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.

What rubbish.

ps, Hilary, hows that gammy leg of yours.

Hays been kissing it right for you.???

You really are a nasty piece of work, God help your poor husband.

Poll: David Cameron's reshuffle boosts Tories

Six in ten voters believe the reshuffle - which demoted Michael Gove and promoted several female ministers - was “a step in the right direction” for the Conservatives, ORB International survey shows





By Tim Ross, and James Kirkup

10:00PM BST 19 Jul 2014



David Cameron’s Cabinet reshuffle has boosted the Conservatives’ chances at the next election as most voters give his new ministerial team their approval, a new poll shows.


The ORB International survey for the Telegraph shows that six in ten voters believe the reshuffle - which demoted Michael Gove and promoted several female ministers - was “a step in the right direction” for the Tories.


Some 59 per cent of people questioned backed the shake-up of ministerial jobs, while 41 per cent had doubts.


The reshuffle received the most positive response from Tory voters, 87 per cent of whom approved. And in a result that will encourage Downing Street, half of Ukip voters took a positive view of the shake-up.


Even 45 per cent of Labour supporters said the reshuffle was good for the Tories, according to the survey of 2,000 adults, conducted on Wednesday and Thursday last week.



More unbelievable bollox here from team Cameron:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/10978470/Poll-David-Camerons-reshuffle-boosts-Tories.html



ps, no comments allowed.....read into it what you want.

This is a better image of Wavy Dave being fierce:

Gosh he really frightens me!

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Will Netanyahu go down in history as the Jewish Hitler, after all he is changing Gaza into a Ghetto and using the same tactics as the Nazis?

What he is forgetting is that Hitler's actions in the end failed!

Will he be tried for War Crimes.

We are prepared to use sanctions against Russia where is is unlikely to be effective, but not against the Israeli government when it may be effective and drive a decent resolution to the continuing "strife" in Gaza.

The film Gran Prix is on at the moment. I was at the British Grand Prix in 1965 when they filmed some of it at Brands Hatch. They asked the crowd to stay behind for a couple of hours after the race so they could film a crash and a car burning. Jim Clark was in the race I saw. Phil Hill was driving a white AC Cobra with a cameraman in front of and behind racing cars to get the movie footage. I still have photos I took in the race of Jim Clark and of Phill Hill. The film cast is amazing :- Bruce McLaren, Graham Hill, Jack Brabham, and lots of racing car drivers plus the actors.

..How interesting -):

Stan,

Do you know my father knew Lloyd George!

8-)

Emily Benn, daughter of Labour dynasty, to run for Parliament

Emily Benn, 24, grand-daughter of Tony Benn, selected to fight Croydon South



Emily Benn, speaking at Westminster Academy school in London back in 2010 Photo: EPA



By Matthew Holehouse, Political Correspondent

10:50AM BST 20 Jul 2014

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/10978794/Emily-Benn-daughter-of-Labour-dynasty-to-run-for-Parliament.html



The granddaughter of the late Labour grandee Tony Benn is poised to become the fifth generation of her political family to sit in the Commons after being selected to stand in next year's general election.


Emily Benn, who will contest Croydon South for Labour in May next year, insisted that her famous surname was not the reason she was selected for the seat.


Ms Benn, 24, who was elected as a councillor in Croydon earlier this year, faces an uphill battle to join her uncle Hilary Benn, the shadow communities secretary, in the Commons.


She will have to overturn a 15,818 majority to unseat Richard Ottaway, the sitting Conservative MP. Labour came third in 2010.


It is not her first attempt to enter the Commons. She lost in the battle for the East Worthing and Shoreham seat in 2010.


She works at UBS investment bank. She is quoted as having told a Labour in the City event that her colleagues regard a Labour victory as a "political risk".

Earlier this year, Prime Minister David Cameron attacked Labour's political dynasties as the “Red Princes”.

Jack Straw's son Will and Lord Kinnock's son Stephen are also candidates, while the sons of John Prescott and Tony Blair are also known to be seeking selection.

In the Commons last month Mr Cameron said: "It is the same families with the same message - it is literally the same old Labour. That is what is happening."

Last month Jon Cruddas, the Labour policy chief, was recorded criticising the trend of “certain families are reproducing their control over the Labour Party through inheritance of seats”. It had “hollowed out” the party, he claimed.

Ms Benn said it was "insulting" to the local party to suggest her selection was for any other reason than her abilities as a would-be MP.

She said her family name placed no extra pressure on her. "The pressure and responsibility comes from the people who voted for me as their candidate and from Labour supporters."

Ms Benn said: "It"s obviously a challenge for Labour, but I firmly believe that there should be no 'no go' areas for the Labour Party."

As well as her uncle and grandfather, Ms Benn's great-grandfather William Wedgwood Benn and her great-great-grandfather, Sir John Williams Benn were MPs. Another great-great-grandfather, Daniel Homes, was also an MP.

No I didn't Fred,

..Do you know my father was Lloyd George -):

I wish Emily Benn the best of luck.

At least she is not being parachuted in to a safe seat like some of the tory are-nots who suck up the party grandees and slip a few bob into right hands.

Name em and shame em Fred, the tory ones.

Go on!

Do you own homework!

Mind the con party seems to me to be more incestuous than the lib/dems and labour parties.

God help them in their choices!

lol, you cant find any Fred, cos the cons haven't thought of it ...yet!


As for Emily Benn, she is being put through the wringer to make it look good, why else the puff piece?

No doubt a safe seat will be forthcoming.

A little starter.

Start with Winnie and move on since those days.

Have a look at ancestry of other tory playmates!

It is interesting to see the links.

Some have shorter trouser legs than others.

Max.

If one is born into a politically enthusiastic family it is more than likely that a proportion of off springs will share their parents interests and be "activists" in one way or another.

(Values are introjected into children at early ages and replicate in patterns of behavior in later life, unless challenged.)

Look at other professions and one will see the same patterns of family "traditions".

The difficulty is when it is becomes an expectancy or a right and is unchallenged.

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Then there is you Fred who just shags sheep!