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.

Mr Tsipras has sold out...for whatever reason.

Anything he says should be disregarded as a matter of course.



http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2015/07/15/the-euro-summit-agreement-on-greece-annotated-by-yanis-varoufakis/#more-9207

He had to sell out or leave Eurozone/EU.

With those conditions it was better to stay in?

They thought so. It is the fault of the stupid finance minister who resigned. He thought he could play them and get a better deal in the end he got a worse one.

a vote for Boris

fred - i know you have bugger all to do all day, so you might care to entertain both yourself and us by researching what % or how many members of cabinet or similar of each party went to oxbridge since 1945

Cyners,

I thought you'd squelched Old Bollock Chops ages ago. Why are you bothering to reply to him?

Stormin' Corbyn on course to WIN the Labour leadership as veteran socialist surges into 15% lead

Shock internal polling shows Jeremy Corbyn leading by up to 15 per cent
His campaign has been boosted by surge of union members joining Labour
Unions can sign up 'affiliated supporters' to vote in Labour leadership race
There are 250,000 Labour members and 30,000 extra union members
But Unite chief Len McCluskey claims he could sign up 70,000 members

By Tom McTague, Deputy Political Editor for MailOnline

Published: 10:45, 15 July 2015 | Updated: 18:55, 15 July 2015


Hard-left Labour leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn is on course to win the race to succeed Ed Miliband, shock internal polling has revealed.

Mr Corbyn, a veteran socialist who believes Ed Miliband was not left wing enough to win the election, is understood to be leading rival candidates by up to 15 per cent in the first round of votes.

The 66-year-old backbencher has already shocked Labour MPs with the surge in support he has enjoyed among ordinary party members since joining the contest at the last minute.

He has collected 40 nominations from local parties - second only to the bookies' favourite Andy Burnham and ahead of shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper.


The revelation is a major boost to the veteran left-wing candidate Jeremy Corbyn, 66, who was endorsed by Unite to succeed Ed Miliband earlier this month




More good news here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3162074/Boost-Jeremy-Corbyn-hard-left-Unite-union-boasts-flood-Labour-leadership-race-70-000-supporters.html

who is BC?
anyway, i almost never squelch anyone at all, and if i do, it is rarely for very long ...... in particular, i don't like being "bullied" into the necessity of taking such action

what about the scum from the bbc over paid scum attempting to stop the cuts
why do they not just fcuk off over paid scum .

the bbc should be sold off and stop the licence fee its not worth watching .
bbc run by scum for the scum .

I agree we have tennis on both BBC1 and BBC2 at the same time and for many hours, probably get cricket on both channels for hours next. I think ITV has many many watchable good programmes and that is funded by advertising. The BBC license fee is effectively a tax and creates unfair competition. Also many BBC staff well overpaid I believe. David Cameron - dump the BBC and let them create a viable business out of it if they have any true ability ! That should get you even more votes from the crippled Labour party.

We are unlikely to see much cricket on BBC as there is a bidding process and Sky has deeper pockets. Wimbledon has to be shown on terrestrial due to regulations. The BBC is an outdated model. Recent criticism about the BBC making populist commercial type programs such as the Voice seem correct. They spend lots of money to get ratings and then the programming cannot even be sold anywhere. Why do they need high ratings? They have no advertising to sell. They are supposed to be a public broadcasting service.

the bbc - LOL? friend of mine used to work there - she loved it - said it was non stop parties and excesses all at the expense of the license fee payer, boat booze cruises on the thames were a weekly concurrence just for her business unit alone, to name just one indulgence - said never seen such wasted money ever and no one cared because they knew the license fee was guaranteed - complete joke of an organisation................ run by do gooding numpty no idea pillocks - 'special' handshakes will take you far there............know what i mean..............

dc 61507 - when did kk's big fat lard arse shrink to only the size of pluto then - maybe it should be uranus lol!

ever one should refuse to pay the licence . lets start a campaign to rid the public of the sick scum milking the licence payers .
not one person on the bbc is worth more than 50k a year

Haystack says above
"They have no advertising to sell" Then perhaps BBC should start competing with ITV etc and go out and get some advertising instead of expecting a free ride from license payers.
"They are supposed to be a public broadcasting service". We have "watchdogs" to control whether broadcasting is fair i.e political points of view etc. ...
We can get round this poor excuse - let's sell shares in BBC, try and turn a profit, get ride of wastage, yet write into "articles" of BBC about fair broadcasting.
Let's save every household in the UK, the license fee. I live abroad and get BBC for nothing as do millions of people living outside UK - is that fair to license payers ?