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.

Yep agreed Fred.

It was Osbourne who appointed Carney anyway.

Im also beginning to think the OBR are no longer independant and have been gotten at by Giddeon and co. SAME building.

Odd nought slip now and again, nudge nudge wink George.

OBR are very much independent and there is no mechanism for them not to be. Carney seems to be doing a good job. In the bad old days the BoE used to change interest rates too late. Carney is using the method of hinting to have the effect of an interest rate rise without the actual need. As of a a couple of weeks ago, the BoE has new powers to control money supply and levels of personal debt. At the current rate of things, we may not see interest rate changes till well after the GE.

They just go down to the Lodge and roll their trouser's leg up!

The economy is gong well, employment is rising, business confidence very high and low interest rates. Osborne is doing a great job.

Haze.

For your own sake, do try and get some treatment!

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Rebecca has just stated she was innocent of the charges!

I am sure glad about that.

Do I believe it.

The jury thought so!

But nice to know they are sad about Coulson!

u,,mmm..h

Are there any of your immediate neighbours who you think it might be an idea to go and talk to at least once every year?

Probably not. Most of my neighbours are wierdos (and they probably think the same about me. I know I've disturbed a few comfort zones here and there).

Coming home one in the snow one night I could see one of them couldn't turn his car round on the road directly outside my house. I pulled in my drive, opened my garage door and took out four carpet sample slip mats and went to his car. "Is it a rear wheel drive?" He just shrugged his shoulders indicating he didn't really know. I popped two mats up against the back of each of his rear tyres. "Try it now." He was now able to reverse and complete the turn. Not a word of thanks! I was left to just pick up the carpet mat pieces and go back into my house. Tosser or wot? He is not the only one of my neighbours who doesn't seem to have as little as three penn'orth of common sense.

A woman has been found dead in her flat in Dorset six years after she died.

She lived in Tolpuddle Gardens. Maybe she was a martyr?

No, I didn't miss anything in the phone hacking trial, Doc. It was boring, a total waste of time and tax payers money, and nobody (other than commie activists) gave a flying fuck about it.

I'm glad the jury saw sense and that Rebekah Brooks was cleared.

Yes. She seems like a nice girl, doesn't she?

Ah, but I dare bet you missed the bit about Cameron fibbing to the Leveson inquiry. That bit might just come back to haunt him.

I would think Hilary and Rebekah have much in common.

They could exchange notes!

Be interesting to see what her next position is.


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So what? It's old news. Ed Milibland has got absolutely nothing new to go on, and the only people trying make hay from it are dead-in-the-water left wing rags like the Grauniad and Socialist Worker, and, of course, dickheads like Fred, Stan and Fishfinger.

Move along the platform please ...

Wait and see whether it comes up to bite Cameron at the GE.

I think he is leaving enough debris around to bury him.

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But I do like the way Wavy Dave stands up to be counted.

He bends with the faintest breeze in any direction he thinks he can survive in.

He is the wettest of the wet!

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Wow! I didn't realise it was this big! Some pictures:

Glastonbury

Does anyone care if Hugh Grant's messages were read by the press? Only other news rags out to profit by it and activists in general. A massive waste of money. Hopefully the Leveson report won't be followed up with new legislation. I would take a free press any day.

Mobile phones have a 'manufacturer's default security number'.

I can't help feeling that all these people with such apparently very private and very valuable voice mail information never ever bothered with changing the security setting on their phone.

It seems to me, there was always a complete absence of personal care for personal security.

And suppose we term it 'exercising journalistic curiosity' to poke about into a celebrity's (or similar) phone instead of using the term hacking?

Hacking most of these phones by just using the manufacturer's default security in most of these cases was/is so absolutely bloody simple, it is almost a crime to call it 'hacking'.

It was almost like leaving a purse or wallet with money in it on the street and calling the action of the opening the item to find out who it belonged to, commiting an act which is a gross breach of privacy.

Haze.
It was so unimportant that they had to lie about it.

Hacking into somebody else’s privacy

I suppose it is a different morality.

Perhaps, Murdoch and Rebecca's starts “decency” starts at a different point to the majority of society and for profit prepared to use market forces to make their judgements.

Also, it depends on what one considers to be of personal, or private, or public interest.

But, the gutter press supporting Cameron and appealing to his followers, often show voyeuristic tastes in other people’s privacy, but are coy when it intrudes on their own families.


Birds of feather flock together.

Jimmy Savile report out today , what a evil man. Very convenient for a lot of people in the public eye he didn't live to stand in a court of law.