Malcolm Robinson

Tell the truth how many attempts did it take? I took 15 goes! http://funstufftosee.com/frogleaptest.html

For a government which has committed itself to reducing the budget deficit this is not a good start to the year. In fact without 'real' economic growth the only way it can react is to cut even more aggressively to have any chance of fulfilling it promises and that means less services and more job cuts! http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=534589&in_page_id=2

Vince is at it again..........just can't help liking a lot of the stuff the guy says, bit like Clarke! http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=534840&in_page_id=2

Pays to read the labels! http://uk.news.yahoo.com/killer-cucumber-bug-spain-hits-britain-172629962.html

Full page ad in the NPL this week........

Once again in the news for the wrong reasons............ http://www.journallive.co.uk/northumberland-sites/bedlington-northumberland/bedlington-news/2011/05/27/trinity-youth-association-founder-facing-child-sex-charges-61634-28776222/

At last someone talking sense.............if only to identify the real problem. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23953724-chancellor-warned-over-pace-of-drastic-cuts.do

Lords as well.............. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/tory-peer-found-guilty-expense-fraud-140117864.html

GGG, I used to think I had a healthy distrust for the political elite, now after being lied to, bled dry and hung out I don't think we can believe a word that comes out of their mouths! If we have to put up with that might as well have someone easy on the eye…………. http://urbantitan.com/10-most-beautiful-women-in-todays-politics/ I'm with Mr B, number 2 for me! The most beautiful female politicians are (as identified by the Mail): 1 - Luciana Leon, 30, Peru 2 - Mercedes Aráoz 47, Peru 3 - Sara Latife Ruiz Chavez, 32, Mexico 4 - Mara Carfagna, 32, Italy 5 - Yuri Fujikawa, 27, Japan 6 - Anna-Maria Galojan, 26, Estonia 7 - Toireasa Ferris, 29, Ireland 8 - Yuliya Tymoshenko, 48, Ukraine 9 - Eunice Olsen, 31, Singapore 10 - Cayetana Álvarez, 34, Spain 11 - Vera Lischka, 31, Austria 12 - Alina Kabaev, 26, Russia 13 - Gabriela Cueva, 29, Mexico 14 - Orly Levy, 35, Israel 15 - Cristina Dia, 50, Mexico 16 - Tsepeli Nikolet, 28, Greece 17 - Marianne Thiem, 36, The Netherlands 18 - Carme Chacó, 37, Spain 19 - Pnina Rosenblum, 53, Israel 20 - Bibiana Aíd, 31, Spain 21 - Tanja Karpel, 38, Finland 22 - Julia Anastasia Bon, 23, Germany 23 - Ruhama Avraha, 44, Israel 24 - Sarah Palin, 44, United States 25 - Stefania Prestigiacom, 43, Italy 26 - Sofia Larse, 36, Sweden 27 - Angelina Sondak, 32, Indonesia 28 - Cristina Fernández de Kirchne, 56, Argentina 29 - Katrín Gunnarsdótti, 43, Iceland 30 - Soraya Sáen, 37, Spain 31 - Anastasia Michael, 33, Israel 32 - Stephanie Herseth, 38, United States 33 - Mónica Lorente Ramó, 38, Spain 34 - Hillary Clinton, 61, United States 35 - Melissa Park, 42, Australia 36 - Ségolène Roya, 55, France 37 - Jiang Y, 44, China 38 - Freya Van den Bossch, 34, Belgium 39 - Nebahat Albayra, 40, The Netherlands 40 - Kirsten Gillibran, 43, United States 41 - Eva Glawischni, 39, Austria 42 - Sabine Herol, 27, France 43 - Hillevi Larsso, 34, Sweden 44 - Hillevi Larsso, 46, Iceland 45 - Piia-Noora Kaupp, 33, Finland 46 - Sabine Bätzin, 34, German 47 - Isabel dos Santo, Angola 48 - Penny Won, 40, Australia 49 - Kate Elli, 32, Australia 50 - Melissa Lee, New Zealand 51 - Marcela Guerra Castill, Mexico 52 - Delsa Solórzano, Venezuela 53 - Natalie Rickl, 33, Sweden 54 - Malalai Joy, 31, Afghanistan

''Whooow there big boy...........''

