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.

Hays are you sure you have had that dementia test???????

Is it just me or does anyone else think that Mr T is an immigrant (probably illegal)?

His command of the English language, spelling and grammar gives the impression of a non native English speaker. The overall standard is worse than many illiterates.

Haystack, I think you need to edit that post for a typo?!!!!!!!

D4
It is this stupid Android tablet. It keeps changing Farage to Garage. I may just keep calling him that.

THE HAYSTACK SONG

On a South London ring road,

Diesel fumes in my hair,

Warm smell of samosas,

Rising up through the air.

Up ahead by the Poundshop,

I saw a flickering light,

Completely knackered and I needed a drink.

Thought I’d stop for the night.




............No wonder H/S feels at home there.

Haystack - lol. I have the same problem with my iPad and it drives me nuts and this new text speak on mobile phones is gradually wrecking our English language!

GF.

One of the many irritations I have with Cameron and Hunt is their boast of the employment of New Medical Staff in the NHS especially when referring to Doctors or Nurses.


What I would like to know is of all the "new workers" how many of the "new" are part timers or "agency contract" workers.

I won't go into the problems of "loyalty", but a part time doctors should be "earning" £70 plus per hours


Many seem happy with locum or part time work.

With certain reservation don't mind, but I think this falsifies the figures which Cameron spouts.

I thought of E-mailing Mili to question figure, but haven't!

A lot of the so called employment numbers are simply the reclassification of people from the public sector to the private sector. Of course Cameron would have you believe that they are people that are long term unemployed that are now in employment but sadly that isn't the case.

A manager of a Poundland store says the reason they can undercut the big stores, is that they pay cash for the stock , better then waiting 6 months like one small supple of Tesco said he did

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2840706/You-British-til-die-England-fans-used-football-clash-against-Scotland-tease-fans-historic-referendum-result.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

'You're British 'til you die': Jubilant England fans taunt Scottish rivals over referendum result during football clash in Glasgow

Scotland hosted England for the first time in 15 years last night in Glasgow's Celtic Park for a friendly match
5,000 English supporters sang: 'You're British 'til you die' and 'We all voted yes' as they cracked referendum jokes
But significant numbers also sang anti-IRA songs and some unfurled 'No Surrender' banners linked to Troubles
FA official was sent to the stand at half time to stop official band playing song that sparked the IRA singing
Police were out in force as fans from across the country descended on the city before match finished 3-1 to England
First Minister Alex Salmond spent his last evening in office at Parkhead in Glasgow but was left disappointed

England fans taunted their Scottish rivals with a series of chants poking fun at the result of the country's historic referendum, including one song informing them: 'You're British 'til you die'.

The 5,000 English supporters who headed to Glasgow for the 3-1 England victory also lampooned outgoing First Minister Alex Salmond, who was in the stands and quit after losing the Yes Campaign, singing to him: 'We all voted yes'.

For long periods they also belted out Rule Britannia and God Save The Queen over and over again as the Auld Enemy comfortably beat bitter rivals Scotland 3-1 at Parkhead in Glasgow.

In the weeks before September's independence vote the outcome was on a knife-edge but in the end the No side won a decisive victory, with 55 per cent of the votes - and 85 per cent of the country voted.

But the banter in the stands turned sour when a significant number of England fans also sang anti-IRA songs while the official Football Association band played the song 'Follow England Away', and an FA official was then sent to the stands to tell the band to stop playing.

Other supporters unfurled a 'No Surrender' flag - a phrase used in a well known song sometime heard at England games where some chant: 'No surrender, no surrender, no surrender to the IRA scum'.

The singing will worry FA bosses, with England due to play a friendly with the Republic of Ireland in Dublin in June.

There is an element of the English support that machine gunning wouldn't come amiss starting with the band. Great win though :0)

I can never figure out why the English rugby team supporters sing "Swing low Sweet Chariot". What on earth has that song got to do with England? Isn't it a gospel song that originated in America?

Why it is a rugby anthem.

http://www.everyhit.com/stories/swing_low_sweet_chariot.html

Rochester. Rochester! Rochester!!!!!!!!


Ladbrokes: Further Tory defector to UKIP now odds-on. | PoliticsHome | Press Release | PoliticsHome

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Ladbrokes: Further Tory defector to UKIP now odds-on.
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DAVID CAMERON should be steeling himself for further Tory MPs to defect to UKIP in the wake of expected defeat in Thursday's Rochester & Strood by-election, according to Ladbrokes.

With UKIP now red-hot 1/33 favourites to return a second MP, speculation has continued to mount about which Conservative will be next to jump ship, and the bookies make it odds-on that at least one does so before Christmas,

The rebellious MP for Kettering, Philip Hollobone, is now the 2/1 favourite to be next to join fellow Dulwich College old boy Nigel Farage in the UKIP ranks. Next in the betting come Basildon & Billericay Member John Baron and Crawley's Henry Smith.

