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.

To what end?

He wont answer any of the dodgy ones!


But aside from that, I thought is was a debate...ie, two way, or in this case multi way...no?

There will be a start, an end and four questions in between.

Cameron get to go last twice.

100 business chiefs: Labour threatens Britain's recovery
In a letter to The Telegraph, senior executives from companies employing more than half-a-million people hail Conservative economic policies which they say show that “the UK is open for business”

Telegraph.

FT reckons lord ashcroft has resigned from hol so he can become an ex-pat once more

as for that pie throwing contest, i know that i shall certainly be giving it a miss .... indeed i don't even know when it is scheduled

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fred - i'm ploughing through The Postman, but now i'm over half way through, i have found it only interesting insofar as i know the area around farnham common very well .... does it get any more enthralling?

You are all right Manuel.

Good to know 100 Business and employer leaders support the tory ? future plans, while 700,000 on zero hours don't!

It really does show who the party of con men think they represent and that they are really out of touch!

I wonder how many back handers are expected.

This is for the Hazy one!

David Cameron reveals he is related to Kim Kardashian

Prime Minister claims he is thirteenth cousin of the reality TV star




David Cameron said he was thirteenth cousin of Kim Kardashian Photo: PA



By Emily Gosden

1:50PM BST 31 Mar 2015



The Prime Minister said he was thirteenth cousin of the celebrity, who is married to rapper Kanye West and first became famous after starring in a leaked sex tape.


Asked by Heat magazine whether he watched the television show Keeping Up With The Kardashians, featuring Kim and her family, Mr Cameron volunteered: "No, but I'm related to them.


"Did you know I'm 13th cousins with them?"


The link is via a mutual ancestor, Sir William Spencer, born in 1555, according to genealogy website geni.com.






More tosh here:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/11506560/David-Cameron-reveals-he-is-related-to-Kim-Kardashian.html

fred - 58235 .....
i couldn't afford my posh flat, though the corporates are happy enough, probably because it is very well positioned and with a high spec .... i'm also a damn good landlord, though they won't know that at the time of signing up

my other property is actually rented at less than true market value to a young couple on benefits - he'ld love to work but is almost unemployable ...... their rent just about covers the mortgage payments and they look after the place well, so i'm at least moderately happy

Max,

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I always thought Shifty Dave was a bit of soft t.


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Manuel.

I have a half share flat tied up in a 50 year old protective will.

Must admit it is run by an estate agent and I am quite happy be at distance from management, which fortunately is trouble free.

I don't even question the rent.

Both parties seem happy!
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Manuel,

My mother's immediate family bought for her mother over a period of time 6 houses as a pension income for old age. She lived to about eighty.

When she died, the family sold the houses to the occupants at approximately 50% of market value, as they argued that they had served their purpose. My father's family did likewise on about 3 properties.

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Both parents' fathers had died when my parents were about 6 years old. My father, leaving school and starting work underground at about 12 years and via night school getting his various qualifications, as did his brother.

I think the generosity may have been repayment for the generosity shown to them in their childhood by neighbours, as well as their ethics.

Interesting for me, to reflect.

It is interesting that the 100 business leaders supporting the Conservative party include five former backers including the chairman of Dixons Carphone and Talk Talk plc, Sir Charles Dunstone and former Dragons' Den star Duncan Bannatyne.

fred - i recollect MrsT did likewise for council tenants, but you don't like that at all!!.....
there was also some legislation that gave long term tenants of even private houses the right to buy and at a good price, so just perhaps your family was not as entirely altruistic as you choose to remember

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Ashcroft poll - Clegg on course to lose seat to Labour

please note that that was taken 2 days ago, since when, i think the notional polls have shifted yet again

I might be about 30 minutes or so late in telling you this but London Eye are launching some 'Zero Gravity' capsules.

Specially developed NASA tech' fans embedded into the floor will allow the occupants to enjoy a feeling of weightlessness: