Malcolm Robinson

** BREAKING NEWS ** In an attempt to save the economy, on October 30th 2011, the PM will announce that he is ordering the immigration department to start deporting old people (instead of illegal's) in order to lower Social Security and NHS costs. The reasoning behind this drastic measure is that old people are easier to catch and most will not remember how to get back home! RUN, YOU OLD SODS, RUN

Thanks GGGG much better!

Do you mean what we were promised if there was anything like say a Lisbon treaty proposed?

Funnily enough GGG just had an argument with a leading figure about county not including anything into their equations for inflation. Tried to get him to see if they didn’t then the inflation figure has to eat into their headline budget figures and compromise what was supposed to be available. Course it could be a way of trimming budgets without calling it cut backs?

This is what I did up at County Hall Merlin...........

Remember this post................well........... Send it around your contacts, I want it to go VIRAL!!!!!!!!!!!

At a wine merchant the regular taster died and the director started looking for a new one to hire. A drunkard with a ragged, dirty look came to apply for the position. The director of the factory wondered how to send him away. They gave him a glass to drink. He tried it and said, "It's a Muscat, three Years old, grown on a north slope, matured in steel containers". Low grade but acceptable. "That's correct", said the boss. Another glass.... "It's a cabernet, eight years old, a south-western slope, oak barrels, matured at 8 degrees. Requires three more years for finest results.." "Correct." A third glass... ''It's a pinot Blanc champagne, high grade and exclusive’’ calmly said the drunk. The director was astonished. He winked at his secretary to suggest something. She left the room, and came back in with a glass of urine. The alcoholic tried it. "It's a blonde, 26 years old, three months pregnant and if you don't give me the job, I'll name the father."

Probably around double for a smallish premisis! I always discount initial discounts because in no time at all you pay the true rate which given the hike will more than make up for a short period of 'undercharge'. I have long argued that non domestic rates is a tax which not even the most efficient business have any control over. If a business uses too much electricity it can switch things off, too much heating it can cut down, but that isn’t possible with something like a rates demand. That is set on a fictional rental pricing structure and means a small business in Bedlington pays the same per square foot as Harrods, pro rata of course! That and the upwards only rents some landlords charge has a devastating effect on small towns like ours. Watching the billion pound Metro Centre last night not hard to see where retail migration has ended up and the Ying and Yang of property prices where our high streets are losing value and the Metro Centre has trebled in value since Sir John’s departure.

Flipping heck they are all at it................. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/court-clerk-becomes-bribery-acts-first-victim-141153785.html

Not being a fan of QE Mk1 or Mk2, in reality the way it was used but that’s another story, let’s look at what has happened since the MK2 variety has been opened up. The reason we were told why QE2 was needed was to keep long term interest rates down. A continual reference in these posts has been the fact that the real financial story can seen in our 10 year bench rate. Before QE2 our 10yr rate was 2.36% and the 30yr rate 2.39% since the presses have been turned on again this week the rates are now 2.58% for the 10yr and 3.5% for the 30yr! Or exactly the opposite of what was supposed to happen. The same thing has happened in the States with their operation Twist. It takes a particular sort of mindless idiots to repeatedly hit themselves in the eye when trying to hit a nail into a block of wood, unless blindness was the real intent! If we believe our political class then they are wrong and their policies are wrong too! If we keep going down the present path we must end up in a depression and these halfwits are acting like King Canute. I would rather go down fighting than suffer death by a thousand cuts but with the intelligence on display at all national levels that’s all that’s on offer!

I could say that if you partook in a little training............ I will put a bet down you didn't click 'add pic to post' at the righthand side of the page?

Keith, The short courses are really just to give an understanding of the basics but even people who are adept at using computers and the web have found them useful. No computer speak and you get to go at your own speed so no hassles. PM me and let’s get you booked in!!!!

It’s already here in reality, try posting stuff on certain sites which can be construed as critical of the owner or sponsor…………. Don’t really mind the porn filter can we have the same with pop ups!

I have a seat ready and waiting for you Keith!

Whats wrong with fish n chips oot the paper Brian? You can even stand undercover in the subway eating them!

Slovakia's parliament has said no to an expansion of the 440-billion-euro bailout fund so what happens now, they will probably have another vote once arms have been twisted up backs! Their PM made it a vote of confidence so effectively she is now unseated and there should be a national election. Trichet must be spitting feathers, Sarko must be weak at the knees wondering how he can get the rest of the Eurozone to bailout French banks and Merkel probably has the presses primed for issuing a new Deutsche Mark! I would think the ‘worst’ bank in the Eurozone must be the ECB considering all the worthless paper it has accepted now! Course the way its accounting works everything is assessed at full repaid value, even the Greek stuff?????? All this uncertainly and the bourses are going up, looks like a sucker play to me with the big boys trying to draw in the small guys so they can liquidate their positions.

Anyone need a bit of help with computer and online basics? Take a look at the News page.

Congratulations,

http://uk.news.yahoo...-110322832.html

Flipping heck, I never noticed..........sorry!

Any budding journalists out there............. http://www.linkedin....=3hCubZh0kFh4Y1