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.

http://news.sky.com/story/1555206/hungary-confiscates-croatian-migrant-train

Hungary Confiscates Croatian Migrant Train

Hungary has confiscated a Croatian train that tried to transport 1,000 migrants into the country - describing its arrival as a breach of EU law.

The migrants were accompanied by 40 Croatian police officers, who were disarmed and sent back to their homeland in what Hungary called a "major, major incident". The driver was arrested.

Hungary said the migrants were being transferred to a reception camp.

Budapest has stated repeatedly that it will charge such migrants with illegal entry and expel them back to the country from which they arrived.

The train's seizure is the latest development in a spat between Croatia and Hungary which has left the fate of thousands of migrants uncertain.

"If you take a 4mile wide strip centred a long the m4 from Cardiff to London and then on out to Chambridge and build 800k houses at affordable prices over the next 3 years you could probably satisfy most of the housing need"



will10 - 18 Sep 2015 21:24 - 63150 of 63151

Pie in the sky....who would buy it? who would rent it (and what with?) and who would pay for it?


Too many unproductive, non earning people with expectations well beyond our (taxpaying) ability to pay for.



For example:


Why should I pay for Jeremy Corbyn's friend Claire to have so many children?

The star of Corbyn's first PMQs is unhappy about tax credit cuts. But it's not the taxpayer's job to backstop unaffordable choices





By Julia Hartley-Brewer

11:48AM BST 17 Sep 2015




Meet Claire Carey. Claire is a working mum of five children and one of the stars of this week’s Prime Minister’s Questions.


She didn’t actually appear in person in the Commons on Wednesday, but she was one of the 40,000 people who sent Jeremy Corbyn a question to put to David Cameron, and hers was one of the five read out by the new Labour leader.


So far, so good. Claire, we learned from her question, is not happy about the Government’s changes to tax credits.



“How is changing the thresholds for entitlements to tax credits going to help hard working families?” she wanted to know. “I work part-time, my husband works full-time earning £25,000. We have five children. This decrease in tax credits will see our income plummet. How is this fair?”


Claire didn’t ask to be put in the media spotlight, but she did choose to appear on national television. She was interviewed on Newsnight last night, where she reiterated her concerns about the cuts to tax credits.

So, Claire, let’s talk about what is and isn’t fair about tax credits.


How is it fair, for instance, that her husband, someone earning close to average wages, should be relying on the taxpayer to help fund his family? How is it fair that Claire thinks she is entitled to work part-time and expect other families, through their hard-earned taxes, to help pay for her standard of living?

And how is it fair that Claire and her husband believe they are entitled to expect taxpayers to contribute towards the cost of their choice to have five children?

For starters, Claire and her husband won’t see their income “plummet” when tax credits are cut. The Institute for Fiscal Studies has said that the maximum loss to any family from the changes next April will be £1,000 a year – a big number for low-income families, yes, but hardly what most people would call “plummeting”.

Let’s also question why a family with two able-bodied earners should need taxpayers to subsidise their income in the first place. Is that really what the welfare state was meant to do?

And what’s fair about Claire only working part-time when many of the people paying taxes to fund her tax credits – including other mothers of young children - have to work full-time to make ends meet?



"Claire decided to have five children despite knowing she and her husband could not afford five children"



More: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11871261/Why-should-I-pay-for-Jeremy-Corbyns-friend-Claire-to-have-so-many-children-tax-credits-PMQs.html

We think wehave it bad, Turkey has 3m refugees from Syria

There is a headline in a paper tomorrow that says 4 out of 5 refugees trying to get into the EU are not from Syria

Almost three in four people do not believe that Jeremy Corbyn looks like a prime minister-in-waiting, according to a poll for The Independent.

1 in a thousand thinks Fred is a closet TORY.

Haze,

Thank god for that.

Imagine another Wacky Dave prancing around in the HP.

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Memories or to-day?

