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.

When's Dave going?

Tim Montgomerie ‏@TimMontgomerie 8m
The hardworking Owen Paterson has gone. Big blow for Euroscepticism, climate realism and the countryside vote. Lib Dems rejoicing apparently

May next year some time Max.

Camoron opens up a can of worms with this anti Euro Tory below..

9:28pm: Owen Paterson sacked.

9:07pm: Solicitor General Oliver Heald also leaving.

9.03pm: Greg Barker out of DECC and will quit parliament next year.

8:34pm: Attorney General Dominic Grieve leaves the government.

8:16pm: Transport minister Stephen Hammond out.

8:07pm: Police minister Damian Green sacked.

7:30pm: David Willetts quits, will leave parliament next year.

7:27pm: Nick Hurd stands down as Minister for Civil Society.

7:18pm: Northern Ireland Minister Andrew Robathan quits.

7:17pm: Development Minister Alan Duncan quits “at his own request”.

5:36pm: Ken Clarke quits as Minister Without Portfolio.

5:29pm: David Jones sacked as Welsh Secretary.

Developing…

Cant come soon enough gf, not that I want Millibandus in charge you understand.


Getting rid of Paterson is a mistake, but it tells you the way the wind is blowing.

He he he its all happening at Tory HQ and Downing street.

Reshuffle: Ministers facing the sack in mutiny against David Cameron



JOE MURPHY, POLITICAL EDITOR
Published: 14 July 2014 Updated: 17:58, 14 July 2014
David Cameron faced a mutiny from ministers facing the sack tonight in a reshuffle cull of “male and pale” Cabinet members.

Friends of Environment Secretary Owen Paterson said there would be “fury” in the countryside if the right winger was axed. Lord [Greville] Howard of Rising, said “There are 12 million voters in the countryside and they will be absolutely furious if he is moved.”

Andrew Lansley, the Commons leader, is also believed to be resisting a return to the backbenches, arguing that he was promised to be nominated for a plum European Commissioner post.

Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan-Smith is thought to have been successful in a fight against Treasury pressure to move him and is expected to have won the right to stay in charge of benefits reform.

Mr Cameron plans to carry out sackings in his Commons office tonight and to make appointments tomorrow. The regular Tuesday Cabinet has been postponed until a special session at Chequers on Friday.

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...............

Iain Dale ‏@IainDale 43s
I'm now hearing William Hague will not just step down as Foreign Secretary but will also announce he's standing down from Parliament.

Rats deserting the sinking ship.


WHAT A SHAMBLES.

The last throw of Cameron and the party of Cons.

He is staying on as an advisor.

Confidence vote, it's the only chance to save the tory party, cos Dave has lost the plot.

If he ever had it?

They are doing a god job considering it is a coalition.

Dave cant keep using the lib/dims as a bomb shelter, stand up and be counted.


Or why not go the whole hog and join them, €urope an all?

Camoron as certainly lost the plot.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jul/14/ukip-guardian-icm-poll-tories-labour-nigel-farage

Ukip support plummets to push Tories back into the lead

Poll shows Tories picking up majority of deserters as Farage's party drops back into single figures, with Labour on 33%

Ukip support has plunged back from its high point of the European elections, giving a boost to all the established Westminster parties and pushing the Tories into the lead, according to a new Guardian/ICM poll.

Nigel Farage's party drops back into single figures to stand on 9%, down seven points from last month's score of 16%. The Tories pick up the lion's share of these deserters, gaining three points to climb to 34%, enough to put them a single point ahead of Labour, even though the opposition also edges up one to 33%.

The Liberal Democrats also climb two, to 12%.

http://richardwillisuk.wordpress.com/2014/07/14/new-icm-poll-conservatives-move-1-ahead-as-ukip-plunges/

There is a new ICM poll in the Guardian tomorrow which the Conservatives taking a 1% lead over Labour following last month’s 1% Labour lead:

Conservative 34% (up 3%)

Labour 33% (up 1%)

Lib Dem 12% (up 2%)

UKIP 9% (down 7%)

This is a huge drop in UKIP support taking them down into single figures. However, the net effect of the changes this month is a small Conservative lead which will cheer David Cameron as he embarks on his reshuffle

http://www.newsnetscotland.com/index.php/scottish-news/9460-double-blow-for-miliband-as-colleague-predicts-cameron-win-and-tories-edge-ahead-in-poll

Double blow for Miliband as colleague predicts Cameron win and Tories edge ahead in poll

Labour leader Ed Miliband’s hopes of replacing David Cameron at Number Ten have been severely dented after the Tories edged ahead in the latest opinion poll.

According to the survey by ICM, Labour has lost its lead over David Cameron's party and now trails the Conservatives by 34% to 33%.

The result is an increase of 3pts for David Cameron against a 1 point rise for Miliband. The survey came on the same day that a senior Labour party figure said he believed David Cameron would win the 2015 general election. Former Labour Home Secretary Charles Clarke warned that a Tory majority is the most likely outcome of the 2015 election.

