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.

I would ban left winged teachers and then we would have a proper democracy.

at least if teachers don't have right wings, they'll just keep flying around in circles, or even plummet to earth

i'm not a teacher, but certainly i voted to join eu though i now fall into the "uncertain" camp

Is Dave's re-election strategy going tits up?



UK house price growth slows in last three months as property market cools


The north-west, Yorkshire and Humberside, and Wales see outright price declines, with average prices across country edging up 1.1% in the quarter




The average UK house price rose to £189,002 in December. Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA


Patrick Collinson

Tuesday 30 December 2014 09.30 GMT



The pace of house price growth slowed sharply in the last three months of 2014, according to Nationwide building society, but ended the year 8.3% higher than in 2013.

In more evidence of the rapidly cooling property market, three regions of the UK – the north-west, Yorkshire and Humberside, and Wales – recorded outright price declines in the final quarter of 2014.

Across the UK, average prices edged up 0.2% in December and 1.1% in the quarter, taking the average price to £189,002. In London, the typical home changed hands for £406,730, up 2.5% on the quarter and up 17.8% over the 12 months. Prices in the capital are now 35% above their former 2007 peak.


More: http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/dec/30/uk-house-price-growth-slows-last-three-months-property-market-cools

I think the EEC was a good idea in its time, but its evolved from being about trade what was voted for, into a big brother government. The wider EU now covers legislation on immigration, wages, environment, human rights, financial market regulation, data and information, criminal law etc etc etc.... I stand firmly against being in the EU.

I think it would be sensible for the USA to devolve more that it already is. Perhaps, into shanty towns.

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Manuel,

I am glad you are uncertain.

That is how I feel about you. (Better be careful what I feel.)

But I thought you were a man of convictions.

so is jeffrey archer :-) ....
however, my mindset on any number of issues is not nearly as fossilised as your own, as indeed should be apparent from my posts, should you bother to read them without distorting what is actually there

Alf convictions?... oh dear what for, come on you naughty boy answer the question.

importuning apparently, though i never did understand what that meant, so pleaded guilty just for the hell of it ..... it really was a damn cold day and wanted to get back to my free b&b in the warm

I think it is time to use Manuel's excuse of "I don't read other peoples posts".

I already know what to believe!!


8-)

Manuel,

Look up "importuning", it is different to "importing"!

I suppose the difference is only small and business is business.


8-)

i thought it sounded to be something to do with downloading music

Sikh deserts Ed Milibland for UKIP.
Former Labour Mayor Harjit Gill joins UKIP stating '' More and more my views are in line with what UKIP want''
2517

perhaps he's after a free ticket back to amritsar

I voted to join the EEC, but now I am undecided. We won't leave the EU no matter who gets elected. We may well have a referendum, but the public will vote to stay in.

if the question is fairly constructed (hmm!) and the public vote to stay in, then i'm more than happy to abide with that decision

if labour duck the whole referendum issue, as they assuredly will, and slowly devolve more and more powers to brussels, as they assuredly will, then i shall not be happy at all

if ukip somehow become kingmakers with an avowal to take uk out of eu regardless of how the public might have voted in a referendum, then i shall not be happy at all

The last item won't happen, due to constitutional issues.

UKIP have always contented that a referendum is required to clear the air.

The €U is not the same animal it was 40 years ago. (common market)

UKIP have not said it wants out regardless, that's panic talk from the usual suspects.

UKIP don't just want a referendum. They want to leave the EU. What purpose will they serve if we have a referendum and the vote is to stay in? Their only real policy is leaving the EU. What sort of party will they become if the public wants to stay in? The very name of the party is incompatible with continued membership.

The €U is not the same animal it was 40 years ago. (common market)

quite so Max .....
the uncontrolled and uncontrollable "it" has become almost entirely indiscriminate in what countries "it" allows to join, their economic wellbeing being pretty much ignored

"it" shows little interest in controlling some or even most of the blatant corruption that gobbles up several fortunes in free hand-outs

"it" creates laws and edicts that many countries should and some do ignore, but not uk where bells and whistles are routinely added

"it" is an uncontrolled and uncontrollable gravy-train with an ever-growing budget to squander as "it" wishes

however, on balance i just about stay on the side of staying in, always provided that at least some of the abuses as outlined above are severely curtailed .... fat chance i'm afraid

Absolutely marvellous isn't it - all this taxpayer's money has been sent overseas to combat Ebola and yet we run out of testing kits at Heathrow and no one seemed to know what they were doing.;


The first patient to be diagnosed with Ebola in Britain after returning from volunteering in Sierra Leone has been named as Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey.

Miss Cafferkey, 39, had written movingly of her work treating Ebola patients in an online diary published shortly before she was diagnosed with the disease.

Miss Cafferkey is being treated at the Royal Free Hospital in north London, having been transferred on a military-style plane from her local hospital in Glasgow on Tuesday.

A doctor who worked with her in Sierra Leone criticised the 'shambolic' testing process at Heathrow airport. Miss Cafferkey was able to pass through Heathrow, board a flight with other passengers to Glasgow and return home before she began to feel ill.

Dr Martin Deahl, from Newport, Shrops, who was on the Heathrow flight with her, said: "The precautions and checks at the airport were shambolic. They ran out of testing kits and didn't seem to know what they were doing."