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.

Here it is again........

"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."
ends

The fact that you mention Lord Long would guarantee a police statement.

A whip in the Lords and under Thatchers government. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maggie, Maggie, Maggie !

ohhhhhhhhh dear doodlebug4 posting again on the subject ?, I hope hes not sympathising with peodos, how would that go down with most people here and more to the fact his best mate cockney on advfn.

Wouldnt look very good would it.


lets face it he lost all street cred with FLYB. If hes doing what im guessing where would that leave him.

Hilary,

How many times in a night have you had your shirt lifted while standing at a bar?


Did you enjoy it?

Actually gf, you were the one who lost his street cred on FLYB and made a complete tit of yourself. Hardly surprising that you are the laughing stock of ADVFN.

Maggie, Maggie, Maggie.

DM from DM - EM will never be PM. :-)

he he sorry hils.

It is funny.

DB4,

Leon, Leon, Leon!!


That is a bit more like it!

Fred you are joking hes not sympathising with the peodos. Ohh how sick if that is the case.

Ill save it to word, before he can change it.

the adfvn boys will love this at some time in the future.

Fred, I think you are a dirty old man.

Don't be even sillier than normal gf. My knowledge is a bunch of people in a bar. The ones I knew were just your average person. There are several thousand people living the flats. I didn't even live there. My time there was just 1984 in what was essentially a pub.

Just for AC,DC,DB,

But what do I know!!!!

Danger of sewage hitting air conditioning unit delays Westminster VIP paedophile probe
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Monday
Jul 2014
Posted by Tom Pride in cynicism ≈ 9 Comments
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An official investigation into a political cover-up of child abuse by senior politicians in the 1980s has been delayed indefinitely after experts warned there was a danger of raw sewage coming into contact with the fan system belonging to an air conditioning unit in the Houses of Parliament.

Government ministers are reluctant to give in to demands for a public inquiry into alleged VIP paedophile activity after fears that Westminster could become engulfed in a deep quagmire of foul-smelling effluent if the probe goes ahead.

Experts say the ancient infrastructure of the sewage system at Westminster – which for centuries has held back large amounts of excrement from coming into contact with leading MPs – is in danger of collapse if the Home Secretary Theresa May agrees to explain how the Home Office lost or destroyed more than 100 files related to accusations of organised paedophilia at Westminster.

However, authorities have assured the public that emergency supplies of sterile white liquid wash are already being stockpiled at Westminster should there be a danger of any excrement hitting the cooling fans and coming into contact with anyone important.

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Hays,

Were you looking for like minded friends?

Ohhh no HAYS you posted this dont deny its been captured........

"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."

Anyway Hays Ill leave you to do the right thing, if you dont I will have to do it for you.

Dont forget 3 innocent young children were aledgedly sexualy abused and murdered. Maybe more.

You cant keep things like that quiet.

How long before the Army is forced to recruit overweight people?

The purpose of the Army is the defence of the United Kingdom. It is not a sub office of the Equal Opportunities Commission




By Norman Tebbit

3:50PM GMT 19 Dec 2014

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John Humphrys conducted some very good interviews on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme this morning on the proposal to field women soldiers in front-line infantry combat units.


There was much discussion about the relative weights and physical strengths of men and women and the ability of women to carry heavy packs over difficult country, such as "yomping" across the Falklands.


That was all good and relevant stuff, but the main point was never raised at all, not even by the Secretary of State for Defence. Surely all that sexist stuff should take second place to the question of whether putting women soldiers into such a fighting unit would make it stronger and more capable of destroying an opposing enemy unit.


The purpose of the Army is the defence of the United Kingdom. It is not a sub office of the Equal Opportunities Commission. If an individual female candidate is more likely to strengthen the fighting unit, in she should go. If not, out she should go.


Anything else surely constitutes unfair discrimination on the grounds of sex, which we are told we must abhor.




The Army has more than enough on its hands these days. The scandalous invention of the allegations of murder and torture of Iraqi prisoners has hung over good and brave men who were sent to fight in Blair's War for decades whilst a firm of lawyers has become very wealthy by pursing them in the face of the facts. It now remains only to establish whether those lawyers conspired with their clients to falsify the evidence.

I hope that does not take as long as it is taking to reveal the truth about how Mr Blair deceived us about our entry into his Iraq War.

Of course, it could get worse. The half-baked nonsense from the European Court of Human Rights about the rights of very fat people is already bad enough, but perhaps the Army will soon be called upon to put more fat people into the front line.

How did we get into that mess? Well that was Blair's Human Rights Act ... but then, he was, we are told "The Master" whose example we should all follow.

Tony Blair gets sweaty over Wendi Deng question

The former Prime Minister denies any impropriety when asked about the affair rumours




By Rosa Silverman

8:31AM GMT 19 Dec 2014

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Tony Blair has said he will never discuss the nature of his relations with Wendi Deng, the ex-wife of Rupert Murdoch.


The former Prime Minister lost his cool when questioned on the subject in a recent interview, banging his coffee cup “so loudly into its saucer that it spills and everyone in the room jumps.”


Probed by The Economist magazine about whether he had been at the very least “careless about his reputation”, he is said to have broken out in a sweat.


During a wide-ranging interview with the former Labour leader, he denied any “impropriety” vis-à-vis Mrs Deng, adding that it was “not something I will ever talk about. I haven’t and I won’t.”


The report continues: “But did he find himself in a tangle over his friendship with Ms Deng? A large, dark pool of sweat has suddenly appeared under his armpit, spreading across an expensive blue shirt.”




