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.

I for one will be glad when the election is out of the way.....and then....hooray... we can have nothing.....but... politics on here almost.......(moan and groan)... (:((....

rf check back to when it was started and it was a fun thread ,then it became Question Time ..I didn't post here for several years .

Perhaps someone should start a politics thread....put it all on there...

amusing note .....
the Daily Mirror political editor was being interviewed just now and accidentally referred to EM as DM ... and of course, that is labour's great problem and arguably the tories gift from heaven

however, i very much fear that we'll end up with a second GE within 6/9 months of the first

Go on then!

Perhaps, you could start a thread for those not interested in politics.

Perhaps, calling it the non-politics NOWT thread after GF.

Good luck!

Manuel,

I see what you are referring to in the interviews last night.

You prefer gravy train slick Cameron's packaging to Ed Miliband's content.

Apparently, as would be expected Cameron went down well with the party sheep, but the undecided voters migrated to Ed and Labour.

Popularity of Cameron is based on Right winged press and exposure due to "office".

He is a gonna!


I liked Ed's put down of Paxman at the end of Paxman not being that important, especially whe n Paxman seemed more interested in attacking Ed's personality rather than policies.

Cameron is a plucked chicken, squawking and running away from real debate.

I hope and the other interviews will expose Cameron weaknesses even more.

Of course Cameron will be watching them on the TV.

LOL

Fred like i said check back this was not the politics thread , you took it over when you wanted to save the world and his brother .

Here come another load Fred all heading for the promised land .

The world would be a good start for me.

8-)

Interesting questions on Zero hour contracts and "food banks" and whether Cameron live on the income.

Wavey Dave was squirming.

But the good thing it enables the rich to get richer the poor to get poorer.

Here come another load Fred

apart from MrT who hates all immigrants regardless of their nationality, i suspect that most of us are a bit like me

that is to say, we really quite like the poles as the great majority of them come over and work very hard indeed to make something of themselves ...... at the other end of the scale, we have the croatians, romanians and their, whom we regard as innate criminals or scroungers at best

if it is legally possible to refuse benefits in the way outlined by DC last night, then that will certainly help sort the wheat from the chaff, but i suspect it will be shown to be much harder to implement that to debate

zero hour contracts
i thought the question was answered very sensibly ..... neither DC nor EM nor JP could live on zero hour contracts, but it does not mean that they should be outlawed as they have their legitimate use when properly applied

cynic missing the point , we can't take 300 000 per year ! this country is stuffed .

Here comes some more Fred , will you take them in ,can they live with you .

Nice bus.

JB,

Were you driving the bus or just another passenger?

Budget debate exposes Osborne’s boasts as lies – Michael Meacher MP
26
Thursday
Mar 2015

The truth finally came out, writes Michael Meacher.

Osborne claimed that the deficit was being cut this year when in fact that is only due to the exceptional delaying of tax payments till the end of the fiscal year by the super-rich in order to take advantage of the reduction in the top income tax rate to 45%. Without that, which will never be repeated, the deficit would have risen this year, as on present policies it will rise in future years.

He promised “the biggest increase in real spending for a decade in 2019-20″, but that’s only because of a boom-bust roller coaster after massive spending cuts in 2016-18, which any Whitehall mandarin will tell him is a crazy, not to say utterly irresponsible, way to manage public services.

He claimed that the national debt would begin to fall in 2019-20, but that is only because he’s planning to pocket the £20bn windfall from selling off the proceeds from the bank privatisations, not because the fundamentals of debt inflation have in any way improved.

He complimented himself on a nationwide recovery spread across the whole country. The truth is that London and the South-#East continue to pull away from the rest of the country, and manufacturing and construction are still lagging badly behind the finance sector.

He claimed that Britain stood tall and was now beginning to pay its way in the world. The truth is the precise opposite. The OBR is predicting that in 2014 Britain had its biggest current account deficit since 1845, nearly 200 years ago.

He claimed that with rising real wages – albeit by only a fraction and only because the slump in the oil price, prosperity was now returning to British households. The truth is, average real wages are still nearly 8% below their pre-crash levels while at the top, inequality marches on relentlessly. The ratio between the average FTSE chief executive’s remuneration and median pay in those same companies is now more that 140:1, and according to the Sunday Times Rich List the richest 1,000 people in the UK have actually doubled their wealth in the last 5 years from a staggering £250bn to a scarcely imaginable £500bn!

The conclusion from all this is unavoidable: The real fundamental problems of the economy have not been redressed at all.

I'm the one in the middle ,TANKERS the one on the left trying to set light to it !!

jimmy . I have gone to 5 hospitals in the last 2 months to visit a/e yes its full of immigrants they no by going to a/e they get treated sooner those that go to the doctors takes months .
a/e should be closed to all non british people but alas we have gutless no balls cowards in the gov

so should we all join the immigrants and go to a/e
Cameron will not reply to see issue

put on a bus in france then fill it with the scum lock the doors drive them to Syria then open the doors