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.

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



The mug's

Captain Marvel is on his way having strutted around friends in Europe!

He should be working for Thomas Coke's or perhaps he is!

sewel from the sewer is no worse the 90% of gov the sleaze in the cabinet and its leader Cameron the liar is disgusting and I voted for the scum yes they are scum
the gov is a cesspit the nhs is breaking down immigration out of control

now let me say this . THE GOVERNMENT WILL BACK TRACK ON FAMILY CREDITS
BECAUSE OF IMMGRANTS BREEDING LIKE RATS

Here's a VERY funny cartoon from today's Telegraph:

Bra-gate claims victim



Lord Sewel resigns as peer in House of Lords: live

Disgraced Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords quits after alleged drug-taking at sex party with prostitutes. Latest developments



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11766965/Lord-Sewel-resigns-as-peer-in-House-of-Lords.html

The following is getting to be too much of 'a joke' too:

“The set-up we have for the House of Lords is unsustainable – it’s too big, costs too much and its arcane (Hmmm? Shouldn't this be cocaine?) rules leave the public in disbelief.”

The second chamber is already the largest legislative assembly in the world outside of China and costs taxpayers £100million a year to run.

More than 100 new peers have been created in the last five years, taking the total number to 783, including 26 bishops.

And David Cameron is poised to add at least another 50 peers in his post-election honours list.

In addition to the day-to-day running costs, taxpayers are forking out more than £60,000 a week so wealthy peers can feast on lavish three-course meals.

Restaurants, cafes and bars catering for the 783 Lords, bishops and baronesses receive £1.3million a year from the public purse, official figures show.

Just two peers were under the age of 40, according to figures out last year – but 29 members have turned 90.

And only 25% of the 783 peers are women.

Lord Sewel is reported to have invited the two prostitutes to have dinner with him in the peers’ dining room last year.

I doubt that some MPs and Lords and Ladies know what their partners' real occupations are!

I perchanced upon the following interesting YouTube clip earlier this morning. It's dated March 2015 and shows Richard Dawkins tearing down the Pope and the present and historic Catholic hierarchy:

The boss of scandal-hit FIFA deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for his stewardship of world football, Vladimir Putin has said.

The Russian president was speaking in an interview on Swiss TV, days after he warmly welcomed Sepp Blatter in St Petersburg for the 2018 World Cup draw.

Mr Putin said: "We all know the situation developing around Mr Blatter right now. I don't want to go into details but I don't believe a word about him being involved in corruption personally.

"I think people like Mr Blatter or the heads of big international sporting federations, or the Olympic Games, deserve special recognition. If there is anyone who deserves the Nobel Prize, it's those people."

Birds of a feather and corruption?

Which one of them will be short a few fingers?

After years of being told, and telling others, that saturated fat clogs your arteries and makes you fat, there is now mounting evidence that eating some saturated fats may actually help you lose weight and be good for the heart, writes Michael Mosley.

Which oils are best to cook with?

Police chief warns that officers may no longer respond to burglaries

Chief Constable Sara Thornton, head of the new National Police Chiefs' Council, says officers' priorities are changing in response to budget cuts and the changing face of crime



Story: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11767419/Police-chief-warns-that-officers-may-no-longer-respond-to-burglaries.html

This has been the case for years.

No, they at least used to take a look.

Now they are saying they are not even going to attempt to catch burglars.

Good news for house breakers.