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.

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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

Nigel Farage, the man who tells it like it is, says he is losing faith in 'weathercock' Theresa May delivering over Brexit.

He says she 'changes her mind' and 'blows around like the wind'.

He says. "I have no idea what she believes in and Brexit being the best example.

He said Mrs May "U-turns on everything", adding: "I have very little confidence in her, her record of delivery as the longest serving Home Secretary since the nineteenth century was abysmal.

"She clearly can't stick to a course because she does just get blown off course.

"I think she may well have been the Tories' big asset on April 18, but she is now their biggest liability."

Oh Deary Me!

Corby is the tories biggest asset, if they cant win with him in charge, they're finished.

What do the following have in common?

Victoria Beckham
Geri Halliwell
Melanie Chisholm
Simon Fuller
Peter Gabriel
Phillip Schofield
Robbie Williams
George Michael
Craig David
Gareth Gates
Ant and Dec
Anne Robinson
Davina McCall
Neil Morrissey
David Suchet
Sacha Baron Cohen
David Heyman
Jeremy Paxman
Kate Adie
Alistair Stewart
Peter Fincham (ex-ITV boss)
Lord Grade of Yarmouth (ex-BBC chairman)
Lord Clive Hollick (Labour donor)
Lord Davis of Abersoch
Andrew Mitchell MP (Tory)
Rt Hon Lord Sainsbury (Tory)
Lord William Waldegrave (Tory)
David Beckham (ex-Man Utd)
Dennis Wise (ex-Chelsea)
Dean Windass (ex-Hull)
Steven Gerrard (ex-Liverpool)
Anton Ferdinand (ex-QPR)
Marcus Bent (ex-Everton)
Jamie Carragher (ex-Liverpool)
Nicky Barmby (ex-Spurs)
Dominic Matteo (ex-Liverpool)
Wes Brown (ex-Man Utd)
Nicky Butt (ex-Man Utd)
Michael Hughes (ex-C Palace)
Steven Caldwell (ex-Burnley)
Joey Barton (ex-Man City)
Martin Keown (ex-Arsenal)
Jonathan Woodgate (ex-Leeds)
Colin Hendry (ex-Blackburn)
Emile Heskey (ex-Liverpool)
Clinton Morrison (ex-Palace)
Danny Murphy (ex-Liverpool)
Scott Parker (ex-Charlton)
John O’Shea (ex-Man Utd)
Hayden Mullins (ex-Palace)
John Arne Riise (ex-Liverpool)
Trevor Sinclair (ex-West Ham)
Mamady Sidibe (ex-Stoke)
Robbie Keane (ex-Spurs)
Neil Lennon (ex-Leicester)
Joleon Lescott (ex-Man City)
Gary Lineker (ex-Leicester)
Paul Konchesky (ex-Leicester)
Francis Jeffers (ex-Everton)
Eoin Jess (ex-Aberdeen)
Alain Goma (ex-Fulham)
Ryan Giggs (ex-Man Utd)
Andy Griffin (ex-Newcastle)
Tim Cahill (ex-Everton)
Jussi Jaskelainen (ex-Bolton)
Michael Bridges (ex-Leeds)
Matthew Etherington (ex-W Ham)
Paul McVeigh (ex-Norwich)
Gudni Bergsson (ex-Bolton)
Simon Charlton (ex-Bolton)
Matthew Elliott (ex-Leicester)
Dean Richards (ex-Wolves)
Steve McClaren (Ex-England)
Sir Alex Ferguson (Ex-Man Utd)
Carlo Cudicini (Ex-Chelsea assistant)
Martin O’Neill (Ex-Rep of Ireland)
David O’Leary (Ex-Leeds)
Gary McAllister (Ex-Leeds)
Michael Vaughan
Marcus Tresco-thick
Matthew Hoggard
Nasser Hussain
Alec Stewart
David Gower
Craig White
Duncan Fletcher (former England coach)

Answer

They are all involved in an extremely controversial Tax Relief Scheme. HMRC is having none of it and has told them it was 'NOT an investment into making films' but was actually a Tax Avoidance Scheme.

They all poured cash into Ingenious “partnerships” which helped produce movies, including Avatar, and qualified for tax breaks designed to support the UK film industry.

But HMRC said Ingenious claimed relief on artificial losses from its films.

That meant the schemes were not legitimate investment opportunities but a means of avoiding tax.

There are apparently about 1,400 investors who poured cash into the controversial film plans which offered tax breaks.

What 'a Bummer' for them, eh?

An appeal is yet to be heard. Hopefully, they might not get the very worst kind of treatment from HMRC. It is generally understood, that getting on for £700m in tax is involved.

More details on the 'Ingenious Tax Avoidance Scheme' here:

https://www.cchdaily.co.uk/ingenious-appeal-latest-tribunal-decision

The Ruling Decision can be read here:

http://financeandtax.decisions.tribunals.gov.uk/judgmentfiles/j9862/TC05893.pdf

Two of them are dead ,maybe more. George Michael is one., and Lord Grade

Yet again terrible news from from London Bridge and Borough Market. They should send Corbyn in to talk to them.