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.

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 !!

why would you expect anything different from any of these buggers?

basic truths .....
1) there's only so much money in the coffers to utilise
2) you can borrow more and more and more, except you'll be warned off that
3) you can tax more and more and more, except you'll be warned off that
4) you can admit after the event that there just isn't the wherewithal to deliver what everyone thinks you promised - except you didn't exactly promise or promise exactly what they thought anyway!

The fear for me is that they will trash the economy with their tax rises.

Next thing, there won't be money in the kitty to pay for what they want to spend it on.

What will happen then? More tax rises? More debt? Then more unemployment?

Do you remember tory fairy stories.

Manuel and the Haze were brought up on them!

Goldilocks is a bare loss.

Perhaps the most cringe-worthy moment, from a crowded field at Labour’s manifesto launch, was when Ed had to beg members not to jeer and boo journalists:

It didn’t work though, they were soon jeering Sky News.

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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tell the polish scum to ask me I will take the challenge
my father died saving scum like him to run away like most polish
the country was not worth one English life for the country is what it is full of cowards not willing to make their country fit to live in
hitler was not wrong about them
my father is turning in is grave dad you died for nothing

a polish prince lives in ealing what a bloody twirp a traitor to is country

got to give it the polish they are good shoplifters and most are just that
have witnessed quite a few and held them with the security till the police come

the polish flyers probably wondered why they bothered to help the likes of you too

so why did they need the brits to save them
good people do not leave their country for money
most might retire for the sun very few go for money
Poland must be a shit hole .
and the polish do not want to fight to make it better

FACT
THEY WANT TO LIVE OFF THE BACKS OF THOSE THAT DID FIGHT FOR A BETTER COUNTRY