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.

Dil.

Out of "synch" with some of the population who seem to have similarities with Donald Trumps redneck supporters.

Seems like gang behaviour pattern to me.

Fred just surely spends his time trying to wind you all up ,his last few offering confirm that ,he should be ignored from now on.

bet fred doesn't come anywhere near apologising for getting his lynch mob nonsense totally wrong ...... why would anyone think otherwise?

New party gets £50m backing to ‘break mould’ of UK politics


Plans secretly made by donors since 2016 for a new political party drawing from both left and right



Michael Savage

Sat 7 Apr 2018 20.34 BST




The movement is said to be frustrated by the tribal nature of Westminster politics. Photograph: Amer Ghazzal / Barcroft Images



A new political party with access to up to £50m in funding has been secretly under development for more than a year by a network of entrepreneurs, philanthropists and donors keen to “break the Westminster mould”, the Observer can reveal.

The movement, spearheaded by a former Labour benefactor, is understood to have been drawn up by a group frustrated by the tribal nature of politics, the polarisation caused by Brexit and the standard of political leadership on all sides. It appears to have a centrist policy platform that borrows ideas from both left and right.



Senior figures from the worlds of business and charity are understood to be involved, as well as former supporters of the main parties, including a number of former Tory donors.

Sources say the project, led by the multi-millionaire philanthropist and founder of LoveFilm, Simon Franks, has had full-time staff members for as long as a year. Initial discussions are said to have begun at the end of 2016. Franks has set up a company, Project One Movement for the UK, which is likely to be the vehicle for the enterprise.


More:https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/apr/07/new-political-party-break-mould-westminster-uk-brexit

Are they buying out the Liberal party?

They wouldnt need £50b for that Fred: 50p more like.

Project One Movement sounds like a front for the €U.

Yeah that was my first thought too.

Never mind , they're at least two years too late for that.

Dil,

Are you sure?


You remind me of this cartoon.

No comment Fred on the Nu Macron party?

I await enlightenment from you, Dil and Manuel.

When you shine it will ease my path.

But I often wonder the real goals of various "political" leaders, adherents and hangers-on of your ilk are.

I don't suppose you really know yourselves.

corbyn asks with considerable justification why there has been no condemnation of the isareli go'vt's murderous response to the palestinian (extreme) provocation in gaza

though there is no doubt that the palestinians were pushing and pushing against known boundaries in the full knowledge and intent that there would ultimately be an extreme response, as far as i can determine, there was no reason why israeli troops should have reacted with live ammunition to kill rather than merely to deter and disperse

water cannon, tear gas and even rubber bullets are all nasty in their own ways, but still fall way short of shooting to kill

whether or not these "non lethal" deterrents would have had the desired effect is open to question, but nevertheless .....

Almost as bad as poisoning or allowing people to die of starvation.

Strange old world.

Civilisation at its best!

as an aside to the above, i wonder of corbyn also condemned yesterday's gas attack by assad ..... purely incidental of course that russia backs assad in a conflict where all sides are baddies

Another gas attack .. urgent UN meetings, condemnation etc etc.

Cui Bono?

fred - so did corbyn also condemn the gas attack by assad? ..... purely incidental of course that russia backs assad in a conflict where all sides are baddies

Don't know.

Haven't spoken with him recently!

i don't recollect seeing anything to the effect that corbyn did, which i find very remiss of him

Tut tut!

Its all noise but nothing changes, and all parties concerned let the suffering continue. The war games seem to be part and parcel of the world powers posturing, while they buy weapons and ammunition, and kill large numbers well away from their shores.

How long will it be before we see another world war?