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THE TALK TO YOURSELF THREAD. (NOWT)     

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.

goldfinger - 20 Oct 2014 17:20 - 48077 of 81564

Labour lead by three points in this week’s Ashcroft National Poll, conducted over the past weekend. There is little movement in the main parties’ shares: the Conservatives are unchanged on 28 per cent, with Labour (31 per cent), the Liberal Democrats (7 per cent) and UKIP (18 per cent) each down a point since last week. The Greens are up three points at 8 per cent.

2517GEORGE - 20 Oct 2014 17:24 - 48078 of 81564

£12.5b of new money, from where? Typical response from same old Labour, let's chuck money at the problem that'll sort it.
2517

goldfinger - 20 Oct 2014 17:28 - 48079 of 81564

Wheres Cameron getting his £7.5 Billion in the next parliament to fund tax
cuts?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????.

(wont get in anyway but people want to know)

goldfinger - 20 Oct 2014 17:31 - 48080 of 81564

Labour have costed there spending and informed the electorate where its coming from. The Tories havent.

goldfinger - 20 Oct 2014 17:32 - 48081 of 81564

http://dftr.org.uk/Songbird.php?TweetFile=FreudMustGo

Haystack - 20 Oct 2014 17:33 - 48082 of 81564

And where will they get the money?

Of course, they will use their two tried and tested flagship Labour policies:-

1. Tax and spend until the public revolts

This is then followed by their backup strategy

2. Borrow and spend until their credit limit runs out.

This is then followed by years of being unelectable.

goldfinger - 20 Oct 2014 17:37 - 48083 of 81564

MANSION TAX Hays, we all know its going to hurt you.

goldfinger - 20 Oct 2014 17:40 - 48084 of 81564

Hays care to post the national debt when labour were in power then post the national debt now for the last year. Show the 4 years the Tories have been in power.

goldfinger - 20 Oct 2014 17:40 - 48085 of 81564

HAYS WERE WAITING.

goldfinger - 20 Oct 2014 17:41 - 48086 of 81564

Fred you can post it if you like. Dont let him wriggle out of this one.

Haystack - 20 Oct 2014 18:24 - 48087 of 81564

Ed Miliband is unpaid intern

LABOUR leader Ed Miliband is still technically on work experience and has yet to receive a wage.

The 44-year-old began working for Gordon Brown in 2007 to pad out his CV with some non-profit work and has been there ever since.

He said: “Apparently I’m doing very well but there just isn’t the budget to take anyone on.

“Instead they keep moving me to new positions – MP, energy secretary, Leader of the Opposition – and tell me if I make a name for myself I could get a paying job next year.

“What if I win? I can’t be prime minister and still do my shifts at Domino’s. Giorgio has said, and he’s the manager.

“I’d leave, but Harriet Harman says if I go now she won’t give me a reference and it’ll look like I’ve been in prison.”

Labour peer Lord Alli said: “Miliband? Oh yeah, the workie.

“Have you seen him today? He is supposed to be fetching my Starbucks.”

doodlebug4 - 20 Oct 2014 18:28 - 48088 of 81564

Lol - and Andy Burnham, tipped as a poosible contender for Labour leader looked equally out his depth on the Marr show yesterday.

MaxK - 20 Oct 2014 18:32 - 48089 of 81564

But Andy did promise to spend lots more money.

Fred1new - 20 Oct 2014 18:35 - 48090 of 81564

it is always good to remind people of the incompetence and hypocrisy of Labour

Haze, both Cameron and you are all I need to be reminded of hypocrisy!

Cameron reminds me of the term swinger!



Which way to-day or to-morrow.

Laughable.

Chris Carson - 20 Oct 2014 18:37 - 48091 of 81564

Andy Burnham - A graduate from the Derek Hatton school for scallys.