Speaking to the Huffington Post, Mr Clarke criticised the lack of direction under Ed Miliband and the lack of positive reasons to vote Labour – both of which he says make an outright Tory victory probable at the next Westminster election.

"I think the most likely outcome is a Tory overall majority," he said.

Ed Miliband, he added, had not "set out a clear statement of what Labour would actually do" and relied instead on an "assembly of odd policies ".

Mr Clarke’s searing criticism is the latest blow to Ed Miliband’s leadership - with recent polls showing that only 9 per cent of Scots think the Labour leader looks like a Prime Minister, and 50 per cent believing he has been a weak leader of his party.

Pressure has piled on Mr Miliband with a string of senior party colleagues expressing disquiet over his lacklustre leadership.

Another former minister, Labour MP David Blunkett, recently warned that losing next year’s election would see Labour "in the wilderness for as much as 15 years".

DailyMail
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£1billion 'film tax bill for stars': String of household names face paying huge sums over scheme that linked box office hits to tax breaks

Bob Geldof, Anne Robinson and Victoria Beckham said to be also among the 1,000 household names affected
They each paid a minimum £100,000 to invest in a movie venture that promised to combine box office hits with tempting tax breaks

By Sam Greenhill

Published: 23:39, 9 March 2014 | Updated: 12:03, 10 March 2014


A string of celebrities from David Beckham to Andrew Lloyd Webber face having to pay the taxman a total of £1 billion in a dispute over a suspected tax avoidance scheme.

They each paid a minimum £100,000 to invest in a movie venture that promised to combine box office hits with tempting tax breaks.

Gary Lineker, Bob Geldof, Anne Robinson and Victoria Beckham are also among the 1,000 household names affected.
A string of celebrities from David and Victoria Beckham to Andrew Lloyd Webber face having to pay the taxman a total of £1 billion in a dispute over a suspected tax avoidance scheme


A string of celebrities from David and Victoria Beckham to Andrew Lloyd Webber face having to pay the taxman a total of £1 billion in a dispute over a suspected tax avoidance scheme

The Ingenious Film Partners 2 LLP scheme qualified for tax breaks under rules designed to stimulate the British film industry. Hit movies such as Life of Pi, Avatar and Girl With a Pearl Earring all benefited from tax relief.

But HMRC now argues such schemes were not legitimate investment opportunities but a means of avoiding tax.

Now a confidential letter, seen by the Sunday Times, has been sent by Ingenious Media Investments to its celebrity investors warning them of ‘draconian’ plans by HM Revenue and Customs to make them pay up to £1billion they had received in tax relief.

The newspaper claimed the tough new approach reflected HMRC’s frustration at dealing with a backlog of some 65,000 individuals and businesses it suspects of using tax avoidance schemes.

The Ingenious film scheme is soon to be tested at a tax tribunal, but HMRC is asking investors to repay money even before their case comes to court.
Gary Lineker is also among those who paid a minimum £100,000 to invest in a movie venture that promised to combine box office hits with tempting tax breaks

Bob Geldof, Anne Robinson and Victoria Beckham are also among the 1,000 household names affected


Gary Lineker, Bob Geldof, Anne Robinson and Victoria Beckham are also among the 1,000 household names affected

The letter from John Boyton at Ingenious Media Investments tells clients: ‘This proposal would accelerate the payment of the tax repaid to you by HMRC, in advance of the outcome of the current legislation.’

Other household names who invested in the firm’s ventures include the singers Geri Halliwell and Annie Lennox, television presenters Ant and Dec and Davina McCall, and England football manager Roy Hodgson, along with football stars Wayne Rooney and Steven Gerrard.

Ingenious denies HMRC’s claims and intends to fight for its scheme in the tax tribunal scheduled for November.

Lord Lloyd-Webber told the Sunday Times he was advised that he was being ‘almost philanthropic by investing in the British film industry, and that this was a scheme to promote British films’, adding: ‘At no time did I consider it solely a tax scheme.’

A spokesman for the Beckhams said: ‘They have always paid the taxes they have owed in full.’

Last night Ingenious said the HMRC’s demands were ‘indiscriminate and unfair’. A company spokesman said: ‘Ingenious has been trying to obtain a definitive ruling on the tax status of its film and games partnerships for many years. The company requested a hearing before the tax tribunal in 2011 to resolve this matter as expeditiously as possible, but HMRC has repeatedly used stalling tactics to delay a hearing.

‘Ingenious is proud of its record in financing hit films, including Avatar, Life of Pi and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which have generated more than £1 billion of taxable revenue for the UK Treasury, with a further £1 billion of taxable revenue expected over the life of the films.’
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The Prime Minister is expected to use a reshuffle to promote Liz Truss and Esther McVey to his Cabinet ahead of the general election campaign


she s a evil bitch and now the party is finished a liar and a very dishonest person
conservative party Cameron you have fcuked up big time .
as a life long tory family we could never vote for the party now its finished

It's all going to plan T, Cameroon was sent in to destroy the tory party and he's making a good job of it.