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 used to like the woman who walked around with a log under her arm.

I doubt that it will go ahead without David Lynch.

I wonder whose arse she will bite?

Vote monster!

Max,

Good sensible speech.

Showed what Wavy Dave is dodging, but here is a real hero for you!

Borrowed from Mike,

The recession would have been worse if the Conservatives had been in power
5/April/2015

And what caused the crash in the first place Fred?

And who was steering at the time??

Be nice if we had Nigel and the Tories ,let him sort out immigration and the Tories can keep the recovery going . Perfect ..

Max.

People and institutions borrowing too much and piling into property at inflated prices and insufficient regulation of banks and Jonies Come Lately spivs in the city.

With insufficient earnings to cover losses.

Similar to what led to the collapse of the Heath government.

non-dom taxation
the principle of scrapping this old and arcane rule cannot be wrong, though it is equally true to say that it probably won't yield much hard cash

for all that, the loophole, if you wish to call it that, would not exactly be closed, but rather just made a bit smaller

of course joe soap will cheer and with some justification

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fred - i'm very happy to have finished The Postman ..... i'm afraid it wasn't nearly as interesting as i had hoped

I found it candid and reflects the period of 40s, 50s early 60s and advances which have been made in UK society.

I admire Johnstone's resilience and his achievements.

But I am 10 years older than you and witnessed those incidences and remember much of the period, although protected from the harshness.

One can see why the "social" state evolved at the rate it has and the need for such.

You can read it as the making of a man,

i think he was a very decent cove and "boy done good" as of course have a great many others .....
however, the only real interest to me was his description of life on the Britwell, being an area I know very well .... that Militant and other hard-line lefties and activists were considered a real nightmare even by their union colleagues was also interesting, even if that was somewhat skated past

That's a brilliant picture Haystack , just about sums him up .Murderer !!

Is that a picture of Consertive Central Office or propaganda station going up in flames.

Goody!

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