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.

"when I go to spain I try to speak in their tongue and they thank you for doing so."

Did they understand you then Tanks? I only ask cos

Funnily enough, cyners, I've got to pass down by Castelnaudry next week. Villefranche de Lauragais to be precise.

Read the story below and see the pictures , this is now out of hand , when do we offer assistance with the military .

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/609632/Channel-Tunnel-Eurotunnel-Eurostar-delays-migrant-crisis-large-scale-intrusion?ref=yfp

Batten down the hatches chaps and man those barricades.. the Afghans are coming -):

no one ever heads for china or Russia great leaders not wimps man our borders and shoot on site . get us out of the stinking rotten eu and send back all migrants

But the data do show that among single families receiving either working family tax credit or childs tax credit, the majority of within non-UK claimants are from the EU: 157,600 single families from the EU receive one or both of the benefits while 146,000 of those from outside of the EU do.

Jonathan Portes, directer of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, explained why EU migrants would receive tax credits in the Observer: “Many migrants from the EU … are in low-paid work (including self-employment) and so receive tax credits; as the numbers settling here permanently have grown, and they start having kids, this has become quite a significant phenomenon.”

According to the Roderick McInnes, author of the Commons Library analysis, it is important to note when looking at the data that it does not offer a “complete picture” as the numbers are based on individuals who were not UK nationals when they applied for National Insurance. They could have since applied for British citizenship.

MrT - i don't know what sort of biz you ran, but i bet the employees were all very glad to see the back of you ...... you must have been an absolute nightmare as a boss, as aprt from anything else people-skills are most certainly not your forte

Were they yours?

Don't answer that Alf... for fear of further incriminating yourself -):

cynic a very good one and all my staff now work for the daughter no one ever leaves only to retire . never employ immigrants they are work shy after they get a council home , fact never will ever employ one

i think i must be very diff or at least odd to work for, or at least everyone tells me so, but for all that, we never lose staff ..... must pay them too much!

Work what you? thats a laugh you spend most of the day on here -):

good to see that at long last there looks to be a worldwide clamp-down on companies moving profits around to avoid tax ...... try this for greater detail Business Matters newsletters@bmmagazine.co.uk, which is just sent automatically to my e-mail box

Could be a few worried itinerants in Austria, or wanderers in France!

Has anybody a clear idea of the reforms Cameron is trying to get from the EU prior to the referendum? All I have heard is a lot of background noise.

He doesn't know himself and his ploy to placate his right wingers and ukip voters will backfire on him.

With Boy George and Berlusconi junior coming up on the outside.

FTW.

as matters currently stand, i can easily see the "no" vote carrying the day, but for all the wrong reasons

vote to come out and get rid of the benefit scum that's all they are 270000 on pay that does not pay enough to pay taxes

any one paying to have their car cleaned are just lazy bastards and say they have no time it takes 30 mins to do the job just lazy scum

by the way I always clean my cars when it rains simple