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.

A pretty little girl named Suzy was standing on the pavement in front of her home.
Next to her was a basket containing a number of tiny creatures; in her hand was a sign announcing FREE KITTENS.




Suddenly a line of big cars pulled up beside her.
Out of the lead car stepped a grinning man.

"Hi there little girl, I'm the leader of the Labour Party, Ed Miliband.
What do you have in the basket?" he asked.

"Kittens," little Suzy said.

"How old are they?" asked Miliband.

Suzy replied, "They're so young, their eyes aren't even open yet."

"And what kind of kittens are they?"

"Labour supporters," answered Suzy with a smile.

Miliband was delighted. As soon as he returned to his car, he called his PR chief and told him about the little girl and the kittens.

Recognizing the perfect photo op, the two of them agreed that he should return the next day;
and in front of the assembled media, have the girl talk about her discerning kittens.

So the next day, Suzy was again standing on the pavement with her basket of "FREE KITTENS," when another motorcade pulled up,
this time followed by vans from BBC, ITV, ABC, CNN and Sky News,

Cameras and audio equipment were quickly set up, then Miliband got out of his limo and walked over to little Suzy.

"Hello, again," he said, "I'd love it if you would tell all my friends out there what kind of kittens you're giving away."

"Yes Sir," Suzy said. "They're Conservative/Liberal Democrate supporters."

Taken by surprise, Ed stammered, "But...but...yesterday, you told me they were LABOUR SUPPORTERS."

Little Suzy smiled and said, "I know.

But today, they have their eyes open."

Quality skinny :O)

The Jungle Boy Swings back in to help Cameron!

More cash for Cash.

Lord Heseltine attacks David Cameron's EU strategy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20996376


But The Tinker is OK

Conservative MEP deplores 'pitbull UK' image

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20989537

Lowest of the low: Taxi driver cheated blind woman out of £300 after she asked for help using her cash card to pay for fare
Shafak Hussain, 36, took advantage of regular passenger Jill Holland
He was taking her back to her home in Oldham from hospital
Found guilty by magistrates and given four-month suspended sentence

how low can a immigrant go deport the sub human

1,000 Britons a day hit by Indian call centre swindle: Police believe fraudsters have made £10million from UK victims

if your bank or your insurance company uses indian call centres
move your business it is not safe

Skinny,

Purrfect.

seconded :-)

Reminds me of somebodies.

Who is sleep walking,

Happy New Year with Michael!

"Fiscal Cliff” in perspective.

* U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000
* Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000
* New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000
* National debt: $14,271,000,000,000
* Recent budget cuts: $ 38,500,000,000

Let's now remove 8 zeros and pretend it's a household budget:

* Annual family income: $21,700
* Money the family spent: $38,200
* New debt on the credit card: $16,500
* Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710
* Total budget cuts so far: $38.50

Yes, and your point exactly? :O)

Penury.

Twice a year I am a United fan Tim, work it up the red shite tomorrow :O)

It is a bit like starting up a New private company,

Floating it, borrowing after the float to buy larger premises buying new plant on tick, maybe further R and D, hoping to pay for the plant over 20 years, while paying large CEO salaries and expenses.

The problem is "earning" enough to cover the "expense", "interest" and other "outlay" until the company has enough contracts for its output. (I.E employment.)

How many weren't it debt when they bought their own houses.

Debt ain't the problem, it is whether you can service it and utilise it beneficially.


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PS

How many Private companies are borrowing invisibly from the "public purse" by paying low "wages" which are backed up by the governments out of benefit payments.

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For Greek, Tanker and Ilk

Political cartoons eh!

Is the cartoon suggesting Law and Order, Education and Health investments are only for the well healed and lesser quality should not be available for the the average and those below on lesser incomes.

(Or does raising the above improve the well being of society as a whole?)

(It is a pity that society can't divest itself of the dependent.)


Mind it does show where the money went, preferable than into the back pockets of those in the Cayman Isles and the and other Tankers.

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I think the point of the second cartoon misses the fact that Cameron and cohorts are becoming detached from the "middle classes", who are waking up to the fact of how much they were/are benefiting from the "welfare state", especially when they start paying for "granny" going in hospital or, care , and can't find a "bed", their kids going to university and moving back home, or being broken into and can't find a policeman.

Ring their MP who is probably living in a gated area.

Events, dear boys, are sometimes just consequences.

PS. Anyway, some of "my" cartoons are in colour.

I might try and get some large printouts and put them on my car.

(To cover the rust.)

This collaboration should generate some political satire.

Ken Clarke and Peter Mandelson join forces to fight Eurosceptics

Tory grandee Ken Clarke is joining forces with Labour peer Lord Mandelson in a historic cross-party bid to turn back the rising tide of Euroscepticism.

The two political heavyweights will share a platform to call for an abandonment of plans to disengage from the European project. Clarke, who attends cabinet as a minister without portfolio, is determined to fight back against the clamour for Britain to step back from the European Union or withdraw entirely.

Along with Liberal Democrat Lord Rennard, Clarke and Mandelson will spearhead a new organisation, the Centre for British Influence through Europe (CBIE), which will support a cross-party "patriotic fightback for British leadership in Europe". The organisation will hold its launch event at the end of the month.

People take on debt and then pay it off over a set time frame.

Countries don't have a limited time span, thus debt just keeps getting rolled over. Its the only thing stopping half the nations of the world from declaring themselves bankrupt!