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.

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.

Inn other words you mean Camoron is CHICKEN.



do do do ......do do.

55225 - so sticky, have a misread some of the garbage, or are you saying that if labour get into power, the unemployed will quickly rocket to 5m?

a bit of an exaggeration i must say, though first labour have to get into power before doom descends, and that is scarcely a good bet either

he he...... thats what you think.

It will be the worst economic happening this country as ever seen.

The Tories have built an economy on sand.

Trickle-down economics doesent seem to be working



Half global wealth held by the 1%

Oxfam warns of widening inequality gap, days ahead of Davos economic summit in Switzerland


Larry Elliott, economics editor, and Ed Pilkington


The Guardian, Monday 19 January 2015



The Swiss ski resort of Davos, home to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. Photograph: Christian Kober/Robert Hardi/REX


Billionaires and politicians gathering in Switzerland this week will come under pressure to tackle rising inequality after a study found that – on current trends – by next year, 1% of the world’s population will own more wealth than the other 99%.

Ahead of this week’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in the ski resort of Davos, the anti-poverty charity Oxfam said it would use its high-profile role at the gathering to demand urgent action to narrow the gap between rich and poor.

The charity’s research, published today, shows that the share of the world’s wealth owned by the best-off 1% has increased from 44% in 2009 to 48% in 2014, while the least well-off 80% currently own just 5.5%.

Oxfam added that on current trends the richest 1% would own more than 50% of the world’s wealth by 2016.



More: http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jan/19/global-wealth-oxfam-inequality-davos-economic-summit-switzerland

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2916359/Company-sneaky-new-motorway-speed-cameras-paid-2-1m-taxpayer-catch-drivers.html

oxfam
anyone know what % of donations to this charity is spent on admin and the like .... or put another way, what % of every £ donated actually finishes up benefitting a real cause?

this is one charity to which i refuse to subscribe

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what-we-do/about-us/~/link.aspx?_id=938CD43327384DCEBB80BD5F0946E570&_z=z

12 years ago it was just 1% that got through to those that needed it.

Dont know what it is now.

I remember because it was the early days of the internet and there was a action group set up by Winnie on T1PS.

It was when his daughter was born and she nearly died.

Gladly she is now a very nice young lady.

My charity that I work for 72% goes through to beneficiaries. Quite high.

75% of the more than 195,000 charities are reliant on government funding, ie the taxes paid by the tax payer.
2517

195k charities?

Sounds more like a jobs program.

Ed Miliband walks into a bank to cash a cheque. “Good morning”, says Ed, “could you please cash this cheque for me?”

Cashier: “It would be my pleasure Sir, but could you please show me some identification?”

Miliband: “Truthfully… I did not bring my ID with me as I didn’t think there was any need to. But hang on! I’m Ed Miliband, Leader of the Opposition and of the Labour Party!!!”

Cashier: ““Yes Sir, I know who you are, but with all the regulations and monitoring of the banks because of impostors and forgers etc., I must insist on seeing some identification”.

Miliband: “Just ask any of the customers here at the bank who I am and they will tell you. Everybody knows who I am!”

Cashier: “I’m sorry Sir, but these are the bank rules and I must follow them”.

Miliband: “I am urging you please, to cash this cheque for me”.

Cashier: “Look Sir, this is what we can do. One day Colin Montgomery came into the bank without any ID. To prove he was Colin Montgomery he pulled out his putter and putted a ball along the floor and into a small cup. With that sort of skill we knew it was Colin Montgomery and we cashed his cheque. On another occasion, Andy Murray came in without any ID. He pulled out his tennis racquet and lobbed a tennis ball straight into my teacup with such a spectacular shot that we all knew it was Andy Murray.

Ed Miliband stood there thinking and thinking and then finally says, “To be honest, there is nothing that comes to my mind. I can’t think of a single thing that I’m any good at.”

Cashier: “Will it be large or small notes you require Mr Miliband.