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.

What a load of tosh. Fact remains Labour were in power at that time and they embraced it, did nothing to change it. Blaming Maggie doesn't wash.

As Abraham Lincoln was attributed to have said :-

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time. But you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

Facts speak for themselves Labour can not be trusted with the economy. End of!

From the Guardian

Errr Christine the Chancellor of the Exchequer under Maggie admitted.......

Although the "Big Bang" eased stock market transactions there is a debate in the UK about how far it affected the 2007–2012 global financial crisis. In 2010, Nigel Lawson, Thatcher's Chancellor at the time, appeared on the Analysis program to discuss banking reform, explaining that the 2007–2012 global financial crisis was an unintended consequence of the "Big Bang". He said that UK investment banks, previously very cautious with what was their own money, had merged with high street banks putting depositors' savings at risk and ...according to the program leading US banks to follow suit...............ends

its written in stone above Christine, written in black and white and you can protest all weekend but the man came out and said the Tories were responsible.

Whatever Fred's Bitch, doesn't alter the facts that Labour did nothing. Rewarded Fred Goodwin a Knighthood FFS, and emptied the coffers. Your clutching at straws blaming a woman who for obvious reasons is no longer available for comment.

whatever the ranting and raving here, my gut feeling is that come the big day, it will all be too close to call ...... i don't see any party having an overall majority, or if there is one, it will be minuscule and probably not workable for the full 5 year term - though harold wilson managed it once by calling a snap election shortly after getting into number 10

Christine stop being silly, Im blaming a women!!!!!! now you are talking tripe.

I backed Thomas Cook when it was down and out because of a new women CEO who knew her onions and I might add before that clown on advfn did. I swear to this day he knicked it off of me a little like WMH now.

In fact look at Hilary on here she was the only one to take me on the first round of debating. A fine strong women she is aswel, and one Im glad to say I called terribly wrong first time up.

I think you have pre-match nerves Christine, go down the golf club and down a few with the boys, errrrr sorry meant regulars.

Update - Conservatives lead at 1
by YouGov in Politics
Fri October 3, 2014 6 a.m. BST

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 2nd Oct - Con 35%, Lab 34%, LD 6%, UKIP 14%

I think "the clown on advfn" bought into Thomas Cook when it was about 23p. At what point did you think it was on the road to recovery gf?

At 16p late summer 2012, in fact Ill check my broker statements.

Yep bought it at 16.4p 30/31 Aug 2012.

Its either on here on the early chart thread screeners where the charts are all in blocks or on my charts on Twitter, probably both.

By the way to say your 'NOT HIS PAL' your words not mine you seem to cover his back for im a lot and very promptly.

I would do exactly the same for any poster who I regard as a decent person, but I think he seems to be very capable of fighting his own corner.

Capable of fighting his own corner with a gang of lemmings around him you mean. Hes a small ignorant man who thinks life owes him something.

Hes no decent person.

We can’t have unelected bureaucrats running UK, say Tories. Like Lynton Crosby?

How unfortunate for the Conservative Party that “most influential Tory outside the Cabinet” Tim Montgomerie tweeted one minister’s disgust at the perception that unelected foreigner Lynton Crosby is running the party – and thus the government – on the same day the Tories were trying to get people riled up against the unelected foreigners they say are ruining human rights legislation.

Tom Pride, over at Pride’s Purge, had the juice: “Cameron is so desperate to win the next election he hired an Australian called Lynton Crosby to tell him how to do it.

“But now cabinet ministers are complaining that the unelected Australian is running the country instead of Cameron.

“Top Tory Tim Montgomerie – who has been described as one of the ‘most influential Tories outside the cabinet’ – tweeted that a government minister texted him privately to complain that Crosby has replaced Cameron as leader of the Conservative Party:



“Which means Crosby is also running the country.”

He topped it off by pointing out: “Mind you, another unelected Australian has been running the UK for years, so not much change there then.”

But Tom uncharacteristically missed the icing on this particular cake.

No, it isn’t the House of Lords (although that’s a perfectly good example of why the Tories are wrong, right there).

Today (Friday) is the day the Tories chose to launch their campaign to replace the Human Rights Act with a new ‘Bill of Rights’, dictated by them, which in fact takes rights away from you, rather than bestowing them.

Conservatives have described their campaign to remove power from the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg in a characteristic way, as follows (this is from today’s Express): “Tory MPs … say voters are fed up with unelected foreign judges siding with illegal migrants, terror suspects and criminals.”

Whoever he is, Mr Montgomerie’s minister is right to complain about unelected Lynton Crosby.

At the start of a campaign against unelected foreigners, his presence shows up the Conservatives as a gaggle of hypocrites.

I think that since he has got his solicitor after you gf it might be better if you stopped throwing the insults around!

Solicitor solicitor after me!!!!!!!!! ..........are you really sure??????????

I happen to know a lot more than you on this.

And by the way they arent insults they are my true observations.

he he he ha ha ha ho ho ho if you only knew.

Nice to read, that British Muslims are condemning the killing of Alan Henning - with one leading Muslim cleric calling it a "despicable and offensive act".

Prayers for the non-Muslim 47-year-old taxi driver from Salford in northern England were said in mosques throughout the country at the start of the Muslim Eid al-Adha festival.