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.

JIL SEYMORE UKIP, farmers daughter was voted in for west midlands 55 year old jil
her family also own a manufacturing company says her family want out of the EU
read about this lady then say ukip voters are barmy
she is clever and cares about the future of the uk and her many friends

JIL YOU ARE GREAT LADY

don't confuse MEP's and UKIP's success in the recent EU elections with (likely) GE results

HAYS YOU AE WRONG EVER ONE AT MY CLUB WHO HAVE ALWAYS VOTED CONSERVATIVE ARE GOING TO VOTE UKIP .
I am the only person who as been asked by the polls the club will have a fun day the day before the election and invite ever one to attend a great day out and explain to the votes why we are backing ukip . it will be a good result

cynic read about the lady before making a comment she is rich clever and most all the votes love her and trust her .not like the liars now in power

don't then complain if you allow labour in through the back door, and then, apart from anything else, you'll be stuck in EU for eternity

I made no comment whatsoever about your local MEP, or didn't that register?

Not true, labour will push through reform in the EU.

What they wont do is pretend to be a little Hitler like camoron.

cynic if you think for one moment that the con paty will give the public a clear vote in or out you are not on this planet .
camerons family and hesitine yeo queens family are making fortunes out of land subs from the corrupt
why does he not come out now and say in or out vote 6 months after the election he will not he is a liar. and I am a conservative but these liars now in power no chance
tell me who it running the country Cameron or the libs

cynic can we take it you just vote tory and never look at it politics . read about jil seymore a great lady with guts .

Labour love the EU and are in favour of more integration and a target of federalism. The worst thing for ani EU people is a Labour government.

Why are they doing it?



'Smart meters’ to be put in every British home despite fears they may not work

The £11 billion Government plan to put ‘smart meters’ into every British home will be launched this week



7:22PM BST 06 Jul 2014

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10949976/Smart-metersto-be-put-in-every-British-home-despite-fears-they-may-not-work.html





The £11 billion Government plan to put ‘smart meters’ into every British home will be launched this week despite fears they may not work and could open the national grid up to cyber-terrorists.


The meters, which are being introduced to meet EU green targets, will cost households £200 each in an effort to cut down energy consumption and reduce bills.


However official documents have shown that the meters save less energy than predicted and five other countries who had been considering the plan have ditched it after deciding it could cost more money than it saves.


Due to complex technology the metres will also not work in a third of British homes including rural houses, high-rise flats and basements.


Energy companies will begin the installation of smart meters next year at a cost of at least £200 per home, and have admitted the expense will be passed on to customers.



Sir Bob Geldof is launching the publicity drive and will be paid for his role in the campaign.

Smart meters work by recording gas and electricity consumption every 30 minutes. The metres are linked up to monitors called In-Home Displays, which show customers how much power they are consuming at any one time and how much it is costing them.

The Government hopes that having access to this real time information will encourage families to alter their energy use accordingly.

However the gas and electricity meters transfer information wirelessly using a communication hub called ZigBee which does not work in buildings with thick walls or in multi-storey flats.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has estimated the technology will see bills fall by £26 a year by 2020 and cut electricity usage by 2.8 per cent and gas by 2 per cent.

However an early study of 743 Dutch households found users consumed only 0.9 per cent less gas and 0.6 per cent less electricity.

A risk assessment carried out by the energy watchdog, Ofgem, has also identified ‘"a range of threats such as cyber, viruses and malicious software."

Margaret Hodge, the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, said: “This is a typical Government project – they set up a big scheme but don’t think about the costs to the consumer because it’s being driven by the energy companies.

This expensive equipment is already
out-of-date, because we could get the information on our smartphones.

“The Government should really think about the technology they are

using and make sure that the consumer benefits.”

MrT - I always but always vote, so I support whichever party I feel is least worst ..... that said, I can think of perhaps a handful of politicians for whom I would vote regardless of their allegiance

in fact, my constituency is a long way from marginal, so my vote is relatively inconsequential

bob Geldof a druggie family telling me our to live. what a bloody joke
the man used famine to make is millions that is why he is rich getting thers to give money while he made money out of it .

if my energy company comes to fit one I will not allow them and if forced to have it put in will turn off the power ever night and ever time I go out then switch supplier
I do not want one do not need one .my human rights they keep on about I will take it to court or just have no energy .only via a generator

Geldof a man who could not even tell is family anything to save their lives

for no good reason, I really do not like that man either ..... sure as hell would NOT vote for him regardless of his allegiance :-)

cynic . ok

bob Geldof used the starving to make money .druggie family telling good people how to live what a bloody joke the uk as become the man is evil

energy control can not find out who the directors are or which MPs family are pushing for them . who is making money from these s/m

simple smart meters are fine, for they cut out the need for anyone to come round to read your meter

if these new fancy meters have a stack of other functions, which may or may not work, then for what good purpose?
racing certainty that consumption will be cut, but only for a very short time, and then people will pretty much revert to where they were

if these meters cost £200 each, who will pay for them?
one way or another the consumer will of course!

cynic . I e mail my readings to BG and have for the last 3 years very easy simple
have been with bg for 44 years if they fit one will move

how do they work when I turn the supply off which I do regular ever time I go away