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.

Cynic
The Aylesbury ones were Asians.

You are referring to the ones consisted in Bristol a few days ago. These are British and not even Asian parentage or ethnicity

Robin Hollyson, 31, from Bedfordshire, was sentenced to 24 years in prison and a further eight years on licence. He was filmed abusing the baby.
Christopher Knight, 35, from Manchester, was jailed for 18 years, with an extension of six years on licence
Matthew Stansfield, 35, from Hampshire was jailed for 14 years
Adam Toms, 33, from Somerset, received a 12-year sentence, and four years on licence
John Denham, 50, from Wiltshire - previously known as Benjamin Harrop - was jailed for eight years plus four years on licence
Matthew Lisk, 32, from East Sussex, was jailed for four years, plus an extension of three years on licence
David Harsley, 51, from East Yorkshire, was jailed for two years

you're right ...... those guys

So, €uropa is shutting up shop.

Merkel's folly has done what no amount of talking and trying to be sensible could do.

Free travel was one of the fundamental rights enshrined as a holy of holy's....gone!

Now in tatters, everyone's putting up fences.

"Oh give me the land, lots of land
Under starry skies above
Don't fence me in
Let me ride through the wide open
Country that I love
Don't fence me in
Let me be by myself in the evening breeze
Listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees
Send me off forever but I ask you please
Don't fence me in"

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Had a look at my motor home the other day, and when my wife turned her back, I I am sure it whispered the above.

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But Max fences may reduce the flow, but it won't stop them and whatever you think the EU is here to stay, with or without the UK.

They "need" each other to prosper and the majority know it.

No one needs the cack-handed, meddling, overbearing, hand of Brussels telling you what to do....With berlin pulling the strings of course.

A much looser version of associated states would be far more flexible and able to cope with a changing world.

It also looks like Dave is going to get his war.

Putin has given the all clear for the west to blow up ISIS's shit.

But Damascus and Assad are hands off, indeed Putin is giving them air defence missiles.

Jeremy Corbyn appoints vegan Kerry McCarthy to deal with Britain's farmers

As far as the Tories are concerned the best thing is to forget about Jeremy Corbyn and to protect his Labour leadership until 6 weeks before the next election in 4-5 years time because you don't want to see him replaced !.....

I agree with that choice , end to factory farming and the live export trade. Welcome more free range organic food

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/604357/Britain-destroy-ISIS-join-forces-PUTIN-and-ASSAD-says-Chris-Ryan

What will happen in reality will be a secret deal [ nod & a wink ] for Putin and Assad to clear Syria of ISIS and allow Assad to control a large area of the country.

The Corbynite Digital media crew are already filming at a former mining village.

There, the mines have been reopened. There is full employment.The collectivised farms are producing food in such abundance half is given away free to the third world.

Citizens have discarded their 60" televisions and Iphone 6s and instead spend their evenings dancing to a brass band in the village square. Regaling each other with tales of protest marches and record coal production numbers..Coal that is used to power the blast furnaces .. that manufacture the wind turbines.. that generate the energy at 300% the cost of burning the coal..and the taxes on which .. pay for the miners... to dig the coal...to power...

Its a glorious , glorious revolution comrades...

Just ignore the famine and the starving..they are kulaks or possibly posh southerners..They deserved to die..for the greater good..

ahem .... the bekaa valley is in east lebanon and is renowned for its fertility and for the wine it produces there, in particular chateau musar

It is also renowned for it's terrorist training centers.

A fair appraisal!

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/15/jeremy-corbyn-labour-mps

"Red and Buried" Daily Mail. LOL! Indeed a fair appraisal.

today's guardian
European governments are aiming to deny the right of asylum to innumerable refugees by funding and building camps for them in Africa and elsewhere outside the European Union.

Under plans endorsed in Brussels on Monday evening, EU interior ministers agreed that once the proposed system of refugee camps outside the union was up and running, asylum claims from people in the camps would be inadmissible in Europe.

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don't ever mention a uk pm making a u-turn ...... this is a complete corkscrew!

Well...another migrant ship has sunk claiming another 22 lives... poor souls......need to prevent these ships from leaving port if at all possible......these migrants sink more often than the pirates in asterix and obelix !....I reckon the local shark numbers must have increased around Sicily and Malta....

62851 - yes fred, it is an interesting view and read, though i confess i haven't bothered to read all the other articles and comments in this morning's guardian

imo, the tory hierarchy and lemmings would do well to stop guffawing and pay some attention as to how jc has, or at least seems to have, appealed to the disillusioned younger voters

frankly, i'm appalled by jc's stance inter alia that "the way forward" is to tax the so-called rich almost out of existence, which actually means anyone earning over say £40k ....... talk about not learning from history!

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on a totally different though linked subject, it seems there are 600,000 vacant/derelict houses across the uk
i have no idea whether they are privately owned or council, but it is not relevant
yesterday, the tv crew was in a street in m'chester (most of these houses are north of watford gap) where the local council was going to renovate or at least make them habitable .... hallelujah!
however, a side issue was that the builders being used (it looked to be keir) were short of a 100 people with the requisite skills to do the job
tells you lots on many levels