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.

Maybe Spock was Hays or Hays was Spock. Eh.

Oh dear!

50 Shades of, well, let's say "vomit, poo and wee"! That should just about cover it.

Jihadi John's relatives flee home and want new identities as friends insist: 'They are an innocent family who've done nothing wrong'
Parents and five siblings have fled home in Maida Vale, west London
They are protesting their innocence and say they fear reprisal attacks
Family friend said: 'you can’t control what your kid does as an adult'

for the last 20 years all I have heard from muslims is our close their families are
well it is a load of bollocks the above they must have known
Rotherham they must have known

can any one on this thread tell me this

our do you know who is a good muslim and who is not

Jihadi John's relatives flee home and want new identities as friends insist: 'They are an innocent family who've done nothing wrong'
Parents and five siblings have fled home in Maida Vale, west London
They are protesting their innocence and say they fear reprisal attacks
Family friend said: 'you can’t control what your kid does as an adult'

for the last 20 years all I have heard from muslims is our close their families are
well it is a load of bollocks the above they must have known
Rotherham they must have known

can any one on this thread tell me this

our do you know who is a good muslim and who is not

Bound and blindfolded then thrown off a high building to die on rubble below: ISIS savages murder another 'gay' man in Syria... then mob swarm to pelt the corpse with rocks
A large crowd of men is shown gathering outside to watch the punishment
The man was accused of being a 'child of Lot' and thrown off the court roof
According to the Quran, Lot's people of Sodom and Gomorrah carried out sinful acts and were severely punished by God
The horrific punishment was carried in the ISIS capital city of Raqqa

in the name of islam what a rotten religion

if muslims believe in their religion why do they not go and fight for their beliefs and destroy isis who are using their religion to destroy its name but alas they are silent

Pensions industry hits out at Ed Miliband's plan to alter tax relief rules
Labour leader wants to fund a cut in tuition fees with a tax raid on pension savings

By Marion Dakers, Financial services editor5:41PM GMT 27 Feb 2015 Comments97 Comments
Pensions experts have criticised proposals from the Labour leader Ed Miliband to cut the tax-free amount Britons can contribute to their pensions in order to fund a reduction in tuition fees to £6,000 a year.
Mr Miliband said that he would cut the lifetime limit on tax-free pension savings from £1.25m to £1m, and reduce the tax-free sum saved per year from £40,000 to £30,000 a year, if he wins the general election.
For savers earning more than £150,000 a year, Mr Miliband proposed cutting the pension tax relief from 45pc, the same rate they would pay on earnings, down to the basic income tax rate of 20pc. The Labour leader said these measures would raise £2.7bn to fund the pledge on tuition fees.
“The pensions and long-term savings industry supports reform of tax relief but this is not the way to do it,” said Huw Evans, director general of the Association of British Insurers. “We need a focus on reforming the pension tax relief system as a whole to make it fairer, better value and encourage saving from middle earners, rather than just piecemeal cutting back the existing system to pay for other policy objectives."
John Cridland, director general of the business lobby group the CBI, said that while he welcomed greater focus on higher education funding, the changes could discourage people from saving for the long-term. “A further hit on reasonable expectations on pension tax relief may be politically expedient but risks damaging a savings culture that needs nurturing if the state is to cope with the financial burden of retirement benefits in the years to come,” he said.


