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.

http://www.meforum.org/5876/why-putin-wants-syria

The old saying , give them an inch and they take a mile .This is not good in any sense of the word , eroding away our laws and way of life . Without doubt the future is going to be fraught with danger and massive separation and all being allowed right in front of us .

If these communities see that these tactics of ISIS are winning them points , then I don't care what people think about good Muslim or bad Muslim they will slowly turn to whatever is best for them and their religion .All the Muslims that have supposedly fled these conflicts , are bringing these conflicts to Europe through their vast numbers .The EU laws are allowing it to happen .

Muslim they will slowly turn to whatever is best for them and their religion

why should that be so, any more than if you are a catholic, russian orthodox, hindu or jew?

however, it cannot be denied that the uncontrolled influx of (muslim) refugees into europe has been a devil-send for terrorists and other ne'er do wells

academies vs schools
i really do not understand the objection to schools being run as academies, though controlling the quality of teaching they offer may arguably be a little more difficult

labour, as the official opposition, is objecting as a matter of principle, but why?

Think!

brilliant answer as one would expect

more scum muslims being rounded up in brussels and france why are they all low life muslim scum .
round up the muslims who are protecting them and deport them
the EU is now full of muslims who hate the west they want to kill non muslims
any idiot that wants to stay in the rotten EU must be mental

vote out they should bring the vote forward like next month

get us out

250 companies campaigning for out

ex BOE M KING SAYING IF THE UK STAYS IN IT WILL DESTROY THE UK
WE MUST VOTE OUT

as already posted on the referendum thread :-) .....

sajid javid, who is a strong supporter of staying in, hit the nail on the head .......
uk will be stronger "in" in a reformed eu

as i have posted before, the problem is that currently the eu plutocrats have no particular interest in changing anything .... for them, everything is lovely and cosy with their bank accounts growing like japanese knotweed

if uk votes to leave, though i suspect that will not come to pass, then there'll be the most awful mess, but it may well provide the catalyst for a root and branch reform of the whole eu structure and democratic process within it

Corbyn was elected Labour leader with such a big majority that it gave him a powerful mandate to take on the Tory government and the increasingly morally corrupt and intellectually bankrupt British establishment.

Unfortunately, he has failed to live up to that challenge.

The most serious failure concerns his attitude towards the EU.

June’s referendum on British membership is by far the biggest issue facing the country for a generation.

But Corbyn’s position has been pathetic — particularly since he voted against Britain remaining in was then known as the Common Market in 1975. At the time, he was a political protégé of Tony Benn, one of the leaders of the No campaign.

Back then, he regarded the EU as a malign attempt to build an anti-democratic empire that damaged workers’ rights.

So why is Corbyn now pro-EU?

His U-turn is partly due to the fact that he no longer sees it as a capitalist club. Also, he has been forced to accept that the vast majority of Labour MPs support EU membership and he would therefore be badly isolated if he opposed them. He’s fearful, especially, of alienating the Blairite faction in his Shadow Cabinet.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.u

always trust the mail as one would the express, or the socialist worker :-)

however, as i have written before, the labour MPs must be under a gagging order, as one hears not a peep of dissent, though the split in the general populace must sure be reflected in their ranks

Watching the Neo-cons self-destruct while they think and reconstruct the party and construct practical policies.

No urgency.

But the present "con" government, like headless chickens, seems to be racing to destroy the social structure and fabric of the UK.

It seems they are attempting to destroy the "institutions" which has served society for 50 years, rather than modify or improved them for to-day's needs.

Changing schools into Academies without parental consultation is the same as when Labour converted schools into Comprehensives without the same consultation. It will mean councils having no involvment in education. The schools will be run by charitable trusts. The assets such as the buildings and land will be held by the councils who will become landlords to the trusts. These changes may be happening due to ideological reasons, but so were Labour's.

Shirley Williams was in a hurry to get changes to comprehensive education.

The speed was "political" and the infrastructure was not prepared for the changes.

Neither were the teaching staff.

The results were chaotic and led to lack of school discipline and teaching standards.

The "cons" are falling into a similar pattern of behaviour.

Education like NHS and "Welf are Social services" need a period of stability not continuous "reorganisations" and "disruptions".

Also, not changes made from ideological political positions.

i don't see that the results need to be chaotic at all, nor a lowering of teaching standards nor an increase of school indiscipline - it seems to me that nowadays, this is sadly lacking to non-existent except where you have a predominance of parents who have aspirations for their children - eg asian and/or middle class families

whether or not there is any real or even perceived gain in the change, i am unsure

There need not be wars, but there are!

Profound Fred, Profound!!!!

Say Goodnight Fred!