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.

just occasionally ...... the saudi "horror story" is interesting however

like it or not, one has to accept that the death penalty and corporal (nearly wrote corporate!) punishment are commonplace in the region

thus, in saudi eyes, the shiite cleric nimr al-nimr was a militant preacher, arguably planted by iran, intent on spreading dissent and worse ...... this is deemed treason with only one penalty applicable

saudi would have had no problem at all in dealing with abu hamza!

whether or not the charges against nimr might have been at least reasonably provable i do not know ...... nor do i have any idea of the strength of the charges against the other 40, but i suspect they were all deemed to have taken a significant part in an attempted uprising

that saudi's actions were politically imprudent is another matter, but the saudis are rarely interested in such niceties, though a change in attitude might be forced upon them in coming years

Is that Fred posting stupid cartoons again .... Here's one he might like ..

The neo-cons future with an icon of corruptibility!

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Farage was bang on last night on TV ,he said Cameron will try to tell us he has a deal on benefits for migrants but he will not be addressing migration and the free movement of people .
What with the new camp at Dunkirk and the masses that will be attacking the trucks there as well, hopefully it will all add to us voting out of the EU this summer.

jimmy - probably not far off the mark

YouGov poll, out today, is still finding a very close EU referendum race –

41% would vote to stay, 42% would vote to leave. With the margins of error, that is pretty even.

It looks like the 17% undecided will make the difference. I think we will end up staying in due to fear.

also probably correct, even if hardly a ringing endorsement

I am not certain which way I will vote but am leaning towards the out camp. DC was 'armed' with pathetic requests, he should have demanded much more. The depth of resentment of EU policies is being under-estimated imv.

I'm sure the thousands of people who have suffered terrible flooding of their homes will not have to think twice which way to vote, (2000 Law making it illegal to dredge).

H is your wish to remain in the EU?

eu vote all my family and hundreds of close friends will vote out nothing will change our views it rotten and corrupt

get us out now

At the moment, I would vote to leave. However, I can't see that happening.

george - in fact there are many good reasons NOT to dredge, and that is just a minor cause of the flooding

MrT - so if eu is totally corrupt as you also insist is the uk, where are you going to live? ..... saudi perhaps?

I agree cynic but the interests of householders should be of paramount importance, or do you think otherwise? As for dredging being a minor cause of flooding, who knows to what depth silt and the like has been allowed to build up over the last 15 years?
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no more green belt building, no more building on flood plains, no more housing the rest of the world, currant policy. when the people of england start to go hungry building on fertile ground to then stop. so ask yourself who or what can you vote for, to stop the above, try & keep your thinking simple to arrive at this decision. BB

i can only tell you from the thames near henley and at marlow
in neither place has there been an appreciably or at least noticeable build-up of silt

does "currant policy" have racial undertones? ..... i can't quite work it out :-)

Haze,

What is the betting on Cameron leading the stay in the EU and the rest of the unitedly split cabinet voting out.

The tories are at one another's throats.


Hear the razors being sharpened.

To have a split cabinet (or gang of thieves) is one of the reasons for some of the mess in the UK since 2010.

A leader wanting to make a mark in history.

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