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.

Lord SEWER LOL!:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33667676

Nice that Chris Froome has won the Tour de France. Even nicer that no French person has won it for more than 30 years.

as i wrote yesterday, you may object to JC's politics, but he speaks and presents very well indeed ...... as of course did Derek Hatton and several others of similar persuasion

of course DH has very much switched horses and is now a property developer!

The usual story with Labour.

Anyone who can, wont!

Which leaves the also-rans to spend the next ten years squabbling amongst themselves.


Cameroon and the lesser spotted Millibandus must be gutted.

Wiki tells us Derek Hatton was a property developer in Cyprus.

As he was such a fascinating 'sharply dressed dodgy spiv' of a character, the following interesting read of an article didn't surprise me at all:

http://www.news.cyprus-property-buyers.com/2009/01/17/dodgy-cyprus-property-deals-made-hatton-millions/id=00717

Wiki also says, "It emerged on 28 May 2015 that Hatton had attempted to rejoin the Labour Party two days after Labour's defeat in the 2015 general election. His application was rejected by Iain McNicol, the party's general secretary."

At the time he was chucked out of the party, his ideas and actions contributed to making Labour completely unelectable.

Reminds me of:

Tory leader ousted
Iain Duncan Smith flanked by shadow cabinet colleagues
Iain Duncan Smith bows out after his defeat
Iain Duncan Smith has lost his job as Conservative Party leader after narrowly failing to win the backing of enough MPs in a vote of confidence.
Mr Duncan Smith, opposition leader for just over two years, was backed by 75 MPs but opposed by 90.

The vote sparks the fourth Tory leadership election in eight years, with former home secretary Michael Howard emerging as the strong favourite.

One possible rival, David Davis, has already said he is backing Mr Howard in the leadership contest, saying he had decided to turn down requests to run himself.

Moderniser Tim Yeo has also decided against entering the contest, while shadow home secretary Oliver Letwin, shadow health secretary Liam Fox and former cabinet minister Stephen Dorrell all urged Mr Howard to bid for the leadership.

But Mr Howard has so far stayed silent about his next move.


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Typically, for the tories, the fights were all behind one another's backs!

Professor Stephen Hawking on 'AI':

"One can imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand," Hawking said in an article he co-wrote in May for The Independent.

"Whereas the short-term impact of AI depends on who controls it, the long-term impact depends on whether it can be controlled at all."

Today marks the start of Hawking doing a Q&A session on Reddit's AMA (ask me anything)

Most people do these 'AMA thingies' by answering questions straight away but Hawking will not be able to answer so quickly because of his handicap and so might take as long as 3 weeks to do so.

We often read on here about traders using 'robotics' to trade. I wonder if Hawking has one himself?

More HERE

Lord Sewel 'will not quit' after he is pictured in prostitute's orange bra at cocaine sex party

John Sewel, the disgraced House of Lords Deputy Speaker, can still claim £300-a-day after apparently snorting cocaine with prostitutes






naughty, but his observations on some of our politicians are spot on!


Lord Sewel of Gilcomstoun, 69, is said to have been recorded branding David Cameron "the most facile, superficial prime minister there's ever been" during the session with two £200-a-night prostitutes at his Dolphin Square flat in Westminster.

He reportedly said: "He just shoots from the hip. He is false. He makes one-off commitments and cannot deliver."


He labelled Mayor of London Boris Johnson "a joke" and a "public school upper class twit", adding: "He plays well in London because they like a cheeky chappie.

"Can you present Boris Johnson in Preston, in Burnley, in Manchester? No, they just think he's an a---hole."

Lord Sewel, who was responsible for upholding standards in the Lords, also described Scottish MP Alex Salmond as a "silly, pompous prat", according to footage obtained by The Sun.

Asked by one of the women, whose voice is disguised, about former Labour prime minister Tony Blair's decision to go to war in Iraq, Lord Sewel said the former party leader did so "because he fell in love with George Bush".

He claimed Blair's wife, Cherie, was "obsessed with money".







More good stuff here:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11764755/Lord-Sewel-will-not-quit-after-he-is-pictured-in-prostitutes-orange-bra-at-cocaine-sex-party.html

I thought it was a picture of Ashcroft.

Where is he now?

Nothing changes on here , Fred changes the subject onto Lord Ashgroft

Not only a Labour peer, but a Labour government Minister.

I thought the Bullingdon Club was set up for this sort of behaviour.

Whatever happens, Labour are heading for the wilderness.

for the last few years, say around just half a decade, we've been so used to looking at and listening to LOTS of well known Labour party senior politicians on our TVs.

Now they've nearly ALL gone.

I looked at the current list of Shadow Cabinet members. Of 'popular' note are:

Harriet Harman, Yvette Cooper, Andy Burnham, Chuka Umunna, Caroline Flint, Hilary Benn and Chris Bryant. The rest are quite new 'names'.

When you look at who has disappeared from the Labour scene, the list of big 'Names' is truly massive.

i think they are in the wilderness already.

I think Nu old labour have been in the wilderness since they chucked Phony out, there was no one to take up the challenge really...not that it's saying anything good about the tory crew, Hague was the last genuine brain they had.

Cameron is a liar their is not going to be any changes to the EU. it is all lies
smoke and mirrors . he is taking the voters has fools and ignorant pigs .

the French and germans want a fed government .and a bigger EU .
which means a non uk
Cameron the liar

The new LIB/DEM leader is a joke , their poll rating's will be at a all time low now



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