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.

What SKY breaking news ?

Lower than vermin: Osborne plans end to crisis fund for the vulnerable 19/12/2014

A safety-net fund for people hit by floods, fire, domestic violence or a shortage of food or money is to be axed if George Osborne has his way.

Local welfare assistance provision – a Coalition policy designed to provide help to tens of thousands of people on low incomes who are pitched into sudden difficulty – currently takes just £180 million from the national budget. This is a tiny amount compared with – for example – the £1.5 billion spent on Michael Gove’s ‘Free Schools’ vanity project.

It seems a plan has been put forward to keep the fund, at a lower level of just £70 million.

But The Guardian has reported that “Osborne had fought against a ‘tiny sliver’ of money going to some of the most vulnerable”.

Campaigning site 38 Degrees has launched an emergency petition for British people to tell Osborne this is a cut too far.

Spokesman David Babbs wrote to members: “Without this crucial safety net stricken families would be left penniless and without food. He could announce the cut later today – let’s try to stop him.

“As a proportion of government spending, the sums of money involved are pretty small. But this is about the kind of Britain we want to live in. Can it really be right to scrap emergency support for people hit by crisis? Do we really want to leave people in hardship to suffer? To rely on food banks? Or even worse, loan sharks?

“Osborne’s latest plan is a cut too far – even other government ministers are coming out against it. The Guardian is reporting that other ministers are feeling the pressure over ‘the unpopularity of welfare cuts and the rising use of food banks’. A huge public outcry, just as MPs are getting ready to go home for Christmas, could split the government further – and force Osborne to back down.

“If George Osborne manages to scrap this fund, people could be left with nowhere to turn.”

The petition is at https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/osborne-christmas-cuts

Please tell Osborne what you think of his plan to cut down the last safety net available to this country’s most vulnerable people.

gf

The Ipsos More poll is fine. They are still showing it on their web site.


https://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/3495/Vote-shares-for-main-parties-unchanged-but-Green-vote-hits-record-high.aspx#gallery[m]/1/

Show us the link to where it claimed to be invalid.

Its been on SKY NEWS.

Soon be off the site.

Give them a ring.

Hays we are still awaiting your comment on the article below.......

http://www.theduckshoot.com/was-leon-brittan-arrested-on-paedophile-charges/

Remember you said you were there at the time??????????????????????????????

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26341122

Mandy Rice Davies dies aged 70

am i not correct in thinking she married well?

Mandy Rice Davies was famous for saying in court, ""He would, wouldn't he?"" and it entered common usage. It was added to the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

When the prosecuting counsel pointed out that Lord Astor denied an affair or having even met her, she replied, "He would, wouldn't he?" (often misquoted as "Well, he would, wouldn't he?" or "Well he would say that, wouldn't he?")

cynic Send an email to cynic View cynic's profile - 19 Dec 2014 13:52 - 53386 of 53404

the edifice of the old jewish soup kitchen of 1902 in whitechapel high street still stands

that was "proper" welfare state where each community looked after its own without an overweaning and interfering nanny

That was during the period of work houses or Work to Death houses.

Perhaps they should bring those institutions back.

Perhaps, building some on the playing fields of Oxford, Cambridge or Eton.

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Might even be a mattress for Manuel and Haze there. When the next revolution comes.

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Patience boy patience!

Come on Hays answer please, you said you were rubbing shoulders with these vile people ,in fact you made out you were in fact proud to be rubbing shoulders with these people,

what went on Hays, they were your friends??????????????????

http://www.theduckshoot.com/was-leon-brittan-arrested-on-paedophile-charges/

"Haystack - 18 Dec 2014 20:39 - 53319 of 53333

There is a lot of stuff about Dolphin Square. I lived in the next street, St Georges Square, and drank in the bar at Dolphin Square most evenings in the early 80s. I had a lot of friends who lived in DS, but never heard of anything funny going on. David Steel had a flat there as dozens of other MPs. I used to drink regularly with Lord Long, who was the Conservative whip in the Lords. There was plenty of heterosexual goings on, but no funny stuff that I came across. I knew of a handful of MPs who kept mistresses there."

I have no idea about Leon Brittan. I doubt it would affect the current parties as it is all historic.

it seems workhouses, having been established at the end of 14th century, were not finally abolished until 1948!

I wonder if the MET would be interested in the above details given by Hays.

Any thoughts Fred?????

Do you think this statement from Hays would help the police out???????

Certainly seems to know the crack at that time.

Used to drink regularly with them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He's not the Messiah

But Hays if Maggie knew what was going on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hays trying to change the topic.