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.

Georgethey cant!

Fredthat is designer avoidancefor the privileged fewI believe the chancellor has three times more tax revenue than he expectedfrom the one-off Bankers bonus tax

Budget started now

Spot on with that three times, tabasco.
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Its officialthe chance-the-law has been right about everythingDarling was born at a very early agehe is an orthodox right handed south pawwith a straightforward contrary naturewhos ambiguity is as clear as a freshly polished dartboard and verbal ornamentation that has the euphoria of a hip hop singer at a Bin Laden Garden Partyje comprends

Growth for 2011 of 3-3.5%, what planet is this character on. It's well known that growth is going to be severely restrained for the foreseeable future, I would hazard a guess that this figure will be reduced somewhat.
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Do they have tall toilets in ParliamentCameron sounded high on pot?spiritually
illuminated!.Cleggsnorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre!

I thought Cameron had given it up.

Performs like Dell boy in disguise.

Yerbut so do I Fred

Tabby,

I am getting worried now.

8-)

You are just trying to be lefter than I am.

That is offside!

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Interesting budget. but would like to see in printed.

But it does show the complexities of government.

The amount of work which goes into its preparation must be collosal.

Au contraire. Fromage frais

Fredtheres not a lot of work in preparationwhen you make it up?

With Easter coming up soon, I thought you might like the following. It starts with non-religious humorist Australian, Seb Thorne's Dad', getting his 'Easter Play Parent's Invitation' from the School. Then a diatribe follows, thus:

With reference to the 'bankers tax'. when first muted AD stated that as it was intended to be a deterrent to persuade banks to forgo these bonuses, and that if it raised anything at all it should be looked at as a failure. His estimate was 500,000,000 max.
As this tax has raised 2,000,000,000 it is obviously a failure X 4, and yet he touted it as if it was a personal success.

I appreciate he had no room to give anything away, but I was waiting for far more detail on where savings were coming from, quangos, think tanks, and all the other public bodies out there waisting money.

It was announced yesterday that for the first time, public sector workers now account for over 50% of the work force. Not saying that there are not many public sector workers who don't work hard and earn their money, but as we all know there are now far more 'jobs for the boys' with the number of chiefs forever increasing faster than the Indians.

Also the bit about Tax Dodgers got me. I wonder if it includes all those MP's who did not pay CGT on their second homes (because they switched prior to sale) or the tax not paid on their fiddled expenses (they were allowed tax exemptions on allowances that they were not entitled to). And many of these schemes are avoidance which will never be as wrong as dodging (fiddling). Pot, kettle, black, springs to mind.

Fiddling B******s

What a way to run a country.

Greek.

If the tories were to be elected the phrase, "you ain't seen anything yet" comes to mind.


What is needed is a coalition government to :

1) sort out expenses
2) lobbying
3) making all full time MPs on salaries raised to reasonable levels.
4) accommodation provided of appropriate standard (Pentoville)
4) deal with the house of lords and provide a smaller ? elected house in place for six years
5) sort out party financing (limiting the total amount for elections canvassing and advertising.
6) face up to economic problems
7) address taxation and avoidance
8) bring in proportional representation
9) Introduce fixed term government.

That would be a start!

tabasco - 22 Mar 2010 14:13 - 8637 of 8710
from a girl brought up in a Bermondsey slum without her now deceased drugged up Fatherand a Mother that is less than sanethe girl done good

She was not bought up in a slum unless you like to term all bermondsey council estates as slum, then I was bought up in a slum as well.

Exec,

Do me a favour, pris posting 8708.

I havent got that long to live.

8-)

Jeffshe is the kind of person that I admirebit of a bungalownothing up topbut she made the most of her short lifeshe was an excellent Motherand she had a lot of good in hermost people pass judgement on first impressionsand pass on exaggerations I like to look a little deeper into mattersif you look at her documentariesyou will see she lived in very poor conditions as a young girlthe definition of a slum is:- district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditionsI would say that was pretty accurate from the film clips that I watchedI am sure where you lived was far from that description JeffI have also driven through Bermondsey on many occasionand I have to false myself not to stop at the Wetherspoonslolbut I do look at the Bike shop while in traffic

Fredat your ageflowers must scare you?.

Fred,

I would be all for a coalition government, if it worked, but they never appear to work in peace time as they all pull in different directions and achieve little. Coalitions in wartime are different, due to them all wanting the same thing. Whilst I appreciate they all want to get the country back on track they all have huge differences in policy. In war time the differences re how to fight it are usually similar. Everything else takes a back seat.

As to if the Conservatives get in, "you ain't seen nothing yet", I think we will have to agree to disagree.
Whilst I have very little faith in any of them, I don't see how it is possible to make such a monumental cock-up as this current lot. They continue to blame it as a world crisis, but if they had not gone running round like demented idiots who had got hold of an open cheque book, whilst times were good, we would be far better positioned to get back on track.

So I will vote Conservative, just to get this lot out, and I am dumbfounded that the gap in the poles is narrowing.

My wife keeps on bringing home roses, but says they are not for me.

Not sure what to make of it.