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.

LOL Dil, classic mate :o) Katherine Jenkins now that is serious!

Mervyn King: MPs’ attitude made Brexit inevitable


Lord King said the London-based elite failed to appreciate the views of those outside the capital, ahead of the EU referendum



By Szu Ping Chan
8 February 2017 • 9:44pm




British politicians have “lost touch” with voters and elitist bids to suppress the EU debate made the referendum on membership that led to the Brexit vote “inevitable”, Mervyn King has said.

The former governor of the Bank of England said he “resent[ed]” suggestions by friends and acquaintances that Britons who “even contemplated” voting for Brexit were “ignorant” or “racist”.

He said voters were treated like "the British equivalent of the deplorables” – the term used by US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to describe half of Donald Trump’s supporters.

Lord King said the “striking” difference between voting patterns in London, Scotland and Northern Ireland compared with the rest of the UK in the June vote highlighted a stark divide between the capital and the majority of English regions in the debate.


“That gap between London and the rest of the country was something that I, living outside, noticed but all my friends in London didn’t really appreciate,” he said at the London School of Economics last night.

“I [was] told: but if you even contemplate voting for Brexit, you must be either ignorant, uneducated, stupid or racist. [My] response was: I’m none of those, and I resent being described in those terms.

“It was the British equivalent of the deplorables. And I think the reaction against it did play some role [in the Brexit vote].”

Lord King, who retired from the Bank of England in 2013 after a decade as governor, has said the vote to leave the EU represents “real opportunities” for economic reform.



More: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/02/08/mervyn-king-mps-attitude-made-brexit-inevitable/

A bit like Haystack and others here .

You two feckers got no chance with Katherine Jenkins :-)

To be fair Hays did vote out. He just has difficult days now and then. Must be all that pollution in The Smoke.

I would also guess that David Beckham has no chance either.

I was coming from the the Londoner perspective , but he did say there's no chance .

You're right Dill. Shirley Bassey is more their age. But no harm in dreaming.

Lol , can't fault them for their optimism

I have every chance ,look at me .

The Swedish indigenous people WILL integrate with the 'new' Swedes..

gatestone.eu/sweden-immigrant-sentence/

Talking of Swedes, doesn't that guy play for Man U, Jimmy?

Sorry iturama ,it's one sport i know nothing about (football) ,to me it's a total waste of time.

re - that guy play for Man U

And can be a silly boy some times

silly boy Ibro

Labour's Corbyn Denies Resignations "Disaster" Ahead Of Reshuffle
Thu, 9th Feb 2017 11:10

LONDON (Alliance News) - Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is expected to make an announcement on Thursday on a reshuffle of Labour's shadow cabinet, after insisting that a string of resignations over Brexit were "not a disaster".

However, speculation was mounting that a number of more junior frontbenchers who rebelled over Article 50 may escape discipline, as the Labour leader indicated he was not planning a "wide" shake-up of his team.

Clive Lewis quit as shadow business secretary so he could oppose the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill in defiance of Corbyn's three-line whip on Wednesday, bringing the total number of shadow cabinet resignations to four.

He was one of 52 Labour MPs - including 11 junior shadow ministers and three whips - to vote against the Bill, which gives Theresa May the authority to start EU withdrawal negotiations under Article 50 of the EU treaties. A further 13 did not vote.

Conservatives seized on Labour's turmoil to claim the Opposition was "hopelessly divided" over Brexit. But when asked about the rebellion in his party's ranks, Mr Corbyn told BBC Breakfast: "No, it's not a disaster."

The Labour leader also said rumours that he was preparing to quit the party's top job were "absolute nonsense"....

rochdale paedophile ring face deportation
are we seeing a much-needed toughening on the rules regarding citizenship withdrawal?

the following needs (re)checking, but if i heard correctly on the wireless a couple of hours ago, the 6 ringleaders, all british nationals but of pakistan origin, are to be stripped of their citizenship and deported

the appeal court rejected their claim to be able to stay in uk

The wireless? Have you changed the valves in it recently C? That case has been going for a while with the judge telling their lawyers off for deliberately delaying the case. The judge was deciding an appeal against the Home Office taking back the passports they were awarded by naturalisation. They lost. But they can appeal again, so on it goes. Why they are not simply deported back to Pakistan while their appeals are considered is too much for our soft legal system. Let them appeal on their time and coin.

Make you proud to be a con artist in a Banana Paradise.

Rochdale
Rochdale sex grooming gang citizenship appeal fails

Despite the ruling, the legal battle to deport the men could drag on for some time as there are further steps the Home Office must complete


above is within the last couple of hours

These cost's to the British Taxpayer are staggering , in a murder case two women found guilty of murder had cost £ 400,000 thousand pounds . They were guilty the minute they were arrested terrible case really .