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.

Northampton is up north where things are different (anywhere north of the North Circular is up north).

It was poor management here in this country Hilary that led to the downfall of B Leyland and co, they wouldnt RE-TOOL and all along the unions were pointing out the Germans and the Japs were getting the upper hand.

They wanted to sit round the table and discuss bringing in new tech but the greedy management didnt want none of it.

And as for the big service sector(situated in London) Maggie prompted that with the BIG BANG policy.

And why doesnt the government spend far more on the North where the unemployment is???, that way your 2 kids could come up here and learn the lingo.

Strange that exec because a lot of these in London who cant afford their homes now because of the benefit cap and the bedroom tax are re-housed in the Notts and Northampton area.

Social cleansing they call it, Boris said it wouldnt happen on his watch "over his dead body" he said...................................could you trust him as Tory Leader!!!!!!!

http://mikesivier.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/social-cleansing-of-london-is-well-under-way-bbc-documentary/

I suppose the Tories will then kick those out that they have re-housed from London to Notts/ Northampton onto the street.

Then they will be satisfied.

Fishfinger,

My kids are versatile, but I dunno that they've got it in them to learn another foreign language. Normally when they get bored, they come and visit me for the weekend and take me out to play on the Pas de Chavanette, and then get me to pay their flights. Going oop norf's not really part of their agenda.

Update - Labour lead at 2
by YouGov in Politics
Thu August 14, 2014 6 a.m. BST

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 13th August - Con 34%, Lab 36%, LD 10%, UKIP 12%;

UKIP still stuck at no MPs level.

The monthly Ipsos MORI political monitor has topline voting intention figures of CON 33%(+1), LAB 33%(-2), LDEM 7%(+1), UKIP 13%(-1), GRN 7%. Labour and the Conservatives are equal on 33, the first MORI poll since last November not to show a Labour lead.

MORI.......humbug outfit.

Essex GP surgery tells patients not to post critical comments on Facebook and Twitter




A GP surgery in Essex has told its patients not to use social media to complain about service on Facebook and Twitter, warning of a “zero tolerance policy”.

A poster at the St Lawrence Medical Practice in Braintree, which has since been changed, was put up after staff read personal comments online.

It read: “If you have any comments or complaints about the surgery please write to the practice manager.

“Do not use social media sites, Facebook/Twitter.

“Any comments we see on social media sites may be seen as a breach of our zero tolerance policy.


“We are happy to deal with your comments/complaints in the usual way.”

The “zero tolerance policy” referred to appears to be NHS guidance on dealing with rude, abusive or aggressive behaviour towards staff.






More bare faced cheek here: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/essex-gp-surgery-tells-patients-not-to-post-critical-comments-on-facebook-and-twitter-9663444.html

http://news.sky.com/story/1318354/economy-eurozone-gdp-growth-breaks-down

France has a Socialist government. Thank goodness we don't as we have the fastest rate of growth of ALL developed countries.

France called on the European Central Bank (ECB) to do more to tackle the risk of deflation and bring the euro to a more competitive level as it posted zero GDP growth for the second consecutive quarter.

The figures also prompted the finance minister Michel Sapin to slash his government's forecast for growth in 2014 to "around 0.5%" compared with a previous projection of 1%.

He told the daily Le Monde newspaper: "Growth has broken down, in Europe and in France.

"With zero growth in the second quarter, thereby extending the stagnation we saw in the first, our country is slowing down and will not achieve the 1% growth observers were predicting three months ago".

Analysts have warned for months that France, the second biggest economy in the eurozone, looks increasingly the weak link in a halting recovery as the government battles to push through much-needed reforms.

Unemployment hit a new record in June to a shade under 3.4 million while the forecast for France's public deficit is now predicted to be above 4% of GDP this year - missing key targets demanded of it by the EU.

Haystack - 14 Aug 2014 12:21 - 44994 of 44994

"France has a Socialist government. Thank goodness we don't as we have the fastest rate of growth of ALL developed countries."...............ends

I dare say France would get just as much growth as us using SLAVES.

Kay Burley ‏@KayBurley

cliffrichard home being searched under Operation Yewtree - set up to investigate disgraced DJ Jimmy Savile

Just binned my Cliff collection and the "Young Ones" will never sound quite the same again.

gf
You are funny. The usual lefty mantra.

No its a fact Hays. Your not living in the real world.

Explain away the highest level of tax credits this country as ever had, way way above when labour were in government. TAX CREDIT = under employment = low pay= Slave

lol Dil.

I cannot wait to see all the wisecrack comments that are now about to hit all forms of the media.

Poor Cliff. Sad or wot?

He is just about to be knocked off a very high pedestal.

Innocent until proved guilty !

Not in the court of public opinion.

Another decades old "offence" that cant be proved one way or the other.

Iain Duncan Smith is living on a different planet if he thinks most people are better off
Aug 14, 2014 06:31
OPINION Graham Hiscott BY GRAHAMHISCOTT



Deluded Iain Duncan Smith is living on a different planet if he thinks most people are better off.

Try telling that to the two million who are still jobless, or the near 750,000 who have been out of work for at least a year.

Try telling that to the 1.3 million part-timers who are desperate for full-time work, or the 600,000 temporary staff who want something permanent.

Or the workers forced to swallow below-inflation pay rises, even though their employers are sitting on piles of cash. Or those working at the one in 10 companies already planning a wage freeze this year.

And how about the millions left reeling by brutal benefit cuts? Are they feeling better off?

Yesterday’s 0.2% annual drop in wages was skewed by bonus payouts delayed until April 2013 to cash in on the Government’s cut in the top rate of tax to 45p.

A better measure – regular pay – is up just 0.6% in the past year, three times slower than the rise in living costs.

One reason wages are increasing so slowly is that so few people are moving jobs, partly because they’re spooked about jumping ship.

That’s hardly surprising as we’ve lumbered ourselves with a record £1.45trillion of personal debt.

The bulk of that is in mortgages. Rising house prices have forced buyers to take out ever bigger loans, adding another £2.5billion to the total mountain of debt in June.

The amount of unsecured debt – personal loans to credit cards – stood at £160billion in June.

Record low interest rates have encouraged this borrowing binge.

Car sales, for instance, have soared as buyers use cheap credit.

This spending frenzy is one reason why the economy is doing better than many predicted.

But it threatens to lead to a debt hangover when rates start to rise.

The Bank of England claims this won’t happen until wages pick up.

But, even when they do, it’s likely to be the few whose skills are in demand that drag up the average, ignoring the plight of others.

So although on Planet Tory the inhabitants are better off, life in the real world is very different indeed.



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