Matthew Shaddick of Ladbrokes said: "The Rochester by-election is now a one-horse race and the only question in punter's minds is who's next"

*Ladbrokes' latest betting*
*Any Further Tory MP to defect before Dec 25th*
8/11 Yes
Evs No

*Next Tory MP to defect to UKIP*
2/1 Philip Hollobone
3/1 John Baron
4/1 Henry Smith
6/1 Mark Pritchard
8/1 Peter Bone
8/1 George Eustice
10/1 Gordon Henderson
100/1 Grant Shapps
500/1 David Cameron

Baron will defect for sure.

Hays is looking rather silly after saying UKIP would have no MPs running up to the GE approx 6 months ago. Repeated it about 6 times to Max aswel.

I have his exact words on my works PC.

Is this coming back to haunt the Torrids and the Libs/dem just before the G/E.

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London student demonstration sees arrests and scuffles
A protester holds up a lit flare amid demonstrators during a march against student university fees in near the Houses of Parliament in central London on November 19, 2014.
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Police have made a number of arrests during clashes with campaigners as thousands protested against spending cuts, tuition fees and student debt.

One man and a woman were detained after charging the Conservative Party headquarters in central London.

The Free Education demonstration is opposed to tuition fees of up to £9,000 a year at universities in England.

The march was called by groups including the National Campaign Against Fees And Cuts.

It was scheduled to finish earlier but some protesters remain in central London where there have been clashes with police.

A small breakaway group pushed a wheelie bin at police guarding the entrance to the Tory offices.

Officers forced them back and arrested two people for affray.


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How many students and ex-students can be stimulated to vote against T/L/Ds in Marginal seats?

A lot I reckon.

This was written before Rochester!

What does this mean for the overall outcome in 2015? Ashcroft says the Conservatives can afford to lose no more than 21 seats to Labour in order to remain the largest party, but they are currently behind in 38. He adds, rather ominously, that ‘we have not yet reached the point at which the Tory losses end’.

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Haze is remarkably quiet, has he gone to help Tories lose at Rochester.

Better be careful UKIP may burn Cameron and him as celebratory effigies.

Worth a re tweet that Fred .....ohhhhhh I mean a re post............. you know why he he.

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This was written before Rochester!

What does this mean for the overall outcome in 2015? Ashcroft says the Conservatives can afford to lose no more than 21 seats to Labour in order to remain the largest party, but they are currently behind in 38. He adds, rather ominously, that ‘we have not yet reached the point at which the Tory losses end’.

PMQs: Cameron mocks Ed Miliband over Scots poll

LABOUR leader Ed Miliband was mocked for “fewer people in Scotland believing in his leadership than the Loch Ness monster” during fierce exchanges in Prime Minister’s questions.


The attack by Prime Minister David Cameron came in the first PMQs since Mr Miliband had faced a failed coup from Labour backbenchers to remove him as Labour leader.


Mr Cameron also raised “the pasting” he received “from a pop star” - Myleene Klass - as he sought to press home Mr Miliband’s discomfort.

The Labour leader challenged the Prime Minister to back the policy at their weekly Commons face-off, complaining that the owner of a £140 million property in Hyde Park would be paying the same as someone whose home was worth “a fraction of that value”.

But Mr Cameron took the opportunity to raise Mr Miliband’s bruising encounter with the model and Hear’Say singer this week, saying she had “wiped the floor” with him.

On ITV’s Agenda, Ms Klass tore into Mr Miliband’s proposal for a levy on properties worth more than £2 million, insisting you could only buy a “garage” in London for that sort of money.

• Only 1 in 50 Scots has full trust in Ed Miliband

She said the tax would hit “little grannies” whose homes had increased in value over decades rather than the super rich.

Mr Cameron said the Government had “made sure that the richest in our country have made a contribution by putting up stamp duty”.

“But the point about this is what we need is a growing economy that is providing the jobs, the livelihoods for our people,” he said.

“That is what we are getting. Whereas what he has had in the past week is a pasting from a pop star.”

He returned to the subject later in the exchanges, joking: “This was the week when Myleene Klass wiped the floor with him in a television programme and this was the week when an opinion poll in Scotland showed that more people believe in the Loch Ness monster than believe in his leadership.

“The only problem for the Labour party is he does actually exist.”

However, Mr Miliband did receive support from Mr Cameron’s coalition partner, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg.

Pointing out that all homes worth more than £700,000 currently pay the same council tax, the Deputy Prime Minister told LBC radio his party had long wanted to introduce a mansion tax and Klass was “wrong”.

• Euan McColm: Ed Miliband - down but not out

“She also suggested that all you can buy in London was a garage for £2 million. That’s some garage,” he said. “Let’s get rid of the emotion about calling it, claiming that one person’s normal home is a mansion.

“Why don’t we treat higher value properties in the same banded way of putting council tax bands as we do on lower value properties?

“What is possibly fair about saying to a family who live in a family home in Lewisham that they pay the same council tax as an oligarch who lives in a £13m house?”