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.

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,

Post 58238

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:

Nick Clegg on course to lose seat at election, according to Lord Ashcroft poll


Batch of polls in eight key Liberal Democrat seats finds party leader trailing by two points and Tories consolidating position in key south-west seats




http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/01/nick-clegg-on-course-to-lose-seat-at-election-according-lord-ashcroft-poll

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3022239/Miliband-vows-abolish-zero-hours-forgets-Labour-use-them.html

A bit like a party for slashers and U-benders.

what a bunch of total buffoons lead the political parties .... they'ld all be better employed at a circus as clowns throwing custard pies

i can't remember what the recent avoidable tory blunders were, though assuredly there were some

however, labour are just as incompetent ....

the high profile actor featuring heavily in their broadcast was known as a hard left trotskyite and won't vote labour, while his partner (not hugely relevant) was bankrupted for non-payment of her tax bill

we now have this nonsense about zero hour contracts which beggars belief
even disregarding labour MPs use of these, how on earth can a company just magic up permanent positions for someone who happens to have worked x-number of hours for them for 12 weeks?

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thank goodness i'm out for dinner tonight so i shall not even be tempted to watch the "bunga-bunga 7" at play

it is also an amusing coincidence that the the public are fleeing in greatest ever numbers today - just for the eater break of course; why else?

:-)

Fred , if that is true what you wrote in post 58241 then cynic's reply makes sense ,so why not answer him ?????????

jimmy - i wasn't having a dig at fred per se, but merely suggesting that his recollection of all the facts might not be quite accurate ..... a bit like most politicians really :-)