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.

ah well sticky, in your jaundiced opinion, anyone who plays golf has to be a snooty, over-stuffed plutocrat
what a total pratt you are at times


i must confess, if the views you so often express on this site are reflected in your business life, i'm sure glad i don't use your company for balanced professional advice

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

you can always tell when Cynic as lost the debate as usual he reverts to personal attacks.

post 44125 was not a personal attack?? .... or is it that you feel you have lost the debate?


and are you saying my view in the subsequent post was unfair to you?
certainly your preposterous, blinkered "pit pony" views of people who play golf or have had private education have been well-aired all too frequently on this site

LABOUR 8 POINTS IN THE LEAD. Lord Ashcrofts poll just out.

Sorry Dave........I mean Lynton, your re-shuffle didnt work, in fact its backfired.


Published: July 21, 2014 5 comments
Lord Ashcroft: Labour’s lead rises in this week’s Ashcroft National Poll

Last updated: July 21, 2014 at 3:58 pm

Labour’s lead has risen to eight points in this week’s Ashcroft National Poll, conducted over the past weekend. The widening margin, following a similar shift in the Populus poll published this morning, stems mainly from a five-point fall in the Conservative share to 27%. Other movements are within the margin of error: Labour are 35%, the Lib Dems unchanged at 7%, UKIP up three to 17%, and the Greens up one point to 7%

POPULUS POLL 21, July, 2014

Lab 37%

Con 32%

Lib/Dem 9%

Ukip 13%

Other 9%

Tories falling further back again.

This tax dodging issue as really got the public against them.

Just wait till the peado issue gets going in the next few weeks.

Will someone please ask GF if he has his wife on the payroll.

If so, why and what does she do?

Audio file set to blow lid off paedophile scandal at Westminster | ExaroNews

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http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5330/audio-file-set-to-blow-lid-off-paedophile-scandal-at-westminster#.U8ruai-5WCE.wordpress

Doc,

I would've thought his wife's so fed up with him, that I doubt he has her anywhere, least of all on the payroll!

:o)

"This tax dodging issue as really got the public against them"

what absolute twaddle you talk, and not only because there's sure to be a good % of labour supporters caught up too ..... just as in this paedophile enquiry


btw, i note you quickly ducked 44130

Class War 2014: The Rich Kids of Snapchat
Posted on July 19, 2014 by David Hencke



If ever David Cameron’s claim that we are all in it together needed to be proved false, look at a site on Facebook called the Rich Kids of Snapchat.

Set up by a 17 year old British public schoolboy and liked by 244,000 people this site celebrates the life style of the super rich public schoolboys – the new generation expecting to run Britain in a decade or so.

Far from having any concern for the rest of us, this ” fun ” site worships money, fast cars, Gucci, luxury yachts and private jets,champagne and has an unhealthy interest in guns.

It is virtually the calling card of the new ” Bullingdon Club ” and the kids know they are the new ” boss class ” – the future generation of Tory Cabinet ministers, entrepreneurs and flashy businessmen and bankers. And some will have the vote in next year’s election,

Among the fun pictures are kids using £50 notes as toilet paper, £20 notes for tablecloths, handling guns to protect their estates from the ” peasants”, and commuting from home to public school by private helicopters or showing they have a £10m private bank account at Coutts.

Not surprisingly this has produced a reaction across the net with people calling for the site to be taken down, and a spate of hostile comments – sometimes producing ripostes like warning people to shut up as they will be their boss in future life.

More seriously as the Inforrm blog reveals these antics have posed problems for the more mature seriously rich parents who wish to hide their opulent life styles from the rest of us and pretend “we are all in it together”.

As the Inforrm blog says : ” The consequences could be very serious for those wealthy teens, and their families, where potentially inflammatory images appear which include identifying information such as faces, car registrations and locations.

One 19 year old, who frequently posted about his lavish lifestyle and who was featured on Tumblr site “Rich Kids on Instagram”, has already run into trouble, having had several luxury cars from his father’s rental business subsequently set alight by vandals, causing over £500,000 worth of damage to his father’s business.

Another featured ‘rich kid’ was Alexa Dell, daughter of Dell Inc. CEO Michael Dell, who posted an image of her brother tucking into a feast onboard a private jet, bound for Fiji. She also used her Twitter account to regularly post details of her location, complete with GPS location tagging- somewhat undermining the annual US$2.7 million her father reportedly spends on family security. Upon discovering this, Alexa’s account was removed and her image has been taken down.”

The blog rightly points out that in an era of unemployment and poverty where ceo’s have made people redundant this can be inflammatory.

