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.

certainly their names will have been anglicised to some extent, but at what juncture i don't know
the 1921 census would show my mother's side of the family for sure, as she was born in 1920
my father was born in 1914 and assuredly in (greater) london however that was defined

we managed to trace back a little way, but of course all records in poland would have been destroyed, if they even existed at all

The 1911 census is the most recent census that can be seen under the 100 years rule. You can find births, marriages and deaths though and electoral rolls and a few other things like divorce and will probates with the sums left. It depends which part of London. much of it including the East End was Middlesex.

Jeremy Corbyn is neither nice nor decent – he is a nasty bully and an embarrassment to the country

Tom Harris (former Labour MP and government minister)

If you were to write a history of the death of the Labour Party, you could do worse than start with the election of Ed Miliband as leader in 2010.

Choosing Ed over his big brother was the first indication we had that Labour members – and, of course, trade unionists – were growing tired of grown up politics, of the inevitable compromises that accompany being in government. We were out of government now – Great God almighty, free at last! – and it was time to let our hair down, to talk about what we wanted to talk abut, campaign on what we wanted to campaign on, and not be subject any more to the selfish whims of the electorate.

So instead of choosing someone we thought the rest of the country would see as a future prime minister, we chose someone who we saw as a Leader of the Opposition.

Corbyn is a coward who values the praise he gets from the wild-eyed Trots and misfits of Stop the War and the Socialist Workers Party far more highly than he values his duties as the leader of the country’s (for now) second biggest political party.

If he thinks he can lead his party to government, then add stupid to the charge of cowardice. If he knows he cannot become prime minister but still refuses to resign, then add vanity and treachery to the list.

Jeremy Corbyn is neither nice nor decent. He is an embarrassment, not just to the Labour Party, but to our country.

In the name of everything that’s decent, he must go.

Strange how others report him differently.

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Manuel,


my grandparents from both sides ended up in uk in the early years of 20th century (around 1910 i think) ....... no welfare state then you will remember :-)


Perhaps they were shown goodwill.

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i think one of the grandparents paid for steerage to america but was dropped off in glasgow and of course knew no different

in those days, local ethnic communities tended to look after their own - eg you can still find the edifice of the jewish soup kitchen in aldgate/whitechapel

There is certainly one Jewish lunch club down a side road there that I used to visit not long ago. Just a hall doing jewish food every day. Most of the community has gone now.

Sums the tory success.

Morning Fred.

I see your graun cartoon left out the real culprits of big mistake No1.

Fred's just being his usual miserable self.

Dumbo.

Quite happy.

Thank you!

You sound it ,every day.

http://www.conservativehome.com/parliament/2016/07/whos-backing-who-our-running-list-of-mps-supporting-each-leadership-candidate.html

Conservative leadership election MP tally.

May 101
Crabb 21
Gove 21
Leadsom 20
Fox 7

Great win for Mark Cavendish on Stage 1 of the Tour. He will wear the yellow jersey for the first time tomorrow.

72161 - most of the jewish community departed the east end about 30 years ago ...... the area has long seen congregations of new immigrants implanting their own culture, and it is now the turn of the banglas and others from the sub-continent

Any of you remember the 'Mrs Merton' talk shows? She is famous for:

"Ladies and Gentlemen, it's the lovely Debbie McGee."

"Debbie, now tell us, what was it that first attracted you to millionaire Paul Daniels?"

Mrs Merton was played by the comedienne, Caroline Ahern and was famous for a few roles, including one on 'The Royle Family'.

Caroline, who co-wrote, directed and starred in The Royle Family, was born with a rare form of retina cancer and later received treatment for bladder cancer. She revealed two years ago, that she had been undergoing treatment for lung cancer in her home city of Manchester. She has now lost her fight with this dreadful disease.

“Caroline Aherne has sadly passed away after a brave battle with cancer,” her publicist Neil Reading said. “The Bafta award-winning writer and comedy actor died earlier today at her home in Timperley, Greater Manchester. She was 52.

RIP.

From a bit of leakage from the Chilcot report it looks like Blair may get off lightly. It seems it is going to hang MI6 out to dry and blame it on them. Blair will get criticism for not checking enough but will shown as being misled.

oh hahaha!
so easy to blame MI6 as, by definition, the characters live in the shadows
is anyone dumb enough to believe that slimeball blair did not manipulate and spin the reports to suit his own ends?

It will all kick off Wednesday evening.