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.

the real trouble is, is that none of the main party leaders is seen as having any charisma

they can and all do prattle on about how different their policies are from one another
However, as fred's mate in france has discovered, though one can tinker around the edges and impose (or not) assorted "spite and jealousy" taxes as they have in france, it is exceedingly difficult if not impossible to change things at the core ..... hence the french economy remains a disaster

the only "success" hollande can now claim, is to have boosted immeasurably the standing of FN ..... a salutary lesson to be learnt perhaps

It's like watching a Brian Rix farce on here , enter someone stage left .( God I feel old ).

Loving someone, does not necessarily include agreeing with their views .......

quite so, but being loudly vocal about the disdain and contempt in which you hold someone, cannot by any stretch of the imagination or even semantics be described as "loving your fellow man"

Have a look at France's economy in 2 years time.

Must admit I thought they would be doing better than they are.

Manuel.

Hence my remark: Post 59089

"Strangely, I think, although not always adhering to its principle precept I have been influenced by it."

Anyone on here ever had a Reversing Camera fitted to their car by the guys who come out to do the job at your home? eg. Autologic

The answer to the question, "When you arrive, how long do you think it will take you to do the job?" was "About 40 minutes."

Hmmm?

It can't be all that difficult, I'm thinking.
Another thing is that these camera sell on eBay for about £30. I see they fit into the Rear Number Plate illumination light housing.

Big Question: Is this job easy enough to do yourself?

(My motor is an AMG Merc Estate with a 'Comand' System. The dealership quote is around £900 + VAT for this job if it isn't supplied as a factory fitted option with the new car. The dealership charge/method of getting one sounds like a complete 'rip off' to me.)

(Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron has squandered Britain's global influence by forging an inward-looking approach to international affairs that has left the world's fifth-largest economy isolated, opposition Labour leader Ed Miliband said on Friday.

Less than two weeks before a May 7 election, Miliband dragged Cameron's foreign policy record to the heart of a campaign which has so far seen almost no debate of international affairs beyond references to immigration.

Citing Cameron's absence from Franco-German talks on Ukraine with Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, the chaos in Libya and the Conservative promise of a vote on European Union membership, Miliband said the prime minister has torpedoed British clout.


"My case is that David Cameron has presided over the biggest loss of influence for our country in a generation," Miliband told an audience in London.


"It is time to reject the small-minded isolationism that I believe has characterised this government, because I believe it is an approach that has shrunk our influenced and weakened Britain."


In what opinion polls indicate is the closest British election in a generation, Miliband and Cameron are the only likely candidates to lead Britain's next government.

Miliband used the biggest foreign policy speech of his campaign to accuse Cameron of putting short-term party politics ahead of the national interest, especially over Europe.

Cameron, he said, promised a referendum on European Union membership by the end of 2017 to appease Eurosceptics in his party and to counter the rise of the UK Independence Party, which has poached Conservative voters.


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Is he representing the tories or the Faragists?

£84.99 diy reversing kit, should be easy enough to fit, but not sure about the command system (whatever that is) Give maplin a call, they have plenty of tech/geeks who will probably be able to answer as to suitability.


http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/maplin-wireless-reversing-camera-kit-for-cars-a11lb

EM says of course, but then he would wouldn't he

Very difficult to change anything in France at at all.....they are so entrenched in their ways.....their unions are stronger than ours....you have to have unions but theirs are just like nuts.....you just can't do a thing.....they just don't encourage business at all.....they say they do, but they don't...obstacle after obstacle....I know ; I've lived there....and now they are stuck in this euro debacle.....not their fault but along with the richer nations : they are subsidising the poorer ones....

You are lucky.

To live. (there)

Which part?

Not now Fred....went to school from the age of nine until the age of 24....but I know southern France pretty well...and still retain many contacts there....

I think it is a beautiful country and would liked to have lived there. Preferably, below Paris in the warmth.

Know the Dordogne area very well and a lot of the south, but too cold in the winter.

I am never sure if the French deserve their country!

8-)

perhaps you think the libyans, algerians, moroccans and similar should inherit the earth, or at least france

When you due to go abroad again?

Why not?

munich and budapest early/mid may

fred - why not? ask the locals around marseille .... they'ld probably even prefer to have you your your ilk

How about tomorrow -):

I always had a friendly reception in Marseilles when they saw my dragon!

Locals were very friendly.

That's not a very nice nickname for your wife Freddy Boyo, I would be happy to pay your fare on condition no internet connection where you settled in France.