It rightly adds:” a teen bragging about the lavish lifestyle of his or her CEO parent who has recently made redundancies or been the recipient of a sizeable bonus can easily catch the eye of a journalist on the hunt for a story – as can any images posted by a naive child who has a parent in the public eye. “

But to me the whole site seems symptomatic of a yawning divide opening up in the UK and the last thing I would want to see is it taken down. Such antics provide the perfect foil to attack the wealthy Lynton Crosby and the image he wants the Tories to present to the electorate of the ruling class in the next election. Spoilt brats revealing themselves for what they really are!

Meanwhile in true entrepreneurial fashion the site is up for sale by its 17 year old owner. He has been offered $150,000 by an American but might let it go for a mere $40,000 to a Brit with spare cash from his pocket money.

Spoilt brats revealing themselves for what they really are!

Does it matter what people do at university?

The young Ed Balls attended the private Nottingham High School (current fees £3358 per term.)

Perhaps that is why, when he got to Oxford, Ed joined an all-male drinking club called the Steamers. He recently suffered embarrassment when a photograph from the period surfaced in the newspapers. It showed him dressed in a German officer's uniform and staring at the crotch of a fellow student wearing comedy plastic buttocks.

Spoilt brats revealing themselves for what they really are!

Ive posted that photo up on Twitter with the text underneath, you should see the number of people who have taken issue with it.

People dont want these brats ruling them in future years.

Im going to save it aswel and use it at GE time.

A picture speaks a thousand words.

As gf says, a picture etc....



Balls-Up in all his glory :-)





And here is the gist of balls-up real working class history

http://order-order.com/2009/12/04/ed-balls-privileged-education-in-eton-not-at-eton/

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Oppidans £11,478 per half [i.e. term; there are three terms in a year]





King’s Scholars
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George's bully boys: Oozing entitlement, a young Osborne poses with Oxford's infamous Bullingdon Club in a newly discovered photo. But who were they?
By TOM KELLY



