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.

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. :-)

Next Conservative Leader after Theresa May

Voters are tired of politicians who don't say what they think and don't necessarily mean what they say, and are drawn to figures with the confidence just to be themselves. That confidence arguably comes easier if you're descended from one of Britain's grandest families, married into another of them, and can therefore afford not to care much what others think of you.

Tuesday, early afternoon..Telcon......."4432 is unavailable"...so the Contact-Us message tells me.
BUT - that wasn't the Contact Us number I dialled.... Very ODD.
The reason.... well RioTinto is off today.... all other EPICS appear to work in the SharePrice box... but RIO goes to a "Cannot display message..."
Is everyone else having the same.... -or- does the Unobtainable EPIC vary over the country, perhaps?

E/L that link you gave in P78660 needs log-in details so can you just C&P the likely suspects...just for my amusement you understand -):

Not so, Stan

Read the 'pop-up' carefully. It says, "Or continue using the site for free in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 seconds."

So just click on the 'Continue' which appears after the 'pop-up' has timed out.

MIDDLE class men have decided that when sex robots become widely available they will buy theirs from John Lewis.

Chartered accountant Tom Logan has weighed up the options and decided the John Lewis sexbot will combine luxury, affordability and discretion.

He said: “My friend Mark buys his electronics from Tesco, which is fine I suppose, but when it comes to sex robots it needs to be very good quality.

“The John Lewis sex robot will be tasteful, available in either mute ivory or dove grey with walnut detailing, and of course it’ll come with a five-year no-nonsense guarantee.”

Dentist Martin Bishop added: “It – she – will come with all the extra functions and speeds that fancy designer models do, but without all the intrusive labels or tacky celebrity voices.

“Yes, she’ll be more expensive than the ones from Ikea and Dixons and I’m sure some middle class men will get a German one from Aldi and claim it’s better and cheaper, but for me it will be worth paying the extra.”

Logan added: “And, of course, if it’s from John Lewis my wife will approve completely.”

No pop-up appears E/L on my browser, mind you it is an old one (I can't simply update to a new one at the mo). Be back later just nipping our for an hour or so.

Don't bother with the link I can tell you now who the next leader will be, my monies on Phillip Hammond.. you remember him the ever so shy one when General Elections come round.