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.

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.

MaxK - If the express say it is true then I can not say otherwise

I am not a supporter of the royal family, so perhaps I do not sympathise so much
that the soldier took care of the queen etc.

If the soldier was injured in battle, does he not receive some form of incapacity benefit ? It was his choice to become a soldier, and we admire him for that, just as we admire teachers, doctors, nurses, and aid workers. I was an aid worker who has spent about thirty years in Africa and South America.

If anybody does not pay their rent, soldier, nurse, aid worker etc then is the Council expected to leave them in their council house, but evict engineers and business men etc ?

I should not have told you to piss off - I apologise

Does the soldier not receive any housing benefits ?

My son, who is English and returned from Africa, moved into a vacant council house, and redecorated it. The house was in the name of his friend. When he came to pay the rent he was evicted because he had bye passed the waiting list for housing and was effectively made homeless, just like the soldier.

I think the problem lies in the fact that Gov'm'ts have sold off council housing at cheaper prices from Mrs Thatchers days, and have failed to encourage sufficient rebuilding of houses. See the prices for renting houses anywhere in UK now.

God only knows ( sorry I do not believe in any god ) what state our refugees will live in while here

Here in Spain we have plenty of cheaper housing, but no jobs.
Life will always be unfair, what with Royal families etc., but we presently have
to accept it and try to lift ourselves to higher levels with education and enterprise etc.

One alternative that has been tried, is that we become Communists and try to get
the State to level the playing field a little, but that does not seem to work from my
knowledge and I think you will agree.

of course houses are cheaper if there is no one to buy them - aka supply/demand or market forces

btw, am quietly amused that you have decided to switch from country with a monarchy to another!

personally, i think the queen and many of the royal family very much own their keep, and not necessarily in obvious ways

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/Jeremy_Corbyn/11844594/Jeremy-Corbyn-Let-taxpayers-opt-out-of-funding-the-Army.html

Jeremy Corbyn: Let taxpayers opt out of funding the Army

Labour leadership front-runner once proposed letting Britons stop their taxes going to Army - in idea branded 'stark-staring bonkers' by ex-generals

British taxpayers should be allowed to opt out of funding the Army, Jeremy Corbyn once proposed in an idea former generals have called "stark-starring bonkers".

The Labour leadership front-runner suggested voters should be able to act with their "conscience" and order the Treasury not spend their tax money on soldiers.

Britain's leading former generals warned the "corrosive" idea could undermine public support for soldiers and was "absolutely ludicrous".

It has emerged after Mr Corbyn triggered a backlash by saying he “couldn’t think” of a situation in which he would deploy troops.

Asked in what circumstances he would back deploying British troops, Mr Corbyn said: “I'm sure there are some. But I can't think of them at the moment."

The comments, which came during a Channel 4 debate between the Labour leadership rivals, have put Mr Corbyn’s views on defence back in the spotlight.

During a House of Commons debate in 1999, the Islington North MP proposed letting people opt out of giving tax revenue to the Army

“What policy is adopted by his Department in respect of taxpayers who do not wish to pay certain elements of taxation on grounds of conscience,” he asked Treasury ministers on June 24.

Mr Corby continued: “British taxpayers have a right of conscience not to participate in the armed forces in time of conscription and should have a similar right in time of peace to ensure that part of their tax goes to peace, not war.”

The suggestion came with Kosovo beginning to rebuild after the destruction of war and as the Italian Parliament was considering similar legislation.

However the suggestion was criticised by Alan Milburn, then-chief secretary to the Treasury, who said “undermine” funding in the Armed Forces.

Former leading generals have told The Telegraph the idea is “corrosive” and warned of the impact his victory in the Labour leadership race would have on defence policy.

Admiral Lord West, the former First Sea Lord, called the idea “stark-staring bonkers”. “The great joy of the military is that they stop war from happening by showing you are willing to fight,” he said.

“To think that you can be selective as a member of the public and say ‘I will pay for this, I won’t pay for that because I don’t want them to fight anybody’ is just absolutely ludicrous.”

Cynic - I also earn my keep as you do I think, and not always in obvious ways.
I would expect that of anybody

a strange argument to prefer a republic to a monarchy :-)

People say I am a bit strange - I wonder why ? ha ha ha

Does anybody know the background of this guy .... Corbyn ?
Has he ever had a proper job, or run a business ?
What level of education does he have ?

It looks like the labour party is about to self destruct then we will we be left with
the Conservatives and UKIP, plus some Scottish people who want to put their
leaders on the english throne again !

What the hell - why am I bothered -
I suppose Spanish politics is no different, but I don't want to know about it.

This M am site is almost as good as Ashley Madison or Adult Friend Finder etc

JB and rekirkham (06 Sep 2015 10:02 - 62311 of 62325)

You are sensitive flowers!

Cartoons are generally meant to offend and I suggest you look the meaning or suggestions contained in them.

Many take offence and the prefer not examine the truth or morality in the perceived actions.

But each unto their own.
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As far as the MAM site quality is concerned, it is having a problem or two since "rewriting! its programmes etc.. "And loss of GF."

But it is quiet to a difficult market and "holiday" period.

But you could always start your own site, you might get a few followers. Personally I think it provides an amazing quality of information.
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JB.

C+P my likening of you to Hitler.

Was it because you wanted to dictate to others what you think they should do????

As pointed out you can always use the squelch buttons.

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But once more:

“The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.”


― Mahatma Gandhi

Corbyn, grew up in a well to do family in the country, went to a private prep school, did not go to university, attended a polytechnic for a while with no qualification. He became a Councillor for Haringey and was there for a few years. He has no government experience apart from voting against his own party more than 500 times.

He has a nutty brother, Piers, who is a climate change denier that lives in a tiny council flat in Elephant and Castle. Here is his web site.

http://www.weatheraction.com/

Corbyn and his brother

Here iis a quote on his website

"The onset of the Mini-Ice-Age contiuing to 2035 is ineviatble - and no amount of data-fraud by the UN and camp-followers in academia, baseless propaganda by BBC and AlJazeera, inane green religious piety by politicians or anti-science diktats - echoing the terror the Catholic Church and Inquisition meted-out to Galileo and other 'heretics' by the Pope; can stop it." he said

"The Pope's Encyclical pronouncements on #ClimateChange are the work of The Devil and - like the Papal Inquisition against #Galileo in 1633 - place baseless and deluded belief and Lies (eg from UN Climate Committee the IPCC) above observed scientific fact. We challenge the Pope (or his agents) to public debate on the science." said Piers

Haystack -
That is to say - no private work experience, no private business experience,
no real Government experience, plus not much dress sense, unartistic,
and has a nutty brother.

Sounds to me like he will be OK to lead the Labour party -
lets give him the job, and we will see the end of Labour party forever !

I wonder?

It seems that more tories are worried by Jeremy than the rest of the population!

fred - you're cartoons aren't offensive, or at least not to me, because i hardly ever look at them, but they really are frightfully dull in their repetition of the same boring mantra day after day after day after day

TO SOME, THE MESSAGE HAS TO BE REPEATED.

"oh when will they ever learn?"

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"Some will never learn!"

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The slow learners are too frightened to change!

a good advertising maxim to bear in mind - less is more

more, especially more and more and more and more, quickly becomes tedious and thus completely loses whatever point was trying to be made