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.

Leaked messages reveal BMA plan to 'draw out' strikes and 'force' Hunt to impose contract

The head of the BMA’s junior doctors’ committee, Johann Malawana told colleagues he wanted to “draw this right out” with a “prolonged period” of industrial action.

The startling revelations also show that it was a deliberate strategy to try to “force” Jeremy Hunt to impose the new contract without doctors’ support.

The BMA called six strikes in total, including two where medics withdrew emergency care.

After the initial decision to impose, the two sides resumed negotiations earlier this month and after ten days agreed the terms of the new contract.

Junior doctors will now get the chance to vote on the new deal, which includes a pay premium for regular weekend work, along with a basic pay rise of 10%.

The messages, revealed by Health Service Journal, form part of a WhatsApp group set up by Dr Malawana for members of the JDC.

In December he told fellow committee members the BMA’s strategy should be to hold talks over the contract “interspersed” with industrial action to put the government under pressure.

“The more I think about it the more I love our plan. Basically five weeks of headlines about juniors strikes through January and February,” Dr Malawana wrote.

While in public the JDC continued to call for a negotiated settlement with the Government, in a WhatsApp message on December 15, Dr Malawana referred to a “a strategy that tied the DH [Department of Health] up in knots for the next 16-18 months”.

Before the New Year, he suggested the JDC was deliberately stringing the contract dispute out to try to force the Government into imposing the contract.

“The best solution may actually [be] to draw this right out. Into the Europe debate and leadership debate. Punctuated IA [industrial action] for a prolonged period and force them to impose against our support.”

Messages sent during a round of talks with mediators Acas in January also suggested the JDC chair was not taking the negotiations seriously.

Another JDC member, Kitty Mohan, told the group that the only substantive issue in the negotiations was whether doctors would continue to get extra pay for working on Saturdays.

“It is the only real red line. It’s the thing 99 per cent of juniors told us they were upset about in August,” she said.

Ebay:

Yes. It's always been pretty good for me for around the last 20 years or so.

Tips:

Do link it up to PayPal.
Also - do link your PayPal account to i. Your Bank Account and ii. Your Credit Card
This then makes your buying extremely easy as you can now do 'one-click buying' for any 'Buy It Nows'.

If you want a bit of fun, try using a 'robotic sniper' to do your online bidding. Just set your 'snipe' at the maximum amount you are prepared to pay for the item and let the 'robotic sniper' do the rest. This is NOT the same as letting Ebay have your maximum bid and letting Ebay do the bidding for you. Other people can almost see what is going on and they can't see any of this with the robotic sniper.

I'd be interested to hear what others have to say about robotic sniping and if they use one and which sniper they use. There's no need to pay for one. Good ones are Freely available that will pop your bid in with just 2 or 3 seconds to go before the close.

OK Exec thinking of selling at some point in the future .

When buying, I never bid during the sale. My first and only bid is with about 40 seconds or less remaining. I have got some amazing bargains that way. Bidding earlier just pushes up the price. The best times are when there is only one bidder. He thinks he has it and sits on his low price to be pipped to the post by me bidding at the end. I just pick my maximum bid and bid that. Ebay will bid just enough over the previous bidder to win. I bought a trumpet for my son for £30 that was worth £200. It is good to look for misspellings such as Tumpet for Trumpet as they get very few or no bids. There is a web site that finds misspellings. It is called goofbid I think.

I have had a good look for strumpets but I'm told that I am on the wrong site..

I wouldn't mind a bit of crumpet myself .

There you go VIC ..

A knob of butter .

Looks like someone I'd let in the door.

Yes. Certainly.

But, Hey! Maybe not! Have you seen that film, "Knock Knock", starring Keanu Reeves? Here's the trailer for it:

last nights question time, a man pulled out is nhs card for being in the eu
with an red x put on it by the Spanish . they will not treat uk people on the card no insurance or cash go back to the uk same happening in Portugal france

if Cameron wants the uk in the EU THEN LETS HAVE ALL THE PERKS EURO AND ALL
NOT WHAT THE GOV AND FINANCIALS WANT WHY SHOULD WE PAY FOR PASSPORTS EUROS
BUT ALAS THE GOVERNMENT DO NOT WANT THAT SO WE WILL ALWAYS BE SECOND C;LASS IN THE EU SO VOTE OUT

I GO TO SPAIN A LOT .

can say this no insurance or cash you will be ignored for hours then give you a tablet and say see your doctor when you go back home

Freda misses you Tanker when you go away .

T--------- Hope you and your folks are home and able to vote on the 23rd
2517

I have just buttoned my lip.

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What are the bookies odds to-day?

ho ho ho how whoo!

Your coming across like a right old pizz artist aren't you .

It seems you must have put your skirt on the exiters!

That's all you do eh make jokes .

Maybe you just like to buy cheap French plonk , it might be that simple for you in your condition . Fill up the trunk , anyway i don't bet , but i do VOTE .

You play the market

That seems to be betting!

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I think being sensible on this thread is becoming very difficult.