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.

iturama - imo HoL does a very good job in preventing many stupid excesses that some legislation proposes ...... of course it's not foolproof (no silly jokes please!), but many in that house are very hardworking and experienced in the real world

I dont have any problem with a second tier, but if the US can do with 100, I'm sure we can do with less. Currently there are 816, excluding 39 that are on leave of absence or otherwise disqualified. If those were reduced by 70%, there would still be around 250 of the old and wise. Actually almost all being elected nowadays (in the basest form of the term) are political party apparatchiks.
Since there are only 400 or so spaces in the Lords, a culling is well overdue.

I almost wrote 400 bum spaces but I didnt want to be misinterpreted C. :)

Well well the Muppets were back in numbers in my absence I see, out again and will deal with least ignorant one's later.

Can you get your head through the door , or is it stuck up your a*%@ . To Stan the Man .

Victim or Vicky,

tut, tut.

CC unless you have just landed from Mars or only talk to a small limited number of people you should know that the Police in general lost the confidence of the general public a long time ago, so trying to personalise it does your argument (for what it is) no credit whatsoever.

Stan I have no opinion of the Police one way or other. You have obviously, your problem not mine.

Running a dog over and killing it, to prevent a serious accident and loss of human life in those circumstances in my opinion was justified. You disagree, fine. May as well try and knit fog to convince you otherwise.

thoroughly agree chris .... this was a one-off incident, and a case of needs must ..... had it been say a fox, no one would have said a dicky bird

Just on that note , the owner of the beagle has stated that the Police did the right thing .

Where ya' been then?

http://www.travbuddy.com/world-travel-map

Captain Marvel is at the head of his party once again!

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In the year to September 2015 the number of EU nationals that came to the UK was 257,000 however, 630,000 registered to work including 170,000 Romanians. So it looks like the Government are deliberately playing down the number coming to the UK.--Nothing new there then.
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Dave said his new deal will bring down immigration to 10's of thousands :)

What was it he said to get elected "no if's or but's i will bring immigration down to the 10's of thousands"

It's never been higher the rest of the EU is also cracking under the strain of the Syrians and others now coming in through Greece and what has the EU done to help ? NOTHING.

It transpires that mass immigration is vital to Osbourne being able to balance the books by 2020.
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the logic being?

Only by rapidly inflating the population with cheap workers and keeping growth figures up can GO achieve the budget surplus he promised by 2020.
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that's a bit of a tenuous argument, not least because it implies that most immigrants would not only be working, but would also be paying tax .......
yet surely one of the major gripes (by those so inclined) is that a huge % just sponge off the state

you can't have it both ways

Well DC obviously thinks he can. Put aside the fact that there would be some claiming benefits, the infrastructure is at breaking point now, even if every migrant coming to the UK had a job the services could not cope.
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