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.

Eton's a charity is it?... for tax purposes obviously.

By Georgia Graham, Political Correspondent
10:00PM GMT 01 Dec 2014
Duncan Selbie, the head of Public Health England, says that people do not know how much they are drinking and warns alcohol is a 'silent killer'

Enjoying a glass of wine after work does the same harm as drinking three shots of vodka, the head of Public Health England has warned as he said alcohol was becoming the "silent killer" of working age Britons.

Duncan Selbie said that deaths from working age people have increased by 500 per cent since the 1970s because many people "pour a glass and have no idea how much they are drinking".

MPs say that people are safer enjoying an alcoholic drink in their local pub as measures are controlled rather than buying large quantities of wine at "rock bottom prices" in supermarkets and drinking in "non-sociable atmosphere away from people's communities".

They also warn that drinking at home is problematic among the middle classes who pour themselves a glass of wine at the end of the day.

Writing in his weekly briefing to staff Mr Selbie said liver disease is now the third biggest killer of working age adults: "And it is a silent killer, with 75 per cent of people with cirrhosis only being diagnosed once they are admitted to hospital."


He added that the illness is "largely preventable" but that one of the biggest risk factors, alcohol, was difficult to control. He wrote: "For example, a large glass of wine is like three shots of vodka, so it is very easy for people to pour a glass and have no idea how much they are drinking."

Last week the Lancet commission recommended that Liver scans should be offered by GPs as it said middle-class drinking is turning Britain into the capital of Europe for alcohol-related disease.

Senior doctors have said too many people were treating alcohol dependence as “a lifestyle choice, like Armani jeans” and that Britain is now the only country apart from Finland in western Europe in which prevalence of liver disease is increasing.

Greg Mulholland, the Liberal Democrat MP and chair of the all Parliamentary Save the Pub Group, said that if people enjoyed a drink in the "social atmosphere" of the pub rather than behind closed doors it was easier to keep track of their drinking.

He said: "The evidence clearly shows that where measures are controlled and where there is a landlord who has a legal responsibility not to serve people who have had too much to drink, that clearly is a much better place for people to enjoy a alcohol in that context.

"What the Government need to do now is stop so many pubs being turned into supermarkets where ironically alcohol so then sold at rock bottom prices in a unsupervised way and is then drunk in a non-sociable atmosphere away from people's communities.""

Tracey Crouch, the former chair of the alcohol misuse group, and Conservative MP: "The middle class professional is coming home of an evening and pouring themselves a glass of wine with dinner and then possibly another after that without realising that over the course of a week it can tot what is medically advised.

"I'm really please that Public Health England has raised this, because raising awareness of this is not about telling people they cannot drink it is about getting people to understand the drinking habits they have, and it does become a habit, it become a habitual part of your evening rather than some sort of special occasion when people enjoy a glass of wine.

"People will see it is a very different thing pouring a glass of wine to pouring a three measure vodka but this is why it important to have calorific content on the labels - you wouldn't pour three shots of vodka but you also wouldn't sit down and eat six doughnuts - but you tend to pour yourself a large measure of wine not a small glass.

"If you look at liver disease maps there is a perception that it is all going to be deprived areas but actually you see a significant increase in the number of people who are more affluent who are getting liver disease."

Baroness Hayter, the Labour peer, said: "Wine is stronger, and the ordinary wines you buy, we just don't look at how strong it is - we assume all wine is the same per cent and it isn't it can vary enormously... glasses are getting bigger is actually quite serious, it sounds silly but it means you can suddenly be drinking two units instead of one."

Fiona Bruce, the Labour MP, said: "This is an issue we need to take much more seriously, and revise our view of the binge drinker as a teenager out late at night.

"Increasingly too high levels of alcohol consumption are occurring in the home by older age groups and we all have a responsibility to challenge and help address this."

The Telegraph

The horror, the horror

bbc 1 fake Britain 60 discount stores selling fake goods and making people ill
if its cheap its fake .

if you use a discount store you can not be sure the goods are safe .
do not use discount stores goods on your body .it is all most impossible to
tell if it safe or fake by the general public.
always buy from a main dealer

b@m home bargains two of the sops and 99p shops they did not no they were fake

what a good programme to watch fake Britain . all fact .internet is full of fake goods dangerous to your children .be aware it could kill your child

Enforce compulsory drug tests for all Members of parliament, and where necessary prosecute under the misuse of substances act.

Demand for Members of parliament to be drug tested. Starting with George Osborne.

To: Home Secretary (currently Theresa May)

Why is this important?
"Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne's appearance and bizarre behaviour during Prime Minister's Questions on the 26th of November 2014 begs the question of whether or not he was or had recently been under the influence of drugs. The government's exponentially failing drug policy puts public health at risk and defies the advice of their own researchers, whilst lining the pockets of dubious pharmaceutical companies and criminal gangs dealing on the black market. It is also in the public interest to know whether MPs are dabbling in legal highs, in a bid to escape failing a conventional drug test."

milions to be spent on internet buying fake goods that are useless and dangerous
always go to the shop to buy or be caught by crooks .
if you want goods go to the shop . if you buy on line then do not moan when you are ripped off and no were to go to get cash back

looks like Osborne as been done did he buy on net

stan - i think all public schools are run as charities, and as such will have to conform to the VERY strict rules laid down by the charities commission

of course, you maoists hate these schools, even of they provide (at the top end) some of the finest education in the country, and also do far more in offering scholarships and help for their local communities than you would ever want to admit

The Cameron Osborne Spending Plan gets its new cover ready for publication.

Holidaymakers face being denied medical help or having to pay huge hospital bills because clinics in cash-strapped EU nations are refusing to treat them.


British tourists have been urged not to rely on the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC), which is supposed to give all EU citizens access to state medical care in member countries.


Hundreds are being held hostage by hospitals who are rejecting the cards and demanding travel insurers cover the cost of medical care.







Read more: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/holidays/article-2320851/Getting-hospital-treatment-holiday.html#ixzz3KjhJH0un
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has I have said spend a lot of time in spain and do know this is fact
we are not in the eu when it comes down to benefits like nhs
we need to get out of the corrupt eu
why is our gov not taking up this issue .

Public schools are all registered charities. That means that they cannot make a profit for anyone. All surplus money has to go back into the school. They are not owned by anyone and are usually run as a charitable foundation.

Manuel,

"of course, you maoists hate these schools, even of they provide (at the top end) some of the finest education in the country"

Interesting sentence.


I don't think that many are grumbling at the existence of "public" or "private" education, but the majority of the public do not see why it should be subsidised out of general taxation and for benefit of the "chosen" few.

The "schools" should be self-funding, from rich Oligarchs with dubious connections or children of the Chinese Mafia etc..

The "subsidies" should go into facilitating the "state" system.

Especially when we are all in it together and austerity looms further and further into the future.

Conservatives and Labour tied

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 1st December -

Con 32%, Lab 32%, LD 8%, UKIP 15%;

http://order-order.com/2014/12/02/now-even-the-nerds-turn-on-ed-top-boffin-warns-miliband-has-failed-to-perform/

If there was one voting block Ed Miliband thought he could rely on, it would be his fellow nerds, yet a four-year academic study granted access to Ed Miliband’s inner circle today concludes he has “failed to perform as a leader”.

This is Miliband's 3 point plan for Britain.

Time to restore the mess David Cameron has left us in.
#CameronMustGo

http://order-order.com/2014/12/01/goodbye-gordon-never-forget-the-prime-mentalists-greatest-hits/