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.

but not from a family who run away and fleas is country .
only good people fight for their country

This thread can be incredibly funny at times - barking mad even. On that note, I'm off to walk my dogs!

come on VI, bring it on ... let's have a load more bileful nonsense from you .... let us all see just how stupid you can make yourself if you really try

un only the usa and uk are responding to the ebola crisis

Downing Street’s Ebola panic is a classic case of the politics of fear

Remember Sars? What about bird flu? Here we are again with the latest ‘pandemic’, having our insecurities cynically exploited



Simon Jenkins


The Guardian, Friday 17 October 2014


'The government should appoint a commission for the assessment of panics.' Illustration: Otto Dettmar


No one can tell me if Ebola is the worst plague since, variously, Aids, Sars, BSE or the black death. All I hear is that it “might” be. I do not mind being told no one knows. But what do I make of a prime minister who emerges from his Cobra bunker and declares “a very serious threat to the UK”, a US president who says it is “spiralling out of control”, and a World Health Organisation that says it is “the most severe health emergency seen in modern times … a potential threat of an unparalleled human catastrophe”?

We have lost control of the language of proportion. The result is an outbreak of crying-wolf syndrome. David Cameron and his cabinet currently tell me to be scared witless by Ebola, an attack from Isis, a resurgent Russia and global warming (sometimes). In July, the prime minister said we face being “cast back into the dark ages of medicine” because of a new strain of superbugs. This was capped two months later when Stephen Hawking declared that “the God particle could destroy the universe”. In small print it said this was “very unlikely”, but how unlikely is very?

Is this all scientific drivel, or merely abuse of the sacred word “could”? We have no tools for assessing such threats. There is no help from the Office for National Statistics or Office for Budget Responsibility. Tim Harford of the BBC Radio 4 programme More or Less tries to keep his head above the sea of tosh. But the only sane response is total scepticism of the motives of those seeking to make us afraid.

The real threat from Ebola, the subject of agonising coverage from Africa and panic measures from governments, is hard to assess. It has been around since the 1970s. It was eventually contained each time, including in the Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this year. If governments really thought it so terrifying they would issue a temporary ban on air travel which, in the digital age, is almost all non-essential. But when fear is in the air and politicians want to seem in control, who can tell?



More: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/17/downing-street-ebola-panic-politics-of-fear-sars-bird-flu

Wrong TANKER the French have got involved aswel it was on the Andrew Neal show last night.

cynic

Well you didnt obviously. Were you holding everybodys coats?.

facts . the nhs is in crisis the uk public can not get to see a doctor the old are suffering the disabled are suffering and we spend and send hundreds of nhs staff to help others in another country . if you can not look after your own people then stop spending their taxes helping others .
let those that preach like the stinking rotten eu act but no they are silent

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yes I did and my daughter now my grand daughter is in the raf

gf the con party is finished ukip will change ever thing in the uk for ever and about time . the public have been lied to. too many times they are waking up to the lies

Cameron as had four and a half years to bring immigration down its gone up 50% more . he can not do nothing as the EU RULES SAY HE CAN NOT . its time to give the
voters the vote in or out in or out . and we all no the outcome OUT

come on VI, you can do much better ...... really let rip and show your real self as the true paradigm of all fools

TANKER by us sending those troops and NHS staff to Africa it is hoped we cut the disease off at source.

Just think how many people we will have to employ here if it gets to our shores.

GF I GREE WITH YOU BUT WHY ALWAYS THE UK AND THE USA
the eu is always silent when real action is needed they do not turn round and say we will make the decisions like they do on immigration vat tax bonuses and the likes

Aha! A brilliant flash of inspiration....

The Romanians, etc, come here wanting jobs. Yes?

Let's give them the job of going to West Africa to stop Ebola in its tracks.

Immigration is a problem I agree TANKER but I wouldnt go out and vote UKIP on just that one issue.

More needs to be done in this country for the genuine poor, the sick and disabled and YES pensioners who are genuinely poor.

But you wont get that under UKIP or the Tories.

agree gf but were do you get change I am very well off . but do care about my fellow brothers and sisters in the uk we need a change and the only way is with our votes

as for immigration it is out of control any scum can come here .
why do they not fight for a better life in their own country .
the answer is simple they want a free ticket on the backs of others
who fought for a better life now being destroyed bynthe scum coming here and ripping the heart out of a once great people