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.

Or it could be that people are easily led and that a certain type of human realises this and uses his ability to control , for good or bad .

The thing that gets me is what's outside of all this Universe does it end anywhere , how can it just go on and on . and on .

Don't get in to that VIC it will make my head hurt .

Yes jimmy I do watch some progs on it but it's so mind blowing i switch over .

cc

the conservative party will not give out who they say are wealthy pensioners .
in my view any one on less than 20k is far from wealthy does not even cover the living wage

the gov to give billions in over sea aid and ditch the uk pensioners those that retired pre 2016 £119 a week in the list of the top countries pension list of the 38 we are 32nd worst paid pensioners , stop the over sea aid and protect our pensioners and ill and disabled

Just in:

I am a police officer, and this is what I want you to know about the Manchester attacks


A police officer standing on duty in Elsmore Road in Fallowfield, Manchester, where counter-terror officers launched a raid on property linked to bomber Salman Abedi. . (Photo: Getty).
by John Sutherland 13 hours Thursday May 25th 2017

On a Monday night in Manchester, the unthinkable happened. A scene of horrifying, terrifying carnage, beyond the imagining of all except those who were there.

Among the dead were children.

They might have been my own.

And into the midst of it all ran police officers – alongside their colleagues from the other emergency services. Without hesitation. Without a second thought.

That precious, old fashioned thing called duty: that willingness to risk it all on behalf of complete strangers.

‘Where police officers suffer as a consequence of their service, the rest of us have an absolute responsibility to look after them’

It seems to me that we, as a society, owe them a remarkable debt.

Pause for a moment to think about what we ask of the men and women in blue – what we expect of them.

Amongst the humdrum and the routine, we expect them to go where most wouldn’t and to do what most couldn’t:

Into the hurting places
Into the dangerous places
Into the violent places
Into the broken places
Into the terrifying places
Into the confusing places, where nothing is quite as it seems
Into the distressing places
Into the thin spaces between life and death

And we expect them to deal with what they find there.

Trauma

Alongside a debt of gratitude, we also owe them a far greater level of understanding about the impact that working life can have on them – about the scars that they carry, both seen and unseen.

There’s no other job that comes close to this one in terms of the simple wear and tear that officers and staff are subject to over the course of a policing life:

The inevitable realities of shift working
Extended hours worked over prolonged periods of time
Endless trauma
Extraordinary complexity
Relentless demand

And it would be strange if police officers didn’t absorb a little of the pain – a little of the strain – somewhere along the way.

Over time, it takes its toll.

Beyond the general wear and tear, every police officer will be able to tell you about the individual faces and places that leave a deeper mark than any other:

The blood soaked murder scenes
The fatal crashes
The cot deaths
The armed and violent men
The troubled, haunted children
The sobbing mothers
The unavoidable horror of it all

As a society, I don’t think we’ve even begun to understand the compound impact on police officers and their colleagues of the repeated exposure to extreme trauma.

Overwhelming

Whilst remembering all that has gone before, there are also the unavoidable demands of today:

Punishing workloads
Relentless deadlines
Covering for colleagues who are struggling
The complex consequences of austerity
The hostile commentary about policing offered by anyone with an armchair and an opinion

And that tension that exists for all of us between work and life.

I’m not just a police officer. I’m a husband and I’m a dad.

It can’t all be just about the job. Everyone has their own life story too. And, amongst all that is wonderful, there are:

The demands of life
The challenges of life
The sorrows of life
The flat out pace of life

And the natural, normal, human thing is to feel, to grieve, to hurt sometimes.

That last observation is true of all of us of course. But not all of us are police officers.

Not all of us have been in the places they’ve been.

Not all of us have seen the things that they’ve seen.

Not all of us have confronted, time and again, the very worst that human beings are capable of.

Where police officers suffer – physically, emotionally, psychologically, in any kind of way – as a consequence of their service, the rest of us have an absolute responsibility to look after them.

A duty, even.

Because they are the everyday heroes and heroines who police our streets – and, every now and then, they might just need a helping hand.

Read more at: https://inews.co.uk/opinion/manchester-attacks-will-haunt-rest-election-campaign/

what he forgot to say , and important is the today its a POLICE SERVICE . UNABLE
TO LOOK AFTER THE PUBLIC CAN NOT GO AFTER BURGLARS THIEVES ,

GOV OF ALL NOMS HVE DESTROYED THE POLICE BECAUSE OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND
MUSLIMS SHOUTING RACISTS .

WE MUST RESTORE THE POLICE TO A FORCE AND ABOVE THE MPS WHO COME AND GO

BREAKING NEWS , the police are tracking over 3000 known terrorists .why are they not rounding them up and deporting them , its a damn disgrace our so called mps are just cowards , action must happen . if any mp will not sign up to deporting the scum from our country then vote them out

3000 known terrorists and all on free hand outs travelling the world on benefits

yes its true all on benefits

if they were uk-born then to where would you deport?

Amazing!

It will be nice to remove ourselves from the restrictions of the EU so that we can begin to do something better about this lot:

cynic if no one wants them then in the war zone or in the sea I do not give a toss were they dump the shit .

cynic , what would you do if you had infestation in your home , that is the same as these scum called humans but worse than infestation

you can not and should not talk or help terrorists . the only thing they understand is
violence and murder , they take weakness as cowards and must be removed by any means , pick them up one by one in the dead of the night and never seen again and silence for ever pick the right people to clean out the infestation .

Squeaky bum time for the tories..




Westminster voting intention:

CON: 43% (-1)
LAB: 38% (+3)
LDEM: 10% (+1)
UKIP: 4% (+1)

(via @YouGov / 24 - 25 May)

10:01 PM - 25 May 2017


https://order-order.com/2017/05/25/tory-lead-down-19-points-during-campaign/

I have many conservative friends who are now thinking of voting against the party

MAY IS ANTI PENSIONERS ANTI UK .

SCOTLAND TO KEEP ALLOWANCES THE REST CAN FREEZE
OUT OF 38 COUNTRIES WE ARE IN 32 ND PLACE AS THE WORST PAID PENSIONERS

MIN WAGE OVER £ 300 PENSION FOR THOSE THAT WORKED FOR 45 YEARS AND RETIRED PRE APRIL 2016 NOW £37 A WEEK WORSE OFF AND IS GOING TO GET BIGGER
IF THE PARTY DOES NOT ACT THEY WILL LOSE ELECTION
I AM HORRIFIED THAT MAY HAS DONE THS SHE MUST WANT TO LOSE

Does this mean that the 'non-leader type bloke with a beard' who stood to the LHS behind a mayor on the back row of the platform in Manchester Vigil, whilst that fantastic 'Manchester poem' was being read, is improving his chances?

Sheesh!

The situation with the Brexit negotiations could become nigh on impossible if it is that close , the reason for the election was to sort it out for the better . I think we are in trouble as a nation now unless Labour cock up , but I think they will be less likely to trip up as they've pushed Abbot to the back . Stupid fox hunting got peoples back up completely unnecessary .