"Because there are no plans to index the lifetime allowance to inflation, its real value is expected to fall throughout the next Parliament in any case, but Labour’s plans mean it would fall further and faster," said Stephen Green, a senior consultant at Towers Watson. "The potential impact of a reduced lifetime allowance on retirement should be a real concern now for high earning members in their fifties.”
Tom McPhail, head of pensions research at Hargreaves Lansdown, said the changes would make it impossible for a 40-year-old opening a pension to save the maximum £1m over their lifetime, even if they contribute the maximum £30,000 a year.
“These measures aren’t about targeting the super-rich, they would penalise responsible middle income workers who want to provide for their retirement and make sure they aren’t a burden on the state,” he said. “Politicians have come to see our retirement savings as a convenient piggy bank which can be raided to pay for pre-election promises.”
Pension providers are already preparing for a major shake-up of retirement savings that was announced less than a year ago by the Chancellor, George Osborne. The news last March that savers would no longer be obliged to buy an annuity wiped up to 60pc off the shares of some pension specialists. Those reforms come into effect on April 6.
Shares in major pension providers were unmoved by Mr Miliband's comments on Friday. Shares in Legal & General ended the day 0.65pc higher, while Aviva fell 0.35pc, Friends Life declined 0.9pc and Just Retirement rose 4.7pc, following strong results earlier in the week.


Milibandit has no answer to the fact students are currently paying 9k and those on courses longer than 2016 who have paid 9k for the first years of their university course.
Will labour give a rebate to all those students who have paid 9k a year?

will Labour just change the final years of a course to 6k a year?

Some students are more equal than others. A typical Marxist imbecile, he does not realise the problems one action causes which always has consequences

You can rely on the Labour Party to pretty stupid at the best of times, but this latest idiotic idea will again robbing Pensioners, some of whom were robbed under Brown, some have had their RPI paid for pensions whilst in work changed to CPI. This alone has hit these pensioners into a double whammy. At least you have been warned before May, vote for Labour and you will get robbed in more than one way.
Answer. All pensisoners whoever and whatever they voted for before, should not under any circumstances vote for Labour this time round. But if you can't see the sense in this, then I suppose you have a right to throw your money after bad. My idea is to get all sensible pensioners not to vote Labour. Get it, do not vote LABOUR....!


This doesn't affect pensioners. It affects a small number of high earners, by shaving a bit off what they save tax free, saving for a pension.


Are you a bit dim, everything that goes up affects Pensioners. They actually paid all their working lives trying to look after their future retirement. They did not do this for some dimwit champagne drinking
socialists to take parts of it from them. Pensions were robbed by Brown, the 10p. tax rate was taken out completely, interest rates paid nothing , and now we are to be robbed again. I suggest you go back to your Left Wing friend, and re-think what effect this will have on voters who will have to be stark staring idiots to vote themselves for a reduction of any kind. You should have plenty people around you by the sound of it.


Well of course Miliband doesn't care about people providing for their own pensions because his support base is public sector workers with gold plated pensions which they contribute very little to and those on benefits looked after from cradle to grave.

But the ones who would suffer Miliiband's prejudices pay for the public sector and those on benefits.

This man is the most dangerous and naive socialist/Marxist we have seen in the UK for many years and there is a reasonable chance he will become Prime Minister. God help you all if he does.

I hope graduates are clever and far-sighted enough to work out what they might save in tuition fees under Miliband's plan, will cost them many times more In a reduced pension when they retire.


Marxist lunatic Miliband cannot be trusted as he obviously hates the elderly. He is actually proposing robbing the old to subsidise the student population as we are easy targets. Where will this nasty approach end with labour? Will they insist elderly council house tenants be forcibly removed by means of euthanasia to make way for the young? He will destroy this country.

THey are still avoiding the most serious isue and that is the Public Sector Pensions where the blackhole is getting ever larger

Of course, that's where HIS pension is. Gotta love a socialist.

Mind boggling - announcing a tax rise on pensions just before the election,; surely he can't be that stupid . . . can he?


Raiding private sector pensions, while public sector inflation-proofed pensions (including for MPs) reman sacrosanct, to fund a tinkering exercise (cutting fees means increasing subsidies via funding councils) shows a true Marxist-Stalinist-Centralist to issues. Why not address the root problems by encouraging apprenticeships which include modular degree courses so that the young have the opportunity to earn while they learn and not rack up debts in the first place? Why do we confuse funding for education and training with funding for the post-puberty rite of kicking the fledglings from the nest - alias sending them to live away from home for three years so that they can return laden with debt? It is because politicians and central planner "know" what it good for us. If so, how did the last Labour Government manage to bankrupt the public sector while fleecing the private sector?


