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.

in litigation that is certainly true as the outcome of that can almost never be certain

however, there are assuredly lawyers who will take on cases on "no win no fee" but they'll probably want to see a at least 75% chance of success

as far as i know, it is similar or even worse everywhere in the world

Just me - or is Lloyds Bank off-line?

just you :-)

The "publishers" of "whistleblowers," "information" can be sued.

Their defence would have to disclose their source to validate "evidence".

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thanks fred

Sturgeon having her say about the latest GDP figures which were a fraction below that expected. She failed to mention, nor was she asked, that Scotland's GDP growth was a third of the UK. Also Vince Cable has risen from the dead ( or is that just a talking head?). Now he is our mate Vince. What happened to the Sir? Best forgotten perhaps.

cynic

Re: Accessing Lloyds TSB online.

Not so. Apparently there are lots of others also having problems:

http://downdetector.co.uk/problems/lloyds-bank

I wonder what the hell is wrong?

The problem is quite a big one but not everyone is affected:

http://downdetector.co.uk/problems/lloyds-bank/map/

cynic

Can you lend me £50. :-)

Maybe Horta Osório is exaggerating his cut costs program.

cynic

Now up and running.

So forget that. Indeed, I can now lend you £50, if you want. :-)

Europe: What Happens To Christians There Will Come Here

gatestoneinstitute.org/10230/europe-christians

GENERAL ELECTION PREDICTION
not surprisingly, the alleged conservative lead of 23% proved shortlived, and is now down a more realistic 10%

patently that swing will not be reflected across the country, so does anyone have a ny idea (hays is the most likely) as to what sort of majority the conservatives might reasonably expect
my guess is that it will end up as at least 30 and 40/50 would not be fanciful

Only one polling organisation showing that. It is ORB. They haven't done elections before so have no basis for comparison. All the others are much higher still.

Can you spot the hidden tiger?

HIDDEN

Major Labour donor threatens to stand against Jeremy Corbyn in general election unless he quits as leader

Michael Foster, who once called Corbynites 'stormtroopers', claims 'people are dying' because the 'hard left' make Labour unelectable.

One of Labour’s biggest donors has announced he will stand against Jeremy Corbyn if he does not step down as leader of the party before the General election.

Michael Foster, whose family has given the Labour Party £400,000 since 2010, wrote a newspaper column in which he strongly criticised the Labour leader.

No stranger to controversy, Mr Foster has repeatedly criticised Mr Corbyn and was suspended from the party after he compared the left-wing leader's staunchest supporters to Nazi stormtroopers.

Writing for The Sunday Times, Mr Foster said the party was facing “annihilation” at the ballot box because Mr Corbyn was “blinkered” and lacked the capabilities required to win an election.

He made the startling claim that supporting the current leader “means supporting a political strategy that kills people” and vowed to oppose Mr Corbyn in his Islington North constituency, where the party leader holds a majority of more than 20,000 and has been MP since 1983.

Mr Foster said there was still time for Mr Corbyn to quit if the party performed poorly in the forthcoming council elections on Thursday.

“There are a lot of things a political party looks for in a leader. Jeremy Corbyn possesses none of them. Because of him, Labour faces annihilation at the polls,” he wrote.

”If the results are as bad as predicted, then Jeremy should stand down voluntarily and let someone else lead the fight in June.

“If he does not - and I don't believe he ever would - I would be very happy to fight him and his fellow travellers on the extreme left of the party by standing in his constituency of Islington North.”

The retired showbusiness agent was suspended by the party after he launched an unsuccessful High Court challenge to prevent Mr Corbyn from automatically being included on the ballot paper when Owen Smith made a bid for leadership.

He tried to persuade the court that Mr Corbyn should have to win the support of 20 per cent of his MPs before being allowed on the ballot paper, angering Corbynites in the process.

Experts have predicted Labour will suffer heavy losses at the council elections, but Mr Corbyn has indicated he will not stand down even in the face of a no confidence vote from his MPs.

Mr Foster wrote: “Jeremy's activist supporters will ensure this blinkered, ineffective leader is immediately elected again.

“Unfortunately, supporting him as leader means supporting a political strategy that kills people.

”By 1997 after 18 years of Tory government, the waiting time for a heart operation was up to 18 months, and by 2003 Labour had reduced the average wait to just four months.

“But now as waiting lists get longer through lack of Tory investment in the NHS, more people die waiting for their operation, at about the same rate that Corbyn and his fellow travellers make Labour more unelectable.”

Mr Foster was an unsucessful candidate for Labour in the 2015 general election when he stood as a candidate for the Cornish constituency of Camborne and Redmuth.

Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell called Mr Foster’s comments “appalling” and called for action to be taken against him.

Technology knows no ends. Case in point: sex robot brothels might soon be a thing.

Lumidolls, the company behind Europe’s first sex doll brothel, opened a venue in Barcelona, where customers can get intimate with sex dolls.

But it was forced to close one month later after a backlash from prostitutes, and reopened in a mystery venue. Now, it's looking to send its dolls further afield.

The company say:

'We are currently in the process of expanding and looking for more franchisees in other countries.'

Apparently, they're looking for an investor in the UK.

Brothels are illegal in the UK, so sex dolls offer a legal loophole.

Customers apparently pay around £67 for half an hour with a doll. The dolls can be dressed according to the customers’ taste, and can wait for the customer in a particular pose on request.

And watch this space, because LumiDolls says “erotic robots” will soon be available, too, adding that they have an agreement with a maker of sex robots.

Hmmm? Thinks.......

Would it be possible to make more investing in this, than it would be investing in FEVR?

a nice relaxing G+T (Fevertree tonic of course) will be of offer after your bit of R&R

actually, there was a a radio slot on this technology on the wireless just a day or two ago
apparently they currently cost about £10,000 each but price should drop sharply into the future

Rubber Dolly's R Us ..



http://www.lumidolls.com/en/