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.

Ed Miliband could still win. Here’s what would happen next

He’s not an out-and-out ideologue. But he is indecisive, full of strange ideas about business, and convinced that he’s a man of destiny

Dan Hodges 11 April 2015


One head of a FTSE100 company recently granted a rare audience with the putative First Lord of the Treasury sat dumbstruck as Miliband asked him, ‘Why exactly do you need to pay your shareholders dividends?’




Whole article here: http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9494602/ed-miliband-could-still-win-heres-what-would-happen-next/

well I am back had a few days in scotland and can say this sturgeon is all mouth
a big mouth gutless woman a man hater a woman hater
she is false a liar and will hide before she answers questions on defence
she would put up the white flag and give Scotland to any attacker fact
she is a gutless big mouth hiding behind her position
my brother in law and all is family are scottish and ashamed of her

She speaks very highly of you TANK. :0)

sturgeon is a foul person

glasgow

lets let Scotland go close the border .

Glasgow

A few weeks ago Ed Miliband went into the FT to meet the senior editorial team and put his case. The FT is the most Europhile paper in Britain, with a surprisingly large number of left-of-centre journalists for a business paper. The paper prides itself on operating more like an Oxford college than a go-getting scoop-hungry newsroom, far too grand to indulge in partisan campaigning. In short Miliband had a good chance of winning the pink ‘uns endorsement by emphasising his Europhile credentials, reminding them of Cameron’s supposed Euroscepticism and by signalling that he sounds more anti-business than he would be in office. All to play for…

Ed is not famously sympathetic to business – he has never worked in the private sector. One head of a FTSE 100 company recently given facetime with Miliband was reportedly stunned into silence when Ed asked him “Why exactly do you need to pay your shareholders dividends?” It went just as badly at the FT. Miliband misjudged the room, incorrectly assuming that the FT’s donnish commentators were intrinsically hostile. His answers to questions were embarrassingly shallow and by the end of the Q&A Lionel Barber, not famed for suffering fools gladly, was verging on contempt. Only Phil Stevens could muster any enthusiasm for the Labour leader. The FT is a swing paper for opinion formers, backing Labour in 2005, it backed Cameron in 2010. Insiders say it is now out of the question that the FT will endorse Miliband and his anti-business agenda.

Tory fears that the paper would back Labour because of Miliband’s opposition to an EU referendum are turning to hope that the FT will endorse the coalition’s continuance.

If the Scots had gone independent......there would have been 2 time zones perhaps within the British Isles....I say perhaps...

Don't like the BBC news website since the change.....was much better before....

I dunno rf, but where else could you get cutting edge news stories like this?



Gay penguin story on list of disputed library books


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-32283933

Classic Guardian misprint today

RF

I agree [ bbc website ] , I don't like the AOL news website , the streaming news items are a right pain , and a lot of it is trivial , that's apart the bloody pop up adds, and huffington post is bad journo,lot of articles are misleading and untrue

What have we seen from Tories with Cameron and a "second" class Chancellor who belong more in the Bullingdon Club than government!

or this with the profits going into the pockets being diverted into their own pockets!

A Polish prince from London has challenged Ukip leader Nigel Farage to an 18th Century-style duel in Hyde Park.

Janek Żyliński, the aristocratic son of cavalry officer Captain Andrzej Żyliński, who led a victorious charge against the Nazis in Kaluszyn, near Warsaw, in 1939, helping save 6,000 Jews, has posted an open message to the parliamentary candidate on YouTube.

In the video, Żyliński, who lives in Ealing, explains that he’s had enough of the discrimination against immigrants from people such as Mr Farage.

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Bloody cheek !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we saved your arse last time ,call yourself ungrateful !!

Just watched Milubland delivering his manifesto. It was the same vague nonsense. He has a new phrase - "let me make this clear".

"let me make this clear". and i'll make it up as i go along !!