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.

Prime Ministers Questions should be lively tomorrow :0)

Cameron is putting the entire UK at risk just to win back a few votes from UKIP

The anti tory brigade are really clutching at straws at suggesting that they would charge suspected EBOLA or infected EBOLA victims for treating them. That article is irresponsible

Its here Alders..........

NHS to charge non-EU patients 150% of cost of treatment
Department of Health says charges will save NHS up to £500m a year and prevent 'abuse' of system by visitors

Haroon Siddique
The Guardian, Monday 14 July 2014 13.48 BST

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jul/14/nhs-charge-non-eu-patients-150-per-cent-cost-treatment

That doesn't say EBOLA victims or any outbreak that would be a grave [pun] danger to the public that would be insane to do that

But why didnt Hunt say any fee would be waived when he made this statement......

"But yesterday the government announced they were advising non-EU visitors to voluntarily contact the NHS if they develop symptoms of Ebola while in the UK:

“Passengers to be told to make contact with the NHS should they develop Ebola symptoms.“

The Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said he hoped travellers from those countries would “self-present” to the authorities if they developed any symptoms of illness.".................. ends

If they can say that 70, 000 plus people are fit for work only for them to die within weeks of finding them fit for work I wouldnt put anything past this present Tory Government.

fred asks - What are the levels of oil level imports into the UK and other EU countries now and compared 2008,9,10,11,12,13,14 ?


i have absolutely no idea at all, but it can't be hard to find out
however, this is why there is now such huge interest in shale gas/oil and fracking for same
nor should it be forgotten that only about 40% (or less?) of an oil reservoir are recovered with current technology .... this will assuredly be exploited in time, which is why there was (at one time) such an interest in companies like Corac

Yep but hes pointing at overall demand Cyners,.

Dont forget we are still 10% off highs before the crisis began, hence supply greater than demand and falling prices.

Not just here but the World over.

Deflation creeps up you far faster than you think, whoooooooooooooosh and its present.

I believe Hilary was wrong to just dismiss it like she did yesterday.

sorry; in that case i missed the rest of the post .... it just happened to open there when i turned on this morning

lower oil prices
it's summer so demand is always lower
us is now a nett exporter
saudi in particular has no interest in lowering its production
$ is significantly stronger



however, i certainly don't like the feel of the chemical markets at the moment
traffic has nose-dived in the last few months

this is not only due to slackening demand in china, though in truth its economy still thrives big time, but the effect of the war in syria/iraq has also had a significant impact, in particular on business sentiment

as for the eurozone, i have never believed germany's assertions that all was hunky-dory, and that is now being admitted ..... france of course is close to being a basket case

uk for its part, is currently defying the odds, but it cannot do so indefinitely

yes whoooooooooooooooooooooosh.

scottish devolution
i'm very stupid, but why is salmond crying for his mummy?

it looks to me that the gov't is passing across powers as promised, but many mps are then rightly asking why scottish mps should then have any say in measures taken in parliament that affect england only

of course it's never quite that simple in practice as it is in principle

Because its a Tory stitch up.

in a way, yes it is but i'll use the analogy of the heron and the frogs once more

Go on then

Use what you want bud, its not happening.

what's not happening?

This

Landing a man on Mars.

Perhaps, what they want is to escape from the London orientated politics!

yes and no would seem to be the answer to that ..... they can have their labour buddies instead :-)


for sure an awful lot of games being played behind the scenes, but quite amusing nevertheless

It's in the Guardian, so it must be true!




UK unemployment rate falls to 6.0%, lowest since Lehman Brothers collapsed - live




LIVE updated 3m ago


Graeme Wearden

Wednesday 15 October 2014 09.39 BST




http://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2014/oct/15/uk-unemployment-wages-china-inflation-shire-business-live