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.

perhaps MrT is a TV and actually in the club :-)

The only piece of news that really interested me was that America is looking to increase its sanctions against Russia..... This will surely have further downwards pressure on the Rouble and cause the government to carry on buying it to help stabilise the currency. With an increasing deficit brought about through trade sanctions and currency stabilisation the odds that we'll see a 1998 debt default are increasing.

i certainly think it's odds-on that russia will annex the whole of ukraine within the next year or so

Why Tanks, what sort of club is this?

private you would not get a membership

Nigel Farage’s offer of support to a Conservative-led coalition at Westminster – provided an EU referendum is held this year and restricted to UK nationals – might initially appear welcome. But it has meaning only if Ukip wins enough seats to be influential; and if it does well enough in May’s election to be influential, then the Tories are unlikely to be in a position to form a government. This is the contradiction that Ukip supporters need to consider before polling day: they risk helping Ed Miliband and making the prospect of an EU referendum more remote – no matter who Mr Farage supports in Parliament.


Still, the defection of Ukip’s most prominent ethnic minority MEP to the Conservatives might come to be seen as the moment when the party’s insurgency was finally halted. Whether it can be reversed we have yet to find out. But after two Conservative MPs resigned last year to win by-elections for Ukip, Tory high command will be greatly relieved that this is not one-way traffic.


There are other aspects of Amjad Bashir’s desertion that will play well for the Conservatives. He described Ukip as a “vanity project” for Mr Farage. And the manner in which he was denounced before he jumped ship could have come straight out of the Alastair Campbell manual of how to deal with apostates: get your retaliation in first. Is anyone seriously meant to believe that his suspension had nothing to do with his imminent defection?


Mr Bashir’s words wound because they undermine Ukip’s principal appeal – that it behaves differently from the mainstream parties. But the closer Ukip gets to power, the more it behaves in a mainstream way. In that case, why should its supporters not turn to the only mainstream party that can deliver a vote on Britain’s future in Europe?

Telegraph

bashirs as no principals he is a liar and very dishonest a rat and as now tainted the conservative party a party for the scum . Cameron would sell is children to get votes a man with no honour

"private you would not get a membership" How do you know?

Where is it then`?

It is the little house with the red light switch on, just off the main street!

This Tsipras bloke sound allright


Helena Smith explains:


In a highly symbolic act, he laid a wreath at the memorial in Kaisariani, a suburb in Athens where hundreds of communist national resistance fighters were executed by the Nazis on May 1 1944.

Hundreds of well-wishes, many in tears, were there watching as he approached the site. Greek TV commentators couldn’t help themselves. “It is another up yours to the Germans,” they said.



http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/jan/26/greece-election-syriza-victory-alexis-tsipras-coalition-talks-live-updates

Ku Klux Klan!

Never mind his life; important questions must be asked about Leon Brittan’s death25/01/2015

Why would the police be called to Leon Brittan’s home if he was succumbing after a long battle with cancer?

And why would a post-mortem examination be required? Post-mortems, or autopsies, are carried out on the orders of a coroner to determine the cause of death – in order to inform a decision on whether to hold an inquest. This is in cases where the cause of death is unknown, or in the event of a sudden, violent or unexpected death.

None of those would apply to a case in which the deceased died of cancer – would they?

Lord Brittan died on Wednesday aged 75. He was a key figure in Margaret Thatcher’s government and later a European Commissioner – but recently faced questions over his handling of child abuse allegations, centring on a dossier on alleged high-profile paedophiles handed to him in the early 1980s by former Conservative MP Geoffrey Dickens

Is there more to his death than we’re being told?

i think only because he died at home rather than in hospital

cynic, a lot of terminally ill patients are sent home to die, or die at home without a resulting post-mortem.
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And why retweet something like that which was originally posted three days ago.

well i certainly do not buy into this imagined conspiracy theory
if i could be bothered, i'ld check the pretty simple rules governing these things

Post mortems are carried out for various reasons. My mother's body was subjected to a post mortem even 'tho she died at the age of 96 after suffering a stroke three months previously and she died in her sleep in a nursing home.

Napoleon,

Then you doing something unusual for yourself.

The place of death death is of little importance, if the cause of death if thought to be of known and natural causes and has been seen within a reasonable period of time by the doctor who is prepared to sign the death certificate. (Unless the coroner is informed of abnormal circumstances and gives his permission for the doctor to issue a certificate.)

If it is suspected the death is a thought to be criminal, or manslaughter, neglect, or death occurs in a violent or unnatural manner, in custody or state detention, it should be reported to coroner and he will instruct as he thinks fit.

Fred2old, gf is just trying to stir it up about Leon Brittan irrespective of the circumstances of his death and you are talking a load of bollocks as per usual. " The place if death is of little importance" - so it doesn't really matter if you are found hanging from a tree ?

Maybe there is some suspicion that it was an assisted death.