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.

UKIP suspect infects the "Con" party: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30967633

No wonder Call Me wanted the Greens on the panel, they make Monster look like moderates!

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Bahtat
24 Jan'15 - 14:49 - 105249 of 105257 0 1


Thinking of voting 'Green' in the General Election?

Here are some of their policies:


Top-ups [will be] given for people with children or disabilities, or to pay rent and mortgages. No-one will see a reduction in benefits, and most will see a substantial increase. Parents will be entitled to two years’ paid leave from work.

•The policy will enable people to “choose their own types and patterns of work”, and will allow people to take up “personally satisfying and socially useful work”. It will cost somewhere between £240-280 billion a year – more than double the current health budget, and ten times the defence budget.

•Under Green plans, inheritance tax – “to prevent the accumulation of wealth and power by a privileged class” – will no longer just tax the dead.

•Under radical reforms, it will cover gifts made while the giver is still alive – raising the prospect of levies on cars, jewellery or furniture given by parents to their children.

•New resource taxes would apply to wood, metal and minerals, and steeper levies imposed on cars.

•Crucially, import taxes will be levied on goods brought to Britain reflecting the “ecological impact” of making them – with tariffs reintroduced for trade between Britain and the rest of Europe, ending the free trade bloc.

•All elements of the sex industry will be decriminalised, and prostitutes could no longer be discriminated against in child custody cases.

•The Greens also want to see “significantly reduced” levels of imprisonment, with jail only used when there is a “substantial risk of a further grave crime” or in cases where offences are so horrific that offenders would be at risk of vigilantes. Prisoners will be given the vote.

•SATS, early years tests and league tables will be abolished, and “creative” subjects given equal parity to the “academic”.

•Independent schools will lose their charitable status and pay corporation tax, while church schools will be stripped of taxpayer funding. Religious instruction will be banned in school hours.

•Tuition fees will be abolished – but state research funding for universities will increase to reduce a reliance on “biased” commercial research.

•The “overall volume” of advertising on TV and newspapers will be controlled and cut, as part of a war on the “materialist and consumption driven culture which is not sustainable”.

•The England football, rugby and cricket teams would no longer play against countries where “normal, friendly, respectful or diplomatic relations are not possible.” Football clubs would be owned by co-operatives and not traded on the stock markets.

•No more new airports or runways will be built, and existing ones nationalised. All new homes and businesses must by law provide bicycle parking. Helicopter travel would be regulated “more strictly”. The sale of alcohol on planes and airports will be tightly restricted to prevent air-rage, and the air on inbound flights tested for disease.

•Advertising of holiday flights will be controlled by law to halt the “promotion of a high-carbon lifestyle”. New taxes would be imposed on carriers to reduce passenger numbers.

•Assisted dying will be legalised, and the law on abortion liberalised to allow nurses to carry it out. “Alternative” medicine will be promoted. Private healthcare will be more heavily taxed, with special levies on private hospitals that employ staff who were trained on the NHS.

•It will be a criminal offence, with “significant fines”, to stop a woman from breastfeeding in a restaurant or shop, and formula milk will be more tightly regulated.

•In order to prevent “overpopulation” burdening the earth, the state will provide free condoms and fund research for new contraceptives.

•Merely being a member of al-Qaeda, the IRA and other currently proscribed terrorist groups will no longer be a criminal offence under Green plans, and instead a Green Government should seek to “address desperate motivations that lie behind many atrocities labelled ‘terrorist’,” the policy book states.

•Terrorism, it adds, “is an extremely loaded term. Sometimes governments justify their own terrorist acts by labelling any groups that resist their monopoly of violence ‘terrorist’.”

•Britain will leave NATO, end the special relationship with the US, and unilaterally abandon nuclear weapons. A standing army, navy and airforce is “unnecessary”. Bases will be turned into nature reserves and the arms industry “converted” to producing windturbines.

•“Richer regions do not have the right to use migration controls to protect their privileges from others in the long term,” the party’s policy book states.

•A Green Government will “progressively reduce” border controls, including an amnesty for illegal immigrants after five years.

•Access to benefits, the right to vote and tax obligations will apply to everyone living on British soil, regardless of passport. The policy book states: “We will work to create a world of global inter-responsibility in which the concept of a ‘British national’ is irrelevant and outdated.”

•Political parties will be funded by the state, and the electoral system changed. The monarchy will be abolished.

while ukip do their level best to smear - the timing does smack of that - the outspoken critic who wants to return to the tories, ukip's pr chief blasts a hole in that party's feet by stating (see ST headline), "we speak for bigots, and ukip is proud to stand up for them"

It's all getting a bit desperate eh c?

certainly very silly but i'm am afraid uk politics has been on this slimy and slippery slope for rather a long time now

UK politics is way behind the curve, if true, this takes some beating..



EU want to ban the word 'bankrupt' to avoid stigma of going bust

EU language dictators want to see the word "bankruptcy" erased from the English language, and replaced with the phrase "debt adjustment".


Published: 15:52, Sun, February 16, 2014
By Owen Bennett - Political


The proposal is part of the EU's drive to remove the stigma of going bankrupt for those in financial trouble.

One Tory MP has labeled the move "madcap".

Riccardo Ribera d'Alcala, the EU's Directorate-General for Internal Policies who drafted the plan, wrote: "The use of stigmatising labels should be ended, and the pejorative term 'bankruptcy' should be replaced with the more neutral 'debt adjustment'."

It is argued that abandoning the word will make it easier for people who have been through bankruptcy to persuade banks to loan them money for new projects.




More €U bollox here: http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/460097/EU-want-to-ban-the-word-bankrupt-to-avoid-stigma-of-going-bust

if you're being paid a big wad of tax-free € every month, albeit worth a lot less than a year ago, the you have to dream up something, however nonsensical, in order to justify same

It's a good move tho, when you think about it.


The land of €l Greco owes about €30k for every man, woman and child...€320 billion and rising...so a non stigmatizing get out clause might be a very good thing.

Hopefully, the Greeks will vote with their feet and get out of the €uroloonybin before it's stripped bare by their benefactors.

i take it you also like the title Vision Enhancement Specialist - aka a window cleaner!

lol, that's a good one c, is it a degree course?

there are certainly Certificates of Achievement (bit like NVQs) as you climb the ladder

Scaffold more like.


So, are the greeks going to blow up the €urobun today?

Will they allowed to??

The odd thing is that neither the Greeks nor the party that might win today want to leave the Euro or the EU. The Greek people by a large majority like the EU and the Euro. They just want their debt forgiven. They want their cake and eat it. They borrowed cheap money to spend on stupid projects and now can't pay it back.

There's nothing odd about wanting to have your cake and eating it.

Everyone likes free money.


Your last few words sums it up tho, they cant pay it back.

Manuel and Max.

Which is your true friend.




I think Cameron seems to have picked a true friend who shares his own values and they are all in it together.

Perhaps one of them could be the next tory chancellor.

Sorry tory party treasurer!

Conservatives and Labour tied

Latest YouGov / Sunday Times results 23rd January -

Con 32%, Lab 32%, LD 7%, UKIP 15%, GRN 7%;

They're both snakes Fred!

PS.

Cameron is said to be very proud of any new member.

Ukip's former star Amjad Bashir tells Tim Ross why he is pleased to be supporting David Cameron at the election, as the Prime Minister says he is "very proud" of his newest recruit

90% of people get this wrong!

What is

1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1

1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1

1 + 1 X 0 + 1 = ?