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.

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.

A man has been arrested in Sweden for driving a lawnmower while drunk in his own garden.

Why do immigrants want to go there?

great welfare state, especially if you aren't a taxpayer!

To avoid you?

This idea of taking asylum seekers direct from Syria is all very well and sounds fine.

But what happens when the hoard in say, Germany, who decide the benefits aint up to scratch and want to come here, whats to prevent them?

indeed, and once they have their proper papers there's nothing to be done to stop them

I think if you claim asylum in a country it takes quite a while to get citizenship/ passport etc ,although i did point this out the other day when they are settled then yes they are EU citizens .
I havn't joined in with this today as i just can't be bothered with the do gooders calling anyone who does not agree with them BNP or EDL or little Englanders ,it's pathetic.

So, Cameroons show of force is a sham, a pretence to gull the populace into thinking he has control of the situation.


Now why did I suspect there might be a flaw in the projected outcome as outlined by the flim-flam man?

It's all bad news , but not for UKIP . if we had a General election tomorrow UKIP would be sharing power with the tory's

Merkel has said that if it is found that the immigrants are economic migrants rather than fleeing from conflict then they will be sent back.

Look at Newsnight tonight ,look at what's happening in the Yemen ,where does it end ? we will have to rescue half of the Middle East.

Hays how will she do that it will be too late when they are there .