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.

Fred alders you mean. Wish Id known lets face it he started the 'Kick off today'.

Whats wrong with these people are they just out to cause trouble.

For Gods sake they are Old Men.

And then they complain about teenagers.........give me strength.

Anyway Fred ive gone upstairs with this beyond management here.

Im not taking this trolling anymore.

If Im kicked off fair enough Ill miss a lot of good friends who I have enjoyed mixing with over the last 14 years, but Im not prepared to put up with spoilers who are here just to create havoc for a laugh.

gf, go and have a good crap, you'll feel much better.

And I'm not having a pop at you, but theres nothing like a good clearout to straighten out the wobbly bits of life.

A pint or three wouldn't hurt either.

Max stop being a tw-t. It doesnt suit you.

gf.

It's painfull, but you have to understand.


None of the party leaders care about you, none of them.


If you were on fire, none of them would cross the road to piss on you to put the fire out, they wouldn't even notice.



They don't care about you gf, they really don't!

Most of them care deeply about power.

The Telegraph claims former prime minister Tony Blair has told friends that he thinks the Conservatives will win the next election.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ed-miliband/11187285/Tony-Blair-Miliband-has-failed-to-connect-with-voters-and-is-doomed-to-election-defeat.html

sticky - you have e-mail

By NATALIE WALKER
Johann Lamont has resigned as leader of the Scottish Labour party with immediate effect, ending weeks of speculation about her future.


Her decision to quit comes a month after she helped lead the successful No campaign in the independence referendum.

It is believed Ms Lamont was fed up with internal sniping about her leadership and was critical of party bosses in London for not allowing the Scottish party more autonomy.

Last night Ms Lamont was reported as saying: “I am standing down so that the debate our country demands can take place.”

But a source close to the Glasgow Pollok MSP said her resignation letter, which will be made public today, would contain “a kick at Ed Miliband and the Scottish Labour MPs at Westminster”.

Scotsman newspaper

Just for the Hazyone!

He was only being asked to pay for Napoleon's beer!

Cameron and crew have been dining out in Europe without looking at the menu and wine list and are now complaining at the bill.

As previous expecting their mummies and daddies to pick up the bill.

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I wonder if anybody under the age of 60 should be allowed to become a minister in a government.


You can have advisors from the age of 2 if wanted, but let "government" be the hands of proven slower "elders".


Never thought I would write something like the above.

Just thought, it is like and a young bull and an old bull looking down from a hillside onto a field of young cows.

Never mind Cameroon, altho he's making a perfect fist of the €uroballs contest.


Listening to the LBC fone in this morning.

It's Millibandus who has the real problem, call after call from supposedly labour supporters (who knows?) saying they don't trust him after what he did to his bruvver.
Along those lines of, if he can do that, what chance have we got?



My own personal view, is that you really cant trust any of the turds.

Well at least we are not living in America with all the loonies running amok with guns.

DAVID Clegg discusses Lamont's resignation as Scottish Labour leader and says whoever replaces her faces a tough task ahead.

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Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont
WHEN Johann Lamont took over the Scottish Labour leadership the party was at its lowest ebb.

Labour had just been humiliated in the Holyrood election and faced a referendum fight to the death they had no stomach for.

Lamont - not a natural leader - stood up to be counted when it mattered most and did a decent job of steadying the ship.

Despite a backbench pretty much bereft of talent she took on Alex Salmond and achieved a series of by-election victories.

Most importantly, she helped oversee a referendum win that, if it had gone the other way, would have spelt the end for Scottish Labour.

But in the wake of that victory she has been forced to resign by the eternal curse of Labour - backstabbing and betrayal.

Meanwhile, the SNP are in a buoyant mood despite their independence dream being extinguished.

As it stands, Labour look set to lose seats at Westminster next year before being humiliated by the SNP again at the Holyrood election in 2016.

Whoever replaces Lamont faces a tough, tough job.

fred - they seem to have brought in a new law here, probably thanks to greater influence from abu dhabi ...... because it is islamic new year, all alcoholic drinks and entertainment were banned from 18:00 yesterday (friday) until 19:00 today

benefits limitation
a genuine but very much simplified question .......

let's say you are a cohabiting couple aged about 25 with 2 young children
one of the partners has a part time job (<16 hours) on minimum wage, while the other is unemployed

i think that on that basis, they get all sorts of allowances, ranging from help with the rent, most of the council tax paid, free school meals and no doubt some unemployment benefit

if the second partner now gets a full-time job = 35 hours on minimum wage, will ALL the above benefits cease rather than just scaled back?
If so, surely that would leave them worse off?


sensible and preferably knowledgeable comment please :-)