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.

This government seriously needs to recalibrate its priorities, because this is nothing short of a national scandal.
that the scum who sub let should be let off

from stan

Most of those savings and cost cutting Stan are by Labour councils not the government. Mrs May got about as much to do with this disaster as me and you.

Cuts made by any council have and are being forced by of this Tory Government...so get your facts right you lot.

Silly Stan

Their choice where they make the cuts Stan. Maybe some of the Labour mayors could have ditched their Rolls or cut the civic hospitality budget a bit more first.

Squarely on the councils Stan , whichever party runs them.

Your wasting your time ,you may as well discuss with this type of Stan ,you'll get as much sense .

Thank you for agreeing with me...Tory boys.

Our local Northampton council should not have lent £10.25m to the town's local football club to build a stadium (which loan subsequently defaulted) or additionally, given it the stadium land for £1.

Not forgetting that David MacIntosh (Con), the then leader of the council received a £30,000 donation from the stadium developer for his 2015 General Election fighting fund.

MacIntosh did actually get elected as an MP in that 2015 GE. However, he didn't dare stand again in the last GE.

Anyhow, as you can see, Stan, it's the councils concerned, that decide how, when, where and on what they spend their money on.

And what about that,
Are those judges also Labour supporters? .........


BEYOND SATIRE!
Two Romanian crooks slip into Britain. Romania wants them sent back. Our courts refuse because jail cells there are too small. Yep, it’s down to human rights

Daily Mail28 Jun 2017By Stephen Wright Associate News Editor
TWO Romanian fugitives cannot be extradited because jail cells in their homeland are too small.
UK judges say the cramped conditions contravene rulings from the European Court of Human Rights.
The court insists prisoners must ordinarily be allowed ‘personal space’ of around three metres squared.
The Romanians face spending all or most of their sentence housed in a space of two metres squared.

Justices at the High Court in London want assurances that the men would have more space before they grant extradition requests. The ruling has delayed the removal of the pair from Britain – hitting taxpayers with court costs and legal aid bills.
Lord Justice Irwin and Mr Justice Collins were told the Romanians – Ionel-Remus Grecu and Cosmin-Ionut Bagarea – would be sent to semi-open prisons. The jails have smoking zones, unlocked areas for walking, phones and up to ten hours’ visiting a month.

Also on offer are educational and cultural facilities, social assistance and vocational training outside prison.
Grecu, 42, had fled to Britain to dodge serving a jail sentence for membership of a violent burglary gang.
Seven months after his arrest in February last year he lodged an appeal against an extradition order.

Bagarea, 39, was given a suspended prison sentence in January 2012 for
growing cannabis. He broke the terms of his sentence and fled to the UK where he was arrested last September. He is also appealing against extradition. Court papers show both men would be moved to cells of two metres squared in Romania.
Lord Justice Irwin said lawyers for the two men argued the lack of personal space would breach Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which prohibits torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.............

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-mail/20170628/281479276426250

well stan has failed to answer questions
is vews are now worthless drivel

Good to see the Queen getting a decent rise. We don't want a cut rate monarchy. If anything, we should give her even more and commission a new royal yacht.

Stan,

I think it is worth looking at the blood being shed by the internecine war going on in the tory camp and their camp followers.

The toxicity and limit of their policies are beginning to be understood by the general public.

There is no urgency to remove them.

When "Brexit" negotiations come to a completion and the consequences of the TORY ineptitude and general economic effect are realised, it will be interesting to see how the public react.

Also, the scapegoating by the political manoeuvring since Maggie Thatcher and Cameron days which has led to fragmentation rather than cohesion in society are becoming more evident.

As can see from some posters on this board the driving force is more reliant on dog eat dog rather than the wellbeing of all in society.

That doesn't mean those endeavouring to improve society should not be rewarded.

The problem is what is meant by "improving" and for whom the improvements are made.

