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.

Given that Cameron fought an election on the basis that he would target net migration in the tens of thousand, 100k refugees a year seems pretty endless to me. :o)

Vicitim. Hit a nerve??

Hilary. Chinless wonder didn't live up to his election promises then. Missed by a mile I would say.

Quite the Man aren't we .

i think 100k refugees a year is actually too many, but why can (almost) none of you differentiate between true refugees (eg syrians) and eu-citizen chancers (by far the greatest bulk of the migrants) and similar who come over without jobs to go to, and many without any useful qualifications either?

Because, Cyners, people who travel hundreds or thousands of miles are rarely chancers. By virtue of the fact they're prepared to migrate across borders (and continents) to make a better life for themselves, they're predominantly also diligent and hard working, and become net contributors to the economy.

Sure, there are exceptions, but the benefits tourism thing is something that's primarily blown up out of proportion for the Daily Mail readership.

read what i wrote please!

Don't be such an arrogant tosser, and I did read what you wrote!!!

You stated that the majority of immigrants are chancers. I don't believe they are.

That doesn't mean that they should be allowed in.

no you didn't read!!!!

here you are .... a baby-sized portion for you
eu-citizen chancers (by far the greatest bulk of the migrants)

EU citizenship is merely a way to obtaining a work permit. The pre-requisite of requiring EU citizenship doesn't make them chancers.

stop wriggling :-)

meanwhile, what did Mr Carney have to say for himself?

BoE vote 8-1 to keep rates on hold
Vote in line with expectations

slightly odd the market has taken it pretty poorly
perhaps there were other utterances that coloured

Perhaps they asked why the rates are low!

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Wil,

The hairy one pertains to being a female of her species.

299 terrorists arrested in the uk in the last 12 months its time kick out any one non british who break our law being born here does not make them british a dog born in a stable is still a dog

cherry-pick whichever bits you fancy from the following, though either way, i can't see any logic (is there ever?) in why the markets turned very sour shortly after .....

The MPC’s view on the economy echoed the one delivered by Governor Mark Carney last month. He said the BOE could look past events in China and the decision on the timing of the first rate increase would come into “sharper” focus at the start of 2016.
McCafferty maintained his dissent for a second month, arguing that building pressure on domestic costs meant tighter policy was warranted now.
Rate Outlook
Forward contracts based on the sterling overnight index average, or Sonia, suggested that a full 25 basis-point increase in the BOE’s key rate won’t come until October 2016.
“To say that we are immune to what’s going on in the rest of the world isn’t right,” Steven Major, global head of fixed-income research at HSBC Holdings Plc in London, said on Bloomberg Television before the BOE’s decision. “I’m pretty confident that there’s no change in U.K. rates for a very long time. Well into next year.”

Decline in U.S. Jobless Claims Shows Resilient Job Market

so i suppose this now upsets the market ..... no satisfying some!!

Well I never!

“To say that we are immune to what’s going on in the rest of the world isn’t right,”

I thought Georgie boy was a miracle worker.

Corbyn needs more than 50% of first preferences to win. No one who votes for the other three is going to put Corbyn down as a second preference. That means as the lower two get knocked out and their second preference are distributed Corbyn wil be stuck on his percentage. Finally there will be just one opponent who will have acquired enough second order preferences to put him/her over the 50%.

My son plays in a brass band and they were having elections. The chairperson wanted transferrable voting as above. She is a hard left activist and the rest of the band could not be bothered to argue with her. My son came up with a brilliant strategy to change it to first past the post as everybody really wanted. He spoke to all the members and persuaded them to make no second preferences. In a stroke the election had become first past the post.

that's called rigging!

No it's not they were free to vote second preferences. It is like people campaigning for peoples second preference.