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.

Dil - 12 Dec 2014 01:16 - 52827 of 53153 edit this post

Three cheers for the CIA and the politician's sticking up for them .

Someone remind me how many they beheaded and posted footage of on the internet ?

They are trying to keep us safe ffs ...



Geez only 5 days later and the sh*t that has happened in the world (and I aint talking VT and our colours Stan) maybe just maybe the CIA tactics look a bit mamby pamby given the sh%t they are trying to prevent.

Can't believe Haystack hasn't blamed Israel .... yet !

Petrol set to fall to £1 per litre quite soon say the RAC

And at Westminster!

i'm not sure that i quite approve of this move - exclude scottish MPs from voting on affairs that are not their business - but there is certainly good logic and sense for it

if the scots control their own taxes and other aspects, indeed why should they have any say on what happens outside their territory?

Manuel,

"When a butterfly's flaps its wing in England, it affects Scotland, Wales and Ireland".

Because the UK has evolved and is so interwoven, it is difficult to foresee what, or how a "minor" change in "law", "tax", "subsidies", "welfare" in England has on the economy of the other and to a lesser degree the reverse is also be operating.

Therefore the partakers should be able to partake in the policy making.

Devolution, seems crazy to me.

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There must be a better way of addressing the dissatisfactions of "localities" peripheral to London and "South East" and representation of "minority" interests.

Why do the Nats want to control the purse strings?

They say it would be a better arrangement as the English don't understand Scotlands needs.



Well, that sounds fair enough, if it was Scot's taxes that was paying - but it's not.

Scotland relies on subsidies to make ends meet (Barnet Formula)


So, what do they expect .. an (English) blank cheque with which to buy votes?

No, perhaps they would settle for a return of previous north sea oil and gas revenues.

PS.

It seems that Cameron was trying to buy parliamentary votes in NI, but choked on the price asked.

Prescott refers to Miliband as 'Red Ed' on BBC Today programming

http://order-order.com/2014/12/16/prezzas-red-ed-slip-on-today-programme/

Someone should tell him to shut up. He comment is not professional.

I wonder what Prescott opinion of Cameron and Osborne would be!

Come to that what the tory loony Right wing would be!

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/dec/16/lord-prescott-miliband-red-ed

Prescott, discussing English votes, said: “That is why ‘Red Ed’ is right to have a commission to look at these issues and not rush them through ready for the election.”

Yes. We are fed up with rushed loony daft U-turns from PR driven Con party rushed out without any thoughts.

Prescott, yet another hypocrite in the Labour camp.
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He cannot be considered positively as he made his big company bankrupt ....

Check the deficit and debt and and food banks after four and half years of tory mismanagement. (With borrowing rates at a low.)

Check the handouts to Cameron's mates and the bribes from them to the confidence trickster's party's coffers.

The General Court of the European Union in Luxembourg accepted the petition by Hamas in which it sought to have itself removed from the EU's list of terrorist organizations.

Hopefully they will add Israel to the list.

Putin has been voted Man of the Year by Russians for the 15th year in a row.

Let's hope for peace and prosperity return to the region.

Does anyone remember paternoster lifts? Looking back I am amazed that they were allowed on H&S grounds. I worked somewhere and never thought much about them at the time.