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.

The match is on Sky 2 now

Which one to-night Boris?

But leave one for Haze. He likes to play with the big boys!

Which one to-night Boris?

But leave one for Haze. He likes to play with the big boys!

given the amount of make-up these dollies are obliged to wear, i fear the worst as and when they have to scrape it off

Boris was very popular on the tube. People were clapping him and cheering when he got on

Well, the stars are aligning for Boris...he just has to wait for Cameroon to come a cropper.

He's got it right Boris, he mixes with the general public on the tube and makes eye contact with the people who matter.

lol


Sky news reporting that they have tried to get a labour peep (anyone will do) to come into the studio to defend Millibandus...no takers at all, very busy, memorial service etc etc.


Looks like milly's a goner.

I do hope Milibland stays. He is very popular with the Conservatives.

Yes, the timing is a little premature.

https://yougov.co.uk/news/2014/11/09/public-attitudes-tax-distribution/

Perceptions of how tax is spent differ widely from reality

British people perceive their tax contributions to be more evenly distributed than they really are

Haystack.

That's an interesting graphic, but it's too big, can you alter the pixel thingy?

"Boris was very popular on the tube. People were clapping him and cheering when he got on"

Yeah just about everyone is in the early hours, but thats no recommendation.. you really are scraping the bottom of the barrel now H/S

Burnley, Burnley, Burnley.

Well done lads.

Latest poll,

just goes to show Giddeon lying through his teeth aint going to help the tories.

Survation also had a new poll with topline figures of CON 29%(+2), LAB 34%(+3), LDEM 6%(-3), UKIP 23%(-1),

5 point lead for Labour.

And this polling company are pro conservative.

UK to pay £1.7bn EU bill in full despite Osborne’s claim to have halved it – Guardian 8/11/2014


Peace (in his own mind): Osborne has returned from Europe in similar manner to Neville Chamberlain in the 1930s – with a message that is utterly meaningless and will be ignored by everybody.

It takes the mainstream media a while to catch up, maybe, but they get there in the end. Here’s The Guardian:

The government has accepted a £1.7bn top-up bill to the EU budget despite repeatedly denouncing its size as unacceptable.

The chancellor asserted that a bill for £1.7bn was now one for £850m – to be paid by 1 September next year in two instalments, one by the deadline, the other in July.

While insisting that the invoice had been reduced, Treasury aides conceded that Britain will pay the £850m while also returning the rebate cheque to Brussels, meaning that the full £1.7bn will still be paid.

British officials argued that it had not been clear whether the UK would qualify for a rebate since Brussels dropped the bombshell bill. But that would have been unique since Britain’s gross contributions to the EU budget have automatically benefitted from the rebate since the 1980s.

Osborne’s claims that the bill had been halved were refuted by other participants in the meeting.

“The sum cannot be challenged. We said this and so did many others,” said the Austrian finance minister, Hans Jörg Schelling. Luis De Guindos, the Spanish finance minister, said the same.

A further Guardian article had more criticism from EU ministers:

Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch finance minister who chairs the group of eurozone finance ministers, said: “Britain has had a rebate system for a very long time.” He added: “No discount was awarded.”

Kristalina Georgieva, commission vice-president in charge of budgetary affairs with whom Osborne negotiated, said: “As we all know the UK receives a rebate on their contribution.”

Daniel Hannan, a Tory MEP who wants Britain to leave the EU told PM on BBC Radio 4 that it was “incredible” for the Treasury to claim it had to fight to allow the rebate to apply to the £1.7bn demand.

“I just don’t believe that no one in the Treasury knew that the rebate would apply here. That is, in the literal narrow sense of the word, incredible.”

ACCEPT IT HAYS YOUVE BEEN CAUGHT OUT BIG TIME.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/nov/09/lord-kinnock-critics-ed-miliband-cowardly-politically-suicidal

Labour critics of Ed Miliband are warning his supporters that they are in danger of exacerbating internal unease about his leadership by attacking party loyalists who say they are reflecting concerns they hear on the doorstep.

As the former Labour leader Neil Kinnock accused the critics of cowardice and a “tendency towards political suicide”, one MP warned of a horrible atmosphere over the “cack-handed” response of Miliband’s team.

Lucy Powell, who was promoted to the shadow cabinet last week to take a key role in Labour’s general election team, highlighted concerns at senior levels of the party when she warned that five days of hostile briefing against Miliband was undermining his authority.

The shadow Cabinet Office minister told Pienaar’s Politics on BBC Radio 5 Live: “These things often feed themselves. When you have continuing anonymous stories being floated around that somehow Ed has lost the confidence of his MPs, that feeds a wider concern in the public whether he has the leadership qualities to lead his own party, let alone the country. So that doesn’t help.”