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.

Your English is improving Tanker.

A judge has ordered a benefit cheat to pay back £35,000 to Knowsley Council in the next six months or face jail.


Gareth Hey and his partner Maureen Heard pleaded guilty to offences associated with false Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit claims over a period of five years.
52 year old Hey had claimed to be the landlord of a property in Briar Drive in Huyton, where Heard, 50, lived.
However, an investigation by Knowsley Council found the pair were actually living together at the address with their child throughout the five year period.
At a confiscation hearing under the Proceeds of Crime Act, the judge at Liverpool Crown Court agreed that Hey had benefitted from his criminal conduct and awarded a Confiscation Order of £34,370.
Hey has been given six months to repay the full amount to Knowsley Council or face 12 months in jail and still be required to repay the money.
At an earlier hearing, the pair were both handed a four month custodial sentence, suspended for 18 months

THE LAW MUST BE UP HELD .
NO MATTER IF PEOPLE DIE THAT IS NO REASON FOR CHANGING THE LAW TO SUIT IMMIGRANTS , TAKE AWAY THEIR CRIMINAL GAINS AND DEPORT THEM

CORBYN IN COMMONS SAYS DAVID SENT ME A LETTER .

WELL HE ONLY WANTS TO SPEAK TO ANTI GOV VOTERS

HE WILL NOT ALLOW QUESTIONS AGAINST IS VIEWS

THE MAN IS A DUD AND A LIAR

PROTECTED BY BODY GUARDS

IT APPEARS YOU HAVE TO GIVE HIM A WRITTEN LETTER WITH THE QUESTION
TWO WEEKS BEFORE SO HE CAN FIND A ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTION
YES I KNOW HE IS THICK AND NOT GOOD AT MATHS HE WAS DUMB AT SCHOOL

TEMPER MATTRESS is not for summer sleeping bought two wish I had not to hot in bed even with no sheets on top .

good in winter

A five-year-old girl burst into tears after her local council issued a £150 fine because she was selling lemonade on her street.

Thankfully, it's now been cancelled.

Can you fine a 5 year old? I suppose, given the area she was in, she's lucky she wasn't married off. Four enforcement officers were apparently considered necessary for this particular "enforcement"

At our last house, we used to cut the verge in front of the house. The verge didn't have a kerb edge at that time, so I also used to 'edge the verge up' a bit.

And then one day, we got a letter from the council asking, "Do you have a licence to cultivate the highway?"

So, seeing as it was for free, we duly got one.

What they were mainly bothered about, was us taking possession of the land (ie. the verge) in front of our house. Questions on the application form dealt with that aspect of things and clarified, that we did NOt want to take possession of said verge land.

When you get such a letter, I would understand how it can tend to put the fear of God into some people.

But actually fining a five-year old? Come on! They are just idiots doing a jobs worth.

Well it was in the Islamic Borough of Thames Hamletstan. Noted for its democratic processes.

Headline in the DT "revolt of the BBC women". Surely that should be " The BBC women are revolting" I can't stand the majority of them. They want pay rises when the so called stars are already paid too much. Cutting the two highest male and female earners would actually improve the service.

I love this picture, taken from just before the General Election:



"We shall have to take our business elsewhere"

A much better leader.

corbyn lied to students he lied to get votes its a criminal act .
the man should resign has a liar .
he did say he would fix the problem for students now he says it was just idea not facts

it was just a gimmick and the youth thought it was real .

he was taking the piss out of them ,

Yes Corbyn lied ,not only did he promise to scrap student fee's he said (for any existing debt) ,"he would sort it".
Himself and McDonnell really are pure nasty.

You mean:


Brexit: Vote Leave camp abandon £350m-a-week NHS vow in Change Britain plans



And of course two really honest down to earth politicians:

Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb!

The two most honest politicians in Britain .

I would think they are far more intelligent than you Fred .

...now that is funny 😂

Brexit is tough for the UK now....let's go forward five years and the country might prosper with the trade deals in place by then....

Moggy news, to keep Fred happy :-)



Jacob Rees-Mogg could be about to become Tory leader – so it's vital we listen to what he really says about himself


Rees-Mogg says he has never changed a nappy. In 2014 he went canvassing with his former nanny Veronica, the woman who used to wipe his own bottom. And he's told us loud and clear what he really stands for, although Mumsnet forums seem not to want to listen


Grace Dent





Jacob Rees-Mogg is ahead of Boris Johnson in the polls Getty




Jacob Rees-Mogg, currently second favourite to take over leadership of the Conservative party, is a politician I’ve watched with involuntary wonderment for over a decade. This is because day-to-day Rees-Mogg is quite impossible not to follow in jovial befuddlement. For this purpose, I understand the growing #moggmentum which has placed a man who appears on Question Time resembling a living, breathing Bash Street Kids "posho" caricature as a frontrunner to save the Tories from a political quagmire.

Mogg is a roaming Monty Python cameo; all briefcase, flappy legs and simmering patriarchal righteousness. He is a Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer-style riff on how our class system thrives, with his six children furnished with the names of 8th Century saints and Anglo-Saxon bishops. Rees-Mogg says he has never changed a nappy. In 2014 he went canvassing with his former nanny Veronica, the woman who used to wipe his own arse.



More vitriol here: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/jacob-rees-mogg-conservative-tory-leader-leadership-battle-theresa-may-what-he-says-a7857686.html

If you haven't yet seen Jacob Rees-Mogg in action, here he typically thrashes Mark Carney's answer with his question,""In general elections you do not give a view on parties' economic policies. Why not?"

Carney's answer to explain why a referendum is different from a general election fails to convince Rees-Mogg, and indeed, fails to convince any open-minded observer.

Rees-Mogg asked: "Don't you have a responsibility to be apolitical?"

Carney replied: "We are apolitical, which may be inconvenient for you, but to suggest otherwise is to try to undermine that."

Rees-Mogg: "I do suggest otherwise –"

Carney: "Then you try to undermine that."

Rees-Mogg asked if the Bank would give its opinion on Jeremy Corbyn's "new economics" speech, which proposed radical changes. "I don't think that's worth a reply," said Carney.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/jacob-rees-mogg-just-gave-mark-carney-the-politest-of-beatings-a7044701.html

Rachel Reeves, the Labour MP and former employee of the Bank, added: "If anyone's reputation has been damaged today I don't think it is the Bank of England's."

The writer of the article, says, "I disagree. It would have been straightforward for the Bank to have said that the referendum was a political decision and that it would not comment on it at all. Rees-Mogg's questioning was a model of cross-examination."

IMHO, Jacob's Rees-Mogg's opinions, clarity of thought and use of the spoken word in expressing those opinions, enamours anyone to him who cares to listen to what he has to say.

It is then so easy to see 'the essence' of this man and it matters not, eg., as to whether he has ever changed a bay's nappy or not. :-)