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.

Haze,

You are not having troubles with your liver?

It is time to look after your organs.

there's only one person i have ever stuck under a stone, and he's still there as he's a total pain - Tomasz - and i have no intention of adding to the score

Tomaz, hes a cute cat.

Whats your problem cyners and anyway I thought you were off to the fRENCHIES today.?

sort of.... staying at Sofitel T5 o'night as 07:30 flight

It's been cancelled!



8-)

Well have a lovely holiday, where are you going specificaly?

How long and will u still be posting,.............hope so and suspect Fred will aswel,

Mind their is an argument for getting all away from it all and i wouldnt blame you.

always take laptop with me a i don't want to be hit with any shocks when i get back to the office, so of course you won't get rid of me that easily

staying at a very nice villa near st remy ..... it's a "proper" home and we've rented it for the last 5/7 years

a glass of fizz beckon methinks :-)

Are you using a land line or mobile as a modem with French Sims Connection?

If the latter which IP are you using?

Hey Cyners BUY THEM.Ive got 4 now and maintainace costs are nothing. Fantastic return every year. No tax hopping either.

Is just on TV Fat Dave as LOST.

I dont understand why Call Me Dave made such a big thing about the Junker elevation, without the means or backbone to do something about it.

He was simply batting a bum wicket from the off, and heading for defeat by the German high command via Brussels.

It makes no sense to take a position where you cannot win and you have no fallback plan.


Why did he do it?

Because he is pretty thick.

I think he did the right thing. The choice of President is supposed to be decided by the heads of state and the assembly was attempting to bypass that system. There was more support for a different candidate than it appears. Merkel doesn't want Juncker but has supported him as she has coalition partners who want him and would cause problems for her. Cameron knew he couldn't stop Juncker but attempted to on principal.

He hasn't got any principles!

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What was happening here?


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28054433


Ex-PM aide charged over abuse images
Patrick Rock. a former senior adviser to the prime minister, has been charged by police over child abuse images.

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How many brandies before breakfast to-morrow?

Or is a bit of the hard stuff?

villa has Wi-Fi so just log into their system

You are spoilt!

I have to float a balloon into the sky with a thin copper wire attached.

Messages just seem to float away into space.

Copper replacement is getting expensive.

It had nothing to do with principles, Call Me Dave hasn't got any anyway, it's more to do with posturing and trying to fob off the tory awkward squad and the general public at large.


If there was any real intent to call a referendum, it could be done in the autumn and clear up the question of Greater €uropa once and for all.

It couldn't be done in the autumn. You obviously don't understand the processes involved. Legislation has to be passed to allow a referendum. That legislation could not get enough votes because the Libs and Labour don't want a referendum. Without a majority the Conservatives cannot win a vote on it. If you want a referendum then there is one and only one way to get it and that is to vote Conservative. Labour won't give you one and nor will the Libs. UKIP can't give you one.

hays is right; max is wrong

Angela Merkel 'didn’t want' Jean-Claude Juncker, says German press

Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine claims Angela Merkel getting a “commission president she actually didn’t want” and lists allegations made against Jean-Claude Juncker

Chancellor Angela Merkel “didn’t want” Jean-Claude Juncker to become the next European Commission President despite the repeated public backing she gave to the controversial former Luxembourg prime minister for the post, Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine has claimed

In a commentary published on the magazine’s online site Der Spiegel listed the allegations levelled against Mr Juncker in the German and British media which have cast doubt on his suitability for the top EU job.

“The man from Luxembourg quite likes drinking, we read, on top of that he is lazy and drained. He gives speeches to lobby groups for lots of money and his father was a crazy Nazi…. Even the worst and wrong rumours about him are socially acceptable in Europe,” the magazine wrote.

Despite the criticism of Mr Juncker, Chancellor Angela Merkel has repeatedly backed him as her preferred candidate for the post. She recently dismissed speculation that she would have preferred another candidate, by publicly reiterating her support for Mr Juncker.

However Der Spiegel said that with Mr Jucker as EU Commission President, Angela Merkel was getting a “ commission president she actually didn’t want.” The magazine said that she, like other EU leaders, “knew exactly” what Mr Juncker’s weaknesses were but that they did not perturb them because they wanted a compromise candidate.

“Europe’s master female strategist has miscalculated,” Der Spiegel said of Mrs Merkel. “ Next time more capable candidates will run for the job,” it added.