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.

I thought Volvo were/are Swedish?

They are!

Perhaps Haystack was just checking to see if we actually read his posts!

lol

I think there was an early French car maker called Volvo. It is a natural name as it is Latin for I roll

I used to own one of these. Mine was white also, although they never made them in white.

It is the same model and is a dead ringer for mine. It was an 11b Normale. The English name was a Big 15. The difference is that 11 horsepower in France is 15 horsepower in England.

I think that Volvo are Chinese owned (not sure).....Murray has just won...fantastic games between him and Robredo.....Murray coming right back in form now...

Murray is starting to play better required field, but I think he may have lost a few English fans following his ill-timed remarks about the referendum! His mother can't dance, Andy needs to show her some decent footwork.

Yes your right db4, I remember him saying he'll support anyone except England so I wish Murray all he wishes us.
2517

Just when he seemed to have repaired the damage of that comment he had to shoot his mouth off again - as a fellow Scot I can only apologise on his behalf!

Why apologise db?

Theres no shortage of tossers wherever you go.

I am out cheat and grind you down again!

'CHART ATTACK GATE' LATEST ODDS

Who will get kicked off the board first

Goldfinger 1/8
Doodlethug4 4/1
Chris Carson 4/1
cynic 8/1
Aldwick 8/1*
Dil 50/1

Note money will be only taken in dollars.

* Depends on his £50 pound GP outcome.

GF,

Just consider them to obstacles to be ignored, side stepped, or circumcised!

(Sorry I meant circumnavigated.)

Or did I?

8-)

Back to mining.

Never thought it could be a clean job done in an armchair.

Fred the big honcho here is taking me to court.........he says for spamming the FTSE board.

Well it was after 4.30pm but hes still after me.

What he fails to realise ive had to put up with people spamming and trolling me on the Chart Attack thread for over 4 weeks now ...............where was he then????????????????.

I started again mid week after your encouragement and within 20 minutes it all kicked off again.

I was left seething. I know innocent posters got caught up in the action and I apologise deeply and sincerely to you. I know 'Im just another on this board'.

There are FCA standards B/Boards have to adhere to.

They in my opinion are not kept to here.....far from it.


I will e- mail the chief honcho with a positive system response tomorrow .

If Im no longer posting again come the morning Id just like to say to everyone a big thankyou for being a freind, its meant a lot to me. I really mean that.

Over and out GF.

By Boris Johnson

8:39PM GMT 26 Oct 2014

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Oh dear, what a fusillade of hatred against poor old Brandy Wandy. I have before me a slew of Sunday papers and in almost all there is a broadside against Russell Brand, the crinkle-tressed comedian. Commentators from Left and Right denounce him as a prancing, prinking, pompadoured popinjay; a know-nothing narcissist and Beverly Hills Buddhist who indulges in Dave Spart-like rants against capitalism while cheerfully admitting that he “can’t get his head around economics”.


He is attacked for being a show-off, a bore and, above all, a hypocrite; in the sense that his new book, Revolution, is published by a gigantic Anglo-German media conglomerate. One Observer reviewer accuses him of “discrediting Left‑wing thought” and ends by pleading for him to find a new career. “The sooner he leaves the better,” he fulminates.


Well, who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? I want to offer three reasons for siding with Russell against the Brand-bashers: and the first is that so much of this vituperation is obviously motivated by jealousy: of his success, his easy good humour, his string of beautiful and intelligent girlfriends, his Hollywood lifestyle, etc.


The second is that he genuinely seems like a nice chap. A while ago he came to film Question Time in City Hall and made a good impression on everyone – chatting in the lift, introducing us to his mother etc – even if someone afterwards said that he did nip off to the gents for a long time. But the third and most important reason for approving of Russell Brand is that he is such fantastic news for the Tory party. Of course his manifesto is nonsense – as I am sure he would be only too happy, in private, to admit. Among the measures he apparently advocates in Revolution are the abolition of taxation, the end of voting and the closure of all businesses with a turnover of more than $37 million – that being the GDP of Tuvalu, the world’s smallest country.


