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.

The upcoming battle between the left and right of Labour is another episode of their internal struggle. Kinnock tried to kill off the Militant Tendency and Blair scrapped Clause IV. The final battle has yet to come. It won't even be resolved this time. It will take another generation before Labour decides if it continues to live in the past or move on to be a modern party.

Parties do change their nature over time. It is difficult to imagine that Lincoln was leader of the Republican party. The Democrats and Republicans held more or less opposite views to their current ones.

Q. Guess who is growing a beard?

Ans: Since they are provenly popular, it's Ed 'Corbyn' Miliband.

What a quite lovely funeral and commemoration for Cilla Black or 'Liverpool's Cinderella', as she was affectionately referred to by Jimmy Tarbuck.

Of particular note:

Famous close friends in attendance, too numerous to mention.

Absolutely stupendous singing of 'The Faithful One' and kind words said by Cliff Richard.

A brilliant personal euology from Paul O'Grady - who was invited by the bishop after telling it, to say 'Three Hail Mary's'. :-)

RIP. Cilla Black

Russell Brand has endorsed Corbyn. That is the kiss of death.

Jezzaggedon is a coming together of The Great Unwashed.

i fail to understand why these migrants are not sent back to their point of entry, even if not whence they came

SWEDEN AND SYRIAN REFUGEES
very interesting section on breakfast tv just now
sweden accepts all who get to/through their borders, which is very laudable of course and the national moral halo is shining beyond belief
however, there are now are now areas which are exclusively syrian where swedish is neither spoken nor understood; further, they cannot find jobs and children cannot find school places
just as importantly, racial tensions are now rising with the far right party swiftly gaining ground

another case of the reality not matching expectations, with more worrying aspects in its train

It is interesting that the EU estimates the black economy to increase the UK's GDP and its contribution to the EU budget but doesnt care to estimate the many thousands of economic migrants managing to reach here on the back of a lorry, or through passport exchanges, when complaining about the UK not wishing to accept an additional quota from Europe.

Corbyn quote at a Green event

He wanted “houses with gardens for everyone,” and added that “anyone who wants to be a beekeeper should be a beekeeper.”

Even if you live in a flat ?

There are quite a few Bees living in flats!

8-)

Perhaps, he was thinking back to:

"What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

David Lloyd George" 1918,

Promises?

and "politicians' promises" :-)

All over for you c?




http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/investing/buy-to-let/11816720/Death-of-buy-to-let-landlords-wake-up-to-Osbornes-150pc-tax.html



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/investing/buy-to-let/11816726/Buy-to-let-tax-My-five-properties-were-my-pension-now-my-tax-bill-will-jump-38pc.html

It only affects those who have large mortgages on the properties as it is to do with the tax relief not being allowed. If you own the properties outright then it won't be a problem. The richest landlords who own the properties will be fine. If you have been piggy backing the properties by using each one as security for a mortgage on the next one you will probably have to sell up. It may reduce house prices. It is about time the buy to let sector was curbed.

Boothroyd: Labour risks 'ending up on scrapheap of history'

The former Speaker of the House of Commons, Baroness Boothroyd has become the latest political heavyweight to warn Labour against moving left as Jeremy Corbyn leads the race to become party leader.

The ex-Labour MP warned the hard left was "deluding a new generation with the same claptrap that it took my generation decades to discard" in an article for the Sunday Times.

Baroness Boothroyd, now an independent peer in the House of Lords, said the party was refighting 1980s ideological battles and risked "ending up on the scrapheap of history because of its own foolishness and self-inflicted wounds".

She wrote: "My old party is galloping towards the precipice. I urge it to heed the jagged rocks before it is too late."

The warning is the latest in a string of attacks from other senior Labour figures including Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Miliband.

A million people in North Korea have 'volunteered' to fight in a war with the south.