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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The last 2 points were for the pleasure of the Greek.

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Yes the squelch button was designed for Fred, life is too short to bother reading drivel let alone rep[lying to it. The great thing about leaving employment for making money on the markets is that I not only no longer have to suffer fools gladly, but I don't have to suffer them at all.

Tim.

Look in the mirror in the morning.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13361934

The Vince Cable lunatic quote "The bigest threat to the world's finsncial system comes from a few right wing nutters in the American congress rather than the eurozone"

vince cable must be irish that must be why ireland is in the shite .

It doesn't seem to me just a "few right wing nutters), it would seem a large portion of the "coalition".

Bring back Ken Clarke.

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There have been days when I wish I could have done this - Time zone change will help trade, says Samoan PM

There are days when I thought you had!

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Just listened to UK Confidential with Martha,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018gy51


Well worth listening to reflect on the morality then and now.

My children and wife would gladly change to a USA time zone so that they did not have to get up so early!

The European Court of Auditors has found that 4,600,000,000 euros of payments from the EU budget are 'irregular' (i.e. could be fraud) according to their report released on 10/11/11. In other words the auditors can't get to the bottom of where this money went. Around 50% of the samples used by the Court of Auditors showed 'errors'. They raised the alarm over the lack of supervision on advance payments, which they consider to be out of control. They call this being 'partially effective'! In any private company heads would roll and the police would be involved.

TV producer Peter Bazalgette, who introduced Big Brother to the UK, will receive a knighthood,

I would have thought that would be a reason not to give him one.

Maybe next year Jedward will get an award for services to the entertainment industry

Faced with the Eurozone crisis, EU leaders and our government are not only calling for fiscal centralisation, but are also trying to impose a regulatory regime on our financial institutions that will undermine the City of London's position as the world's leading international financial centre.

David Cameron, his MPs and MEPs cannot stop this.

The dangers


•The Financial Transaction Tax would add €60bn to EU coffers, mostly from UK firms

•The EU Commission estimates that around 80% of derivatives trading will leave the UK if this tax is implemented

•The EU Commission estimates that its own regulations will destroy 50,000 City jobs

•The Alternative Investment Fund Management Directive, which we did not need, has already forced firms overseas

•The newly-created Paris based European and Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), will effectively operate an exchange control mechanism has already driven American and Asian investors to invest outside of UK private equity and hedge funds resulting in job losses

•With 80% of all European hedge fund business conducted in the City of London the ESMA Directive's impact on the UK is grotesquely disproportionate

•The UK has very little power to stop these directives.

Conservative MEPs vote to push this legislation through and David Cameron is powerless to stop the onslaught of directives.

Michael Barnier, EU's Commissioner for the internal market and services warned in July 2011: "We are moving towards a single European rulebook, with more directly applicable legislation. Rules which will be imposed on everyone will have to be interpreted in the same way across Europe, unlike what is happening now."

And yet, astonishingly, Conservative MEPs voted to support this regime.

On the November 11, 2010, Conservative MEPs voted to support a proposal for a directive on alternative investment fund managers (A7-0171/2010). This directive saw the regulatory control of the UK financial sector pass to the newly created European Security and Markets Authority (ESMA). Previously, control of the UK financial sector was the responsibility of the UK government.

Dr Kay Swinburne, Conservative MEP for Wales and spokesperson on economic and monetary affairs, supported the proposal. She was recently reported as saying that there was an urgent need for or "constructive communications" over financial regulation. Her voting record shows otherwise.

Prior to this in September 2010, all but three Conservative MEPs voted in favour of a proposal for establishing the ESMA (A7-0169/2010).

Voting records of Conservative MEPs

http://www.votewatch.eu/cx_vote_details.php?id_act=1097〈=en
http://www.votewatch.eu/cx_vote_details.php?id_act=2012〈=en
http://www.votewatch.eu/cx_vote_details.php?id_act=933〈=en
http://www.votewatch.eu/cx_vote_details.php?id_act=938〈=en

Help us to save the City before it is too late. UKIP is the only political party devoted to the recovery and preservation of our national independence, our financial services industry and our City's jobs.

APARTMENT for RENT"

A businessman met a beautiful girl and agreed to spend the night with her for £500. They did their thing, and before he left, he told her that he did not have any cash with him, but he would have his secretary write a cheque and mail it to her, calling the payment 'RENT FOR APARTMENT.'

On the way to the office, he regretted what he had done, realizing that the whole event had not been worth the price. So he had his secretary send a cheque for £250 and enclose the following typed note:

'Dear Madam:
Please find enclosed a cheque for £250 for rent of your apartment. I am not sending the amount agreed upon, because when I rented the place, I was under the impression that:
#1 - It had never been occupied;
#2 - There was plenty of heat; and
#3 - It was small enough to make me feel cozy and at home.

However, upon entry I found out that:
#1 - It had been previously occupied,
#2 - There wasn't any heat, and
#3 - It was entirely too large.'

Upon receipt of the note, the girl immediately returned the cheque for £250 with the following note:

'Dear Sir:
#1 - I cannot understand how you could expect a beautiful apartment to remain unoccupied indefinitely.
#2 - As for the heat, there is plenty of it, if you know how to turn it on.
#3 - Regarding the space, the apartment is indeed of regular size, but if you don't have enough furniture to fill it, please do not blame the management.

So, please send the rent in full or we will be forced to contact your present landlady...!!

Happy New Year to all landlords and investors

UK Tories outperform Labour in new poll


http://www.presstv.ir/detail/218726.html