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.

Max,

Has he been doctored?


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Check the speed of hand gesticulations against facial movements.

Pretty clever doctoring, but initially thought the same as you"!

Not so sure!

Slowed down obviously, but Gideon does look a bit disheveled never the less.

Fred.

Video manipulation used to be the stuff of super-computers, not anymore, any tom, dick or harry can do it now on a decent laptop. (so I'm told)

Well there is certainly a dick on this thread !

Perhaps, he was thinking of his latest "lying" success.

Osborne accused of claiming false victory in EU budget row
By Reuters | Thu, 18th December 2014 - 01:14
LONDON (Reuters) - Finance minister George Osborne was criticised by the head of a parliamentary committee on Wednesday for claiming victory in a row with the European Union over an unexpected bill that triggered a diplomatic bust up with EU officials.

In November a statistical review of national income data generated a 2.1 billion euro bill that caught Prime Minster David Cameron by surprise, provoking a furious response.

The row inflamed tensions with Cameron's European counterparts and agitated the rebellious Eurosceptic wing of his Conservative party at a time when rising anti-EU sentiment among voters has forced Britain to contemplate leaving the bloc.

Osborne later claimed success in the budget battle, saying Britain would pay only half of what Brussels demanded, but EU officials said payment had not been reduced, only offset, and domestic political rivals accused Osborne of deception.

Osborne was on Wednesday criticised by parliament's Treasury Select Committee, which said the reduction was down to a rebate that was due to be paid anyway.

"It seems to me ... the bottom line didn't change a scrap," said committee chairman Andrew Tyrie, a Conservative lawmaker and respected former Treasury minister whose criticism will come as an embarrassment to Osborne.

Giving evidence to the session scrutinising his department, Osborne disagreed, saying that it had not been clear the rebate, which cut the bill by around a billion euros, was due to be disbursed.

He maintained that he had successfully fought to protect the British taxpayer.

"Having looked at the papers it seems to me pretty clear, and I'm surprised that you feel ... that it wasn't really clear," Tyrie said to senior Treasury official Mark Bowman who appeared before the committee alongside Osborne.

(Reporting by William James; Editing by Alison Williams)

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http://www.iii.co.uk/news-opinion/reuters/news/212591

DB4,

Is it true that you go out wearing a condom?

Looked exactly the same in PMQs yesterday.

Like I say if you can find a film from a few year (not a still) back check the difference.

Hes certainly on something.

Perhaphs its the labour women on the front bench and the perv is mesmerised.

Labour women on the front bench. Who let the dogs out? :0)

Morning all.

I had a bit of a Google and found this...



At the end of the clip there is a link to another humorous/interesting clip on the screen - "Cameron Diaz defends pubic hair".

BRUSSELS, Dec 18 (Reuters) - The European Union's supreme
court told Britain on Thursday that it could no longer require
entry visas in advance for non-EU citizens who are family
members of EU citizens and hold a residence permit from another
EU state.
Ruling in the case of Helena Patricia McCarthy Rodriguez, a
Colombian married to a man with British and Irish citizenship
living in Spain, the Court of Justice said EU rules did not
allow London to insist on her applying in advance for an entry
visa when she travelled from their home in Marbella to Britain.
There was no immediate response from the British government,
which has made obtaining greater national control of migration
from the rest of the EU a key objective as Prime Minister David
Cameron seeks to review Britain's relationship with the bloc
before a membership referendum he has promised to hold in 2017.
Cameron will meet his fellow EU leaders at a summit in
Brussels later on Thursday.
The court reviewed the case at the request of British judges
to whom the family had complained that a requirement for Helena
McCarthy to travel to the British consulate in Madrid every six
months to renew a visa breached an EU directive granting free
movement across the bloc for EU citizens and their families.
In a statement, the court said that Britain's concern at
levels of identity fraud did not give it the right to impose
automatic requirements on individuals like McCarthy, where there
was no suggestion of fraud or her marriage being a sham.
"National authorities are required to recognise, for the
purposes of entry into their territory without a visa, a
residence card issued ... by another member state, unless doubt
is cast on the authenticity of that card and the correctness of
the data appearing on it," the Court of Justice said.

From Exec's Google extract.

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Perhaps, Manuel or Cynic would like to comment on the suitability of George as a representative of Cameron, or a future Con Party leader.


