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.

Actually, no more turbulent than usual, Ma'am.

The new PM looks to be well in control of things. So much so, she went up to Scotland for a wee holiday. The terrorists are 'still at it' here and there and I did think I heard someone say, that some turkeys had escaped but they have now been taken in and should be ready for Christmas.

By the way, Ma'am, I must say how well you are looking.

You can also find more infographics at Visualistan

TURKEY
it looks to me that the attempted coup may yet re-emerge as just come through on bbc news that 6,000 now detained

Wonderful ExecLine...might print that out.....pretty dodgy the arrests Cynic...good way of getting rid of undesirables if you are a dictator....

quite so, but can't see that it will do anything to calm latent unrest

There's not going to be another attempted coup by the Turkish army
anytime soon, When you're talking about just a fraction of the total
army numbers, when they needed at least 60%, and their failure or
inability to close down and incapacitate mobiles/internet installations.

Erdogan is saying that there's a Cleric, Fetullah Gullen who's based in
Pennsylvania who is responsible for the attempted coup and they want
him extradited back to Turkey.

Obviously Erdogan wants this Cleric and is using the coup as an excuse.

EXCLUSIVE: Boris Johnson's message of defiance on terror and Brexit trade success promise

I CAME into the Foreign Office yesterday morning after a pretty truncated night’s sleep to find the place in what Her Majesty’s Diplomatic Service calls “crisis mode”.

By BORIS JOHNSON
Sunday Express
PUBLISHED: 00:01, Sun, Jul 17, 2016
UPDATED: 10:49, Sun, Jul 17, 2016

In the bowels of the Italianate palazzo off St James’s Park dozens of people had been up all night, calmly monitoring screens and coolly assessing fresh information.

Some of them had worked consecutive shifts without sleep. They had been liaising with New York and Washington and other European capitals. They had been sifting information, “scrubbing” intelligence and dealing with the needs of UK nationals abroad.

Some of them were still engaged in the aftermath of the horrendous carnage in Nice; some had only just finished organising an evacuation of aid workers from Juba in South Sudan, scene of a singularly nasty conflict.

To take one example: at about 3 am yesterday morning we realised that there was a party of British passengers who were changing planes at Istanbul’s massive Ataturk airport.

They were stuck airside as the coup attempt began, and their onwards flight was grounded. Turkish President Erdogan was apparently planning to land at that airport and restore his authority. What if the rebels decided to attack the airport?

Someone needed to get through to the party and, as so often happens, the UK happened to have a diplomat on the spot. A UK official also transiting through the airport and trapped airside at Istanbul was able to meet up with the party and provide an immediate link to London.

Elsewhere in Turkey – at the resorts and the big transport hubs – UK consular staff were out, many in hi vis jackets, providing information and travel advice, just as they had been doing in Nice only hours earlier.

As I talked by teleconference first to the Turkish foreign minister and then to our staff in Istanbul and Ankara, I was filled with amazement at the reach and reputation of this country around the world.

(Boris Johnson: The foreign secretary believes Britain 'should be more active on the world stage than ever before')

It is an incredible fact that as I write there are 250,000 UK nationals on holiday in Turkey – part of an annual summer migration of 1.3m Brits to Turkey alone. Even 20 years ago, those numbers would have seemed fanciful.

Mutually beneficial trade and tourism between our two countries are now at an all time high and are continuing to grow; and it is clearly the ambition of Prime Minister Theresa May’s new government that this should continue.

This country should be more outward-looking, more engaged, and more active on the world stage than ever before.

On Wednesday evening the Prime Minister made a powerful speech on the steps of Downing Street. She spoke of forging a new future for the country, a positive and confident vision where we open up opportunity to everyone regardless of their background; and where Britain, in turn, seizes the new opportunities the world has to offer.

We cannot leave “Europe” in the proper sense of that word – that is geographically, emotionally, culturally impossible; and we will remain key players in all kinds of intergovernmental cooperation with our European friends and partners. But we can and must respect the people’s will, and extricate ourselves from the EU.

And that gives us a chance not just to do new trade deals, but to think of ourselves once again as a truly Global Britain using our unique voice – humane, compassionate, principled – to do good around the world, and to exploit growth markets to the full.

We have the ambition in our exporters and our businesses; and from just my first few hours in the job I can tell you that in Whitehall and around the world we have the staff who are only too eager to get on with it and help build a new role for this country: a Global Britain.

That is for home consumption.

He is as usual hyperinflating the declining importance of little britain and himself.

fred - you really are such a bitter and twisted old curmudgeon with never a complimentary word to say of any tory politician of indeed, i think, of anyone who does not fall into line with the far left mantra

At least he is consistent.

Manuel,

Here is a good word about the tories:

Cameron and Osborne have departed.


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More interesting summation of political position is:

If you are not too doddery to do so, have a read of it.

To me, it is a reasonable evaluation.


Opinion
Theresa May plans a long game but could need an early election
Andrew Rawnsley
Andrew Rawnsley


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/17/theresa-may-brexit-early-general-election



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There is one fly in the ointment which may or may not influence her capabilities and that his her "late" development and "diagnosis" of type 1 diabetes.

Compare photos of her between about 2010 and now.

I wondered what was happening!

Fred calling us little Britain again , Fred if you hate Britain so much why don't you fcuk off and live some where else
France would be a good place you can tell the French why you sympathise with all the terror attacks they have suffered .

Boris Johnson plane makes emergency landing after 'technical issue'
38 minutes ago
From the section England
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A small military aircraft carrying newly-appointed Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has had to make an emergency landing on its way to Brussels.
The plane, which took off from RAF Northolt, was forced to land at Luton Airport following a "technical issue", a Foreign Office spokesman said.
Mr Johnson thanked the crew for their professionalism and was grateful to Luton Airport for the unscheduled welcome, the spokesman added.
He has now continued his journey.


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Damn!

Dumbo,

To me, you seem to have the same mindset as Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Do you applaud him?

Perhaps, Putin may be more to your taste.

Fred you constantly call me and others childish names but you are a proper Moron and not a very nice one at that .
You support terrorist attacks so don't be telling me or anyone else we have the mindset of a despot.

Appearances, for me!

Suggest you check my posts!

No thanks, they were shit! the first time.

CC
Don't sugar coat it! Tell him what you think.

What a great final round of The Open , the standard was incredible . probably also the last Open Alliss will comment on for the BBC always good to hear his voice on golf .

indeed - truly amazing quality of golf from both and no one else in the field got near those scores
as was observed - you shoot 65 in the final round and LOSE?????