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.

You couldn't make it up if you tried....



"Miss McVey, a former GMTV presenter from Liverpool, would act as Mr Cameron’s “minister for television”, appearing regularly in the media in the run-up to May’s general election."

GF.

She too looks worn out even for the present cabinet!

There must be blood being spilt at party HQ.

Any news or new mantras from HQ being spouted by the Hazy one.

Minister for propaganda more like.

Hays yes no where to be seen, must have upset him that the Myth that was Thatcher is now in tatters.

Must go along to my Con Club today and make sure they burn her picture.

Aesop's fable ......
The story concerns a group of frogs who called on the great god Zeus to send them a king. He threw down a log, which fell in their pond with a loud splash and terrified them. Eventually one of the frogs peeped above the water and, seeing that it was no longer moving, soon all hopped upon it and made fun of their king.

Then the frogs made a second request for a real king and were sent a water snake (sometimes substituted with a heron) that started eating them. Once more the frogs appealed to Zeus, but this time he replied that they must face the consequences of their request.

Ed Miliband will lose election to Tories, Charles Clarke says

Ed Miliband has fewer qualities than Neil Kinnock and will lose the 2015 General Election, Charles Clarke warns






By Steven Swinford, Senior Political Correspondent

1:23PM BST 14 Jul 2014



The Tories are on course to win an overall majority at the next election because Ed Miliband is a worse leader than Neil Kinnock, a former Labour Home Secretary has warned.


Charles Clarke said that Labour has "no narrative" and Ed Miliband and is failing to appeal to voters because he has an "assembly of odd policies".


Mr Clarke also criticised Mr Miliband for failing to "set out clearly" how he would control the deficit and said Labour is unlikely to regain public trust in its ability to handle the economy.


The comment from one of Labour's "big beasts" are likely to be seized on by the Conservatives who have consistently lagged behind in the polls.


Mr Clarke told Huffington Post: "I think the most likely outcome is a Tory overall majority. You've got to set out an overall account of what it is. And I don't think we have an account and I think that's Ed's biggest challenge.



More: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ed-miliband/10965983/Ed-Miliband-will-lose-election-to-Tories-Charles-Clarke-says.html

And the moral of the story?!?

Charles Clarke as always been an enemy of Milliband. I wouldnt take much notice of what he says.

Victims of alleged child abuse 'raped by MPs in exclusive flats near House of Commons'
Jul 12, 2014 20:30 By David Pallister, Mark Conrad


The pair claim they were 11 and 13 when they were first taken to “parties” at Dolphin Square, short walk from the Commons and home for up to 59 MPs at a time



Two victims of alleged child abuse claim they were raped by MPs in one of London’s most exclusive blocks of flats, reports the Sunday People.

They came forward separately – and are ready to give evidence to the new inquiry into a paedophile network at Westminster .

They claim they were 11 and 13 when they were first taken to “parties” at Dolphin Square, which is a short walk from the Commons and has been home for up to 59 MPs at a time.

Two Tory MPs, one an ex-Cabinet minister, are among the VIPs accused of abusing terrified kids they had first plied with whisky, according to an investigation by website Exaro for the Sunday People.

One of the men told how the MPs held his head under water as they raped him.

He recalled being taken to the riverside block a short walk from the Commons about 10 times over a couple of years either side of 1980.

He was around 11 when he first went there for a Christmas party.

The man said: “Sometimes I would be driven there with other children. On other occasions I would be driven there alone and join other children there.”

But the kids were not allowed to speak to one another, he claimed.

He described being led to a heavily curtained flat via several flights of stairs and a “dimly lit, musty” corridor.

He added: “We were asked if we wanted a drink – but it was always whisky.

“Both MPs were brutal. I was raped over a bath-tub while my head was beneath the water."

He claimed one MP told him to thrash another lad – and “sexually punished” him when he refused.

He added: “I was held down by a group of men and my feet were stabbed with something.”

One of the abusers was known as the Doctor and he treated any injuries.

The second man said he was about 13 when an MP took him to a “dinner party” for 12 people in the early 80s in a flat with “lots of artwork”.

Several guests left after the meal, he said, but a group of men remained with kids they had brought with them.

He said: “They were boys and girls between 13 and 15.

