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.

New York Times 1932

Have you been on that cheap beer again Hays? You will be having nightmares of Nigel and the Donald knocking on your door. Lighten up, it may never happen.

Farage is no threat.

Gees Hays, I bet your a riot at parties!

Its been rumoured that haystack is a bank clerk called herman von rumpuy,
Yes him that got put in his place by NIGEL FARAGE...

Good week for Putin: days after US election, leaders allied to his United Russia Party take over in Estonia, Moldova & Bulgaria.

Moldova election was today.

hay at least putin is a leader unlike the coward called Cameron he had no balls a gutless wimp
farage as balls and guts and a real leader . trump is the hero of the west another man with balls ,

hay you must be a lib wimp if you do not support the men with balls

TRUMP WILL BE A GREAT LEADER , WE THE WEST HAVE NOW AWOKEN FROM A BAD DREAM , OF THE BARMY WHITE HATER , AND WINSTON WILL BE BACK IN THE WHIYE HOUSE , THE BARMY HATED CHURCHILL BECAUSE HE WAS WHITE

BARMY WAS NO FRIEND OF THE UK the man is rotten a isis supporter ,

FARAGE , to be trumps advisor on EU policy that's great news. merkil to be removed next year

good morning fred

i'll check out the guardian article later
meanwhile .....

i think TM has been honest from the off
having been elected party leader, she declared very clearly that it was her obligation to honour the result of the referendum and activate article 50 and beyond, fighting as hard a corner on behalf of the country as she could ..... we'll leave JC out of this discussion as he would be a meaningless distraction

no one - well very few anyway - is denying that a very rocky road lies ahead, and certainly no one but no one knows exactly where that will lead us
however, just as we all have to live with the fact Trump as president, so now with brexit and beyond

while MPs could vote against the activation of article 50, that is likely to end up with them individually having very bloody noses, unless they know for sure their constituents voted to remain

I don't know why you bother with Fred he will just carry on moaning , nothing constructive to say ever, still as you wish.

you may not have noticed, but he and i now (usually) have quite interesting and sensible dialogue

I must have blinked cyners.

No cynic i have not noticed ,are you sure your not going ga ga ,maybe a visit to the shrinks in order ;)

cynic 74698

"you may not have noticed, but he and i now (usually) have quite
interesting and sensible dialogue"


Hahahahaha....LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!

There's going to be the biggest(for a number of years) moon on view around
4.45pm this afternoon,

I remember when i was around 8 and we'd just been to the pictures and on
way home, and the moon seemed absolutely massive it looked like it was going
to crash into the earth...

Don't tell Hays that. He is already under the bed hiding from Trump. Maybe it will be cloudy...hope not.

Is your M&S closing? List of clothing and home stores that could be shut has been released

A list of Marks & Spencer clothing and home stores that could be closed has been released. The high street store is shutting 30 outlets around UK and converting 45 others to Simply Food stores due to plunging half-year profits.

The full list of closures has not yet been revealed by M&S but retail analysts say they have identified those stores at risk of shutting. Local Data Company director Matthew Hopkinson told the Daily Mail: “There are 35 towns and cities that have more than two M&S stores either on the high street, in a shopping centre or on the edge of town in a retail park.

“If one removes the large urban centres such as London, Glasgow and other cities, there are 22 towns where one might question the need for two stores.”

M&S told the paper the list was not based on any official data.

It will also shut 53 stores across 10 international markets - including 10 in China and seven in France, while pulling out of Belgium, Estonia, Hungary and Lithuania - putting around 2,100 jobs at risk.

The latest restructure moves come as M&S revealed more sales falls in its embattled clothing division, with like-for-like sales down by 5.9% in the first half. M&S is planning to expand its food offering, which is proving more of a success than its clothing.

Hanging on: The clothing arm of the business is decreasing while food trade rises but it narrowed the sales decline from 8.9% in the first quarter - its worst performance for a decade - to 2.9% in the second quarter.

Same-store food sales fell 0.9% over the half-year, while it saw growth of 0.3% at M&S.com, leaving overall UK like-for-like sales 3% lower.

M&S has reported an 18.6% fall in underlying pretax profit for its first half to October 1, though that is slightly better than expected.

Profits of around £216million were predicted, but the actual figure posted this morning was £231.1 million.

Marks & Spencer flagship store in Paris, on Champs-Elysees, which will be shut

The international closures are part of a new plan to focus its international business on a franchise model. Pulling out of those international markets is expected to eliminate annual losses of £45 million.

In July, M&S announced its clothing arm suffered its worst performance for more than a decade as it cut back on promotions, with sales plummeting 8.9%.

The list

Aberdeen

Ayr

Banbury

Barrow-in-Furness

Basildon

Birmingham

Blackburn

Blackpool

Bolton

Boston

Bournemouth

Brentwood

Bridlington

Brierley Hill

Bristol

Buxton

Carlisle

Chichester

Coventry

Darlington

Dundee

Durham

Fareham

Hereford

Hull

Kettering

King’s Lynn

Leamington Spa

Leeds

Leicester

Liverpool

Macclesfield

Maidstone

Manchester

Mansfield

Milton Keynes

Newcastle Upon Tyne

Northwich

Nottingham

Peterborough

Preston

Rochdale

Sheffield

Southampton

St Albans

Stockton-on-Tees

Stoke

Swansea

Swindon

Sunderland

Tunbridge Wells

Warrington

*According to Local Data Company

The 'supermoon' that appears today is the biggest since 1948, the one i saw
was in the early 60's, so if this is going to be the biggest for years then it
should be spectacular, if there's no cloud??

Otherwise another is due on the 14th Dec...If you miss them the next supermoon
will be in November 2034...

how can uk companies compete with non uk companies who pay no taxes in the uk
te list of non uk tax payers is long .
aldi
amazon
liddle
mcdon
n power
kfc

and hundreds more
the uk gov should act and either pay uk taxes or remove them