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.

On that principle all the news paper bureaus and distributors should have armed guards.

They probably already do have the above.

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But what is does point to is to have a resolution to the the Israel/Palestine/Lebanon problems.

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Balfour has left a legacy!

According to I think SKY yesterday , there was a Jogger shot dead on the Wednesday . The bullets that were used were the same as that Coulibali used and they think he also shot the Jogger . So much for the we don't kill civilians thing.

Somebody has been on about Birmingham being a no-go area apparently ......I've never been there....(apart from the motor show)....reminds me almost of a Wham song...nearly....

Never been to Birmingham? you haven't lived RF -):

Let me guess, you live in or near the South East of the Country?

amazing Stan....

I wonder why we don't feed these terrorist's Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here , Eastenders Coronation St etc down the Internet . Just think if we could get them gripped by it all . we could save the World . It's got to be tried.

Whats amazing RF... Birmingham? It ain't that good -):

No... you guessing where I live.....Victim....I could provide a list of names to add to that of some delightful people......I mean... we could feed the terrorists...

What if the terrorists were Christian?

To understand how to respond to the Charlie Hebdo atrocity, we only have to imagine what would happen if the situation was reversed




They are Charlie - but are we in Britain? Photo: REUTERS/Charles Platiau



By Dan Hodges

12:51PM GMT 12 Jan 2015



We weren’t Charlie for long. In France they marched in numbers not seen since Liberation Day. But here, the whispers have already begun.


Yes, we do have the right to free speech. But should we really be exercising it? In this way? At this time? After all, we do need to find a way of reaching an accommodation with moderate Islam. Maybe those who claimed the cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo were excessively offensive have a point.


And anyway, aren’t we getting this all out of proportion? Yes, what happened in Paris was terrible. But we have seen attacks like this before. Isn’t a huge public outcry precisely what the terrorists want? We saw off the Luftwaffe, for goodness sake. We can see off a couple of misfits with second-hand Kalashnikovs.


Plus, isn’t there something a touch hypocritical in our reaction? We didn’t get all this when Anders Breivik carried out his murderous rampage in Norway. There were no demands there for Christians to condemn his crimes because they were committed in Christianity’s name. Breivik was dismissed as a madman. Aren’t the guys who have been rampaging across Paris just madmen too?


These are all legitimate questions and assertions. Over the past couple of days, I have seen each of them put forward by people who I respect and admire. So I’d like to respond with a question of my own.


More:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/11340029/What-if-the-terrorists-were-Christian.html



Quote:

" Yesterday France marched for Charlie. Here, in Britain, we are already trying to turn our back on him. But we can’t. Because even if we don’t see ourselves as Charlie, our enemies do.

A Rubicon has been crossed. Like it or not, we are all Charlie now. "

Anybody watch Foyles Law last night.

Quite reflective on the period we are in and the problems of the 45s and 50s and relationships with M.E. problems.

Worth a watch!

Hmmm, interesting...
http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/uncovered-the-%E2%80%9Clost%E2%80%9D-paper-churchill-kept-from-publication

gf pensions I paid a lot of money into old age second pension for 25 years tehn went in to private pension when my old age pension details came my pension was 214 then they took 54 off it because I paid into private pension all the second pensionmoney I paid in from 15 till 38 was taken a way its all ways been the same if you save you suffer if you are bone idle you are a winner

Sir Ben Ainslie needs some help on his honeymoon.

Ben and his new wife, Georgie Thompson, have to be rescued while enjoying their honeymoon aboard a superyacht.



The newly-weds were sailing passed Sir Richard Branson's Necker Island in the Caribbean when their bluewater cruising yacht developed a mechanical fault with its main sail.

More HERE:

off in 2 hours

is that the same as being well past your sell-by date? :-)

sailing passed

By Christopher Hope, Senior Political Correspondent
4:23PM GMT 12 Jan 2015
Despite the surge in Lord Ashcroft's poll that it would still leave the Conservatives two seats short of a majority

The Tories have grabbed a six point lead over Labour, according to a new poll.

The first national survey of the year commissioned by former Tory donor Lord Ashcroft has put the Conservatives ahead of Labour by six points.

The news was also tempered by poll by Populus, a rival pollster, which gave Labour a five point lead in the polls.

The Lord Ashcroft poll asked 1,002 respondents how they would vote “if there was a general election tomorrow” between Jan 9 and Jan 11.

The results put the Tories on 34 per cent, up four points, ahead of Labour on 28 per cent, down three points, compared with the same time last month.

However, even if the strong lead was mirrored in the polls, the Conservatives two seats short of a majority in an election were held tomorrow.

The UK Independence Party is on 16 per cent – down three points – ahead of the Liberal Democrats, unchanged on 8 per cent.

The survey is subject to 3pc a margin of error “meaning the Conservative share could be low enough, and the Labour score high enough, for the parties to be tied on 31 per cent”, Lord Ashcroft said.

“Alternatively, we could be seeing the start of a shift in opinion as the choice looms larger at the start of an election year. Let us see what future results tell us.”

The poll found that Labour was well behind in support north of the Border, with the SNP on 48pc ahead of Labour on 24pc. In England the Tories were backed by 37pc of voters, with Labour on 29pc.

There was better news for Labour from a Populus poll, also published earlier on Monday, which gave Labour a five point lead over the Conservatives.

It said that Labour was on 37pc, up three points, ahead of the Tories on 32pc, down one percent. Ukip was down one per cent on 13pc, with the Lib Dems on 10pc, up 2pc.

A third poll for ComRes and ITV News found that the National Health Service has now overtaken immigration as the top concern for voters for the first time since July 2014, in the wake of the crisis which has hit hospitals in recent weeks.

Half of Britons now list the NHS as one of their top three priorities, up by 11 percentage points from 39 per cent last month.

Immigration was a top three concern for 46per cent of the public, although it was down from 49 per cent in December and from 52 per cent in September.

I am sure that neither poll is correct. Anomalies occur from time to time.

It will be decided on who loses the most votes, and it looks like noo lab will lose a shedload, both to the SNP and UKIP. The tories will also lose votes, but they don't have Scotland to worry about.

http://news.sky.com/story/1406696/french-police-six-terrorists-still-at-large

Up to six terror cell members may still be at large after the Paris attacks in which 17 people were murdered, French police have warned.

One of them has been spotted driving a car registered to the partner of one of the dead attackers, according to the authorities.

Police officials said a search was being carried out of the Paris area for the Mini Cooper car registered to Hayat Boumeddiene