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.

Farage saw Russel Brand having his chest hair straightened before the program.

And goldfinger thinks his brilliant

Times have arrived.

Happy Xmas.

Anybody have a cartoon of Poundland Nigel?

BBC QT audience member who attacked Russell Brand is UKIP MEP’s brother – Pride’s Purge 12/12/2014

I’ve written before about how the BBC seems to be encouraging UKIP activists to pretend to be ordinary members of the audience on Question Time, writes Tom Pride.

Well, it now seems that a member of last night’s BBC QT audience – the one who accused Russell Brand of being all mouth and told him to stand as an MP – is the brother of Farnborough-born UKIP MEP James Carver:

Man who clashed with Russell Brand on BBC Question Time is UKIP MEP’s brother.

Tom reckons the BBC isn’t allowing UKIP activists to be planted in audiences to improve that party’s standing politically, but because it makes entertaining television. What do you think?

Like dogs fighting over bone.

Poor old Snappy isn't getting the bone.

But how many would grab at the money!

What the tories and Ukippers will stoop to.

I wonder how far Nigel had to bend over?

Nigel Farage and Richard Desmond’s cosy deal making




"Ukip are cock-a-hoop this afternoon with news that controversial proprietor Richard Desmond is to donate £300,000 to Farage’s party ahead of the 2015 election. Express sources confirm that Dirty Desmond gave the Ukip leader the full treatment on 2 December, with the Nigel personally given a full tour of his Northern and Shell Thames-side complex.

Farage visited both the Express and Star as well as the Channel 5 newsroom before retiring up to Desmond’s budget-Bond Villan style lair overlooking Tower Bridge to hammer out the deal. ‘He was shown the full-weight of the machine Desmond was promising to throw behind him’ says one inky-fingered whisperer.

The porno-peddling baron has form in political donations — whacking Tony Blair £100,000 in 2002— but news of this particular bung will come as a hammer blow to Tory party chairman Grant Shapps who has been buttering up Desmond himself. Mr S snapped them deep in conversation over lunch late last year:"


http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2014/12/nigel-farage-and-richard-desmonds-cosy-deal-making/

The face of reason and moderation.

GF.

I am waiting to see which colour the shirts will be when, or if, UKIP start issuing them.

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Mind you can recognise many by the Ku Klux red and white shirts they parade in.

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The 30s are back.

Max.

I think UKIP should adopt her as a mascot!

Would fit in nicely.

Fred .............Brown.

Lining up for the job once MrEd loses.....



David Miliband Hints At A Return To Politics

Ed Miliband's brother, a former foreign secretary, suggests his job as head of an NGO is good experience for a future in politics.



06:45, UK,
Saturday 13 December 2014






David Miliband has hinted he is intending to return to front line politics after a hiatus which followed his brother winning the Labour leadership.


The former foreign secretary has said he "passionately" wants Labour to win the general election and said his brother Ed would make a good prime minister.

He said current Labour leader has "the clarity, the vision, the determination".

When the Financial Times asked him about his own ambitions, he suggested the experience he has gained in his current job as head of NGO International Rescue Committee in New York could be useful for any future political career.



More guff here:http://news.sky.com/story/1391229/david-miliband-hints-at-a-return-to-politics

Government drops plans to criminalise offshore tax evasion
HM Revenue & Customs omits a measure from the Finance Bill that would have made failure to declare offshore income a criminal offence.

by Jun Merrett on Dec 12, 2014 at 10:24



HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC) plan to make undeclared taxable offshore income a criminal offence has suffered a blow as it has been omitted from draft legislation.

The draft Financial Bill, published earlier this week, extended the scope of civil penalties for tax evasion but there was no reference to making failure to declare taxable offshore income and gains a criminal offence.

This has caused tax experts to believe the government has put the proposal on the ‘back burner’, according to the Financial Times.

In August HMRC said it was looking to make tax evasion a criminal offence. Currently not declaring taxable offshore income and gains is a civil offence.

Ray McCann, partner at Pinsent Masons told the Financial Times: ‘I think that the proposal is now likely to quietly disappear. There is no substance to it.’

Instead the government is considering other measures, including enhancing financial incentives for those who provide information on offenders and extend the existing offshore penalty regime to inheritance tax and domestic offences.

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john braceDec 12, 2014 at 18:47
Another big speech down the pan - why do we listen any more?

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uncommercialDec 13, 2014 at 07:29
So if you cheat society in a small way through the benefit system, you go to prison. Do it in a big way through offshore finance, and you don't.

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Anonymous 1 needed this 'off the record'Dec 13, 2014 at 09:03
So white collar crime, obviously by political friends, is acceptable, like expense cheats and tax evaders, but we must still pursue the little guys? Why?

Is party of Confidence Tricksters hoping to expand their coffers, before May?

Jim Murphy has been elected as Scottish Labour party leader. The Labour party is not going to be pleased. They wanted anyone but him. He is a New Labour Blairite.

HAYS your>>>>>>>>>>>>SLEAZY, SLEAZY.

Sleazy sounds quite nice.

Haze,

You are posting rubbish once again.

Murphy has appeal to the core labour voters in Scotland.

As a group Scottish Labour party will vote with the "main" UK labour on major issues.

Also, he may attract dissident Labour in Scotland back to the fold.

I don't know how old you are, but your opinions are clouded more and more by indoctrinated ideological beliefs. (Signs of early senility.)

Haystack is correct, the unions said weeks ago that they didn't want Murphy. The unions wanted Findlay.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK!

SIR FRED THE RED ARISE!!!

"I don't know how old you are, but your opinions are clouded more and more by indoctrinated ideological beliefs. (Signs of early senility.)"

Fred did you actually keep a straight face when uttering those immortal words whilst staring directly into a mirror?

Who were the comments directed at?