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.

Suits me just fine jb, lol

So glad I came to live in Spain - plenty of sunshine, cheap beer, my UK state pension
pays for my rent and leaves me enough for food etc. I hardly touch my cash savings
and have not started drawing my private pension. ....

Plus have met a beautiful Philippino lady. I don't need a car, and go out most days for a
dance or other entertainment. Why stay in the UK ? Plenty of Brits enjoying life here
in Benidorm. Where I live is almost an english speaking colony with UK newspapers,
Iceland shop, many other supermarkets, bars called "Rovers Return, Morgans Tavern, Vincent's, Yorkshire Pride etc" and free good health care in association with the NHS.
Benidorm has beautiful long beaches, and is not as brash as they like to show in the
TV series etc. Plenty of vacant apartments for rent at about Euro 400 a month. Even
a few millionaires living nearby who own the numerous four star hotels. I can deal in UK shares by internetand have online banking etc.

Why live in the UK ? - maybe if you want to be close to your family, but the flight is
only about Euro 120 each way, and they would probably be more happy to visit you
here. I went swimming again today.

Is anyone surprised?


http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/603227/migrant-crisis-Cabinet-ministers-refugees-asylum-seekers-Syria-Cameron

For Jb.

Has anyone checked up on Merkels sanity lately , all these refugees and propping up Greece seem to be mainly her influence . Maybe things will change in Germany in a few months when it's people start seeing the effects of her actions . Just another point though , because they are refugees does it mean it is a temporary situation and would be expected to return to their country later . I'm sure someone knows.

Which group shall we allow to dirty English soil?

I suppose that could be just about any Country on the Planet Fred .

Max,
P 62302

Morally depleted and shining with false sincerity comrades of Cameron protecting their majorities.

VICTIM - You are so right. Also we will see break up of EU soon, thank god.

And lets abolish all religion throughout the world - we can start with the
Pope

germany's complete open-door policy for all and any refugees of any calibre may well come back to bite in future years
there is already much antipathy in germany to foreign workers, and this could easily escalate into much more widespread nationalism, as indeed is already being seen elsewhere in europe - eg france and hungary
there is also the very valid point that once these "unclassified" refugees have obtained their papers, they will be free to travel wherever they wish within eu and that, as it stands, includes uk

the case for proven syrian refugees is a different matter altogther, and i thoroughly concur that the gov't has taken far too long to grasp this
that said, the precaution of only admitting refugees from syrian-based camps has strong merits, for that at least gives a degree of control of who comes into this country and who does not

by the way, i thought it thoroughly sanctimonious of yvette cooper (i think) who claimed that uk had welcomed jewish refugees just before and during the last war
this is of course was very far from the truth and all sorts of preventative bureaucratic obstacles were created
it was much thanks to the likes of nicolas winton (recently died at the grand age of 104) who worked and weaseled his way through and round the system, that so many were rescued, and not thanks to uk's largesse

Too wordy!

Paraphrase it briefly!

Fred1new - "Too wordy" do not bother posting your rubbish on here.
At least Cynic gives the issue some thought and logic rather than you taking up our
time and space with cartoons and one line nonesense.
Try to think of something from which we can all benefit, and do not just try to get
your name in "lights"

I have always tried to avoid personal comments on here, and get annoyed that MAM
keep accepting horse racing tips posted. When I subscribed to a shares web site,
next we will be into football or something, I suspect.
But as we subscribers all seem to say, MAM has lost its way, and is no longer what
it used to be, but now a money making, advertising machine, for its owners.
I seem to recall from previous experience over the years, that MAM breaks down
whenever the stock market is hyper active, and we need it most.

Meanwhile, the chaps are doing the right thing...


http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/554424/Jamie-Streets-war-veteran-evict-council-house

MaxK - do you work for the "express" ?
Please restrict your posting comments to say the Times, Telegraph and similar eg
Economist etc.
I am surprised you have not yet posted a picture from page three yet.

Who asked your opinion?

If you don't like it, piss off or use the filter.

OK - better still you piss off if this is your level of intelligence

Fred why is post 62303 aimed at me ,that's an insult , you really are becoming a pain in the arse ,now do us all a favour and Fuck off ,
don't post anything to do with dead children aimed at me again .
Also a couple of months ago you likened me to Hitler for no reason i think you may be a sick individual who needs help .

rekirkham.

Is it your position that the story is untrue?

If so, counter it, if you can.

children, children! no fighting in the playground please :-)

The Express likes to jump onto heart wrenching stories; it sells papers and that is what they care about and not the people involved. I can believe that some of the story is true, although I doubt it is all true or important parts have been left out. What you read in most newspapers has little to do with 'news' reporting. The story has had the magic wand of the paper waved over it.

Even if it is true, where does the fault lie? Is it the local council, the government or maybe with fuller details it could be the people themselves. There is a saying that 'hard cases make bad laws'. The legislation may be fine overall. However, there will be cases that don't fit. It sounds like the council are being difficult but they are applying the law as written.