Either of these two would get my vote....... Yulia Timoshenko (Ukraine) and Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (Argentina)

Pretty French lady in politics, maybe Segolene.....

Really????????

Once again Parliamentary report.........

Reporting from Parliament........

Sorry, you're not going to catch Italia in the debt trap! I think Italy has always been in the trap its only the recent more scandalous headlines which have kept it out of the firing line. I do see their balance of payments figures as the main reason why so much faith has been put into them. However......... This is why so much is being done to prop up failed economies, and I mean that in the Germanic sense of the word.

Look like Greece has finally called its last hand in the EU poker game putting an ''all in' for the middle of July. This in effect means they either get to default or the ECB/IMF bails them out completely. I also see the ratings agencies are now looking a bit closer at Italy, re-rating them as negative. That completes the set!

How much does a super-injunction cost?

For several years, a man in New York City had been having an affair with an Italian woman. One night, she confided to him that she was pregnant. Not wanting to ruin his reputation or his marriage, he paid her a large sum of money if she would go back to Italy to secretly have the child. Also, if she stayed in Italy to raise the child, he would provide child support until the child turned 18. She agreed, but asked how he would know when the baby was born. To keep it discreet, he told her to simply mail him a post card, and write 'Spaghetti' on the back when the child was born. He would then arrange for the Child Support Payments to begin. One day, about 8 months later, he came home to his confused wife. 'Honey,' she said, 'You received a very strange post card today.' 'Oh, just give it to me and I'll explain it later.' he said. The wife obeyed and watched as her husband read the card, turned white, and fainted. On the card was written: Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti. Two with meatballs, one without. Send extra sauce....

The 1st volume of " How to understand women” in its pocket version:

Possible successors to Strauss-Kahn as IMF head: KEMAL DERVIS (TURKEY) CHRISTINE LAGARDE (FRANCE) AXEL WEBER (GERMANY) TREVOR MANUEL (SOUTH AFRICA) AGUSTIN CARSTENS (MEXICO) ARMINIO FRAGA (BRAZIL) MARK CARNEY (CANADA) Bets anyone??????

Don't agree with that bit GGG! If we are talking the UK, while there still is one, then we have to see a restructuring of longer term debt and the economy. The fact is that even after all the present cuts and austerity measures going though at present and for the next few years this Government ends its term spending more than when it took office. So sovereign debt will actually increase despite efforts to reduce the national deficit! It may well have been a sleight of hand trick by the previous government but the supposed boom time actually looks pretty flat to me. Instead of using booming tax receipts to build a sustainable economy they were used to increase salaries and make unsustainable jobs. Only now are a lot of people recognising the fallacy of that strategy and for some unbeknown to me reason the private sector will be our saviour, a sector which has been allowed to wither apart from the service sector especially the likes of financial services. We need to rebalance our economy and support SMEs and our manufacturing base, I would include agriculture in that, and impose a strict debt restructuring over decades not even years. We might even get back to a place where we see ''Made in Britain' on goods again!

I don't think the financial gurus quite get it. Spain, Greece, Portugal, et al are now embarked on a crash course between what their people's want and what the super controllers within the ECB deem acceptable for them in an effort to protect the Euro. With the likes of almost 50% Spanish youth unemployment they are alienating a demographic who will take to the streets because they have the 'certainty' of youth and they don't have mortgages or families to try and protect. There was no way economies like Germany and Portugal could ever converge there are far too many attitude, or way of life, differences. Instead of recognising that, the Euro dismissed that economic cultural difference and instead laid down a 'Germanic' blueprint because Germany was the most efficient and prosperous. Without the German attitude to work the southern Med countries were always going to implode, they can't do anything else. They are now talking about bond holders sharing the pain, haircuts defaults etc, if that is truly the case the banks are once again in the firing line because of all the toxic EU debts they hold. It's a real mess and we are far from out of the woods!

Belated wishes from me too monsta.....

Wish I had thought of that Keith............ A closed Wetherspoons is only some people's end of the world foxy! Turns out he wasn't the Messiah only a naughty schoolboy................. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/final-countdown-world-awaits-6pm-doom-114119189.html