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.

Osborne went on the piss on is big rise in is pay ,or is he on drugs now he can afford them

We get lower immigration then some other EU countries. Just think, if Labour were in power, it would be a lot higher.

back to immigration it is going to detsroy the uk for ever we will go bankrupt and it will be sooner than we think . facts their are over 12m on out of work or made up payments to bring them up to min wage over 2m on no contracts
1.5m illegal immigrants but could be over 2m no one knows the figures
no one knows were they are

It is interesting that peak immigration was in 2005! Now, who was in power in 2005?

51442 - he is my tenant with his girlfriend and young child ..... i guess he's about 25; his mother lives nearby but she's been long divorced and they don't have contact with the father

hays that is bollocks you stupid prat are you on drugs along with Osborne or just ill

All previous Labour leaders looked up to Thatcher. A bunch of wimps by comparison.

Skools, hospitals, social services cant cope.

Gov borrowing going through the roof.


What is this government doing to improve the lot of the working man/woman?

TANKER.......... Hays takes after his Chancellor....LOL LOL LOL LOL

bet hes stuck at his key board and is like one of them nodding dogs you used to see in back windows of cars LOL LOL LOL.

Cant resist it, its so funny...............

gf have you noticed the bbc not a mention

"51442 - he is my tenant with his girlfriend and young child ..... i guess he's about 25; his mother lives nearby but she's been long divorced and they don't have contact with the father"

Rather stuck there then, very sad.

TANKER yep always the same thats why people on Twittter are having there say about Camoron. Right wing press and media dont want to know, just think if that was Milly or Balls yesterday, what an outcry there would have been.

Hes still trending aswel is Camoron............... in Cameron Must Go.

British people tend to think private schools harm society – and support a firm stance on their tax exemptions

Wide support for tackling private school tax exemptions



The Shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt threatened private schools’ tax exemptions this week, claiming they weren’t playing their part, and had created a “corrosive divide of privilege”. Currently private schools are exempt from a number of taxes due to their charitable status, which Labour had looked at removing if they did not meet a public benefit test. After a court case effectively ruled out that route, however, the party said a future Labour government would remove private schools’ exemptions from paying business rates on their properties if they cannot prove they have helped and integrated with state schools.

YouGov research finds public support for a new approach to independent schools, with the most popular strategy being to remove their charitable status altogether.

Since July last year, opinion has moved slightly against public schools. Then, 42% thought they were a benefit to Britain, providing good education and acting as beacons of excellence to state schools, while 41% thought they harmed Britain, reinforcing privilege and social division. Now, 48% say they are harmful, and 36% say they are a benefit.

With the general motivation for threatening public schools, majorities of every group agree: it’s a good idea for them to lend teaching staff to state schools, help them with university admissions and compete with them at sports and debate.

But on Labour’s policy itself, the most popular response is more hard-lined. 41% say private schools should not be allowed to be registered charities at all, regardless of whether they partner with state schools. 33% support Tristram Hunt’s current proposal of allowing them tax exemptions if they integrate with state schools. Only 15%, including 29% of Conservatives, say independent schools should suffer neither.

ComRes poll of marginal seats27/11/2014

Latest voting intention figures in these marginals with changes from the last time ComRes polled them in September is CON 31%(+1), LAB 39%(-2), LDEM 7%(+1), UKIP 18%(+1). These seats had Labour and Conservative equal at the last election so an eight point lead here is the equivalent of a four point national swing.

the police should investigate to see what was wrong with Osborne on gov business
if that had been in a factory are any other company they woul of acted on heath and safety grounds

https://m.yahoo.com/w/legobpengine/frontpage/uk.news/e-cigarettes-10-times-carcinogens-japan-researchers-081638281.html?.b=%2Findex&.intl=GB&.lang=end GB

E-cigarettes contain up to 10 times the level of cancer-causing agents as regular tobacco, Japanese scientists said Thursday, the latest blow to an invention once heralded as less harmful than smoking.

The electronic devices -- increasingly popular around the world, particularly among young people -- function by heating flavoured liquid, which often contains nicotine, into a vapour that is inhaled, much like traditional cigarettes but without the smoke.

Researchers commissioned by Japan's Health Ministry found carcinogens such as formaldehyde and acetaldehyde in vapour produced by several types of e-cigarette liquid, a health ministry official told AFP.

Formaldehyde -- a substance found in building materials and embalming fluids -- was present at much higher levels than carcinogens found in the smoke from regular cigarettes, the official said.

"In one brand of e-cigarette the team found more than 10 times the level of carcinogens contained in one regular cigarette," said researcher Naoki Kunugita, adding that the amount of formaldehyde detected varied through the course of analysis.

"Especially when the... wire (which vaporises the liquid) gets overheated, higher amounts of those harmful substances seemed to be produced."

Kunugita and his team at the National Institute of Public Health, who submitted their report to the ministry on Thursday, analysed several cartridges of e-cigarette fluid using a machine that "inhaled" 10 sets of 15 puffs.

One brand, the name of which was not revealed, showed a more than 10-fold level of formaldehyde on nine out of every 10 sets.

Another brand showed similar levels on several sets, but was not consistently that high.

Kunugita said the research showed e-cigarettes are not the harmless products many people assume them to be.

"We need to be aware that some makers are selling such products for dual use (with tobacco) or as a gateway for young people" to start a smoking habit, he warned.

In common with many jurisdictions, Japan does not regulate non-nicotine e-cigarettes.

Nicotine e-cigarettes, or so-called Electronic Nicotine Delivery System (ENDS), are subjected to the country's pharmaceutical laws, but they can be bought easily on the Internet, although they are not readily available in shops as they are in some Western countries.

"You call them e-cigarettes, but they are products totally different from regular tobacco," the ministry official said.

"The government is now studying the possible risks associated with them, with view to looking at how they should be regulated."

- 'Serious threat' -

In August, the World Health Organisation called on governments to ban the sale of e-cigarettes to minors, warning they pose a "serious threat" to unborn babies and young people.

Despite scant research on their effects, the WHO said there was enough evidence "to caution children and adolescents, pregnant women, and women of reproductive age" about e-cigarette use, due to the "potential for foetal and adolescent nicotine exposure (having) long-term consequences for brain development".

The UN health body also said they should be banned from indoor public spaces.

US health authorities said earlier this year that the number of young people there who have tried e-cigarettes tripled from 2011 to 2013.

More than a quarter of a million young people who had never smoked a cigarette used e-cigarettes last year, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

Supporters of e-cigarettes say the devices are a safer alternative to traditional tobacco, whose bouquet of toxic chemicals and gases can cause cancer, heart disease and strokes and are among the leading causes of death in many countries.

But opponents say the devices have only been around for a few years, and the long-term health impact from inhaling their industrial vapour is unclear.

Big tobacco companies are snapping up producers of e-cigarettes, wary of missing out on a snowballing global market worth about $3 billion.

Earlier this month, Oxford Dictionaries picked "vape"-- the act of smoking an e-cigarette -- as their new word of the year.

hays why do you post lies on this thread .post facts immigration over the last four years is unbelievable