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.

Many of the Labour party went to 'posh' public schools; Ed Balls for one.

Thank heavens there's some tasty Cricket today.

Mrs Ed Balls was the president of the JCR at my son's college.

Name the others then Hays.

We already know about Harriets, and Abbots kids.

A fraction of the Torys percentage.

Anas Sarwar, deputy head of Scottish Labour sends his child to £8,000 year school. Ruth Kelly, Tony Blair went to public schools. Tony Benn went to Westminster.

Public school educated people in government is a good thing. They are just better educated.

They are thick, and dont understand common sense.

Always out of touch with reality.

Robot stereotyped.

What else can you expect of all boys schools, and all girls schools, little wonder they are all perverts, their is no sexual release.

The Tory peado enquiry will prove this.

Most public schools are now mixed sexes and have been for years, unfortunately. All boys and all girls schools are very good because they remove distractions and make study easier.

ETON isnt. Look at the Governments Front Bench. Full of them.

Look at the History and the enquiry.

Wages Will Not Have Fallen So Sharply Since The Victorian Era
The Huffington Post UK | By Asa Bennett
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Posted: 30/07/2014 07:25 BST


Tory Bullingdon Boys Cameron And Osborne

Britons' wages will by next May never have shrunk so far over the course of a single term of parliament in real terms since the Victorian era, damning new research has found.

According to analysis by the House of Commons Library, the last time average earnings, accounting for inflation, slid by a greater amount was from 1874-1880, when Benjamin Disraeli was prime minister.

At the time, the global financial panic of 1873 sent Britain into two decades of economic stagnation, known as the "Long Depression", and resulted in soaring unemployment, bankruptcies and a major trade slump.

The new analysis found that the coalition will set a new record as they preside over the first Parliament since the 1920s when real wages have been lower at the end than at the beginning. Real earnings are expected to have declined by 2.3% according to data and OBR forecasts, compared to a fall of approximately 2.6& between 1874 and 1880. By contrast, wages fell in real terms by 1.8% between 1922 and 1923.

The House of Commons Library reached its conclusion using official figures from the Office for National Statistics, the Bank of England and forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility.

Labour's shadow chancellor Ed Balls, whose party commissioned the analysis, seized on the findings to warn that "working people can't afford five more years of the same old Tory economics".

Speaking in Bedford today, he will say: "From a Conservative-led Government that promised to make working people better off back in 2010, this is a dismal record of failure."



This comes as recent figures from the Office for National Statistics indicate that hopes that wages will finally start to grow faster than inflation and end the pay squeeze continue to look distant. Pay including bonuses for employees in Britain over March to May was 0.3% higher than a year earlier, rising to 0.7% when bonuses are stripped out, which is significantly below the rate of inflation, which rose to 1.9% in June.
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Hmmm?

Lucky Mr Shane Warne!

It looks like one of the give away will be a decent rise in the 40% threshold. That will be very popular.

Update - Labour lead at 2
by YouGov in Political Trackers and Politics
Thu July 31, 2014 6 a.m. BST

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 30th July - Con 35%, Lab 37%, LD 8%, UKIP 12%

Trend up then, Labour were only 1% up tuesday.

You know the trend never lies Hays.

UKIP standing firm on 12%. THATS YOUR BIGGEST CONCERN HAYS NOT THE LABOUR FIGURE.

You have to start eating into the UKIP vote or its curtains.

I've had a letter off Rt Hon David Cameron today with questionnaire attached, am I the only one .

No Execline I meant the Cricket, not the Cricketers bit of fluff. Phew, it is tasty though.

Maybe Cameron has singled you out

Maybe you are the ultimate floating voter.

I can,t swim.

Nor can I. The rest of the family can though.