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.

"Prime Minister David Cameron has said for the first time he would veto a European-wide financial transaction tax unless it was imposed globally, deepening a confrontation with European Union heavyweights France and Germany. He said France should be free to go it alone and introduce a financial transactions tax if it wished. Paris and Berlin have been pushing for an EU-wide tax of financial transactions but Britain has strongly resisted, fearing it will damage the City of London, a global financial centre where much of the tax would be raised. (...) "The idea of a new European tax when you're not going to have that tax put in place in other places, I don't think is sensible and so I will block it," Mr Cameron said in a BBC interview," The Telegraph reports.

HO, Ho. Next U-turn.

I don't mind if I do! Have two drink-free days, MPs say

The Barnett Formula.

Treasury figures last year showed that gap in annual government spending between Scotland and England has risen to a record £1,600 per person In Scotland, the Government spent £10,212 per person on average last year – £1,624 more than in England.
There is a petition recently started at http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/1400.
If you feel that the formula is unfair, please sign it, then forward the link on.

Joan Baez is 71 today!

Saw Joan Baez a couple of years ago.

Still beautiful.

She brought back memories of the 70s.

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Show me the country where bombs had to fall,
Show me the ruins of buildings once so tall,
And I'll show you a young land with so many reasons why
There but for fortune, go you or go I, -- you and I.
You and I,

There but for fortune, go you or go, I -- you and I.

Greek.

Scotland.

Give them back the money from the North sea oil and gas.

Rid them of the Nuclear weapon facilities. Perhaps, locate them in London and perhaps, they won't be begging off England.
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But Cameron is becoming more like Chamberlain than Churchill and not happy with alienating the majority of Europe is now seemingly prepared to urge the breakup of the UK union.

He is a failure and the sooner he resigns the better.

I have a feeling Alex Salmond will be dancing with joy at the Cameroon's latest pronouncements.


(I suppose he can become a Panda.)

Wait for the withdrawal of this policy.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/jan/09/antony-worrall-thompson-sorry-shoplifting

Once a Tory always a Tory.

Maybe some people remember Julie Felix. She is 73 nearly 74 in June.

She is as young as I am, but better looking!

Things developing at Olympus - Olympus sues executives for fraud, after report

How about this for an Ale list: http://www.pendlebeerfestival.co.uk/beers.php?mid=5757376

Some good session beers there Stan - unfortunately unless I venture North of the Watford Gap, most of those are not readily available (to me) - the exceptions being pedigree and hobgoblin - I prefer the former - so much so that I bought some shares recently!

Marstons PLC. (formerly Wolverhampton and Dudley) I looked at them myself but passed for some reason that I can't remember now. We went to the Pendle Fest. last year at the excellent Colne Town Hall and were most impressed.. even more impressed with BFC's 2-1 win over Norwich C. Next day though

Worst days job I ever did - showing you how to post emoticons

This may come as a bit of a shock, but - Immigration from outside the EU is linked to UK jobless

The government's official advisers on migration say there is a link between immigration from outside the European Union and job losses among UK workers.

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George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," 1946