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.

PS.

Only 36.9% of the UK voters voted for the tories. 63.1% voted against them.

That is about 25% of the electoral roll.

Suggest you consider the success appropriately.

A very Scottish coup as SNP lose Highland Council


http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/top-stories/a-very-scottish-coup-as-snp-lose-highland-council-1-3787861

Especially for Manuel and Exec.

Some good news

C of E crisis as it loses 1.7m followers. Former Archbishop Lord Carey warns: 'Church is a generation from extinction'

Lord Carey called for urgent action to reverse slump in followers
Britons identifying themselves as C of E or Anglican dropped to 17 per cent
Current Archbishop Justin Welby has also said decline needs tackling
Government statistician says figures are 'very serious' for Church

The Church of England has suffered a dramatic slump in its followers, shocking new figures show.

Between 2012 and 2014, the proportion of Britons identifying themselves as C of E or Anglican dropped from 21 per cent to 17 per cent – a fall of about 1.7 million people.

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey warned last night that unless urgent action was taken, the Church was just ‘one generation away from extinction’.

The number of Anglicans in Britain has dropped from about 10.3 million to 8.6 million, and will raise fresh fears over the future of the Church of England, which has been in decline since the 1960s.

Lord Carey, who has warned before about dwindling congregations, said: ‘These figures are a call to urgent mission. I have no doubt at all that the Archbishops, together with the whole leadership of the Church of England, are doing all they can to reverse this trend.’

The current Archbishop, Justin Welby, has also called for the decline to be tackled and is introducing measures to streamline the Church and strengthen its leadership.

Peter Brierley, a former Government statistician who advises religious groups, said: ‘It is very serious for the Church of England and they know it.

‘The problem is that it has a lot of elderly members, but when they die off there are not enough younger people to replace them.’

I see this Windows 10 has come up on my computer for download , says could be fees involved . Anyone out there any idea , rumours about it .

Windows 10?

Supposedly free.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2873214/windows-10-will-be-a-free-upgrade-for-windows-7-and-8-users.html

Yes thanks MaxK , I think I'll wait a while to see how people respond .

The possible fees for Win 10 relate to the 3Gb download, in the case you have a download limit on your broadband contract

It's grim oop north!



Michelle Mone: Scotland under the SNP is becoming consumed by hatred and ill will


Sunday 31 May 2015

Scottish businesswoman Michelle Mone has said in the SNP's Scotland free speech is "crushed" and "enterprise is despised", and she called the party's MPs "muppets"



http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/michelle-mone-scotland-under-the-snp-is-becoming-consumed-by-hatred-and-ill-will.1433070821

Two dozen UK-bound migrants injured in huge brawl between rival African gangs clashing over routes to access ferries heading for England
The brawl broke out between rival African gangs from Sudan and Eritrea
Clashed over routes used to get on England-bound ferries in port town
Fight also saw weapons used including knives, metal bars and truncheons
Police source said some sustained injuries to their head, chests, and legs

By Peter Allen In Paris for MailOnline

these blacks are criminals and murderers do you on this bb do you want the scum here . I say send them back home round them up put them in a lorry and unlock the doors when their back home

Two dozen UK-bound migrants injured in huge brawl between rival African gangs clashing over routes to access ferries heading for England
The brawl broke out between rival African gangs from Sudan and Eritrea
Clashed over routes used to get on England-bound ferries in port town
Fight also saw weapons used including knives, metal bars and truncheons
Police source said some sustained injuries to their head, chests, and legs

By Peter Allen In Paris for MailOnline


and these pieces of scum say they are fleeing wars they are low life scum .
the eu wants to turn the uk in to a prison for eu criminals
get us out of the stinking rotten eu now

They probably are fleeing wars. They are just desperate to get a better life. That sort of desperation causes this type of behaviour. The immediate cause of the trouble is the lack of control by the French. They moan about it as a country and the Mayor of Calais whines about it but nothing happens.

hay so what should the uk do they are not civilised people they are low life shit

We ought to provide people to help police the problem in Calais or at least some money as it is to our benefit that we help solve the problem.

why? ..... this is a french problem and they should damn well deal with it

i feel sorry for the lorry drivers who are always being targetted, and as a result, often fined unfairly
many will not use calais if they can possibly help it, and especially not at night

It is our problem as well because many of the people are still getting on the lorries. A bit of money would be a drop in the ocean for us but would probably help Calais stop the problem. I believe we have already given some cash.

I think those dishing out the dosh need to take stock of where it is ending up. I also believe that most of the UK would not have a problem with the overseas aid budget IF it stopped there, but in addition there are vast sums of money being used in the UK for the very people the overseas aid budget is supposed to be for. With the best will in the world the UK taxpayer cannot afford to bail out all needy (and not so needy) causes, especially when we are borrowing to do so.
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until the eu acts and round them up and take them back home by force if needed it can only get worse strong action by the eu must happen but alas they know that they want to go to the uk so happy for them to try .
its about destroying the uk .
the French and germans hate us .

as for Poland if they want free movement then send all the immigrants to Poland

I would like the MP's responsible for allocating financial aid to treat it as if it was their own money, we can all be extremely generous with other peoples' money, if you think back to some of the trivial items (3p plug I recall) those MP's claimed for on expenses, if only they were as careful with our money.
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