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H, you're a wind up merchant like Fred, albeit a different political persuasion

stan portrays all the typical traits of the politics of jealousy, his latest comment being selective of the actuality and reason for the increase

would that more worked as hard as does the queen and prince philip
their schedules are truly gruelling, let alone for a couple of their advanced years

there is also no doubt that the queen does a very useful job behind the scenes in all sorts of ways ...... and of course she and all the trappings and ceremony surrounding are a massive tourist attraction, bringing in many times more than the headline figure she receives from the civil list

2517,

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Fred

Consider when you fill up your vehicle with fuel and then pay the bill that some have to live for a week on what you pay".

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I often do.

I also remind myself of my good fortune to have the parents I had, who paid for my education and advantages it has provided me.

I endeavored to do the same for my children and grandchildren.

Exec.

Remember this.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/apr/28/garden-bridge-dead-38m-public-money-repaid-boris-johnson


The garden bridge is dead – now £37m of public money must be repaid


Oliver Wainwright

Despite its exclusivity and rickety economics, the garden bridge project went far further than it should have thanks to Boris Johnson’s disregard for planning rules


A cynical garnish for raising land values … the garden bridge, designed by Thomas Heatherwick. Photograph: Heatherwick Studio/PA


Friday 28 April 2017 15.22 BST Last modified on Thursday 15 June 2017 16.53 BST
Varnished with a Kevlar coating of celebrity sparkle, Bullingdon Club backing and architectural fairy dust, the garden bridge has always seemed capable of surviving every missile of common sense thrown at it. For three years it has been fiercely opposed by supporters of gardens and bridges alike, of which this vanity project was clearly never either. But now it seems its invincibility cloak has finally worn off, as London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, has refused to guarantee further funding for his predecessor’s misguided folly.


Thames garden bridge scrapped by Sadiq Khan

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Launched as a privately sponsored gift to the city, Joanna Lumley’s “tiara for the Thames” had soon gobbled up £60m of public cash and the promise of an extra £3.5m a year for evermore. It was quickly revealed to be more a corporate events space than public crossing, a planted branding opportunity just 200 metres from an existing bridge, where groups would have to register and visitors would be tracked via their mobile phones. It was relentlessly exposed to be the product of the “chumocracy”, flouting all the usual rules of procurement. The miracle is that it ever got so far, and that so much public money has already been flushed into the Thames.

The blame lies firmly with former mayor Boris Johnson, the one actor in this sorry saga who refused to comply with Margaret Hodge’s recent inquiry into the project. Her investigation found multiple failings from the start, from the Garden Bridge Trust’s shaky business case (which put a lot of faith in the lucrative potential of selling T-shirts and pens), to a tendering process that was “not open, fair or competitive”, to confusion as to what the project was even for, concluding that the bridge should be scrapped before it burned through any more cash. And it all comes back to Boris.

Villain of the piece ... Boris Johnson.
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Villain of the piece ... Boris Johnson. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters
It was Johnson who took up his childhood chum Lumley’s idea for the sylvan crossing (which was initially conceived as a memorial to Princess Diana and pitched to Ken Livingstone, who had the good sense to say no) and had it bulldozed through the system with flagrant disregard for due process. Hodge’s report found that his deputy mayor for transport, Isabel Dedring, and Transport for London’s

Manuel.

"there is also no doubt that the queen does a very useful job behind the scenes in all sorts of ways .."

Evidence please.

Could the "financial rewards" for her and family be better used going elsewhere?

you should hang your sad face in shame you low life scum
the queen is a great woman ,

Stan goes on about the £1B bung for Ulster infrastructure but ignores bunga-bunga Corbyn with his uncosted £93B votes bribe. Bunga- bunga parties in No 10 in his dreams. He will have to make do with that dopey Abbott, but I suspect that is a mountain too high for him to to scale these days.

Could the "financial rewards" for her and family be better used going elsewhere? ........ imo, assuredly not; excellent value