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.

So Tanks you don't rate this "Con" Party/Gov. anymore but you say vote for the other "Con" Party. That doesn't make sense.

stan we need change the gov is out of control no honour no morals
fade up with all the sleaze

Good old Gordon, what a nice chap working hard for his MBE or OBE, Pity he was a shit Chancellor and PM :0)

TANK - Gobshites the pair of them!

Agree Tanks but why vote for the other "Con Party? that does not make sense.

stan/chris - why would you expect any sense from that quarter?

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in principle, i certainly have no problem with MPs having "outside interests", but certainly there will be grey areas - i have no idea how clearcut this particular issue is - where lobbying on behalf of a "generic" issue crosses over into being on behalf of a specific company

from what i have heard, the parliamentary rules themselves are far from clear

I note that Rifkind and Straw are/or were both members of the Legal Profession.

Illegal profession!

nothing wrong or illegal with prostitution :-)

T you fail to mention Jack Straw, or is it just the colour blue you don't like?
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Hanna Toms Labour councillor and prospective Labour candidate failed to notify the council of her changed situation which meant she was overpaid housing benefit. Apparently she has repaid the overpayment.
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G you fail to mention Rifkind, or is it just the colour red you don't like?

If I mention Straw or Rifkind or indeed 'anyone' on here, then Fred will just post up another one of those utterly vile, enormous cartoons.

Hope I am wrong.

Ifs, buts and maybe's, anything but discuss or comment on the right wing corrupt activities.

Yep! And lets forget about the lefty wing corruption.

Which is?

Jeremy Clarkson is not an oaf or a buffoon for describing the welfare safari that is Liverpool 100% correctly


Monday 23 February 2015


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- Tom Winnifrith

http://tomwinnifrith.com/articles/6049/jeremy-clarkson-is-not-an-oaf-or-a-buffoon-for-describing-the-welfare-safari-that-is-liverpool-100-correctly





A balding and obese individual who turns out to be the Lord Mayor of the welfare safari crime hotspot known as Liverpool has branded Jeremy Clarkson as an “oaf and a buffoon” and for “stigmatising” the post-industrial Merseyside wasteland, saying “People up there earn less, die more quickly, have fewer jobs and live in houses that are worth the square root of sod all.”

As it happens on this matter Clarkson is 100% factually correct. He is not stigmatising the folks in Liverpool he is giving an accurate assessment of life up there. Clarkson may or may not be an oaf and a buffoon but his latest statement does not prove that matter either way because he is simply telling the truth.

The reaction of the lard-bucket Lord Mayor (has he ever had a real job in his life?) is part of the victim self-pitying culture of large parts of the Grim North, but notably the slum that is Liverpool. Everything bad is some-one else’s fault. Anyone who criticises them is a Southern bigot. The Government should spend more money (earned by hard working folks in the South) to make their lives better.

By the Money Tree approach to what were once great Industrial powerhouses like Glasgow and Liverpool has failed. The more the taxpayer spends encouraging more healthy lifestyles the more the folks eat shite, drink and smoke and die younger. The more we throw at Government rejuvenation initiatives the less desire there is among the population for engaging in real enterprise, other than – in the case of Liverpool – industrial scale petty crime. And the more we chuck at the welfare state the less the folks in the Northern slums actually go out and seek real jobs.

Clarkson’s only crime is that in assessing the sorry state of Liverpool he did not go far enough.

Tom (Twat) Winnifrith eh, what a nice chap. The George Clooney of the Pizzaria not. To call him an ugly baxxxxrd would be polite.

Just a couple of opinions or so from his observers :-

Give it up, you miserable failure. Failed as a fund manager. Failed as a journalist - now unemployable in the trade, hence the pizzeria. Now running a constant vendetta against a company whose shares you recommended last year were at sell at 7p. Resigned from nine different boards, you claim to hold no shares, but you have a friend who is shorting Quindell - EK, would that be? Winnifrith, you look worn out. Take a break. I hope you get the ass sued off you one more time.

Market Guru or Market Gnu? You Decide...

