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.

Are Fred and Stan in mourning for goldfinger , I thought they would have left this thread as a mark of respect

Come on Tanks don't be shy -):

its not far from towcester

BALLS & MILIBAND: Will nobody rid the Labour Party of these media-trained Priests?

By John Ward February 2, 2015



Say, who are those masked men?


Ed Balls by name, Balls by mouth and nil by brain has just been on Radio 4, and I think I should give you all a chance to get in there before the herd with this scoop: Ed says that “George Osborne is playing fast and free with Britain’s finances”.

Stop the presses, roll back the stone and hold the front page: bugger me, Ed’s nailed it. Throughout today, the sound of scales falling from the eyes will reverberate throughout Britain: by ‘eck, they’ll be dancing in the streets of Morley tonight.

Such is the nature of Britain’s soi-disant ‘Opposition’ at the moment. They haven’t got a clue, so allow me please to offer some objective advice in defence of our liberties if nothing else: the electorate has had four years to watch the bleedin’ obvious about Osborne’s Chancellorship. If, after four years, it either doesn’t see it, get it, believe it or care, Ed Balls saying it again isn’t going to make a ha-porth of difference.

Because virtually nobody on the Shadow Front Bench has any understanding (and thus no perspective) about the need to be consistent and distinctive in one’s persuasion, they stick with Old Labour’s tried and found wanting Just One More Heave strategy. That’s why – despite the treacherous nature of the ground upon which the Tory standard flutters – Labour will lose this election unless somebody inside the Party gets a grip.

Ed Miliband gave us “The Prime Minister doesn’t get it” for three years, followed by other stunning soundbites such as “We must set aside the rhetoric”, “It’s time to have a grown-up debate”, ““My party’s mission in is to show politics can make a difference. To demonstrate that optimism can defeat despair” and of course the never-ending “My heart goes out to the families”. Miliband has three PR minders who almost never leave his side…and that, of course, is the problem.

Examine his response to the 2011-12-13 budgets in a row, and you will be amazed (and then bored) by the content-free similarity between all three; but with Balls, one is forced to ask whether anyone remembers what he has said in response to any of the Camerlot budgets?


More: https://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2015/02/02/balls-miliband-will-nobody-rid-the-labour-party-of-these-media-trained-priests/

Whoaaa, Max. Dick Ed and Dick Ed are Dave's secret weapons of Labour disintegration.

Long may they reign!!!

This one Tanks? http://www.towcesterconclub.co.uk/

Does anybody think like me that the Greek finance minister looks like a hitman ?....

Naow...yau lausten tau me...Aozzy baby...we need mau craudit.....

RF

You must be in profit big time with Afren , do still hold them ?

Yes.....but only in profit with the 5p purchase....with the rest I'm nursing a bad loss...so mixed bag I'm afraid....not sure what to do...as everybody seems to be buying...will stay put for the moment....wished I'd bought a lot..lot more now...

Best to stay with AFR , until things become more clearer, maybe another counter bid and a higher oil price would boost the price

Me too rf ,i also still think AFR has a future ..

I know understand Cameron's problem with the truth!

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If you know of any potholes which really want reporting, then here's a tool to do it with:

http://www.mr-pothole.co.uk/report-a-pothole

As we all know, 'the powers that be' aren't too good at mending potholes. There don't seem to be any standards for repair and neither does there seem to be any supervision of the contractors who do the job.

Here are Mr Pothole's recommendations for the Government. He has quite bit to say and even has something to say about the utility companies coordinating their work and sharing work programmes:

http://www.mr-pothole.co.uk/news/mr-pothole-say-s

Fred

Aaaargh! Because you don't restrict the size of your images your cartoons are too big!

Try putting in the html command: size=800 just after img and before src.

Exec.

Your suggestion doesn't work.

May remove it, unless Ian can modify the size.

img src="http: etc, etc, etc,

I want you to change the above to:

img width=800 src="http: etc, etc, etc

Sorry, Fred!

You are correct. It won't work.

Argh! In my first post I typed 'size', which is incorrect. I should have typed 'width'.

Can you alter the size of Fred's postings to zero ?