syria, but young people are still radicalising fast and often beyond the radar of intelligence services, he said. The BfV report estimates there are some 43,000 Islamists in Germany, with the numbers of the ultra-conservative Salafi movement growing. Maassen said the Internet played an important role in this recruitment process, evolving from a forum where extremists distributed information to a place where young jihadists were giving regular updates of their experiences via social media. "Euphoric young people are sharing on the Internet what they are experiencing hour by hour," added the German security chief. "They are posting gruesome pictures of executions, of severed heads... it is staggering to see the numbers of 'likes' and links, and it shows there is a group in Germany which is ready to be radicalised and to travel to Syria," he said.

Did those UK individuals who went to Spanish Civil War in 1936 to fight for Franco, or the Republicans, cause much of a problem when they returned to the UK?

Is condemning or preventing individuals going to Syria Iraq etc. more likely to stimulate some to cause problems, if or when they return to the UK.

It would seem the present UK government doesn't know what to do about Syria, Iraq or the M/E in general and is strutting around or sitting on its hands and spouting gibberish.

totally different world now fred