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.

PMQs: David Cameron trips up Ed Miliband with VAT pledge: Live
David Cameron takes part in final Prime Minister's Question Time of 2010 to 2015 Parliament

By Rosa Prince, Online Political Editor12:42PM GMT 25 Mar 2015 Comments17 Comments
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12.48 Labour's top team must be furious at themselves for failing to game-plan the possibility of Mr Cameron saying "yes," when Mr Miliband asked him to rule out an increase in VAT. The beginning of the week had been pretty rough for the PM, with his "arrogant" no third term announcemet on Monday and roughing up by pensioners at Age UK yesterday. They will be livid that they have managed to send MPs off to campaign with momentum swung back the other way, thanks to a blatant own goal from the leader.
12.47 Not content with skewering Ed Miliband utterly at PMQs, the Prime Minister is now shredding him into little bits on Twitter:

12.44 On the BBC's Politics Show, Priti Patel, a member of the Conservatives' Treasury team, has said she had no idea Mr Cameron was about to make his VAT announcement.
QuoteThat's the first I've heard of that today".
12.43 The twittersphere agrees today was not Mr Miliband's best PMQs:

12.42 The Cameron kids enjoyed their day out at Daddy's workplace:

12.39 The trap was set perfectly. If you remember, George Osborne spent his appearance before the Treasury Select Committee yesterday carefully avoiding answer all invitations to rule out a future VAT rise.
12.38 Missing them already? Here are some of the highlights of Mr Cameron and Mr Miliband's exchanges over the last five years:


2.36 And it's over. Mr Cameron uses his last answer to jemmy in a final gag, reminding MPs that Richard III is due to be buried tomorrow, and saying it wasn't the last time a would-be leader did in a family member. Well, it wasn't very nice of Mr Miliband to see off his brother, David, in the Labour leadership contest but to compare his actions to the murder of the princes in the towers is a wee bit unfair...
12.34 Labour's Stephen Pound tries a bit of humour - he says some "rougher" elements of the House called Cameron a "chicken" over the TV debates. Isn't it more the case that, following his declaration that he will not serve a third term, he's more a lame duck. Mr Cameron shoots back that Mr Miliband is the lame duck for seeking to enter Number 10 on the coattails of the SNP. He barks:
QuoteNever mind talk of ducks, I'm looking at Alex Salmond's poodle.
12.32 As Labour attempt some shoring up, the PM is read a headline from an article from before the 2010 election in which he is quoted as ruling out a VAT rise after polling day. He says he didn't know then the scale of the economic task ahead.
12.31 From Michael Deacon:
As David Cameron congratulated his backbencher Andrew Percy for his constituency work (and for obediently parroting the Tory slogan "Long Term Economic Plan"), Philip Hammond yawned widely beside him. Come on, Foreign Secretary, this PMQs hasn't been that boring...
12.29 Elfyn Llwyd is however asking his last question as an MP. The Plaid leader asks if he'll be missed. The PM pays tribute to the excellent speeches he has delivered, particularly on Iraq, and wishes him well.
12.26 Oh dear, the PM has just wished a warm farewell to Labour's Michael Connarty, who, turns out, isn't standing down. Cue much laughter. Cameron points out that it's his 146th Question Time and wishes him well anyway - and blames his briefers for giving him misinformation. Wag shouted out "SNP gain" before Mr Connarty he started speaking. Ho ho.
12.25 My 130 WMP shorthand wasn't up to taking down Mr Cameron's exchange with Simon Danczuk over immigration, but Sky has brought us the tongue-twister here:

2.24 Tim Ross is worried Mr Cameron may have been busking it again.

12.21 What is Labour going to do about their shiny new poster campaign?

Ed Balls unveils Labour's new poster in Birmingham yesterday
12.20 Mr Cameron is asked to comment on Alex Salmond's remarks. He says the entire Labour Party has been "taken hostage" by the SNP, and says the only way to deal with the problem is to vote Conservative.
QuoteThe entire Labour Party has been taken hostage" [by Mr Salmond] "and today we got the ransom note".
12.19 Sky's Joey Jones has been keeping an eye on Mr Cameron's potential successors:

12.18 Mr Cameron is asked by the DUP's Nigel Dodds about the On The Run letters. He's obviously in a magnanimous mood after his little tussle with Mr Miliband, defending his predecessor, Tony Blair, over the issue and saying that difficult decisions needed to be mad to secure peace.


A Sound Victory!

They said the black box wouldn't tell them what want wrong , just give them data for the investigation

BBC confirm that Clarkson is out ...

That's the end of Top Gear then ..

And it's eventually 'Bye Bye, Jeremy'.
The King is dead.

James May: "It's a tragedy!"

Moving on.....It's "Long live the King (or will it be Queen?)"

Jodie Kidd. Hmmm? 5/1
Jimmy Carr. Gotta be joking! 14/1
Chris Evans. Well, at least he is a petrol head. 2/5 (Evans has previously ruled himself out of the running, saying: “I can categorically say I am not and will never be running for office. Please discount my candidacy.”)
Hammond? And why not?
May? Interesting possibility?

Where will Clarkson go?

Sky. 6/4
Netflix. Haven't got the odds for this one.

Will he take James and Richard with him?
We'll have to wait and see.

There are apparently 3 methods of data recovery to examine.

I actually don't think Clarkson is great at presenting other shows but Top Gear won't survive at least not the viewing figures without him , i don't care who they put there ....

I like Boris Johnson's comment. He said that he liked Clarkeson as he stirs up left wing hysteria.

Clarkeson's copresenters have said they would not work without him.

The BBC has been trying to get Chris Evans to host the show, but he doesn't seem to be interested.

re - 'Bye Bye, Jeremy'.

He fell on his own sword

and he is not the first "prime donna" to do so ............ Jonathan Ross comes to mind

JR????
he seems to be very much alive and kicking with his very popular saturday evening show

Take it you didn't like him then mentor ?

Another one who fell on his own sword is "cynic"

I supposed to be - squelch - ..........
but sees and reply my post

copy and paste as another probe of the "liar"
one has to be a very good" liar" not to get caught with trousers down

note -J. Ross was fired from the BBC a few years back


cynic - 25 Mar 2015 15:15 - 57911
JR????
he seems to be very much alive and kicking with his very popular saturday evening show

i revived you a few days ago .... i don't recollect that i was obliged let alone obligated to advise you of same

in fact, i take personal objection to allowing myself to be bullied into squelching someone, and a bully you most assuredly are

mentor ,, cynic never holds a grudge ..

you're absolutely correct, but it does not mean i don't hold to an opinion of someone
mind you, with mentor displaying his bullying tendencies like a strutting peacock, it's not hard to be of that opinion

That's know way to speak about your mentor

jimmy

never mind - grudge - or no grudge, a person who I can not trust, if every 5 minutes changes his mind.

It is not the first time about - squelch - to the point that .... MAM said :... posters are saying - squelch - but is not true.

every time comes with excuses trying yet again be right ( when every one knows is not )
so my reason for saying ... is a .. liar and arse....

cynic - 25 Mar 2015 16:02 - 57915 of 57917

i revived you a few days ago .... i don't recollect that i was obliged let alone obligated to advise you of same

What do you think Fred ?

if the strutting peacock stuck to his charts and other share stuff, he would be an interesting poster

however, God forbid you should ever have the audacity to question his choices, for then he his innate bullying persona comes immediately to the fore ....

in the past, it became consistently too offensive when he was posting as MRSI and menorca, and probably a few others, and he was rightly banished