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.
Fred1new
- 21 Oct 2014 13:55
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GF,
Strange how Haze1 disappears.
Must be a party Central Office getting the latest distortion to spread.
Same as above but need repeating for Napoleon and DB4:
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Government borrowing rose to £11.8bn in September, an increase of £1.6bn compared with a year earlier, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Economists were forecasting that borrowing would hold steady.
The latest figures are a set back for Chancellor George Osborne, who in March pledged to cut the budget deficit by more than 10% over the next 12 months.
Between April and September borrowing was £58bn, a rise of £5.4bn compared with the same period last year.
That is an increase of 10.3%. Last month's figures showed borrowing between April and August was 6% higher than a year earlier.
line
Analysis: Simon Jack, Business correspondent, BBC News
Plans to reduce the deficit are getting further off track. The government has so far borrowed 9% more this year than it did at the same time last year. It means the chancellor has no room for manoeuvre as he prepares his pre-election tax and spending plans, due to be announced in early December.
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Do you think Haze1 is holding George's hand or ?
Promises, promises, promises.
Mind we are OK the EU will kick us out and then we can pirate the World!
Shortie
- 21 Oct 2014 14:19
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George doesn't need room for manoeuvre, all he needs do is pledge to make things better over the next 12 months just like he's previously done time and time again... When those pledges fail to materialise who does he answer to, answer no-one!! Lets face it, a Chancellor is no better than a banker, paid and rewarded regardless of results...
Fred1new
- 21 Oct 2014 14:26
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Shortie,
That is why the voters don't trust politicians in general and this particular government in particular.
That is why the Farages succeed for a while, until somebody takes their clothes off and reveal them for what they are.
Fred1new
- 21 Oct 2014 14:27
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Horrible sight!
8-)
MaxK
- 21 Oct 2014 14:34
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Shortie
- 21 Oct 2014 14:48
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We don't trust politicians in general because we're British, being British means we're sceptical or don't trust anyone that we don't know personally!!
Mind you our politicians hardly inspire confidence or lack and real substance. I bet if you formed a government with the likes of Jessica Ennis, JK Rowling, Keith Lemon, Ant & Dec, Alex Jones, Russell Brand etc. you'd see a majority vote and a decent turnout..
doodlebug4
- 21 Oct 2014 14:51
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Russell Brand?! Have you temporarily lost your marbles?
Shortie
- 21 Oct 2014 15:03
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Personally I'm not a fan of his. However I have seen him on question time and a few other shows, he might be controversial but, makes more sense than any politician and his views are at least backup with evidence. He's not the complete fool that sometimes he appears to be.
Fred1new
- 21 Oct 2014 15:08
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I thought they were members of the cabinet!
doodlebug4
- 21 Oct 2014 15:09
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Sorry Shortie, I should have put a smiley at the end of my last post! I think Jeremy Paxman did make him look like a complete fool when he interviewed him.
MaxK
- 21 Oct 2014 15:09
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Haystack
- 21 Oct 2014 15:10
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None of the list above would be suitable for government.
Fred1new
- 21 Oct 2014 15:10
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Is that the fish and chip paper.
Shortie
- 21 Oct 2014 15:17
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Hays the point is there as suitable as the current bunch of MP's or even more so... Most politicians can even inspire the general public to vote let alone place an 'x' in their box...
Shortie
- 21 Oct 2014 15:19
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At least if Keith Lemon was stood at the immigration desk only the fit English speaking ones would be allowed in... That's got to slash immigration numbers by at least 99% in my eyes.
doodlebug4
- 21 Oct 2014 15:24
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Speaking of fools, here's another one who is given too much television time. Top Gear used to be a really good programme, but went steadily downhill when Clarkson got carried away with his own ego.
By Anita Singh, Arts and Entertainment Editor
2:44PM BST 21 Oct 2014
Ambassador visits BBC to demand public apology about Jeremy Clarkson's 'entirely false accusations' after Top Gear number plate row
Argentina’s ambassador to the UK has made a formal complaint to the BBC about Jeremy Clarkson’s “provocative behaviour” in the recent Top Gear special, and demanded a public apology.
Ambassador Alicia Castro visited the BBC on Monday afternoon.
She said Clarkson’s claims that the Top Gear team were ambushed and hounded out of Argentina were “entirely false accusations”.
The embassy released details of the ambassador's meeting with the BBC’s director of television, Danny Cohen, in which she condemned the presenter and his team for appearing to taunt Argentinians over the Falklands conflict.
Setting out the ambassador’s case, an embassy spokesman said: “Clarkson arrived in Tierra del Fuego, just 400 miles form the Malvinas Islands, flaunting a car with the number plates H982 FKL, evoking the year and the initials of the territory in which the war took place.
“Subsequently, he claimed it was a ‘mere coincidence’ with no intention of provoking a reaction.”
After their meeting, the spokesman said: “The Embassy of Argentina awaits a proper response from the BBC.”
The presenters of the show and their crew fled the country, where they were filming a Christmas special, as a result of protests over the plate on Jeremy Clarkson's Porsche which read H982 FKL, which some interpreted as an insensitive reference to the Falklands War in 1982.
The show has been at the centre of a number of recent controversies with presenter Clarkson having already been given a final warning by the BBC.
Shortie
- 21 Oct 2014 15:56
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See I find that amusing...
goldfinger
- 21 Oct 2014 16:07
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Me too, I think they should bring back Z Cars.
Fred1new
- 21 Oct 2014 16:07
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MaxK - post- 48148
He must have seen you, or the hazy1, when you were taking the photographs.
goldfinger
- 21 Oct 2014 16:09
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Clarkson as a brilliant humorous personality imo.