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.

Just a little example of the difference between France and the UK.......when they had the Provence landings anniversary last year : the most important thing was the number of people that had dinner on their aircraft carrier !....800 people all sat down to a gourmet meal !.....that was the biggest thing !.....perhaps they are right.....what's the point of a war ?.....let's all tuck in.....

the french had a very ambivalent attitude towards "their own" vichy gov't .... whereas parts of southern france had strong maquis (resistance) sympathies, around marseille was not so inclined, and so too lyon

thus, if you walk around nice, there are commemorative plaques on almost every street corner
however, if you go to salon-de-provence (just outside marseille), these plaques are conspicuous by their absence - i haven't visited marseille proper ..... indeed, the memorial to one of the great resistance leaders (jean moulin) is tucked away along a country road which you'll probably only find by chance

a good indication, i feel, of where the local population's sympathies lay

It also depends on the maire.....a maire has big influence in France within their communities, much more so than in the UK......they are like "petits rois" (little kings) so decisions to commemorate can be more in some places than others....Marseille suffered in WWII with the streets being blown up by the Nazis because they feared it turning into a Warsaw ghetto with resistance fighters....

https://yougov.co.uk/news/2015/04/24/ranking-coalitions/

Majority Conservative government the ‘least bad option’ – voters

All possible governments have net negative ratings among voters – but a Conservative majority is considered the least bad possibility for the country

Just two weeks before the general election, the race is too close to call. A hung parliament is the most likely outcome, and as the parties have come round to the fact the campaign has become a discussion of which combinations of parties may be able to govern, and which arrangement may be best for the UK. The Conservatives have focused on a ‘chaotic’ Labour-SNP pact, the SNP have been promised to lock out the Tories with Labour, and the Lib Dems want to steer either main party towards the centre.

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http://www.ukip.org/ukip_manifesto_summary

He will be forgetting his own lies next!

David Cameron has blamed a “brain fade” for forgetting his football team during his speech in Croydon, urging the audience to back West Ham instead of Aston Villa . The blunder has resulted in many jokes and criticisms by the PM’s rivals and laughter!

Haze seemsto have missed this:


Labour lead at 2
Latest YouGov / The Sun results 24th April - Con 33%, Lab 35%, LD 8%, UKIP 13%, GRN 6%; APP -11

David Cameron has blamed a “brain fade” for forgetting his football team during his speech in Croydon, urging the audience to back Wet Spam instead of Aston Vanilla . The blunder has resulted in many jokes and criticisms by the PM’s rivals and laughter!

"Forgetting" your football team? What an idiot!.. he will be forgetting his own name next -):

but less important than forgetting to mention immigration in one of your key speeches don't you think?

Less important than Miliband forgetting to mention the economy and the defecit in his conference speach

I saw a news broadcast on the election about journalists who have to follow round Miliband. They were complaining that Ed doesn't even travel on the bus most of the time meaning there are no opportunities to interview him. He is always surrounded by a sea of Labour minders as they are terrified that he will commit some awful gaff if he actually speaks to anyone. No wonder he is getting bad press.

oh it was the economy he forgot was it .... thought it was immigration, but no matter

It was immigration as well. He obviously forgets a lot

bet he wishes he could forget NS and AS!

EU chiefs brand Greek finance minister 'a time-waster, a gambler and an amateur' amid warnings that Grexit is now a 'serious option'

Yanis Varoufakis in furious exchanges with EU counterparts
Private talks in Riga described as ‘hammering’ for Greece
Warnings that a Greek exit from the single currency is now a ‘serious’ option

Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis was yesterday branded ‘a time-waster, a gambler and an amateur’ during furious exchanges with his European counterparts.

In private talks that were described as a ‘hammering’ for Greece in the Latvian capital of Riga, eurozone finance ministers hurled abuse at Varoufakis, pictured, amid warnings that a Greek exit from the single currency is now a ‘serious’ option.

Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch chairman of the Eurogroup of treasury chiefs, could barely contain his anger at the failure by Athens to deliver the economic reforms required to secure further emergency funding to keep Greece afloat.

Greece desperately needs the next tranche of its bailout to survive – worth around £5.2billion – but is at loggerheads with Europe and the International Monetary Fund over what is required to release the funds.

‘A comprehensive and detailed list of reforms is needed,’ said Dijsselbloem. ‘We are all aware that time is running out. Too much time has been lost. The responsibility lies mainly on the side of the Greek authorities.’

Varoufakis insisted that the two sides have come ‘much closer together’ and that Athens is ready to make ‘big compromises’ to secure the funding required to stave off bankruptcy. But Dijsselbloem said there are still ‘big, big problems to be solved’. Malta’s finance minister Edward Scicluna said: ‘I would describe today’s meeting as a complete breakdown in communication with Greece.’

Manfred Weber, an ally of German chancellor Angela Merkel, said: ‘Today it’s the case that the entire eurozone stands against Greece. There are more serious discussions about Grexit.’

According to Bloomberg, finance chiefs at the Eurogroup meeting in Riga said Varoufakis’s handling of the situation was ‘irresponsible’ and accused him of being ‘a time-waster, a gambler and an amateur’. If Greece does not sign up to painful reforms in order to secure fresh funding, it may not be able to repay the IMF the £720million it owes next month. Failure to repay the money would lead to default – and could force Greece out of the euro.

Cameron suffering from “brain fade”... Any excuse, more like he doesn't like football full stop the Lying toe rag!

Could be worse Stan he could have said Burnley! Going down going down going down! Just like Labour in Scotland GOING DOWN!!!!! :o)

The only reason he didn't say Burnley was because he probably doesn't know we are in the Premadona.