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.

i want to tax the verbiage specifically from fred, stick and hays!
just 1p per word should pay within a month for a luxury holiday for family for 4

:-)

Jealousy will get you everywhere!

i just want my holiday paid for :-)

Cynic just go on holiday then and when you return complain like mad, you'd be amazed at the compensations that get paid out! Most ABTA bonded tour-operators just don't have the capacity to fully deal with complaints plus the cost of tribunal puts them off defending themselves anyway..

When i grows up to I, you can have a holiday.

But if it wasn't so serious the political scene would be funny.

With the clowns at the centre of government, and a clown like Farage looking in from the outside!




I used to like clowns!

Sang at party Central Office:

Isn't it rich, isn't it queer?
Losing my timing this late in my career
And where are the clowns? Quick send in the clowns
Don't bother they're here

New crackdown on welfare to lift the economy by £7bn

A CRACKDOWN on welfare handouts is to be massively expanded next year, Iain Duncan Smith will announce today.



By: Macer Hall
Published: Tue, November 25, 2014







The Tory Work and Pensions Secretary is to promise that his universal credit benefit system will be delivered by a third of job centres by next spring.

And he insisted the new payment, which replaces six other benefits for jobseekers, will boost the economy by about £7billion a year by encouraging welfare claimants back into work.

Mr Duncan Smith last night launched a blistering attack on Labour for leaving millions of claimants addicted to handouts.



Labour left us with a welfare state that simply wasn’t fit for purpose

Iain Duncan Smith


He said: “Labour left us with a welfare state that simply wasn’t fit for purpose, spending billions of taxpayers’ money on a system that frequently trapped the very people it was supposed to help in cycles of worklessness and welfare dependency.

“It was so complicated you needed a maths degree to see if it was worth taking a job.



more: http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/539628/Iain-Duncan-Smith-Expands-Welfare-Crackdown

Haze and Manuel,

Are the Confidence Trickster's party trying to lose the next election?

Perhaps, if so, the wisest thing they are doing in the last 5 years!

Look forward to the crackdown.

There's been alot of talk about supermarkets being the culprit for small farmers going bust recently, but another culprit thats not been discussed is the EU Common Agricultural Policy.

The idea that the CAP protects small farmers and the rural way of life is a myth. Eighty percent of CAP aid goes to just 25 percent of farms. The biggest slice of the subsidy pie is handed to the landed gentry, environment- destroying mega-farm and vast agro-industrial conglomerates. Figures from the UK show Queen Elizabeth II gets around half-a-million euro a year. Food industry giants like Campina or Nestle have been handed hundreds of millions. Small-scale European farmers get little and poor farmers in developing nations are shut out of European markets.

Just another reason why we should say good bye to Euro and a policy designed to keep the rich, rich...

i'ld bet the biggest slice of any EU farm subsidy goes to the inefficient french farmers and other big slabs to the likes of italy who have told mega porkies about what has been planted (olive trees), dug up (old vines) or just left to lie fallow

Of course Cynic, potentially anyone with land can benefit from CAP its so open to abuse and miss-managent. CAP is a double whammy for your wallet. Taxpayers fork out billions in subsidies then pay again when CAP artificially inflates food prices. CAP supporters say this is a price to pay for food security – that’s nonsense. With free trade we could import bountiful cheap food from the United States, Canada, China and elsewhere in the globalized world. Food security just isn’t a problem. CAP artificially shields farmers from healthy competition hindering the evolution of more modern, more efficient agriculture. Personally I think there is too much food regulation, what's wrong with a wonkey carrot, why is so much un-uniform food put to waste when food banks could readily be stocked..! Just where is the sense in all this, there is none, except for if you own a large estate and can claim EU farming subsidies for it...

Now lets think about it, you own a large estate, the government tax you for owning it on one hand, pays the EU CAP on the other and you simply claim the money plus a bit more back, erm TAX Free... sounds like a nice loop hole doesn't it... Unfortunately you only produced wonkey carrots on your land that year that were not uniform enough to enter into the EU's food chain and thus had to be disposed of, meaning you also now have a claim for compensation... Its better than benefit fraud this one!!

The wonky carrot business is not the EU. It is the supermarket's choice to do with appearance. My local greengrocer sells wonky carrots.

Those 60 wet wipes , it was for 60 boxes

Haystack, have a look at the below.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/news/knobbly-fruit-and-veg-back-on-menu-as-eu-plans-to-scrap-uniformity-laws-847911.html

So if your producing for say Tesco that only accept class 1 carrots and unfortunately your harvest falls short and you are unable to sell to Tesco then you could scrap the harvest or try and sell elsewhere at a lower price. Either way, compensation for the harvest would be sought.

Hays Hays Hays Hays..............Mili getting into bed with Nigel.

Guido Fawkes ‏@GuidoFawkes 7m minutes ago
Secret UKIP Labour Meeting This Lunchtime

Mili getting into bed with Nigel.

Only after the GE , and what would UKIP want from Labour in a coalition ? A referendum on the EU. Can't see the Unions and the rank & file letting UKIP put a foot inside the Labour party