Haystack - 20 Oct 2014 18:37 - 48092 of 81564

Labour are promising a crack down on sarcasm on the internet. Ed Miliband said: “These people deliberately say one thing while meaning another. Sarcasm is a linguistic device designed to cause annoyance and humiliation, it is never pleasant. I have been on the rceiving end of this cruel behaviour.” Anyone using sarcasm on social media will face a maximum eight year prison sentence, depending on whether it was mild irony or flat-out piss taking.

doodlebug4 - 20 Oct 2014 18:41 - 48093 of 81564

You are in good form tonight Haystack!

doodlebug4 - 20 Oct 2014 18:47 - 48094 of 81564

On the subject of piss taking;


By Michael Deacon, Parliamentary Sketchwriter
3:26PM BST 20 Oct 2014
Speaking in London, the outgoing President of the European Commission urges Britain to remain in the EU, and warns British people that they wouldn’t be ‘better off outside’

Today I watched Jose Manuel Barroso give a speech. Afterwards I read the transcript, to find out what he’d said. It’s not that there’s anything wrong with his English; it’s just his accent, whatever accent it may be. Mr Barroso is Portuguese, but I’m not sure his voice is. One moment it sounds vaguely Dutch, the next vaguely French, the next vaguely Spanish… It’s like some awe-inspiring amalgam of every accent in Europe. Fitting, in a way, for a man who’s filled the European Union’s top job – President of the European Commission – for 10 years.

Actually, I’ll tell you what his voice sounds like. It sounds like the cassette of an old heavy metal album being played backwards in the hope of uncovering a hidden satanic message. Zzzzurp. Nnnnnyerp. Ziiiiiiiiip. Nnnnyip. I wonder what would happen if you played Mr Barroso’s speech backwards. Perhaps you’d hear the greatest hits of Judas Priest.

Mr Barroso – due to be succeeded next month by Jean-Claude Juncker – had come to Chatham House in London mainly to talk about his decade as Europe’s biggest, ripest-smelling cheese. But he’d also come to tell the British why their country should remain in the EU.

“Are you sure you are better off outside than in?” he asked. “Only the British people can weigh up the pros and cons and decide that. But from our side, the door will always stay open.”

In silence his audience contemplated this metaphysical conundrum. The British could shut the door, yet the door would remain open. The British could lock it, jam the back of a chair under the doorknob, block up the keyhole with chewing gum – and yet leading politicians from Europe would still be able to stroll straight through. Hmm. There was definitely something wrong with this door. Best get a locksmith in to have a look at it.

Mr Barroso (in case you can’t quite place him, picture Jabba the Hutt after a fortnight on the 5:2 diet) rebuked those who call Brussels meddling and authoritarian. It worried him, he said, that so few politicians in Britain “are ready to tell the facts as they are”.

“Since 2004, the Commission has cut red tape worth €41 billion to European business,” he explained. “We have not interfered with the height of hairdressers’ heels, or the ergonomic design of office chairs. We have scrapped legislation on bendy cucumbers!”

With all this endless boring talk about immigration, social security and treaty reform, Mr Barroso must feel frustrated that his important work on culinary vegetable shape law has been consistently overlooked.

After the speech he invited questions. Someone noted that Grant Shapps, the chairman of the Conservative Party, had called Mr Barroso an “unelected bureaucrat”. Did Mr Barroso have a message for Mr Shapps?

“I don’t know who the gentleman is,” replied Mr Barroso.

Not to worry. Given his habit of calling himself Michael Green or Sebastian Fox, I’m not sure Mr Shapps does, either.

Fred1new - 20 Oct 2014 18:48 - 48095 of 81564


Suggest that one looks at this to measure the success of the bullingdon boys over their 4 years of misgovernment.

But don't worry Dave and Nigel will get us kicked out of the EU.




GF.

I think this is the one!

Chris Carson - 20 Oct 2014 18:49 - 48096 of 81564

THE SNP is in a “strong position” ahead of next year’s Westminster election, the party’s business convener Derek Mackay has claimed.

The party says analysis of Scottish voting intentions collected in every YouGov poll since the independence referendum on September 18 puts its support at 40.1%.

The “super-poll”, which includes a sample of 4,845 people, has support for Labour at 27.9%, the Conservatives at 17.8%, the Lib Dems at 6.2%, Ukip at 4.1% and the Greens on 3.2%.

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Mr Mackay said the analysis would put pressure on Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont.

He said: “These are very welcome figures showing that the SNP is in a strong position going into next year’s Westminster election - while Labour’s support is sinking as the whispering campaign against Johann Lamont’s leadership continues.

“With a strong team of SNP MPs elected next year we will be in a good position to hold the Westminster parties to account on their ‘vow’ of extensive new powers for Scotland - and to get the powers we need to make Scotland a fairer, more prosperous place for everyone who lives here.

“No matter what Labour do between now and the election, the fact is that traditional Labour voters won’t forget or forgive Johann Lamont’s decision to enter into the toxic alliance with the Tories in the No campaign.”
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