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.

Hays Hays Hays..........

George Osborne today announced he will deliver his Autumn Statement on December 3.

Interest rate rise then last week of November. Thats when the BoE meet isnt it.?

Get your mortgage arrears paid guys.

45397 - i suspect the JW issue is at the heart of this ..... that being so, i'ld guess it was deemed contrary to EU rules to formally "blame" JW religious beliefs for hindering and worse the hospital treatment etc etc

Most likely the judge will give control of treatment to the hospital in Malaga, who will consult with the hospital in Southampton as they have the history. The parents may well be back to square one with the new hospital ruling out Proton Beam therapy on the advice of Southampton.

Birthday prezzy for Call Me Cameroon




Clacton by-election to take place on David Cameron's birthday



The by-election will be held on 9 October, with Ukip holding a 44-point lead over the Tories in a recent poll



Natasha Culzac

Tuesday 02 September 2014


A date has been set for the Clacton by-election following the shock defection by a Conservative MP to Ukip – and it falls on David Cameron’s 48th birthday.

Taking place on 9 October, the election was triggered by the standing down of Douglas Carswell who is set to run again under Ukip.

If Mr Carswell wins, he will be the Eurosceptic party’s first politician to be elected into Parliament.

The result looks like it could swing to the favour of Mr Carswell after a Survation poll by the Mail on Sunday found that Ukip holds a 44-point lead over the Tories in the seat.



More: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/clacton-byelection-to-take-place-on-david-camerons-birthday-9706353.html

i would be very surprised indeed if carswell did not get elected ..... from what i have heard, he is an excellent speaker and has commanded much respect in the constituency and will/would be returned regardless of party affiliation

UK government intervenes in Ashya King case as CPS reassesses extradition

Cameron and Clegg join calls to have boy reunited with parents as government contacts police and health officials over case



Patrick Wintour, Peter Walker and Matthew Weaver


theguardian.com, Tuesday 2 September 2014 14.22 BST



Prosecution authorities are reviewing their move to extradite the parents of Ashya King, the five-year-old cancer patient in hospital in Spain after he was taken from hospital in Southampton. Meanwhile, the government has contacted police and health officials to see whether Ashya can be reunited with his mother and father.

The new interventions follow mounting calls for Brett and Naghmeh King, held in separate prisons near Madrid, to be brought to Málaga, where Ashya is being cared for at a children's hospital. The couple had taken the boy from Southampton general hospital without doctors' consent and say they want alternative treatment abroad for his brain tumour.

David Cameron's spokesman said the Home Office had been in touch with Hampshire police force over the case, while the Department of Health contacted Southampton hospital. The hospital first raised the alarm on Thursday after Ashya was taken away.

Downing Street stressed the need for judicial authorities to be able to operate independently of politicians, but it is clear that Cameron shares the concerns expressed by Nick Clegg that the handling of the case has been heavy-handed.

Earlier on Tuesday the deputy prime minister questioned why the "full force of the law" was being used against the parents and called for the family to be reunited.



more: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/02/ashya-king-clegg-criticises-full-force-law

Cynic Dougie is a nice chap but you have to be sure if hes talking to you or the bloke next to you.

no one ever talks to me :-(

Me neither, your best doing what I do and just post your own ramblings to a single thread or blog...!

perhaps we could hold hands :-)

Introducing Ultimo's "Real Women for 2014":

They need to get in shape.

Was thinking this tea time the female news readers on the BBC are getting a bit long in the tooth now and looking disheveled, even Fiona Bruce looks past it now.

I say we need some new crackling in.

What about these below just to kick start a new regime.

Suzi Perry, Gabby Logan, and Frank Lampards bird.

Just about the right age so I cant be accused of being ageist etc etc.

Yes, lets do it for the men too.

Whats needed is a few male teenagers with puffed up hairdo's to read the news (assuming they can reed). It would also help if they were as thick as shit, just like the present line up of bimbo's. (blond)(from a bottle)

Fiona Bruce was never that hot anyway. I remember sitting behind her at a school concert. Her head is strange from behind. It is almost flat. The parents at my kids prep school had to take turns being on the school front door and getting kids out of cars turning up. It was quite surreal the first time she appear at the door of our people carrier one morning. She is very tall and used to win the parents race on sports day.

Max who mentioned teenagers, Gabby Logan is 41, Suzi Perry is 44.

This is what I said gf, in the interests of gender balance.


"male teenagers with puffed up hairdo's to read the news"

Whatever floats your boat Max.......he he.

Just checked and the 'Reunite Ashya with his parents' petition has now reached just under 250,000 votes.

I'm so glad I signed this petition and I'm so pleased it helped get the desired result and that there has now been a change of plan with the CPS dropping the all the charges against the parents.

Clearly, this couple were not evil and were very clearly just fighting hard to do the best they could for their little boy. They now have massive support for that effort. In the space of 24 hours, they have gone from being 'criminally hunted down zeroes' to 'parental heroes'.

Let's see what the Judge has to say today about which treatment the little chap will be getting and where. I do actually think, that reuniting little Ashya with his family members is going to reinvigorate him enormously. That is, if his frail little body can stand all of the trauma.

Fingers crossed.

I think the 200k + votes might have had something to do with the politicians getting their fingers out.

It wont stop the turds behind the debacle though.

Anything subject that attracts 200k+ supporters is usually populist nonsense. The public are notoriously wrong in such 'band wagon' matters. The hospital behaved as they should as did the police. The only person that needs consideration is the boy. He clearly has idiots for parents. They could have resolved matters sensibly instead of removing him from care. They are better off in prison.

The proton beam treatment is what the parents want despite it being against the clinical opinion of the doctors. You have to ask why. The proton beam treatment is non invasive and would not require a blood transfusion which is against the parents' wishes as they are Jehovah Witnesses. Maybe some thought should be given to the possibility that the parents are putting their religion before the clinical care of their child.