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.

Art for art's sake?






$179m to you squire

Anyone know where you can get free closing prices for all the stocks.

Not by Picasso, or is it?

A bit OT I know but do you think Obama is basically thick , he gives the Iraqi army loads of armour etc to fight ISIS . In any battle with ISIS the Iraq army basically lose , run away and leave the armour for ISIS . Now this happened as we know at the start ,but has he learned No . The only credible force against ISIS are the Kurds who are treated like sh-t by Abadi and co . They are only now thinking of giving armour directly to the Kurds .

Apparently 6000 Iraqi troops fled from Ramadi , after being attacked by 150 ISIS .

NO.

The one's who were stupid were Bush Senior, Blair and the Bush Junior's neo-cons like McCain Donald H. Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz look on.

Probably, partially their policies and actions and especially "Iraq" war has led to the present catastrophe in the ME.

Also, their irrational support of Israel has fermented ongoing problems.

Oh Yes i know but Obama has been quite appalling in his dealings with Maliki . Trusting him .

I think Maliki was put into power by the Bush regime and to a certain degree Obama had to lump it and the chaos in Iraq.

But Maliki seemed a choice likely to fragment Iraq rather than unite, if that was or is possible.

It is a mess created by the "West".

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Well Maliki is a bad guy he pocketed millions if not billions and employs 2000 odd security staff for himself , I think Obama was advised later to not support him , but he ignored it .

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11614164/Five-EU-reforms-that-British-businesses-should-demand.html

HMRC vs Ingenious
the following is almost of political nature :-)
for the full report, google HMRC vs Ingenious


18th March 2015
Ingenious hearing delayed as Tribunal calls for evidence

The long running First Tier Tribunal (FTT) case involving film and game investment schemes promoted by some of the Ingenious group of companies has been delayed for a minimum six week period, Pat Sweet reports.

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so, contrary to various assertions several months ago, HMRC most assuredly do not have this case buttoned up, and indeed, it looks marginally tilted towards Ingenious ..... we shall see in due course

the do-gooders and bleeding hearts brigade win again
my sympathies lie strongly with Wetherspoons and their management

Travellers win Wetherspoon pub ban discrimination case
18 May 2015
Some £24,000 in damages has been awarded to a group attending an Irish Travellers conference after they were discriminated against by the owners of a north London pub.
The Traveller Movement said the group was denied entry at The Coronet on Holloway Road in November 2011.
At the Central London County Court, the judge ruled there had been direct discrimination.
Pub owner Wetherspoon had denied allegations of racial discrimination.
Eight of the claimants were successful and were awarded £3,000 each by the judge.
In the judgement, Judge Hand QC said the thinking of the then manager of the pub was "suffused with the stereotypical assumption that Irish Travellers and English Gypsies cause disorder wherever they go".
The judge added: "In my judgment this is racial stereotyping of those with that ethnic origin.
"It can be reduced to this crude proposition: whenever Irish Travellers and English Gypsies go to public houses, violent disorder is inevitable because that is how they behave".
'Acceptable racism'
Martin Howe, a solicitor who acted for the travellers, said: "This judgment will shake to the core all those who engage in racist conduct towards Irish Travellers and Romany Gypsies.
"The last bastion of 'acceptable racism' has come crashing down."
The Traveller Movement, which was then known as the Irish Traveller Movement in Britain, had argued that a group of 15 attending its annual conference was discriminated against.
The group, including travellers, a police inspector, a barrister and a priest, was denied entry to the pub - which was next door to the event.
The pub manager refused entry to groups of delegates, saying he was concerned there might be trouble because the conference was focusing on evictions from the Dale Farm traveller site in Essex.

The Holloway area of London is largely Irish and a large number of the pubs are Irish pubs. I thought that a pub had the right to refuse to serve anyone.

Mr Solicitor doesn't include anything these people get up to though does he , I don't need to explain . Those people who used to come round with a twig of heather and some pegs for sale have moved with the times . Saw a program a while ago reported there presence in most continents now and same old story of there ways . Very feared .

one of our local farmers put up earth banks around one of his fields to stop the pikeys invading (again)
the local council insisted that he remove them as the banks were deemed not in keeping with green belt policy or some such crap

i have some sympathy for genuine romanies (gypsies), but none whatsoever for the crooks and ne'er-do-well irish contingents and similar who have usurped the name

I dare say this event was all paid for by our very own taxes too .

Almost as bad as those 2nd generation poles.

"bleeding heart" fred returns .... shame he can't be transformed into "bleeding carotid" fred