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.

looking at yahoo.uk just now, i came across quite a long article courtesy of the Fascist Gazette, so therefore to be accepted in full with some caution ....... anyway, an excerpt below ......

Refugees shun France, land of red tape, unemployment and poor housing
Refugees are steering clear of France in favour of Germany, Sweden and Britain because they see the country as unwelcoming and economically depressed, migrant experts and aid groups said on Monday.

Red tape, unemployment rates of more than 10 per cent and a ban on working for up to nine months while asylum requests are processed are among the factors leading the vast majority of refugees to avoid France.

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Of the four million Syrians who have fled their country since war erupted in 2011, only 7,000 have received asylum in France.

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One Kafkaesque French rule, for example, requires refugees to have an address to start the asylum process. The catch is that you cannot get an address until you are in the system.
Adding to their woes is the fact that few administrative staff speak English and most forms are in French only.

Our forms are printed so all third world and East Europeans can read them, and in Welsh. How much do we pay the translators ?

Next all road sign's will be in Arabic

Today's most incredible news and by a mile!

VW could face a fine of up to $18bn (£11.6bn), criminal charges for its executives, and legal action from customers and shareholders amid claims in the US that it used a device to falsify emissions data. The device recognises when the car is being tested and immediately cuts emissions to a level much lower than normal and which would be unsustainable under normal driving conditions.

In a statement, VW said: “Discrepancies relate to vehicles with Type EA 189 engines, involving some 11m vehicles worldwide. A noticeable deviation between bench test results and actual road use was established solely for this type of engine.

Amazing!

Anyone with half a brain has to ask:

Are there any other manufacturers out there doing the same thing?

My £10k bet (usually it's just a £5 note) says: Are you for real? Of course there are!

Amazing!

With a bit of luck, the end of the German €uro project.

Ze Germans are not the flavour of Europe or the rest of the world right now .

Unless your a refugee/migrant or whatever else .

Vote to get out of this EU mess , it always was a one sided deal for the UK in favour of Germany and France.

I think we will , the polls say no but they got the general election badly wrong .
What with the influx from the East and now this migration problem i think people will have had enough .
In fact i think it could break up the EU which was a rubbish idea right from the start .

the way things are going, or at least coming out of europe at the moment, i think the "no" vote will assuredly have the wind in its sails, albeit that the criteria are narrower than they should be

The EU has come to an agreement on taking refugees but the refugees are complaining about it. They want to pick and choose the country that they go to. On BBC last night they were saying that it is Germany or nowhere. If they can't go to Germany then they will go back to Syria. These don't sound like people fleeing from a war zone.

I thought the Mail was a friend of Dave's.

What were Cameron's lies on immigration!

I see immigrants every day.

That's funny Haystack !!

i find it very annoying though sadly inevitable that the press fans the flames on immigration without any differentiation between true refugees (syrians), eu citizens (romanians et al) who have no jobs to go to but rather fancy the uk welfare system, "outsider" economic migrants who are in no significant danger in their homelands, and properly qualified, genuine and economically valuable immigrants (nurses and similar)

i am however quite surprised that the press have yet to latch on to juicy fact that it is immigrant families who are the primary source of an increasing uk population, whereas in germany, france, spain and others the populations are falling

Credit to Dave for not being told what to do by Merkel and the EU regarding taking Syrians , however he needs to get immigration under control ,leaving the EU would be the solution.
VOTE OUT PEOPLE YOU KNOW IT MAKES SENSE !!!!

Manuel,

You seem to me to be doing the same!

Wavey Dave is pandering to the neo-cons and racists of his own party.

He should have stuck to playing with pigs and blowing his mind out.

I suppose in one way he has.

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Well, I've lived here for the last 13-14 years or so but the locals still regard me as a "comer-inner".

:-)