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.

Yes ok Hays, but come on Osbourne the Twat, emergency budget, war. Remember the song "Who's sorry now" ? Thank Christ were out of that shite! Turkey? Where are all the so called leaders in the true Muslim faith tonight. Silence is kin golden! Tony Blair how do you sleep. Remind me what was the street called where this latest atrocity occurred in France. Stand up and take the applause Angel Merkel welcome to Germany! France and Britain it's your next oyster, for the bastards. You couldn't make this shite up!

AS for Fiifi Sturgeon what planet is she really on? Answers on a post card!

Take more water with it.

Aye, your probably right Hays. I just wish this country would wake up! The noise is deafening.

i thoroughly agree about the muslim leaders everywhere
how often do we hear any let alone many of them shouting loud and clear after ANY terrorist attack, that such action is contrary to true islam?
NEVER

and i'm ashamed to say that nor do i hear any jewish leaders taking any stance against some of the actions taken in the name of the jewish people in israel

Fancy visiting a mosque or two or three then and telling a few of these Imams? Or maybe even just discussing things quietly with them.

ISIL say they are the only one true caliphate. By definition all other caliphates (lets loosely say, 'branches of the Islamic religion') are now technically enemies of the one true caliphate. The punishment for this is death.

I guess that's why most of these Imams keep a bit quiet about things. Simple really. They just don't want to bring down the wrath of any ISIL jihadists on themselves.

ISIL's ideology is now very apocalyptic, focused on bringing the end of the world and recruiting focused heavily on the promises of a rich afterlife for those who become martyrs.

If you die in these battles, which ISIL claims to be about bringing about the end of days, you’ll claim a high position in paradise.

Once again we typically see the old favourite 'religious' promise coming along, namely:

"Our church (ie. our religion) is the only one true church. Life begins when you die but only if you belong to our church."

All religions are a falsehood and the only real beneficiaries of them are the 'leaders' of these religions. This is why I would like to see ALL religions trashed, scorned, abandoned, ended, finished.

Education about things like 'the origin of the universe', reading and listening carefully to what people such as Stephen Hawking and Richard Dawkins have to say soon provide the real evidence to the observer, that the whole idea of there being any kind of a 'creator' or 'god' is just 'mystic bunkum'.

Trash religion and you trash religious terrorism with it. Surely you do.

It might take a very strong minded Iman supported by other muslim leaders to dominate Isil with good speeches and common sense bringing them into some sort of submission, influencing young Islamic people into turning their backs on mad causes and adopting real islam which is not about murdering people !....

Meanwhile back at home, reading my MoneyWeek:

"It’s been yet another hair-raising week in politics. And while the Labour Party remains in pieces, the UK finally has a new prime minister and cabinet. “This is the kind of thing that should make our political system the envy of the world... the UK is capable of flexing not breaking” says Merryn Somerset Webb in the latest issue of MoneyWeek. But this bunch is set to face some serious challenges.

One such difficulty will be ensuring the stability of the commercial property market. In the space of just a few weeks, eight fund management companies have now frozen withdrawals from their commercial property funds, in a bid to stem mass redemptions post-Brexit. Big players including Standard Life, Henderson and M&G have pulled the plug, while the likes of Aberdeen Asset Management and Legal & General have imposed penalties on redemptions."

Well it seems our ottoman friends have had a little bother overnight.....reminds me of that ad...carlos...carlos...carlos...el presidente..el presidente....or in this case...er do again...er do again.......hair do...get it....

Have been for a walk with the corgis. Any massive geopolitical events in the last half an hour?

— Elizabeth Windsor (@Queen_UK) 16 July 2016

(:)))

Turbulent times Ma'am.....

Actually, no more turbulent than usual, Ma'am.

The new PM looks to be well in control of things. So much so, she went up to Scotland for a wee holiday. The terrorists are 'still at it' here and there and I did think I heard someone say, that some turkeys had escaped but they have now been taken in and should be ready for Christmas.

By the way, Ma'am, I must say how well you are looking.

