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.

After weeks of dithering Brown only decided to abandon the idea of an election in 2007 when opinion polls turned against him. At the time it was stressed that the state of the economy was not a factor in when to call the election.
Mr Winter’s revelation casts doubt on this and reveals the politicking of the Labour leader and his shadow chancellor in the run-up to the general election.
The first public acknowledgement of a financial meltdown in the UK was made by the then Chancellor Alastair Darling in August 2008, who said Britain was facing the “worst economic crisis for 60 years”. He was roundly criticised by Brownites at the time.
But it is claimed that the threat faced to the UK economy was known at least a year before and Mr Miliband believed it was necessary to “either go now and risk losing, or wait and know we’re going to lose [the election]”.
In a further bizarre disclosure Mr Miliband was accused of mistakenly burning a hole in Mr Winter’s carpet, while he was staying with the former mayor, and then buying a prayer mat for his host to cover the damage.

Independent

And the real villain skipped happily away to his nu found riches.

I hope the conservatives cause maximum damage next week to the labour party with this headline. How can you trust this pair of muppets ? Any hard working person in this country who reads those headlines will see red. That action tells any voter with any common sense they would risk the country and cannot be trusted.

Do you believe in fairy stories as well?

Errrrrrrrrrrrrrr it was the Bankers who caused the Crash, no one else.

It was World wide and even a pleb like me with a PHD in economics predicted it 2 years HERE ON THIS THREAD BEFORE IT HAPPENED.

It was no secret.

Why didnt the independant BoE do something???????. Thats why they were made independant.

Nobody broke free though because they would have lost more than anybody else.

Lets face it if you were up with events you knew it was going to happen just like when labour take on power and the market cycle turns down again and 4 million people are made unemployed over night.

And it will happen as Unions have no power anymore, people are on Zero hour contracts, Zombie self employed jobs, and at least 2 million not counted in unemployment figures who are on Mickey Mouse training schemes.

EDIT......make that 5 million overnight unemployed.

YOU WILL HAVE SEEN NOTHING LIKE IT BEFORE.

Watch out for the civil unrest.

It is a bit rich when Labour MPs try and distance themselves from Blair and his decisions. There were 244 Labour MPs who voted for Iraq war including

Ed Miliband
Harriet Harman
Gordon Brown
Caroline Flint
Peter Gain
Margaret Hodge
Gerald Kaufman
David Miliband
Jack Straw
Keith Vaz
Hazel Blears
David Blunkett
Andy Burnham
Yvette Cooper
Alistair Darling
John Reid
Jacqui Smith

Your Doctor will see you in 28 days if you make an appointment tomorrow gf.

Labour says unemployed under-counted.

Labour has called for unemployment figures to be updated with the missing numbers. It is disgusting that the DWP has omitted significant groups who are clearly not working.

These 'missing' people include those in hospital awaiting operations, patients who die in hospital and haven't yet been buried. It is a scandal that suicides are not counted, not forgetting fatal victims of car accidents. Soldiers killed in various conflicts should be in the figures at least until they are repatriated.

Among Labour's more controversial suggestions is that those buried and passing through crematoriums in the current financial year should be classed as unemployed. Many of these people could have caused death and burial benefits to have been claimed.

Ed Balls said today, "those in a coma and a persistent vegetative state are clearly candidates for recognition as unemployed." He added, "we are currently looking at the possibility of including inmates of mental institutions and it goes without saying that the population of HM prisons are obviously unemployed."

Labour have already ruled out the possibility of union leaders being counted.

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh but your memory plays tricks with you Hays there was a poll that showed more than 80% of the public thought we should have invaded IRAQ.

And before this both Bush and Blair were working on an independant report that said IRAQ had weapons of mass destruction hidden.

Hindsight is a fantastic thing.

Lets face it IRAQ had invaded Kuwait only years before and killed thousands plus setting all the oil wells alight.

Hays your a sick person, stop taking the crack.

and pull your finger out of your own .... or is it your head that's up there?
-:)

Prove me wrong then.

While you are here gf - I don't think mathematics is your strong point and I'm not bankrupt.


"Mike740   13 Jan'15 - 09:22 - 227 of 305   0 1

Strange how weve got both Cockney Simpleton and his bitch doodlebug in cohort together again.

Remember it was those 2 together who predicted FLYB would have fantastic results and I was of the opposing view as I was short.

Result PROFIT WARNING and the two morons both lost 21% on there investments. Doodelbug more or less bankrupted."

Talking about fairies : has anybody noticed the BBC and other channels obsession with gays and other minorities............heavens...

The phrase 'Don't mock the afflicted' is very true. In Fred 1 New and Goldfinger, Mike740, Walter Mitty or whoever he is calling himself this week seriously questions that phrase. KNOBS! sums them up better :0)

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh but your memory plays tricks with you Hays there was a poll that showed more than 80% of the public thought we should have invaded IRAQ.



No one asked me, or anyone I know, where do you get the 80% from?

Didn't Captain IDS, sorry Captain Mainwaring, march out of No 10 having seen the dodgy dossier a return to the Nasty Party's headquarters and tell his troops to march into the booths and vote for the Iraq war.

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Who wanted to do a Thatcher and rush into Syria.

Even Cameron's elite troops voted against him.


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MAx.

Nobody thought you important enough to ask.

Fred, why are you pretending to be so thick?

Are you part of the problem??

My bet is that the multiple party debate will not happen. If they let in the Greens there could be a legal challenge from SNP, DUP, Plaid Cymru etc. There will be a Prime Ministeral debate between Cameron and Miliband but that's all.