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.

Hey Cyners cool it mate, Im interested in history like TANKERS family I find it very interesting and relaxing compared to the normal stuff on here. I think also you should give
Members of the forces a lot of respect.

Maybe its just the way I was brought up with my dad being in the marines but we were always taught to respect people in the forces.

TANKER slow down bud,

when is enough enough?.......right good point made by RF above. They knicked all my stone flags 9 months ago during the night and druged the dogs.

Right Im going to have a ten minutes break TANKER and think about this deeply.

Ill get back to you, dont go away.

The Senate has gone to the Republicans. That means Obama cannot get any legislation passed for the next two years as he has lost control of both houses. Let this be a warning to us about a second elected chamber. The US now has a weak, lame duck President.

The second chamber is meant to keep the first in check.

O'bammy has made such a fist of it, nobody wants to support him.

it happens that poppy day, raf benevolent fund, lifeboats and air ambulance are on my hotlist of charities that i support well - as is st mungo's

on our cycling trips to france, we also invariably stop off at various war cemetries, and a few years ago i also visited dachau (very cathartic)

it also happens that i was honoured to play golf a few weeks ago with the chaps from headley court and their american counterparts

however, i don't drone on about it endlessly or even at all, nor similarly that my dad was in the merchant during the war and my uncle in tanks in north africa nor my relatives that died in concentration camps nor a couple that miraculously escaped

todays report on immigration no mention on the services under pressure for the locals who are suffering and can not even get to se their doctor for over two weeks
the report is crap how can they report facts when their are over 4 million illegal
immigrants in the uk were they do not even no were they are
total load of bollocks the whole report and the report leaders are all immigrants them selves it stinks of corruption and lies .
have they found out were all these illegals work and pay taxes because if they have then the companies they are working for are breaking the law

It's pretty obvious that for all the liberty that the USA represents : their political system with Senate....senators....etc....is far from perfect and that our British electoral system is far better.....(blimey....we are better at something).....

cynic you should be proud of you family them .those that died for the good should never be forgotten , and our children should never forget what they died for and the only way to do that is to talk and remind them of their short lives

There was a prison break and I saw a midget climb up the fence.

As he jumped down he sneered at me and I thought, well, that’s a little condescending.

suddenly a volte face from you then after all these months of shouting your head off about my family and others being a bunch of yellow-bellied scumbags for fleeing the pogroms and similar in poland and other countries ....

actually, my grandparents on both sides arrived in this country early in 20th century and in due course did pretty well in biz ......

and nor should you forget that in those days, there was no welfare state, but by and large the local (jewish) communities looked after their own

during the war, even those fleeing germany had to have guarantors before they were allowed entree

so all in all, about time you stopped being such a rabble-rousing, racist polemicist, all too often spreading inaccurate "facts"!

would you like me to expand further?

A second chamber is useful providing it does not have equal power to the first. If you have two chambers controlled by different parties then you get a stalemate. Our second chamber is largely a revising chamber to scrutinise legislation and amend it. Luckily, we have the Parliament Act to push through legislation that the Lords rejects. Balanced power between two chambers gives weak government even worse than a coalition.

TANKER...... right my policy................. stop all these Pakistanis coming into the country arranged marriages etc etc.

EEC .........NOW put quotas in and make would be immigrants prove they have a job here waiting for them and at least the minimum wage rate. A covering letter and a phone call needed plus a follow up visit to the employer required. No benefits at all bar the first 2 months for example to get them settled in a house etc etc. After that benefits based on there NI contributions.

By a quota I would say the average of what we have going out into EEC countries from here. Say a maximum of 75 thousand per year.

Dont forget I have 6 holiday homes spread through EEC countries, I dont want that cutting off.

No Child benefit or any other benefit to be sent home.

Declare they are behind the state and they will fight for Britain if called up for a war.

They are here to stay with exceptionals tolerated.

i cringe at american politics
it certainly looks that the richest candidate wins, and the idea that a second chamber can totally hamstring the first for reasons that have little or anything to do with common sense or anything other than "their" party's stance, is absolutely appalling

i see MrT does not have an e-mail contact here .... i wonder why that would be

if he did, i'ld send him a copy of 49298

gf thanks for your answer . what about health cover should they like the people of the uk when working in the eu have medical insurance when in the eu I have to have cover or pay the doctor

cynic , I support jews and always have and have nothing against them they do stand for justice

oh dear oh dear oh dear!
perhaps you should revisit your maelstrom of posts over the last months

and what is the difference between a jew, a moslem, or the mass of others from all sorts of races and creeds who have migrated here and contributed hugely to this country's richness of culture and general economy?

no, i am not remotely suggesting an open-door policy, but nor do i remotely support the idea of slamming the door on all immigration

TANKER

Wel we ourselfs have to pay for a note dont we when going abroad for medical insurance, so YES they must have a valid medical insurance note. NO EXCEPTIONS.

And on benefits Camoron as got it all wrong benefits should be available for the first month or so to get them settled and into there guaranteed job, not later when they might be unemployed and robbing the country.

Just asking a few questions which puzzles me.

Is somebody, who is normal lives in the UK, buys a property abroad, or sets up, or invests in a business, imports their “earnings” to this country, or takes prolonged holidays in the countries of “earnings” and utilises the “income” on “house improvement” “cheating” those foreign countries out of their “wealth”?

Or, like some UK overseas workers who send money home to support their families, are they cheating those nasty “foreign countries”?
What would be the cost of pulling up the drawbridge?

Or is it right to denude those nasty countries of the “health and best workers” to “prop” up our system, leaving those countries less able to look after the “weaker members” of the own countries?

Cyners remember yesterday when I said I had sold MKS..........clucking H

I won be listening to them winkers on advn anymore.

SUGAR.