goldfinger
- 09 Jun 2005 12:25
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.
cynic
- 11 Jul 2016 17:08
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i'm sure you'll enjoy a change of character to assassinate
you probably can't find much to say about JC as he's never to be seen and is a limp lettuce when he is
Fred1new
- 11 Jul 2016 18:17
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Manuel,
I didn't even try to assassinate Cameron.
He was committing a long drawn out suicide.
As far as Corbyn being a lettuce is concerned, at least the flies don't congregate on him unlike some could name.
grannyboy
- 11 Jul 2016 19:36
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Well at least there should be a few weeks more of the Labour party falling
apart to keep us occupied, before we revert back to T.May attempting to do
a stitch up on Brexit..
The need for UKIP is more evident then ever...
cynic
- 11 Jul 2016 20:14
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you're right; JC just gets eaten up by little slugs and snails
Fred1new
- 11 Jul 2016 20:41
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I am interested in what he is up to.
Haystack
- 11 Jul 2016 21:59
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No PM is good at everything. That is what the cabinet is for. May has had financial experience, but did not try an make too much of it. She worked as a financial consultant at the Bank of England.
iturama
- 11 Jul 2016 22:20
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Financial consultant? It was her first job after leaving university at the age of 21. She was at the BoE for 6 years 77 - 83.
Don't try to make it up Hays.
Haystack
- 11 Jul 2016 22:26
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After university, Theresa May worked at the Bank of England and was head of the European Affairs Unit and senior adviser on international Affairs at the Association for Payment Clearing Services.
Haystack
- 11 Jul 2016 22:28
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I knew I read it somewhere
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36735469
Theresa May - the basics
Age: 59
Position: Home Secretary, MP for Maidenhead since 1997
Education: Grammar school, degree in Geography from Oxford University
Job before politics:
Financial consultant at Bank of England
MaxK
- 11 Jul 2016 23:00
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Haystack has found a new love, and has been programmed to defend her against all comers.
Dave btw, is no more, and has been deleted from Hays protection sub routine.
The tele was out amongst the punters looking for quotes, but it was all a bit disjointed..I suspect they had to edit quite heavily.
Haystack
- 11 Jul 2016 23:13
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I am disappointed that we have lost Cameron. He was one of the best PMs for a long time.
Haystack
- 11 Jul 2016 23:29
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TV news tonight is a wall-to-wall slugfest of ambitious Tories oozing obsequious platitudes in the hope of getting a job.
— Hugo Rifkind (@hugorifkind)
11 July 2016
grannyboy
- 12 Jul 2016 00:55
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Yes, snake oil salesman are quite well known for having the gift of
the gab, and being able to deceive people with their smarmy comforting
words...But when they make promises on a regular basis and then break
them, without so much as a blush, and is complicit in many 'U' turns, then
eventually their character and honesty is rightly questioned on their suitability
as a PM..
iturama
- 12 Jul 2016 07:12
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Don't' pick and choose the bits you like Hays. The BoE was her first job after studying geography. That, together with a map of the tube, may have helped her to find the Bank, but I doubt she would have been much use to the Governor, except as a gofer.
Between 1977 and 1983 May worked at the Bank of England, and from 1985 to 1997 as a financial consultant and senior advisor in International Affairs at the Association for Payment Clearing Services.
In the 12 years she was at the APCS, she worked her way up to senior advisor.
VICTIM
- 12 Jul 2016 07:57
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Apparently she's going to give everyone a day off in May , she's calling it " May Day " not sure it will catch on . though it will help .
MaxK
- 12 Jul 2016 08:22
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Theresa May will drive Tory members into the arms of Ukip
By
Norman Tebbit
12 July 2016 • 7:00am
Those close to Andrea Leadsom know that she hesitated before deciding to run for Conservative Party leadership because of her concern that it might impose a heavy strain on her 12-year-old daughter.
Now it seems that in the face of the intense smear campaign run by supporters of Theresa May, she concluded that the price of winning would be too high.
“Bitterly disappointed party members who campaigned successfully for Brexit will join Ukip”
Of course she never claimed that being a mother gave her an edge over the childless Mrs May. She merely expressed her natural pride in her family.
I suspect that much of the hatred she has suffered arises from her opposition to gay marriage as much as her Euroscepticism.
On Monday, the Chairman of the 1922 Committee of the Conservative Parliamentary Party, Graham Brady, announced that the contest for contest for the leadership of the Conservative Party was over. Mrs May will be given the coronation she has coveted and become our new prime minister within days. That will bring an end to what has been a sorry tale of blunders and back stabbings.
Mrs May, who campaigned for the United Kingdom to remain a part of the European Union and lost, will now go to Brussels and tell Herr Juncker that she made a mistake and that really she wanted to leave. Indeed, she will have to tell him that the deal which Mr Cameron brought back from his negotiations earlier this year was not, as she thought at the time, a proper acknowledgment of the concerns of the British people, but a grudging and inadequate response to our needs.
But I doubt that the jurors in Brussels will be convinced. They know, as we all do, that Mrs May is convinced our future lies in Brussels, not Westminster.
quote:
In recent years, the Tory ranks have shrunk from around 400,000 to something more like 150,000. Bitterly disappointed party members who campaigned successfully for Brexit now fear that the remainers have managed to turn defeat into victory and will join Ukip – alongside sensible Labour voters disgusted with both Mr Corbyn and Ms Eagle alike.
More:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/12/theresa-may-will-drive-tory-members-into-the-arms-of-ukip/
VICTIM
- 12 Jul 2016 08:36
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Expect a character assassination soon on Mr Tebbit .
TANKER
- 12 Jul 2016 08:45
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news from brussels . Germany / france want talks with MAY
may as said she will not conceder article 50 till next year