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.

just as i don't bother to read 99% of the political polemic posted here, no one obliges you to read my much shorter and less frequent posts

but as i know you're really excited about this subject, i'll explain why i posted about my on line christmas shopping ....
it was primarily triggered in response to sticky's earlier observations about JL's christmas sales figures, which i am sure you read most studiously


or perhaps you'ld care to exercise your few grey cells on the subject of affordable housing .....
or can you not think of anything disparaging to say about that?

I like cynic's posts. He is a breath of sanity here. This thread should be mor of a mix of topics and not just politics. I must say that I also bought all Xmas presents online, including crackers, wrapping paper, IPhone, tablet, new corkscrew, books, new bed for spare room, duvet, pillows and lots besides. I hardly ever buy from real shops.

Why don't you and sticky start your own love-in thread. It isn't rocket science to appreciate that online sales are making a huge impact on high street store sales - whether it's John Lewis, Next, Marks etc.

I agree that the thread should be a mix of topics Haystack, but cynic is always whinging when he doesn't want to contribute to a particular debate. He must be a lot of fun at a dinner party.

do try engaging your brain
you're not even good at attempted put-downs

Well try this for a put down - I think you are a boring pain in the butt and since you couldn't figure out how the FLYBE online booking system worked, you are not even a particularly intelligent pain in the butt!

oooooooooh!

Contrary to my political aliegances, I shall be voting Lib this year. I live in a marginal Lib constituency that has Labour running a close second.

saucer of milk for table 4 ..... miaow miaow

perhaps i should ask why flybe is performing so badly relative to IAG and EZJ, but not worth the effort

Pity you didn't buy into FLYB when it was 52p cynic.Never mind old bean.

pity you don't know when to take a profit, like at ~145 but just let a big slab of profit fritter away..... never mind old bean

anyway, you keep practicing that sarcasm, because you sure need to improve

Napoleon.

An advancement on your prefab "brain child", would be I suggest that you to test one of the boxes for yourself, preferably you locked from the outside and gently floated down the Thames.

Think of it a a fitting end for you and at least it may relieve your misery of watching Miliband win the March election.

hahaha!
in fact, these boxes (20' or 40') are a tried and trusted form of temporary accommodation
i also saw a brilliant and imaginative conversion that was televised perhaps a couple of months back

I made a nice profit on FLYB cynic, despite your best efforts to trash the company and my various posts along the way.

in honesty fred, though both major party leaders are truly dreadful, i'ld rather see an outright win of any hue rather than the awful wishy-washy, badly hung parliament that is the most likely outcome

How does one person's posts affect another person's investment?

Labour will tax middle-class homeowners in England to fund NHS in Scotland

Jim Murphy, the Scottish Labour leader, accused of making 'outrageous bribe' to Scottish voters after pledging to use mansion tax on English homes to fund 1,000 extra nurses north of the border



Jim Murphy has pledged to use Labour's mansion tax to fund nurses in Scotland Photo: 2014 Getty Images



By Simon Johnson, Steven Swinford and Christopher Hope

10:00PM GMT 05 Jan 2015



Middle-class home owners in England will be taxed to help prop up the NHS in Scotland under a future Labour government.


Jim Murphy, the Scottish Labour leader, revealed that Ed Miliband's controversial mansion tax on properties worth more than £2 million will be used to fund 1,000 extra nurses in Scotland.


He said most of the money would come from homes in London and the South East of England, adding that the SNP will not be able to match the promise as there are too few “mansions” in Scotland.


Speaking in Edinburgh, Mr Murphy said: "We will get the money for 1,000 extra nurses not by increasing taxes and the pressure on the working class, but by introducing a new tax – a mansion tax on houses worth over £2 million most of which is in London and the South East.


"It's a real win-win for Scotland. If Labour wins the election this May and win again in 2016 we will start recruiting those nurses on day one."


However, Tory MPs condemned the use of the mansion tax as an "outrageous bribe" to voters in an attempt to save the Labour party from electoral oblivion in Scotland.

They are calling for English votes for English laws in the wake of further devolution to Scotland following the independence referendum.

There are also growing concerns that Labour may form a Coalition with the SNP and use the mansion tax to help subsidise Scotland.

Bob Neill, the former Conservative local government minister, said: “It sounds as if Labour are quite happy to subsidise services north of the Border and it shows just how unfair the current arrangements are to most people in the UK.

“That is why this funding issue has to be comprehensively addressed. It is about fair shares. The Barnett Formula [the funding formula for Scotland] is measurably out of date. It is discredited and now they are boasting about it insults everyone in the rest of the UK.”



More: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11326531/Labour-will-tax-middle-class-homeowners-in-England-fund-NHS-in-Scotland.html

The tories are confused over EU and don't even know which country's roads they themselves drive on.

I think they failed their L Tests.