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.

"Why should Labour write out the detailed policies now?" Would you give someone a job if you asked them what their qualifications were and they replied - give me the job and then I'll tell you! Blooming marvellous that - make me your PM and then I'll tell you what taxes you will pay under a Labour government. :-)

Hays your a sleazy g-t.

Russel Brand 16 million followers on social media

Makes you wonder about the 16 million ?

Sponsors 'turn their back' on Michael Schumacher by slashing lucrative deals with F1 star

THE first wealthy sponsors have begun to cut their ties with stricken Michael Schumacher as the chances of any meaningful recovery to promote their products remain slim.

Daily Express
December 12, 2014, 09:22, Fri,
By ALLAN HALL, IN BERLIN

Phillipe Gaydouls, owner of Jet Set, has already severed commercial ties with the 45-year-old coma victim.

Swiss news website Bluewin claimed Schumacher is poorer to the tune of several million pounds annually as a result of the commercial decisions taken by some companies who no longer see him as a role model for their products.

On the one hand, the sponsors must pursue economic objectives. On the other hand it will not be well received in public if you are turning your back on Schumacher at this difficult time.

While Mercedes and the wealth management and advice firm DVAG promised to stand by him, others are not.

Phillipe Gaydouls, owner of the fashion firms Navyboot and Jet Set, has publicly severed his commercial ties with the 45-year-old recovering coma victim.

"It is not easy for Schumacher's sponsors: paying out millions of Swiss francs per year and receiving nothing back since the crash," said the Bluewin report, referring to the ski accident on December 29 last year which has left Schumachder paralysed, speechless and confined to beds and wheelchairs.

"But must they separate in this situation from the Formula 1 legend? It is a balancing act: On the one hand, the sponsors must pursue economic objectives, which point towards for a parting.

"On the other hand it will not be well received in public if you are turning your back on Schumacher at this difficult time."

Gaydoul's spokeswoman confirmed his decision. Finance magazine Bilanz estimated he was paying Schumacher some four million pounds per year.

Earlier this year the German mineral water company Rosbacher reportedly annulled its contract with him.

It is not clear what other companies have severed their links with Schumacher who is being cared for by a team of specialists at his 35 million pound mansion at Gland on the shores of Lake Geneva.

He was transferred there at the end of the summer from a rehab clinic in Lausanne where doctors decided it would be better for him to be with his family.

He is being cared for in a state-of-the-art medical suite built inside the mansion. In the grounds a house has been constructed for his father to move into.

Although the sponsorship money is a fortune to most, the loss of it will not dent his financial security. He amassed a fortune of some 500 million pounds during his years at the top.

i think MS will have more than enough stashed away, though one wouldn't wish his condition on anyone, not even anyone here

There surely can't be 16 million dumb blondes in the world can there?

DB4

Maybe gf is a blond

Auschwitz photo-op visit reveals Cameron at his cynical worst 11/12/2014


‘Arbeit macht frei': Roughly translated, it means ‘Work makes you free’. David Cameron will be familiar with that phrase as it is a favourite of his Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith. See http://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/jun/16/lawrence-mead-tough-us-welfare-unemployed.

Is this writer the only person who finds it more than a little sick that David Cameron visited Auschwitz on the International Day of Human Rights? What was he doing – taking notes in order to ensure that he can do a better job?

The parallels between what the Nazi regime did there, to anybody it considered subhuman, and what Cameron’s government has been doing to anybody it regards similarly are becoming so obvious that you would need to be a deaf-blind animal to miss them.

It is physically sickening to read about him lighting a candle at a memorial for holocaust victims and promising that proposals for a permanent British memorial to victims of the Nazis will be revealed next year, to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the extermination camp, while his government continues to deny the fatal consequences of its own policies.

In Nazi Germany, people who were sick, disabled, or belonged to a foreign race were deprived of their human rights and shipped off to concentration camps like Auschwitz, if they weren’t “euthanized” at home under the Aktion T4 programme.

Here, people who are sick or disabled are subjected to a humiliating test intended to deprive them of the financial support they need to survive, and to implant the suggestion that it would be better all around if they simply took their own lives. Immigrants are depicted as a threat to the British way of life and the livelihoods of the indigenous population – but this means that people who were originally of a foreign race, but whose families have lived here for generations, and are British citizens themselves, are also likely to be targeted by the ignorant and easily-led.

