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.

being a moderately cynical old chap, i'ld guess at an immediate outcome will be some last minute fudge which will convince no one and we'll all go through this same charade in a few months time

nevertheless, a kneejerk north for the markets will then ensue, but hard to determine whether that will have much substance

The EU has been rushing to allow more and more eastern European countries to join. This is a time bomb waiting to go off. Greece should never have been allowed into the EU and now we are letting in countries that are in even poorer shape. There should have been an extended period of stabilisation before expanding. It has become more of a political project than trade. Several countries have major EU ambitions leading to a federal United States of Europe with one Feurer at the helm.

It looks like a whole loada Greek to me!

But it's meant to be worth translating.

Who was pushing for the expansion of the EU and why?

Ps.

Other than those on the outside!

C+P

Government must reveal how many died after being found ‘fit for work’, MP insists 18/06/2015

Vox Political welcomes the support of Labour’s Roger Godsiff in the campaign to persuade the Department for Work and Pensions to do the right thing

Note that, by the time you read this, the petition is likely to have topped 200,000 signatures. Have you added yours yet? Who knows how many it will contain if the DWP insists on taking this to the Information Tribunal?

Roger Godsiff (Lab Birmingham Hall Green) joined more than 120,000 people who have signed a petition to demand that the Government release the figures.
An official watchdog has also ordered it to explain how many people have died after going through a work-capability assessment which ruled they were fit to work.
This would mean the claimant was expected to start looking for a job or take part in training designed to prepare them for employment – and would face the prospect of losing benefits unless they comply.
Campaigner Mike Sivier used the Freedom of Information Act to ask how many people who died between November 2011 and May 2014 had been found “fit for work”, or told they could move towards getting work.
But the Department for Work and Pensions refused his request, saying it was already preparing to publish the information.
Mr Sivier appealed to Information Commissioner Christopher Graham, who ordered civil servants to publish the data within 35 days of his ruling on April 30.
But the Department has instead decided to appeal this ruling.


Source: Government must reveal how many died after being found ‘fit for work’, MP insists – Birmingham Mail





What is Cameron's cohorts hiding?

Bollocks Fred, Labour came third deal with it. The Government are attempting to get people back to work. Are you calling the doctors, specialist etc inept who make these decisions? Department for Work and Pensions are asking the questions, it's the above who make the decision if someone is fit for work or not. Tragic people have died no denying that.

Unlikely that people have died as a result of the benefits changes.

For the greenest U-tun ever!

A sad joke!

fracking
has been used for years and years and years all over the world with, as far as i know, no serious incident of any kind such as those propounded by the "anti mob"
it is also worth noting that wytch farm in purbeck (dorset) is effectively invisible, yet has been pumping oil for a good many years

on the other hand ......
wind turbines
are truly ugly and highly visibly (unless you're in love with pylons straggling the highlands and similar) and, so i am led to believe, are actually quite noisy en masse - or at least they are when they actually function


in conclusion
and as usual, fred's nonsense is, as usual, exactly that

Wytch if that is the name is surrounded by conifers....

exactly so, but the point is that these installations if properly managed are not necessarily a blot on the landscape

indeed, some of the french motorways are similarly well camouflaged and integrated into their surroundings, often with significant wetlands or similar created

You drive the A75 from Beziers up to Clermont Ferrand and don't do it in a rush....free (except for the bridge) and fantastic countryside.....pont de millau.....etc....the motorway is 900m to 1100m altitude all the way....amazing....

Anyway.....oilrigs and nodding nellys really need vegetation around them.......

The reason that stretch of road is free, required field, is because the Auvergne is one of the poorest areas of France. I believe the region receives state aid which they used to fund infrastructure work such as the A75.

The road is fun to drive in good conditions, but it can get very wet sometimes and be a bit scary at night.

their is more chance of cynic being the pm than Greece being kicked out
its all a game while the eu mps make loads of money via corruption they are all crooks and liars

Russia has said this morning, that they may give money to Greece.

Whats the catch?

TANKER if cynic was to join the Labour party the odds wouldn't be that long if you look at the competition !!

Denmark’s first female prime minister, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, has conceded defeat and resigned as leader of her party after her coalition government lost the election to the centre-right opposition.

Thorning-Schmidt told party members she will step down as prime minister and leader of the Social Democratic party on Friday after Denmark became the latest European nation to experience a surge in rightwing populism.

In her resignation speech, she said: “Every single day the responsibility has been mine. I stand by the decisions I have made … I am Denmark’s first female prime minister, but I won’t be the last.”

The strong showing for rightwing parties in the Nordic nation also delivers David Cameron a potentially vital ally in Europe for his bid to renegotiate the terms of Britain’s membership of the EU. Finland and Norway already have rightwing populists in government.