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.

Some reckon, that some of Tenerife could fall into the sea one day. They say, that if it ever did, it would swamp the East Coast of the USA with a phenominally massive Tsunami tidal wave.

When you drive up Mt Teide to the present summit, you pass through a massive valley beneath the peak. This used to be the old crater and it is truly massive! Look at it here where you can check it out relative to the size of the rest of the island:



Because you can now see Mt Teide has, what looks like a typical volcano mountain with a flat 'crater-type' top top, you tend to just accept that this is the volcano.

Well it is now. But it wasn't always like that. Here's what happened:



Here's what the 'little' Mt Teide looks like at present:



I still like Tenerife and have been many times. There are only 5 sunny periods per year though. Each one lasts about 7 months. :-)

Labour opens up 11-point lead in marginal seats, as Cameron says election is straight choice between him and Miliband as PM

Labour on 41%, Tories 30%, UKIP 17% and Lib Dems 6% in 40 key seats

But more people want to see Cameron remain as Prime Minister

Tories to pitch election as a two-horse race with Ed Miliband

But pollsters ComRes insist Labour now has a 'convincing lead'

By Matt Chorley, Political Editor for MailOnline

Published: 10:46, 29 September 2014 | Updated: 13:05, 29 September 2014










Full article here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2773411/Labour-opens-11-point-lead-maringal-seats-Cameron-says-election-straight-choice-Miliband-PM.html

Nice photo, looks as barren as the Cons Conference in Birmingham.

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It can be seen what some "senior" tory party figures expect from their MPs is blind allegiance and also see what is expected by them of conservative female party young worker!


I must admit listening to ShappS and Osborne's "speeches" they remind me of the comment "the longest suicide note in history"!

As said before, when Cameron and Osborne are working for labour, the labour party can sit back quietly and rest and let the con"leaders" get on with their self -destruction.

What a party they have become!

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I wonder what the results of the by-elections will be!

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What was interesting was when the orchestrated clapping occurred was how the attendees looked at one another to see if they were clapping!

PS>

God help us if the only economic plan we have, is Osborne's.

Mind that has been change as many times as his underwear.

(My problem is I haven't found a god who is prepared to offer its help.)


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Remembered, the policy is to buy the rich by cutting tax at the expense of the less well off and tell the unemployed, socially incompetent and most needy in society that doing so, it is good for them.

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Why didn't he talk about deficit and debt and poor productivity?

They stink like and a series of unpleasant jokes.

Cyners silly nit, 1 in Malta, 1 in Ibiza, 2 in Rhodes, and 2 in Greece mainland.


Its one of them in Greece im doing up.

By the way alL invited FREE bar water rates and council tax about £ 28 quid a week.

I get people because of things like funerals etc etc, having to cancel.

Just let me know and bar your travel costs you have a bargain.

Tenerife is a freebie my cousin Steve.

Cant wait to meet TANKER.

GF,

Couldn't you take Manuel as a waiter or kitchen boy?

No need to pay him, he can call it "work experience" on his CV.

not exactly the empire on which the sun never sets, but a good starter for 10 :-)

do something smart in cascais, and i may be interested :-)

Yep Fred, no probs.

I wouldnt want to give you a wrekless reply
ps 2 others thinking it over in next 48 hours

Hays must be pulling out his bald hair.

Cyners, thinking of a joint in nigeria.............. op for that then???????????????????????

gf will tell you on wednesdayfrom tenefife

i don't even care for lagos in the algarve!

A cannabis joint, Fishfinger? I'd have thought Cyners is a bit too old to be doing stuff like that.

what a spliffing thought

It is the company you keep!

tried cannabis a couple of times in my 30s, and found it just made me feel seasick, probably not helped by the fact that i wasn't a smoker anyway

Manuel.

Come on you must be older than 30.

Are I know how old you are!

Could be happening here:

All you nu labour supporters wont want to read this article..





How passion has been purged from politics – along with ordinary people


Can Scotland galvanise politics in the rest of the UK – or, with so few working-class MPs, are we now fatally disaffected? At last week’s Labour party conference, Carole Cadwalladr went in search of ‘real’ people and found a ‘L’Oréal convention’ controlled by slick professionals schooled to rule




Carole Cadwalladr


The Observer, Sunday 28 September 2014


"Because to me, the collective nostalgia we all have for Coronation Street feels like the collective nostalgia the Labour party has for being the party of the common man. I tell him about a conversation I had earlier with Dennis Skinner, the legendary Beast of Bolsover. When he entered parliament in 1970 after 20 years down the pits, he told me, there were 700,000 miners in the country, and he was one of 44 ex-miner MPs. “And now there are a million people in this country who work for the NHS,” he said. “But where are the nurses? That’s what I wonder. You’d think they’d have at least two or three MPs. Where are the call centre workers?”



"There are any number of ways you can hold a conference but our political culture, our long history of parliamentary democracy, has produced a spectacle – common to all parties – that feels like something Disraeli might have come up with after attending a L’Oréal sales conference. Ken Livingstone tells me how it was in the 70s when “conference was a parliament of working-class delegates who every day were casting their votes to create policy”. Not any more.

I watch Chuka Umunna’s hotly anticipated speech and, frankly, I might as well be at the L’Oréal sales conference. He sounds like he’s trying to sell shampoo. I’ve read endless articles on how he’s the next Obama, and then he says: “Conference, if you work hard, you should not have to live in poverty…” Conference? As an indirect object? What? It’s the first of dozens of bizarre verbal constructions I hear that sound like they were coined by the Committee of Bizarre Verbal Constructions some time back in 1938."



"Though Janvier has given it a go. She put herself forward as a prospective parliamentary candidate for Orpington. “But it’s really hard. I did my best but I didn’t have the money to have leaflets printed or anything like that…” She wasn’t selected. So, who was?

“Nigel de Gruchy; he’s the former general secretary of the TUC. He didn’t put his name down until the last minute and then because he was out of the country they didn’t hold hustings so that he’d be able to participate via Skype. It was a bit odd. And… it’s just hard if you’re young. He’s 71 so he’s got the time and, of course, he has lots of connections and…” She trails off. “I’ve stopped going to meetings now. I don’t really see the point.”



Whole article here: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/28/how-passion-purged-politics-ordinary-people-labour-conference