Sonia Poulton Natalie Rowe aka Miss Whiplash seems from what is reported to have a close working relationship with the party leadership.

UMMM.

The Labour party had terrible trouble with militant unions all through the 50s and 60s. Barbara Castle, the Labour Employment minister published in 1969 a white paper titled 'In place of strife'. It was an attempt to curb union power by new laws. In the end the Labour party chickened out and it was not passed into legislation. It wasn't until Thatcher that the necessary laws were passed. It is worthy of note that Labour has never repealed a single union laws passed under Maggie's times.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Place_of_Strife

In Place of Strife (Cmnd 3888) was a UK Government white paper written in 1969.[1] It was a proposed act to use the law to reduce the power of trade unions in the United Kingdom, but was never passed into law.[1] The title of the paper was a reworking of the title of Nye Bevan's book In Place of Fear.

Amongst its numerous proposals were plans to force unions to call a ballot before a strike was held and establishment of an Industrial Board to enforce settlements in industrial disputes. The Labour Cabinet of the Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, was divided over the issue.[1] The proposals had been drafted in secret by Wilson and Castle.[2] Divisions quickly appeared within the Cabinet when the proposals were presented, with the opposition led by James Callaghan.[2] A settlement was eventually reached with the Trades Union Congress whereby the proposals were dropped.[1]

Hays we had 8 million unemployed under Thatcher. Those were the official figures just short actually of 8 million.

Dont tell people here how bad the Unions were when Thatcher created the problem then, and the subsequent Poll Tax riots and its social cost.

Thatcher also brought in Incapacity Benefit to try and fool the public that 4 million were unemployed not double that figure.

Todays problems with Welfare stem back to Maggie Thatcher, of that there is no doubt.

LABOUR LEAD INCREASES TO 5 POINTS.....


ICM/Guardian – CON 28, LAB 33, LDEM 14, UKIP 14, GRN 5

I said Milly had a brilliant PMQs.

Labour now have the advantage over xmas and the new Year.

Interestingly Lib Dems again gaining support and taking votes from the Tories.

GF,

I agree that Miliband had a very good PMQs.

Doesn't Cameron go red in the face and bluster when he tells porkies.

The public think more and more he is a hollow yesterday's man.

certainly this week Fred, he was caught on the hop.

Not only that the BBC s Andrew Neil and co pointed out that osbourne had moved the goalposts on the deficit sneekily as usual so now its takes into account % wise GDP whereas before he used it as a standtill measure............but get this the 2 Eds have realised this and the economy dabate isnt the one trick poney it once was for the Tories.

I'm so glad Fred and gf like pictures of George Osborne as they are going to be seeing a lot more of him when the Conservatives win the next GE and he is Chancellor for another term.

George, George, George ! :-))

By Rosa Prince, Online Political Editor
12:09PM GMT 18 Dec 2014
Cherie Blair’s father says suggestion Labour Leader could become Prime Minister is ‘play school

Tony Booth, the veteran actor and father of Cherie Blair, has bluntly dismissed the idea that Ed Miliband could become prime minister.

In an interview with Newsweek, Tony Blair’s father-in-law laughed off the suggestion that Labour could win the General Election under their current leader, saying “'In your f****** dreams. This is not play school.'”

According to the Daily Mail, the 83-year-old said that Labour would have more chance at on polling day in May if Mr Blair made a surprise return to power.

He said: “Funnily enough, I think he might have an outside chance. “Because people would say: ‘Well, at least he is the devil we know.’

“And with Miliband, you find yourself thinking, ‘This is a good kid, but when is he going to get into long pants? Are we just putting him up as a dummy until we find the right person?’”

Mr Booth also said that it was time for Labour to choose a woman for a leader, and named Barbara Castle, who was employment secretary under Harold Wilson, as a role model.

“I hope that, lurking somewhere in the Labour ranks, is a female politician who will emerge and speak the truth," he said.

“The one thing the Tories really don't like is a nanny. Nannies frighten them. We need somebody in the mould of Barbara Castle.”

The 83-year-old, best known for his role in the 1960s comedy Till Death Do Us Part, is said to be suffering from dementia, but was described by his interviewer, Robert Chalmers, as “more coherent than most serving MPs I have met.”