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.

ohhhhh stop being silly Hays Im a member of 4 pro bodies and have to pay the large annual fee or my chances of obtaining work are almost nil. (even though I hardly practice these days)

You forget the Politicians and Management of British companys cause far more disruption to the public than the Unions.

Look at the passport office, look at the Banking sector. Far more disruption than todays 1 day strike. Thats just the tip of the ice berg i could go on and on.

You seem to go through life blinkered in a sleep walk.

Alders yep I couldnt get it to work i thought it was one of them usual scams.
cheers.

The workers! United! Will never be defeated! All eight of them…

http://order-order.com/2014/07/10/6-photos-of-the-mass-strikes-crippling-britain/?shared=email&msg=fail

Don't think QT 2nite will be much its from Inverness , am not interested in the Scotland in/out debate. It depends who is on the pannel and what else they will be disscussing

ELM house.

They say that Cliff Richard is on the guest list
How do they know he signed it , or did someone else thought it funny to sign his name like people calling themselves Micky Mouse do.

Ohhhhhhh QT is wasted..... when in scotland and Wales. Usualy turns out to be a regional discussion. (no disrepect to wales or scotland)

Tthe panel features campaigners for both sides from a range of occupations: singer-songwriter Ricky Ross, Daily Record columnist and agony aunt Joan Burnie, businessman and chairman of Orion Group Alan Savage, and the Scotland and British Lions rugby player Scott Hastings.

Oh dear! What about the implications for us all of these at the airport security check in?



Taken from an article with more of this sort of stuff at: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/instagram-of-us-airport-security-chiefs-lipstick-knives-and-ied-training-kits-among-items-seized-9597766.html

Click on the link and you'll see why you need to have 'a charged up and ready to go mobile phone' when you check in to airport security

It looks like the day of strikes has been a damp squib as expected. All public services still running almost normal. As we don't have a Labour government we can ignore the strikes, especially as they do not represent most people.

Sounds like QT will be a damp squib

From: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4b0ce5ce-0815-11e4-9afc-00144feab7de.html#ixzz375z8JYWw

Fears over Banco Espírito Santo trigger stocks sell-off
By Ralph Atkins and Martin Arnold in London and Peter Wise in Lisbon

Fears about one of Portugal’s biggest banks led to a sharp sell off across European financial markets on Thursday, forcing bankers to pull bond and equity issues and testing the resilience of this year’s rally in eurozone shares.

Greece had to scale back its ambitions for an issue of government debt after shares in Banco Espírito Santo plunged more than 17 per cent to the lowest price in a year, before Portugal’s stock market regulator suspended trading pending a statement from the bank.

Portugal’s PSI 20 share index closed down 4.2 per cent – its biggest daily drop in more than a year – while the jitters spread across Europe, with Italian and Spanish shares also tumbling. The FTSE Eurofirst 300 share index ended down 1 per cent.

Jim Reid, a strategist at Deutsche Bank, said problems at BES meant that questions about the health of banks in weaker eurozone countries were “back in the spotlight”, as were the still-evolving mechanisms for dealing with struggling institutions.
The turbulence followed an extended period of exceptional low volatility in global markets – which may have encouraged profit-taking. “Given the levels everything had reached, it is not surprising to have a day when everyone reappraises their exposures,” said Matt King, strategist at Citigroup.

A banker who has worked closely with BES said the Portuguese bank had a €2bn-€3bn capital shortfall and the most likely solution was some kind of state-brokered rescue deal, as a private sector solution would take too long. “There are rumours of an M&A solution, but no one has the speed to do the necessary due diligence and move fast enough to do a deal,” the banker said. “This needs a solution now – in the next couple of weeks – and that means a state intervention.”

The Bank of Portugal reiterated on Thursday that “the solvency of Banco Espírito Santo is solid”.

Intervention by the Portuguese government, however, could reignite fears about the potential exposure of weaker eurozone governments to bank sector problems.

Cristiano Ronaldo does not sing particularly well. Portugal had a revolution in 1974. These are two discrete facts. They are also ineluctably associated with Espirito Santo, the Portuguese finance house.

Dire industrial production numbers for France, where output dropped 1.7 per cent for May compared with a month earlier, and Italy, where it fell 1.2 per cent, added to nervousness about the strength of the eurozone recovery.

Amid the sell-off, Banco Popular Español, a Spanish bank, aborted plans to issue a “contingent convertible” bond, or coco, to raise at least €500m. Separately, ACS, the Spanish construction company headed by Real Madrid boss Florentino Pérez, shelved its inaugural euro bond sale.

In Italy, Rottapharm, a pharmaceuticals group, pulled its initial public offering after failing to achieve its target price. Trading was halted in several Italian banks.

Athens had expected strong demand for a Greek bond issue after a debt sale in April attracted €20bn in orders, more than six times the amount sold. But after investors placed orders of €3bn the bond raised €1.5bn.

Yields on Portugal’s 10-year bond rose 21 basis points to close at 3.99 per cent.
German Bunds – often a haven during periods of volatility – rallied with yields falling to a low of 1.17 per cent, the lowest level since early 2013.

You need agony aunt Joan Burnie you Hays, taking on a moll at your age is a bit too risky bud. Listen to uncle goldfinger and be wise.

Just think if one of your lads catch you with her online.

Itl be curtains or at least youl lose your bal-s.

Dont think being premium hides you.

Re: #43464

Common or garden these days Exec....nothing to worry about, move along now.

Max you get more like me ever day now.

God help you. he he.

Getting priorities right....




Obesity surgery could be offered to a million more people on NHS

Nice suggests lowering the threshold at which people are offered weight loss surgery – which costs the NHS around £6,000 per operation


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10960538/Obesity-surgery-could-be-offered-to-a-million-more-people-on-NHS.html




Extending pension age 'only way to clear UK debt'

People will have to work until they are 70 to help reduce the impact of Britain's ageing population on the economy, OBR warns


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10960560/Future-generations-will-work-longer-to-pay-off-Britains-debt.html

Cameron is going to protect us.

I wish somebody would protect us from Cameron!

the gov trying to play down the pedo story all the pedos are totys and libs or their backers

Tories you mean. I suspected that.

Update - Labour lead at 3
by YouGov in Political Trackers and Politics
Fri July 11, 2014 6 a.m. BST

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 10th July - Con 34%, Lab 37%, LD 8%, UKIP 12%;

Strikes havent helped labour.

You can add a further 5 points on when they are forgoten to labours total.

This peado thing is setting the Tories back and will continue to do so.

Its Camorons biggest nightmare.

They won't be all Tory peado's ., LIB/Dems will have a surprising amount and Labour about the same as the Torys. but am only guessing.

I went swimming the other day, and as i was walking beside the pool towards a group of children the letter S fell off of my speedo's. I wondered why they run screaming