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.

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..

Russell Brand?! Have you temporarily lost your marbles?

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.

I thought they were members of the cabinet!

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.

A Labour MP will be next to join UKIP, Carswell boasts as desperate Miliband promises immigration crackdown to shore up leadership


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2789767/miliband-migrants-earn-right-benefits-pass-tougher-english-language-tests-come-place.html

None of the list above would be suitable for government.

Is that the fish and chip paper.

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...

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.

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.

See I find that amusing...

Me too, I think they should bring back Z Cars.

MaxK - post- 48148


He must have seen you, or the hazy1, when you were taking the photographs.

Clarkson as a brilliant humorous personality imo.

Lets face it any country that allows Clarkson and the Top Gear team into the country to film should expect recklessness and piss-taking... The shows been going long enough for people to know what there getting... Sounds like Argentina trying to grab some air time to moan as per usual..

Clarkson reminds me of :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON-7v4qnHP8

My grandson watches it and think them funny.

With luck he will grow up!

UmmH, or Uggh!

Does anyone really believe Len Goodman shops at Farmfoods?.

Shortie, although the story does have it's amusing side the Argentinians are constantly looking for reasons to pick another fight with this country and for the BBC not to realise beforehand that they were surely handing the ammunition on a plate to Argentina was rather silly.