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.

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With the markets as they are, I can see that many are in need of a little cheering, so I thought I would write of the accomplishments of the present Coalition under auspices of Cameron, Clegg and Osborne.

1) NHS responsibility being given to GPS to run the system who are not trained in taking the complicated decisions with regard to the overall services and needs of a modern society. The majority of GPs have little training in public health or psychiatric diseases and their management. The aim seems to be to create confusion, and destruction of the NHS

2) Local (Mafia) Mayors taking over from Local government with diminishing power of elected representatives.

3) Welfare services handed over to profit making private enterprise, and those who do not have the working knowledge, skills or ability to managed a joined up overall national service. Mind they all have qualifications in accountancy.

4) Police services being removed from central and local supervision.

5) Flogging of housing from public to private ownership.

6) Flogging off of Road services to private ownership.

7) Flogging off of education services to “private enterprise”. Often preventing those who are from poor¬¬¬er circumstances affording the same educational possibilities, as those from more financially advantaged families. Although, some of the latter, perhaps, having lesser ability.

8) Increasing surveillance of general public and courts held in secrecy. USSR had a similar system.

9) Big Society Capital is the latest con. An attempt to palm off what should be the responsibility of society as a whole. Funding of groups trying to support the “weakest” in society cut, to enable a reduction of highest rate of tax.

The above is is not based on capitalism, but are based on policies “greed”.


This is a government trying to divest itself of social responsibility by this government.

It used to be said that one of the marks of a civilised society was measured by “the care it gave the poorest and weakest in its society”.

I think this government is hell bent on producing a society with a decaying morality.
I feel sorry for my grand children.
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Glad to see the government is blaming the weather for the water shortage in the South East. Surprise I thought they would blame the previous government for mismanagement of the climate.

Mind it is again the success of private enterprise with up to 40% of its water through leaks while paying out handsome dividends.

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If your grand children have to put up with your class war ranting's , I feel sorry for them to.

At the least, my grandchildren are capable of thinking.

What caused your problems?

That's a great achievement , who did they acquire that ability from ?

It is in their Genes.

All yours would seem to be in your jeans.

Have a good day.

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N,

That is not fair.

He has a block of concrete.

8-)

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Sometimes seems like that.
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Isn't it tragic that all those super smug Mac owners have got a virus

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17623422

Half a million Mac computers 'infected with malware'

Corruption and lying maybe be catching up with this government.


No wonder they want closed court rooms.

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I wonder why they didn't print this?



Minister 'must publish NHS risk register to calm down public alarm'
Health ministers have made “general alarm” over the NHS reforms even worse by refusing to publish a register showing how risky the changes might be, a judge has found.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9189086/Minister-must-publish-NHS-risk-register-to-calm-down-public-alarm.html

What the hell is that a picture of DC?

Just a yawn.lol

Take out the teeth , the rest is accurate!

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oooops for the eyeties!!! 5/4/2012 - Italy might have to handle more swap terminations, dealers say
Several derivatives trades with Italy's debt office were terminated this year, forcing the country to pay out more than €2.5 billion. Italian politicians said the termination was a one-time issue, but dealers said other counterparties might be able to also terminate trades with Italy. Risk.net http://www.risk.net/risk-magazine/news/2166032/italy-swap-terminations

ooops iberia....Spain and Portugal both go to the bond market today, with Spain's borrowing costs expected to jump.
ECB holds interest rates steady | 05/04/2012Portugal sells ?1bn at bond auction | Spain sells ?3.5bn in bonds | Spanish borrowing costs jumped at a bond auction today, as this week's tough budget failed to calm investors' nerves about the country's finances, while Portugal sold €1 billion in 18-month bills.......

Madrid sold €2.6 billion of medium-term paper, at the low end of its target range, and two out of three of the yields rose slightly above analysts' expectations.

"The Spanish Treasury failed to raise the maximum amount and yields, bid to cover ratios are lower than the previous auctions and all in all suggests investors remain very cautious towards Spanish bonds at the moment," said Nick Stamenkovic, rate strategist at RIA Capital Markets.

The average yield on the 2015 bond was 2.890 per cent, up from 2.440 per cent from when it was last sold on March 15, 4.319 per cent on the 2016 bond after 3.376 per cent at the start of March, and 5.338 per cent on the longer-dated bond. It was last sold on September when it had a yield of 5.156 per cent.

European shares extended their losses after the auction and the cost of insuring Spanish and Italian debt against default rose.

The Treasury sold €1.1 billion of a bond maturing in 2015, €973 million of a 2016 bond, and €489 million of a bonds with a 2020 maturity date. The total target range had been €2.5-3.5 billion.

The bid-to-cover ratios were mixed, but still showed firm demand.

Portugal sold €1 billion in 18-month treasury bills today in a successful test of market appetite for the longest-dated debt since it took an international bailout.

The average yield on the new T-bill was 4.537 per cent, compared with 5.993 per cent on the last 18-month bill auctioned in March 2011, before Portugal withdrew from the bond market.

The longest-dated T-bills last issued by Portugal, for 12 months, yielded 3.652 per cent at an auction last month.

The IGCP debt agency also sold 500 million euros in 6-month T-bills at an average yield of 2.90 per cent, sharply down from February's 4.332 per cent.

The total amount of T-bills sold in the auction was at the top of the indicative offer range. Demand outstripped the amount placed by 2.6 times on 18-month bills and 5.0 times on the six-month maturity.

good job we are part of the eu LOL LOL LOL EU = wasters! lets jump out now - cameron wheres your backbone you jellyfish!!