Malcolm Robinson

I wonder if Keef2 saying he has the builders in is a euphemism........????? Maybe the authorities found that wire he had running into the street lamp post?

Keef1, you just beat me to it........................still with our luck it will be wrong!!!!!!!!!!

I think that too dismissive GGG, national interest is in plain sight of anyone with even a smidgen of common sense. Selling off national infrastructure to the highest bidder is not a sensible or cost productive option, it was a political option! I do agree nationalised industries always tended to be run for the benefit of the laziest workers and also incompetent management. That should have been tackled within the confines of the industries without recourse to privatisations………… and probably would these days. Nationalised industries should have been exemplars of good practice both in production and also in things like training and security of tenure. Fact was they weren't and in a competitive environment we either had to outrageously subsidise them while instituting deep cultural change or get rid of them out of the public purse. The latter option was chosen politically. I can't argue the point, do as I say not as I do because 'we' have done exactly what you say overseas and exploited every possible situation. Doesn't make it right though! At the end of the day the financial sector, as a mainstay of the private sector, has demonstrated for all to see what happens with rampant self-regulatory congenital capitalism, eventually after the greed and graft has been profligate and self-destructive it relies on the public sector as a backstop!

Mistakes have also been made here it seems.....................that turns the whole of the IMF bailouts into what they are......worthless in any real sense of the word! http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/imf-admits-it-prescribed-wrong-medicine.html

Flipping heck looks like Keef1's nailed it....................... :dribble:

Our total now stands at over 400..........well done everybody. With less than a week to go before this public vote closes I have noticed one upstart of a Park down south starting to pile in their votes! So tell your friends, relatives, lovers, and associates to help us out and VOTE! Vote here.....

Couldn't agree more Brian and Vic and its our generation who have allowed it to happen. Its akin to the financial crisis, at some point the correction has to come and the longer its left the harder that correction will have to be. I am not quite sure where we got this laissez-faire attitude from especially as we were so enthusiastic in our youth? We have bent the knee to every minority who said they were aggrieved, we have compromised our culture to accept others and we have accepted a political class who would best be described as weak, for fear of being moderated! This is not the revolution in society I went on demos in my youth to bring about!

I think there are some things of far more worth to a country than just in monetary terms. The first responsibility of the politocrats is to secure the safety of the people and selling off vital and crucial bits of this country's infrastructure always struck me as dangerous, to say the least. In fact when you are dealing with super rich terrorists and foreign powers the easiest way they can exercise control would be to buy up your privatised infrastructure. In much the same aways the Frogs have done with water and electricity. We have sold the soul of this country to the Devil for a shiny bright penny………. Just waiting for GGG's reply now…………..

Only too right........... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/9600281/Government-lost-key-calculations-on-West-Coast-bid.html

Best Dolly Parton record...........by Roy 'Chubby' Brown.

That's a photoshop if I ever saw one..................

Says Keef2 as he strokes his white cat...............

2009 report.......... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8316146.stm

This too.......... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/9508641/Parents-warned-as-primary-school-truancy-rate-rises.html

Don't know if this will load......... https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AonYZs4MzlZbdFc0MzR3X3kzckgzU3VOaExiR1BCVWc#gid=0

CL, As far as I remember it, measures were brought in as a knee reaction last time we had a Conservative Government and the Blair Government carried the polices on and increased the severity of potential retribution as a vote winner. Its the worst kind of legislation, its being played and passed aorund as a political football rather than strict adherence to the facts.

They sang the film tracks for films they appeared in?

Wash your mouth out Keith..........Babylon 5 was a stand alone not a spin off.

Spot on Merc........

Keith, HE was an actor...........and gave his first name to his, up until then, nameless character........

And of course the Iberian experience........... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19905747

(Reuters) - Greece's unemployment rate hit a new record in July with one in four now out of work, like in Spain, as a crippling recession and austerity measures continued to take a toll on the labour market. Unemployment rose for a 35th consecutive month to 25.1 percent in July, more than double the euro zone average and up from a revised 24.8 percent in June, Greece's statistics service ELSTAT said on Thursday. The jobless rate has more than tripled since the debt-laden country's five-year recession began in 2008 and now stands at 54 percent for those aged between 15 and 24 years, compared with 22 percent in July 2008.

Right genre Keith wrong specific...........oh and I did say TV sci fi.

I see Turhan Bey has stopped taking sugar................ Without recourse to Google anyone know what TV Sci fi role he played?

Sorry lads I will try and tone it down a bit!!!!!!!!!!!!