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.

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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thought you were going to say you'd put £100 ew on TM :-)

Lr---I thought you put money on a 63 majority

Who other than Sid and Doris Bonkers is going to vote for Jezza?


He cant even rely on Fred.

Measure your career so far, against theirs.

Renationalising the railways will cut costs for commuters, Labour has promised.



Of course it will, there's no need to buy a ticket if the trains aren't running.

George,

Who owns the UK's railways? Well, not British firms in many cases

http://www.cityam.com/256824/owns-uks-railways-well-not-british-firms-many-cases

Corbyn confirmed again this evening that any rogue state that develops a nuclear weapon is free to take pot shots at us without any fear of a nuclear retaliation if he's in charge.

Nice one Jezza.

Aside from the nuc stuff, he didn't come across too bad, very reasonable, especially if you cant follow the cost angle.

Supposedly, nu biz is going to pay for all the small details.

No mention of Renationalising the railways , Water ,Gas and Power.

BBC bias again. Did you notice all those young faces, to young to vote most of them, what were they doing there ?

Dil,

Lend us one of your Nukes.


My grandson is becoming a bit of a nuisance and I will lob it across the table when he shoots his pea-shooter again.

That will teach him and we won't be able to do it again.

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Corbyn was saying define the circumstances where the gain is better than the pain.


Many in the audience and outside the "up and at em" brigade would agree with him.

Brussels Broadcasting Corp at it again...




BBC debate audiences may have been hijacked by Labour supporters posing as Tories, experts warn




By Kate McCann, Senior Political Correspondent
2 June 2017 • 10:00pm




BBC audiences may have been hijacked by Jeremy Corbyn supporters posing as Tories, polling experts have warned.

It follows an admission from the head of polling company ComRes, which gathered the audience for a seven-way debate earlier this week, that Amber Rudd and the Ukip leader Paul Nuttall faced a tougher time than their left-wing opponents at the hands of the audience.

Senior polling experts have admitted privately that they are aware of groups of Labour activists, some led by grassroots Corbyn support group Momentum, encouraging his supporters to sign up for political debates posing as Conservatives in order to make it look like Labour has won the debate.

The problem occurs when polling companies or broadcasters recruit audience members using an open online form, which allows people to sign up repeatedly using different email addresses and is more open to abuse, according to experts. ...



More: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/02/bbc-debate-audiences-may-have-hijacked-labour-supporters-posing/

The problem is Fred that unlike your grandson there is already one rogue state with a nuke and who knows how many more there will be in the future.

Our nukes are supposed to be a deterrent but when the guy in charge of them keeps saying he would never use them then they aren't much of a deterrent.

Still wouldn't denounce the IRA either so however well anyone thinks he's done it's the same old Corbyn underneath.

As for his economic policies the guy who mentioned Santa Claus hit the nail on the head. Won't be an economy left to pay for anything if we did what he wants to do.

And that nurse that was moaning , as much as I sympathise with her at the end of the day they are paid a lot better than some people and as I have always said to people I work with if you don't like it and think you can do better then go for it