goldfinger
- 09 Jun 2005 12:25
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.
grannyboy
- 18 Mar 2016 18:50
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From the Reuters article(post 69134)..
"It showed we can come to Brussels and get people to listen" A British government spokesperson said.
'EU officials said cameron persuaded his peers to give special mention to tampons because all of them are anxious that he wins the referendum'
HAHAHALOLOLOL!!! Just a lying bunch of deceptive clowns!!!...
jimmy b
- 18 Mar 2016 18:56
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He's just showed what a great negotiator he really is ,i mean really you have to put him in the same bracket as Churchill .
Think of Maggie when she sat at the table demanding "i want my money back" until they all fell asleep at 3 am ,she must be looking down at Dave with such affection, or is she saying "you stupid posh twat taking the British people for fools".
MaxK
- 18 Mar 2016 20:43
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Stan
- 18 Mar 2016 22:59
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ExecLine
- 18 Mar 2016 23:22
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Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has resigned, citing pressure to make cuts to disability benefits. Here is the full text of his letter:
"I am incredibly proud of the welfare reforms that the government has delivered over the last five years. Those reforms have helped to generate record rates of employment and in particular a substantial reduction in workless households.
As you know, the advancement of social justice was my driving reason for becoming part of your ministerial team and I continue to be grateful to you for giving me the opportunity to serve. You have appointed good colleagues to my department who I have enjoyed working with. It has been a particular privilege to work with with excellent civil servants and the outstanding Lord Freud and other ministers including my present team, throughout all of my time at the Department of Work and Pensions.
I truly believe that we have made changes that will greatly improve the life chances of the most disadvantaged people in this country and increase their opportunities to thrive. A nation's commitment to the least advantaged should include the provision of a generous safety-net but it should also include incentive structures and practical assistance programmes to help them live independently of the state. Together, we've made enormous strides towards building a system of social security that gets the balance right between state help and self help.
Throughout these years, because of the perilous public finances we inherited from the last Labour administration, difficult cuts have been necessary. I have found some of these cuts easier to justify than others but aware of the economic situation and determined to be a team player I have accepted their necessity.
You are aware that I believe the cuts would have been even fairer to younger families and people of working age if we had been willing to reduce some of the benefits given to better-off pensioners but I have attempted to work within the constraints that you and the chancellor set.
I have for some time and rather reluctantly come to believe that the latest changes to benefits to the disabled and the context in which they've been made are, a compromise too far. While they are defensible in narrow terms, given the continuing deficit, they are not defensible in the way they were placed within a Budget that benefits higher earning taxpayers. They should have instead been part of a wider process to engage others in finding the best way to better focus resources on those most in need.
I am unable to watch passively whilst certain policies are enacted in order to meet the fiscal self imposed restraints that I believe are more and more perceived as distinctly political rather than in the national economic interest.
Too often my team and I have been pressured in the immediate run up to a budget or fiscal event to deliver yet more reductions to the working age benefit bill. There has been too much emphasis on money saving exercises and not enough awareness from the Treasury, in particular, that the government's vision of a new welfare-to-work system could not be repeatedly salami-sliced.
It is therefore with enormous regret that I have decided to resign. You should be very proud of what this government has done on deficit reduction, corporate competitiveness, education reforms and devolution of power. I hope as the government goes forward you can look again, however, at the balance of the cuts you have insisted upon and wonder if enough has been done to ensure "we are all in this together".
MaxK
- 18 Mar 2016 23:25
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One up George's bum!
Fred1new
- 18 Mar 2016 23:34
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Hays, Hays,
Quick, hurry down to Con Party HQ and ask for the spin on IDS and the Tory party split.
VICTIM
- 19 Mar 2016 07:33
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What about panty pads , is this discrimination .
MaxK
- 19 Mar 2016 08:44
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Go north for Easter hols, Cameron tells Britons, but he's off to Lanzarote
PM made call to boost tourism in region hit by winter floods, but it has emerged the Camerons will holiday in Canaries instead
Heather Stewart and Rowena Mason
Friday 18 March 2016 16.23 GMT
The Liberal Democrat leader, Tim Farron, whose Cumbrian constituency was hit hard by the floods, said:
“The prime minister previously said people should visit the north, but like virtually everything that comes out of his mouth what he actually meant was everyone else and not himself.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/mar/18/go-north-for-easter-hols-cameron-tells-britons-but-hes-off-to-lanzarote
Fred1new
- 19 Mar 2016 09:38
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Fred1new
- 19 Mar 2016 09:42
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Fred1new
- 19 Mar 2016 09:43
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Who will go first, Osborne or Tampon Dave?
jimmy b
- 19 Mar 2016 11:21
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Brave of Ian to quit over his beliefs ,now he can concentrate on helping to get us out of the EU .
Fred1new
- 19 Mar 2016 12:21
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BELIEFS???????????
OPPORTUNISTIC more likely?
As one would expect from the present con artists in the cabinet!
grannyboy
- 19 Mar 2016 12:55
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"Who will go first, Osborne or Tampon Dave"
Its 'bleeding' obvious...'Call me Dave' !! once the results come back as a LEAVE vote, and with this knockout blow from IDS, closely followed by 'Daves' sidekick and fellow europhile sycophant Osborne ........
Haystack
- 19 Mar 2016 12:59
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Even in the unlikely event of an out result in the referendum, Cameron will stay until just before the election.
grannyboy
- 19 Mar 2016 13:14
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Don't be to sure on that score Haystacks, people arn't totally blind and stupid and can see whats happening and IS going to happen if there's a stay in vote.
As for 'DAVE', he'l be gone the moment the LEAVE vote results come in....DEAD MAN WALKING!!...
TANKER
- 19 Mar 2016 13:31
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hay dave the walking dead man a liar has fcuked up the party with all is lies
kissing the eu back sides
Cameron the biggest scumbag ever to be pm
and yes I am a right wing tory Cameron is not he is just looking for is move into ius eu seat
TANKER
- 19 Mar 2016 13:36
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so the france to get the coward who run .thousands of muslims protected the scum
round them up and deport the scum . this tells the world you can never ever trust a MUSLIM THE ARE LIARS AND WILL STICK THE KNIFE IN YOUR BACK