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.

KillingBritain @killingbritain · 2h hours ago

Because Cameron is a W⚓ #CameronMustGo

Tony Blair - a global legacy of saving children? That probably isn’t what he’s known for to most of us. But children’s charity Save the Children have given him an award saying just that. [1]

Miranda, a 38 Degrees member, has started a petition calling on Save the Children to take back the award. She doesn’t think the man who took the UK to war in Iraq should be given an award for services to children.

If enough of us sign the petition, public pressure could persuade them to rethink and give the award to someone who actually deserves it. Click the link below to sign Miranda’s petition:

Please sign the petition:

Save the Children work hard to protect children across the globe, and they do a lot of good work. [2] But this award seems more than a little misguided.

51080 - that was not remotely the question i raised so try again!

Student Movement Sparks Back To Life In Fight For #FreeEducation
Posted on November 20, 2014 by johnny void

A copper gets a paint job in response to the violent police attack
In a further sign that resistance to austerity is sparking back to life, students from across the UK marched in central London yesterday demanding the right to free education. This was the biggest student protest since the spiky demonstrations in 2010 when students smashed their way into the Tory Party headquarters.

As on previous protests, many students were not content to obediently march from A to B and then listen to politicians making boring and insincere speeches. Instead, when the march arrived at Parliament Square many protesters tore down the fences surrounding the square. These were erected after the recent Occupy protests and are intended to prevent any unofficial dissent against government policies outside the Houses of Parliament. So far they havent worked very well.

As hundreds of people occupied the Square, a large group broke away heading towards the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills where they were viciously attacked by police. This didn’t stop the Department, a local Starbucks and several coppers from being given an impromptu paint job as some demonstrators hurled makeshift paintbombs in resistance to the assault. Further sit down protests, and minor scuffles continued outside Scotland Yard and the Tory HQ as small groups headed off in different directions occupying roads and bringing traffic chaos to the capital.

11 people were arrested, although all were released without charge*. Many of those detained suffered injuries. According to event organisers, the National Coalition Against Fees and Cuts (NCFAC) one person who had been refused medical treatment in custody had to be taken to hospital immediately after being released. This is how the state now responds to even the most trivial civil disobedience.

There is no doubt that yesterday set the scene for the resurgence of a combative student movement in the run up to the next general election. And it’s not just students who should be pissed off. Young people now face a terrifying future of shit wages or workfare, inadequate and insecure housing and the healthcare and pensions they will need as they grow older being stripped away. Not one of the main political parties gives a fuck as an entire generation’s futures are demolished. So when you hear media commentators complaining about violence at these protests because a copper got his hat kncked off or someone threw a bit of paint at a government building then remember who the real criminals are.

The NUS were also targetted on the morning of the demonstrations, with graffiti accusing them of being scabs for not supporting the march. The unions pathetic excuse for this decision was concerns about health and safety as if some risk assessment is going to make a difference to a copper who’s decided to kick someone’s head in for not respecting their authority.

The last national student protest was organised by the NUS and featured a dispiriting march through the back streets of South London to a nondescript park in the pouring rain. It was probably the most depressing political non-event in history. The students who took action yesterday are better off without them.

More resistance is planned with a day of walk outs, occupations, protests and direct action called for on Wednesday December 3rd. On the following Saturday 6th December local marches will take place throughout the UK. Please help spread the word.

*Those arrested have been bailed to re-appear at police stations meaning they are not out of the woods yet. Activist support group Green and Black Cross have called on anyone who witnessed an arrest, or police violence, to contact them at: gbclegal@riseup.net.

GF,

Post 51151

“hilary, your boys have taken one hell of a beating, one hell of a beating.”

She knows how to use the whip lash.

I saw this image and thought of the Hairy one and Dave and George.

Hils

Many thanks - but wot a Bummer!

Wifey has put a parental ban on me Googling for beaver. :-(

Just for you

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/beaver/

Anyone see this Tory Tosser being interviewed on C4 tonight, protecting the culprits in RBS who helped and incentivised it's staff to get small businesses closed down. http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/mr-andrew-tyrie/112

no, but it's assuredly true about RBS doing the dirty on small businesses ..... they nearly screwed us over, yet we make £500/750k profit every year

fortunately we had good contacts in NL so moved everything over there

The RBS tactics go back to at least 2008.

It don't matter when the RBS tactics started or finished...when is someone going to go to jail?


pour encourager les autres

It does make a difference as you need to know when it was happening to know who to lock up.

Surely they have it chapter and verse Haystack, it's all written down.

Whats really lacking, is political will!

Yes Max, by this so called Government.

Last one too Fred!

All good and necessary things.

What were Gordon Brown's main successes and failings?


Best Answer

21st century Foxy answered 4 years ago
I am no Brown fan, but the only thing good I can say is that he did bring in the national minimum wage for low paid workers and made a tremendous difference to lower paid workers. However, now for the bad, he ruined the pensions industry by taxing the profits on pensions investments to the tune of £50 billion year on year, and squandered money by creating an army of millions of non-jobs / civil servants. He never fixed the problems of Britain when the good times rolled, but instead left Britain with the biggest debt in living memory.


Butternut27 answered 4 years ago
Successes:

Claiming that the boom times were down to his work yet we all know that it was done to policies implemented yrs earlier as it always takes yrs to see the fruits of changed made in an economy.

Claiming/Lying that he (superman) had saved the world/global economy

Claiming/lying it was his idea to make the BoE independent something that had been in the pipeline b4 he had come along

Pretending to be normal with his strange freakish smile when he knew the cameras where on him...the psychiatrists in this country have a lot to answer for letting that man run around free...in the community

Failings - Believing his own claims and lies I mean there where so many failing with this strange man where do I start and how long have u got?


Successes?
He managed to sell off most of our gold reserves when their value was at the lowest ever.
He managed to run the country into the gutter which we are all paying for now.

Failings?
He lost the last election.....thank God.

Did I hear chapter and verse??

come on lefties the HAYS SONG.....ALTOGETHER NOW.......


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.

AND THEN REPEAT FOR SECOND VERSE.

(written by Stan)