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.

looks like from your local hospital :-)

The fix is in...dodgy dave strikes again!



Scotland bill may give Holyrood veto over Human Rights Act repeal


Provision in bill will establish in law a convention that Westminster seeks consent for legislation relating to Scottish matters


Nicholas Watt and Libby Brooks

Thursday 28 May 2015 14.24 BST






David Cameron has strengthened the ability of the Scottish government to block Tory plans to repeal the Human Rights Act, in a move that has caused alarm in some parts of Whitehall.

A brief, little-noticed provision in the Scotland bill, which implements the findings of the cross-party Smith commission, will establish in law a convention that Westminster seeks the consent of Holyrood for legislation relating to Scottish matters.

Some senior Whitehall officials say this will effectively allow the Scottish parliament to veto Tory plans to the repeal the legislation on the grounds that Scotland’s separate legal system would make it impossible for Westminster to act without the consent of Holyrood.

The Sewel convention, established at the foundation of the devolved Scottish parliament in 1999, says Westminster should seek the consent of the Scottish parliament for “reserved”, or UK, legislation that affects Scotland.

The Scotland bill makes clear that the Scotland Act 1998, which established the Scottish parliament, will be amended to entrench the convention. The amendment will say: “But it is recognised that the parliament of the United Kingdom will not normally legislate with regard to devolved matters without the consent of the Scottish parliament.”

The bill is likely to enter the statute book before the justice secretary, Michael Gove, introduces his plans to carry out the Tory manifesto commitment to repeal the Human Rights Act, meaning he will be obliged to seek the consent of the Scottish parliament to proceed.

Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has already made clear to Downing Street that she will decline to sign a legislative consent motion under the terms of the Sewel convention to permit the repeal. Her hand will be strengthened further by the new bill.



more: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/28/scotland-bill-human-rights-act-repeal

All threads messed up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Like some on this thread list.

The Jackboots have arrived!

That's a bit rich coming from you Fred .

i've still got fred in the sinbin - may let him out over the w/e but undecided
certainly strange goings-on with this bill of rights thing ..... but as scotland's legal system already varies at least to some extent from uk, is there a way around all this?

perhaps scotland would be happy to accept all the undesirables whom uk are unable to deport ..... after all, it is severely underpopulated and certainly they should blend in well with some of the glaswegian element

Elderly face NHS discrimination under new UN death targets

Elderly people will be treated like second-class citizens and denied medical care under new targets which give priority to saving the lives of young people



By Sarah Knapton, Science Editor

12:01AM BST 29 May 2015



The NHS will be forced to discriminate against the over 70s to meet ‘highly unethical’ UN health targets which seek to reduce premature deaths in younger people, senior medics have warned.


Under the proposed Sustainable Development Goals, UN member states must cut the number of deaths from diseases like cancer, stroke, diabetes and dementia by one third by 2030.


However because many are age-related illnesses people who succumb to those diseases from the age of 70 are not deemed to have died prematurely and so are not included in the target.



More: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/elder/11637179/Elderly-face-NHS-discrimination-under-new-UN-death-targets.html

sounds good to me as fred's 70+ already

perhaps fred's considered toxic elsewhere in the world too :-)

They'll be gassing people next . UN in u turn , there really are too many humans on the Planet , we must exterminate .

But not the UN folk.

NHS to over 70's. Thanks very much for your contributions over the last 55 years, but you are about to be a drain on our resources now so we will have to let you die, bye.
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Still some good to come out of this, those wishing to be allowed to die won't have to travel to Switzerland.
On the downside younger folk may not get a hospital bed because they are fully occupied by the elderly going through the dying process, perhaps a bonus scheme could be introduced to speed up the freeing of these beds.
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Someone forgot about Human Rights . We'll spend a fortune defending some murderous Bastard from being deported , but if you are over 70 and ill , tough .

why beds for those of 70+?
a cardboard box in a shed in the carpark will suffice

This threads getting very depressing , no wonder Fred's gone barmy .

Jimmy the UN STARTED IT , is that a first .

Time to top up with shares in Dignity (DTY)
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Here a nice picture to cheer you all up , some of what's great about Britain .....

there was another great pic on the net yesterday where a pigeon had photobombed (or it was faked) a red arrows formation, "taking out" the wingman with the vapour trail seemingly coming from the pigeon