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.

lol :-)

Not exactly, but there is something in that which I am probably not going to explain.

My daughter sent me an e-card earlier this evening which had my wife and I absolutely creased up laughing.

She superimposed our faces and those of our two dogs which were taken from family photographs and put them into a jingly kind of dance-like-cartoon-thingy-e-card. There are various starter models to use and the one she chose was 'Rocking around the Christmas Tree'. The result was absolutely hilarious! Having been created, it can then be sent out with a link in an e-mail where the recipient can see the cartoon e-card result stored on the jibjab.com web site.

Have a go yourself at: http://www.jibjab.com/holidays

I guess you guys could, say take pictures of the faces of your favourite politicians and, say having sent an e-mail of it to yourself, put a link up here....???

Go on amaze yourself. I'll do one myself for you tomorrow.

Oh go on H/S it is Christmas -):

Thanks for the background, we wait further info on the abuses.

Wonder if Hays will be called to give evidence??????????????????

Police were on late last night (SKY NEWS) saying they wanted to hear from anybody with connections/knowledge of that area during mid 70s to mid 80s.

Tories raise funds for further poll soon after general election in May

Party to make contingencies in case hung parliament - and aversion to another coalition - prompts second election




Patrick Wintour and Rajeev Syal


The Guardian, Thursday 18 December 2014 20.41 GMT







The Conservatives are making contingency plans for a second general election next year as Whitehall’s election spending watchdog officially begins the countdown for the 7 May poll.

Sources close to the Tories say that party officials, wary that opinion polls show it is likely that neither major party will have overall control, have been told to begin raising funds for a second poll within months of the first.

“Extra fundraising is under way as a precaution in case there is a second election next year,” a Tory source said. “It is sensible contingency planning given the possibility of a hung parliament.”



http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/dec/18/tories-contingency-funds-second-poll-general-election

That sounds like the scenario of Conservatives getting most seats and trying to run a minority government for a short while.

Anyone watch Andrew Neals show last night.

All 3 experts went for labour as being the largest party after the GE but with no overall majority.

Haze,

Cons running a minority government, they couldn't run the present stitch up coalition, and it is coming back to bite it!

Start your medication again!

So, who is going to do a deal with ukip?

GF,

P 53343


"Wonder if Hays will be called to give evidence??????????????????"

Well he certainly seems to have known and knows everybody in the higher echelons of the relevant institution.

How was he earning his living then, or was he?

MAx.

Nobody.

They are toxic medium term and long term.

No one will do a deal with UKIP. Apart from anything, they won't have enough seats to make a deal with.

What an impending mess.

I am beginning to think this is a good election to lose.

Fred, did you get that e-mail I sent you last night?

Today is the day election spending rules kick in and the campaign for 2015 officially begins. Here are the key dates for your diary:

December 19: Long campaign begins. Candidate spending limited to £30,700, plus 9p per voter in county (rural) constituencies, and 6p per voter in borough (urban) constituencies.

January 5: House returns from Christmas recess.

February 12-23: February recess.

March 18: George Osborne delivers the final budget of the parliament. He only has a few working days to get it through before…

March 30: Parliament dissolves. Short campaign begins. Spending restrictions tightened to £8,700, plus 9p per voter in county constituencies and 6p per voter in borough constituencies.

May 7: Election day.

138 days to go…

GF,

I have done.

And replied.

Will look a little later.

Thank you.

Fred.

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Max,

You missed this.

Wait for Haze's explanation of another tory failure.

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NIGEL FARAGE

Thursday 18 December 2014
Surprise, surprise: tens of thousands of illegal immigrants have 'dropped off' the Home Office’s radar
This is exactly what Ukip has been warning about for a very long time

The past two weeks have seen an awful lot of information related to the Home Office and immigration, the likes of which should have been on every front page of every national newspaper.
On 4 December, we learned that Theresa May’s flagship scheme to deport foreign criminals has been an abject failure, and that this government has managed to exclude just two offenders from the United Kingdom. The target at the outset was 62. That is a success rate of a pathetic 3.2 per cent.

Then it was revealed that at least 223,600 illegal immigrants had “dropped off” the Home Office’s radar, and that “unopened boxes” and “misplaced files” showed that enough people to fill a city the size of Southampton are in this country, without permission, and all because of a failure of this Home Secretary to get a grip on what she inherited from the last establishment political party.

Yesterday, the European Court of Justice declared that Britain cannot stop people from non-EU countries from entering the UK via family connections, even if they don’t have a visa. Mr Cameron of course “disagreed” with the ruling, but as we well know by now – it doesn’t mean a thing. He’s been wagging his limp finger about the EU for a while now, but even Francois Hollande has managed to rebuke him this week over his baseless “renegotiation” plan. Quelle surprise.

READ MORE:
WE ARE BEING LIED TO ABOUT IMMIGRATION
NET ANNUAL MIGRATION SOARS TO MORE THAN QUARTER OF MILLION

By now, Independent readers should know that I’m a shy kind of bloke. Far be it from me to repeatedly say, “I told you so,” but the truth of the matter is that Ukip has been warning about all these sorts of things for years. And we’ve been beaten back, called bigots, racists, fruitcakes, swivel-eyed loons and more. And yet, all that we have warned about has come to pass.

Now it would be very easy to make a judgment there: “Ukip is anti-immigration” is a lazy and fundamentally incorrect quip that we hear quite a lot. But actually, Ukip’s policy proposals on migration would simply reduce net migration to Britain to the numbers we as a country experienced in the 1990s – the tens of thousands. We wouldn’t stop it. Ukipers understand that the British labour market has jobs that can and are filled by migrant workers, and that’s natural.

Haze,

Why has the CON Party £70 million cash in its coffers (donnations from mates)?


The only reason I can see is to pervert the course of democracy.

GF,

Was this the article you refer to:

I wonder if Haze could comment as he seems to know everybody in "higher" office and their wheeling and dealings!

Meet the man Leon Brittan handed the lost VIP paedophile dossier to
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Thursday
Jul 2014
In 1983, when he was Home Secretary, Leon Brittan was handed a dossier by Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens which included details of a VIP paedophile ring.

The file of course – we now know – then mysteriously went missing after Brittan said he “handed it to his officials” at the Home Office.

So who would those officials be?

Well, Brittan has already confirmed that the official who was with him at the meeting when he was handed the dossier was his private secretary.

And who was Brittan’s private secretary at the time of the meeting?

Sir Brian Cubbon.

Sir Brian – although a former high ranking civil servant – has close links to MI5 and MI6.

In this document from 1999, Sir Brian is listed as a director of an MI6 front company called Hakluyt & Company.

And Sir Brian is also the official who was responsible for giving MI5 permission to tap the phones of leading CND activists in the 1980s.

And what is the relevance of the spooks involvement in the missing dossier?

Well, this is not the first time a VIP paedophile dossier has gone missing.

In the 1970s a special branch officer with Lancashire Police said a “thick” police dossier full of allegations from boys claiming they had been abused by Sir Cyril Smith went missing after an officer from MI5 told him it needed to be sent to MI5 headquarters in London.

It’s looking increasingly likely that VIP paedophiles – particularly those in Westminster – are being protected by MI5.