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.

Could this be the reason for the apparent wobble?




Exclusive: Labour election campaign boosted by fake Twitter accounts



By Edward Malnick and
Gordon Rayner, Political Editor
1 June 2017 • 10:00pm



Labour’s election campaign is being boosted by fake social media accounts that pump out positive messages about Jeremy Corbyn thousands of times per day, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.

One in eight messages about British politics posted on Twitter are generated by automated accounts known as web robots or “bots”.

Individual accounts each post up to 1,000 messages per day attacking Theresa May or promoting Labour. They are set up to look like personal user accounts to trick other users into thinking real people are backing Labour. Automated accounts also back other parties, but to a far smaller degree.

They were described last night by Oxford University researchers as “worrying” because of the power of automated accounts to “distort” and influence views. Twitter is predominantly used by young people, who are also more likely to be Labour supporters.




More if you pay: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/01/exclusive-labour-election-campaign-boosted-fake-twitter-accounts/

Germany’s dash for coal continues apace. Following on the opening of two new coal power stations in 2012, six more are due to open this year, with a combined capacity of 5800MW, enough to provide 7% of Germany’s electricity needs.
Including the plants coming on stream this year, there are 12 coal fired stations due to open by 2020. Along with the two opened last year in Neurath and Boxberg, they will be capable of supplying 19% of the country’s power.

In addition, 27 gas fired stations are due on line, which should contribute a further 17% of Germany’s total electricity generation. (Based on 2011 statistics, total generation was 575 TwH).
It is worth noting that none of these coal or gas plants will be built with Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS), which is a legal requirement for coal generators in the UK, despite the fact that the technology does not yet exist on a commercial scale.
The UK government is so desperate to get out of the corner it has boxed itself into, that it wants to hand out huge sums to subsidise the cost of developing CCS technology. According to their “Overarching National Policy Statement for Energy” (Page 31), they want to support the cost of four commercial scale CCS projects.


so why should trump give a toss germany do not they are going to build my coal fired stations the uk shutting them under eu law german telling them to get stuffed


funny how no one asks these question on climate change Germany says get stuffed

Have the Cons got some blockbuster tactic ready and waiting or just lying down FFS .

pensioners some get 120 later born 160 all approx all unfair a pensioner is a pensioner. labour to put council tax up, so your no better off voting labour.

the big question no one asks of lab policy £ 10 a hour min wage that's 400 a week so skill workers will want a big rise . or it would be pointless to study and get degrees
then you see prices jump . then you look at the old who retired before april 2016 £122
aweek they worked in the days of very little pensions and if you did not work for the state you did not have a wage never mind a private pension

so our are these good old people going to live and those that went without to buy their home will not get any help . they will just have to starve or freeze to death

ask corbyn the question but alas no one will the bbc will never ask the question

Vicky,

The cons just lying as per usual.

But would you trust the Telegraph?

i certainly wouldn't take the telegraph at face value, any more than i would the mail or the mirror or the socialist worker

however, the FT puts out a daily bulletin on the day's election campaigning and that is properly balanced and without histrionics

have done my poll[ con] to have 63 seat majority

Bit in the Telegraph today, saying Corbyn is going to help the 'Travelling community' get legal aid to help fight legal challenges about them parking illegally on other people's land!

I couldn't believe it! If this is right, Corbyn is a nutter!

Cue Fred

Manuel,

p77258

Does that mean the FT agrees with you or you agree with the FT?

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Exec.

JC is also providing scissors for those with ingrowing toe-nails!

You might be in luck.

i'ld be happy with 40/50
as always, there are so many unknowns

FT - neither; they give a balanced view ... try reading it instead of guessing ...... it's even a free!

FT Election Countdown
comes straight to my e-mail

GEORGE Cue Fred .....

Fred called me a gypsy once (after the days when i was Hitler) he hates travellers .

Seems that one tory villain has been caught!

South Thanet Tory candidate Craig Mackinlay charged over expenses

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Manuel,

FT is a reasonable paper as were the Times and Telegraph at one time, the latter now seems to be print corruptions of the "truth".


Thought you would be an "Expressive man".

oh no; not again!
you got it wrong once more :-)

Just had a word with the lady next door. Oh dear.

About a week ago, her 'feeble' 90 yr old husband tripped going into the conservatory from the lounge and obviously severely damaged his 'replaced hip joint leg'.

So he's there on the tiled floor of the conservatory and she phones '999'.....

She ended up having a row with the 999 operator, who was purporting, that because he was still concious, he might actually not need an ambulance. Our neighbour had a very strong argument with this person, etc, etc, etc, and the ambulance arrived about 10 minutes later.

After X-Rays, it turned out the old guy had not only dislocated his replaced hip joint but also broken his femur. Hmmm? Wow! Serious stuff, eh?

The surgeon duly ordered up a 'stair rod' for the femur repair and after a 5 hour operation, fixing the break and knocking the femur ball back into the hip socket a couple of days later, then duly returned said patient back to the ward.

But the old guy has been in a lot of serious pain......

So.....

Well, one week later they X-ray him again and find, that there is actually a crack in his femur. Existing crack? New crack? Hmmm?

The surgeon tells the guy's wife, that 'they' consider they cannot do the operation to repair the crack in the femur becasue they fear the patient might very easily not survive the duration of the operation. They want to wait and see if the crack repairs itself....

My old friend cannot move without excruciating pain. If he doesn't move about he is going to become yet more feeble, get bed sores, probably get pneumonia and just die. He is so very hard of hearing and cannot easily see things either. Reading material and TV are not a lot of use to him.

His wife is very upset but has to agree, her husband might not survive and operation.

As to whether the crack in the femur was missed initially, or created in the operation to insert the 'stair rod' into his femur, or by rough methodology used to insert the 'stair rod' into the femur, she doesn't find it easy to ask. The surgeon is not up for answering questions anyway, and is 'typically old school and arrogant'. No one is saying, he didn't do his best. No one is saying either, that my neighbour did ought to be operated on. He surely would be now more likely to die this time than he was the last time. That operation also obviously had 'patient survival' as a big query too.

Our lady neighbour visits her husband daily from early in the morning until mid-evening, helping to nurse him and feed him and do whatever else she can.

Sad or wot?

OMG!

Only a few weeks ago, the polls brought nothing but joy for the Tories.

With just six days to go until election day, that’s no longer the case. An Ipsos Mori survey out today cuts the Conservative lead down to just five points. Labour’s support has burst through the 40 per cent mark – rising by six points since Ipsos Mori’s last poll on May 18th.

The poll comes off the back of this week’s shock YouGov estimate, which suggested we could be heading for a hung Parliament.

And YouGov’s updated election model for today doesn’t bring any better news for the Tories: it suggests that Theresa May will now fall 13 seats short of an overall majority.

the ig indicator has weakened in sympathy, implying a tory majority of 35

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