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.

But we are for Dave:

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Can somebody put on his door, ' PLEASE DON'T DISTURB'!

Anyone else on here like figs?

Did you know that every fig has a decomposed DEAD WASP stuck inside it?

Figs are technically inverted flowers that store their pollen inside the fruits. As the female wasp slides through the narrow passage in the fig, her wings are ripped off and while she is unsuccessful in laying her eggs, she successfully pollinates the female flower. The now flightless female wasp dies inside the fig, where special enzymes break down her carcass into protein.

The fig basically digests the dead insect, making it part of the resulting ripened fruit. The special relationship, which biologists call an "obligate mutualism", has taken place unchanged for the past 34 million years.

There are 900 species of fig wasps, and each is responsible for pollinating one or two species of fig plant. Although neither the fig tree nor the wasp could reproduce without this deadly cycle, knowing vegetarians and vegans still rule the fruit out of their diet. In some countries, the consumption of insects is a common practice, since they're an excellent source of affordable protein. However some people aren't quite ready to tuck into critters for their lunch.

I will now have a go at putting you off ketchup, canned mushrooms and spinach salad.....

Ketchup is required to contain ‘no more than 30 fruit flies per 100grams'.
Canned mushrooms contain maggots. They just can't keep 'em out!
There is virtually bound to be at least the odd caterpillar in your spinach salad.

We have been invaded!

Giant Spanish slugs, which grow to six inches long, are immune to poison and are thriving following recent mild winters, are believed to have landed in the UK - most possibly coming in on imported salad and plants. They have spread from the Kent coast and slithered as far as London and East Anglia.

These voracious light brown predators eat beetles, snails, slugs and dog waste, as well as dead animals and crops.

Expert Dr Ian Bedford said: “We must kill them as they reproduce so rapidly. They make so much slime, they have no predators. An infestation will be devastating.”

He explained, that a single slug has sex with itself and can cause an infestation as it produces and fertilises 400 of its own eggs a year, twice that of UK varieties.

Here's what they look like:



The best way to kill them, is to drown them in a bucket of soapy water. They have an extra layer of slime and so squashing them underfoot, although killing them, creates yet another problem. Don't just bung them down the loo as they are highly likely to survive the journey to the sewage works and climb out the other end.

A quick reminder, that it's the Grand National this Saturday, 11th April.

I find that comment from Fallon on back stabbing is interesting, especially when coming from a party famous for backstabbing and having a cabinet, which almost to a man, stabbed "Maggie" in the back as a PM, and then scrambling for her job.

Laughable.

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Bring on Berlusconi Boris !

Election 2015: Why David Cameron will remain as prime minister

From: http://moneyweek.com/election-2015-why-david-cameron-will-remain-prime-minister/?utm_source=MMN&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=09-04-2015
By: Adrian Sykes
08/04/2015

The arithmetic suggests Cameron will still be at Number 10 after the election
We now have only four weeks to go until the election. Last time, I noted that I expect David Cameron to still be prime minister come 9 May, and today I’m going to explain to you why. It’s a simple matter of electoral arithmetic.

Take the latest odds, which come following the seven-way leadership debate. The ‘spread’ on seats has hardened to 284-88 (Tory) and softened to 269-73 (Labour). The SNP are marginally better (41-43), Ukip are unchanged (5-7), but the LibDems have weakened notably (23-25).

Bookies report that the expected weight of money is yet to come: not much of a ‘surge’ has been seen so far.

To win a majority, a government or coalition needs to take 323 of the 650 seats (I’m excluding Sinn Fein, who are expected to win six seats, but don’t take them up or vote). Also, the incumbent prime minister has the first shot at forming government, which could be a very significant advantage.

So at the current offer prices (ie the higher of the two figures in the spread), you’d have the Tories and the LibDems on 313. If they then throw in their lot with Ukip and the DUP, who are expected to win 14 seats between them, you’d have a majority of 327.

On the other side, you’d have Labour plus the SNP on 316. If the DUP join their coalition, that would make it up to 323. But Miliband has ruled out a coalition with the SNP, as have the LibDems.

So in all, it still looks as though a Conservative-led coalition is the more likely outcome.

As it is, I also expect the Conservatives to win more seats than the bookies are pricing in at the moment – primarily due to the big shift in Scotland. Come the big day, here’s how I expect the results to pan out.

Party .........Total seats.......Seats in Scotland
Tories 302 7
Labour 248 7
SNP 40 40
LibDem 31 5
DUP 7 0
Sinn Fein* 6 0
SDLP 3 0
Independent 2 0
Plaid Cymru 4 0
Alliance 1 0
Green 0 0
Respect 1 0
Speaker 1 0
UKIP 4 0
TOTAL 650 59
*Sinn Fein don’t take up their seats or vote

Under this scenario, Tories and the LibDems remain in coalition, with 302 seats and 31 respectively – a comfortable majority at 333. Although if necessary, they can add in Ukip and the DUP for another 11 seats, taking them to 344.

A Miliband-led opposition, composed of Labour (on 248 seats) and the SNP (on 40), would have 288 seats between them. Even if you add in SDLP, Plaid Cymru and others, that’s still only another 11 seats, for 299 (remember the Speaker and Sinn Fein do not use their votes).

So if the voting goes the way I expect it to, then only Cameron can form a government, even although it’s likely to be in coalition with the LibDems again. In no way can Miliband command a majority.

