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.

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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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 !!!!

Don't be so silly cynic she's much uglier than this little beauty !!!

Which one would you rather kiss ???

that's not a gudgeon!
would c+p a pic but don't know how

Well I think Sturgeon is well worth her salary when compared with Bankers, the bookies and punters in the city.

In a way she is responsible 6.5 million Scots.

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Although I think a proportion of MPs are charlatans and duplicitous I recognise many are able and admire their abilities to hang on to and sometimes understand the details of the areas of government.

It is their solutions and goals which I question.

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However, I wouldn't pay Dodgy Dave a penny, but give him and his cabinet community service for a couple of years.

Also, I would take his horse off him.

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Ps. Sturgeon appears to be a full timer, unlike some of the mobsters in London.

What about Millibandus Fred?

I will judge him at the end of August when he has been PM for 3 months.

LOL! One for the Joke Thread.

Fred that is funny ..

Cynic that fish was a ....Sinuous Gudgeon, Odonteleotris macrodon ...

Is that seal related to Nigel?

river gudgeon are actually very pretty fish

Unlike Nicola ?

As this thread now descended into talking about fish

Better than politics .