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.

may one assume fred has got himself banned for some reason?
mind you, i didn't think incessant repetition and general tiresomeness qualified for banishment

Banned? don't be ridiculous.. promoted more like.

He may of won the lottery and gone into hiding. :-))

there is no verb "to of"

He's trying to palm Camelot off with a washed ticket for the other 33 million quid ,if he gets it he will obviously give it all away (probably to migrants) being the socialist that he is .

Anyway cynic don't knock it ,it's been peaceful here without pages of cartoons for a while .

thoroughly agree with you jimmy
though fred does just occasionally make some interesting comment and points, the vast majority of his stuff is just pre-programmed polemic ...... added to which, he'll never ever give a straight answer to a direct question, should he proffer an answer at all

Did someone ask for cartoons?

Just 16% Back Corbyn, Worst Rating Since 80s

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/corbyn-at-odds-with-voters-over-his-policy-on-nuclear-deterrent-new-poll-reveals-a3167276.html

Jeremy Corbyn at odds with voters over his policy on nuclear deterrent, new poll reveals

Jeremy Corbyn's attempts to drive through a Ban the Bomb policy threatened to backfire as a poll showed him massively out of step with the public.

He is also seen to be offering the worst team of leaders since the late Eighties, Ipsos MORI research for the Standard revealed today.

Labour is viewed as less “clear and united” about its policies than at any time since 1991, the year before Neil Kinnock was defeated by John Major.

It follows Lord Kinnock saying Mr Corbyn will need to consider quitting it he fails to improve in the polls “after a reasonable space of time”. Mr Corbyn’s bruising reshuffle was marred by resignations after he replaced pro-Trident Maria Eagle as shadow defence secretary with nuclear disarmer Emily Thornberry. He also voiced support for a 50,000-strong CND rally in Trafalgar Square next month.

But the poll found the public opposes unilateral nuclear disarmament by 70 per cent to 24 per cent, a margin of almost three to one.

Ipsos MORI’s monthly political monitor is out today, with topline figures of

CON 40%, LAB 31%, LDEM 7%, UKIP 11%, GRN 4%.

Ray Pointer snuffs it http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35415586

Possibly Burnley's best. Certainly the only player that immediately comes to mind.

Google vs HMRC
while i would thoroughly agree that £130m is mere petty cash to Google, no one anywhere seems to be claiming that they had done anything illegal ...... they just used the law as it stood to best advantage

more importantly, a precedent and even benchmark has been set for the future

i certainly find it quite amusing that suddenly, all sorts of other counties are now jumping on the bandwagon

David Cameron is making a dash for a June EU referendum on the basis of a draft reform deal that creates an "emergency brake" on migrant benefits, a compromise Eurosceptics are already denouncing as a British climbdown. After months of torrid negotiations, the prime minister will on Friday be offered his flagship demand of a four-year migrant benefit ban - but one that can only be invoked when Britain's welfare system is deemed to be under "exceptional" strain from immigration. - Financial Times

If there is a June referendum, there will be a lot of scare mongering about the dire consequences of leaving. Believe me, Germany is terrified of the prospect of a Brexit because without doubt it will be the beginning of the end of the EU as we know it. The EU has more to lose than the UK since we are not the only people fed up with how things are.
Unfortunately they won't learn before so I dont think we have a choice but to leave. Stutter now and things will only get worse in the future. Maybe after the UK leaves, a more sensible and workable economic union may emerge. I have no issue with labour movement but elected national governments must have the right to govern and enact laws that cannot be trumped by faceless unelected bureaucrats in Brussels and Strasbourg. The fact that by law, there have to be sittings in Luxembourg, Brussels and Strasbourg underlines the nonsense of bureaucracy gone mad at the expense of taxpayers.

The EU has gone far beyond what the UK voters envisaged in the 1975 referendum, arguably they would not have voted for inclusion had they known how it would turn out. If we vote to stay in now it will give the unelected bureaucrats of the EU all the ammunition required to push on for a Federal States Of Europe.
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george - that is no less scaremongering than threatening extinction if we pull out ...... neither is really based on fact but merely on gut feel

Is it not true that if we are out that if we do want to still trade with some member states that we are still bound by certain conditions just as if we are still in, but no ability to influence those conditions?

Certainly not scaremongering cynic. The EU has pushed on with so many reforms irrespective of whether member countries approved or not. Let's not forget they totally ignored the criteria THEY themselves set out in their desperate need for more countries to join the 'Club'
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