It is due to the policies of Cameron’s government that the United Nations has launched an investigation into “grave or systemic violations” of the rights of disabled people.

Cameron himself has promised that, if a Conservative government is returned to office next May, he will strip every British citizen of their human rights by repealing the Human Rights Act that confers on us the legal protection available to every other human being in Europe. Instead he will throw us the scraps contained in his miserable ‘Bill of Rights’, that is notable more for the rights it forbids than any it permits.

Pay particular attention to the fact that Cameron is proposing to legalise torture in the UK.

And there he is, using what was probably the greatest human tragedy in history as the backdrop for a cynical and hypocritical photo opportunity.

Words cannot describe the contempt that we should all feel – as a matter of duty as human beings – for such a vile abomination as Cameron, and anybody like him.

“Lower than vermin” is no longer sufficiently pejorative.

The really dumb blondes have more intelligence than gf :0)

That articular shows how low that writer and people who post it would go, to use that visit to score political points .

Welcome to the Labour Party alders!

it is a salutary and necessary reminder for all of all ages to visit the WW1 battlefields and cemetries, so too with the concentration camps

thus, to try to make some sort of political capital out of DC's visit to auschwitz is pretty appalling .... shame on you sticky for promoting that with your bit of c+p

Chris how did you know I was blonde?

TANKER just look at this..........

Shock New Figures: UK Spends Less On Healthcare, Benefits and Pensions Per Head Than Any Other Northern European Country11/12/2014



The UK spends less on social security benefits, pensions and healthcare combined per head than any other northern European country figures released by the Office for National Statistics reveal.

In news which has sent the Daily Mail spinning out of control, the UK’s spending on ‘social protection’ is lower than France, Germany, the Netherlands, Ireland and in fact every country in Northern Europe, as well as Italy. These figures are based on spending per person from 2012, before many of the benefit cuts were implemented. With even more savage cuts to social security threatened, then the UK could soon slip even further down the ranking behind the beleagured economies of Greece and Spain.

Social protection covers a wide range of spending including benefits, pensions, healthcare and social exclusion. In a worrying trend the Daily Mail has decided to lump all thse vital services under the banner of ‘welfare’ suggesting that pensioners and people who use the NHS may be next in line to face being smeared as scroungers by the right wing press.

Almost half (47%) of the UK’s social protection spend goes on pensions. Just 2.5% of the total is spent on unemployment, just over half the European average, The UK also spends less as a proportion of the budget on disabled people and families with children. Subsidies for landlords remain healthy however with 5.5% of the spend going towards housing costs reflecting the ever growing Housing Benefit bill.

Social protection spending works out at £6,959 per head each year but that doesn’t mean that’s how much it costs you as the Daily Mail implies. It is how much you get. People on lower incomes will pay considerably less than that, whilst corporation and other business taxes also contribute. Depending on how long you live you will receive much if not all of what you have paid out back in your penson. At least for now. On top of that comes a comprehensive (for now) system of healthcare alongside now sadly less than adequate income protection insurance in the event of illness, accident or unemployment. The welfare state is still good value though for everybody except the very rich and were it to disappear then we would be paying a lot more to line the pockets of insurance company spivs. And it would be the rich who get the tax cuts were that to happen. Don’t get mugged by the Daily Mail into thinking otherwise.

You can view the figures on the ONS website.

TANKER.....print a few copies off and take it to your club so you can show your mates, and ask them to photocopy it and send it round your village.

That is because other countries spend too much. France is a good example. Their benefits culture is crippling the country.

sleaze sleaze sleaze sleaze sleaze, Hays is nothing but........... SLEAZE.

Hays its not benefits that are crippling France, its Tax you birk.

SO HAYS WANTS LESS SPENDING ON PENSIONS AND HEALTHCARE.........TYPICAL TORY SCUM.

Have you seen that TANKER......Hays comment.


He'd and his like would have you in the workhouse/poorhouse.

They are taxing so high to pay for the adsurd benefits. It is the same with all socialist countries.