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.

netanyahu re-elected
what a tragedy for the palestinians and for israelis who want to live in peace, but clearly not enough of them

it looks like most israels are not cowards like some on this bb

After the election for Manuel.



I say bring back Lamont knew how to write an election budget be and then renegade on it a few months later.

if you think being a warmonger is being brave, then you haven't learnt much in life

if you think annexing and appropriating another's land to build further settlements is not outright aggression and oppression - your mate hitler used that ploy too - then how would you care to define it?

MIRROR GROUP TO MERGE WITH EXPRESS
what a chuckler that is, and what will now become of Socialist Worker which is of course part of the Mirror Group?

what's your view fred?

Socialist Worker is now sold in my local TESCO

does that say something about where you live?

matt is consistently very witty

Express + Mirror = Expiror?

Today George will put the final pieces in place to ensure the tories win an outright majority in May.
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Cynic,

Not the result I hoped for in Israel.

I think Israel present leadership is the stoker of much the enmity in the ME.

With Netty on my border I would hang on to my nuclear armaments.

Why can't they find another Golda Meir

My wife had an adopted aunt very much like her.

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Mirror and Express, My mother told me to look away when I saw those "rags".

The last time I read either was about 30 years ago in the barber's shop.

Strange in the library of my school, we had the Daily Worker, The Times, Manchester Guardian, Telegraph (overseas news).

The Express and Mail were banned.
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It is interesting with the mistakes made by this government in the past and present how the right winged press are quiet.

On a day like today , goldfinger would be filling up the thread with his UNITE poster's and other fringe leftie groups posters in-between Fred's shit paper cartoons

And that's all she wrote.....



Budget 2015: Savings tax scrapped as Chancellor puts money on voters with cash in the bank





Exclusive: George Osborne woos pensioners and 'hard-working taxpayers' ahead of general election




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political editor


Wednesday 18 March 2015




Tax on income from savings will be abolished for millions of people in the Budget today as George Osborne woos pensioners and “hard-working taxpayers” ahead of the May general election, The Independent has learnt.



The Chancellor also plans to reduce the scale of his planned spending cuts in the final year of the 2015-20 parliament. The move follows a rare dispute between him and David Cameron, who is said to have warned Mr Osborne that the deeper cuts he favoured could lose the Tories the election. So did Lynton Crosby, the hard-nosed Australian strategist who is the Tories’ campaign director.



More: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/budget-2015-savings-tax-scrapped-as-chancellor-puts-his-money-on-voters-with-cash-in-the-bank-10115062.html

fred - you and i are assuredly of one accord on netanyahu ..... imo, a very sad day for the region, but if the populace chose not to speak out strongly enough for a movement towards peace, then i'm afraid they have got what they deserve, but to the ultimate detriment of the whole region

as a general comment, the israeli election model is truly dreadful, where a party with just 25% of the seats holds sway ..... i don't know the rules, but i think a so-called party only needs about 2% of the vote - something very paltry anyway - to get a seat in the knesset

Welcome to the Peoples Republic of Scotialand...




Scots MPs vote to pay Sturgeon more than PM: But panicked aides fear PR disaster and insist she'll take 'only' £135,000

Scottish National Party vote to make Nicola Sturgeon best-paid politician in UK

Salary boost to £144,687 was rubber stamped by the Scottish Parliament

Pay now above David Cameron's £142,500 and Boris Johnson's £143,911

But aides say she would actually draw a more modest salary of £135,605

Critics point out that Miss Sturgeon only serves about five million people


By Jason Groves and Alan Roden for the Daily Mail

Published: 23:09, 17 March 2015 | Updated: 06:21, 18 March 2015







More:http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/03/17/26B2B51400000578-0-image-a-2_1426633063475.jpg

She could effectively be the UK PM if Labour squirm back in.
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i think she's more of a gudgeon than a sturgeon :-)

God don't say that GEORGE !!!!