goldfinger
- 09 Jun 2005 12:25
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.
goldfinger
- 19 Apr 2013 08:58
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Wow this is like a Bruce Willis film.
TANKER
- 19 Apr 2013 09:29
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any person who moves abroad to avoid taxes should have their passport taken off them. that would sort out the fiddling .
but alas no uk gov will do this has they are all doing it
osborne the LIAR
TANKER
- 19 Apr 2013 09:38
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maggies best friend rolf harris arrested
Haystack
- 19 Apr 2013 10:30
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He was arrested weeks ago in March. The name was withheld, but it has been around on the internet for quite a time.
cynic
- 19 Apr 2013 10:43
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and apparently NOT linked to the jimmy savile "ring", though that is all pretty irrelevant ...... the scary bit is how widespread and common is child abuse in all its formats ..... clearly the "savile ring" was pretty extensive, seemingly helped to remain strongly active by collusion or even collaboration by higher echelons of the beeb ..... however, this sort of thing is really no different from what goes on in many if not most schools, the perpetrators x-linking ...... and nor should the widespread incidence of physical and sexual abuse within families be forgotten
Haystack
- 19 Apr 2013 10:54
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There was a guy on TV this morning who had just crossed the line when the bomb went off. Later, he was returning home in Texas when his car shook violently as the chemical plant exploded. Probably staying in now for the near future.
skinny
- 19 Apr 2013 10:56
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I wonder if he wants to join my lottery syndicate!
doodlebug4
- 19 Apr 2013 12:05
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This woman "specialises in teaching troubled children"!
Thatcher death party organiser made £150,000 on her council home which she bought under former PM’s right-to-buy scheme
•Romany Blythe doubled her money on a Islington townhouse bought in 2006
•Teacher purchased from council in 2006 for £141,000 and sold it for £298,000
•45-year-old held death party and encouraged revellers to 'p*** on her grave'
By Martin Robinson
PUBLISHED:11:12, 19 April 2013| UPDATED:11:30, 19 April 2013
The teacher who organised vile Thatcher ‘death parties’ and compared the Baroness to Hitler, bought her council house using the Iron Lady's right-to-buy scheme and then doubled her money, it was revealed today.
Romany Blythe, 45, made £150,0000 when she sold her North London home four years after buying it off the local authority in Islington.
Lady Thatcher wanted to increase house ownership in the 1980s after she came to power, so she let council property residents snap them up for bargain prices from local authorities.
And it appears that extreme anti-Thatcherite Miss Blythe used the scheme to make a huge sum of cash.
Thatcher hater: Romany Blythe invited 5,000 to a party celebrating the Iron Lady's death, but years earlier bought a council house (right) using the landmark right-to-buy scheme, selling it for double what she paid
Sale: Documents show that Miss Blythe bought the house in Islington for £141,000 and then sold it four years later for £298,000
In June 2006 Miss Blythe, of Worthing, West Sussex, bought the leasehold of a flat in a pretty Victorian townhouse from Islington Council for £141,000.
Just four years later she sold the North London property for £298,000. If she had sold it within three years she would have had to repay some cash to the council.
Speaking next to a burning effigy of the former Prime Minister at a demo last weekend in Trafalgar Sqaure, she said: 'The council houses were sold, what a wonderful thing to be able to own your own home and I have no problem with poorer people being able to buy their own home but that money went straight to central government.
'It wasn't used to build more council houses for people for affordable rents. Teachers have to come in to work from miles away. People can't afford to live in central London.'
Protests: Miss Blythe, who specialises in teaching troubled children, wrote: 'Who wants to p*** on her grave?' as she encouraged people to celebrate Lady Thatcher's death
She added: 'I think Thatcher was a despot. She was cold, calculating and she knew exactly what she was doing.
Surgery: Romany Blythe was given breast implants on the NHS because she complained of low self-esteem, it also emerged
'I don't care about Thatcher, I didn't care about her dying, I don't care about celebrating her death. I care about the issues and I care about being able to mark that.
