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.

But he need's to see one

no difference between premeditated murder and death by natural causes .... an interesting defense that probably would not stand up in court!

Don't forget that Boris has already been an MP for 8 years. He was MP for a constituency near cynic. He was a shadow minister under Cameron. He was also a shadow minister under Michael Howard.

Thanks for reminding us Haystack.

Boris is one of the in-crowd, along with Cameroon, Millibandus and Cleggy.


None of them are worth a toss, you may as well not vote for all the difference it will make to policy.

cynic - 10 Aug 2014 22:21 - 44875 of 44880

I can't see a lot of difference between having child's head cut off and a child dying of malaria, TB or starvation

extraodinary



Yep had to read it twice myself cynic , bit like saying I can't see the difference between my kid gets an abscess and its tooth has to be removed or I just smack it in the mouth and save the dentist a few minutes of his time.

Depends on if it is a court of morals or a judicial court.

oh dear .... the boy's off on one of his silly treks yet again

EU Chief: Our Work Should Not be Transparent

by Oliver Lane 9 Aug 2014

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/08/09/Invasion-of-EU-Technocrats

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In what might be considered a major gaffe, the European Union’s (EU) chief scientific adviser Anne Glover has just insisted her work should be “not transparent” and should be kept out of the public eye.

Her advice to the Commission chief is often on controversial topics such as global warming, genetically modified crops and nuclear power. You might assume these are important issues that deserve scrutiny, but the EU and Dr. Glover clearly disagree.

Technocracy is government by unelected so-called “experts”. As practised by the EU, technocracy is even less appealing than the absurd, undemocratic concept of a parliament with no power being dictated to by an elite, unbelted EU Commission.

In 2011, when the European Union suggested a rescue package for Greece’s debt-ridden economy, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou announced a surprise referendum over the terms. The so-called “Troika” (The EU, the European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund) was so alarmed that they deposed Papandreou and replaced him with the unelected Lucas Papademas. Instead of the Greek people being given a vote, they were now ruled by an entire cabinet of unelected technocrats.

The same thing also happened in Italy in 2011 when the EU thought democracy in Italy wasn’t producing the right results from their point of view. So the EU ousted elected Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and parachuted in a government of Eurocrat placemen. Although it would seem hard to believe of Europe in the 21st century, a ‘quisling’ government of unelected ‘experts’ was forced upon the country. No doubt the grey old men - most of them academics - felt distinctly patrician and noble in helping Italy out by allowing it to be led by so revered a Eurocrat as Commissioner Mario Monti. But the problem with unelected technocrats is, without an electorate to hold them to account, they very quickly get into bad habits.

It isn't entirely surprising that attitudes such as Dr. Glover's prevail at the top of the EU. As an institution it is instinctively secretive and untrusting. Her insistence that involving the public debases her work is snobbish elitism at its worst.

The European Union does its dirty work behind closed doors and holds ordinary people in contempt. It is not above imposing governments on member countries – governments no one ever voted for. It’s worse than the feudal system, which is why we treat Boris Johnson’s determination to forge ahead with attempting renegotiation as so inexplicable – apart from being the start of his bid for the leadership of the Conservative Party, of course.

The UK ended slavery and abolished the Corn Laws in the 19th century. The Tory party tore itself apart in doing so; but it was right and good. The UK sacrificed its Empire for European freedom and was at the heart of the white-heat of technology in the 20th century.

You could argue the UK has been the most successful force for freedom in the history of man. Now in the 21st century, it’s our time to shine again. How anyone can possibly hope to fix something so utterly broken is astounding. We must Get Britain Out and lead by example from the outside.

Oliver Lane is a researcher for the Get Britain Out campaign

You could argue the UK has been the most successful force for freedom in the history of man.

Did Manuel write that?

LOL

And what about sporting golf genius Rory McIlroy then?

Following up his victory at the Open Championship he now wins the USPGA Championship!

This was his fourth major championship win out of the last 15 played, and all at the age of just 25.

Utterly brilliant, eh?

Is Warsi splitting the con party like peas from a pod.





I wonder where Boris Karloff is?

Joining Farage in the party of kippers.

Rory McIlroy
i had every intention of watching this through to the end, but when the heavens opened and play was suspended for 2 hours, and then Rory looked totally out of sorts and had fallen 3 off the pace, i decided, absolutely wrongly, that staying up until 02:00 was not worth the effort.

what amazing strength of character, and what a cracking finale it must have been to watch; real nailbiting stuff

Update - Labour lead at 4
by YouGov in Politics
Sun August 10, 2014 6 a.m. BST

Latest YouGov / Sunday Times results 8th August - Con 33%, Lab 37%, LD 8%, UKIP 13%

MaxK,

The most important war is Ukraine and Russia.

Europe believes that whatever Russia says is lies and anything Kiev says is 100% accurate and should be acted upon. This trend is very dangerous for the whole Europe and, unfortunately has reached to the point of no return for Europe!!! Most unfortunate is that Kiev government is given all the power to lead 400mln European to ... any direction it likes. IMHO

Kiev does not need to do anything, just a couple of more accusations against Russia ....

What do you think?

Whoops!.. Simmons has gone now http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28737781

Unrelated to anything current as he was minister for Africa.

LOL.

Just one more deserting a sinking vessel.

A little rant.

N-Power are messing me about.

I've just moved away from them with both Gas and Electricity and so require a Final Bill. My account when I moved showed £275.50 in Credit. It now doesn't show that and only refers to my last D/D payment and its date back in June.

To compile my Final Bill, then of course Final Readings are required.

Since the new supplier has my Opening Readings (called 'Industry' Readings as against 'Customer' readings) then it is clearly obvious that both of my meters have been read and NPower do have this information.

What is the hold up in sending me my Final Bill and the change from my £275.50 Credit?

My Direct Debit with NPower is still 'open'.

I am beginning to start blaming the Tory government for letting these useless, administratively incompetent Energy companies get away with scamming and usurping from the general public.

There are millions of us now suffering from deliberately contrived incompetence to maximise profitability to the 'Nth' degree. We have had it from banks and we get it from the Energy 'Big 6' and I suspect we are soon to get it from the NHS (Yes. It has been privatised I do now believe)
One more month and I will DEFINITELY be turning my vote over to the Labour Party who I sincerely hope will nationalise these industries.

THEY WILL, THEY WILL.........WELCOME ABOARD COMRADE.