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 concur with this bit:

"Darling’s decision doesn’t surprise me: there were rumours that he was thinking this way ahead of the last election.

He is perhaps the only finance minister in Europe serving at the time of the crash to have come out of it with his reputation enhanced (which is why he has other career options to think about)."

He is a truly nice bloke. Let's agree what a sensible decision he has made and all of us wish him, 'All the best for the future' .

Microsoft stops selling Windows 7
Friday marked the end of sales of PCs with consumer versions of Windows 7 pre-installed
Windows 7 was released in 2009
From: Telegraph.co.uk
By Sophie Curtis12:42PM GMT 03 Nov 2014

Microsoft has discontinued sales of computers running consumer versions of Windows 7, effectively pushing people onto the less-popular Windows 8 operating system.

As of 31 October 2014, Microsoft will no longer provide licences for Windows 7 Home Basic, Windows 7 Home Premium, and Windows 7 Ultimate to PC makers – like Dell, Lenovo and HP.

This means it will only be possible to buy a PC with Windows 7 pre-installed until existing stock runs out. All new Windows PC models will run either Windows 8 or Windows 8.1.

The only exception will be business computers running Windows 7 Professional, which will continue being sold for at least another year.

Microsoft will continue to offer mainstream support for Windows 7 until 13 January 2015. Extended support is also guaranteed until 14 January 2020, according to the company's Windows lifecycle fact sheet.

Microsoft has also stopped selling boxed retail copies of Windows 8, which launched in 2012. However, the operating system will still be sold pre-installed on some Windows PCs.

Windows 7 currently accounts for 53 per cent of the desktop operating system market, up from 47 per cent this time last year, according to the latest figures from Net Applications.

Windows XP now accounts for 17 per cent (compared to 31 per cent last year), while Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 together account for 17 per cent (compared to 9 per cent last year).

Windows as a whole accounts for over 90 per cent of the desktop operating system market, compared to around 7 per cent for Apple's Mac OS X operating system, and around 1.5 per cent for Linux.

The next version of Windows, called Windows 10, is due to be released in the middle of next year.

Bernie's talking bollocks imo - Europe isn't finished. The frogs may be taking it in the neck right now, but that's the time the hedge funds go bottom fishing as they look towards the yield. Buy when the cannons are thundering as Mr Rothschild used to say....

In fact my husband and I have just spent a rather pleasant last week on the south coast picking up some plots and distressed stuff up on the cheap. It was 24 degrees on Thursday, and we even went paddling in the Med which was pretty nifty for the end of October. And, fwiw, there's a load of stuff that's sold over the last few weeks since we were last down there, so we're not the only ones who are sniffing around.

Tax avoidance – the latest from Twitter 2/11/2014

This infographic appeared on Twitter yesterday. At a time when it has been revealed that the richest people in the UK doubled their income between 2009 and 2014, proving that the Coalition government lied about sharing the burden equally, it seems appropriate to share it.

Supporting information on the £120 billion figure can be found here and here.

The HMRC figure is harder to pin down but a claim that it amounted to £32 billion can be found here.

The claim that £16 billion in benefits goes unclaimed every year seems to date from 2010 and may be lower than the actual amount.

Benefit fraud and error is enumerated in this DWP report which shows that the infographic is mistaken about overpayments due to error – these stand at £2.4 billion, not £1.4 billion.

Information showing that the 1,000 richest people in the UK doubled their incomes between 2009 and 2014 can be found here.

David Cameron has vowed (yet again) to crack down on tax avoidance. A report is here…

But you can safely leave any words he has to say on the subject here:

'I have to check her teeth': Footage shows ISIS fighters attending slave girl 'market' where they barter for young women... with green-eyed teens fetching the highest price
Terror group recently boasted it had enslaved women from Yazidi sect
Men explain it is 'slave market day' and they will have 'their share'
But the price they pay depends on looks, eye colour and good teeth
And the seller reveals he is happy to exchange his slave for a Glock pistol


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Regular law abiding, God-fearing Muslims, Tanker?

Or raving, lunatic, scum bag, fanatic, terrorist Muslims, Tanker?

There is a difference.

Good idea?



How the biggest chunk of your hard-earned tax goes on welfare: Average worker pays £1,100 towards the bill
Government is to send letters to taxpayers breaking down tax spending
Ministers believe it will strengthen their arguments for welfare reform
Welfare is single biggest item, accounting for almost a quarter of all tax

By Jason Groves for the Daily Mail

Published: 23:53, 2 November 2014 | Updated: 10:26, 3 November 2014



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The average worker pays more than £1,100 a year towards Britain’s bloated welfare bill, according to Treasury figures to be sent to voters.

From today, millions will be sent letters showing how much income tax they pay – and what it is spent on.

The initiative is intended to promote ‘transparency’. But ministers believe it will also strengthen their arguments for welfare reform.





more graphs and stuff here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2818168/How-biggest-chunk-hard-earned-tax-goes-welfare-Average-worker-pays-1-100-bill.html

I know what, lets cut welfare, health, education and state pensions out completely, and then we can really get back to the jungle... what a good idea.

No that's to obvious, just do it in smaller increments over the years and no one will notice.. well not on this island anyway.

Excellent idea.

Says it all.

Disclosure is a bad idea iyo?

Are you a new chap stan ? :-))

Certainly cut welfare. Health, education and pensions need their money.

Send him to Australia.. one way of course.

Australia is rated as being the best place in the world to live.

damn expensive now

So if you cut welfare further, that means that the following will be involved

state pension
Free TV License
winter fuel payment
pensioner credits
free prescriptions
free dental costs
eye tests
earing aids
help with law costs
child benefit
one parent benefit
free bus passes
grants to LAs

In fact I could go on and on but this pie chart shows the breakdown.

Now get this just 3% of welfare goes to the Unemployed, get that Ill say it again just 3% of one government budget goes to the unemployed, but the NASTY PARTY want to use these new statements into fooling you that you are being ripped off and paying out of your income a massive amount for sick, disabled and genuinely poor people. SHAME ON YOU IF YOU BELIEVE THIS TORY PROPOGANDA.

Do you really want pensioners, the disabled, the needy poor to have cuts made to there meagre incomes that they can barely live on each week????????????

the ‘welfare’ category puts a whole new meaning on our Government’s favourite phrase “we’re all in this together.”

Except we’re not all in this for the same reasons.

Some of us have worked hard for 50 years to get ‘in this.’

Some of us have met with tragic accidents to get ‘in this.’ Some of us have developed illnesses we’d never heard of before to get ‘in this.’

Some of us are ‘in this’ simply because we love our severely disabled children deeply and have given up our own jobs and lives to give them the best lives possible.

Some of us are ‘in this’ because we were born simply too severely disabled to lift a finger.

Working is our impossible dream, but one we wish every day could come true.

But the Government doesn’t seem to care.

More money spent on culture then housing & utilities ?

Haystack

To much spent on education, when 1940's school children can read , write and do maths better then the average teenager of today

Good to see you back posting Stan.

I for one will be turning the letter around and saying RETURN TO SENDER, I hope others do aswel.