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.

House of Horrors: Shock pics show squalid home so neglected no one noticed ROTTING CORPSE


The body, the son of the occupants, could have been there for up to a month.

It was only discovered when neighbours called the authorities after noticing dead flies on the windows of the property.

When officers arrived at the filthy home in Merseyside to an overpowering stench, one quipped: "Have you got a dead body upstairs?"

As they made their way upstairs that light-hearted comment proved true as they came across a doorway surrounded by thousands of insects.

More at the link...

Her indoors:

"Shock pies? No wonder there's flies!"

Doc,

Some might call him a neo-cheat. Most folks, however, just call him a sheep-sh@gging tosser.

The Labour Party would be "bankrupt" without cash from trade unions, the head of GMB has warned, after Unite threatened to disaffiliate if the party picked the wrong leader.

Paul Kenny, the GMB's general secretary, said that the Labour Party would be unable to fight another general election if affiliated unions withdrew their financial support.

The GMB in 2013 said it planned to pull £1 million funding from Labour in response to proposed reforms to trade union affiliation from Ed Miliband.

But Mr Kenny said it did not ultimately do so after changes to the reforms and because "the Labour party, if we pulled out, would be bankrupt".

Asked if a severing of the trade union link would be the end of the world for Labour, he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "It would be in terms of the way the current political make-up is structured... If you took away support from affiliated unions financially it is difficult to see how the Labour Party would fight a national election."

With so many Unite linked Labour MP's funding will not be withdrawn.
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The lady with wet knickers seems to be back and she has them in a twist.

Somebody take them off for her and give her a cold bath.

Mind, I could find for her a blind old ram, which would probably suit her down to ground, as she seems down on her luck.

Poor bloody ram!

Mind they both may a suitable members of the tea party.

From a BT page

Opinion: Was there more behind Chuka Umunna's decision to quit Labour leadership contest?
Chuka Umunna's sudden withdrawal from the Labour Party leader race has shocked everyone, writes Chris Moncrieff.

Chuka Umunna
By Chris Moncrieff
Last updated: 18 May 2015, 15:09

The sudden decision by shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna to quit the Labour leadership battle - which he was fancied to win - sent shock waves through his own party, and astonished everyone else at Westminster too.

Only four days after throwing his hat in the ring, his excuse for walking away was that he was uncomfortable with the level of intrusion, involving both himself and his family, with which he would have to contend.

But sharp-suited Umunna, one of the most astute of all MPs at Westminster, surely was aware of the intense curiosity about someone's background if they're aiming to be a major party leader. And that is why his reasoning was greeted with such incredulity on all sides.

He seemed to have fulfilled, to the letter, the mantra, "If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen". But was there more to it than that?

Some say he realised that if he won the crown this time, his prospects of becoming Prime Minister were not good. He was entering too early in the parliamentary process. Significantly, he has not ruled out fighting at a later stage.

Or could it even be that Labour grandees felt a man who reputedly patronises an exclusive and highly expensive London club (where a bottle of Cognac can set you back £3,500) would not go down well with the horny-handed sons of toil which the party is supposed to represent?

Prima donna politicians

Why are politicians such bad losers? Within hours, almost, of Labour's defeat, the knives were out for Ed Miliband.

People who, ostensibly at least, had been supporting him leadership for five years, suddenly rounded on him as "useless" and other derogatory epithets.

The Labour MP Caroline Flint, who is planning to stand for the deputy leadership of the party, says that Labour is now fighting for its very existence.

But even more striking than all that is the turmoil which is now engulfing Ukip. Its blokeish leader Nigel Farage was suddenly and astonishingly accused by one of his most trusted lieutenants, Patrick O'Flynn, the MEP, as "snarling, thin-skinned, aggressive".

When O'Flynn worked in the Press Gallery of the House of Commons before he entered politics, I found him a cheerful, amiable, mild-mannered individual who would never say anything ill about anybody.

That is why his ferocious attack on Farage is all the more surprising.

Farage kept his word and resigned the leadership after his defeat at Thanet South. But then a handful of party grandees said he should remain as leader. So, controversially, he came back.

Many in the party believe he should have taken the "short break" - which one of his new-found critics insolently advised him to do - and wait for an all-party leadership process in which he could legitimately take part.

