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.

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.

We are frequently asked for a 'Photo ID' in the UK.

The last time for me was at my local Screwfix . I'd paid for the items which I'd bought online with 'PayPal' and proof with Photo ID was required for collection.

The order value was about £20 or so. I'd bought this way so as to cut down the waiting time at the counter.

In the USA they are continually asking tourists for photo ID. A Passport isn't any use for us Brits because it doesn't show your address. If you don't drive and thus have a Photo DL, then you're a bit stuffed. A decade or so ago, the DLs weren't necessarily 'up to date' and so you also had to carry the paper one around with you to support it.

Yes, I believe everyone should have some form of PhotoID. It should be able to prove who you are and where you live.

I dare bet, that eventually, it will be an offence to be without one.

i never get asked for photo i/d but that may be because i am so very old
mind you, i was asked at Boston airport if I was over 75 as if not I had to remove my shoes
odd or what???????

EL>
From Wiki

"Abandoned plans for "next generation" biometric passports and national identity registration[edit]
There had been plans, under the Identity Cards Act 2006, to link passports to the Identity Cards scheme. However, in the Conservative – Liberal Democrat Coalition Agreement that followed the 2010 General Election, the new government announced that they planned to scrap the ID card scheme, the National Identity Register, and the next generation of biometric passports, as part of their measures 'to reverse the substantial erosion of civil liberties under the Labour Government and roll back state intrusion.'[51][52]
The Identity Cards Act 2006 would have required any person applying for a passport to have their details entered into a centralised computer database, the National Identity Register, part of the National Identity Scheme associated with identity cards and passports. Once registered, they would also have been obliged to update any change to their address and personal details. The identity card was expected to cost up to £60 (with £30 going to the Government, and the remainder charged as processing fees by the companies that would be collecting the fingerprints and photographs).[53] In May 2005 the Government said that the cost for a combined identity card and passport would be £93 plus processing fees.[54]"


From memory on there were a lot of postings on one of the threads on this board.

The majority of those postings were against introduction by a certain fraction.

I thought the introduction may cut out a lot multiple bank accounts, fraudulent welfare claims, various forms of tax evasion and other criminal activity.

Profiling C. Either nobody over 75 has bombed a plane or they are known to have smelly feet. Probably both.
Some proof of ID is required when collecting at the post office. A drivers licence is best but a utility letter with address is normally sufficient. In the US, I carry my Texas driving licence but I suspect a UK licence is just as good.

For a while in the USA I was able to show off and use a gold plated 6-star badge with 'Honary Deputy Sheriff of Indianapolis' engraved/printed on it and also an 'Honary Deputy Sheriff of Indianapolis' ID to go with it.

An Honary Sheriff deputised me whilst on vacation one year. He got his for financially supporting the Sheriff who got elected one time and, in turn, he deputised me as a bit of a special favour, seeing as how we were a bit matey with each other. Of course, when the Sheriff got changed at the next election, all the 'honary' positions got revoked.

Naturally. That's how things work over there. Sheriff's jobs are an elected position.

Jeremy, Fred and Stan race to see who makes the bestest €U appeasers...

Wrong thread Max.. your getting as bad as Tanker 😊

Apt tho eh Stan?

in anycase, it attracted your attension, which was the whole point :-)

...stupid boy Max, now go and stand in the corner.

They would be too pretty for Fred and Stan . Try this one.

Dumbo.

Your dementia is progressing rapidly.

You are repeating yourself more and more frequently unless you are posting because the image satisfies one of your obvious needs.

Freda doth protest too much methinks :0)

If they keep repeating it, eventually the ( hard left of the Labour Party ) will believe its true....

Green says Labour is 'a nasty party' and 'a front operation for the hard left'

Damian Green, the first secretary of state, spoke after Sir Patrick McLoughlin. His speech was a broad and general defence of the government’s record, most notable for what he said about Labour.

Green claimed that the Labour party was a “nasty party’ and “a front operation for the hard left”.
[Labour] is a front operation for the hard left. A Labour party with MPs that abuse Prince Harry for his service in Afghanistan, and that tolerates an under-current of antisemitism. There was a time when we needed to be warned about sounding nasty. I tell you there is still a nasty party in Britain in 2017 and it’s called the Labour party.

I find it hard to believe anything stated by the present torrid tory party or its adherents, where some of its more fervent members, with their retrogressive policies and values, could have fitted easily into a 1930's "National Socialist Party".

Fred your obsessed ,stop stalking me .