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What a bizarre glass box. Is that Eddie's face in lego on the top?
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GM (1) It looks more like Adrian Chiles to me!
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This is David McNickle's work, I'm sure.
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The postbox on the wall behind the 'glass' box is French. Does that give a clue as to the person who took the photograph ?
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8318249.stm
Ah good news, no Westminster passes for the BNP MPs.
That will allow Labour to ignore the problem for a while longer and continue their policy of tackling them by burying their heads in the sand while ignoring the problems of those that have ended up voting for them.
Of course dealing with the problem would involved real hard work winning hearts and minds back to mainstream politics, and let us be honest, passing a motion to withdraw passes is a lot easier for the lazy Labour lackeys and means more quality cappuccino time in the bars of the House of Commons while the unemployment shoots up outside.
Great work John Mann and Harriet Harman - now they can play the victim card again on telly tomorrow night. If you can debate them on the issues and have to resort to querying their 'legitimacy' [as though that were going to make them disappear from Brussels] then you should not be in politics at all.
Pathetic.
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lordBeddGelert 5, whilst I agree with your general sentiments, can I just make one thing clear it is a ban on Westminster passes for ALL MEP's
Thanks
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LBG - there are no BNP MPs.
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7. Sid
Yet
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Anyone still doubtful about halal being served in schools might try this
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23378530-parents-angered-as-every-pupil-is-given-halal-school-meals.do
But I read about it ages ago, and how many others are hiding the fact? Political correctness infects all levels of society, especially the newlabour clones.
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I'd have like to have heard more of that union official's statement. Shame he was interrupted in favour of an interview with a Labour hack.
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In all businesses outside banking big is best and so is having as many eggs in as many baskets as possible. Surely the same should be true for banking, the big banks that haven't gone down (HSBC, Barclays) will take out/absorb the minows the Tories want to split the nationalised banks into, whereas said small banks may lose out if the environment suddenly changes when bigger banks with more eggs in many more baskets able to ride out the storm when lesser banks go down.
I think we should keep the existing framework but change the bankrupcy rules so that if a bank does go down the retail segment is jettisoned so customers can continue. We could separate them now but the retail sector would be in danger or maybe unable to grow as well as the current system, and only jettison the retail segment if a crisis occurs.
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That's pathetic, DoctorDolots.
The article you refer to says "four schools in the Reading area".
You claimed earlier "What a lot of people don't know is that all UK schoolchildren, and prisoners in UK jails are served halal[kosher] meat as none other is allowed - to avoid the risk of one Muslim or Jew eating what they believe in their unscientific way is 'tainted' meat."
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British taxpayers subsidise the Isle of Man tax haven for the rich, did I hear that right?
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Yet again an item about the Banks, their bonuses, cries of 'What to do?' and a repetition that we 'bailed them out' to the tune of @trillions of pounds that we and our children will be paying back for YEARS'.
Eddie, have I missed something? Did the small print of the bail-out not mention:
paying the money back?
Surely, before having even a 2% pay-rise, never mind a £1,000 000 bonus, a bank must pay back the money they owe? How are the Banks getting away with our money like this?
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12. Sid
Do you live here? I mean on this board.
I am still sure I read all about this some time ago, and will continue to explore when I have time and will update. For now I withdraw the 'all'. However, you brush aside four schools in one area [and my search was a mere 3+ minutes] which have been doing this for ten or so years without parents being made aware, so how many more huh? That it is government decree I accept is innacurate. But it's the result not the manner that's important surely.
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Guy Goodwin, ONS director of population statistics, stressed that the figures were not forecasts or predictions - they're projections. So why did the news summary say the UK population is 'predicted to rise'?
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court cases that take months in the UK (where lawyers are paid by the hour) take days or at most weeks in some parts of Europe, e.g.. Crete.
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If you can't expect a jury to concentrate for a couple of hours, why do we expect children to do it in school?
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Government ministers may downplay the CWU line that the strike is due in part to Government interference but as we don't trust this government anymore the idea that it's all the government's fault is so plausible.
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So basically these Judges just want to listen to stories ...
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Could you bring into the discussion the possibility of having fully regulated banks and less regulated banks side by side in the same economy?
Those who submit to full regulation would be underwritten by government and could provide the economy with much needed safe institutions of various sorts.
The less regulated banks would be forced to carry a government health warning on all publicity and stationary along the lines of: ‘this bank is not fully regulated and is not necessarily a safe place to invest money’. These banks will then not need to relocate to other countries, but they will be under pressure to reflect on what credentials they can provide to convince the market that it’s alright for them to hand them their money.
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May I propose three cheers for the office workers who used their initiative in the car insurance scam case, by being observant, collecting evidence, and reporting to the police? So many people these days seem to sit back and do nothing or blame someone else (there are some round here, even). Well done!
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DoctorDolots (15) And my 3 minutes of searching on the Reading Borough Council website shows that they have separate menus for halal meals for those that want them. So, basing your case on one instance (which seems to have been repeated in different newspapers but all referring to the same case) means that you are on decidedly shaky ground, having beem 100% certain that ALL CHILDREN ARE BEING FORCEFED HALAL MEAT!!! (sorry, slipped into Daily Wail mode then!).The best rule of thumb is to imagine if this could be a headline on the Mail, and the more likely it is that it could, then the less likely it is that the story's true!
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FF - you're quite right. Long time since we've had a DM reader round here.
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Jonathan
Its an often stayed viewpoint but rather dubious. There are advantages in economies of scale but also disadvantages. Most noticeably that the larger the organisation the more difficult it is to retain a human touch. Probably the single biggest cause for systems to fail, whether political, business or other is that their leadership forgets that the most important component is the human one.
Especially with modern technology it would be theoretically possible to have much smaller banks that could actually handle a wide range of business and compete with the giants simply by being less orientated toward the organisational structure and ego-empire building. Alternatively banks that concentrated on simple basic saving and investment and put a priority on reliability and security would get a hell of a lot more support and custom, especially after recent events. Don't forget the British financial institutions used to be the strongest and best in the world because they met the needs of their customers. Rather than the parasitical mess its become in recent decades.
Steve
11. At 5:29pm on 21 Oct 2009, jonathanmorse wrote:
In all businesses outside banking big is best and so is having as many eggs in as many baskets as possible. Surely the same should be true for banking, the big banks that haven't gone down (HSBC, Barclays) will take out/absorb the minows the Tories want to split the nationalised banks into, whereas said small banks may lose out if the environment suddenly changes when bigger banks with more eggs in many more baskets able to ride out the storm when lesser banks go down.
I think we should keep the existing framework but change the bankrupcy rules so that if a bank does go down the retail segment is jettisoned so customers can continue. We could separate them now but the retail sector would be in danger or maybe unable to grow as well as the current system, and only jettison the retail segment if a crisis occurs.
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