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.

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.

Shortie, we could do with a lot more like Clarkson.

I dont know what it is but this country seems to be losing its identity of having pis- takers like Clarkson at the top.

Its all numpty x factor and brain dead strictly etc etc.

Dont worry if hes given the boot there will be a job waiting for him and a big salary increase.

DB, ok Clarksons taken the piss and the Argentinians have complained.... That's it, end of storey, I don't think its ammunition for anything... After all the complaint was voiced to the BBC and not the government... I'm sure Argentina has its own piss-takers that will no doubt come here and wind up the English from time to time for their own TV entertainment... Personally I don't see anything wrong with it..

I think he should have stayed in Argentina and let the locals show their appreciation of him.

Government borrowing is up by 10 per cent; Treasury says deficit reduction plan “is working” 21/10/2014



If you’re boggling at the headline, rest assured it is correct!

Let’s run down the figures. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), government borrowing (excluding the public sector banks) was £11.8 billion last month, an increase of £1.6 billion, or around 10 per cent, compared with September 2013.

Public sector net debt (again excluding those banks) was £1.4513 trillion – 79.9 per cent of GDP. This was an increase of £100.7 billion compared with September 2013, meaning the national deficit for the year to September 2014 was the same amount.

George Osborne’s target for the financial year 2014-15 is to reduce borrowing to £95.5 billion. With tax receipts going down – by £1bn in the six months since the start of the financial year, against Treasury predictions that they would rise (because we’ve all got jobs, right?) – this seems less and less likely.

According to The Guardian, a Treasury spokesman responded to the figures by saying the “government’s long-term economic plan is working”.

Really?

The trouble is, the Coalition Agreement states that “We [Conservatives and Liberal Democrats] recognise that deficit reduction, and continuing to ensure economic recovery, is the most urgent issue facing Britain”.

The deficit is increasing, not reducing, yet George Osborne says his plan is working.

Perhaps he has been lying to us all along.

Perhaps he has a different plan.

Should be a very good PMqs tomorrow Fred.

I cant wait to see Balls taunting Giddeon.

Good point Fred, I agree and it does give me ammunition to complain about how my licence fee is spent! It just seems to follow on from various other unsavoury sagas which the BBC have been involved in - particularly when they broadcast a sketch by a 'comedian' about the fact that Lord Mountbatten was blown up by the IRA. I must be losing my sense of humour .

He should take a cross with him raise it and show it to Theresa and George and see if they "disintegrate" into a pile of dust!

Wonder why Hays is hiding and his new band of merry men

Why is the PM and Chancellor obsessed with economic growth and recovery? Surely nothing can grow all the time, there has to be times of stagnant growth and recession to keep the economy in check and healthy...

On a separate note you could argue that the reason why the government has over spent is all done to its obsession to drive growth.... Now if it'd hit its deficit target and not overspent in its failed attempt to stimulate growth (which may I add is really a job for the BofE) I wonder what the economic growth picture would really look like.

Just take football for example where are all the entertainers/characters we once had in the game. Marsh, Best, Stan Bowles, Franny Lee, Mike Summerbee Frank Worthington etc etc.

Faceless wonders these days, its the same in all modern life, whats happened to the sit com?.

Its all about money now adays and we dont have people with a character, a sense of humour and this board mirrors that at times.

Yep but Shortie its the fact that Dave and Giddeon keep lying to the public time and time again.

If they just showed a little humble side to themselves Im sure they would pick up more votes.