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.

That's wrong --------- some of them are to lazy to cook , funny how poor people are grossly overweight ? easy to buy junk food , got no time to cook they are unempolyed

The Coalition is withholding billions that could be used to support the NHS 8/12/2014

It seems we owe thanks to Labour’s former deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, for discovering a revealing accounting measure by the Coalition Government, meaning Chancellor George Osborne has yet again failed to cover his a**e.

According to Mr Prescott, figures from the House of Lords Library show the government spent £106 billion from National Insurance (NI) contributions last year – the benefit system received £85 billion and the NHS got £21 billion.

But he was “stunned” to find the Government last year held back nearly £30 billion.

“National ­Insurance money can only be used for the NHS or benefits,” Mr Prescott was quoted as saying. “So since he can’t spend it on anything else and chooses not to fund ­hospitals, the Chancellor lets it sit there.”

Mr Prescott recommended that the surplus should be used to help shore up a buckling NHS – but it seems clear that there is enough, not only to clear the health service’s debt but also to reverse all the devastating changes to the benefit system as well.

Let us hope a future Labour government remembers how to do the right thing.

Doesnt look like fatty Pickles needs to rely on Food Banks.

BREAKING NEWS...Tory Peer forced to apologise after claiming people are hungry because the poor can't cook

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/local/darlington/11652277.Tory_Peer_forced_to_apologise_after_claiming_people_are_hungry_because_the_poor_can_t_cook/

people in general certainly buy very badly indeed; you only need to look at their trollies to see loads of fizzy drinks, biscuits, cakes, crisps, chocolate and other sweets etc

however, most people haven't a clue how to make things stretch, make highly nutritious and cheap soups, to cook/eat cheap cuts let alone know about the nutritional value of pulses (protein) or even pasta (just carbs)

it wouldn't even dawn on most to make their own biscuits or cakes - if you really deem those a necessity - which are generally very easy and of course cost a fraction of what they do in a packet

If you and your wife are working a 50 hour week or more, how on earth do you find the time to prat about like you suggest Cyners?

Anne Jenkin, Baroness Jenkin of Kennington
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Anne Caroline Jenkin, Baroness Jenkin of Kennington (born 8 December 1955) is a PR consultant and Conservative member of the House of Lords.

Jenkin was born Anne Caroline Strutt on 8 December 1955 to the Hon. Charles Strutt and the Hon. Jean Davidson. Her father is the son of the physicist the 4th Baron Rayleigh by his first wife, Lady Hilda Clements. Her mother is the daughter of the Conservative politician the 1st Viscount Davidson and the life peeress Baroness Northchurch. She is married to the Conservative Member of Parliament Bernard Jenkin, whose father is the Conservative peer Lord Jenkin of Roding.[1][2]

She was created a life peer on 26 January 2011 as Baroness Jenkin of Kennington, of Hatfield Peverel in the County of Essex,[3] and was introduced in the House of Lords on 27 January 2011, where she sits on the Conservative benches. She has spoken in favour of equal marriage. [4]

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Hope that a suitable deduction will be made from his pay packet.


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This afternoon, Lady Jenkin apologised for her comments, admitting she had been "stupid".

GF,

She is good at PR.

surprisingly easily actually, not least because many of these cheap dishes are extensions of each other, and some take very little time to make in the first place

if you can't find the time to make use of dried pulses (first class protein), then tinned ones are equally good and are "instant" and can be quickly made into something very tasty

LOL......must be Fred.

Another 2% of the Tories national poll mid week.

One area that NI is used for is that the government can borrow from the National Insurance fund to help pay for other projects. Maybe they borrowed the rest.

Looking back at previous years, the NI fund has shown a surplus for many years. The surplus for 2008/2009 was £50bn.

It looks like Prescott was talking out of his arse as usual.

the mother of those two jailed for fighting with isil should be asking the question why did you fight for evil scum cutting of peoples heads those going to fight for isil are murderers and should be charged with treason and hung tell this mother to think about those they have killed . the charity workers helping them

she should be ashamed of them and disown them unless she agrees with them
they should not be allowed back in the uk they made their choice now live with it

Errr Hays you havent got the point as usual.

Back in 2008/2009 the Health service and the Welfare State werent broke like they are now.

Please engage your brain before passing silly comment on good points made by MPs of any party.........thankyou.

sticky - didn't you fancy responding to 52447?

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NHS etc have been in ICU for many more years than you make out, though it is inevitably and progressively getting worse for all sorts of very good and pretty obvious reasons - eg lower % of population paying NIC and more and more people getting older and older

TANKER, absolutely right about not letting them back into the country even if they are state less.

Good riddance to them I say and the more that get bombed the better.

As for there mother if its the one I think it is, she should be exposed to all the local people locality where she lives and no special treatment given like re- hosing somewhere else in the country to protect her.