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.

I was cautious about putting those pictures up Dil in case one was an ex of yours .

Unfortunately, Dil, I guess that's a downside of PFI for you.

In Switzerland, we need a vignette which sticks to the windscreen in order to use the motorways, but there are no tolls as such (except on a couple of tunnels). At the equivalent of around £30 a year it's excellent value for money imo. I guess that's a bit steep if you're only on vacation for a week, so the vignette effectively then becomes a tourist tax. However, you still have a choice, and if you don't use the motorways, you don't need a vignette.

In France, the autoroutes are very expensive imo, and you can easily spend in a day what it costs for a year in Switzerland. In my experience, the locals tend to avoid the autoroutes wherever possible, and we only use them ourselves if we're on a long journey. The autoroutes are also an effective way of taxing tourists. The Millau Viaduct toll actually increases by about 50% for the months of July and August when all the Brits, Dutch, Germans and Belgians are bombing down for their summer holiday.

That's what made me wonder whether people living locally to the Severn and Dartford crossings got any discount. I guess from your response that they don't?

Hugh Hefner snuffs it http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41423845

Here you are, something to cheer up you miserable old gits..


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceYjg1dy-h0

Hils , many of the locals this side of the bridge are campaigning to keep the tolls as they fear house prices will rise due to the lower cost of commuting to Bristol.

Here is to-day's tory heroine or marionette?



Do I see Trump's hand pulling the controls?

Every time that Labour loony opened his mouth on Question Time last night I felt as though I had been transported back in time to the 70's and was listening to Derrick Hatton. Kept waiting for Robin Day to shut him up.

As for his claim of a fully costed manifesto , go tell that to all the students you lied to.

I don't get that, Dil.

I would've thought the locals would welcome the prospect of a bigger economy, and of owning houses that were worth more???

If they are happy and prosperous Plaid Cymru would have nothing to complain about. Besides, they don't want a bunch of handsome englishmen wooing their sheep. As was said with the yanks, "over sexed and over here".

Crooks at work cooking the books at Tesco finally at court.............

Former Tesco executives pressured staff "to cook books", court told

LONDON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Three former Tesco executives abused their positions of trust to encourage the manipulation of profit figures, lied to auditors and misled the stock market, prosecutors told a London court on Friday.

The senior executives were "cooking the books" to secure huge compensation packages, and bullying subordinates into compliance, lead prosecutor Sasha Wass told London's Southwark Crown Court.

Christopher Bush, who was managing director of Tesco UK, Carl Rogberg, who was UK finance director, and John Scouler, who was UK food commercial director, all deny charges of fraud and false accounting.

"The three defendants on trial are not the foot soldiers," she said.

Hils , they worried that locals not yet on the property market will be priced out of it. Plus they mostly small inbred communities who don't want an influx of outsiders coming in.

Personally I think they are small minded selfish gits.

"Personally I think they are small minded selfish gits. "

You mean 'Welsh'?

Dil, Count your chickens.

Protesters stage London demo against plans for patient ID checks


Critics fear checks will destroy relationship NHS staff have with patients and create climate of fear that stops people accessing care


Damien Gayle

Saturday 30 September 2017 15.54 BST


Protesters gathered at St Thomas’ hospital in central London on Saturday to voice opposition to the introduction of ID checks at hospitals and up-front charges for patients not eligible for NHS care.

People from overseas are already liable for the cost of treatment, but new rules will require hospitals, community interest companies and charities receiving NHS funds to identify such patients before treatment in order to bill them.


At the same time, 20 hospitals across the UK are trialling ID checks that require patients to present two forms of ID before they are treated. The government says that the changes lower the burden from health tourism, which is blamed for costing the NHS millions every year.



quote:

Dr Timesh Pillay, a member of Docs Not Cops, said: “Eligibility checks directly and disproportionately burden individuals who are ill, from lower socio-economic backgrounds and identify as BME, whether they be legally eligible to NHS care or not.

“This surmounts to no less than structural violence. This policy is a barrier to me providing empathic mutualistic healthcare as it often overshadows the consultation. I believe in a healthcare system independent from the policies of the Home Office and UK Border Agency that is freely accessible to all.”


Full story here: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/sep/30/protesters-stage-london-demo-against-plans-for-patient-id-checks

''I believe in a healthcare system independent from the policies of the Home Office and UK Border Agency that is freely accessible to all.”

Therein lies the problem

Lol Gausie.

In fact in most of those communities on the border the majority consider themselves English. Ask Mike , he used to watch the rugby somewhere round there with them.

Might add to PHTM on Monday :0)

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN - Have a read of an article in todays Mail On Sunday, especially the comments.


Middle England's £623million bailout for the NHS: Families are forced into debt to pay for vital surgery as the waiting list hits four million
Patients told to wait many months for treatment despite being in extreme pain
They are cashing in ISAs and pensions and taking out loans to fund treatment
'Pay-as-you-go' operations fuelled by rapidly lengthening NHS waiting times
By Stephen Adams and Jonathan Bucks For The Mail On Sunday
PUBLISHED: 01:33, 1 October 2017 | UPDATED: 01:34, 1 October 2017


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4937418/Middle-England-s-623million-bailout-NHS.html#ixzz4uFniqIkT
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Fascinating Frank Luntz focus group on the Sunday Politics asking Tory voters their thoughts on potential leadership contenders. Terrible viewing for Hammond (“so boring, so dull, bland”), and bad too for the great Remain hope Amber Rudd (“not leadership material, she’s backroom staff”). Better for Boris (“underneath it he’s very, very intelligent”), though it was the Mogg and David Davis who were most popular. Nobody in the room wanted May to fight the next election…



https://order-order.com/section/guynews/

Has anyone noticed how everyone in continental Europe has an identity card but it has proved impossible to introduce them here? I have been watching the Catalan voting and an ID card is shown prior to posting the ballot paper.
The resistance here and in the US has been from Liabour and the democrats. ID cards should be compulsory for voting and the NHS. Put that in the Tory manifesto and it will be a surefire winner.