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[inside2] 28/6/2014 11:36

What a sad loss, the one and only Bobby Womack no more.

[inside2] 27/6/2014 08:56

It was a left wing Guardian/BBC inspired witch hunt to discredit News International and prevent the BskyB deal being approved.

[2trying] 27/6/2014 01:19

Nice one EdgeFund .

From usual source....

BOSSES who have no idea what their staff are doing have welcomed the acquittal of Rebekah Brooks.

The former News of the World editor, who did not know where the paper's stories came from, has become an icon for managers who prefer to focus on the 'big picture'.

Joseph Turner,( not his real name ) who runs a payday loan firm in Reading said: "I manage 536 people and I haven't the slightest idea what any of them do.

"It's never occurred to me to check and now I don't have to. British justice has saved me a huge amount of hassle."

Recruitment consultant Mary Fisher said: "Mrs Brooks can now secure a senior role in an organisation where there is no need to know exactly what everyone is up to.

"For example, banking, drug running or being commissioner of the Metropolitan Police."

[edgefund] 26/6/2014 15:03

For you 2Trying. Im sure you will appreciate it.

Bert was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young 'pullets,' and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs.

He kept records, and any rooster not performing went into the soup pot and was replaced.

This took a lot of time, so he bought some tiny bells and attached them to his roosters.

Each bell had a different tone, so he could tell from a distance, which rooster was performing.

Now, he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report by just listening to the bells.

Bert's favorite rooster, old Butch, was a very fine specimen, but this morning he noticed old Butch's bell hadn't rung at all!

When he went to investigate, he saw the other roosters were busy chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing, but the pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover.

To Bert's amazement, old Butch had his bell in his beak, so it couldn't ring.

He'd sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one.

Bert was so proud of old Butch, he entered him in the Brisbane City Show and he became an overnight sensation among the judges.

The result was the judges not only awarded old Butch the "No Bell Piece Prize," but they also awarded him the "Pulletsurprise" as well.

Clearly old Butch was a politician in the making. Who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the unsuspecting populace and screwing them when they weren't paying attention.

Vote carefully in the next election, you can't always hear the bells...........

[inside2] 26/6/2014 09:33

Yer tis 2trying

[2trying] 25/6/2014 23:38

Three things -

Firstly - edgefund , I note you have edited your comment from calling us muppets to calling us anoraks . Poor show Sir . If you can't stand by an original comment , you shouldn't have made it in the first place .
Being an anorak is fun anyway . I am retired , I have a few quid in the bank , my house is long paid for , and I have a really , really nice Hornby 00 layout in one of the spare bedrooms . I also know good music and have a great interest in politics .

Secondly - did ya watch PMQ's today ? Jake Berry was called . He was not there .

Instantly the Labour scum started howling and ridiculing .

His wife is in Hospital , general anasthetic . I am on first name terms with him .

Thirdy - this is GF's analysis of today's PMQ's .

Miliband achieved the impossible today. He finished his J'Accuse an even more diminished leader than when he began.

Weak, weak, weak! The Tories chanted. "I'll tell you what's weak," Ed said weakly, "it's failing to stand up for the right thing."

Cameron's definition of weak was more detailed: "Attacking Rupert Murdoch, posing with a copy of the Sun and then apologising for it! That's weak!"

And then, of course, Alastair Campbell, Jo Moore and Damian McBride.

Ed's lead-line, his headline, his top line was: "You brought a criminal into Downing Street."

It's not a bad line, in fact. It's nasty. It resonates at a childhood level of right and wrong. And it's sinister.

But then, but then . . . Criminals in Downing Street.

Ed himself has an adviser publicly accused of Class A drug use. His predecessors, as Cameron pointed out, have a variety of real victims to their account. From David Kelly to the Paddington rail crash survivors to Conservative MPs to half a million Iraqis...


Was it an open goal? Hard to know how to score on this pitch. Lot of attention. High expectations. Big moment for beleaguered Labour leader competing with Michael Foot for top comic spot.

And Cameron had a single defence to every accusation: Leveson's Inquiry had exonerated him at every level, of every charge.