You can also find more infographics at Visualistan

TURKEY
it looks to me that the attempted coup may yet re-emerge as just come through on bbc news that 6,000 now detained

Wonderful ExecLine...might print that out.....pretty dodgy the arrests Cynic...good way of getting rid of undesirables if you are a dictator....

quite so, but can't see that it will do anything to calm latent unrest

There's not going to be another attempted coup by the Turkish army
anytime soon, When you're talking about just a fraction of the total
army numbers, when they needed at least 60%, and their failure or
inability to close down and incapacitate mobiles/internet installations.

Erdogan is saying that there's a Cleric, Fetullah Gullen who's based in
Pennsylvania who is responsible for the attempted coup and they want
him extradited back to Turkey.

Obviously Erdogan wants this Cleric and is using the coup as an excuse.

EXCLUSIVE: Boris Johnson's message of defiance on terror and Brexit trade success promise

I CAME into the Foreign Office yesterday morning after a pretty truncated night’s sleep to find the place in what Her Majesty’s Diplomatic Service calls “crisis mode”.

By BORIS JOHNSON
Sunday Express
PUBLISHED: 00:01, Sun, Jul 17, 2016
UPDATED: 10:49, Sun, Jul 17, 2016

In the bowels of the Italianate palazzo off St James’s Park dozens of people had been up all night, calmly monitoring screens and coolly assessing fresh information.

Some of them had worked consecutive shifts without sleep. They had been liaising with New York and Washington and other European capitals. They had been sifting information, “scrubbing” intelligence and dealing with the needs of UK nationals abroad.

Some of them were still engaged in the aftermath of the horrendous carnage in Nice; some had only just finished organising an evacuation of aid workers from Juba in South Sudan, scene of a singularly nasty conflict.

To take one example: at about 3 am yesterday morning we realised that there was a party of British passengers who were changing planes at Istanbul’s massive Ataturk airport.

They were stuck airside as the coup attempt began, and their onwards flight was grounded. Turkish President Erdogan was apparently planning to land at that airport and restore his authority. What if the rebels decided to attack the airport?

Someone needed to get through to the party and, as so often happens, the UK happened to have a diplomat on the spot. A UK official also transiting through the airport and trapped airside at Istanbul was able to meet up with the party and provide an immediate link to London.

Elsewhere in Turkey – at the resorts and the big transport hubs – UK consular staff were out, many in hi vis jackets, providing information and travel advice, just as they had been doing in Nice only hours earlier.

As I talked by teleconference first to the Turkish foreign minister and then to our staff in Istanbul and Ankara, I was filled with amazement at the reach and reputation of this country around the world.

(Boris Johnson: The foreign secretary believes Britain 'should be more active on the world stage than ever before')

It is an incredible fact that as I write there are 250,000 UK nationals on holiday in Turkey – part of an annual summer migration of 1.3m Brits to Turkey alone. Even 20 years ago, those numbers would have seemed fanciful.

Mutually beneficial trade and tourism between our two countries are now at an all time high and are continuing to grow; and it is clearly the ambition of Prime Minister Theresa May’s new government that this should continue.

This country should be more outward-looking, more engaged, and more active on the world stage than ever before.

On Wednesday evening the Prime Minister made a powerful speech on the steps of Downing Street. She spoke of forging a new future for the country, a positive and confident vision where we open up opportunity to everyone regardless of their background; and where Britain, in turn, seizes the new opportunities the world has to offer.

We cannot leave “Europe” in the proper sense of that word – that is geographically, emotionally, culturally impossible; and we will remain key players in all kinds of intergovernmental cooperation with our European friends and partners. But we can and must respect the people’s will, and extricate ourselves from the EU.

And that gives us a chance not just to do new trade deals, but to think of ourselves once again as a truly Global Britain using our unique voice – humane, compassionate, principled – to do good around the world, and to exploit growth markets to the full.

We have the ambition in our exporters and our businesses; and from just my first few hours in the job I can tell you that in Whitehall and around the world we have the staff who are only too eager to get on with it and help build a new role for this country: a Global Britain.