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.

oh do shut up your boring old fart and try posting something constructive for a change

Don't worry cynic , keeps forgetting to mention the worse state of the NHS in Wales under Labour as highlighted yesterday on BBC Wales news. Waiting times for by pass operations are twice those of England for example.

Dil.

Help them out, become a volunteer.

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Judging by what Fred said about his age and that of his family, my guess is that they have had more than their fair share of those by pass ops, and have been filling up the beds and using the NHS resources just to extend the waiting times, so he can blame the Tories or Trump, rather than his extended life that I expect has been mainly due to the money pumped into it by the Tory Government. :-)

Pity Hunt doesn't spend more time improving the NHS than his "private" interests.

Mind it is good to have a party of part-timers.

Fred - they only need to work part time because of the efficiencies they have made since Blair and followers that were last given a chance to run the madhouse - Remind everyone how long ago that was, as it must have been before you lost your marbles or retired, a very long time ago indeed.

My guess is that it is such a distant memory that you will be unable to recall when without looking it up on google. :-)

HMRC hit me with a £100 payroll fine a while back for failing to send in an ESP ('nil') return for that month.

Of course, it was an honest mistake and I did feel apologetic about it - just like I'm reading did Jeremy Hunt.

And so, seeing as I feel his crime is far worse than mine, I'm avidly watching Internet News to see 'when' and 'how much' the authorities clobber him for breaking the anti-money laundering rules and failing to declare his 50 per cent interest in the property firm to Companies House (a criminal offence punishable by a fine or up to two years in prison) when he used the company to purchase 7 flats.

Mr Hunt also failed to disclose his interest in the property firm on the Parliamentary Register of Members’ interests within the required 28 days.

EL - but do you have an accountant that handles all your affairs and a PA that is on the ball enough to keep your regulatory requirements up to date while you try sorting out problems that past Labour Governments caused in the likes of the NHS?

If not, fine them as well as JH.

It.

I murdered someone last week.

I apologise, it was a mistake.

I meant to kill his twin brother.

But my boss said it is OK., that I should be more careful next time, so nobody else finds out!

thus spake putin similarly over the poisoning of the skripal's and also of the gassing of the civilians in syria

then little boy corbyn couldn't - sorry; wouldn't - answer the straight question about the poisoning put to him by a school boy/girl

and
little boy corbyn is even facing heavy criticism from his own MPs for refusing to directly blame Russia for the poisoning
bet many of them get deselected .... by democratic process of course!

Manuel,

You seem to be getting dafter and dafter.

‘Fill up today’

That’s the advice from industry experts ahead of fears that petrol costs could soar.

Experts have warned that fuel costs are expected to rise this weekend as tensions over the Middle East escalate.

Corby is going to be one helluva pissed off little bunny this morning

And Fred :-)

Lol

SYRIA
several interesting questions raise their heads

almost as an aside, the russians clearly colluded in "allowing" this bombing, not least because they admit that they did not engage their anti-aircraft systems at all, and nor were russian installations overflown either by aircraft or missiles



on the legality side, i understand that the circumstances allowed the decision to be made at cabinet level - ie no actual requirement to take the question to parliament before the event

it is probable that the logic is that this strike was always intended as a one-off retaliatory lesson as opposed to something far more serious and far-reaching
certainly the reaction from russia and elsewhere is that this strike was indeed "acceptable"

thus corbyn and his bitch (abbott) can squeak as much as they like on monday, but the wind has rather been taken out of their sails
interestingly, neither corbyn nor his bitch would either condemn syria or even say under what circumstances they (the labour party) would deem a strike warranted

middle east press is also very muted, though of course, saudi (sunni) is hard set against iran (shia) who also supports assad and that may equally apply to al jazeera



i do not understand why it was only france and uk who collaborated with usa
un certainly did not raise any objections to the strike, so was it primarily because france and uk have the most sophisticated airforces and weaponry in the alliance? - saudi and israel also do, but would have been excluded on sensible political grounds



there is a strong argument that the strike was pretty hypocritical given the inaction when saddam poisoned the kurds ..... oh dear; did the americans supply that gas? ..... and saddam was probably deemed an ally of the west at that time



is chemical attack any more heinous than blanket bombing or similar of civilian targets?
dresden may come to mind, but the situation was very different, though had the "wrong side" won, then assuredly it would have been deemed with some justification to have been a "heinous war crime"

for some reason, chemical warfare has been internationally outlawed, whereas blanket bombing (in general) seems not have been
why is that?

There is nothing to gloat about in this situation but the Russians and Syria put Western governments in an impossible situation...the bottom line is that this war in Syria has to end .......easier said than done.....

Uk-France alliance....hope this isn't shades of Suez peut-etre ?......