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.

Deluded or hallucinations?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30025957

Ed Miliband "absolutely" sees a prime minister when he looks in the mirror in the morning, he has told the BBC.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-caught-on-video-suggesting-the-nhs-should-be-run-privately-9857389.html

Nigel Farage caught on video suggesting NHS should be run privately

Ukip leader Nigel Farage has been caught on film telling party supporters that the NHS should move away from the state-funded model, and towards a US-style insurance-based system.

The footage shows the Ukip leader say he would feel more “comfortable” if the UK’s healthcare was opened up to the “marketplace”.

YAWN.

"When Rosetta was first conceived hardly anyone had mobile phones, Margaret Thatcher was in power and the Channel tunnel was eight years away from completion."

Hmmm? Well done, I suppose. Let's hope we do get some very valuable information from it.

One day, one of these things might be on target for the earth. One of them did hit the earth millions of years ago and wiped out the dinosaurs. It would be nice to be able to stop something like that if it looked like happening in the future. Practice makes perfect too.

Rosetta mission cost: Close to 1.4 billion euros (£1.1 billion), including Philae's cost of 220 million euros (£173 million)

Number of countries behind the comet landing: 14

Philae distance from home: 316 million miles

Mission length so far: 10 years

Time taken for news to reach Earth: 28 minutes, 20 seconds (it will vary)

Philae weight: 100 kilograms

Comet 67P weight: 10 billion tonnes

Number of names suggested for landing site: 8,000 (the name chosen was Agilkia)

Length of lander's stay on comet: No one knows yet

Announcement retweets: 28,000 in first hour

A market based NHS?

Isn't that what the tories are doing now?

Labour still don't get the immigration problem!


http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/11/10/david-lammy-interview-labour-party-immigration_n_6132044.html

David Lammy Interview: Labour Should Be A Pro-Immigration Party

"I think that the next general election is going to be phenomenally close."

David Lammy is sitting in the corner of his parliamentary office on the ground floor of the Norman Shaw North building in Westminster. Dressed in a light blue suit, starched white shirt and a black-and-white DKNY tie, his long arms are stretched out on either side of him, as he leans back in his chair.

Lammy, who served as a health minister under Tony Blair and a higher education minister under Gordon Brown, now wants to be mayor of London. He turned down a shadow ministerial job offer from Ed Miliband to stick it out on the backbenches until 2015 and plan his assault on City Hall.

Yawn.

Haystack - 13 Nov 2014 09:53 - 50135 of 50140

Ed Miliband "absolutely" sees a prime minister when he looks in the mirror in the morning, he has told the BBC.

He should've gone to Specsavers.

Yawn...double Yawn.

GF,

Post 50134

Cameron and Osborne have been in "power" for four and half years.

They have been aware of the problems in the financial services, banking and FOREX since 2008.

They have done nothing or next to nothing to address the problems.

From the outside it would seem that this government is hand in hand with the perpetrators of the "crimes" which appear committed.

Cameron and Osborne have been exposed for what they are and trying to lie their ways out of self their own inappropriate economic and political planning when it can be seen they have failed.

I am waiting to see if the records have gone missing again and the next inquiry they have to be stuffed with their mates, with a hope that "no conclusions" can be drawn and the problem kicked into the long grass once again.

Under which government was and attempt to cover up at Hillsborough, probable cover up of paedophile ring, attempted cover up of Blunt and cohorts.

Of course the elitist government of those who think they have a right to govern.

Similar to the present bunch of incompetents.

FRED wait till you see my next post, youl enjoy it.

The UK’s EU surcharge (another blow for Osborne) – Second Reading 13/11/2014

At first glance, this article from the House of Commons Library blog didn’t look as though it was going to contribute anything new.

We know why the UK had to pay a surcharge to the EU based on its economy performance from 2002 until 2013 (according to this article; 2009 according to some others). We know that it relates to the EU budget because member states pay a proportion of their gross national income into the EU’s coffers in return for membership. We know that the revision goes back to 2002 because the EU disagreed with the way some member states had worked out their figures. We know that the question of whether the rebate would always apply to this payment is hotly debated.

But then the article states:

“Concessions have been reached on the timing and staging of payments. Member States will be able to pay in stages with payment completed by 1 September 2015. The original amending budget required a single payment to be made by 1 December 2014.

“Member States paying later will not incur interest charges for doing so. Regulations would have allowed for interest payments of 2 percentage points above the base rate, increasing by a 0.25 percentage point for each month of delay.” [Boldings mine.]

Didn’t Osborne come back from Europe saying he had negotiated concessions for the UK? What’s all this “member states” business?

For example, on Radio 4’s Today programme on Saturday (November 9), he said: “This is a real win for British taxpayers… It’s another sign this government can get a good deal for Britain in Europe.” [Bolding, again, mine.]

There’s no mention of the other member states in his renegotiation story at all! Osborne makes it look as though he negotiated a deal for the UK that the other states agreed…

… In fact, it seems all member states agreed on a deal that would affect all member states.

For all we know, Osborne could have sat at the back of the room and twiddled his thumbs. The more we learn about this deal, the less significant his role seems to be.

bbc last year over 4 million people got food poisoning from take aways or eating in restaurants . over 4 million

Thirteen arrested over Greater Manchester trafficking ring BBC news. Shocking statistics.

Watching Miliband's terrible comeback speech. He is talking to Labour faithful. It is the usual platitudes and the activists are lapping it up. He is still a dead duck of course.

i am greatly amused by indie's headline today ..... "miliband blames 'vested interests' in media as labour trails tories in polls"

i have no idea how large this lead is said to be, and it's about as relevant as all the other polls we have been seeing on this thread ..... however, it certainly says an awful lot about EM and his (and his party's) voter appeal when he has to start crying for mummy when his bunch can't even knock the cream-puff tories for six, and indeed is close to being bowled between his legs

Haze,

At least he has a party faithful.

The Cons are only faithful to putting a knife in the back of one another.

ROCHESTER and the Grinders will be out!

The vested interest in the media comment is one of Miliband's more imbicilic ones. He seems to have missed the adverse comments in the left wing Guardian. Even worse there was the terrible bashing he got from the The New Statesman which is almost the Labour party house magazine. He must think the public are completely stupid. Don't forget the 'unfit to be Prime Minister' comments from his own MPs. He is a buffoon of the first order and that will become clearer as we approach the GE.

Haystack your infatuation with the boy Milliband must be causing your family some concern.

Stan,

The Con Artists are sh.. scared of Miliband exposing Cameron and Osborne for the grubby little stunted adolescents they and some of their camp followers are!

Every snide remark of Haze and likes, are gradually being recognise by the voters and improves Miliband chances.

Diversion from Rochester failure and the results of the bursting of Cameron's balloon by Farage and exposure of Cameron and Osborne's deceit.