"The men openly discussed the fact we were young and joked about who had brought along the most attractive boy, like it was a competition.”

He said as soon as he got to know any of the other children they would vanish.

The man added: “You could never make proper friends with them but there was a bond between us all.”

He claimed the kids were often raped after their abusers had watched porn.

And he alleged he was raped by the same ex-Cabinet minister as his fellow accuser.

The shock claims come as the Government is still reeling from a series of reports over two years by the Sunday People and Exaro alleging a secret child-abuse network in corridors of power in the past.

Dolphin Square has long been a place of intrigue.

Previous residents include MI5 chiefs , Soviet spy John Vassall and Nazi traitor William Joyce, known as Lord Haw-Haw.

Read the investigation in full at www.exaronews.com.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/victims-alleged-child-abuse-raped-3848589#ixzz37S9mvgFC
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beware of what you wish for shortie :-)

LONDON, July 14 (Reuters) - The head of a government-commissioned inquiry into allegations that British public institutions failed to protect children from sexual abuse in the 1980s resigned on Monday, less than a week after being appointed. Prime Minister David Cameron's government had launched the investigation in haste after a flurry of accusations that the political establishment had systematically covered up child abuse by a number of well-known politicians. But the appointment of 80-year-old retired judge Elizabeth Butler-Sloss proved to be fraught. Critics said she was too close to the establishment she was supposed to be investigating as her late brother had been the British government's top lawyer at the time of the allegations, and she herself is a member of the upper house of parliament. Her decision-making in a previous inquiry into the handling of child abuse cases in the Church of England has also come under scrutiny. "It has become apparent over the last few days ... that there is a widespread perception, particularly among victim and survivor groups, that I am not the right person to chair the inquiry," Butler-Sloss, 80, said in a statement announcing her resignation. "It has also become clear to me that I did not sufficiently consider whether my background and the fact my brother had been Attorney General would cause difficulties." The latest abuse claims have unsettled the current political elite at a time when Britain is grappling with revelations that several nationally beloved television personalities sexually abused children for decades, and threaten to further erode already fragile public trust in politicians. ID:nL6N0PJ41C ID:nL6N0PI4CZ The inquiry will investigate to what extent public bodies, including the BBC and religious authorities, neglected their duty of care to protect children from sexual abuse in the 1980s. Yvette Cooper, the opposition Labour party's spokeswoman for home affairs, said the government had been too slow to respond to the original abuse allegations, and then not given proper consideration to Butler-Sloss's appointment. "The government's response to the very serious allegations over child abuse is in danger of losing direction," she said. A spokesman for Cameron said Butler-Sloss had decided to resign on her own initiative. Home Secretary (Interior Minister) Theresa May said she was "deeply saddened" by the decision, but respected and understood it. Alison Millar, a lawyer at the London law firm Leigh Day, which is representing people who say they were victims of assault in institutions linked to the inquiry, welcomed the news. "This was the only sensible decision to ensure that survivors and the public could feel confident that the inquiry was not going to be jeopardised by accusations of bias," she said in a statement.

Cheers Cynic, lol....

This week’s YouGov/Sunday Times poll is up here, with topline figures of CON 33%, LAB 38%, LDEM 9%, UKIP 12%.

it's a story to which i often refer :-)

When your losing.

?????????
a complete non seq old chap but the story can and does apply to many situations

You must be sick to your back teeth today to hear Thatcher was harbouring peados in her government.

Thats it now you know, everything is just a myth about her. Certainly a massive kick in the teeth for the tory party.

I did think they would get her but I thought it would be on hers sons dealing in arms.

Ah yes.. where is Mark these days?

NHS to charge non-EU patients 150% of cost of treatment

Department of Health says charges will save NHS up to £500m a year and prevent 'abuse' of system by visitors


Haroon Siddique


theguardian.com, Monday 14 July 2014 13.48 BST



http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jul/14/nhs-charge-non-eu-patients-150-per-cent-cost-treatment

I prefer this one http://www.arunjain.com/jokes/Shit_-_A_Bird_Story.htm

Ashcroft poll give Labour an overal majority...........

Labour 36%, Conservatives 32%, Lib Dems 7%, UKIP 14%, Greens 6%.

Still 9 months to go Hays. ...........smirk.