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.

Ukip may not contest seats held by pro-Brexit Tories


Cash-strapped party could stand aside in seats held by Conservatives who campaigned strongly to leave EU


While the main beneficiaries would be Tories, it is possible that some pro-Brexit Labour MPs, for example Kate Hoey in Vauxhall, could also see no Ukip candidate stand against them.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/apr/21/ukip-may-not-contest-seats-held-by-pro-brexit-tories

I suppose coming on here is better than talking to yourself all day Freda .

Where the dead tories go.

Fred , I can remember 1973 and of course there have been major advances in all walks of life but they would have happened anyway just like they have in the rest of the world.

Even most tin pot countries standards of living are better than they were in 1973.

Max,

I have made loads of mistakes and had them pointed out to me by my 5 wives.

===---=

I was told when I was young that it was OK to make mistakes, but the secret was to try not to repeat them and consider them as part of a learning process.

I have never made a mystake.

Got you!

I did that on porpoise.

Everyone makes mistakes Fred, the trick is not to repeat them (ha!)


A song that makes the point well..


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXW-sL5gzHQ

"Birmingham is worse than Molenbeek"....The Brussels borough that The
Guardian described as "becoming known as Europe's jihadi central."


"In England they are free to speak. They speak only of prohibitions, they
impose on one the rigid vision of Islam but, on the other hand, they listen
to no-one, most of all those who disagree with them."


gatestoneinstitute.org/10190/islam-england-france

fred - does that make you a mor(m)on ? :-)

No, just an innocent experimenter.

Oh dear...



DAN HODGES: I've voted Labour for 30 years. But on June 8, I MUST vote for Mrs May

By Dan Hodges For The Mail On Sunday

Published: 01:12, 23 April 2017 |



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-4436410/DAN-HODGES-June-8-vote-Mrs-May.html

Last time I voted Conservative at a General Election was 1992 but wil be voting for them again this time.

I agree with the article and hoped Corbyn and his loony band of lefties get crushed.

What MAM pensioners think about the 'triple lock' changes of being scrapped? -
After all Theresa May said :" I'll use power of state to build fairer Britain - 5 October 2016"

Mail on Sunday
Theresa May under pressure to back state pension 'triple lock' after dodging question on future of valuable guarantee

Read more: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/pensions/article-4433382/Theresa-pressure-pension-triple-lock.html#ixzz4f734bdzQ

I was quite shocked to hear we pay 16 billion out in Foreign Aid , 550 million to India alone , and while we have our own problems here . I think May made a mistake ring fencing it when she won't do similar with the pension situation , she should have said she would review it .

i have a feeling that aid to india is under mutual discussion

however, we all lose sight too easily that aid is often a useful aid to entree

that said, why on earth we are giving aid to totally corrupt regimes such as nigeria, which should easily be self-supporting, is almost incomprehensible

It would be a big political mistake to do away with the triple lock on pensions while maintaining the compulsory foreign "aid" budget. Like the family allowance, there are no doubt people that don't rely upon the state pension but it must be kept for those for whom it is the only income. It is a miserable amount as it is.

PENSIONS
a bit of an odd decision to scrap the triple-lock if that is indeed the case, even if there is a counter-balance of some kind