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.

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?

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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 :-)

I didn't think you were but what you said was correct ,what's the difference ??

JB,

The sale of the houses were over 55 years ago.

The tenants not only paid rent for the grand parents "pensions" but also help them when they were infirm and also when my parents were "father less" in in their childhoods.

The majority of fathers and mothers families became "high" earning professionals, but my father and mother had severe illness and were for periods in their adolescence and later and were supported during those periods by their later tenants.

They had what I think of a Christian morality and in general applied it.

I was summarising.


Manuel's suggestions did not apply.

Satisfied.

Sums it up nicely!

Very nice of them to do that ....Satisfied about what ??

If a zero hours employee becomes eligible for permanent employment after 12 weeks, the employer will dispense with them after 11 weeks and use another person starting at 1 week and so on. The net result will be people losing their zero hours job.

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 1st April -

Con 36%, Lab 34%, LD 8%, UKIP 13%, GRN 4%;