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.

It is not sufficient evidence to arrest people just because they are visiting Turkey. Don't forget that Turkey issues the visas not the UK. There are other routes via Jordan. Some go to Pakistan and then fly to Turkey or Jordan. You can easily get to Turkey via Romania, Bulgaria or Greece and not need visas.

bet that if you hold a uk passport, you still need a visa to get into turkey from all of those countries

and nor did i say arrest, but certainly they could be flagged either on the way out or on the way back and screened as appropriate

The text looks American, so it is either someone in the US commenting on maybe France or on the US itself.

Those borders are easily crossed. I am sure that secure routes have been planned for some time. Don't forget that large numbers of Afghanistanies and other nationalities have easily crossed Europe to end up in Calais.

Hays talking silly again, of course austerity measures are a party political issue, the Tories have cut back to the bone in every area in government that they could possibly do, and at the same time have rewarded the rich with Tax Cuts.

All we have to do is look at the NHS, Schools, Prisons, Welfare, Social Services, The Armed Forces etc etc.

Border policing and controls are a farce, a laugh, to any Tom Dick and Abdul who wants to get into this country.

Camoron after he as lost the GE and he as blood on his hands will look back and say "yes I and Giddeon were out of our depths just like Mervyn King said we were".

Camoron is a weak leader and this particular issue as highlited that, just like the London Riots.

Boris as the right idea, water cannons at the ready he wouldnt take people out of the front line on terrorism.

janet yellen in her current speech .... no further comment required

Why what as she said Cyners?

Shouldn't that be Giddeon and I?

she was talking about when interest rates might go up

From what she said, it is unlikely that interest rates will rise soon.

So what. They dont have a housing bubble crisis like us. I hear the Jap housing market is warming up though.

Three recent articles suggesting US housing bubble set to burst

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0424-pinto-housing-prices-bubble-20140424-9-story.html

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_26195174/economist-who-predicted-busted-housing-bubble-says-another

http://www.housingwire.com/blogs/1-rewired/post/29669-heres-proof-the-housing-bubble-is-about-to-burst

8 January 14

Sun-seekers heading to Turkey this year could be caught out by a new visa system which requires holidaymakers to apply for a visa before travel.

The popular beach holiday destination has always issued Britons with a visa stamp in their passports on arrival for a £10 fee, but will change the process from April 10, so that visitors will have to apply online for an electronic visa before travel.

The e-visa will cost the same amount as before, £10, and will be emailed to travellers for them to print out at home after providing their name, date and place of birth, email address and passport details. They will then be required to present the document to immigration on arrival.

etc, etc.

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If you think the UK housing market is still solid and want to take out a pretty big mortgage on the strength of it, Jamie Oliver is knocking out his pad.
(Includes some very nice pictures)

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/news/articles/celebrity-homes/jamie%E2%80%99s-former-pukka-pad-is-on-the-market

Hays I can post five times that many links here in the UK perhaphs more.

What your forgeting is the London weighting.

When London goes, it takes the rest of the economy down with it.

Are you denying that?, because if you are your a fool.

There is something I don't understand with Dover and Calais : Why are there are more checks and searches on the way out than on the return for anybody leaving the UK first ???.....(Calais is awash with illegals)...

The London bubble will not burst for quite a time if at all. The average price for London property is skewed by the central London prices. These are often sold to foreigneners or bought and sold for investment. If you strip out the investment and central London high priced property then the average comes down to a more sensible level. London prices have been held down artificially for several years and are now returning to the long term trend. The BoE rules are slowing the market. The prospect of interest rates rising next summer will also slow the market.

Dover/Calais and other ferry routes have special arrangements. People are not generally aware that the UK has bordet control staff based in Calais. They check passengers along with the French staff. While the ferry is travelling to UK they do checks on passenger via online systems. Suspect people are then picked up on landing.

How come after years and years of cover-ups : all these famous celebs are being arrested ...some charged ..others not....it just shows that for decades a stinking rotten system of ours was in place...probably dozens knew about Savile but possibly nobody said anything for fear of retribution...

Thanks for that Haystack...