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.

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.

It'l be a cover up, which was to expected, and allow Blair to get off,
seeing has the Blair ideology still lingers in the smoke filled commitee
rooms of the establishment, and the 80% of serving Labour MP's, not to
mention the Tory's like outgoing PM cameron who idolised Blair along
with T. May.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tony-blair-chilcot-iraq-war-soldiers-international-criminal-court-human-rights-saddam-hussein-a7116696.html

Chilcot report: International Criminal Court says it will not investigate Tony Blair – but might prosecute soldiers

Court says decision to invade is outside its remit but will use report to look at evidence of soldiers' human rights abuses

ony Blair will not be put on trial for war crimes but British soldiers could be, prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have said.

Ahead of the long-awaited publication of the Chilcot report on Wednesday, lawyers at the court have ruled out prosecuting the former prime minister for war crimes because it says the decision to go to war is outside its remit.

Instead the ICC says lawyers will comb through the 2.6 million word document for evidence of war crimes committed by British troops during the war.

The decision has outraged the families of the 179 British soldiers who were killed during the eight year conflict. They blame Mr Blair for dragging the UK into the war under false pretences.

Looks like The Chilcott Report will take the heat out of the Tory and Labour leadership elections.

Or is it vice-versa? I do very much think so. How about you?