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.
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
TANKER
- 12 Jul 2016 08:47
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she already sounds like CLIFF THORBURN THE GRINDER
VICTIM
- 12 Jul 2016 08:48
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The only thing I see wrong in that Tebbit clip is , why would she go to Merkel in the first place as May has said we are out and will set in motion article 50 or whatever in due course . Anything different and surely she has to get permission to do .
ExecLine
- 12 Jul 2016 11:21
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grannyboy
- 12 Jul 2016 11:54
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Hmmm......I'm shocked, I was expecting a grey woman in a grey suit and
fancy sensible heels...
And i'm now a T.May supporter, and have put in my order for the six video
set......:}
MaxK
- 12 Jul 2016 15:38
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For anyone who was looking for the catch....here it is
No Brexit until 2022? Philip Hammond warns EU exit could take at least four years
Philip Hammond, the Foreign Secretary Credit: Bloomberg
By Michael Wilkinson, Political Correspondent
12 July 2016 • 2:03pm
Philip Hammond, the Foreign Secretary, has warned that it could take four years for Britain's exit from the European Union to be agreed.
Negotiations for Britain's exit can only start once Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty is triggered. This process will take two years but agreeing future treaties could take an additional four years.
Asked by Alex Salmond, the SNP leader, whether it would take longer to negotiate Brexit than World War II, Mr Hammond said: "If a future treaty between the UK and the EU 27 is deemed to be a mixed competence it will have to be ratified by 27 national Parliaments.
story:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/12/no-brexit-until-2022-philip-hammond-warns-eu-exit-could-take-at/
cynic
- 12 Jul 2016 15:42
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hate to disagree with you conspiracy lovers, but that's not a catch but merely a reiteration of how long it will or might take to get the jigsaw together
VICTIM
- 12 Jul 2016 15:42
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A bit like the post MaxK .
iturama
- 12 Jul 2016 15:45
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They are hoping the Brexiteers will die off in the meantime.
cynic
- 12 Jul 2016 16:21
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you guys are sometimes very silly
even simple commercial contracts can take a year in the cooking and here we're talking about something that is very complex for all sorts of good reasons
what i do not know is what happens during the gestation period
do all current arrangements stay in place?
grannyboy
- 12 Jul 2016 16:36
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It really tells you what a catastrophe and gross deception, in first of all
joining the Common Market and being lulled into the political entity that its
turned/turning into over the past 40 years, and now having to disentangle ourselves
from out of the EU.
But one of the reasons they're not triggering article 50 straight away, is to get
the lay of the land and discuss some of the terms on which to negotiate trade
deals..And most of the deals will just be on the terms they're at the mo, and will
be business as usual and carry on seamlessly.
The biggest fly in the ointment will be the free movement, but the UK has to stick
to its guns, and negotiate for only those who have the skills that the country needs.
TANKER
- 12 Jul 2016 16:38
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sign the article next month and then if they put tariffs on our goods smack a 8% tariff on all eu goods .
they would soon be shouting for a deal
but we have now got a wimp as PM AND SHE IS A WEAK PERSON AND NOT HONEST FAR FROM IT . SHE IS GUTLESS
sign the article now its in the interest of the uk
if she does not sign it by end aug then the uk will go into recession
which is what she wants along with 71 tory mps to say we must have talks to stay in the eu