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.

Dave's new year pressy from Comrade Corbyn...




Jeremy Corbyn 'planning to replace Hilary Benn with Emily Thornberry' in reshuffle

Friends of the Labour leader have told The Sunday Telegraph that Mr Benn will be offered another job and Ms Thornberry will take his place as foreign secretary






By Kate McCann, Senior Political Correspondent

10:00PM GMT 02 Jan 2016



Jeremy Corbyn is lining up Emily Thornberry as his new foreign secretary to replace Hilary Benn, in a reshuffle of his shadow cabinet expected next week, the Sunday Telegraph understands.


The Labour leader is planning to appoint Ms Thornberry, the former shadow attorney general, in place of Mr Benn who openly defied him and backed plans to bomb ISIL targets in Syria according to friends of Mr Corbyn.


Mr Benn is expected to be offered another job in the shadow cabinet although it is not clear if he will accept an alternative position.



More:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/active/12078520/Jeremy-Corbyn-planning-to-replace-Hilary-Benn-with-Emily-Thornberry-in-reshuffle.html

A cheerful cartoon.

Wishing you all a good year for 2016.. especially Fred for his continued education of the right wing extremists on here.

if fred ever learnt that it's quality not quantity that was more effective - ask any advertising agency - then some might pay at least some attention to his perpetual stream of diatribe

asking him to post anything balanced would be like asking the russians, chinese and americans to collaborate in sorting out the multiple disasters in m/e

Happy New Year Stan! You really need to get out more, who needs enemies when you have Fred for a friend LOL!!

As states the advert for the neo-con party who have bought or bribed the media.

Needle stuck again. Fred, is like a Dansette record player from the sixties, stuck in Mono.

England performing......double century...and single century.....batting stamina :(good indian name for an auntie)....

Jeremy Corbyn 'planning to replace Hilary Benn with Emily Thornberry' in reshuffle

I think Corbyn is a sleeper planted by the tories to destroy the Labour party , just like the Police planted officers to spy on the Greenham common women. Mine you sleeping with Diane Abbott went beyond the call of duty

hoho ..... but good watching isn't it, and it really wouldn't matter which country's team was batting

weather is just so vile today that am just trying to keep myself occupied indoors with the cricket and making some minestrone of kinds

cooked off a couple of lamb breasts yesterday so have some nice stock; soaked (pinto) beans o'night and and cooked those this morning
after that, it was just a case of putting it all together with assorted veg and a bit of chilli and shall now let it simmer for a couple of hours
shall add the thoroughly de-fatted breast meat for the last 20/30 minutes, but it'll all be better tomorrow anyway

Hope England win....they will perhaps declare....

cricket
wow!
that was just terrific stuff to watch ....... stokes's run-out was also some fine cricket by AB considering he dropped a sitter before recovering and doing the biz

Cargo Homestore
this chain was formerly known as Carpenter's and as far as i can tell, is not owned by any larger entity

anyway, be aware that this is the first casualty of the new year, though i believe that the on-line biz will continue to trade, as least for now

I'd never heard of them, but looking at their site, it's no surprise, overpriced tat at best.


http://www.cargohomeshop.com/sale

There's no fool like an old fool...



http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03538/danczuk-2_3538268b.jpg

Not too sure about the cricket now....England can still win....but not easy.....now I know why the odds were good....

for sure england won't lose, but unless there's something dramatic, a dull draw is clearly 1/10 ...... still, yesterday's fireworks were fun to watch

saudi
not surprisingly, the noises coming from that arena are very different from what one hears in uk

the saudi (sunni) line is that these guys were militants intent on fomenting unrest and more within the kingdom and were treated accordingly

given that both sunnis and shias are muslims, this all feels akin to the irish problem but on a much more serious and brutal scale

From April 2016, non-EU migrant workers will need to earn £35,000 to qualify for settlement, a move that will decimate a significant proportion of nurses working within the NHS.
With the average national wage for a nurse in the UK at circa £23,000, this is a disproportionate measure taken by the UK government in an attempt to limit immigration.

Most of them come from Asian like the Philippines

Nurses will not be a problem as there is going to be a number of exceptions the new policy.