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.

Corbyn has announced today that he wants a three line whip on voting for A50. Expect some resignations from his front bench after vote.

Crime Lesson No: 1

"Bumping Locks" with a Bump Key

Solution: Always fit cylinders which can't be 'bumped'.

Well there goes the first shadow front bencher...Tulip Siddiq resigns..

Lol I'm sure she will be sorely missed .... never heard of her.

I believe she is an associate of Hyacinth Bucket in the flower power movement. Could be wrong.

Who?

Tulip

She is MP for the most marginal Constituency. Hampstead and Kilburn had a majority of 44 when it was held by Glenda Jackson. She is worried about losing her seat because her seat was a strong remain one. She cannot afford to vote for A50 with Corbyn. She won't be the last to go.

Maybe is doing well.

Yes she is Freda! Go back to bed your hot water bottle is going cold. Labour leaping up the ratings in latest confused,com poll :0)

Four-time Olympic champion Sir Mo Farah says he fears Donald Trump's travel ban means he may not be able to return to his family in the United States.

Sir Mo is a British citizen but was born in Somalia - one of the seven mainly-Muslim countries affected by the US President's controversial immigration order.

People from Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen have been temporarily barred from entering the US along with all refugees.

The ban could also affect UK citizens born in those seven countries and the long-distance runner is concerned he will be classed by the US authorities as "an alien".

Sir Mo, 33, lives with his wife and four children in Portland, Oregon, where he also trains but he is believed to be currently in Ethiopia.

He said it was "deeply troubling" that have to tell the youngsters "daddy might not be able to come home".

He added his voice to criticism of the President's executive order, saying the ban "comes from a place of ignorance and prejudice". (I very strongly agree with this comment myself).

NOTE: The hijackers in the September 11, 2001, attacks were 19 men affiliated with al-Qaeda. They were citizens of Saudi Arabia [15], the United Arab Emirates [2], Egypt [1] and Lebanon[1]. None of these countries are on 'Trump's List'.

All those feminist protesting against Trumps policies, which was ALL voted
on by the electorate and which Trump is now carrying out, but why arn't
these very same feminist not protesting against sharia law that discriminates
against women, where is the RSPCA when it comes to the production of halal
with the killing of animals without stunning the animal prior to slitting its throat?.

gatestoneinstitute.org/9761/middle-eastern-women

Why hasn't the Brownlee brothers been made a 'SIR', who in their chosen
sport not only run 10.000km, but cycle and swim distances?....

And how can you call someone 'British' when they come from Somalia and live
in the US...Except for it to be a flag of convenience in the multi-culturlist
all inclusive agenda...

All terrorism since 911 has been committed by US citizens who were radicalised in the US. None committed by people from countries listed.

In europe no one knows how many isis followers have been able to smuggle
themselves into the busom of western civilization, in order to carry out another
murderous atrocity, and are sleeper cells just waiting for the call to inflict more
deaths and mayhem, ably assisted by a weak treacherous liberal western leadership.

Well Trump is certainly rocking the boat isn't he ?!......he's going to fall out with a heck of lot of people....but it shows that America has had enough of far too many immigrants and troublemakers....I'll be surprised if energy prices don't rocket the way things are going.....you see modern globalisation is not good....you just end up with everything being imported and made at far cheaper prices than what you can produce at home....the third world might like this or to be more precise (certain rich people that have contacts with the third world and just arrange imports).....(those people are no good for industrialised western countries....they are like a plague on modern societies)......I agree with DT about encouraging people to make things in the USA...crazy that American companies outsource production in Latin and Asian countries with countless factories going to waste in the USA because of this....

don't forget that countries like china and india are no longer the sources of cheap labour that they were only a few years ago

you may also surprise yourself by investigating average and minimum wage rates in usa as compared to say uk

What is sad is that the good old Usa/Canada cannot compete in manufacturing terms with China and such....there has to be a tipping balance...China has gone like from the 19th century to the 21st bypassing the 20th in industrialisation....quite incredible...but also their living standards are now far better....it can't carry on because at some stage the old problems of over civilisation if I can call it that will catch up with them.....There is also this problem of companies just switching to cheaper labour in another country at the drop of a hat....this has to be prevented somehow.....nightmare problems for all concerned...

i'm not sure that you are still correct; check what i wrote above though i do not actually know the answer

that said, the world knows though it is not admitted, that many of the chinese factories are quasi gov't owned and their output is not only subsidised but also then sold at below cost .... this latter may be through their own gov't-owned distribution services, or even to legit o'seas companies .... aka dumping

Well whatever.....DT is trying to prevent what is turning into a manufacturing disaster for Uncle Sam....and on top of all this they are being flooded with illegal immigrants.....taking American jobs...put yourself (I mean everbody) in the place of the average American losing his job due to an influx of people from latin america working for half his wage...he can't be happy can he ?...