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.

I'd be quite willing to donate to a charity that fund raised for Birth
control in third world countries...

The lack of food/water and other basic's like hygene/medicine etc
makes for a continuous cycle of hundreds of charity appeals on a
daily basis, and I often ask myself why anyone would want to bring
a child into the world under the conditions that exist in these third world
countries..

The point which I am making is unless you have knowledge of a subject which is being discussed the conclusions that some often leap to are obvious, but often those answers are wrong. Often, demonstrating such takes more effort than I wish to afford.

Also, questions are often easy to ask, it the bloody answers which are difficult to work out and then verbalise succinctly.

Manuel is often a smart ass and being deliberately provocative.

More than one can enjoy that "game".

I agree grannyboy , I can remember in school in the late sixties asking why they brought children into the world when they couldn't afford to do it , but here we are decades later and same thing going on . Charities still want money .

Oh ta Freda .

fred "but often those answers are wrong, often, demonstrating such takes
more effort then I wish to afford"

Maybe the answers you receive back are correct, just YOU don't like it,
and you can't be bothered to reply because you have not got a sensible
response, and so just post one line flippant reply's..

Thank you for sharing your opinion.

Thicko's been at it all day again i see.
Get some of that cheap alcohol down you quick Fred and you will feel better.

Fred will like this....


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/weather-presenter-liberte-chan-made-to-wear-cardigan-on-air-after-viewers-complained-about-her-dress-a7031446.html

it is rare that actions or answers can be judged either right or wrong other than with the infallibility of hindsight
further, the result of similar actions or answers in response to similar situations will not necessarily be the same as previously ........ i guess that is part of why henry ford declared that history was bunkum

I'm not sure about that. Ford has a history of building crap cars and trucks and that is a lesson we shouldn't forget.

UK inflation rate falls on cheaper air fares
21 minutes ago
From the section Business
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The UK's inflation rate fell in April for the first time since September, largely due to cheaper air fares after the Easter holidays.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the rate, as measured by the Consumer Prices Index, fell to 0.3%.
The ONS said the main causes were falls in air fares, vehicles, clothing and social housing rents.
The Bank of England said last week that it expected inflation to increase in the second half of the year.
By far the largest downward effect in April came from air transport, with prices falling by 14.2%, compared with a rise of 4.5% between the same two months last year.
This was influenced by the timing of the Easter holidays in March. Fare prices increased dramatically between February and March this year and then fell sharply in April.
An alternative inflation measure, the Retail Prices Index, which is still used to index some rents and pensions also fell from an annual rate of 1.6% in March to 1.3% in April .
Meanwhile core inflation, which strips out energy, food, alcohol and tobacco, fell to 1.2%, compared with economists' expectations for 1.4%.
Interest rates
Last week, the governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, had to write his sixth letter to the Chancellor George Osborne explaining why CPI inflation was still below the Bank's 2% target.
In it he said: "The underlying causes of the below-target inflation of the past year and a half have been: sharp falls in commodity prices, the past appreciation of sterling, and to a lesser degree the subdued pace of domestic cost growth."
The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee voted last week to keep interest rates unchanged at the record low of 0.5%. The Bank is not expected to raise rates until at least next year.
In a separate report, the ONS said that there had been a surge in house prices as landlords rushed to buy before higher stamp duty was imposed.
UK average house prices increased by 9.0% over the year to March 2016, up from 7.6% in the year to February 2016.

Election bus scandal widens, at least 12 election battle bus visits were not registered by local candidates. The party could face police probes.
This time it's not the Tories but the Labour party.
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It applies to both those parties and several others. It has been done in previous elections. The parties all regard it as a central cost and not applicable locally.

edit

Evidence out today that Lib Dems have the same problem.

Ambiguity reigns then, thought I'd post it in the interests of fair play. LOL
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But the tories were the worst!

8-)

I see yesterday Sir Richard Dearlove the ex-spy chief blasted the EU as being 'hapless' over the migration crisis. Two months ago he insisted a Brexit would not damage UK security and if anything may make the UK safer. As the former Head of MI6 if anyone knows, he should.
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For Round The Horn Fans

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jpq0

Corbyn's battle bus that matches his clothes.

Is that the Mark 2 version Hays .

European immigrants to Britain cost the taxpayer £3 million a day last year, according to a new analysis.

MigrationWatch UK, which campaigns for tougher border controls, said the overall cost of immigration from Europe – including recent arrivals and those who have lived here many decades - was £1.2 billion last year.

The sum was calculated by deducting the cost of benefits and public services, such as the NHS, which were consumed by migrants from the amount of money they contributed to the Exchequer through tax.

In another important finding, the new research said immigrants who have arrived since 2001 – including hundreds of thousands of arrivals from the