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.

ExecLine.....not the first time this has happened.....they use machineguns to massacre these poor animals....it will take help probably from the UN to set up helicopter patrols and well armed border patrols and help from the Chinese and Indian governments to deal with this.

Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein tweets: "Very sad to learn that Ian Paisley (88) has died. My deepest sympathy to his wife Eileen & family. Once political opponents - I have lost a friend."

Latterly known as 'the chuckle brothers', these two used to be the worst of enemies.

When I used to listen to Ian Paisley speak, I used to think he sounded absolutely so full of hate, that he was surely a 'Disciple of the Devil' and not a Protestant 'Man of God' preacher.

And then came the year 2007...............

He could never condone for the harm he did as the result of his rhetoric.

I think he and B. Devlin were responsible for much of the way the NI conflict played out.

That does not dismiss that the Catholic element of N.I. in the 50s and for a long time previously did not have justifiable grievances.

For many he will remain a sectarian bigot.

Are the "large" companies racing to aid Cameron in the NO campaign in Scotland the same donors to party funds.
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If so what are they being promised?

Tories select fillum star to fight Clacton.



As Labour heads to Scotland, Tories begin Clacton fight

30 MPs, lead by Michael Gove, head to Douglas Carswell's constituency as Bread star is selected as Conservative candidate




By Matthew Holehouse, Political Correspondent in Clacton

9:18PM BST 11 Sep 2014



While Labour MPs were dispatched en-masse to campaign for the Union in Scotland, the Conservative Party's focus was on the Clacton by-election.


More than Tory 30 MPs, led by Michael Gove, the chief whip, made the party's first major effort in the battle to hold the seat following the defection of Douglas Carswell to Ukip.



More: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/11091001/As-Labour-heads-to-Scotland-Tories-begin-Clacton-fight.html

Feint, or faint, or fate hope!

I think this Pistorius has been very lucky , someones said he could compete in the 2016 Olympics . Personally I hope they bang him up for 10 to 15 years at least.

Sad for you Hays I thought you rubbed shoulders with the eastend crowd.

I had heard you were knocking Dot Cotton off on the side.

Even sadder, sends shivers down ones back JUST LOOK AT THIS, Hays and Cynic take a carefull look

Snap Shot Reuters 12/sept/2014 15.01, ...........

According to a recent study by independent firm Verum Financial Research, every 0.5 percent hike in the UK base rate would cut 4.8 billion pounds ($7.96 billion) from household spending, and a 3 percent rise would wipe off about 30 billion pounds due to higher debt interest payments.

It estimates that the total amount of credit owed by UK households has more than quadrupled to 1,437 billion pounds in 2013 from just 347 billion pounds in 1990. Significantly higher debt levels, which have grown from 90 percent of household disposable income in 1990 to 130 percent in 2013, mean that households are much more vulnerable to marginal rate hikes.

"Household debt levels in the United Kingdom are much higher due to significantly more home ownership, against countries like Germany and the United States," said Adrian Fitzpatrick, head of investment dealing at Aegon Asset management.

Qatar behind isis they are the backers

have just put £500 on danzeno at Doncaster got 5.2

should win but you never know never put on what you can not afford to lose

http://gamblersanonymous.org.uk/

beaten a head

Gamblers Anonymous UK

Does that refer to the Coalition government or just the cabinet of the chancers!

Jihadists who want to return home being called traitors by ISIS and should die basically .

45771 - as interest rates now indicated to stay put until 2015 (after the election?), whoever sits in No 10 next will carry the blame :-)

True, second part, first part wrong, rate rise before GE although if Osbourne as his head screwed on hed do it before xmas and cushion the shock with a give away in the autumn statement on 3rd Dec just BEFORE xmas.

Why on earth were all these people cheering Pistorius when he left court? I wonder if a jury would have reached the same verdict.

I've followed this case with great interest and, for what it's worth (which isn't much, I do suppose), I disagree with Thokozile Masipa, the judge in the case.

Apparently, she has clearly indicated her own acceptance, that Pistorius did not intend to kill Reeva Steenkamp and could conceivably have mistaken her at the dead of night for an intruder.

She believed that Pistorius was terrified for his life, and thought Steenkamp was safely in bed when he fired four bullets through the wooden door.

When Oscar screamed in court how he had twice shouted, "Get the f*** out of my house!" I guess she was thoroughly convinced by his delivery of what was stunningly shocking theatrical evidence.

Therefore, she concluded, he could not be guilty of murder.

Professor James Grant, from Wits Law School, said Pistorius could be forced back into the witness box.

"The State is allowed in exceptional circumstances to appeal when the court makes a mistake of law," he said.

He argued that Judge Masipa asked the wrong question - did he foresee the possibility of killing Steenkamp - when she should have asked whether he *could* have foreseen the possibility of killing whoever was behind the door.

"So Gerrie Nel - the prosecutor - could put Oscar back on the stand again."

Pierre de Vos, a constitutional law expert, agreed and tweeted: "Surely if you shoot into the door of a small toilet and know somebody is behind the door, you foresee and accept possibility of killing?"

This is my view and it is also the view of Reeva Steenkamp's family and friends.

There is evidence missing and this is currently in the media and is being spoken about by one of Oscar's ex-girl friends, namely Samantha Taylor:

Samantha Taylor said she feared he would kill her and revealed she once hid his gun after he flew into a rage at her

Hmmm? No wonder Reeva locked herself into the toilet. She WAS inside the toilet and she HAD locked herself in. She did not want to come out. It just might have been the case that she did not want to argue with or speak to Oscar at that time too. I wonder why that might have been the case?

I think this is NOT over yet and I do hope we see gun crazy, easily angered Oscar Pistorius back in court after an appeal on the verdict and possibly that verdict then changed to Murder......

....any year soon.