'I am not interested in celebrating someone's death, I am interested that there is a whitewash of who she was, and that she is not made out to be some wonderful woman.
'History does not forget'
Mss Blythe was unavailable for comment today.
Romany Blythe called Lady Thatcher a despot and said: ‘They danced in the streets when Hitler died, too’.
The 45-year-old – who was given breast implants on the NHS because she complained of low self-esteem – had sparked outrage by creating an internet page called: ‘The witch is dead.’
On it she urged more than 5,000 people to attend a death party in central London on Monday.
Miss Blythe, who specialises in teaching troubled children, wrote of Lady Thatcher: ‘Who wants to p*** on her grave?’
She later attempted to defend her behaviour by claiming she was ‘the voice of reason’.
‘I didn’t do the rioting – I just organised a Facebook page. I’m actually the voice of reason. I didn’t fan the flames. It was a way for us to come together and create unity and solidarity.
Haystack
- 19 Apr 2013 12:10
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Bombers are reported as brothers from Chechnya. Main religion there is Sunni Muslim. The dead one was wearing explosives. The one they are looking for has a local driving licence.
skinny
- 19 Apr 2013 12:39
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doodlebug - I worked with plenty of people like that in the 1980/90s - double standadrs doesn't come anywhere near it.
Haystack
- 19 Apr 2013 12:45
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Fred1new
- 19 Apr 2013 12:48
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She seems to have been applying typical tory standards.
Image far more attractive than those said to be of "Cyns".
skinny
- 19 Apr 2013 12:51
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How predictable....
Haystack
- 19 Apr 2013 13:01
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Fred1new
- 19 Apr 2013 13:36
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Haystack Posting 24175
Is the second image your wife or Maggie?
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Posting 24178
Didn't know your wife's name was Penelope or that you put out to work.
Nice hands though!
Fred1new
- 19 Apr 2013 17:58
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In spite of Hays saying it doesn't matter Fitch has downgraded UK Bonds!
Interesting, how the tories and George have been justifying their failed economic policies on the need to maintain the UK's AAA rating, George has blamed labour policies of 5-10 years ago, the failings of Europe and the rest of the world over the last 3 years and now for his own failures.
Cameron load your gun and sharpen your knife.
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Haystack
- 19 Apr 2013 18:46
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How will miliband fund this? He has said they will raise taxes! So we are back to the tax and spend party with a bit of borrow and spend thrown in.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/exclusive-labour-bets-the-house-with-pledge-to-outspend-tories-8579179.html?origin=internalSearch
Exclusive: Labour bets the house with pledge to outspend Tories
Ed Miliband rejects lesson of 1997 when Tony Blair promised to match the Tories' budget limits
Labour is preparing to fight the 2015 election on a bold but risky pledge to spend more than the Conservatives.
Ed Miliband and Ed Balls will reject the more cautious approach – adopted by Tony Blair in 1997 – of sticking to the Tory government’s public spending limits in favour of a “new economic settlement” for Britain.
Some Labour figures believe that repeating Mr Blair’s landmark move would help the party regain economic credibility, on which it still trails the Tories. But there is a growing consensus inside the Shadow Cabinet, which includes its Blairites, in favour of reducing the deficit over a longer period than under the Coalition’s plans in order to finance “investment”, such as a huge house-building programme.
Strong support for this approach will come in a study to be published next week by the Labour-affiliated Fabian Society. Sticking to George Osborne’s plans, it found, would mean that “non-protected” areas of spending such as police, justice and local government face cuts of about 35 per cent between 2011 and 2017.
doodlebug4
- 19 Apr 2013 19:24
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It doesn't seem to matter which political party you support these days, they are all at it.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10005980/Lord-Hanningfield-pockets-21000-in-expenses-since-return-from-jail.html