What he is calling for, in other words, is total global chaos and destruction. It is also true that much of the book consists of gibberish. A fairly representative sentence runs: “The significance of consciousness itself as a participant in what we perceive as reality is increasingly negating what we understood to be objectivity.” Yes, it is bilge; but that is not the point. Who cares what he really means or what he really thinks? The crucial thing about Russell Brand is that he seems to be popular – to strike a chord with people. After the long years of the post-crunch recession, there are many of a radical temper – especially young people – who are hoping for a prophet, for a new way, for someone who will show how humanity can subvert the long and imperfect reign of essentially free-market global capitalist democracy. It goes without saying that most of these people are on the Left. They want (or claim to want) a more “equal” society, to put down the mighty from their seat, to exalt the humble and meek – and so on.


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In fastening their attention on Russell and his brand of semi-religious pseudo-economic mumbo-jumbo, they are revealing something very significant about modern politics: and that is the total failure of Ed Miliband’s Labour Party to motivate or inspire – at either end of the Left-wing coalition. Miliband and Ed Balls have long since alienated the Blairites. We have ministers actively briefing against the Labour leadership, and last week we were told authoritatively that Mr Tony does not think Ed has made any kind of case to govern the country.

We have Blairite stalwarts such as Tessa Jowell campaigning, correctly, against the so-called Mansion Tax – a tax that threatens to fall viciously on cash-poor Londoners who are living in expensive homes. But it is not just that Ed has lost touch with moderate Labour; he is the most Left-wing Labour leader since Michael Foot – and yet he can’t even stir the blood of the radical Left. Russell Brand is part of a phenomenon of general Labour hopelessness that has seen a huge increase in Scottish support for the SNP.

When Ed was told not to come campaigning for the Union in Scotland, that was because he is seen as being too much part of the Establishment – another besuited politician of the kind that Russell Brand deplores. The Scottish Labour Party is now in a meltdown, its leader having resigned because, among other things, Ed would not let her bash the so-called “bedroom tax” for a whole year, while he made up his mind about the issue. The result is that Labour could now lose between 10 and 20 Scottish seats to the SNP, and Scottish Labour is so desperate that it is actually thinking of bringing back Gordon Brown.

In the west of England, Left-wing votes are draining away to the Greens. In the North, as we saw at Middleton and Heywood, the party is seeing its chair legs sawn away by Ukip. The polls are now level pegging between Labour and Tories; the Labour lead has vanished; and as the election gets closer, people will be asking tougher and tougher questions of Ed Miliband, and about where he stands.

Take the issue of the hour – the EU demand that Britain should pay an extra £1.7 billion to the budget. We have heard a fierce and fine explanation from David Cameron: he thinks the surcharge is outrageous and another good reason for reforming the EU budgetary processes. What would Ed Miliband do, if he faced the same bill? To ask the question is to answer it: he would do nothing – nothing, that is, except cough up.

Russell Brand may be about as convincing as a political theorist as a toaster made by Russell Hobbs, but he is at least engaging his Left-wing audience with something they can recognise as passion.

Alas, I don’t have the slightest confidence that he will run for Mayor of London – as his publicists were confiding yesterday to a credulous media. But I would be thrilled if he did. As a phenomenon he is a sign of the disintegration of the Left and the weakness of Ed Miliband, and he therefore needs every possible encouragement.

That's a very sarky article Chris, muchus gracias.


Still, it hits the nail on the head...Noo Lab are doomed cos they had the wrong bruvver chosen for them by the unions, the same unions that allowed their membership to be decimated by cheap foreign labour imports.


Vote UKIP, it's the only viable choice, all the rest work for the enemy!

GF.

You have a brief E-mail from me thro' Moneyam!

Regards.