goldfinger
- 09 Jun 2005 12:25
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.
MaxK
- 16 Oct 2014 09:48
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In that case, why didn't cleggy defend the guys human rights?
And what about the victims human rights?
Haystack
- 16 Oct 2014 09:51
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BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON: U.K. WILL STILL BE THE FASTEST GROWING ECONOMY IN THE G7 THIS YEAR
GILTS AND MONEY MARKET INSTRUMENTS SUGGEST EXPECTATIONS ON UK RATES HAVE SHIFTED, MOST LIKELY TO JULY OR LATER FROM Q1 OF NEXT YEAR
BOE: ANY RISE IN INTEREST RATES FROM HISTORIC LOWS WILL BE DEPENDENT ON ECONOMIC DATA, ESPECIALLY WAGE GROWTH
Shortie
- 16 Oct 2014 09:52
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It just goes to show you can't speak freely in this country any more without someone twisting your words or taking them out of context from with the whole conversation.
I thought we'd just had a hacking probe looking at how information is obtained to screw someone over...
TANKER
- 16 Oct 2014 09:54
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A gang of Romanian beggars sleeping rough on one of London's most exclusive streets today demanded: 'We're EU citizens, give us houses'.
The 40-strong group sleeping in a subway under Park Lane have been accused of turning it into a 'slum' having lived in various camps near Marble Arch for 18 months.
Local businesses believe they have driven away customers because of the mess and members of the group urinating in the street and fighting with rivals.
Today the group said they are willing to pack up their cardboard boxes if Westminster Council found them homes.
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Demand: Romanian migrants have been camping in a subway in Park Lane and one member has demanded homes because they are EU citizens
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Clear up: Westminster City Council has said the problems on Park Lane has cost taxpayers £500,000 a year
Detritus: Mattresses used by the camp are dumped on the pavement close to the Marble Arch subway
Detritus: Mattresses abd other items used by the camp are dumped on the pavement close to the Marble Arch subway
One middle-aged Eastern European woman, who refused to give her name, told the Evening Standard: 'We are from Romania. We are in the European Union. We need help with a house. Give us a house and we won't be here.'
EU migrants can claim a council house in certain circumstances.
Westminster Council says the problem of these Park Lane camps has cost the taxpayer £500,000 a year.
They have campaigned to evict the rough sleepers — even buying them tickets to fly home — but some just come back.
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TANKER
- 16 Oct 2014 09:57
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the uk is full of the scum its time to take action and kick them out vote ukip and it will be done stop all benefits to the scum and stop them sleeping keep them up all night ever night keep moving them they will soon break up and leave
get the scum out
goldfinger
- 16 Oct 2014 10:00
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TANKER is it a bit rough where you live?.
cynic
- 16 Oct 2014 10:10
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hey sticky, don't tell me even you are getting bored with MrT's ravings!
goldfinger
- 16 Oct 2014 10:15
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Well actually I was thinking about his poor mates having to work for £2 quid an hour.
Haystack
- 16 Oct 2014 10:21
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goldfinger
- 16 Oct 2014 10:26
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Lord Freud hangs on as MPs of all parties 'call for his head' over disability comments
Lord Freud was clinging to his job as welfare reform minister tonight after he suggested that some disabled workers are “not worth” the national minimum wage and should be paid just £2 an hour.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/lord-freud-hangs-on-as-mps-of-all-parties-call-for-his-head-over-disability-comments-9797057.html
MaxK
- 16 Oct 2014 10:30
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MaxK
- 16 Oct 2014 10:47
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The sage is bailing out.
aldwickk
- 16 Oct 2014 10:49
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Ebola Is Spreading Because We Don't Care About Poor People, Says Bob Geldof
And how many millions is he worth ? And how many millions did we give to Africa, the people who don't care about poor people are the rich corrupt African's themselves that is when the poor are not killing each other because of belonging to a different tribe or religion
MaxK
- 16 Oct 2014 10:50
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Nigel Farage’s Tory 'fifth columnists’ are helping no one but Ed Miliband
It’s hard to explain why so many Conservative MPs are secretly – or openly – on Ukip’s side

A number of Tory MPs actually went to the astonishing length of sending messages of congratulations to Douglas Carswell for his, and Ukip's, triumph at Clacton Photo: Will Oliver/EPA
By Peter Oborne
6:15AM BST 16 Oct 2014
It is just two weeks since David Cameron delivered one of the best political speeches I have ever heard. In Birmingham, he set out the (in many ways astonishing) achievements of his Government, while capably demolishing the electoral pretensions of Labour.
