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.

I always give to the poppy appeal and children's charities.... I used to support the rainbow trust until I realised just how badly they manage their funds... I never give to cats and dogs or in general any foreign charity..

Sally Army

if you can not feed them do not have them . stop breeding like rats and they will not suffer

cynic for once I agree

Oxfam only 5% gets to the poor fact read about were the money goes in Oxfam all facts

oxfam is on my banned list too but should have added british heart foundation

gf tell a look at what the chief gets at CHILDREN IN NEED then comment and not before

Considering the size of the charity and everything it does the chief should be rewarded..!! I'm sure the chief earns every penny, unlike the CEO's within half of the FTSE 100 companies..

Tanker - Bet your the kind of person that doesn't buy sweets or put out a pumpkin for the kids at Halloween, celebrate Christmas, Easter or Guy Fawkes... Bah Humbug!!

worth reading the whole of this article which i just came across on Yahoo - editor's picks......

Crime-fighting London Jews claim model for Muslim cooperation
The work of the 25-strong "Shomrim" patrol in London has caught the eye of US Secretary of State John Kerry, who praised the neighbourhood patrol group's "remarkable courage"

Members of the Haredi Jewish community in Stamford Hill formed the group -- named after the Yiddish word for guards -- in 2008 in response to high crime levels

The unusual sight of crime-fighting Orthodox Jews pounding the streets of a tough London neighbourhood after dark has captured the attention of grateful locals, but their ongoing protection of local Muslims has seen their profile go global.

It seems that Cameron was shouting his mouth off on "devolution for Scotland" and now can't deliver.

U-turn after U-turn. Lie and lie. U-turn after U-turn. Lie and lie. U-turn after U-turn. Lie and lie. U-turn after U-turn. Lie and lie.

The Scots won't forget!

As a Scot, I totally agree Fred!:-)

TANKER I bet you can afford some moth balls though.

That is the only balls he has got!

Or was that Manuel!

8-)

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Interesting that somebody on trial had Blair's address.

I would think there are hundreds queuing up to give it to him!

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Alex Salmond says Scotland could “exact revenge” on the Westminster parties at the ballot box because a huge gap has opened up between their proposals for devolution and what they promised on the eve of the independence referendum.

The first minister and Scottish National party (SNP) leader, who announced he would step down after losing last month’s independence vote, said the devolution plans put forward in a new command paper on Monday were weak.

With the Commons due to debate devolution on Tuesday afternoon, Salmond told the BBC’s Radio 4 Today programme: “There is a huge gap that is emerging between the vow – the last-minute, desperate promise made under the guarantee of Gordon Brown by the three Westminster leaders – and what was suggested in the command paper, which was just a regurgitation of what has been indicated last spring, promises which were so weak they hardly featured in the no campaign.

“Right now, the initial judgment that’s coming from Scotland is that people have no confidence in Tory guarantees and are absolutely fizzing about what looks like a preparation for a betrayal of a strong commitment made.”

Despite previously saying the referendum would settle the question of Scottish independence for a generation, Salmond suggested this may no longer apply if the Scots felt conned and tricked.

“Circumstances obviously can change. Clearly if you had a situation where the three leaders made such a public vow – not even a political promises but a vow – in the last few desperate hours when they thought they were losing the referendum campaign, then that would be a very substantial change in circumstances.”

He pointed out that the SNP now had a 10-point lead in opinion polls for the general election next year, which poses a significant threat to Labour and Liberal Democrat seats.

Salmond added: “These matters ultimately are for the people of Scotland to decide. It’s the people of Scotland who will decide whether it’s satisfactory to be conned and tricked by Westminster leaders or who will exact a revenge at the ballot box, which is their democratic right to do.”

The command paper published by the government on Monday did not appear to contain many new details of proposals for devolution and was condemned by the SNP as a “cut-and-paste job”.

Ministers have promised a cross-party agreement brokered by Lord Smith of Kelvin by the end of November and draft legislation in January.

However, significant differences remain, as the Conservatives and Lib Dems are happy to hand over full income tax powers to Holyrood, while Labour is only willing to see an upward variation of 15p from the rate of the rest of the UK.

There is also nervousness that the Conservatives are trying to tie the proposals to a deal for making sure England is fairly represented in the union – the issue of English votes for English laws.

Over the weekend, Gordon Brown, the Labour former prime minister who set out the joint no campaign devolution package, accused David Cameron of threatening to make Scottish MPs into second class citizens in Westminster, if English votes for English laws went ahead.

He also said the plans for Scottish devolution were not radical enough and should include matters such as the environment and transport.

Speaking straight after Salmond on the Today programme, William Hague, the leader of the Commons, again denied that plans for reform of the English constitutional position would affect Scottish devolution. He also accused Salmond of “looking and hoping for a sense of betrayal”.

“Every commitment made by not only the Conservatives, but the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties about what would happen if the result of the Scottish referendum was no, every commitment has so far been kept and will be,” Hague said.

“All of the party leaders are absolutely unequivocal that the commitment will be met. So there is no reneging here, however much it might suit Scottish nationalists to try to say that there is.”

Alistair Carmichael, the Lib Dem Scottish secretary, said Salmond was sounding “increasingly desperate”.

My money is still on a SNP landslide, Labour are history!

Agree Chris, the Conservatives have been history in Scotland for some time now and Labour will join them after the GE.

And with it will go Noo Labs hope of a majority.

Every cloud Max, every cloud! :0)

Max.

The SNP seem more left than the Labour party and can't stand the CONS, or the smell of the Kipper party and their feelings towards the liberal is less than loving.

Who do you think they will vote with at Westminster.

I think the parties should write their manifestos and call an election within the next month.

From memory there was no reference to the proposals Wavy Dave is trying to con the English into for the sake of saving his own skin.


What a disastrous administration.

Spot on Fred, spot on.