Raiding private sector pensions, while public sector inflation-proofed pensions (including for MPs) reman sacrosanct, to fund a tinkering exercise (cutting fees means increasing subsidies via funding councils) shows a true Marxist-Stalinist-Centralist to issues. Why not address the root problems by encouraging apprenticeships which include modular degree courses so that the young have the opportunity to earn while they learn and not rack up debts in the first place? Why do we confuse funding for education and training with funding for the post-puberty rite of kicking the fledglings from the nest - alias sending them to live away from home for three years so that they can return laden with debt? It is because politicians and central planner "know" what it good for us. If so, how did the last Labour Government manage to bankrupt the public sector while fleecing the private sector?

ANDREW WHITAKER
12:27Friday 27 February 2015
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THE SNP has increased its poll lead over Labour by five points, with the nationalists now on 46 per cent just over two months before the general election, a new survey on voting intentions showed.

A TNS poll showed SNP support rise to 46 per cent - up from the 41 per cent identified by the same pollsters earlier this month - and extending the lead over Labour from 10 to 16 points.

The Conservatives were on 14 per cent - a fall of two per points on the last poll, with Liberal Democrats falling to three per cent, down by one point.

Nigel Farage’s anti-EU party UKip increased its support by one point to three per cent, with backing for the Scottish Greens falling by two points to four per cent.

SNP Westminster leader Angus Robertson, welcoming this poll, said: “This poll shows an increased lead for the SNP - but we are taking absolutely nothing for granted, and will work hard for every vote and seat in May.

“The key issue in May is who will best represent the people of Scotland - and the General Election is a wonderful opportunity for Scotland to have power by electing a strong team of SNP MPs to a hung parliament at Westminster.”

“If the political elite in Westminster think the public want the Government to spend more and more on overseas aid, and less and less on our armed forces and the defence of the realm then I am afraid they are even more out of touch than the public already suspect.”

EXCLUSIVE: UK set to spend MORE on foreign aid than on Armed Forces

Exec,

Or, are you?


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Labour has regained a slim lead over David Cameron’s party, according to the latest Opinium/Observer poll.

Ed Miliband could win an absolute majority according to the survey, which puts him on 35% – two points up on last week. The Conservatives have slipped by one point to 34%. If there was a uniform national swing – meaning the changes in each party’s support from this poll were evenly applied to 2010 election results across all constituencies – Labour could win an overall majority.

Ukip is on 14% while the Liberal Democrats and the Greens are tied on 6%.

its funny how posters on here will not post about real issues that are a risk to
the nations of the world
its time to point fingers at the lack of muslim leaders and their silence on isis
so it must mean they are behind isis all the way and support them
so its time to act .

Act? which particular role do you fancy then?

what a very sad place MAM has become with scarcely any posts at all, and none even on the AFR melodrama as it unfolds

what has caused this?
not very difficult to determine

Well, it don't help when three fairly prolific posters disappear in one foul swoop.

it looks like freedom of speech as been stopped at moneyam

moneyam free speech is what makes the west without it we may as well
give up

Jihadi John's father 'a bully and a collaborator with Saddam': Family fled to Britain from Kuwait after he was accused of helping forces during Iraqi invasion
Jasem Emwazi is the father of infamous ISIS executioner Jihadi John
He fled Kuwait with his family for Britain when extremist was a child
He returned to the country after his son's identity was revealed last week
Mr Emwazi has been described by sources in Kuwait as 'aggressive'
He was accused of colluding with Saddam Hussein during Iraqi invasion
One of his daughters was described by former bosses as 'sheltered'


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2974875/Jihadi-John-s-father-bully-collaborator-Saddam-Family-fled-Britain-Kuwait-accused-helping-forces-Iraq

once again how do you tell a good muslim from a terrorist
when they the muslim community do not speak out and rid their community of the scum.. they new who this murdered was yet were silent