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.

MrT - you consider yourself as sharp, articulate, vocal, intelligent and only interested in the good of the country, so have you even stood as local councillor?
if not, why not?

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Too white. Too male. And too damned British. No wonder the Beeb wants shot of Clarkson




Cohen’s decision to pull the remaining Top Gear episodes will mean wasting hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of pounds of licence-payers’ money already spent on filmed sequences. It will also incur massive compensation claims from foreign broadcasters.

He couldn’t get away with that if he was a director of a commercial organisation, answerable to shareholders. And what about the millions of viewers being deprived of their favourite Sunday night show?

Cohen cares more about pandering to the political prejudices and petty jealousies of his Left-wing peer group in those Shoreditch salons. And that means securing his place in history as The Man Who Sacked Jeremy Clarkson.



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some might dispute that cohen is too british!

Good piece by Littlejohn .
If they sack Clarkson ,it's game over for that programme without a doubt .
What i don't understand is why they are pulling the last 3 shows .

cynic far from it not good enough to be a councillor but not daft enough to see we have very poor people in power who are not up to the tasks of gov
we need bright people who want to do the job for the good of the country
which we do not have .
we have very poor MPs and councillors who are to daft to see they are not fit for purpose .

cynic I would say that by your posts you would make a good one

Further to what Tanks has posted.

Alf I would say by your posts you would make a right one... and a half -):

Ex-thomas Cook Boss Snubs New Owner's Bhs Job
The former chief executive of Thomas Cook has turned down the chance to take the helm of high street chain BHS following a deal which removed the chain from the ownership of one of Britain's richest tycoons.

well it's a shame he pays bugger-all tax then!

"simple" tax mitigation is fine, but this really is gross abuse by PG, and of course there are others too

no doubt HMRC finds it more cost effective to issue instant fines of £100/150 for being a few days late with a tax return than undertaking extensive and expensive forensic investigation into the affairs of the high-profile tax avoiders (evaders?)

EURO
this time or a little later last year i was rubbingf my hands that £/€ was 1.20 or even 1.25 .,.... this morning it is 1.40
shall i buy my hol money now? .... not sure

Just 50% cynic....not bad 1.4.....if it slips back to 1.38 change the other 50%...might go higher but more bad Greece news needed....

Does it matter?

Whats a few quid one way or the other?

1.2 to 1.4 is a lot...in percentage terms...new cars might be cheaper abroad now....by the way : check out AFC energy.....

A major purchase ie: property, super yacht etc.

Yes, well worth the effort, but for holiday walking around money...use credit card.

When the chicken comes out!

max - when on holiday, i nearly always use cash ..... in any case, i do not have a personal credit card of any kind
for biz i have one charge card and one credit card

Without plastic, how do you get by c?

last night we had a club meeting and we have finally decide we must keep
the lunatics out of power ed is a nutter anti business anti workers
so we are all going to vote conservative we would love to vote ukip
but we must keep the nutter out at all costs

One for Fred (nicked from across the road)

max - very easily ..... i use one of my biz cards in restaurants and hotels or for other "heavy" bills, and then settle with the company each month ..... quite often, i'll use my direct debit card

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oh MrT, you really do brighten my day and make me chuckle sometimes :-)

cynic the labour party is a party for the idle and against the working person trying to get on . they would destroy the will to both to work to make their lives better it would be pointless under a lab gov