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.

Android spelling checker changed it

far too many zeros CT :-)
though it can be argued that banking with Coutts is expensive, i find their service excellent, in all sorts of respects and thus good value

Is there trouble in USA about to hit the headlines , bigger than Watergate .

like what and with what substantiation?


if you guys spent half as much time buying or selling or trading shares, instead of wasting so much effort on the the two main twaddle threads, you might have picked up profitably on a least some of the gems that have been mentioned elsewhere - and no, CARD was definitely not one of them!

Maybe Obama is a Filipino after all? Wasn't on CNN, so must be true.

Poor connection today wireless playing up , but on Breitbart News Network . " Worse than Watergate " .

Front page of The Times.
City traders getting away with abuse of markets. Insider deals by white-collar criminals ignored.
The so called Financial Conduct Authority has prosecuted only 8 cases of insider trading in the last five years.
Well who would have thought. The LSE is as bent as a nine bob note and the regulator is not fit for purpose. I was living in the US when Walmart took over ASDA. I noted the abnormal dealing in the ASDA shares prior to the announcement and wrote to the regulator about the clear insider trading. I received a letter back saying that it would look into the matter but it was policy not to notify of any findings thereafter - or words to that effect. Unsurprisingly, nothing ever happened.

I remember ordering some currency from Coutts about 45 years ago. There was a problem in getting it before close of business. They sent a courier to my home in the evening.

I had some items that I wanted to store securely. I asked if they had deposit boxes. They said no but I could store in their bank vault. I asked how much and they said free.

They found a trunk in their vault belonging to Lord Byron a few years ago.

Another tunnel....perhaps a motorway tunnel would be better as a second fixed link because the cost of maintaining a bridge across the channel would astronomical due to adverse weather !....in fact I would suggest there are other tasks that would be more beneficial to the UK such as :
-A motorway tunnel linking Sheffield to Manchester (20 miles long),
-the continuation of the fast rail link to Scotland with a fork to Belfast with a tunnel across the irish sea linking London to Belfast as well as Glasgow and eventually the track could be then extended to Dublin.
-Reclaiming the Wash from the northsea with a dam from Boston to Hunstanton with rail and motorway links from east Anglia to Lincolnshire.
Just some of the massive infrastructure that would be very good for the UK.

What is the accident rate like on long distance motorway tunnels (ie. longer than 5miles)?

Motorways, in general, are safer than normal roads.

If they only allowed Autonomous vehicles on new selected long distance roads, they might be even safer, and it would be a great way to trial them.

The Future leader of the neo-cons.

Bear Grylls would do the grand opening :-)

as and when there is a tory leadership contest, i would hope to see ruth davidson among those contending ...... i think she might be very good and also has more popular appeal for many good reasons

I agree with you.

That would really bury the tory has-beens.

do you rate her as a serious politician?
she certainly seems to have shredded labour in scotland

Jeremy Corbyn allies plot to oust 50 Labour MPs

Secret hitlist of moderates for deselection



Caroline Wheeler and Andrew Gilligan

January 21 2018, 12:01am,
The Sunday Times




Up to 50 Labour MPs are on a deselection hitlist drawn up by left-wing supporters of Jeremy Corbyn, it has been claimed.

Moderate Labour MPs have been warned that Corbyn’s allies want centrist candidates replaced with more left-leaning ones.

A Labour Party whip has been privately telling moderate MPs not to rock the boat or they could face deselection, amid fears that up to 50 will be targeted if rule changes are pushed through this autumn.

Chris Leslie, the former shadow chancellor, and Hilary Benn, the former shadow foreign secretary, are believed to top the list. Angela Eagle, who challenged Corbyn for the leadership in 2016, and her sister Maria Eagle, the former shadow culture secretary, are also thought to be vulnerable.


More if you sign up: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/jeremy-corbyn-allies-plot-to-oust-50-labour-mps-87bkrv7l7

I wonder if they will be paid off with peerages like the neo-con lot do.

max - surprised fred had not already posted that cartoon (from ST) given his addiction for so doing .... perhaps he didn't like the truth behind it, which is another of his favourite lines or inferences when others don't appreciate his postings

strangely, fred also declined to comment further to my post 79933
do you rate her (ruth davidson) as a serious politician?
she certainly seems to have shredded labour in scotland