UK oil producers are celebrating what they are calling the biggest onshore oil discovery in the last 30 years in the land near Gatwick Airport.

An exploration firm (UKOG) has confirmed the land under Horse Hill near Gatwick could contain 158 million barrels of oil per square mile – up to 100 billion barrels in total. The firm is hoping it could meet between 10 per cent and 30 per cent of UK demand for oil by 2030.



More at: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/ukog-share-price-explodes-as-gatwick-explorers-tap-up-to-100-billion-barrels-of-oil--but-will-the-discovery-affect-petrol-prices-10164546.html

Exec.
"The arithmetic suggests Cameron will still be at Number 10 after the election"


I suggest that Dodgy Dave will twist, turn and try to bribe the lib/dem for a few days, but the tories, their policies and leadership are too toxic for others to support , and then he will scuttle out through the back door.

Of course this does not include the KIPPERS, BNP and Monster Loony party.
It interests me the crudity of smearing that Cameron is endorsing.

It would suggest that Cameron is frightened, and grasping at any straws he can think of.

It strikes me that the public in general is finding that how and what the tories represent more and more distasteful.

Ed Miliband's non-dom crackdown is 'cataclysmic'
Tax barristers warn 30,000 non-doms could leave Britain under Ed Miliband's plans to abolish tax status

By Steven Swinford, Deputy Political Editor9:30PM BST 08 Apr 2015
Tens of thousands of entrepreneurs and business leaders will leave Britain because of Labour's "cataclysmic" plans to scrap the "non-dom" tax status, experts have warned.
Leading tax barristers warned that 30,000 of Britain's 115,000 foreign investors could leave Britain in the wake of Ed Miliband's announcement that a Labour government would abolish the tax rules surrounding non-doms.
Mr Miliband claimed that the party will raise "at least" hundreds of millions by abolishing the rules, which he described as "the right thing to do".
But private banks, accountants, financial advisers and even the 'independent expert' who instructed Labour on the policy cast doubt on the Labour leader's assertions.
They pointed to official figures showing that non-doms pay £8.2billion in tax - as much as 10 million low-income workers.
Non-doms in numbers: how 115,000 non-doms pay as much tax as 10 million low-income workers
Ed Miliband's plans to scrap non-dom status explained
The Conservatives said Labour's policy had descended into "chaos" after a video emerged of Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, warning earlier this year that abolishing the non-dom rule would cost Britain money.


David Cameron said: "What we have seen from Labour...is frankly pretty chaotic - on the one hand saying they want of get rid of non-dom status and on the other saying that if they did so it would cost the country money.
"This goes to a bigger issue, which is when you see such confusion over a policy like this are these people really capable or competent of running an economy? I think people will conclude no, they are not."


Labour's latest policy was further undermined when when Jolyon Maugham, a tax barrister who helped Labour develop the policy, admitted that it may result in an "enormous flight" of wealthy taxpayers from Britain.
He said he believed the policy could raise up to £1billion, but admitted that there was a risk of a "negative tax yield".


The Institute for Fiscal Studies, the respected economic forecaster, said that the impact of the policy is so uncertain that it could "raise £1bn or even less than zero".
Under current rules, wealthy foreigners can apply for non-dom status to avoid paying tax on overseas earnings and capital gains. The status can also be inherited, meaning some people can benefit from the status despite being born and brought up in Britain.
The status is thought to be used by Roman Abramovich, the Russian billionaire and owner of Chelsea football club, and Lakshmi Mittal, the steel baron and a former Labour donor.
Labour said it will scrap the rules, giving non-doms already living in Britain a transition period of around two years to "get their affairs in order". Foreigners in the UK will have to pay tax on all their earnings after "two to three years".

Milliband seems to make it up as he goes along ,anything for a vote . Biggest disaster if he gets in ..

58442 - except that (a) they don't yet have a licence to drill, (b) do they even have the money to drill in the event that they ever a licence (months and months away, if not 1/2/3 years in any case), (c) the notional reserve is nowhere near proven, (d) even the company admits that only between 3 and 15% of any reserves are likely to prove recoverable

tread carefully and good luck to any who have put money on the table

Will be interesting to see London and S.E turned into an "oil field"!

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I never typed that!

Petrol in Sussex will be 2p a gallon Fred , be like living in Venezuela .

My home town.

I will nip down there and fill up.

09 Apr 2015 | News

TNS Poll: Election race remains tight


London – 9 April – A new poll by TNS UK shows that voter intention figures are as follows:

LAB 33% (+1), CON 30% (-3), LIB DEM 8% (0), UKIP 19% (+3), GREEN 4% (-1), OTHER 7 (0)

Commenting, Dr Michelle Harrison, TNS Head of Political and Social, said “This latest poll points to neither Labour nor the Conservative party securing a decisive bounce after the leadership debate. All the indications are that we continue to face a result where no one party secures an overall majority.

“A loss of trust in traditional institutions combined with major social change – including economic growth without wage inflation – is resulting in a Britain in flux.”



More: http://www.tns-bmrb.co.uk/news/tns-poll-election-race-remains-tight

How I stopped worrying and came to love the bomb.

Haze.

At this rate UKIP will have more seats than Con artists' party.

The tories are debasing UK politics and the public are reacting accordingly.

Bulling Club bully boys traits showing through and in the public arena.

Haze.

At this rate UKIP will have more seats than Con artists' party.

The tories are debasing UK politics and the public are reacting accordingly.

Bulling Club bully boys traits showing through and in the public arena.