Mr Murdoch has been more forthcoming on the topic, however.

In April, the media mogul spoke for the first time about his divorce and how he first learned about his then wife’s secret weekends with Mr Blair at his family’s California ranch.

He said he had been in Australia at the time but immediately flew back to the ranch to question the staff.

He revealed to Fortune magazine that he had been “shocked” when he first read Mrs Deng’s diary entries in which she described having “warm feelings” comparable to a “crush” on Mr Blair, who allegedly stayed at the ranch with her in October 2012 and April 2013 while her husband was overseas.

Mr Murdoch is understood to have since ended his friendship with Mr Blair, who is godfather to one of the former couple’s daughters.

Mr Blair has always denied having an affair with Mrs Deng and there is no evidence to suggest he did.

Elsewhere in the Economist interview, he remained defiant about the decision to go to war in Iraq, insisting he would not “until my dying day” concede it was wrong to remove Saddam Hussein.

He said: “What annoys people is my refusal to change my mind. I don’t shut up about it and I know that strikes some people as provocative.

“But it is much more progressive to get rid of Saddam than leave Bashar Assad to murder 200,000 of his own people in Syria.”

Labour MPs who criticised leaked strategy doc had not read it, claims campaign chief who circulated advice

Lucy Powell, vice-chair of the party's election campaign, defends leaked strategy revealed by The Telegraph which tells MPs not to campaign on immigration




2:31PM GMT 19 Dec 2014





Labour MPs who criticised a leaked strategy document ordering them not to campaign on immigration "probably haven't read it", the party's embattled campaign chief who circulated the advice has claimed.


Lucy Powell said she took was "happy to take responsibility" for the controversial guidance which was publicly criticised by Ed Miliband and Yvette Cooper after being revealed by The Telegraph.


The Labour MP and vice-chair of the party's general election campaign repeatedly dismissed questions about who signed off the document as "irrelevant" during a heated interview on BBC Two's Daily Politics.


She also defend her competency after parliamentary colleagues briefed some journalists against her, saying they should either "have that conversation with me" or let her get on with the job.


The fightback comes after Ms Powell was blamed by Labour aides for circulating a document outlining advice on tackling immigration that jarred with the party's public stance.


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The guidance, which was published by this newspaper, urged parliamentary candidates to focus on "moving the conversation on" from immigration to topics better suited to Labour such as the NHS and housing if mentioned by voters.

Discussing the leaked strategy, Ms Powell said: "I sent an email with that briefing document out there and I'm happy to take responsibility for that."

Asked about suggestions from anonymous Labour MPs that the document was "cack-handed" and "b******", Ms Powell said: "Well, they probably haven't read it."

She continued: "What people should focus on is what is our strategy, what are our policies on immigration.

"You can pick out little paragraphs, half sentences out of any document that's a very long one and spin it both ways, all ways, whichever way you want. But the point is we have very clear, practical policies on immigration."

Ms Powell's failure to distance herself contrasts with very public criticism from her party leader and shadow home secretary, who within 24 hours of publication had respectively called the leaked strategy "not very well drafted" and "wrong".

During the broadcast Ms Powell, who was recently handed the senior campaign role by Mr Miliband, was told Labour MPs had been calling into question her credentials for mapping the party's road to Number 10.

Andrew Neil, the Daily Politics presenter, said Labour MPs had noted she lost her seat to the Liberal Democrats in 2010 and returned to parliament in a 2012 by-election with a "historically low" turnout.

She responded: "If any of them wants to have that conversation with me they're perfectly welcome to. But what I do is I get on with my job.

"I think people can see that since I've take on this position that we have moved things forward, we've got a lot more energy in what we're doing, we're out there."

Ms Powell quoted a phrase favoured by her mother – "them who do nowt, do nowt wrong" - and said any Labour MP who did not think she was doing a good job could telephone.

During the interview she also failed to name any of the six specific pledges Mr Miliband gave during his conference speech – though she did name some of the correct topics they addressed.

I don't expect any sensible comment on that by our lefties on this thread Chris! Fred defies logic at the best of times and gf sounds totally manic before he even starts on the Stella!

I agree db, nutters. GF is in a league of his own. Out of interest and because he never stops banging on about it I checked out his twitter blog mick 'tarquin' kipper LOL! 3 followers on average (probably pissed) and a daily mention of a good comment by Mike740 on the ADVFN bulletin board. Is he really that thick that even twitter followers (all three of them in his case) haven't yet twigged that Mike740 is infact their very own mick tarquin kipper, purple, goldfinfer etc? Unbelievable!

North Sea oil industry will recover - Ian Wood




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ONE of Scotland’s leading oil and gas industry figures says that growing fears for its future are “over the top.”


Sir Ian Wood insists the industry will eventually recover - but says thousands of jobs could be lost in the next year as oil prices remain below £60 a barrel.

It follows concerns by the explorers’ association that the industry was “close to collapse”.

Sir Ian said: “These comments are over the top for an industry which thinks and plans long term, has significant momentum from current production and from major investments made over the last two or three years, and where the operators make their investment decisions based on the anticipated price of oil in two to three years’ time.




“It’s important to have a balanced perspective at this time. The UKCS does face a very difficult year to 18 months which will see a slowdown in investment, the loss of some offshore production, up to 10 per cent, and the possible loss of around 15,000 jobs within an industry which employs 375,000, although this is difficult to estimate.

“It will be a tough time for the industry and the people that work in it, but we are entering a downturn from which we will recover.”

The price of oil is ‘likely to recover in 2015 or early 2016’, he added