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.

Have to ask the same questions again.

Edward Snowden is he a :-

Whistle blower?

An American traitor?

International hero?

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Is America beginning to look foolish in their approach, or just showing themselves up as an international bully, which is in a gradual decline?


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Add, is that why America has less and less influence in the M.E.

No 4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23166053

none of the above .... probably closer to a misguided idealist than anything else

fred - thse following is a bloody stupid comment as you almost go on to admit! ......How many in the present cabinet, or on this thread would be capable of doing those jobs.

Good article
I like this bit where Labour's paymasters are getting power mad

"Unite has threatened legal action against Labour, saying it has been a victim of a "smear campaign" and an attempt by the party to impose a candidate from Westminster."

Wouldn't that be fun. The biggest trade union suing the Labour party. It is all so bizzare, you couldn't make it up. How dare Miliband not grovel to Unite.

Britain's biggest union was last night accused of using ‘corrupt’ Militant Tendency methods to create a ‘party within a party’ inside Labour – and to take over its MPs.

The allegation came amid a row over claims Unite broke party rules to try to get its nominee picked as Labour’s candidate in Falkirk, Scotland.

Labour leader Ed Miliband was forced to suspend the local party last week, days after The Mail on Sunday revealed how a Labour Party inquiry upheld claims of foul play by Unite

The union was accused of recruiting ‘rent-a-mob’ supporters in Falkirk to rig the selection process.

And last night, Eric Joyce, who won the seat for Labour at the last Election, made new claims against the union.

He said it was copying the tactics used by the extreme Left-wing Militant Tendency – which tried to infiltrate Labour 30 years ago.

Mr Joyce, who was forced to stand down as Falkirk MP after a Commons fracas, said: ‘Unite is trying to create a party within a party.

They are using the same entryist methods adopted by Derek Hatton’s Militant Tendency in the 1980s – except they have much more money, better contacts and powerful friends inside the Labour Party.

‘They have done it in Falkirk and they will do it in other seats unless firm action is taken. They recruit members, many of whom don’t even know they have been signed up and break the rules to get them accepted.

It sounds like Cash, Jenkins and some other neanderthals of the looney Right winged reactionaries of the tory con party, who are manipulating the self-admitted nasty party with its the weak podgy ineffectual conning party leadership.

I wonder if Nigel would have them in UKIP.

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Interesting to see the final outcome of Leveson.

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Manuel,

I think if this present bunch of "wasters" in the cabinet, swung a pick and used a shovel for a fortnight and worked for another fortnight on night shifts in a heavy industry plant (not much of this left after Maggie, (?thank the lords and ladies))
they may have a little more appreciation of some who they are looking down on, or labelling as "scroungers or worthless. (Or worth less than they are themselves.)

You seem to have been "lucky" to be able to use the attributes you had, and possibly absorb from you the "methods" of using those "abilities" from those you were exposed to.

Others, haven't!

Nothing will happen with Leveson. It was all a waste of time. Better to have a free press. There are quite adequate laws at present. They are just not used.

Not sure if Snowden is a hero, but he has done something useful by revealing ways that the US and the UK are breaking their own laws.

Yes.

It is the associated hypocrisy of "Governments" and their reactions being exposed more and more frequently and widely on the "internet" which is interesting.

Don't think the Leveson enquiry's report affair is all over yet, especially with Coulson and Rebecca closeness to Cameron and No 10..

Fred spot on........ "Don't think the Leveson enquiry's report affair is all over yet, especially with Coulson and Rebecca closeness to Cameron and No 10.. ".....ends

Torries are going to have a rough time in my opinion.

Coulson and others will have little effect on Leveson. The press don't want regulation and neither do most MPs. They all want to rely on existing legislation.

Cynic glad to see you pay your workers a year end bonus.

Personaly though I favour the end of the month bonus which I used to pay.

No coincidence that retailers like Waitrose and Sportsdirect do very well as their staff are incentivised and feel part of the company. I also heard on sunday Ocardo issues its staff shares in the company annualy. Even the grocery drivers get them.

Should be a lot more of this type of practise.

Better employers = better employees and Business Growth.

People like Haystack who live in the past and reckon the mass should be put in their place, are holding this country back........ Big Len will sort his kind out with
higher taxes on the posh boys in every form so they cant escape.

Haystack - 03 Jul 2013 21:36 - 26715 of 26716

Coulson and others will have little effect on Leveson. The press don't want regulation and neither do most MPs. They all want to rely on existing legislation..........ends

its what the people of this country make of it that counts nothing else.

People just don't care about Leveson. The hacking didn't do any harm. It upset Hugh Grant, but so what?

It is infinitely more serious that the government are looking at all our emails and can hear all our phone calls.

EGYPT is much more interesting and serious.
The more cynical of you may suggest that "the West" engineered the the removal of Mursi and the supporting MB as they feared the fundamentalist direction in which Egypt was being manoeuvred.

That there are lots of noises off deploring the coup, could well be no more than standard lip service.

Of course, what I'ld really like to know or understand, is the political and religious stance of the Egyptian army

told you on here MORSI would not last the man is a nutter

Friend of yours.