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.

Boris Slams 'Namby Pamby' Campaign Complaints

Boris Johnson has refused to apologise about negative campaigning by the Conservative party, saying that people should stop being so "namby pamby" about political attacks.

On a day that the Mayor of London was unleashed to try to woo back UKIP voters, he told Sky News that he could not understand when Britain had become so unable to cope with the ferocity of the campaign trail.

Mr Johnson said comparing the SNP in Westminster to a fox in the henhouse was not unfair but a "deeply accurate" representation.

"This is politics. I just can't understand what has happened to us as a country," he said.

"I had someone saying to me that Nicola Sturgeon was deeply offended because I said putting the SNP in charge of running England is like putting Herod in charge of a baby farm. Actually the whole charter of the SNP is to break up Britain."

The interview took place during a day in which Sky News accompanied Mr Johnson on the campaign trail.

As well as walkabouts in London, the Mayor travelled to Ramsgate, in Kent, to try to win over voters who may be considering backing the UKIP leader Nigel Farage.

His comments on personal attacks will be seen as supportive of the campaign being choreographed by Lynton Crosby, the Australian strategist who has been accused by critics of being too negative.

He also ran Mr Johnson's 2012 campaign against Labour's Ken Livingstone.
Mr Johnson added: "If we've become so namby pamby and sensitive and so offended by a spot of common or garden political imagery then what is happening to us as a nation?" he asked.

He then repeated attacks of the idea of the SNP propping up Labour after the election. But he rejected those who have said the Tory message was putting the union at risk by encouraging Scots to vote SNP.

"The polls are obvious, Labour has given up in Scotland. I keep reading these devastating accounts, they are miles behind.

"They could lose 40 seats. Total massacre. Perhaps more. You could have 50 SNP members of parliament, so the only way you can have a Labour parliament is bolting them on," he said.

He admitted that his own party had to think about how to address the nationalist surge, because it could mean a chance of another referendum that might not be won.

I think the risk is that you'll have a long and very scratchy, difficult, chaotic period in which Labour is held to ransom by the SNP. Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond wearing the tartan trousers, Scottish tail wagging the English dog.

"I think that will build up such a sense of impatience in the English electorate then there is a real risk of a rupture."

He said that he and Nigel Farage had last spoken years ago, once trying to persuade each other to join their parties.

Not only chicken but scared s------ of Sturgeon.

Needs Farage to protect his a...... and the DUP to blackmail him for chicken feed and out of the EU.

Not his fault Gov.

He is just chicken feed.

Any truth in the rumour that Boris is joining the UKIP party?


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Grant Shapps accused of editing Wikipedia pages of Tory rivals
Online encyclopedia administrators block user account believed to be run by Tory party co-chairman or ‘someone else ... under his clear direction’


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Grant Shapps did not respond after he was sent a detailed exposition of the changes made by Contribsx. Photograph: Ray Tang/Rex
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Wikipedia has blocked a user account on suspicions that it is being used by the Conservative party chairman, Grant Shapps, “or someone acting on his behalf” to edit his own page along with the entries of Tory rivals and political opponents.

The online encyclopedia, where pages are edited and created by readers, has tracked the changes made by a user called “Contribsx” who has systematically removed embarrassing references on Shapps’ Wikipedia page about the Tory chairman’s business activities as Michael Green, the self-styled millionaire web marketer.

A Guardian investigation found about a third of the contributions made by this user were to Shapps’ own Wikipedia entry while the rest are made up largely of unflattering changes to the online pages to senior political figures – including prominent figures in the Tory party such as Philip Hammond, the foreign secretary, Justine Greening, the international development secretary, and Lynton Crosby, Conservative election campaign strategist.

Wikipedia says that “sock-puppetry” – creating a fake online identity “for an improper purpose, such as to mislead other editors, disrupt discussions, distort consensus or avoid sanctions” – is not permitted.

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What a party, even smearing their own.


Has he been fired?

