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.

HNY sticks ..... not too much brown ale with the pork pie i hope :-)

i'll believe you sticks
i know how difficult it can be to get benefits of any kind - except the illegals who seem to have a short line of communication far too often

btw, we're still waiting for HMRC to respond re my o/s VAT claim


EL - there are all sorts of variations on how this chap might be operating those 5/6 vans

How do "Big Issue" sellers qualify for anything?


Heres the breakdown for that magical £43kpa (gross) earnings with city-link

Very slick, no wonder people fell for it



http://www.city-link.co.uk/ownerdrivers/earning

Truth and the deficit: my response to @ToryTreasury

Fraser Nelson
2 January 2015 12:28





Is it honest for the Conservative poster to say that the ‘deficit has been halved’? I argued earlier that it’s misleading, and that it’s a shame that the Tories use this language because it casts doubt on the other clear, arresting and true claims they are able to make (jobs, etc).

The word ‘deficit’ means the amount, in cash, that a government or a company has to borrow to meet its spending needs. The gap between what is spent, and what is raised. Using clear language is very important here: polls show just a third of the public realise that national debt is rising – they’ve been misled for years by language that suggests to the non-expert that debt is falling. (Including the PM saying ‘we’re paying down debt’). The journalist’s job is to challenge, rather than repeat, such language.

Now, the Tories justify their claim by saying the word ‘deficit’ has another meaning: the ratio of deficit/GDP. I don’t dispute that the ratio is widely accepted and more useful to economists, but a deficit/GDP ratio is different to ‘the deficit’ which is measured in pounds. If you want to talk about the ratio, you need to so say so – otherwise the sentence is a porkie.



more:http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/fraser-nelson/2015/01/truth-and-the-deficit-my-response-to-torytreasury/

Well well well........at last a HONEST TORY

Style and beliefs[edit]
Nelson is an economic libertarian and a supporter of the Conservative Party.
(Wikipedia)

There's plenty out there gf!

Could have fooled me Max.

I like the tory advert.

It sums up their past 4 years.

A pathway to nowhere with Captain Marvel at wheel.

That with the deceit over the deficit. (Don't mention debt.)

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Also, when considering the City Link fiasco and what it reveals :

The below won't go away!




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Sorry GF, but we cross posted and I couldn't resist temptation!

I doubt that the stats above are correct. What is the source apart from some lefty's imagination?

None of your stats are accurate, how can they be, your a blue blood sleazy Tory.

A wonderful time was had by all at the Utter Arse of the Year awards

It’s been an amazing year for complete idiocy – perhaps the best ever


Rod Liddle 3 January 2015



Tony Blair, Alex Salmond and Stephen Fry: Winners of the Utter Arse of the Year awards Photo: Getty



A glittering cast list, delicious food and spectacular entertainment — I just wish you could have been there. But tickets were at a premium for The Spectator’s prestigious Utter Arse of the Year awards ceremony held, as ever, in the council chamber at Tower Hamlets. The meal, prepared by the exciting left-wing lesbian cook Jack Monroe, consisted of her famous kale pesto pasta on a bed of shredded back copies of the Guardian. As we munched away, a troop of locally sourced Bangladeshi mime artists enacted the setting up of an east London caliphate and — to the delight of the audience — silently decapitated several infidels sitting near the stage. As the black flag of the Islamic State was raised above our heads, the compère for the evening, Jon Snow, from Channel 4 News, took to the rostrum and the real business began. It has been a fabulous year for arses, he told us, perhaps the best year on record. Arses everywhere you look, he chuckled — and at that moment, through fiendishly clever technology, a giant hologram of the revolutionary comedian Russell Brand appeared beside him, transmitted live from his £76,000 per year flat in nearby Hoxton. The Russell hologram entertained the audience with a stream of indecipherable, pretentious, sub-adolescent balls before (again, praise to the technical team) disappearing in a puff of smoke up his own backside. How we all cheered!

That was an excellent foretaste of the proceedings. Snow then welcomed the leader of the Labour party, Ed Miliband, on to the stage to do his famously hilarious impersonation of someone trying desperately to appear normal while undertaking a range of simple everyday tasks — such as standing still, eating a sandwich, breathing etc. On the screen behind his head was displayed a strange photomontage of nine or ten distressed people, some wearing restraints, others gibbering maniacally, two of them in a permanent vegetative state. These troubled souls, it transpired, were the remaining British citizens who think Ed would make a competent prime minister.


More good stuff here: http://www.spectator.co.uk/columnists/rod-liddle/9403602/a-wonderful-time-was-had-by-all-at-the-utter-arse-of-the-year-awards/

Take it Fred and Goldfinger were guests of honour?

They done the cabaret.

Lol

It is unusual for the cabaret to win all the prizes as well.

deficit levels
this all looks very much like a case of lies, damned lies and statistics for both sides trot out figures to "prove" their point


annual house price inflation
i recollect sticks writing just a few days ago that houses in the north were still falling
however, this was not borne out by the figures put out by nationwide within the last couple of days
all areas show increases over the last 12 months, though there must obviously be isolated hot and weak spots

from the weakest up .....
wales, yorks and humberside, north west, scotland, north midlands
and so on stronger

Cyners use the Halifax for house prices in the North not the Nationwide.

I'm thinking about taking the Christmas decorations down and have this same trouble every year.

ie. When is 'Twelfth Night'?

My research tells me it is the 5th January:

26/12
27/12
28/12
29/12
30/12
31/12
1/1
2/1
3/1
4/1
5/1

Hmmm? I guess I should have started at 25/12, which I think should be the 0th night, not the 1st night.

Anyone know any other better answers as to why 'Twelfth Night' is the 5th January and not the 6th?