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.

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

Cameron, himself, the biggest nightmare.

Almost typed night-ware!

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


More votes for UKIP

alders he he.

Iain Duncan Smith: Sir Bob Kerslake was right about universal credit business case
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Published by Jon Land for 24dash.com in Central Government and also in Housing, Universal Credit

Thursday 10th July 2014 - 10:06am

Iain Duncan Smith has been forced to admit that the lifetime business case for the implementation of universal credit has not yet been signed off by the Treasury.

In a heated exchange in the House of Commons, the Work and Pensions Secretary confirmed that funding for the flagship reform of the benefits system was being signed off on a piecemeal basis by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

He explained that although the Treasury had agreed universal credit business case plans "for the lifetime of this parliament" the full business case for the lifetime of the programme was still under discussion.

Duncan Smith also admitted, in a roundabout way, that the comments made about universal credit by Sir Bob Kerslake earlier this week were correct. He told the Commons: "My point is that the answer that Mr Kerslake, the head of the civil service, gave was correct in the sense, as I have said today, that the overall strategic business case for the full lifetime of the programme is in discussion right now for that completion."

Here are the highlights from Hansard of yesterday's universal credit debate:

Proves ESTER was telling porkies and lied to parliament.

The DWP is a department run by scumsters.

Work till you drop.....




Rising state pension age: work to 70 or 75?

Documents published by the Office of Budget Responsibility show estimated future state pension ages. What will yours be?



A worst case scenario would see today's 20-year-olds working to 75 Photo: HOWARD McWILLIAM



Andrew Oxlade
By Andrew Oxlade

2:29PM BST 11 Jul 2014



Today's teenagers have been given a hint of their eventual state pension age in an analysis conducted by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).


The OBR, the Government's economic forecaster, underlined how rapidly the age may need to increase, to cope with the cost of an ageing population, as The Telegraph reported today.


The state pension age is already rising but the ages are yet to be set in stone. Some proposed changes over the next few decades are waiting approval and beyond that the age will be linked to average anticipated lifespan.


What many people don't realise is that this could also affect the "private pension age", currently 55.


Here we explain all.






lots more here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/pensions/10961860/Rising-state-pension-age-work-to-70-or-75.html