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.

Can you imagine the polls if it were the lesser spotted Millibandus was in charge?

Quindell chairman heads for exit as company tries to restore confidence

Quindell will make a last-ditch attempt to secure its future on the stock market today by parting company with its contentious founder and chairman Rob Terry. The technology contractor, which has been fighting a dramatic collapse of confidence in its share price, is expected to tell the stock market that Mr Terry is stepping down from the board with immediate effect. Also likely to be leaving the company are Laurence Moorse, the finance director, and Steve Scott, a non-executive director. Mr Moorse, a long-standing associate of Mr Terry, will stay on for 12 months and Mr Terry will remain a paid consultant to Quindell, according to Sky News.......Mr Terry is set to be replaced on an interim basis by David Currie, the former head of investment banking at Investec, the Anglo-South African broker and financial services group.

In a surprise statement to the stock market, Quindell said that Canaccord had tendered its resignation on October 21 after working for the group for less than 18 months.....The resignation left Quindell, which is listed on London’s junior AIM, with only one broker, Cenkos Securities, which is also its nominated adviser...... .....Cenkos found out about Canaccord’s resignation only after the market had closed on Friday and it immediately advised Quindell to issue a formal statement because its share price is particularly sensitive at present. The date of Cannacord’s resignation meant that it informed Quindell that it would no longer be its broker before details emerged of a contentious loan arrangement made by the three Quindell directors, including Mr Terry. Quindell first detailed the agreement with Equities First, an American company, on November 5.

Complete article here: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/industries/banking/article4270535.ece

Cameron talking down the world economy to put voters off voting ukip
that about sums these shites up

Vanishing act

How can a million crimes a year disappear from police statistics?




Crossing the line? Police have been accused of under-counting crime numbers Photo: Alamy



By Telegraph View

6:20AM GMT 18 Nov 2014



We are told by the police and the Government that crime is falling and has been for the past 20 years. But how do we know for sure? A report by HM Inspector of Constabulary (HMIC) has found that one million crimes a year are disappearing from official figures because the police manipulate them in order to meet targets.


Although HMIC do not quite accuse the constabularies of “fiddling” the data, that is the implication. There was an “undercurrent of pressure not to record a crime across some forces”, it said. Violent crimes and sex attacks were particularly vulnerable to being deleted by the police’s “inexcusably poor” systems. In the official government figures for the period covered by the HMIC report there were 3.7 million offences recorded by the police. If the HMIC’s findings are factored in, the true total would have been 4.5 million, or 800,000 more.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11236783/Vanishing-act.html

There is a hole in the Cameron boat.

I think after the election the figures and statistics which the present government has published or used for public consumption should be publicly examined.

quite easily, and no doubt as they always have donbe
when is a crime not a crime?
is it still a crime if an on-the-spot unofficial caution is given?
is it still a crime if no prosecution ensues?

Cameron's and Osborne's goose is being cooked.

In case The Haze has forgotten.


ROCHESTER, ROCHESTER, ROCHESTER!

i know my fine fedora is safe :-)

How do you un-record sex and violent crimes?

Conservatives lead at 1

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 17th November -

Con 33%, Lab 32%, LD 7%, UKIP 15%;

The polls have been up and down almost every day. The figures are all within the normal margins of error for polls. That shows the parties are pretty much even at the moment.

H/S now watching Milliband at every opportunity he can, ITV morning TV now.. see his 50512 for confirmation.

Miliband is always worth watching. Every time, it is like a new episode of Mr Bean.

Populus poll has topline figures of CON 35%, LAB 36%, LDEM 7%, UKIP 11%, GRN 5%. This is the lowest that any poll has shown UKIP for a while,

Last night on ITV

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2838759/Just-couldn-t-worse-Ed-takes-TV-battering-Myleene-Labour-leader-humiliated-taken-task-singer-proposed-mansion-tax.html

Well you wanted a Klass war, Ed! As if things weren't bad enough, now the beleaguered Labour leader is humiliated on TV by former pop star Myleene as she takes him to task over the mansion tax

Ed Miliband quizzed by Myleene Klass over Labour’s mansion tax plan
Party leader looked lost and bewildered as the singer tore strips off him
Labour wants to impose a levy on homes worth more than £2million
But Klass told him: 'You may as well just tax me on this glass of water'
Viewers said she was ‘doing a Paxman’ and ‘wiping the floor’ with Miliband
Labour leader turns to Kim Kardashian to improve his image in photos

After some of the worst weeks of his leadership, he may have hoped that taking on a former pop singer in a TV debate would provide a welcome boost.

But Ed Miliband was left humiliated last night after he was unceremoniously taken to task by Myleene Klass over Labour’s proposed mansion tax.

The party leader looked lost and bewildered as the singer tore strips out of his pledge to impose a tax on homes worth more than £2million.

‘When you do look at the people who will be suffering this tax, it’s true a lot of them are grannies who have had these houses in their families for a long, long time.

'The people who are the super-super rich buying their houses for £140million, this is not necessarily going to affect them because they’ve got their tax rebates and amazing accountants. It’s going to be the little grannies who have lived in those houses for years and years.’

Mr Miliband responded: ‘I totally understand that people don’t like paying more in tax. The values of my government are going to be different to the values of this government.’

you don't have to if you don't record until prosecution is agreed by CPS

Cameron is alway worth watching . Every time, it is like watching a scene from Walter Mitty.

Im reliably informed his EC chums (not) have a new nickname for him Deceptive Dave.