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.

meanwhile, is this guy really as big an imbecile as would appear ......

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

Re-read what he actually wrote.

Also, the associations made with Mansion tax. The direct linking of it is daft to me.

Happy with mansion tax, but it should go into the general tax pot. Linking is, think a "dangerous" move!


Just as dumb as the associations made by DB4.

he actually spake :-)

True!

luxury house from old shipping containers
this is the one i mentioned yesterday .......

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2768293/I-m-desperate-gorgeous-girl-I-just-want-happy-explains-Channel-4-Grand-Designs-team-turn-cover-project.html

They are doing without the containers in Slough...



Revealed: Up to 6,000 'beds in sheds' set-up by rogue landlords are found by spy plane's thermal image camera

Slough Borough Council spends £24,000 building up 3D map from air
Authority uncovered 6,350 suspicious sheds and garages emitting heat

Thousands could be living in converted outbuildings without permission

Plane criss-crossed streets, picking up heat signals from outbuildings

Analysis of images from night flight revealed suspicious dwellings


By Martin Robinson and Mark Duell

Published: 16:57, 30 July 2013 | Updated: 07:51, 31 July 2013


A spy plane equipped with a thermal imaging camera has found that more than 6,000 outbuildings in one town could be 'beds in sheds' converted by rogue landlords.


Slough Borough Council is the first local authority in the country to pay for the specially-adapted aircraft to fly over streets picking up heat from sheds and garages.


It spent £24,000 on flights to build up a precise 3D map of every building in the Berkshire town. The results mean thousands could be living there without planning permission or contributing council tax.



Welcome to Slough: This thermogram image shows data recovered after flying over the town, with the red representing high levels of heat escaping. The council said the imaging helps them identify outhouses because the cameras can pick up areas of high heat loss - although few can be seen outside the houses in this snippet


Normally: This satellite view from Google Maps shows the area captured by the 3D thermal imaging software in Slough, Berkshire. A school is seen to the right, while the rest of the area is mostly residential



More: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2381451/Slough-spy-plane-detects-6-000-illegal-beds-sheds-thermal-imaging.html

Well, I must be a bit thick because if 'red is hot', why are the streets and gardens redder (or at least 'oranger') than the blue houses?

PS. By heck! It looks a bit hot at No.32 don'tchafink? I bet it's probably a couple having sex!

Hey I live there------------------and I'm at work.
2517

your wife's working too :-)

Napoleon.

How has the NHS faired so far this winter, after the recent Lansley re-organisations?

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I wonder why the tories want to depoliticised the NHS as a topic for debate before the Election!

my comment about not politicising NHS was nothing to do with what you say is tory party line ..... it was my own straight comment

you've already seen what i have written on NHS, and it would just be very tiresome to re-post it

Just rethink it!

54391--------I wondered how she could afford to buy me a new roller for Christmas, ha!ha!
2517

for your hair or the lawn?

LOL

What does Google know about me?

How to check what data Google holds on you - and what you can do about it.

By Denise Roland
1:15PM GMT 06 Jan 2015
The US investment bank dismisses the rise of Ukip, predicting that supporters will revert to one of the major parties for the general election

Goldman Sachs is predicting that the Conservative Party will win the UK general election in May, but said that the outcome is "more uncertain than any in a hundred years".

It said that while the likelihood of any party gaining an overall majority "appears low", the Tories are "marginally more likely than Labour to win the most seats and lead the next government".

In a research note issued by the investment bank on Tuesday, analyst Kevin Daly said: "The outcome is unusually uncertain because party support is more fragmented than ever previously in the modern era."

Goldman said that despite the high level of uncertainty, it expected a strong economic recovery in the months leading up to the May 7 election to lend weight to the incumbent Tories.

It also dismissed the threat of Ukip, noting that the anti-EU party only has two sitting MPs and that supporters may be more inclined to vote for one of the major parties when the general election comes around.

"Given the demographic profile and past voting record of the majority of Ukip voters, these votes appear more likely to shift towards the Conservatives than to Labour," said Goldman.

The bank is bullish on the UK economy, expecting a sustained recovery despite the slowdown in Europe. It has also predicted that wage growth will pick up in 2015 now that employment rates are close to record highs.

