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.

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

Must be pricking something!

hardly going to rise to your (intentionally?) rather silly comment

One of the main problems with Irish Travellers and Romany Gipsies is that they have a 'travelling lifestyle'. In other words, they are people of 'no fixed abode'.

This is a fantastic way of life for people who want to take others for a ride as a way of life and/or do it for a career because it allows them to avoid paying any taxes and allows them to get away with things when committing small crimes, particularly 'Civil Crimes'.

The general public often don't have any common sense and cannot be practically minded and accept any personal responsibility. Particularly, when:

Buying tarmac for a drive. Travellers are famous for ripping people off with this job because the punters don't check the thickness of what has been laid!

Having a flat roofed garage re-roofed with bitumen and felt. The punter fails to look at the finished job because he needs a ladder to do so.

Get the general idea of the sort of poor jobs they can get away with doing?

Look out for white vans with ONLY a mobile phone number on the side.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/george-galloway-referred-to-police-by-mp-expenses-watchdog-after-complaint-by-former-pa-10261372.html

George Galloway referred to police by MP expenses watchdog after complaint by former PA

Aisha Ali-Khan claimed she was paid using parliamentary funds to do personal chores during her time working for the former Bradford West MP

Fred why don't you just fuck off to France or Russia. You are becoming annoying now you prick! The Labour party not only lost they were decimated. Socialism is dead for fxxxs sake deal with it you boring obnoxious bastard. Not to put a fine point on it!! LOL!!!!

Have they ever done any journalistical ( new word ) feature on this Galloway by the way . never liked him .

Testing Testing . The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain . OK now .

someone has hurt fred's feelings .... shame!

Like the Thomas Cook board, he could have done things better.

Which neo con tea party waiter did that?

When I find the pipsqueak I will deal with him/her as necessary!

Greece cannot make June 5 IMF payment without deal - lawmaker

Business | Wed May 20, 2015 10:58am BST
Athens
For Reuters by Angeliki Koutantou and George Georgiopoulos

REUTERS/MURAD SEZER
Greece will not be able to make a payment to the International Monetary Fund that falls due on June 5 without a deal with its international lenders, the government's parliamentary speaker said on Wednesday.

Athens faces several payments totalling about 1.5 billion euros (1 billion pounds) to the IMF next month and is in talks with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund to clinch a cash-for-reforms deal before it runs out of money.

"Now is the moment that negotiations are coming to a head. Now is the moment of truth, on June 5," parliamentary speaker Nikos Filis, from the ruling Syriza party, told ANT1 television.

"If there is no deal by then that will address the current funding problem, they won't get any money," he said.

Without access to debt markets or aid, the government has found itself locked in tough negotiations as coffers run dry.

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A payment of about 750 million euros to the IMF last week was only made after emptying a holding account at the Fund.

Talks with the European Union and International Monetary Fund lenders have dragged on for the past four months. A successful conclusion would release around 7.2 billion euros in aid, but talks have stumbled over pension and labour reform proposed by the creditors and resisted by Athens.

"There is no money for the foreign (lenders) when they have not given us any funds for a year," Filis said. "We don't have it to make the payment and this is part of the discussion."

He said the government would make sure that it has money to pay pensions and wages before servicing debt repayments to the IMF.

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Greece's European lenders on Tuesday played down Greece's hopes of a swift end to negotiations on an aid agreement and said talks needed to speed up before the country runs out of cash.

Filis said the government is seeking a deal that will not include further pension cuts, aiming for lower primary budget surpluses and a debt restructuring.