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.

Manuel,

That experience would be his only failing.

PS. "He was educated at the High School of Glasgow, Haileybury College and the University of St Andrews where he received an MA." before moving on.

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Clock,

You would prefer somebody who is dishonest about her intentions?

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If there is a cockup by the tories in Brexit negotiations and the degree of "austerity" increases, which I expect, the blame will be placed at the feet of Cameron, Fauxpage and the tories in general.

At the moment, I would think the last thing JC wishes for is to be PM.

I would encastle my queen.

And I don't mean Vicky.

I've always been a bit of a PAWN star myself , saucy devil . You are awful , but i like you.

Fred1new, It is not being dishonest, if you keep your ideas to yourself for a while. Ideas evolve as does a any decent company. Do the boards of companies put their long term plans before all their stakeholders and in the public domain, allowing others to gain advantage from their plans.

This was posted across the road, applies to Corby:



An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama?s socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich; a great equalizer.

The professor then said, ?OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama?s plan?. All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A (substituting grades for dollars ? something closer to home and more readily understood by all).

After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.

As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.

The second test average was a D! No one was happy.

When the third test rolled around, the average was an F.

As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.

To their great surprise, all failed and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.

It could not be any simpler than that.

There are five morals to this story:

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is doing it for them, they don't.

Excellent post, MaxK.

And all quite true.

brilliant and fact if min wage goes to £10 then they gain nothing as the skilled will want even more of a rise

did any one watch itv new home builds , well they would never now buy a new home they are built by crap tradesmen well that's what they call them ,
wimpy employ cheap migrants and are now counting the cost thousands of homes unfit to live .

they should be demolished not my words the home owners who bought
want their money back .

buyer beware was the answer to all the questions put to the builders .

if you buy a new home built in the last 8 years then you could have a home that you could not sell on

I have been looking at some new homes in bracklley northants brickwork they must have been drunk doors not square hinges twisted well it would take to long to name all the faults and would never buy one so looking to buy a old house ,built over 20years ago when they built proper homes

migrant labour or not - my polish builders on a major redev/refurb job were very good indeed - TW. should have their on-site quality control people
further, no project manager worth his salt should pass sub-standard work for payment

It's clear that the UK government (whether Tory or Lab) will have to raise a considerable amount of money (taxes). How should they go about it? It seems clear that both parties are contemplating the use of people's property, whether by TM's ill conceived dementia tax or JC's garden tax/raised council tax band. Any idea's?

cynic I agree did you watch the programme . also selling homes unaware by silly buyers that the homes are lease hold , and with less than 99 years are unsellable
natiowide will now not give a mortgage others to fall suit .

George yes tax we will all need care or hospitals one day . have a vote on putting up income tax for ever one . by around 3p . let the people vote on it . and ever party agree on the vote

The Queen's Speech - in which the government sets out its legislative programme - has been delayed for a few days

She will not be amused

how does any party win when one party tells all voters we will hand out cash to ever one on less than 80k .and let the next generation pay in the future

Laurenrose ----That is exactly why youngsters should be thinking twice about voting for Corbyn

you can not but a wise head on a youngster . they only see free and easy life

re - the Queen's Speech delayed

One of the reasons for the delay is also believed to be because the speech has to be written on goat's skin parchment paper, which takes a few days to dry - and the Tory negotiations with the DUP mean it cannot be ready in time.

Although it is rare for a Queen's Speech to be delayed, when the Conservatives and Lib Dems formed a coalition government in 2010, it did not take place until 20 days after the general election while in 1992 nearly a month elapsed between polling day and the government announcing its new programme.

I have heard that in actual fact Maam has a sore throat from screaming at the result of the SNP losing 21 seats and as Sturgeon is currently in Parliament she wants it next week when she flips off back up there , and doesn't have to see her .

3p on income tax apparently raises around £13.5 Billion and of course there is the temptation to use it for other projects

77752 - no i didn't watc h the prog but i certainly knew about the outrageous leasehold scam that TW and a couple of other major builders pulled on their customers


77751 - if the tories (and DUP) are sworn not to raise income tax, then they could cut back on increases in personal allowances and IHT increases

truly clamping down on sharp schemes of tax avoidance (aka evasion) would help, though the court cases are expensive and slow

petrol duty + cigs + alcohol are easy targets, except they hit the lower paid the worst

there are probably a number of measures that could be taken with regard to corporate taxation - withholding tax is very popular in an every growing number of places around the world

there's probably a number of (further) measures that could be taken against overseas companies buying houses and the evasion of stamp duty

if divis to overseas shareholders are not already taxed, then surely they could be, even if it's a form of withholding tax

clamping down on companies like starbucks moving their profits around the world to minimise taxation