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.

ARRRGH!

Good news for Dave..



UK Mortgage Approvals Tick Up

Date : 02/03/2015 @ 10:03
Source : Dow Jones News


UK Mortgage Approvals Tick Up


By Jason Douglas

LONDON--The number of new home loans approved in the U.K. rose again in January, a sign that activity in the housing market may be stabilizing after a recent dip.

Data from the Bank of England showed banks approved 60,786 new mortgages in January, up from 60,349 a month earlier.

The number of loans approved rose for the second month in a row after several months of declines, the data shows. New mortgage lending, net of repayments, held steady in January at 1.6 billion pounds ($2.47 billion).

The figures suggest the U.K. housing market is leveling out after a sharp pickup in prices and activity in early 2014 that tailed off in the second half of the year.

Data from mortgage lender Nationwide Building Society, also published Monday, showed average house price growth slowed in February to an annual 5.7%, from 6.8% a month earlier.

Overall consumer lending rose in January by a net GBP2.4 billion, the BOE said. Business lending also rose in January, including to small firms.

Write to Jason Douglas at jason.douglas@wsj.com

fred if a white person walks around Birmingham at night on is own he will be attacked your post on ukip the no go areas are here down all over the uk
even the police do not go in case they upset certain people

the uk is now divided country and most elderly do not go out because it is not safe

can any poster tell me one thing that is good for the English or welsh in the eu
I can find nothing .
only now can not see a doctor can not get in to a/e schools full of non speaking English and the teachers having to spend all their time trying to get these non speakers to understand them and the English children suffering because of these non English speakers then they go home and their families speak no English at home

tell me one thing that is good for the English
we pay our pensioners one of the lowest pensions in the eu yet
we put the most money in it stinks

Don't hold back TANKER let them have it .

we have over 4m non skilled scum that have come to the uk for free hand outs

if the eu is so bloody good why do they all want to come here its a load of crap
get us out

we have over 4m non skilled scum that have come to the uk for free hand outs

if the eu is so bloody good why do they all want to come here its a load of crap
get us out

we now live in a country my family died for fighting for freedom now the people
are to scared to speak out . my family died for nothing

Max Let me explain, I said blue Lab. I.E. "Con" Party blue... Got it now?

Tube workers to strike over sacking of driver who failed two alcohol breath tests
Members of RMT union to walk out from 9.30pm on March 7 until 3.59am on Sunday following vote for industrial action over dismissal of London Underground driver


By Agency8:42AM GMT 02 Mar 2015
London Underground workers are to stage a short strike from Saturday evening in a row over the sacking of a colleague.
Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union will walk out from 9.30pm on March 7 until 3.59am on Sunday.
The move follows a vote for industrial action over the dismissal of a driver for failing two breath alcohol tests.
London Underground said it had zero tolerance towards drugs and alcohol, but the union has described its policy as "outdated and flawed".
Nick Brown, chief operating officer of London Underground, said: "This indefensible strike is about one RMT member dismissed for failing two alcohol breath tests.


"We will not be swayed by it as we will never compromise on the safety of our customers and staff. You wouldn't let someone who had been drinking alcohol drive your family in a car, and we don't let people who have been drinking alcohol drive people's families in Tube trains.
"Less than a quarter of the RMT members eligible to vote for strike action did so. For the RMT leadership to announce a strike regardless shows how completely out of touch they are, just as the timing demonstrates that they know they have very little support from their members on this issue.
"Should they go through with this action, it will achieve nothing and we'll work to ensure Londoners are kept informed and can still get around."


Mick Cash, general secretary of the RMT, said there had been a campaign of "misinformation and smears" against the union.
In a message to members, he said: "This action is the first stage as part of a rolling programme of industrial action and I urge all RMT London Underground train operators and instructor operators to stand firm together against this and any future injustices against RMT members."


The Conservatives have said that they will legislate to make it more difficult for unions to call strikes in key public services if they win the General Election in May.
Ballots for industrial action among transport, education, health and fire services would require the support of at least 40 per cent of all those entitled to take part – as well as a majority of those who actually turn out to vote. The TUC has condemned the move as a “democratic outrage.”

so know one can give one good thing about the eu

http://www.euromove.org.uk/

Pick the bones out of that then Tanks... and don't post again until you have read and understood it all on there -):

Stan,

Give the lad a chance.

stan have read it all. all one sided bollocks

their is no benefit to the working class in the eu or pensioners only long waits for doctors or hospitals

my family died fighting for this country they died in vane

their is not one good thing for the working class being in the stinking rotten eu

so come on stan give me some good things about being in the eu
but you can not

france
Germany
Italy
spain
Portugal
malta
begium
ever one gets a better pension than those in the uk
yet the uk puts in the most money

stan you will need time to find something so will give you a few months

the labour party is a party of dimwits who would sell their souls and family to get a vote scum

and of course MrT's rantings are fair, well thought out and balanced with no partisan slant whatsoever

no wonder no one can be bothered to respond

cynic so come on know all tell us a good thing for the working class being in the eu