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.

Junior doctors make up their money by working in excess of 90 hours a week.
Dave says they can work a max of 72 hours a week, and at increased ra£e.

I have worked 92 hours a week at security{many years past} and at the end, I was knackerd and worn out.
Junior Doc's sometimes have to make life or death decissions, even when they are knackerd and worn out.
But now they are saying that it's about the money and not the wellfare of the patient!!
Someone should point out to them that it is a HOSPITAL they are going to work in, not a morgue.

Listening to John Reid and David Blunkett makes you realize how far Labour has gone downhill. Now "led" by mental dwarfs supported by syncophants.

are you SURE that doctors work "in excess of 90 hours a week"?

do not confuse working with being able to sleep for much of a shift at hospital

when doctors/consultants are or were on call, they too actually worked very few hours of that time

It,

I thought until I checked you were talking about the conservative party and the blue-rinsed brigade.

how frightfully droll

Scotsman.

Leaders: The worst kind of political posturing

The security services have a tough enough job dealing with terror plots against society without pontificating politicians chiming in

The horrific attacks in Paris have simply reinforced the murderous and ruthless nature of the cult calling itself Islamic State and their single-minded aim to spread terror.



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While the depravity of the terrorist group cannot be overstated, its ability to strike at the heart of the French capital underlines the job our police and security services have on their hands.


Yesterday’s police raids in the suburb of Saint Denis were the latest chapter in an unfolding horror which has gripped France since Friday night. The hunt for Abdelhamid Abaaoud – the apparent mastermind of last week’s attacks – led to a flat where a women wearing a suicide vest blew herself up and a suspect was killed in a hail of police bullets and grenades.

Five members of France’s anti-terrorism unit were injured in the incident and a police dog 
was killed.

The French police deserve a huge amount of praise for the courage they have shown, putting their lives at risk to strike back at those who brought terror to their capital on Friday night. That is reinforced by the suicide bomber they faced

But while they have approached their task with a stoic resolve, an unseemly debate has raged across the Channel about whether British police should be able to “shoot to kill”.

Earlier this week, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn found himself fighting off attacks from his own MPs when he confessed to being “not happy” about the policy.


He has since backtracked, telling his party’s ruling executive committee that he supports any “strictly necessary force” to protect against a terrorist attack.

Prime Minister David Cameron has backed the police’s use of shoot-to-kill, as has the SNP’s deputy leader, Stewart Hosie, who yesterday said it was right that police be allowed to use “necessary force” against anyone posing a “real and immediate risk”.

After Friday’s attacks many of us were left with feelings of impotence and frustration for the plight of those innocent civilians gunned down with no chance of fighting back. But that frustration and desire to help must be felt tenfold by police officers and those others who spend their lives protecting the public.

The debate over shoot-to-kill is political posturing at its very worst.


It’s an attempt by politicians to take ownership of a situation where the grief of those who lost loved ones in Paris is still raw.

Their pronouncements on shoot-to-kill are designed to show us they are tough and willing to make the hard decisions.

But these are the sort of decisions which should be left to professionals who face tough calls in life-or-death situations and who know the realities of those situaions.

In the wake of the French attacks, our own security services confirmed that a number of plots had been foiled in the UK in recent months. The job our security services face is immense; from monitoring those returning from Syria to scouring electronic communications data from terrorist “chatter”.

The last thing they need now is for pontificating politicians to make their jobs harder.


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And Nicola Sturgeon was at it again today, using an international crisis to try and big up her role and to pretend to be a leader on the world stage. She is not a head of state, she leads a regional assembly. She has no role in defence, no role in foreign affairs, no role with the security services and even her nationwide police force has to work on plans dictated by the UK anti-terrorist branch.

Her party, which as stated has no role in foreign affairs or UK development aid somehow manages to convince itself that the Scottish Parliament needs an International development minister. This is nothing more than an opportunity for Mr Yousef to fill his expenses form and have a few nice foreign holidays.

It would be far better if Nicola Sturgeon concentrated on those domestic policies for which she has responsibility.

As for the futile 55 plus one at Westminster, yet again they have a side-lined role in events. Even though there are a few Conservatives against bombing ISIS in Syria, there are likely more than enough Labour rebels to help the Prime Minister get such action through, if that is what he wants. As each day passes, the decision to impose 56 charlatans as Scotland's Westminster cohort looks an increasingly foolish thing to have done.

The French chief prosecutor has announced that the mastermind behind the Paris bombing was killed by police yesterday.

just seen that too .... shame they didn't capture him alive so he could have been questioned over coffee and steak frites

Yes. The Corbynistas could have interrogated him over a nice croissant or two. That usually does the trick. Or Monty Python could have tortured him in the 'comfy chair'.

Perhaps Corbyn himself as the leader of the 'very silly party'.

On the other hand, if he could have been arrested him, they "may" have got some useful information out of him, forensic or interrogatory, which might prevent or reduce further carnage.

But, what is a little bit of spilling blood and killing, as long as is isn't yours?

One less murdering bastard.How many INNOCENT lives saved?

The French fired 5000 bullets in that raid , they were not messing around .
Just as well because they would have been blow up . Good on them ...

so fred would have knocked on the door and pretended to be the postman with a delivery!

assuredly it was much better that he was killed than he escaped
but yes, shame that he could not have been disabled - eg in the testicles and shoulders - but unless you're fred, you don't have the luxury of being able to determine exactly where to aim on a body in such circumstances

Yes, but he had the last laugh....now he has lots of virgins lining up to give him blow jobs.

They should be careful about their friends and relatives, and even friends of friends .... their Imams are probably most responsible.

Max , don't believe the virgins thing i don't think it's true .

Plus it was a woman who blew herself up .

Cynic,


I would allow an idiot like you to do the knocking.

Hays,


What is Lyton spin on :

Pop down to TCO and ask.

Mark Clarke expelled from Conservative party for life over bullying claims
Ex-Tory candidate accused of blackmailing minister over affair and harassing activist, who killed himself in September.

As Manuel would ask, "Has somebody been buggering about again?"

if i had to be there, i'ld knock with an rpg or two!

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jimmy - she was a lesbian!