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.

Latest figures from Children in Need show that even before this year's appeal it has an £87,705,000 cash pile

The BBC will soon be getting out the begging bowl again for Children in Need, but the charity is at the moment flush with cash. In the small print of its latest figures, it discloses that it has an astonishing £87,705,000 stashed away in bank accounts and other investments.

A spokesman for the corporation sees nothing wrong in sitting on quite such a huge sum. “BBC Children in Need typically awards grants over a three year period. Money is released on a quarterly basis as projects demonstrate the impact they are having on young lives,” he says.

“The level of our investments reflects the record amounts raised in the charity’s appeals over the last two years and thus our ability to award record amounts to change young lives.”

Daily Telegraph

GF.

I agree with your reading of the figures.

DB4.

There are some very drinkable wines at low prices.

Unfortunately there is junk at high and low prices.


I tend to drink plonk and in an attempt to not routinely finish the bottle, Recently I bough some boxes, hoping to have just one two or three glasses a night. Some have been very enjoyable, others almost put me off drinking, after 55 years of steadily imbibing.

Some of these boxes are said to have an "open life" of up to 2 months.

Don't think that is accurate as I have made Beef Bourguignon to-day to use up some I had open for 3weeks.


Hope it hasn't spoilt the meat.

The attraction of the boxes is that when I return from France the boxes are easy to store in the van when I am travelling!

Freud should be sacked for saying disabled workers are “not worth the full wage” 15/10/2014

Freud – made a disastrous comment at the Conservative Party conference.

At Prime Minister’s Questions today (October 15), he was revealed to have said on September 30: “There is a group… where actually… they’re not worth the full wage and actually I’m going to go and think about that particular issue, whether there is something we can do nationally, and without distorting the whole thing, which actually if someone wants to work for £2 an hour, and it’s working can we actually” [make it possible for them to do so].

Labour leader Ed Miliband, challenging David Cameron to act on the remarks, said they represented the Tories’ “worst instincts”.

Cameron’s response – that these “were not the views of anyone in government” – was appallingly weak. Clearly they were: Lord Freud is, after all, a member of the government.

Commentators across the UK, watching the exchange on TV or the Internet, were quick to comment on the fact that Iain Duncan Smith, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Freud’s boss, was seen scuttling out of the House of Commons before PMQs ended.

Do you think Cameron has made another Freudian slip and exposed himself for what he really stands for?

GF,


Didn't this government cut back on REMPLOY?

Most certainly not just cut back but have binned it all together. Small pockets are being left to run down.

Shame on them, Shame on Camoron.

Esther McVey on Freud comments about disabled people
4 hours ago

A Conservative minster said Lord Freud's comments about wages for disabled people "will haunt" him, and they were not party policy.
Employment Minister Esther McVey told the Daily Politics: "I cannot justify those words, they were wrong."
She added that the government spent £50m annually on supporting disabled people, when she spoke to Andrew Neil on the Daily Politics about her work.

If Britain is booming, why is the deficit growing?

Britain's economy is booming – but tax receipts aren’t, forcing the Chancellor to borrow yet more. Here is the Treasury’s dilemma


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/tax/11162272/If-Britain-is-booming-why-is-the-deficit-growing.html

The roof is falling in on the Nasty Party and the corrupt DPW.

This just the start and Mcvey is going all out to save her own neck with the deflection comments made above.

Soon we will have the death statistics and this time the Right Wing Press wont be able to cover this up.

Max 400,000 people not accounted for in todays unemployment statistics.

It doesent surprise me gf...none of the stats are massage free, they're all bent!

Update - Labour lead at 4
by YouGov in Politics
Wed October 15, 2014 6 a.m. BST

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 14th Oct - Con 30%, Lab 34%, LD 8%, UKIP 18%

Ipsos MORI/Standard – CON 30, LAB 33, LDEM 8, UKIP 16

Disabled People Not Worth Minimum Wage Says Lord Fraud, Time For This Nasty censored Clown To Go

Posted on October 15, 2014 by johnny void | 49 comments

“Nearly everything I’ve done has been total chaos.”

Comedy toff and Minister for Welfare Reform Lord Fraud stopped being funny a long time ago. Of all the blundering censored idiots in the DWP, this failed banker, who cost investors millions due to a series of bungled deals, has shown the true face of the out of touch gilded elite that dominate all of the main political parties.

This is the man who thinks people queue up in foodbanks just for a laugh and not because they are hungry. The same prick who threatened every Women’s Refuge in the country with closure and wanted to charge the very poorest benefit claimants to have banks manage ther personal finances. The clown who doesn’t even know how much the dole actually pays despite being in charge of reforming it.

