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.

ex great post and honest.

so what would you say about the likes of rifkind who is a top con he did not stop him
being a complete dimwit with money is god no honour no morals no shame

fresh faces would be good for the country .

but in my view we need educated people in gov who care about the good of the country which we do not have . w need to get the best and pay the top wack to get them cut down the gov to around 400 mp and would cost the uk no more just better MPs

There are FOUR major motivations:

Money
Power
Status
Security

There are also different levels of motivation too:

Phenominally high
Massively high
High
Mediocre
Low
Not at all

People at the top of any arena have a good range of all of them and are also very highly motivated to each one of the four too.

Of course 'politics' is primarily to do with Power, Status and Money. Security need be of negligible concern; it just follows on naturally.

Rifkind and Straw neglected to look after their own personal Security motivation.

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fred - except in rare circumstances, an MPs job is pretty insecure ..... it is therefore unreasonable to demand that they should hold no other interests


Ask University lecturers, researchers, teachers, social service workers, workers in public services how secure are their jobs and can they plan their futures with any certainty?

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If and individual stands for MP then during his period of office he should give up his outside "employment" for that period and give his full reasonable time to his post.

But in order to convince the public of their MP's honesty. theirs tax returns etc and various "employments" for a 2 year period before being an MP and 5year period after they leave office.

Perhaps, we would find out who they are "truly" representing perhaps have an appropriate opinion of their honesty.

Exec,

You are missing interests and goals. (And if you are a Freudian Sexual goals and its derivatives.)

For many they would have done what they have done for half the money, status etc. but would admit that they may have made obtaining their goals easier.

Mammon is not the main driver for many.

By the way:

"Labour now leads the polls with 36 per cent of the vote, while the Tories are on 32. Ukip are on 11 per cent, with the Greens getting 8 per cent of the support.
The Liberal Democrats fell behind the Greens, trailing in at fifth, with only 7 per cent of those asked saying that they intended to vote for Nick Clegg’s party."

EL - i concur about voting for the person where it is warranted (few such cases) regardless of their affiliation

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fred - University lecturers, researchers, teachers, social service workers, workers in public services how secure are their jobs

especially in the case of teachers, far too damn secure ..... it's almost impossible to sack them even if they aren't any good

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Green Party's Natalie Bennett gives 'excruciating' radio interview

Green Party leader Natalie Bennett has made headlines for all the wrong reasons after stumbling her way through a car crash interview with LBC's Nick Ferrari



By Rosa Prince, video source LBC / ITN

12:04PM GMT 24 Feb 2015



The Greens are in chaos after the party’s manifesto launch was overshadowed by a series of stumbling interviews by leader Natalie Bennett including one she herself admitted was “excruciating”.


Reaction to the series of media appearances, organised to promote the Greens general election programme, was heated, with many comparing the series of interviews to a “car crash,” while others suggested she had given the “worst interview ever”.






She repeatedly failed to answer questions about the party’s economic policy, stumbling when asked for basic details about the Green platform.


Following a particularly bungling appearance, with LBC Radio, when she went silent for long periods, Miss Bennett admitted to suffering from “mind blank,” and confessed her “excruciating” performance had been impaired by a “huge cold” after she struggled to explain the party’s housing policy.



The whole thing is here + vid: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/green-party/11431756/Green-Partys-Natalie-Bennett-gives-excruciating-radio-interview.html

Eurozone 'backs Greece reform plans'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-31606986

Manuel.

Don't show your ignorance.

Universities etc. Many on short term contract 6 months , 12months etc. That also applies to other groups.

Perhaps, responsible for apathy and low moral in various occupations.#

another case of political hot air and the reality of life
wowee! now there's a surprise
the whole thing has been a total charade
however, the problems ahead will fall on the shoulders of the greek gov't that was elected on a preposterous platform, on which it cannot possibly deliver

teachers are not unless something has changed dramatically in the last few years

W and S.

check!

Manuel,

Are you suggesting that Straw and Rifkind have done nothing wrong or illegal?

Do you think that many of those using overseas accounts with HBSC or Cayman Isles and attempting Tax Avoidance fall into the same category?

They are or were just using the system?

Morality doesn't come into it?

Glad to hear that Rifkind was under no pressure to resign.

Why did he then?

He was doing a superb job as Chairman.

Perhaps, Dodgy Dave told him that he had his full support.

if you had looked at is back you would of seen the knife sticking out and the blood

this thread is dead bring back gf moneyam he must return

FTSE tipped to go lower today

says MAM, better get a long SB on then

lol

In bad taste for Manuel:

Strange how relatively quiet criticism of Qatar the UK is:

i'm sorry to say that all the countries in that region treat their navvies and similar grade staff like shit