Flashman

Sush - Corbyn & co. lost the election, so be a good girl and be quiet. A £100Bn bung would be cheap at twice the price to keep the proper terrorist supporterss out of office.

He sounds fine to me - fussy!

I think a good many - in and out of politics - understand what's happening with Momentum, the hard-Left unions, etc. It's the worst sort of rabble-rousing and politics of envy. However, I don't think there's a plan to address the tactics of endless lies. Mainstream politicians at least pretend there's a shred of truth in their statements - Corbyn and the rest favour, "if you're going to tell a lie, make it a big one."

From today's Times: When a terrible catastrophe happens which is bound to provoke enormous public anger the immediate response of all in authority should be, above all, to calm people down. The situation can otherwise spiral dangerously out of control into disorder and violence. Further inciting that anger is therefore the height of political irresponsibility or worse. Yet that is precisely what has been happening in the aftermath of the inferno that consumed Grenfell Tower. Left-wing agitators are planning a “day of rage” tomorrow in protest at the government’s austerity policies, which they say caused the tragedy. The protest is being led by the Movement for Justice By Any Means Necessary, whose Facebook page declares: “We must escalate our actions to take down this rotten government, which has lost all authority to govern.” There are all-too plausible concerns that this may turn into a riot. Last Friday, relatives and friends of those feared dead in the Grenfell fire tried to storm Kensington town hall. A man on a loudspeaker told the crowd that the fire was “corporate genocide”. Journalists were attacked. A volunteer helping the fire victims was beaten up after being mistaken for the chief executive of the management company responsible for the tower. The anger over this dreadful tragedy is very understandable. Theresa May’s response, fairly or unfairly, was deemed hesitant and uncaring. Assistance being offered to those who lost everything in the fire has descended into chaos. Although what caused this catastrophe has not yet been established, enough is known to perceive a disturbing level of official incompetence or negligence. As a result, it seems that successive administrations put short-term interests above long-term safety. To make matters worse, the residents’ repeated concerns about fire safety were ignored. It’s hard to avoid concluding that their voices went unheard because they were poor and marginalised. Yet to blame the wicked Tories or the evil rich for all this, as the protesters are doing, is a grotesque distortion of reality. In 2000, Tony Blair’s government launched the decent homes programme, a huge scheme to improve social housing around the country by making it more environmentally friendly and pleasing to the eye. According to Hannah Lucinda Smith, a Times journalist who worked on a report about fire safety in 2010 for the BBC, billions of pounds of public funds were handed to contractors to carry out the upgrades. These were mostly in deprived areas, many of which were under Labour control. In almost all cases, the drab concrete was wrapped in brightly coloured cladding — which was also highly flammable. Just as in Grenfell Tower. In other words, from right to left the political establishment over the years connived at this appalling laxity in elementary fire-safety precautions. Yet the fire is being exploited in a sectarian and cynical way to fuel public anger and provoke disorder. Those being unjustly damned for causing the disaster are the Tory government and the rich. In other words, it’s class war. The protests are being fomented by professional agitators: you only have to look at the quality of the Socialist Worker posters reading “Tories have blood on their hands” to realise these are not spontaneous eruptions of public anger. The Grenfell tragedy is being appropriated as part of a broader and more sinister political strategy. On Saturday there were further protests across the UK with activists waving placards saying “Defy Tory rule”. What’s happening is an attempt to stir insurrection on the streets against the democratically elected Westminster government. Labour’s shadow chancellor John McDonnell has called for a million people to take to the streets on Saturday to force Theresa May from power. At a Liverpool conference on March 10, 2012, McDonnell said there were three ways to change society. The first was through the ballot box; the second via industrial action. “The third is basically insurrection, but we now call it direct action . . . we have an elected dictatorship, so I think we have a democratic right to use whatever means to bring this government down. The real fight now is in our communities, it’s on the picket lines, it’s in the streets.” Jeremy Corbyn himself wrote in these pages shortly before being elected leader in 2015: “The Tories should be in no doubt: we will use the surge in excitement about progressive politics to pursue them at every turn and focus our energies on a massive growth in campaigning politics.” It’s clear that the hard left thinks it now has the chance to mount a coup. Aided and abetted by large sections of the media, which have presented Corbyn’s election defeat as a victory, they have set out to foment insurrection on the streets in order to overturn the result. This strategy was plotted before the Grenfell fire. Now it is enabling these agitators to incite hatred and violence by claiming that the Tories didn’t just steal the election but have committed murder. Many naive Labour voters believe Jeremy Corbyn is a “nice man”. The reality is frighteningly different. A fearsome tragedy is being cynically politicised. Even before all the dead of Grenfell tower have been retrieved and buried, Labour is unleashing mob rule in their name. Compassion is being hijacked and weaponised in what is nothing short of a planned uprising against democracy itself.

The FCA are trying to clamp down on retail investors (the man in the street) being targeted by assorted trading platforms who encourage them to dabble in CFDs. Alpari was popular for these types of accounts until they went bust following the Swissy cap ending.

"Telling bone." Another bit of childhood slips away.

Come on, there must be somebody on this forum who can write in support of Labour..? It's not so very far from the SNP...

During a visit to a factory in Leeds, she said: “This is a situation on which individuals will have one view or the other, either pro or against. As it happens, personally I have always been in favour of foxhunting, and we maintain our commitment . . . to allow a free vote. It would allow parliament the opportunity to take the decision on this.”

It's a nice ground and is well run. No doubt there are plenty of straw bale shoots available for those who don't want to pay for decent, professionally-run facilities...

I will be interested to read how BASC will follow up on this matter, as it needs a large-scale complaint rather than dribs and drabs from FAC/SGC holders. I would be demanding a response within twenty four hours as the security of firearms is at stake. Giving the police time to concoct a response is not the same as giving them time to investigate the matter.

But we live in the real world, with burdens of proof. Also, my previous comment was, "what were the agreed terms of the contract?"

And the terms were what? Agreed by both sides? 100% payable, or 25%? I'd be happy saying the terms were unclear and nothing was agreed. Some places in London take a credit card to confirm the booking, so you know they're serious about cancellations. The present example doesn't sound so savvy.

No contract - no pay.

She was "brilloed" to the point where it was embarrassing. He did something similar to Diane Abbott a couple of years ago Neil is the best interviewer on telly at the moment - not that he has much competition.

Post some of the jokes - let us decide what's offensive.

"Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts." Arnold Bennett

Do tell.

I think we're in agreement.

No County for Old Men Master and Commander The Eagle has Landed

Whist it's good that he will be freed soon, one wonders what he will do next. No career, ex-offender - and all for God-forsaken Afghanistan.

I paid far too much to see The Hateful Eight in extended widescreen in the West End - and left during the intermission. I watched both High Rise and The Lobster recently: can't decide which was worse, there's not much between them. However, I like Up.

Not all investments are open to retail investors. Have a minimum investment size of £10,000 is an indicator that the investment is not meant for retail investors. Retail = man in the street. Exempt retail = HNW.

Treat the free advice on this thread for what it is - gossip you'd get down the pub. Alternatively, read up yourself for free. Or, pay an IFA. "You pays your money, you takes your choice.". Without knowing anything about your circumstances, save you're asking for advice on a shooting forum(!), I'd say look for an interest-bearing with notice deposit account or something risk free - like premium bonds. Anything else will probably swallow any potential profit in dealing fees. You probably won't qualify as an exempt retail investor and so can't invest in many products with a £10,000 ticket price.

That's OK - I just wanted to rub in how rubbish Scotland were on the day. Again.

But not there to be taken by Scotland. Record loss in the Calcutta Cup. Funny