Claire Carey wants to stop eating all the pies ,maybe her money would go further.

Oh dear! Speaking as a sexist, no wonder some of our sex are sexist.

:-)

"There was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever."

Jeremy Corbyn's 'jealous' lover Diane Abbott staged an astonishing confrontation with his wife – ordering her to 'get out of town', The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Ms Abbott, then a young Left-wing activist, stunned her love rival Professor Jane Chapman – Corbyn's first wife – by turning up on her doorstep out of the blue to demand that she leave London.

In an exclusive interview, Prof Chapman was scathing about Ms Abbott's 'hostile' behaviour which she thought was fuelled by resentment over her continuing contact with Corbyn, the new Labour leader, even though they had separated months earlier.

Jeremy Corbyn handed over £45 to a fraudster who claimed he was an IRA bomber on the run, it has been reported.

Conman Sean O'Regan allegedly approached the politician in Parliament in 1987 - at the height of the Northern Ireland Troubles - claiming he had planted bombs in London and needed to flee.

The Islington North MP is said to have given the trickster cash, believing he was helping his escape. However, at the time, Mr Corbyn reportedly said it was a member of his staff who had handed over the money.

But when news of the fraud broke, four Conservative MPs submitted an Early Daily Motion in the House of Commons that referred to the ensuing conviction.

It said: 'In evidence given at the Central Criminal Court on Friday 30th January, it was stated that the honourable Member for Islington North gave £45 to a confidence trickster posing as an Irish Republican Army Bomber'. It added his actions posed a 'grave threat to national security'.

Tomorrow's Observer

Jeremy Corbyn has done little to boost Labour’s popularity and faces an uphill struggle to convince voters that he would be a better prime minister than David Cameron, according to a new Opinium/Observer poll.

The survey taken during Corbyn’s first week as Labour leader found almost twice as many voters choosing Cameron (41%) over Corbyn (22%) as the best occupant of No 10.

While 89% of Tory voters said Cameron would be the best PM, only 58% of Labour backers said they thought Corbyn would do the job best, suggesting serious doubts within Labour ranks about their newly elected leader.

When asked a separate question – if they could imagine Corbyn as prime minister – 32% of likely voters said they could. However, 57% said they could not, including nearly a quarter (23%) of Labour voters.

and the alternative a failed con man working for his own charity!

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/606387/Lawnmower-Stanley-Hardwick-collection

The papers are digging up the dirt on Corbyn big time. One paper has found that one of his ancestors ran a work house.

Hays.

You should have a good chance of scavenging a meal then.

Pop along to party central office.

Former business secretary Vince Cable has branded Jeremy Corbyn an “ageing lion” being hunted by the Tories.

The Liberal Democrat, who lost his seat in May, said Labour’s new leader was “completely unelectable” and the Conservatives “will slaughter them”.

He told a fringe meeting at the Lib Dem conference in Bournemouth: “Of course the Tories are just waiting with their big bore guns and there’s this ageing lion and they’re just waiting to open fire.”

The analogy sparked memories among the audience of Cecil, a 13-year-old male lion who was killed in Zimbabwe by American dentist Walter Palmer in July.

Cable said Corbyn and his shadow chancellor John McDonnell were “perfectly agreeable as individuals”. But he added: “They are not electable – they’re just not.

“You just look at their core economic ideas, all the things they said in the past and now they’re trying to disown – the Tories will slaughter them. The Tories are absolutely ruthless, as we know to our cost, and they will slaughter them.”

Jeremy Corbyn cabinet minister attacks new Labour leader's policies

Lord Falconer, the shadow justice secretary, makes clear that he is opposed to nearly every policy so far pledged by his leader and John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/20/vince-cable-contradicts-tim-farron-coalition-corbyn-labour

Tories will 'slaughter' Labour under Corbyn at election, says Vince Cable

Former Lib Dem business secretary says Labour’s new leader and the shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, are not electable

David Cameron not going to feel good this morning.