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.

Hays caught out fibbing again......

Haystack - 23 Jun 2014 10:01 - 42729 of 42737

There was an anti austerity march in Central London on Saturday. You wouldn't know from the media reporting. It seems to have been ignored by TV and press news. Not that many people turned up. Is this a sign that austerity has worked and has been seen to work.........................................ENDS

Thousands attend People's Assembly's first austerity protest,

22 June 2014 Last updated at 10:37 BST

The first austerity protest organised by the People's Assembly campaign group has taken place in London.

Organisers say tens of thousands of people met at Portland Place and marched to Parliament Square on Saturday.

The group included politicians and union leaders and was protesting about the impact of cuts around the country.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-27962963

Deficit all Labour's fault!

Just a march of activists on Saturday. Real people don't give a toss.

sticks - are you happy that labour would allow ever more power to devolve to brussels with nary a squawk and certainly without any referral to the voters?

Haystack - 23 Jun 2014 17:26 - 42740 of 42742

Deficit all Labour's fault!..............................ends

IGNORANT POST AS USUAL

Hays,

I can see you are having problems and NHS Mental Health care has had cut backs under the present government make it difficult for you to find a NHS bed.

Ask you wife if she can find a private hospital bed willing to take you.

I am sure she will oblige!

Labour are keen on the federalist agenda. Their aim is a left leaning European centralist government with lots of immigration.

sticks - may i have an answer to the q i posed you (42742) ..... no political diatribe required :-)

Manuel,

I am happy, like the majority of "subjects of the EU", for renegotiation of the laws, rules and regulation within the EU and in the UK.

But feel negotiating rather the constant moaning, bleating, threatening and blustering by Cameron and Cronies, UKIP and others.

Also, the blustering and poncing about by Cameron and crew irritates many in Europe and they will give the UK a less sensitive hearing.

The blustering of Cameron's is seen being done for internal political reasons to try to keep him as a feeble leader of the con party, of which he makes a very capable leader.

for goodness sake fred .... are you really totally incapable of giving a simple response instead of always but always jumping onto your political soapbox?

in fact, i see you don't answer the question, but then perhaps i didn't phrase it well enough, though i still think it clear enough

Manuel,

I am sorry.

i thought that was a simple answer, but forgot your limitations!

Hard luck!

INSIDER INFORMATION HERE ABOUT THE DWP

Dear ------,

They’re figures you won’t hear the DWP press office crowing about, unlike the massive drop in employment and support allowance (ESA) appeals. Nor will you see them splashed across the tabloids.

The latest ESA outcomes statistics were released quietly last week, covering the period July to September 2013.

They show that 27% of new ESA claimants were found fit for work.

In the quarter immediately before the coalition came to power, on the other hand, the proportion of claimants being found fit for work was 61%.

So the percentage being found fit for work under IDS has more than halved.

But it’s the increase in the proportion of claimants being put in the support group that has been the most astonishing. When IDS became a minister it stood at 10%.

It is now an extraordinary 57%.

That’s right: almost six times as many people are getting into the support group under the coalition compared to when Labour was in power.

It’s true that there is such a massive backlog of ESA claims now that these figures may change when all the assessments have been done: there has been a particularly big rise in support group percentages in the last three quarters that statistics are available for.

But this isn’t just a blip: the proportion going into the support group has risen every single quarter since IDS took over. It had more than trebled by the beginning of 2012.

Elsewhere in this newsletter you’ll see:

that the DWP now privately believe universal credit, with its fewer than 6,000 claimants, is dead;
that there is a massive backlog of 700,000 ESA medicals, leading a top judge to declare that the WCA process has virtually collapsed – we have an update on which groups are currently having assessments and which will be left in relative peace;
that three quarters of PIP claims are still undecided, but that PIP success rates are now higher than under DLA;
that the DWP is overturning more than half of its own DLA decisions under mandatory reconsideration;
that an IDS aide bullied the Trussell Trust foodbank into toning down its criticism of benefit cuts.

IDS likes to portray himself as a great reformer, weaning millions of sick and disabled claimants off their supposed benefits dependency.

The reality is that he is a startlingly incompetent failure protected by a discriminatory and unprofessional press office.

And, one day soon, even the hate-mongering tabloids he feeds will grow tired of covering up his catastrophes and turn on him.

IDS likes to portray himself as a great reformer, weaning millions of sick and disabled claimants off their supposed benefits dependency.

The reality is that he is a startlingly incompetent failure protected by a discriminatory and unprofessional press office.

And, one day soon, even the hate-mongering tabloids he feeds will grow tired of covering up his catastrophes and turn on him.

Call me Dave's bosses must be really twisting his nuts...



David Cameron may campaign to leave EU if Juncker is appointed, No 10 suggests

Downing Street refuses to rule out campaigning for a 'no' vote in any future referendum on the future of Britain's place in the EU in an effort to spur Europe into action on reform






By Georgia Graham, Political Correspondent

2:34PM BST 23 Jun 2014



David Cameron has refused to rule out campaigning for Britain to leave the EU if European leaders support the appointment of Jean Claude-Juncker, Downing Street has suggested.


The Prime Minister’s deputy spokesman would not deny reports Mr Cameron has told European leaders that Mr Junker’s election could lead to him recommending Britain vote to leave the EU if the promised referendum takes place in 2017.


Mr Cameron has been attempting to block the appointment of Mr Juncker but is increasingly resigned to defeat.



More: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10920040/David-Cameron-may-campaign-to-leave-EU-if-Juncker-is-appointed-No-10-suggests.html

Make no difference, Camoron wont be in power.

I dunno gf, the lesser spotted Millibandus is doing his level best to appear even more stupid and slippery than Cameroon...no easy task.

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Mike Smithson @MSmithsonPB · Jun 22
Chart with trend in CON & LAB YouGov shares over past year. After LAB fall signs of edging back...........

Widow aged 95 with failing eyesight is kicked off her GP's register to make way for migrants. Doctors say they cannot cope with town's soaring population

Lily Dove, 95, has been 'de-registered' from her GP in Watton, Norfolk

Along with 1,500 others, she has been told to move to another practice

The process is a result of lack of GPs and increased population


By Sam Marsden

Published: 23:17, 22 June 2014 | Updated: 09:06, 23 June 2014




http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2665295/Widow-aged-95-kicked-GPs-register-make-way-migrants-Doctors-cope-towns-soaring-population.html

the slimeball knows no bounds ......

Blair eyes Abu Dhabi office as he looks to expand Middle East role
Tony Blair is looking to open an office in Abu Dhabi, the increasingly assertive oil-rich emirate, in an apparent bid to expand his role as a behind-the-scenes business and political broker in the Middle East