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.

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

I love secret trials and the countries who have them.

It gives me a sense of security.


Must take the cards of the Mantle-piece.

Rochester by-election date set for 20 November

I've just been watching the BBC news and find it quite staggering how much this country is doing to stem the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone. Wouldn't it have been far more sensible and economical to stop people travelling from that part of the world until the virus is contained?

NO.






May have to use CTR and -

fred - ebola can only be caught from bodily fluids, which does not, i am almost certain, include sneezing and the like ..... if you want, i'll ask more of the doc who works upstairs here who comes from sierra leone and whose parents still live there

That is why I said it doesn't have a direct Vector. (There was vector from Fruit bat to human.

Also, particle size I think would play a part in Respiratory spread.

The Ebola viral size is too big for respiratory spread.

That is partially why a sudden mutation is not as frightening as with other viral infections.

But.

I was going to add something, but the consequences of it happening could be disastrous.



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However,

Ebola Outbreak Started Through Contact with Fruit Bats
October 13, 2014 by Linda Larsen Leave a Comment
The current Ebola outbreak crisis that has many people so worriers started in eastern Guinea, through a “chance contact” by a toddler with an infected fruit bat. Fruit bats are natural reservoirs for the virus, according to the World Health Organization. The bats migrate over long distances. Fruit bats are regularly eaten in rural West Africa.
EbolaDirect transmission to people is very rare. Many people in very poor countries hunt the bats for food, and also hunt bushmeat, with people eating dead infected animals. There has also been huge death rates in chimpanzee and gorillas in African countries. Those animals eat fruit dropped to the ground by infected bats. People forage in the forests where these sick and dying animals live, and come into direct contact with “blood, secretions, organs, or other bodily fluids of the infected animals.”

Edited. I missed a sentence.

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/can-coughing-and-sneezing-spread-ebola/

Ebola is NOT spread by coughing and sneezing. Otherwise there would be millions of cases throughout the world.

Why are the health peeps wearing space suits, if not for an airborne risk?