Ukip polled four million votes on May 7 and secured just one seat, Douglas Carswell's Clacton. Now Carswell is having a row with the leadership over the amount of public money he and the party should accept for maintaining their offices.

Politicians seem incapable of accepting defeat with a good grace. Instead they are behaving like prima donna Premiership footballers.

Ed's guru flop

I hope (but I very much doubt) that Labour did not spend too much money on David Axelrod, the American guru, who was hired to help them win the general election.

Axelrod, the man who reputedly got Obama into the White House, appeared to conduct much of his business for the Labour Party from the other side of the Atlantic - which cannot have been very satisfactory for Ed Miliband.

It might have made more sense if Axelrod had been hired on a "no win, no fee" basis.

Charitable approach needs looking at

I hope the Government cracks down hard on the bullying tactics of many charities, whose "hounding" of Britain's longest-serving poppy seller, Olive Cooke, 92, may have contributed to her apparent suicide in a gorge in Bristol.

This tragic case has highlighted the sometimes ruthless tactics employed by certain charities to extract money out of often vulnerable old-age pensioners.

These charities are sometimes too ready to submit cold calls and avalanches of expensive marketing material through the letterbox, turning them into slick business concerns rather than charity appeals.

If businesses in the private sector adopted these kinds of methods, they would almost certainly be acting illegally.

NOTE: Chris Moncrieff, the Press Association's reporter emeritus, has stalked Westminster's corridors of power for over 50 years. This article reflects the opinions of the writer, not any corporate view held by BT.

I don't give a penny to charity anymore , it's just an employment bureau . Endless things stuffed through your door , but for who.

VICTIM----We all give to charity whether we want to or not.
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I know what you mean . My brother gives regularly to certain ones , and it doesn't take long for others to try to jump on board his generosity .

I give anything good that i don't need any more to the Salvation Army

Who?

Why the chaps and chappesses who run the charity, nice racket!

Tories giving? Surely not.

75% of UK charities rely on government funding ie the taxpayer, who also happens to fund the (ring-fenced) foreign aid budget, the one off disaster type budget (currently Nepal), the rescue budget (currently HMS Bulwark), as well as giving money/housing/shelter etc to all immigrants/asylum type seekers in this country. There are undoubtedly many others, some of which (Nepal) are justified. I am not against giving to charities, however there are far too many being funded by the taxpayer and being duplicated.
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251,

I hear you can buy special caskets and take all you money with you when you die.

Perhaps, you need two.

=-=

Found this in a graveyard in the Welsh Valleys:-

"Stay traveller stay,

As you go on your way,

As you are now, one day was I,

As I am now, one day you'll be,

So prepare yourself to follow me."



=-=-=-=-=

Someone wrote in chalk underneath:

To follow thee I'd be content,

But I'm damned if I know which way you went.

8-)

Typical response from you red.
Perhaps you think it's efficient to have double figure numbers of charities looking out for the well being of the Red Squirrel, or multi numbers of charities for breast cancer, all these duplications take huge amounts of money away from the very charity they purport to support.
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You are a miserable old toad.

Must be Manuel brother.

In a decent society there would be less need for charities.

They could be organised and run at less cost and more efficiently out of General Taxation.

The NHS was once reliant on charity.

Have a coronary to-morrow and use private health care for treatment?

Dred---Am I a miserable old toad for wanting as much money as possible to find it's way into charities? Just think how much better off any given charity would be if it wasn't duplicated/triplicated etc etc.
Why is there a need for 12 or more charities to receive money to fight breast cancer, the answer is, there isn't. If the number was cut to say 2 possibly 3 at most, think of the extra money available to fight it.
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george - but unlike paying your tax, you actually have a choice as to which charity to support ......
i think i support about half a doz, and absolutely refuse to give to any african charities (notoriously corrupt), or oxfam (too much creamed off at the top and end usage a bit nebulous) or any israeli charity .... and there's many others to which i would not subscribe either

i wonder which if any charities fred supports ...... probably none, for his "decent society" would obviate the need for them

The words miserable and "Con" servative remain bedfellows forever it seems Fred... What a sad crowd they are.