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.

Well said.

bb,

Be careful if "er indoors" buys anything white for you.





It could turn out to be a shroud!

I am more concerned about her threats to by something white for herself!!!!

LOL.

My wife informed me that my sentence wasn't over yet and there was no reprieve.

A council worker today admitted to claiming more than £200,000 in benefits despite having three jobs and a property portfolio worth more than £500,000.
Gladys Popoola's six-year web of deception, which involved using a false identity and claiming to be unmarried and out-of-work, only came to an end today when she admitted to 16 counts relating to fraud.

Popoola, who has a 17-month-old baby, was warned she can expect a custodial sentence when she returns to Southwark Crown Court for sentencing on March 16.
The 47-year-old owned three homes in London and property in Kenya. She was receiving rental income from these homes as well as working for three companies.

However Popoola fraudulently claimed benefits by failing to declare that she was living with her husband, who was working, instead claiming she was unmarried in applications for income support, housing benefit, council tax benefit and special grant.
She also admitted today to lying in order to get legal aid in civil proceedings against her.
Popoola's jobs included two with housing groups and employment with Hammersmith and Fulham Council, which she obtained using a false national insurance number and the fake name Gladys Gitonga.
She confessed today to 13 counts of making false representation for benefit purposes, one of obtaining property by deception, a national insurance number in April 2004, one of fraud by false representation and one of possessing an article, namely a false national insurance number, for use in fraud


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2100560/Benefits-cheat-council-worker-claimed-200-000-despite-having-500-000-property-portfolio-jobs.html#ixzz1mI3w9iWF

Britain's pension funds, unions and businesses have joined forces in begging the European Union to shelve draconian plans that would cripple UK pensions with a £600billion hit.

Three major industry bodies have written an open letter to the President of the European Commission warning the 'serious mistake' could plunge the whole union into crisis.

The proposed new rules, concocted by Brussels bureaucrats, would force final salary pension schemes to hold more cash in reserve and invest in less risky assets.

The idea is create a bigger firewall to stop schemes going belly-up in a crisis.

But the move would kill off the last 19 per cent of final salary pensions - based on earnings and length of service - still open to UK employees, the body representing thousands of UK pension funds says.

The National Association of Pension Funds calls this the best case


Read more: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/pensions/article-2100432/UK-begs-EU-abandon-600bn-hit-cripple-pensions.html#ixzz1mI92NGHD

Anybody have sympathy for the Sun and its journalists?

It is shameful that they are being investigated.

Has Cameron's cronie Coulon given his "story" to the H Enquiry yet?

If it was a criminal offence to produce a crap newspaper then they guilty as hell. But there is not so they are no better or worse than the other bunch. If Joe public ever found out half of what our journalist friends got up to we would be back to town criers tout suite!!!!Mind you they are human so could be bought!!!! Lol

This is just one place in one month.

Metro Feb 11
Immigration Officers stopped 70 sham marriages in one month
in a Registry Office in Leeds.

Evening standard Feb 11.

Foreign nationals are obtaining British licences in Hong Kong.
Valid in UK-No test required.

Edit 14857
from HK not in.

O'Reilly is dead.

Irish stage and screen actor David Kelly, known for films like Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, has died aged 82.

O'Really

I see the economic genie Osborne and Cameron have in the last two years of "responsibility" managed to have UK's economic outlook downgraded.

I wonder who this government of "No Hopers" is going to blame for their incompetences for Moody's estimations. Perhaps it will be the Euro, the USA, The Fauklanders or the Eskimos


Oh my grandson has just said "its their parents' fault."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8D_EFBtuI0


." Turn off your engines and slow down your wheels,

suddenly your master plan loses its appeal.

Everybody knows that this reality's not real,

so raise a glass to all things past and celebrate how good it feels."

LABOUR PARTY?

A question for a few on here :-)

Am I a Man or a Muppet?

Anybody know the name of this company ?


this little-known miner is in the unique position of producing 40% of the GLOBAL SUPPLY of a very rare and precious resource.

A thousand times rarer than diamonds!

The momentum behind this business is building fast…

Over the last few months, it’s quietly released a string of positive developments.

An exciting new project in Australia…

A lucrative joint venture extending its existing operations…

And only last week, a MASSIVE RESOURCE UPGRADE.

Demand from China is booming

Sales look set to accelerate as demand from China is beginning to take off.

Over the coming months and years, this company could see explosive demand from right across Asia.

Click here for the full report

Today you can pick up the shares for pennies

Right now, few people even know about this company.

The shares are virtually “off the radar”.

…But I doubt this will be the case for much longer.

Which is why I urge you to read this report immediately.

Check it out before it’s too late

Best regards,

Galvan Research

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It's been announced that Tevez is most likely coming back to Manchester City.....

What is it in money terms that he has lost while playing golf £9 mill, expensive green fees! Suggestions are he is coming back in order to be sold in the near future, depending on his fitness of course, if he scores a few goals for City along the way then Mancini will be hailed a genius so a win win situ for both :O)

Do I not hate football