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.

Does the Labour front bench holiday on King William Island?

The doomed 1845 voyage of Sir John Franklin to the Northwest Arctic Passage was one of the greatest disasters of British polar history, ending in the deaths of 129 crewmen.
Now the Inuit community where the wreckage of the HMS Terror and its sister the Erebus were found say its curse has been reawakened - and is claiming lives in the tiny indigenous settlement.
Fear has gripped the remote Arctic settlement of Gjoa Haven, on Canada's King William Island, amid claims of "non-human" beings stalking the ice.
The ships left England in 1845 on a mission led by the Victorian explorer, to navigate a route through the Northwest Passage.
They became frozen in near King William Island and none of the 129 men on board survived.
The wrecks of Franklin's "lost expedition" were only discovered recently by Canadian divers near Gjoa Haven - Erebus in 2014 and Terror in 2016.
Divers have been removing artifacts from the wrecks which are expected to go on show at a local museum.
But a spate of six unexpected deaths in the space of two weeks at Gjoa Haven has led to a belief among the 1,000 strong Inuit community that the wrecks should not have been disturbed.
Jacob Keanik, whose brother and nephew drowned in a boating accident after the ships were found, told Canadian radio: "People are superstitious. They feel there is a connection between the deaths and disturbing the wreck sites.
"My late mother told me, even before these shipwrecks were discovered...the whole King William Island has non-human people that we cannot see.
"It's a funny feeling when we get on the other side of the island. You sense that somebody's around you, but there's nobody around you."

No.

It is where the tory party probably practice for their pantomime and Nebula practices her dance routines.

The main dance is the "In and out Hokey Pokey", but she doesn't know the correct steps yet.

Well Fred, there are lots of Labour MPs who are experts in hokey pokey and all its variations, so she wouldn't have to go far to learn.

She hasn't the intellect!

8-)

MHLW

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Me neither

Industrial policy and discontent

In 1971 a new Conservative government under Edward Heath pledged to tackle union power, and passed the Industrial Relations Act. This act outlawed the closed shop, made ballots before strikes compulsory and set up an Industrial Relations Court to judge cases where unions were supposed to have broken an agreement. The Act was challenged by unions, who saw it as a restriction of their freedom to negotiate. Some employers also criticised it.

Following Heath's policy of trying to keep wages and inflation down, in January 1972 a national coal strike began. The National Coal Board offered the miners an 8 per cent rise, but the miners rejected it. Bad weather helped their cause, and soon the country was faced with electricity cuts. The miners showed great unity, and by using flying pickets (men who moved from one site to another) they were able to strangle the movement of coal to power stations. After six weeks the miners had won a complete victory: they squeezed over £116 million pounds from their employers and the average miner's earnings rose between 17 and 24 per cent.

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Remember to pay your insurance fees.

Now that they seem to have got rid of the resident drone from Gatwick maybe they could help us get rid of ours?

Snap..when you off then?

Dry and should not be shaken.

Spoke too soon the drones are back.

Terrorists could bring the whole system to a grinding halt...drones are the future battle-warriors....make no mistake about that...the more mankind develops robots and such ; the more dangerous it could become because of accessibility to the technology by all !....

HMV in administration

Stick it on the HMV thread that is.

Last post there was April 2013

I know but it's still the HMV thread.

This thread is for any topic and I'm happy to post it here.