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.

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.

Retweeted by electionista

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

Blair is getting more involved in the 'make Blair rich' project. It has been going very well so far. He has extensive business interests in the US where they think he is as almost a god. He facilities business deals in Israel and across the Arab world. He is virtually the only person in a position to do business in the whole ME. His Middle East Peace Envoy job is a nice cover and excuse to be all over the region.

Slimeball - far too kind

This is from Jan 2013

The Sunday Telegraph yesterday reported that Tony Blair “will enter the rich-lists for the first time this year” and, according to accountants, he also has “a complex web of companies, designed… to hide just how much money he makes and from where his money comes.”

According to the Telegraph, Blair’s business empire now also has a trading arm, headed by the former managing director at Barclays Capital and staffed by recruits, licensed by the FSA, from Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan and KPMG.

Clients include such liberal regimes as the well-known democracies of Kuwait, Kazakhstan and Qatar.

This is interesting from last summer

Until recently, Tony Blair had never visited Malawi. Last summer there was a lot of international press coverage on the discovery of oil under Lake Malawi. Since then he’s developed an interest in Malawi’s “governance” and has visited twice in nine months.

He arrives in Malawi today, having successfully shoehorned a couple of staffers from his “Africa Governance Initiative” into high level advisory roles with Joyce Banda’s government.

It’s anyone’s guess why Blair still believes he and his cronies are worth listening to. Presumably for the same reason this inveterate warmonger saw fit to rack up bills of £1 million per year at the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem while working as a “peace envoy”. (He’s obviously doing a terrific job and no doubt the Middle East will be at peace any time now). Egyptians know him as an astute analyst of international affairs — remember how he pointed out that Mubarak was “immensely courageous and a force for good” in, ahem, February 2011?

Blair would make a perfect tory.

I would think Cameron and Porky would have a plaque of him on the walls of the Cons HQ next to Maggie and worship it each day.

Definitely same principles!


I think I can smell the scent of jealousy in Manuel and Hazy's posts.