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.

Miliband's appalling image is very permanent and it will cost him the election.

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.

Ohhhhhhhhhhh sit down, shut that door everhard.....

Max, by this post do you mean you are going to vote for UKIP????????????

MaxK - 28 Jul 2014 10:06 - 44375 of 44404

I've had enough of the same old bollox, so I'm going to try something different.

If it fails, so what, I will be no worse off....But should it succeed in breaking up the cozy consensus, then we might have a chance.

Fishfinger - 28 Jul 2014 10:52 - 44381 of 44404
And all this talk of the lib/dems and UKIP cant influence policy whatsoever, absolute bile.

... Dont tell me they dont have any influence because they do.

Sorry, Fishfinger, but the LibDems have had no influence in this current government whatsoever. They are there for one reason only - to take the blame if anything goes wrong. With the country in deep recession when Cameron took office, it was always going to be a difficult period of government and it was important at the time that the Conservatives had someone to blame if things had gone reels of cotton. And Clegg was stupid enough to put his hand up for the job.

And in return for all that, Clegg got a few ineffective ministers (remind me again, what does Cable do exactly?), and a referendum on AV which both the Tories and Labour knew from the outset would never get voted in, because they knew they'd be able to turn the public sufficiently against it and maintain the two-party system.

So, if you really want to think the LibDems have been influential in this government, that's your prerogative, but from Cameron's viewpoint, it's a win-win situation now and it always has been.

Probably gf, whats the alternative?


Anyway, short of miracle, the tory guy will get in around here (Hampshire).

Ill ignore hilary as I have already proved earlier today how the Lib/Dems AND UKIP have influenced current government policy and if shes so blinkered that she cannot see that well then its totaly pointless debating with her.

Max now yes I thought you meant that and you were voting for UKIP. So thats you and TANKER and ive been tempted but my local labour MP is so helpful and helped me on a matter just a few months ago while the Tory didnt even bother replying on the same matter, so Im going for labour and cant stand the posh boys running the Tories at the moment, but reckon that will change after their defeat at the GE.

So really were looking at a snap shot of Tory voters , yourself , TANKER, Cynic, Hays, Hilary, and we have 2 of you breaking away to UKIP which more or less reflects the mood in the whole of the country.

Think labour will easily get their 9% target for UKIP.

Theres going to be a big bust up gf, and with a bit of luck some good will come of it...cant be any worse than the present set up.

NEW MH17 SENSATION: German experts point finger at Ukrainian air-force jets.


By John Ward July 28, 2014

Surface to air missile attack ruled out as calibre of cockpit bullet holes puts Ukraine pilots in the frame for MH17 murders


This is what a German pilot-cum-air technology expert Peter Haisenko has just published on the subject of the MH17 disaster (my emphases):

‘The misfortune of the Malaysian MH 017 is known to all. The flight
recorder is in England and is being evaluated. What can come of this?
May be more than you want to accept….if you look at the image of
Cockpit-Fragments, this picture is certainly shocking.
Entry And Exit holes from bullets in the area of the Cockpit. This is not speculation, but analysis of clear facts: the cockpit
shows clear evidence of bullet holes. You can see the entry holes and
some exit points. The edges of the bullet holes are bent inwards,
these are much smaller and round in shape. A 30mm calibre. The exit
holes are less well formed and the edges are torn outwards.
Furthermore it is visible that the exit holes have torn the double
aluminium skin and bent them outwards. That is to say, splinters from
inside the cockpit blew through the outside of the cabin. The open
rivets have also been bent outwards….There is only one conclusion one can make, and that is that this: the
aircraft was not hit by a missile. The damage to the aircraft is
exclusively in the cockpit area….

Armour-Piercing Ammunition. Russia has published radar data that a
Ukranian SU 25 was close to MH 017. this corresponds with Spanish air
traffic control that two Ukranian fighter aircraft were in direct
contact with MH 017. Examine the weaponry of the SU 25: it is fitted
out with a 30mm cannon Type GSch-302 /AO-17A, with 250 rounds of
splintering exploding bullets on a belt – shrapnel rounds. The cockpit
of MH 017 was hit from TWO sides, as there are entry and exit holes on
the same side….’
Very compelling stuff, is it not?



more: http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2014/07/28/new-mh17-sensation-german-experts-point-finger-at-ukrainian-air-force-jets/

It is a theory that has been put forward by Russia. Why would Ukraine shoot down a plane? The rebels don't have planes. It was also flying away from Ukraine.

Well that puts the cat amongst the pidgeons. WOW. Wonder how this will develop now.

Why would Russia or it's allies shoot down the plane?


What possible gain?

But I have no trouble seeing why the other side would consider this a worthwhile venture.

None I can think of. Must admit Max Im not very good with geo politics like you are and the rest.

For a start they certainly wouldnt want to lose the 2018 World Cup.

Must admit it makes it a lot more interesting now if the world takes on them findings.

Briefly from Paris.

It is bullshit!

Russia and the rebels would shoot it down by mistake. The Ukraine would have no need to shoot down anything as there were no Russian or rebel planes to shoot down. The rebels had shot down three Ukraine planes over the previous few days.

Latest Polls a cake walk for Labour.........

#ComRes‘s telephone poll for the Indy has topline figures of CON 27%(-3), LAB 33%(+1), LDEM 8%(+1), UKIP 17%(-1)

Meanwhile YouGov‘s daily poll for the Sun has toplines of CON 33%, LAB 39%, LD 8%, UKIP 12%

Populus‘s topline figures are CON 33%(-2), LAB 37%(nc), LDEM 9%(nc), UKIP 12%(+3)

Plenty of time Hays for bigger leads old bud.

These attacks on Milliband backfiring just like a lot of Tory back benches predicted.

steve hawkes ‏@steve_hawkes

UKIP sources joyfully claiming Cam's immigration pledge would breach EU law and is as believable as a Hollywood RomCom...This one's got legs

GF what about the news on Friday (the economy) back as it was before 2008 ,why would Labour win an election ?