Peter Webb, the manager of the two worst-performing funds of 2012, described his frustrations in trying to sell many of the "illiquid" positions he inherited on the portfolios.

Former Unicorn CEO Webb took over the management of The Share Centre's £6.6m Smaller Companies Growth fund & £12m Smaller Companies Gold fund stating "I inherited two falling daggers"...Prior to Webb taking over, the funds were run by T1ps Investment Management's Tom Winnifrith...


Market Guru or Market Gnu? You Decide...Cont...

This is what one unfortunate investor in Tom Winnifrith's funds had to say...

"I invested a significant amount of money into Tom Winnifrith's funds in the misguided belief that he was a sensible, plain-speaking chap who was competent & would do well for his investors. I should have smelt a rat when he opened a novelty pizza shop!

So I too am looking at 5-figure losses & I wish Mr Webb the very best of luck in salvaging something from the wreckage.


What an attention seeking wanker :D :D: D

Clarkson accused Liverpool Echo journalists of being “f•••tards” after they attacked comments he had made in his Sunday Times column.


— Jeremy Clarkson (@JeremyClarkson)
February 22, 2015

People of Liverpool. Read what I actually wrote. Including the bits the f•••tards on the local rag left out. Shocking journalism.

His column at first praised Liverpool, saying that – in contrast to previous incidents he had experienced in the city – a recent visit had been “very agreeable”: “There was a lot of postmodern urban-chic architecture and many museums, hotels and waterfront cafes. It looked really good. I liked it.”

However, he then went on to complain about the service in his hotel, adding: “Ordering [the rosé wine] Whispering Angel in Liverpool is like a Liverpudlian strolling into the Savoy at teatime, in a shell suit, and demanding seven pints of vodka. He’s going to be shown the door. And I should have been shown the door too.”


He then went on to discuss the north-south divide, saying: “Closer to home we have soft-living, champagne-soaked southerners imagining that they know what’s best for northern cities such as Liverpool. ‘My dear fellow, why don’t you simply give up heroin and start a book club? Because if you don’t, we’ll cut your benefits.’

“We go up there and say, “Look what we’ve given you, Gary: a Tracey Emin hotel and slavery museum, all full of Ed Miliband bumper-sticker slogans. Aren’t you grateful?” But Gary isn’t grateful because he doesn’t like Primrose Hill sensibilities and bloody mood lighting.”

He added: “The north of England has never been more different from the south of England.


“People up there earn less, die more quickly, have fewer jobs and live in houses that are worth the square root of sod all.”

On Monday Liverpool’s mayor Joe Anderson waded into the fray, defending his city as BBC executives arrived for the BBC Worldwide Showcase 2015: “It is amazing that the BBC chose, after a warm reception last year, to come back again this year for the showcase. Yet in contrast to that, this buffoon – Mr Clarkson – has made these comments and the BBC continue to have him on their payroll.”


In addition to his tweet attacking the Echo, Clarkson retweeted followers’ supportive messages:


— Lee B Jackson (@leejako)
February 22, 2015

@JeremyClarkson were not bothered about the local rag Jeremy, your still a legend and I love Top Gear. Liverpool Echo is notorious for it!


— Philip Sinclair (@PhilipSinclair)
February 22, 2015

@LivEchonews @JeremyClarkson rubbish journalism as usual from a poor over priced garbage paper. Read his whole article instead of snippets


— jo abrams (@jojobings)
February 22, 2015

@LivEchonews @JeremyClarkson used to love the echo, how crap you have become. Shame on you


— john dodd (@JpdDodd)
February 22, 2015

@JeremyClarkson Yes, have to agree with you! The Liverpool Echo is a bit of a bile-spewing militant socialist foghorn!

if you read todays tele you will see why I did not mention straw its all their today
the man should be charged with fraud using is position to get a 75m contract for is
future employee. it stinks ..

did you watch sky news on the papers ,they both said rifkind is stupid and should never have been on any comitttee

BOTH of them were singularly naive
listening to the wireless yesterday, there was an interview with one of the specialist lobbying companies
they said the direction of the questioning was so blatant, it should have been immediately obvious to where it was leading