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.

It is problem for a fast expanding party. It is not possible to vet the candidates as there is very little party machinery locally. The mainstream parties go through lengthy selection processes. With UKIP, it is probably a case of a passing stranger who agrees to stand. You are bound to attract the crazies.

What has quickly become known as the “Ed Stone” has managed to make Neil Kinnock’s Sheffield Rally look shy and retiring,’ he said.

Experts said the limestone slab was likely to have cost tens of thousands of pounds, taken several weeks to produce and weigh in excess of one ton.

Steve Walley, managing director of London Stone, said: ‘That will not be cheap. It looks to me like Portland limestone. We’re talking thousands of pounds just for the materials. What’s he going to do with it if he doesn’t get into No 10?’

Ryan Jennings, a stonemason from North-West London, said: ‘You are looking at quite a lot. I would charge £30,000 for that. A limestone slab that big is expensive, and you’ve got a lot of work to do to it.

‘You’ve got to find a competent stone carver to get all the words done properly.

‘There are not a lot of good stonemasons around of that quality, and the best ones charge on a “sky’s the limit” basis.’

Labour aides refused to discuss the cost of the carving, where it is being stored or suggestions that it was the brainchild of one of Mr Miliband’s senior aides, Torsten Bell.

John Rentoul, Tony Blair’s biographer, said: ‘Ed Miliband must have agreed to it. I think it’s the most absurd, embarrassing, childish, silly, patronising, ridiculous gimmick I have ever seen.’

London Mayor Boris Johnson described the monument as ‘some weird Commie slab’.

I'll bet it was on expenses.

What will they do with it?

They could rewrite it - "The Epitaph To A Moron".

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Don't be fooled by the mainstream telling you UKIP will only get a few seats.




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UKIP may get only one seat - Clacton.

My response to my doctor will be, "Ask me or my appointed Power of Attorney again nearer the time of my death."

Anyone else done a Lasting Power of Attorney? (edited)

Then you perhaps should?

Do spouses need power of attorney?

No.

They can kill you without one of those.

So watch out.

My wife has half the power to pull all the plug.

I can get my own back if she abuses that power because I have half the power to pull all of hers.

It's a wonder you right wingers are able to get out of bed what with all the fear you seemingly think about.

Fear a Labour Government Stan? That's not fear it's a living nightmare. Thank goodness I live in Scotland if it occurs.

Exec,

Going back the Private/NHS Medical Staffing and waiting times etc.

Unfortunately the divide has been since NHS conception, when Nye bribe the Medical Consultants to get them to accept the organisation.

The waiting list were always a problem and utilised by the privateers to increase the waiting time, making it faster and more profitable for some of the consultants who had private practice.

Always thought that in general, the two groups should be one or the other, but those choosing private practice should repay the cost of training them and not avail themselves of the advertisement of working in the NHS.

Not very popular.

However, there have always been full time consultants in the NHS and nearly all academic staff (Profs and lecturers, research) were. Many working very long hours which would make many others blush. (They enjoyed or caught up in their research etc.)

Personally, I think there is inbuilt inefficiencies the NHS and I think it is time the Medics pull their fingers out and address them.

The problem is that medicine has been commercialised and the responsibility for much organisation of the planning, in face to face medicine is not the responsibility but the managers.
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But if you ever go to the dentist who is living in to-day's world ask her the cost of the "machinery" in "surgery".

The cost of "present" practice is colossal.

Then apply it to a hospital.