Mr Cameron concluded with the warning that a vote for Nigel Farage is, in effect, a vote for Ed Miliband. He rightly received rave reviews – all the more glowing when compared with Ed Miliband the week before.
The Prime Minister had provided the Conservative Party with a route map to general election victory. Tory morale has rarely been higher than in the immediate aftermath of that speech. Yet already, it is in collapse.
The Ukip triumph in Clacton has led to a meltdown in party discipline of a kind that I have never witnessed before – not even during the darkest days of the Maastricht rebellion against John Major. Conservative MPs are openly collaborating with Ukip, a political party that is set on their downfall and destruction.
This became apparent on Monday, when Douglas Carswell, the victor of Clacton, returned to the Commons. To my amazement and even stupefaction, he was introduced by two MPs from the very party which he had just deserted.
More:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/11164718/Nigel-Farages-Tory-fifth-columnists-are-helping-no-one-but-Ed-Miliband.html
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goldfinger
- 16 Oct 2014 10:51
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BREAKING NEWS........
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Labour turns up the heat on Cameron over Lord Freud
Following the news that the Government has cancelled Lord Freud’s planned appearances in the House of Lords today, Labour is demanding that he make a statement to Parliament.
Labour is also calling on David Cameron to release all details of any government consideration given to limiting disabled people’s entitlement to the national minimum wage.
Labour’s Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Rachel Reeves MP has written to David Cameron demanding that he answer the following questions:
- Will he confirm that, despite having given him a clean bill of health, he has not personally spoken to Lord Freud to discuss his views?
- Will he release all details of work commissioned within government on reducing disabled people’s entitlement to the national minimum wage?
- Will he release all internal government papers relating to disabled people’s entitlement to the national minimum wage?
- Will he join Labour in calling on Lord Freud to make a full statement to Parliament today to explain his comments?
Rachel Reeves MP, Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, in a letter to David Cameron sent this morning, said:
Dear Prime Minister,
Your Minister for Welfare Reform has said that he believes some disabled people are “not worth the full wage”. Despite outrage on all benches, including from senior Conservatives, and from charity leaders, you have failed to act.
Lord Freud’s remarks were completely unacceptable, and it is also unacceptable that someone with these views remains in charge of such an important post in your government.
It is now vital that you publicly confront the following issues.
After learning of the comments, your spokesman said you would “want to hear what Lord Freud is going to say”. Can you confirm that you have personally not spoken to Lord Freud to discuss his views, and yet you have given him a clean bill of health?
Lord Freud said in relation to disabled people being paid less than the national minimum wage that he was “going to go and think about that particular issue, whether there is something we can do nationally”. It is essential that you now release details of all work which has been commissioned within the Department for Work and Pensions and other government departments relating to this issue in the last 12 months. Will you now publish all details of such work, and will you release all internal papers which cover this topic?
Finally, Lord Freud was today supposed to be speaking in the ‘Social Justice Strategy’ debate in the House of Lords, yet he has been ‘pulled’ in a sign that you do not in fact have full confidence in his position. Given he is a government minister and a peer, it is only right that he be subject to public accountability. Will you and your Leader in the House of Lords therefore join me in calling on him to today come to the House of Lords and make a full statement to explain his comments, what action he has taken in this policy area and respond to the many questions parliamentary colleagues will have?
If you cannot agree to this people will only conclude that your government has something to hide, that you cannot publicly defend your position in relation to disabled people’s entitlement to the minimum wage, and your inaction will haunt you.
Charities yesterday said that Lord Freud’s comments were offensive and shocking. Mencap said that he should “reflect on his position”. It is unclear, however, how far a member of your government would have to go in offending disabled people in order to lose their job, when in many other walks of life the comments by Lord Freud would have led to a resignation.
You said in the House of Commons yesterday that Lord Freud’s views are “not the views of anyone in the government”, and yet his continued presence in the DWP suggests otherwise.
Yours sincerely,
Rachel Reeves MP
Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary
goldfinger
- 16 Oct 2014 10:55
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Alex Lawson @MrAlexLawson 9m9 minutes ago
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway owned more than 5% of #Tesco in 2012, now down to less than 3%
MaxK
- 16 Oct 2014 11:03
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Has he flogged the lot EL?
It says less than 3%...which of course could mean gone with the wads (all the way)