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.

Manuel.

Not at all.

I am directing your attention back to brexit and the latest resolution of all the UK's problems.

But I would like to know where the £5million went.

Did it go into the coffers of Cambridge Analytica?


Was the £150,000 for Boris's personal use.

I can still play tennis and wouldn't charge the Russian lady that much for a game.

i don't care much about brexit - it'll reach its own conclusion
have no idea what £5m you are talking about and don't care

as for your tennis - time you had new balls

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that you ducked the corbyn issue (again) - #80446 et al - comes as no surprise

Manuel.

Corbyn doesn't need me to defend him.

The country seems to like him and his ideas more than old reactionaries like yourself.

But, as said before at least he seems honest.


Probably that is the difficulties for some?

i didn't ask whether corbyn needs you - or anyone else for that matter
how much the country likes the man is a different matter

for sure he has mobilised the more militant and arguably the young who have never had to live through years of militant and destructive unions, interminable strikes and rampant inflation etc

that voters may vote for a change regardless is always a possibility, but then the frogs voted for a new king too
both the fabled frogs and those over the channel quickly learned to rue the day

The clouds are gathering over the Thames Embankment.

Nice dodge Fred , again.

And those mature Spanish , they the same ones who supported Argentina's actions in 1982 ?

And have you ever tried to buy half-decent paella rice in the supermarche, Dil? That's another problem with the Spanish - protectionism!

:o)

Can't stand their omlettes either Hils :-)

I'm not so sure the Spanish are too keen on Welsh sheeps heads either, Dilbert. Bon appetit.

:o)

I almost creased myself reading Freds post 80488 "But, as said before at least he seems honest." when talking about JC.

Talk about gullible but then Fred I am glad that you said only said "seems honest" as clearly you are not 100% sure and have your own doubts.

to be fair, i think corbyn is significantly less dishonest than blair or even perhaps than lloyd george

Yes he is , he believes his own crap ..

that's unreasonable ..... the hard left laps up his views
that they may lead us back to "the good old days" is a different matter

i'm sure all the acolytes will think swingeing tax rises for anyone earning £50k or even (especially) £100k are a splendid idea ...... that this is middle and upper management, and thus the people who actually keep everyone in employment is irrelevant

i am sure that other tax rises would also be inevitable even to start funding all the grandiose plans ...... so expect higher interest rates and mortgages (who cares?), more tax on petrol and anything connected with cars (it matters not how that will hit delivery of goods), and anything that smacks of profit from being an entrepreneur

i'm sure all the acolytes will think swingeing tax rises for anyone earning £50k or even (especially) £100k are a splendid idea

Sorry Cyners, you've lost me. Is that a day, a week, a month, or a year?

haha ..... a year of course :-)

Trump to impose tariffs on $50bn of imports from China

The Trump administration plans to impose new tariffs on $50bn in annual imports from China, targeting products such as robots and high-speed trains as it also ramps up efforts to block Chinese investment in strategic sectors.
In what White House officials on Thursday billed as a historic move against Chinese “economic aggression”, President Donald Trump was set to order US officials to levy tariffs against China in response to a finding that Beijing has for decades pursued a strategy of unfairly acquiring US intellectual property.

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for a change, i actually agree with that move
the chinese are totally unscrupulous, as anyone in business will know

cynic, look what the West took from them - Gunpowder! Look where that got us!!

Now we are giving them Fireworks in return, and Putin might yet be responsible for bringing down Trump along with killing the World Football Cup as players with the fear of being given a dose of nerve agents pull out of scoring goals against the Russians.

This is one that Fred and I agree upon I guess : Oligarch Levy to raise £1 billion so JC can claim to be clamping down on offshore centers - they could start with this guy that must have money stashed in Jersey that pretends its not a Tax Haven or Hole for Laundry for Dirty Money from all over the world.
https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2018/01/01/jersey-linked-russian-oligarch-abramovich-on-us-putin-list/

https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2018/03/22/labour-calls-for-a-levy-on-russians-offshore-wealth/

Comments taken from the link on post 80463
"Cock&Bottle • 2 hours ago
well if that did ever happen from my experience from working in Finance there will end up being a lot of banks and trust companies getting a bit worried given we all know that there are Billions of Russian money (laundered or otherwise) floating around Jersey.

The Grumpy One • 2 hours ago
Why just stop with Russian money, why not include Chinese, African money ? A Chinese citizen can only transfer $50,000 a year out of the country - so explain how come they're buying up vast tracks of everywhere !"

try also the Panama Papers
i wonder if HMRC will have the balls to pursue ANY of the high profile guys and companies that will be shown to be evading ..... almost certainly not, as it's too much like hard work