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.

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

Driving over a bridge across the English Channel, so as to help motorists get from England to France in their cars, has been one of this last week's main topics.

And of course, it does raise an important consideration.....

Matt is always entertaining

Cynic
I suspect the reason Fred did not answer your question is because, whilst he does not like the neo cons, as he likes to call them, he dislikes the English even more, as exemplified by his constant use of "Little Englander" as an insult.

This could be described as racist but it may be that he was given a bad time by someone English in his formative years and he has never got over it, despite choosing to spend his declining years in this sweet and pleasant land.

What ever the reason Ruth Davidson is Scottish not English and that puts her way above anyone English.

Martini,

Some of the English when they are trained properly are quite good.

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Davidson.

I think the tory party's "success" in Scotland is complicated.

Also, think the "values" of the "labour" in Scotland and the SNP are very similar, also their positions have to be considered in relation to Scottish independence.

Personally, I don't her see as appealing to the English electorate.

ruth davidson
first question was whether or not you see her as a serious politician
you have yet to answer that




next question is why you think she would not appeal to the english - broaden that please! - to uk electorate

certainly the tories in scotland under her leadership routed labour, for whatever reasons you might now like to rationalise that result

as RD does not come from what is percieved (accurate or not) as the typical tory mould or background, she might appeal at that level
also, she can enter any leadership contest with a proven record of bringing in a result