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.

jimmy, keep posting, not everyone on here is a tosser.

c.

Made no comment about colour/race...the comment was about vast quantities of apparently independently rich people who seemingly don't need to work.

welfare and benefit spending
as far as i can determine, in the 1960's this was running at about 20% of gov't revenues and is now at about 30%

i'm not sure if "gov't revenues" are the same as GDP, but i'ld guess so

anyway, is it surprising that this is becoming or even has become too onerous a burden in its present form?

Gross Domestic Product is not gov revenue, it's the total transaction value of the whole country.

Gov revenue is the tax (in it's many forms) collection element.

I fear that the Greeks are going to leave the Euro and although The Germans and the Euro finance people say they wish Greece to stay : they probably are coming to terms that an exit is almost probably unavoidable due to the unsustainable impact upon that country remaining in the single currency system, having to pay of debts for at least another 20 years or so.......it will be miraculous if there is not an exit...

Apologies, jimmy b. We all make the odd mistake.

And please keep posting, kind sir.

RE- the 3 missing girls that went to Syria

an someone said " they can stay there and get rotten there, theiy are not only bitches, liers, but now it comes out also thieves ( stole the family jewelery to pay for the tickets )

I say "pitty they did not take " cynic " with them, although I know it is very difficult to convert a jew into a muslim

JB,
I was not abusing you, or attempting to so.

I was challenging the words you used and the possible interpretations of motivation which could be attached to their use.

I know nothing about you, other than what I can gather from postings.

If I intended to be abusive to you I would have been more direct and clear.
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Max,

If you go to other places in the UK., an "immigrant" is an unusual feature. In many parts of Birmingham there are few immigrants. In the parts I go shopping for spices and “exotic” fruit I am often the only paleface.

The shopkeepers know me and very helpful and we are able to tease one another to a certain level.

Think of reasons they collect in groups or certain areas. Like the Brits in Spain and the Dordogne, out of the economic factors but often for social welfare reasons (housing, churches mosques etc. and social support.

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As far as numbers are regulations are concerned I have some general knowledge, as I have a family member working on investigation and discussion of rules and regulations and data collection and analysis of "bloody confusing data" which has been collected or not collected over the last 20 years, by the Home Office and Immigration Control etc. Also the member has to travel one or two days a week to work in Brussels and London.

The member thinks the problem has been mishandled etc, for years and much of the data collected dubious and difficult to interpret and then propose sensible procedures from.

Also, due to cut-backs, uncertainties about employment and method of management there is a degree of apathy and many looking for work elsewhere at higher incomes.

Also, although there is "will" in Europe to address the problems, the resolution are difficult to define.

The 'Re-Instate Jeremy Clarkson Petition' is here.

Go on! You know it doesn't make sense to sign this and get the arrogant tosser back on our screens.

Nearly 90,000 have done so far and so only another 60,000 signatures to go.

Quotes:

@KTHopkins BBC allegedly cover up Jimmy Saville, but Clarkson causes a "fracas" and he's suspended?!
— Lorraine Colfer (@Rainy_74) March 10, 2015

@JeremyClarkson suspended: are we witnessing the sacrificial slaughter of the Golden Goose?
http://t.co/Ijy8iVxaF5
http://twitter.com/HuffPostUKEnt/status/575341143900229632/photo/1
— Mark Borkowski (@MarkBorkowski) March 10, 2015

I'm available. #TopGear
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) March 10, 2015

And to think Richard Hammond told us that this series would be controversy free... #TopGear
http://NGjaYciGpw
pic.twitter.com/dn2l65R3al

— Radio Times (@RadioTimes) March 10, 2015
BBC have suspended #JeremyClarkson - what's he done this time?! #TopGear
— Theo Paphitis (@TheoPaphitis) March 10, 2015

I don't think I'm ever meant to appear on Top Gear!
— Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) March 10, 2015

"Threw a punch, eh? Hmmm? It didn't do John Prescott any harm."

"Clarkson and Co. get their show viewed by 300m viewers around the world. I guess that means it makes money? But don't forget, that the BBC is run on subscriptions. So, even though it makes money, of course the BBC can get rid of Top Gear."

max (57449) - the real point of my comment was the expansion and huge strain that welfare costs imposed on the taxpayers under the current system

of course, we all and any gov't have to determine how the annual financial cake should be divided up

clarkson - not hugely fussed either way, though his programme is certainly very entertaining .... however, he is certainly has an excessively high opinion of himself, but that in itself is no reason to scrap a very popular programme and sack its main character

The Graun is out to get him...hardly surprising, he's got a fag (wrong kind) hanging out of his mouth.


http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/10/clarkson-should-do-the-decent-thing-and-resign

Good to see Cameron is complaining about Miliband being able to do deal with SNP and Lib/dem, while he and the present tory party are considered too toxic by the former parties for any of them to consider an alliance or coalition with.

The voters are beginning to know a chicken when they see one!

and perhaps they'll also recognise EM as a turkey before it's too late

Class A turkey.

EM like the Labour party will rise like a phoenix above the ashes left by this torrid tory party.

After the election in May, is there any truth in the rumours that Redwood is going to run for leadership of the remaining right wing rump of the tories with Reese-Mogg as his bag carrier?

turkeys don't fly very well or for long