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.

Who is purple?

No sooner have the jocks said no, up pops another wee beastie...




Sturgeon: Devo max will bring independence closer




Sunday 5 October 2014



Scottish independence is a matter of "when, not if" - particularly if unionist parties deliver on their vow of substantial new powers for Holyrood, Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said.




Devolution of the financial, economic and welfare powers implicit in unionist pledges of "home rule" will render future "scaremongering" over Scotland's capacity for self-government "risible", according to Ms Sturgeon, who is almost certain to be Scotland's next first minister.


But she recognised that Westminster faces a difficult task in delivering powers which it claimed "would cause the sky to fall in" before the referendum.

Ms Sturgeon will today face calls to rule out a rapid second referendum by Scottish Secretary Alistair Carmichael, who has already warned nationalists against arguing for "independence by the back door" in the forthcoming Smith Commission negotiations on more powers.

Writing in left-wing periodical Scottish Left Review, Ms Sturgeon said: "There is no going back - and much as they might have wanted to, Whitehall politicians and mandarins cannot put us back in a devolved box.

"The word 'devolution' is no longer adequate, for that describes a process of handing down carefully circumscribed powers from on high to a relatively passive people.

"Scotland is now more politically engaged and assertive than at any stage of the democratic era."



More: http://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/scottish-politics/sturgeon-extra-powers-promised-by-unionist-parties-will-bring-independenc.1412505388

Perhaps gf would like to answer that question MaxK, but I doubt it. (Post 46863)

Sturgeon could be an absolute nightmare for the Labour party in Scotland. Salmond will seem like a pussycat in comparison.

Did Salmond confuse Cameron by purring?

Perhaps Fred, but Sturgeon has serious claws!

PETER HITCHENS: The Dave diet: hair gel, snake oil and terminological inexactitudes

By Peter Hitchens

Published: 00:49, 5 October 2014


'Snake-oil and hair gel': The Prime Minister wore a Help For Heroes wristband during his conference speech in Birmingham on Wednesday, despite needlessly prolonging the peril of British troops in Afghanistan


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2780929/PETER-HITCHENS-The-Dave-diet-hair-gel-snake-oil-terminological-inexactitudes.html



How odd it would be to actually watch Oxford beat Cambridge by a mile in the boat race, and then open the papers next morning and read that Cambridge had won.

Last week was a bit like that for me. I watched the Tory conference carefully. And then I read the papers, and it was all plain wrong.

Take this quotation, from a Tory document, describing the ‘key objectives’ of their planned new bill on ‘Human Rights’.

One of them is to ‘put the text of the original Human Rights convention into primary legislation’. In other words, the Tories plan to make Human Rights a permanent part of our constitution. Is that what you thought they were doing?

It goes on to say: ‘There is nothing wrong with that original document.’ Is that what you thought they thought? Because it is.

The only way to escape the ‘Human Rights’ curse is to abolish it entirely, and rely (as we did when we were truly free and independent) on our own well-tried laws, forged in centuries of constitutional battle.

Canada, which has its own homegrown ‘Charter Of Rights And Freedoms’, modelled on the European one, is just as entangled in liberal drivel as we are. It’s not where the Charter comes from that’s the problem. It’s what it is.

You have deliberately been given a wholly false impression of what is planned – and, alas, much of the media has joined in the deception.


There are other falsehoods. Perhaps the worst and most wounding for a British patriot is Mrs Theresa May’s plan to ban ‘extremists’ from the airwaves and the internet. What is an extremist? Why, anyone the Government says is one. I might be one. You might be one.

What joy this idea must have given the Chinese despots currently resisting peaceful demands for more freedom in Hong Kong.

I can just imagine the glee with which they will throw back any British protests at repression, by saying how much they admire Mrs May’s reintroduction of medieval tyranny into our penal code. For this disgraceful outburst, Mrs May was praised as a possible future premier by choirs of sycophants.

But then we must come to that great streak of snake-oil and hair gel, the Prime Minister’s speech in Birmingham on Wednesday. I confess I swore at the TV set several times, enraged by his sheer nerve.

His ostentatious wearing of a Help For Heroes wristband after needlessly prolonging the peril of British troops in Afghanistan was particularly repulsive to me.

I hope his endorsement did not harm that excellent charity too much, though I have never understood why wounded soldiers should need to rely upon charity for their care.

Does anyone take Peter Hitchens seriously? I doubt it.

MaxK - 05 Oct 2014 18:49 - 46863 of 46870

Who is purple?.............................ends

At a guess the prolific poster known as Stigoligist across the road, who as a reputation for inflaming situations.


Its a shame the 2 dim wits on here without an ounce of grey matter between them cant work that one out for you Max.

middle east
why things are almost never as simple as they look on the surface ....

Isis Militants 'Plotting to seize Iran's Nuclear Secrets with Russia's Help'

Where did that come from c?


Sounds like a kite.

sunday times
i'll c+p the whole article if you want

http://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Isis+Militants+'Plotting+to+seize+Iran's+Nuclear+Secrets+with+Russia's+Help'

Yes please c.

Thought so, bollox of the purest ray serene.


http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/isis-militants-plotting-seize-irans-nuclear-secrets-russias-help-1468557

Didn't read it but the headline tell's me its a load of rubbish, it doesn't make sense that the Russians would help.

Isis militants in Iraq plan to invade Iran to seize details of its nuclear programme and give it to Moscow, in exchange for help defeating Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, the Sunday Times claims.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/iraq-slave-markets-sell-women-10-attract-isis-recruits-1468506

Why would Russia want Iran's nuclear secrets? They have all the nuclear technology that they need. Iran are not at the forefront of nuclear research. This looks like a planted story by a third country and I have my suspicions as to the source and motive. The suggested motives look very suspect as Russia supports Assad as it is their only area of influence in the ME.

Are there any volunteers on here who might want to help the NHS with a Medical Trial?

Goldfinger?
Haystack?
Fred1New?
Hilary?