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Once a Tory clown... always a Tory clown.

Any truth in the rumour that Boris is joining the UKIP party?

It's high time we had a piece on here about these bastards....

Let's see if we can hunt them out to name them and shame them. What they have done cannot possibly equate with doing any kind of a good, conscientious job in their remit of managing and getting the best out of our NHS. All these bastards have been doing is milking the system and feathering their own nests. They ALL deserve the sack!

Hey Tanker! Where are you? This is right up yuor street! Help me on this one, will you please?

NHS bosses 'receive £35m in pay rises' despite hospital funding crisis
Ewan Palmer By Ewan Palmer
April 20, 2015 09:46 BST 11

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Hospital executives received £35 million in pay rises despite pressures on NHS spending(Getty)

NHS bosses have been accused of "shamelessly milking the NHS" after they were found to have earned more than £35m ($52m) in pay rises despite unprecedented spending cuts.

Some executives were found to have earned more than £1m last year, while a handful of bosses at some of the worst-performing hospitals still received bonuses of up to £5,000 a day, reported the Daily Mail.

An investigation found some executives saw pay rises of 6% while nurses at the same hospitals have faced pay freezes for the past five years.

The highest paid boss was Tricia Hart at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, who was paid up to £1.26m last year, according to the investigation. This was despite the Trust currently running a £4.4m deficit.

Overall, the number of bosses who earn more than David Cameron's salary of £142,500 a year have risen by 30% to nearly 600 in the past year. A total of 47 hospital bosses received more than £400,000 last year at a time when 53% of Trusts are in deficit.

The average salary for a nurse in the UK is £26,000.

Government adviser Ros Altmann said the findings were "on the scale of the MPs' expenses scandal".

Both Labour and the Conservatives have promised to launch a review into the findings.

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt said: "A future Conservative government would ask the Department of Health to look at the Mail's investigation in detail to ensure taxpayers are getting the best value for money from managers who must always deliver the best patient care.

"People who do a good job for patients should be paid fairly, but the NHS is a public service and too often high executive pay has been awarded as a matter course, not because of exceptional performance.

"Our tough new inspection regime shines a light on leadership, and our redundancy payment cap is already eliminating some of the worst abuses of the system that grew up under Labour."

Andy Burnham, Labour's shadow health secretary added: "If there has been any abuse it has to be tackled."

"This is excessive at a time when we are asking other NHS staff to exercise restraint.

"There has to be fairness top to bottom in the National Health Service."

Sir Brian Jarman, former president of the British Medical Association, said: "It is wrong. It is as simple as that. It seems to be manipulating the system.

"They should be putting their attention on to lowering their death rates or seeing if there is a problem with the quality of care rather than getting themselves higher incomes."

Altmann added: "It is outrageous, it is so wrong. The bosses who have access to top financial advice are milking the system. The rules would never have been intended to be used in this manner.

"They think they can get away with it just because the law allows it. But morally it is questionable. It is like the MPs' expenses scandal.

"Just as politicians felt entitled to claim money they should not receive so senior managers in the NHS feel entitled to this money just because it is not against the rules. It is not the right thing to do."

The tories have been in "charge" of the NHS for 5 years.

Overpaying their mates, perhaps?

The tories have been in "charge" of the NHS for 5 years.

Overpaying their mates, perhaps?


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EL Just leave it to the Hunt to do his worst.

Your lot where in for three terms Fred, have you got an eye/memory problem ?

He must have been looking for Edwina!

Bring back the good old days!

Why is it OK for the UK to leave the EU in order to rule itself, but not for Scotland to leave the UK?

Standaaaard! (as the paper seller used to shout)... double Standards as the lesser crested Tory moans.

Fred.

The jocks were given the chance to rool themselves, and bottled it.

What don't you understand about recent history?

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if scotland wants to go it alone, then fine, but they should not then interfere in laws and the like that are not their concern

i confess it's the baleful influence of mccluskey and his hard-left militant buddies who should give every bit as much concern