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.

rewards to doctors for proscribing
clearly doctors are at last being rewarded for preventative advice :-)

Nick Clegg to call for tighter controls on immigration from new EU states

Lib Dem leader's intervention means all the major parties will be competing to prove they would reduce immigration from EU



Rowena Mason, political correspondent


The Guardian, Monday 4 August 2014



Nick Clegg's speech will mark a significant change in tone for the deputy prime minister. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images




Nick Clegg will call this week for much tighter controls on immigration from new EU states, as people have lost faith in the government's assurances following the arrival of 60,000 Bulgarians and Romanians.

In a significant change of tone, the Liberal Democrat leader and deputy prime minister said immigrants from new EU countries should not be allowed to move to other member states by registering as self-employed during the transitional period of up to seven years when restrictions are in place. He will also suggest giving member states the right to "put the brakes on" immigration from new EU countries beyond the transitional controls "if people begin arriving in numbers too big for our society to absorb successfully".

"Is it any wonder, when people have been repeatedly told one thing only to then see another, that so many have lost faith in government's ability to manage the flow of migrants from new EU states?" he will say.




more unbelievable rubbish here: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/aug/04/nick-clegg-tighter-controls-immigration-new-eu-states

If Wee-Eck gets his way next month, he'll have a few problems to sort out.


http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2014/08/04/analysis-why-rbs-is-a-bes-mess-in-the-making/

He is incapable of seeing the wood from the trees without the help of a PR man.

Back at post 44583, I mentioned yesterday how our postman is off work, having had a bad heart attack.

Oh dear! I was told earlier today, the poor guy is now in an induced coma.

He is/was almost 'part of the family', in the sense that he has/had been delivering our mail for the last 12 years.

Interesting comment on statins here.

More or less mirrors articles Ive been reading on goggle. 50/50.

Mind if I dont take them my GP will certainly be ackward towards me in the future.

They all same to be the same, above the average person in the street.

GF.

No.

The problem of "fats" are B.complicated.

The problem short and long term or chronic are deleterious.

Statins and other more specific drugs have been a godsend and save many from strokes and coronaries of people and in their 40s, 50s and 60s.

The 10% rise in B, sugar is b.irrelevant.

Drink less beer.

A sensible GP etc. will monitor blood levels for problems and change treatment if necessary.

The biochemistry of Diabetes and associated hypertension is complex, but you try explaining the economy and charting to the average GP 20 times a day and you would be pissed off.

(Also, like some car mechanics they know what to do to repair a car engine but not the molecular structure of petrol. Sometimes the more practical are more useful than the theoretician.)



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I started taking variable forms of Blood Lipid "correctives" about 30 + years ago and probably in spite of the hopes of many, I am still alive and reasonably fit, whereas some members of my family are deceased.

Good luck!

Fred and all cheers.

Thanks for the feed back.

Im now looking for Ashcrofts poll.

Ashcroft National Poll: Con 30%, Lab 33%, Lib Dem 8%, UKIP 18%, Green 6%
Monday, 4 August, 2014 in The Ashcroft National Poll

ANPLineGraph
By Lord Ashcroft

Labour lead by three points in this week’s Ashcroft National Poll, conducted over the past weekend. Vote shares were Labour 33% (down one point on last week), Conservatives 30% (down two), Liberal Democrats 8% (down one), UKIP 18% (up four) and the Greens unchanged on 6%...........................ends

UKIP increasing thier share.................

Boris really wants Cameron to take a 'and if you don't agree with what we want, then we will leave the EU' type of stance.

For two reasons:

1. He'll likely get a better EU deal with an ultimatum like this.
2. Down will go the support for UKIP.

Votes for UKIP could harm the Tories and indirectly put Labour in power.

The problem with that scenario EL is.....

1. Cameroon doesent want to leave the €U, and has said so, undermining his position before he starts.

2. I think people who took the decision to vote UKIP at the €uro elections can see through his spin.

3. In any case, Millibum is the tories and UKIP's secret weapon. All he's offering is more of the same.

Exec,

Present an ultimatum to me and it is quite likely I will tell you to ---- off.

The Europeans are feeling that way about the UK and its continuing about "what is in it for me" rather than "what is in it for Europe" mentality!

How much of our trade goes through Europe.

How much of our Europe's trade goes through the UK.

Laughable, Cameron telling Putin or the Netty off, we are and are becoming less significant as a "world power" and because of population size will decrease in economic and military significance further.

We need Europe, Europe doesn't need us.

Remember WW2. Many thanked God for the USA.

fred knows all, or so he writes

About somethings a bloody sight more than you!

so you keep telling everyone and writing as if you are at the right hand of God, and even have his ear - poor chap if you do; it must be worse than a severe case of tinnitus

A quiz question for you.

Which Prime Minister did not have English as his first language.

i'ld hazard a complete guess at disraeli

Heath.

Is this a serious question H/S?