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.

fred - and try to get off your hobby-horse or soap box occasionally ..... you get dull

Manuel

Go and take a cold shower!

If you did read the articles it may give a chance to reflect on your decision making when you wasted you vote in the referendum!

Are you going to your duty Fred?




Do your moral duty over Calais children, Hollande tells UK


French president hits out at British as dispute over fate of young refugees rages




French president François Hollande and housing minister Emmanuelle Cosse at a reception centre in Doue-la-Fontaine on Saturday. Photograph: Jean-Sebastien Evrard/AFP/Getty Images


Jamie Doward , Lisa O'Carroll and Diane Taylor

Saturday 29 October 2016 16.18 BST




French president François Hollande on Saturday hit back at the UK as the row between the two countries over the fate of hundreds of unaccompanied children still living in the Calais migrant camp became increasingly acrimonious.




More:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/29/hollande-britain-must-take-fair-share-of-calais-refugee-children

Just preparations for cordial exit talks.

If anyone expected or got any unbiased reporting from the PRO-EU guardian,
they wern't disappointed.

I always like to hear two sides of a story, what we got in those articles were
a biased, rabid anti British, deceiving , can't stand on our own feet diatribe of
such sycophantic proportions that i've ever heard, and thought i'd must of heard
it all in the past, obviously not..

This quote was a cracker...

"It is forgotten that Europe, especially the EU is a veritable success story, as
this continent has never before experienced a period as the past seven decades
of democracy peace and prosperity"


Absolutely no mention of NATO, the Balkans wars, where the EU did absolutely
nothing, the EU's involvement in the Ukraine, the severe austerity measures in
Greece, where 50%(and several other countries) of the youth are unemployed,
the riots in Greece, economic stagnation, the removal of democraticlly elected
leaders of EU countries replaced by puppets of Brussels..

I could go on, but if these journalist wasn't writing those articles without their
'tongue in cheeks' they should be ashamed of themselves for having the audacity
to call themselves 'journalist'...

But writing articles for the guardian does not involve neutrality...

no fred, i didn't waste my vote any more than did you if you actually voted
i shan't bother to iterate yet again why i voted "out" albeit with considerable misgivings

They were articles not books.

MaxK 74344....Yes those 30 year old 'children' look to be in poor health and
desperately need to get to the UK to be re-united with their parents.

After traveling through numerous safe, free countries they can now see
the freedom and prosperity(benefits) beckoning from the shores of the UK,
and would along with the cajoling and help of the French political elite hope to
achieve their aims...

I couldn't give a gnats turd whether they were books or a piece of lying
journalism, it suited the guardian agenda...

Each according to their beliefs.

surely you don't really think there is some form of financial inducement as necessary? :-)

that said, i see nothing wrong with that under the circumstances

As i've stated in the recent past, the 'remoaner's' are really pissed that a
foreign business has committed themselves to the UK, and are confident
enough to invest and produce their new models in the north east of England.

You can feel how desperate the 'remoaner's' are getting in their rabid rantings
that they spew out on a daily constant basis the nearer it gets to the triggering
of article50...

democrats tried to stop e mails being leaked and tried to bribe certain people

she must not be allowed to be president ,she is a very dangerous woman and not in a clever way .

if the yanks vote for her then it tells you all about the usa as a site hole

Manuel,

Actual, possible or probable circumstances?

certainly not actual - ie as of where it all currently stands - but certainly possible verging on probable

Directors pay
name and shame those who over do the take home salaries....

one comes in mind for years... greedy sod.... WPP >>> CEO M.Sorrel

Martin Sorrell, the long time CEO of advertising giant WPP, made £70 million in 2015. That's 1,444 times the average pay of the company's 125,000 employees. Sorrell's basic salary was a relatively modest £1.15 million. On top of that, he was paid a £4.3 million annual bonus. But the biggest chunk of his remuneration came from a five-year bonus program worth £62.8 million


British investment trade body calls on companies to disclose pay ratios

LONDON, Oct 31 (Reuters) - The Investment Association stepped up a campaign on Monday to persuade Britain's top companies to address concerns on boardroom pay by publishing a new set of principles it hopes will shape the way businesses remunerate bosses.

In an open letter addressed to constituents of the FTSE 350 index, the trade body called on companies to disclose pay ratios between the CEO and the median employee salary and to provide investors with greater context to understand the scale of pay and bonuses.

The IA, members of which manage more than 5.7 trillion pounds ($6.9 trillion) of assets, hopes its new principles will pave the way for simpler, more flexible remuneration structures and "clear justification" around CEO pay.

The renewed push follows recommendations from the industry-led independent Executive Remuneration Working Group and a pledge by Prime Minister Theresa May to crack down on excessive executive pay as part of a plan to tackle growing social inequality in Britain.

"Issues surrounding executive pay are a growing concern for investors, politicians and society as a whole," Andrew Ninian, the IA's director of corporate governance and engagement, said in a statement.

"It is vital that companies have the opportunity to choose the right structure for their business and this must be done in close partnership with their shareholders."

The IA has also called for improved shareholder consultation on remuneration issues and demanded that businesses focus on demonstrating to investors how their pay plans fit with company strategy.

To aid compliance, the IA said that its corporate governance research unit, IVIS, will monitor companies against the new principles and highlight areas of concern to investors ahead of voting at company meetings

imo, martin sorrell is one of the very few who fully deserves his large wheelbarrow of loot

it is primarily - some would say almost entirely - thanks to his vision and entrepreneurship that WPP is the significant international force that it is

for some to complain (even if true) that MS's remuneration package is "1,444 times the average pay of the company's 125,000 employees" - i think the workforce may be closer to 200,000, but no matter - ignores the fact that most companies within the WPP network are outside UK (85% of WPP income is non-£)
again (a guess) a large proportion are in 3rd world (developing) countries where salaries, but also cost of living, are very much lower than in UK

The government has no need to give any financial backing to Nissan. Any tariffs have been more than offset by the fall in the £.

Nissan are loving it here and don't Toyota have a big plant in Derby ?

This is a massive boost for our negotiating team.

thousands of americans over the years have been charged and jailed for a lesser crime than HER E MAILS WHICH WERE AGAINST THE USA RULES IT STINKS SHE SHOULD BE CHARGED AND JAILED FOR LIFe , or does the law in the states only apply to the poor

Tanker,

Come on, please! What utter drivel you are spouting! Think about it.

She hasn't even been charged with doing anything illegal yet, or been to trial for it, let alone even been found guilty. And you want to put her in the slammer for life?

Thank goodness you are not in charge of the law.