It also expects the sharp drop in the price of oil, which has nearly halved since June, to feed through to petrol prices and act as an economic stimulus.

Mr Daly also said the "unusually wide gap between the Conservatives and Labour in terms of perceived economic competence" echoed the situation in 1992, when the Tories defied the polls to claim victory.

"This gap [in perceived economic competence] has played an important role in past UK general elections – most notably in 1992 – skewing the final outcome relative to opinion polling prior to the official vote," he said.

Goldman said there were some factors working in Labour's favour, including a constituency bias that it estimated would boost its vote by 2-3 percentage points.

It also suggested that should Ed Miliband perform well during the pre-election television debates, he could alter the perception that he is less "prime ministerial" than David Cameron. Goldman added that the decline in support for the Liberal Democrats was likely to have shifted voters to Labour, especially in marginal seats.

http://order-order.com/2015/01/06/red-on-red-audio-of-murphy-v-abbott-mansion-tax-bunfight/

Jim Murphy’s mansion tax raid on London to fund nurses in Scotland has descended into an almighty slanging match with Diane Abbott. The Hackney MP couldn’t even remember the Scottish Labour leader’s name on Wato today:

“I am very surprised John Murphy is making these boasts… Jim Murphy can’t surely mean he is going to expropriate money from London to Scotland… he is jumping the gun in an unscrupulous way.”

Murphy hit back:

“It’s hard to take this argument seriously when she can’t even remember my name… I am leader of the Scottish Labour party, not Diane. I don’t have to consult Diane Abbott… I don’t have to clear things with Ed Miliband.”

By Christopher Hope, Senior Political Correspondent
3:56PM GMT 06 Jan 2015
Lord Dykes asked: 'Is my noble friend aware that more and more people think it is some kind of attempt to prolong the agony of Mr Blair facing possible war crimes charges?'

Tony Blair could face war crimes charges as a result of the Iraq war inquiry report, the House of Lords has been told.

Lord Dykes of Harrow Weald, a Liberal Democrat peer, claimed that the publication of the inquiry by Sir John Chilcot was being delayed “to prolong the agony” of the former Labour Prime Minister.

Lord Hurd – who as Douglas Hurd was Conservative foreign secretary from 1989 to 1995 – said the delay was now "becoming a scandal".

Lord Wallace of Saltaire, a Government minister, disclosed for the first time that talks over the publication of the gist of conversations between Mr Blair and George W Bush, the former US president, were now completed.

These talks have held up the publication of the report. But he said that if the report is not published by the end of February, it will be delayed until after the general election

Speaking in the House of Lords, Lord Dykes – who as Hugh Dykes was a Tory MP from 1979 to 1997 - asked: “Is not this continuing delay an utter and total disgrace and so much time has elapsed.

“Is my noble friend aware that more and more people think it is some kind of attempt to prolong the agony of Mr Blair facing possible war crimes charges?”

Lord Hurd added: “This has dragged on beyond the questions of mere negligence and forgiveable delay – it is becoming a scandal.

“This is not something which is of trivial importance, it is something which a large number of people in this country look anxiously for truth.”

Lord Wallace of Saltaire, a Government minister, replied that the Chilcot inquiry was not delayed compared to other recent comparable reports.

He said that the £24million Al Sweady report into alleged maltreatment of Iraqis by British troops took five years report “on two battles in one afternoon”.

The £13.5million Baha Mousa “inquiry looking into the death in UK custody of one Iraqi civilian in September 2003 took three years”.

He added: “This [Chilcot] inquiry has been looking at nine years of british policy and operations within Iraq, it has not entirely unexpected that it has turned out to take a long time.”

Lord Wallace said the timing of the report's publication was in the hands of the Government but he hoped "we are very close to the finishing line".

He added: "It would be inappropriate for it to be published if it is submitted within the next few weeks after the end of February unitl after the election because part of the previous government's commitment was there woul dbe time allowed for substantial consultation and debate of this enormous report when it is published."

Lord Wallace added that the one million word report will contain details of discussions of more than 200 Cabinet meetings.

The delay so far was caused in part because the inquiry did not have enough staff to leaf through the huge pile of documents required.

could but guaranteed won't!