His recent comments at the Tory Party Conference, where he agreed that disabled workers are not worth the minimum wage, are a new low If he stays in his job after this we will know the truth about attitudes towards sickness and disability at the DWP, – as if we didn’t already. They are not just ignorant about disabled people’s lives, out of touch and incompetant. They actively believe that disabled people are worth less than non-disabled people. That they don’t deserve the same rights as non-disabled people. That if you are born or become sick or disabled, then you are a sub-class who should be forced into a lifetime of poverty carrying out below minimum wage work. Is it any wonder that unpaid work is fast becoming the new segregation for many disabled workers?

Fraud revealed his rancid opinions at a conference fringe meetings when utter censored, and Tory Councillor, David Scott (@David ScottW) said: “I have a number of mentally damaged individuals, who to be quite frank aren’t worth the Minimum Wage.”

Lord Fraud agreed saying: “Now, there is a small… there is a group, and I know exactly who you mean, where actually as you say they’re not worth the full wage and actually I’m going to go and think about that particular issue, whether there is something we can do nationally, and without distorting the whole thing, which actually if someone wants to work for £2 an hour, and it’s working can we actually…”

The comments came to light after Ed Miliband challenged David Cameron about Lord Fraud’s comments at Prime Minister’s Question Time today. What Miliband didn’t mention is that this very same bastard was at the heart of Labour’s own Welfare Reforms such as the shambolic and cruel Atos run Work Capability Assessment.

Fraud enjoyed impoverishing sick and disabled people so much that when the Tory Party weren’t elected he crossed the floor and joined them so he could carry on. He has been ususually frank about his incompetence, once admitting in an interview that: “Nearly everything I’ve done has been total chaos.” But he is a nasty piece of shit as well. In a just and moral society, both Lord Fraud and his boss Iain Duncan Smith would be put of trial for the horrific suffering their policies have caused. In the society we’ve got the best we can hope for is that he’s shuffled off to one of his mansions and kept out of public life permanently. It can’t censored happen soon enough.

IDS losing control of DWP as ESA numbers rise for fourth quarter running
Category: Latest news
Created: Wednesday, 15 October 2014 16:39

The number of people in receipt of employment and support allowance (ESA) and incapacity benefit (IB) has risen for the fourth quarter in a row, according to DWP statistics released today. At current rates of increase there will be more claimants in receipt of ESA and IB by the next election than there were when IDS took over. It also means that the enormous suffering caused by the massive IB to ESA transfer programme has so far reduced the clamant count by just 2.5%, a drop of only 70,000 out of over 2.5 million.

The latest ESA estimates by the DWP reveal that the number of people in receipt of ESA and IB rose to 2,515,000 in August 2014, the highest number of awards since August 2012.

In just the last three months, awards have increased by 35,000.

At current rates of increase this means that by May 2015 the number of claimants receiving ESA and IB will stand at 2.62 million, which is higher than the 2.61 million claimants when IDS took over the DWP in May 2010. The current trend reverses a long-term fall in the number of sickness benefits claimants.

It also means that in spite of the hundreds of millions of pounds spent on moving claimants off IB and onto ESA, the claimant count has dropped by just 2.5% since migration began.

A pilot involving 1,700 claimants being moved off IB and onto ESA began in October 2010, but migration proper did not begin until February 2011, when the claimant count was 2.58 million. It is now 2.51 million.

A massive amount of distress, hardship and worsening of health conditions has been caused by the IB to ESA transfer, which is far behind schedule and still not quite completed. It now looks as though all that suffering will have had absolutely no effect on the number of IB and ESA claimants, but will have enriched private sector companies by many tens of millions of pounds. If his success in cutting the benefits bill and helping the sick and disabled back into work is what IDS wishes to be judged by, then it seems likely that he will be judged very harshly indeed.

Well ive seen some cases of denial but the Cockneys Den thread takes the biscuit over on advfn.

Good old cockney loading the troops into longs and he started 4 weeks ago.

Just take a look.

The denial is almost laughable but I feel sorry for the poor investors/traders who have been lured in.

My goodness talk about green. Reference after reference to indicies support levels and DIVIS yes divis to be paid. Ohhhhhhhh dear a whole generation wiped out of the market.

At some time the Law Of Averages will mean buyers will come back into the markets, but just look at the damage done, look at the charts. Phew makes me break out into a cold sweat.

GF.

Gorffwys cyfaill. Yfory yn ddiwrnod arall.


Or something like that.

Hays as gone quiet today as all of the Tory Boys.

Where are they, sat drownding there sorrows with lord Fraud.

Do you mean the teddy boys!

some of us were playing golf and in any case, rarely bother to respond to your incessant stream of blather