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's certainly ok now, so i assume just a brief blip

welfare cuts
i fully understand and accept the need to make assorted and significant cuts, and i'm sure welfare in its various guises consumes a disproportionate amount of the exchequer's monies

however, i do have very real concerns that at least good proportion of the impending cuts will come from the very lowest sector of our society, and potentially unfairly so - and i don't mean just as perceived by the bleeding heart brigade

imposed acceptance quota of refugee immigrants
what a totally disgraceful abuse of undemocratic eu powers!
no wonder there is such a significant % of the population that wants out

however, there are a good number of countries other than uk who want to block this, so let's hope they collectively carry the day

There are already several countries angry about this, chiefly Hungary. Apparently, we are the only country that can legally say no.

i think the hungarian gov't is pretty right wing so not surprised

Ed Balls gets £88,000 in redundancy for losing his job as MP and Shadow Chancellor.

But fear not for Ed. Geoffrey Robinson, Labour MP for Coventry may fall on his sword and trigger a by election that Balls can stand for.

Hmmm. Putting Dick Ed II forward as a candidate would be a great way of turning a safe Labour seat into a marginal. :o)

RED FRED is awfully quiet, can't think why?

This should be interesting one to follow...

Our MP, Andrea Leadsom, has been promoted from a junior Treasury post to become Minister of State at the Department of Energy and Climate Change.



Why? Well, Andrea been a vocal critic of the HS2 rail project which is due to run through part of her South Northamptonshire constituency. This project is being spoken of as costing an absolute fortune and is of no use whatsoever for anyone living along its route. It is also particularly energy wasteful.

Hmmm? I wonder if she will try and get the project scrapped? She is well able enough to do just that.

Just done a post and can't see it.

This problem has been going on for a few weeks now.

I haven't seen any comments from Ian about sorting it out so I take it it is going to get left as is.

Pathetic or wot?

If you cannot see what you've posted, well, what is the point of wasting your time doing a post.

And so much too, for the Edit button, eh?

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Interesting....

Post a '.' and then you can see your previous post.

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And you can see the '.' immediately you post it too.

This problem is surely an HTML coding issue.

don't tell fred for otherwise his repetitive posts will go viral :-)

Just read that there have been 11 accidents with driver less cars.

Will people buy these in great numbers ? What if you enter one of those silly 20mph zones and how many drivers stick to the 30mph limit, how does it know when to overtake ?

More on self drive cars that own themselves (and even drive to other cities looking for passengers when there aren't any locally):

Who needs Clarkson anyway?

As a reminder for Exec and Manuel!