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.

USA TODAY


World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan issued a statement Monday at a conference in Manila.
She said development of a vaccine or cure for Ebola has lagged because the virus is prevalent in such poor nations.

"The outbreak spotlights the dangers of the world's growing social and economic inequalities," Chan said. "The rich get the best care. The poor are left to die."

She said the outbreak is disrupting economies and societies around the world. She said 90% of economic costs of any outbreak "come from irrational and disorganized efforts of the public to avoid infection."
Adequately educating the public should allow governments to curb those disruptions, Chan said. Fear, she said, spreads faster than any virus.
"I have never before seen a health event attract such a high level of
international media coverage, day after day after day," Chan said. "I have never seen a health event strike such fear and terror, well beyond the affected countries."

DB4.

remember "the UK is an Island unto itself"!

"Pirates on the seas"

I'm sure Margaret Chan is well protected from a chance encounter with ebola carrying victims.

No so the rest of us.


Why are they still allowing air travel from infected areas?

Economics!

Economics Fred?


Or do you mean ... gulp! Money?

ebola is not that easy to catch ..... it's not like flu

Cynic absolutely correct, your at higher risk of contracting malaria than ebola in West Africa

It's amazing the number of 'educated' people who don't seem to understand that cynic.

Haystack - "Cameron did promise a referendum".... Read the small print and you'll find that he's promised an in, out referendum if the conservatives reach a MAJORITY in the GE.... Now what are the chances of the Conservatives getting a majority I wonder...

DD4 - they belong to the same "family" as those who blacken all immigrants as scroungers and worse

Yes. Cameron has promised an In / Out referendum if the Conservatives get a majority. There is no other basis that he could promise it. In a coalition he would be tied to the views of his partner.

why do immigrants not fight for a better life in their own country and make their country better . the answer is very simple they like to beg and live on benefits
and that is fact if ever one did what they did their would be nothing .
stand and fight for your own country and make it better and stronger

People have forgotten that UKIP has had an MP before. Bob Spink defected from the Conservatives in 2008. This was hailed as the start of a surge of support for UKIP. He then lost his seat in the 2010 election.

You are more likely to die of Ebola and it doesn't seem to need a vector like Malaria.

Here is some bad news for gf regarding his bet on interest rates rising

http://news.sky.com/story/1352642/inflation-falls-to-new-five-year-low-of-1-2-percent

Plunging fuel costs and a supermarket price war are being credited for the latest dip in the annual rate of inflation.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) measured a 1.2% rise in consumer prices in the 12 months to September - its lowest level for a decade if September 2009's figure is excluded.

The easing from a rate of 1.5% in August was much stronger than economists had predicted and highlighted the extent of the grip on price pressures currently being exerted by major supermarkets.

The pound fell sharply after the figures were released as the sharper-than-expected drop meant it was less likely that the Bank of England would need to take action soon to raise the base rate of interest from its five-year low of 0.5%.

Please explain why I am likely to die of Ebola, Fred.

Good to see Parliament voted to reccomend recognising Palestine as a state by 274 to 12.

Yes,

But the gutless government tory leadership duck the vote.

Some of your senior tory leaders?

Just read this, I'd better remove news stories that I'd read about ISIS on my phone and dump my SD card quick!! Really, is this what we've become.....??

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29609660