A judge who took eight months and spent £5m taking evidence on oath had comprehensively cleared him.

It was the only defence he needed and Ed kept running into it.

The killer question (Miliband waited mulishly for quiet in the Chamber) asked whether Gus O'Donnell had raised hacking concerns with the PM.

Er, Leveson! All covered by Leveson. O'Donnell's evidence to Leveson rebuts, rejects, refutes these accusations.

Miliband came back with a promising line: "Gus O'Donnell wasn't asked that question at Leveson!"

Oo, hang on, wasn't he? Was he not asked that, was the PM making that up? A series of persistent follow-ups might have yielded the result Miliband wanted, but the duffer doesn't play in that league. That was the end, not the beginning.

Chris Bryant, thrilling with indignation, said the "second chance" Cameron had given Coulson presupposed "a first offence". "You're such a little twerp, aren't you?" Cameron replied, "No wonder you couldn't get elected to the Shadow Cabinet." I think that's what he said. The second chance was after he'd resigned as editor.

Ronnie Campbell and Yasmin Qureshi read out Whips' questions with very little relish, especially as both question had been asked and answered more than once already ("Leveson.").

Philip Davies, member of the Culture committee who looked into hacking told the House that the Guardian had said in 2009 there was no piece of paper connecting Coulson to hacking, the committee never came up with any evidence that Coulson knew hacking was taking place, and that Labour were using this to "deflect attention from their own chronic leadership shortfall." Tory delight.

"I think he put it rather better than I did," Cameron said. "Thank you." And sat down.

Does anybody care? Outside our over-oxygenated bubble do people know who Brooks and Coulson are? Any more than we know who's standing in Labour's imminent NEC election?

[inside2] 25/6/2014 15:23

Not muppet please edgefund. Miliband is a muppet, we might well be anoraks but we are not muppets.

[inside2] 25/6/2014 12:14

I thought you would.

[2trying] 24/6/2014 23:28

Really enjoyed that !!

[inside2] 24/6/2014 18:43

You'll love this, this man is just so right.

[inside2] 10/6/2014 09:13

He will be sadly missed.

[tomatoma2] 06/6/2014 22:23

thought the Conservatives would win , delighted to see
Labour kicked into third place by the Kippers , and the Lib-Dems losing their deposit was the icing on the cake!!

[inside2] 02/6/2014 17:55

Referendum now. Out is the only way forward.

[2trying] 01/6/2014 20:22

This is from "Sky News" .

David Cameron has reportedly said Britain could quit the EU if Jean-Claude Juncker is elected as president of the European Commission.

The Prime Minister has previously said he sees the former Luxembourg leader as a symbol of Europe's past and argued other leaders are more capable of delivering change.

He is now so worried Mr Juncker's appointment would destabilise the UK Government he would bring forward an in-out referendum, according to German publication Der Spiegel.

"A figure from the 1980s cannot resolve the problems of the next five years," he is reported to have said.

The magazine claimed Mr Cameron made the threat during a meeting with the German Chancellor at a summit of EU leaders in Brussels.

Angela Merkel has given her backing to Mr Juncker, who told Germany's Bild am Sonntag newspaper he has support from "a broad majority" of conservative and centre-left leaders and is confident of being elected.

Ms Merkel and Mr Juncker's parties both belong to the European People's Party bloc, which dominates the European Parliament and has chosen him as its preferred candidate for the presidential post.

A Downing Street spokesman refused to comment on what Mr Cameron may have said in what it called "a private conversation".

The Prime Minister's alleged warning came as Iain Duncan Smith said Mr Cameron must deliver "substantial and significant return of powers" from the EU to win the backing of Tories.

The Work and Pensions Secretary told The Sunday Telegraph: "He knows very well he can't come back with nothing."

Asked whether Mr Cameron would follow through with his pledge to deliver a referendum if the Tories are re-elected at the next election, Mr Duncan Smith replied: "I've looked him in the eye and I've asked him (that) simple question.

"He said, 'Yeah, I won't be in a Government if they won't have a referendum.'"