1. Rupert Cotterell: The grandson of the 6th Baron Camoys, he learnt to fly while studying architectural history at Oxford and was likened to Biggles because of his appearance.
Described as having ‘boundless enthusiasm’, he returned to his family’s manor house in rural Dorset after graduation and still lives in the area. Now 41 and married with three children, he helps run the family mail order food business, Cornucopia Foods.
2. Chris Coleridge: He is a descendant of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, brother of Condé Nast managing director Nicholas Coleridge, and son of Lloyds of London boss David Coleridge.
Chris studied history at Exeter College where, with financier Nat Rothschild, he launched a racy student newspaper called Rumpus which featured a topless model, a ‘Page 7 fella’ and a guide on how to steal cars, which was frowned on by the local police.
George Osborne appeared on the magazine’s astrology page, wearing a wizard’s costume. In 2005 Coleridge founded V Water, which sells vitamin-infused water. It was later sold to Pepsi. The 41-year-old recently moved to the U.S. to pursue a new business venture.
3. Nat Rothschild: The billionaire financier, 41, is the youngest of four children and, as the only boy, the future 5th Baron Rothschild. After Eton, where contemporaries remember him as an unruly student, he studied history at Wadham College.
To his family’s horror, he met Kate Moss’s friend, model Annabelle Neilson, on a beach in India and when he was 23 they eloped to Las Vegas and married. They partied hard, but after three years punctuated by explosive rows, they divorced. He later stopped drinking and turned his life around, and is now tipped to become the richest ever Rothschild.
Already heir to a £750 million fortune, he also ran the Atticus hedge fund, which grew from £60 million in assets to a peak of £13 billion before it was wound up three years ago.
The tax exile has homes in Manhattan, Paris and the Swiss ski resort of Klosters, and spends 750 hours each year in his private jet.
Last summer he celebrated his 40th birthday with a £1 million, three-day extravaganza in Porto Montenegro at the marina billed ‘the Monaco of the Adriatic’. The guest list included politicians, such as Peter Mandelson, industrialists and celebrities.
4. Mark Petre: The son of the 18th Baron Petre, he was part of an aristocratic family who made their fortune during the Tudor dissolution of the monasteries. After Oxford he became the editor of a glossy property magazine, International Homes.
In 2004 he was found dead, age 34, at his family’s stately home, Ingatestone Hall in Essex, while awaiting trial for driving under the influence of drugs after his Mercedes hit a BMW. The sedative Tamazepam was in his bloodstream ‘in excess of the therapeutic dose’, but his death was treated as ‘unsuspicious’.
5. Ed Harris: The Old Etonian studied modern languages at Christ Church. He now works in the City and is head of Asian equity sales at Standard Chartered Bank in London.
6. William Nourse: He trained as an accountant after graduating in experimental psychology from Corpus Christi College. Since 2003, the Old Etonian has worked for Deutsche Bank and is now based in Hong Kong.
Part of his job has also involved advising the National Bank of Greece. He has two children with his wife Annabel, who is the daughter of Lt General Sir John Paul Foley.
7. Mani Boni: The Italian polo player has taken part in prestigious tournaments around Europe. He is also a successful entrepreneur who was a founder of social travel site Roomsurfer.
8. Jo Johnson: The younger brother of London Mayor Boris Johnson, and son of politician Stanley Johnson, he graduated with a first in history from Balliol College in 1994. After postgraduate studies in Europe, he worked at Deutsche Bank and later as a journalist at the Financial Times.
He is married to social affairs journalist Amelia Gentleman and they have two children. Johnson, 40, became a Tory MP in 2010 and is tipped for fast-track promotion.
He declined to comment on the Bullingdon photograph — or why he is the only member of the club wearing grey trousers — and suggested that all queries should be directed to George Osborne’s office.
9. Christopher Egerton-Warburton: He has been described as the ‘picture of worldly success’, ‘charming but ruthless’ and a rare example that ‘bankers can be a force for good’.
The descendant of a Baron, Egerton-Warburton read biochemistry at Christ Church and worked for Goldman Sachs for 14 years before co-founding an investment banking firm specialising in sustainable projects in Africa and developing regions.
He was involved in the establishment of one of the largest charities in the UK which funds immunisation programmes in partnership with government, and is a trustee for several charities.
He has described himself as lucky to be alive after breaking his neck when he was knocked off his bicycle last year. The married 41-year-old lives in Pimlico, central London, and has two children, including a daughter with the middle name Lettice.
10. Lord Alexander Hope: The 41-year-old is the son of the 4th Marquess of Linlithgow. After graduation he became a merchant banker then quit to join the art world. He worked at Christie’s and last year became director of the Art Inventory company.
His friend, Tory MP Louise Mensch, acknowledged his help in her 1999 chick-lit novel, Venus Envy. In 2008, he was named by Tatler magazine in the top 100 most invited power partygoers alongside Boris Johnson and David and Samantha Cameron.
11. James Axtell: He attended Oxford’s exclusive Dragon School and Radley College, then took a degree in materials science, economics and management at Trinity College. He worked in venture capital before helping to set up the Sainsbury’s Nectar loyalty programme. He is now a director of a renewable energy company.
12. Dan Higgins: Son of Baron Higgins, a former Tory minister and Olympic athlete, and Dame Rosalyn Higgins QC, the ex-president of the International Court of Justice and a senior legal adviser on the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war.
Dan, 41, studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford and later worked in wealth management for Merrill Lynch before becoming a partner in hedge fund Fauchier Partners. The father of two lives in Notting Hill, a few streets from David Cameron’s townhouse.
The Prime Minister was in the Bullingdon in 1987, six years before Osborne. In 2009, with his TV producer wife, Jacqueline, Mr Higgins was invited to a Conservatives’ premier political dinner at the Carlton Club, described by one newspaper as the ‘New Tory power brokers’ dinner.
13. paul Higgins: He attended Manchester Grammar School before studying at Trinity College, Oxford. Called to the Bar in 1996, he works in Manchester specialising in personal injury and fraud cases.
14. Luke Bridgeman: second son of the 3rd Viscount Bridgeman, he became heir after the death of his older brother. He was educated at Eton and graduated from New College with a double first in Classics and Russian. Now 41, he’s married with two children and works for private equity firm Dawnay Day, running assets worth over $4billion.
15. Harry Mount: The son of baronet and Conservative politician Ferdinand Mount and a cousin of David Cameron, he initially worked as a banker after graduating with a degree in classics from Magdalen College. He retrained to be a lawyer but quit and wrote a book, My Brief Career, on his two years as a pupil barrister.
Formerly the New York correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, Harry, 41, is currently a freelance journalist who writes for the Mail among other papers.

16. George Osborne: The Chancellor, 41, is the eldest son of baronet Sir Peter Osborne, the founder of wallpaper merchants Osborne & Little. His real name is Gideon but he has used his grandfather’s name George since the age of 13. He graduated with a 2:1 in modern history from Magdalen College, Oxford, and also edited the university magazine Isis.
One issue was printed on hemp paper, made from the stems of cannabis plants. He is married to the novelist Frances Osborne and they have two children, Luke and Liberty. Osborne has admitted regrets about his ‘Bully’ past: ‘It’s embarrassing looking at photos of yourself dressed up like a penguin.’
Regrets: Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, pictured at the Global Investment Conference 2012 in London, has previously expressed embarrassment at his past
Regrets: Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, pictured at the Global Investment Conference 2012 in London, has previously expressed embarrassment at his past


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They look pretty good. Born leaders!

To you perhaps.