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.

Old McDonnell has a plan. He eyes IOUs. That's a headline the SUN missed.

Evening Fred, here's something you really need to avoid...it's called reality:


https://mises.org/blog/brexit-has-put-eu-politicians-panic-mode

Enjoyed that article (MaxK76869), its starting to dawn on the Brussels elite that
THEY need to get something out of the negotiations, and it will NOT be a large
pay off, and big business WILL demand a good trade deal with the UK so they
don't lose out completely.

Excellent read

All that false bravado , or tosh , bullsh@t , fear mongering . well lying really seems second nature to the EU .

They won't bully us as long as we have a strong team up front , the absolute worse case would be Corben in power .

Don't worry Freda it's only three weeks away , you can nip in to the polling station and make your mark , oh I forgot .

Don't upset him VIC ,Fred does NOT vote or answer questions .However he would love to see Diane Abbott sorting out the countries finances :)

Corben hates capitalism and capitalists, just like Fred, notwithstanding Fred's ownership of shares in several companies that is.

George surely that's not true ,I would imagine he gives all his gains towards those migrants and the like , you know those in the camps over yonder . The ones he avoids when he goes on his hols to France .

corbyn and his puppet-master (and fred) would have the country back to the 70s where the unions ruled (to the detriment of all including their members) and many industries were nationalised


those older than some will remember docks which were a thieves paradise for the stevedores, steel works where there were strikes about who should draw chalk lines on a steel plate, and a railway system which was always being hit by strikes

that is not to say that privatisation has been a saviour of these industries ...... far from it, for there remains some pretty dire (and greedy) management albeit that there remain some pretty obstructive unions as well
however, that is no reason to re-nationalise

How much would it cost to re-nationalise?
don't worry; that is capital expenditure we are told, so borrowing the mega sums is perfectly reasonable, or so we are told
i suppose corbyn could always propose the chavez system which involves no compensation at all

One of the many benefits of privatisation was the removal of the pension liability from the public to the private sector, and whilst many private sector pensions/pensioners will disagree (rightly in many cases), bringing that cost back on the taxpayer would be economic suicide

Calls for Arsene Wenger to be investigated for match fixing after journalist's memo records him saying, 'I hope Middlesbrough can win on Sunday.'.

Cynic

That's what younger voters who didn't live in the 70's don't realise, what it was like when the unions were a law unto themselves. Liverpool held ransom to Derrick Hatton , the Winter of discontent when people couldn't bury the dead ., The three day week and the blackouts, Red Rob and Jack Dash, car and dock strikes.

ah yes; i'd forgotten about derek hatton, now transformed into a property developer

what price principles, one might ask?

Tory principles.

Perhaps he is a reformed man!

Any similarities with you?

absolutely :-)

"what price principles" was actually said to me many years ago by a very good solicitor - ie you may win the case, but is it actually worth the cost
there are quite frequent occasions when pragmatism or a commercial decision is the correct course of action

Red Fred has no principles.

The fat cat capitalist who bought all those gas,water , power and Royal Mail shares.

100% certain that mccluskey will have a union pension (and why not indeed), and that the money for that emanates from the stock markets