goldfinger
- 09 Jun 2005 12:25
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.
aldwickk
- 26 Apr 2015 09:25
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Here is something for Fred and Stan to choke on their cornflakes
Warner Music owner Len Blavatnik is Britain's richest man with a £13.17bn fortune, according to The 2015 Sunday Times Rich List.
He takes the top spot from brothers Sri and Gopi Hinduja, now worth £13bn.
The total wealth of the richest 1,000 individuals and families in Britain has more than doubled in the last 10 years to £547bn, the survey reported.
The Queen, who topped the first list in 1989, has dropped out of the top 300 for the first time.
There are now 117 billionaires on the list, up from 104 in 2014, with 80 of them living in London.
Mr Blavatnik, whose investments range from metals and oil to music publishing and digital media, has a £41m home in London and has donated £75m to Oxford University to found the Blavatnik School of Government.
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The highest risers in terms of wealth are the retail family headed by Galen and George Weston, who run Selfridges and Primark in the UK.
Their fortune has grown by £3.7bn - more than 50% in a year - to £11bn.
Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich comes in at number 10 on the list with a fortune of £7.29bn, down £1.23bn on last year, while Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson has seen his wealth rise from £3.6bn to £4.1bn, making him 20th richest in Britain.
A personal fortune of £100m is now required to become one of the 1,000 richest people in the country, up £15m compared with last year's entry point of £85m.
In 1997 it took a fortune of just £15m to join Britain's richest 1,000 people.
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Haystack
- 26 Apr 2015 09:33
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Opinium/Observer – CON 34%, LAB 33%, LDEM 9%, UKIP 13%, GRN 6%
Survation/Mail on Sunday – CON 33%, LAB 30%, LDEM 9%, UKIP 18%, GRN 4%
dreamcatcher
- 26 Apr 2015 10:03
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I personally think if Boris was in DC's seat we would be reading a much bigger lead in the polls by the conservatives. The Labour party would truly be stuffed along with all the other duff parties.
Ps does not concern me one iota that Dave forgets which football team he supports . All you very sad voters (and one non voter) wan't to get real. What does concern me is Balls not being able to do a simple arithmetic sum . Football is so so boooooooooooring anyway. Come on Dave .
:-))
required field
- 26 Apr 2015 10:20
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Looks like the Euro is set for a further dramatic drop if you ask me....all this Greece talk....looks like they want to default and remain within the euro......it just can't work....so....I presume with the uncertainty : the Euro can only plunge....
aldwickk
- 26 Apr 2015 10:49
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Why don't they sell/lease some of their small island's to rich foreigners ?
Haystack
- 26 Apr 2015 10:50
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The only good thing that Gordon Brown did was to keep us out of the Euro. Blair wanted us to join, but Brown used the Treasury economic model to prove it would be bad for us.
Stan
- 26 Apr 2015 11:11
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H/S The not so secret Labour follower.
Chris Carson
- 26 Apr 2015 12:29
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Ooooops!! (Or is it? Course we believe everything you say Ed LOL!!!!)
Ed Miliband rules out any deals with the SNP
Andrew Whitaker
10:44Sunday 26 April 2015
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HAVE YOUR SAY
Ed Miliband has ruled out a confidence and supply deal with the SNP in the event of a hung parliament, stating that he was “not doing deals with the Scottish National Party”.
The Labour leader, when asked on the BBC’s the Andrew Marr show, if he would negotiate with Nicola Sturgeon in the event of a hung parliament said: “It’s not happening”.
The Labour leader said an SNP vote would mean a “road” to a second referendum, as he suggested that the nationalists were following a similar agenda to the Tories by setting one part of the UK against another.
Mr Miliband said that if he was Prime Minister it would be a “Labour budget” and a “Labour Queen’s speech” that he said was “not going to be written by the SNP”.
When pressed on whether he was ruling out a confidence and supply deal with the SNP as well as any formal coalition, he said: “No deals”.
Mr Miliband’s remarks came after the Tory London mayor Boris Johnson said that the prospect of a Labour-SNP alliance in charge of the UK government was “deeply disturbing”.
36 comments
What next nats?
Labour don't want you!
You don't want the Conservative and probably the feeling is mutual?
So with all these seats you believe you are going to get what are you going to do? Sit on the side lines and dream of what could have been had one of those party's taken you up on your offer?
You were so close to destroying the UK and then wheech the rug was pulled from under you.
Now you may never get the number of seats due to voters now opting for the party they really want to run the country.
Vote Conservative and they may win
Vote Labour and they may win
Vote SNP because they have the word Scottish in their title (hardly a valid reason) but no chance of winning anything
The SNP are not FOR the people of Scotland they NEED the people of Scotland to achieve control of us by stealth and deceit!
"To finally give Scotland some say in Westminster."
Labour said theres no deal.
You wont do a deal with the Tories.
So I ask now, whats the point in voting for the SNP?
"Neither the SNP nor UKIP should be dealt with by mainstream parties. Organisations like this promoting division, them/us chauvinism and bigotry have no place in 21st Century Britain" - Bamboo
It was mainstream party that caused so much division in the UK in the 80s that the fallout is still with us today.
red ed the glaikit and gormless boy can not be trusted to push a zebra crossing button so who is going to trust him with the nuclear button not the people of the nation that's for sure.
the glaikit and gormless boy red ed already has a master in the Unite union so what is the point of him making deals with other parties when he will never be PM he knows it we know it and the nation knows it.
Stan
- 26 Apr 2015 12:59
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CC now known as CP= Cut & Paste -):
cynic
- 26 Apr 2015 14:09
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to steal from the wireless .....
people will vote for fear rather than hope of what the opposition (whatever colour) will bring
Haystack
- 26 Apr 2015 14:18
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Let us hope so; fear of Milband/SNP and socialism.
Haystack
- 26 Apr 2015 14:38
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Haystack
- 26 Apr 2015 14:40
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Haystack
- 26 Apr 2015 14:45
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Haystack
- 26 Apr 2015 14:46
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Fred1new
- 26 Apr 2015 15:28
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After all that blustering from the tory camp followers!
Have a look at how the con party financed its laughable weak recovery and the false promises or lies around it.
Fred1new
- 26 Apr 2015 15:32
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Fred1new
- 26 Apr 2015 15:35
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I think Osborne and Cameron a bullshitting and conning the Blue Bottle or the gadfly party!
cynic
- 26 Apr 2015 15:38
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fred - is that the 28th or 29th time you have posted the same chart? ..... if your family knew, i'm sure they would already have taken steps to have you taken into a residential care home