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.

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

Now that H/S has crept back, here's a pic to Cheer him back up.

This 'goatskin vellum' excuse - the writing won't be dry ready for the Queen'.

Are these people for real? There is no such thing!

The material is in fact high-quality archival paper which is guaranteed to last for at least 500 years.

i think the goatskin vellum is for real ... just something residing in my magpie brain

anyway, it's really to do with trying to cobble together this deal with DUP

who'ld want to be prime minister?

Some good news just in for us Nigel fans;

Nigel Farage to be given role in Brexit talks under DUP-Conservative deal – reports
Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage could be ennobled or given key government role under a DUP deal.

British Prime Minister Theresa May to face important talks in proposed alliance deal between the Conservatives and the DUP.

CNBC.com
Karen Gilchrist
4 Hours Ago

British Prime Minister Theresa May could be under pressure to give extreme Eurosceptic Nigel Farage a key role in Brexit negotiations if she strikes an alliance deal with Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), according to new reports.

Senior figures in the DUP have told May that she should keep Farage close and allow him to contribute to EU talks in an effort to prevent him from returning to the helm of UKIP, the party he once led, and launching a counter-campaign against her Conservative party, sources told the Sunday Times.

The figures have also suggested that Farage's suspected return to UKIP could be abated with the promise of a peerage. Farage is said to have been in talks with Arron Banks, one of the party's biggest donors, on Friday to discuss the future of UKIP, one of the Conservative's closest competitors.

"They hold a few cards," the source said. "They want Farage as a lord or a role in government or he and Arron will put something together that will cause trouble for May."

Farage stepped down as leader of UKIP following the U.K.'s 2016 EU referendum in which he and his party were instrumental in driving the leave campaign. Speculation over his possible return to the political spotlight remerged on Friday, however, in the wake of the U.K. election, which saw a devastating defeat for UKIP and in particular its leader Paul Nutall, who failed to be elected.

Farage said on Friday that he would have to return to politics if Britons' decision to leave the EU was not effectively implemented. On June 23 2016, the U.K. voted by a majority of 51.9 percent to leave the EU.

"If Brexit (which the) British people voted for gets betrayed, I would have no choice but to throw myself back into full-time campaigning," he told CNBC.

He has since said that May had been "fatally damaged" by the U.K. election result, in which her party lost its parliamentary majority, and would not last much longer as prime minister.

"I think she has to go," Farage told LBC radio on Monday.

"If it's going to be a Brexit government, then someone who believes in it must be in position."

The appointment of Farage could be a necessary pill for May to swallow if she is to strike a deal and drive ahead with her intended hard Brexit. She will need a parliamentary majority in order to pass through her policies and is expected to face heavy opposition from Labour MPs, whose numbers grew notable in Friday's election.

The DUP are known to have had close links with Farage for a number of years. However, his hard line stance on the EU is likely to also create friction within the DUP, whose leader Arlene Foster is vehemently against a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, a separate EU member.

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If Farage is to be on board with Brexit, well, that will be absolutely great news as far as I am concerned.

It is real. There were calls to change it to a vegan equivalent but rejected. The reality is that it is delayed because the manifesto has to be cut down and because of negotiations with DUP.

Anything to annoy Freda .

the farage report comes from a us news source so it must be true - aka a load of bollocks

With all financial backing they had, it is sad to watch the twists and turns of a failed tory party and government.

Both Farage and Maybe are damaged goods and even if they were burnt at the stake they could never be elevated to martyr status.

They have both past their sell-by dates.

EU is laughing at the contortions of the Brexiters and many will be happy to see the back of the UK.

Why not take a leaf out of Tax Havens - like Jersey that has just returned £1 billion of loot to the Italians it had sitting in one of the many hidden trusts and allow the UK to become offically the worlds largest Tax Haven in the world.

http://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2017/06/12/criminals-1-billion-loot-returned-to-italians/

Huge investment funds based in Jersey;
http://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2017/05/25/93-billion-investment-fund-based-in-jersey/

Jersey Balanced Books on Low Tax Model:
http://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2017/05/17/the-states-books-are-balanced-says-gorst/

Cynic,

Fake news is the word you are looking for.


Used toilet paper is another more descriptive triplet.

I would think Maybe would like to lynch Fauxpage, Boris, Gov and the Fox.


Could bring back fox hunting.

I love the way you destroy these people , but then seem to have some ability to ignore possibly the lowest form that ever became a party leader , how low he goes we've yet to see , but you have this ability to overcome certain peoples actions as long as it suits your agenda , Freda .

Never a mention by Fred about JC's, JMc's or DA's links to terrorism and terrorists. How they managed to be adjudged as fit and proper people to hold the position of MP beggars belief.