bridge too far

My friends had dinner with him in Israel last week - true story Yours faithfully Namedropper (by association) BTF

Not 'deviated septum' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal_septum_deviation

Is that what you do with your blow-up doll?

What Scotty says. And then, if the council don't respond, write to your MP. S/he will make enquiries to the council and they are duty bound to reply quickly to the MP

From the article: "The Daily Mirror had reported that Mr Miliband was to have his adenoids removed to improve his "bunged up" voice." See - I WAS right

bald (bôld) adj. bald·er, bald·est 1. Lacking hair on the head. 2. Lacking a natural or usual covering: a bald spot on the lawn. 3. Lacking treads: a bald tire. 4. Zoology Having white feathers or markings on the head, as in some birds or mammals. 5. Lacking ornamentation; unadorned. 6. Undisguised; blunt: a bald statement of policy. Maybe he meant this definition?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13171942

You really are a little winker, aren't you

I think the problem that the LibDems have is that no-one is ever REALLY sure what their policies are. They seem to change to fit the circumstances (bandwagoning). Decades ago, I was very involved in Eastleigh politics (is that an oxymoron?) when the Liberals started to make inroads into the longstanding Labour support. The Liberals really did fence-sit on virtually every local issue and I don't think things have changed much. I used to call them political eunuchs, castrated from sitting on too many fences.

Just opened my copy of 'Milos - the guitar', a surprise present for no particular reason from Mr TF. Who's a lucky girl then

Nope, can't see it. Can't see that you've been gentle or not gentle. Here's the first sentence of my first post on this subject: "If Brown was the most gifted economist in the world, DC would still not support his candidature" I can't see from that how you can deduce that I, me, BTF was saying GB was the most gifted economist in the world. Just making the point that DC would oppose GB WHATEVER the facts. Capeesh?

http://www.republic.org.uk/What%20we%20do/Republic%20Campaigns/Royal%20wedding/index.php

I didn't write the article, you numbskull! I was just posting an article with an alternative point of view.

Although many of those classed as 'managers' are still front line staff. My departmental manager, in my lasts NHS job, was a nurse practitioner with responsibility for 9 community nurses (specialising in COPD and Home Oxygen). As well as managing her staff and her department, she also went out to patients in the same way as her staff did. So you could say it was a department of 9 nurses and a manager but, in reality, it was a department of 10 nurses, one of whom managed the service. A very dear friend of mine - with 25 years service in Theatres at QA - has just been made redundant. He was classed as a manager but he provided a front line service as well as managing the rest of the ODPs.

I think you'll find that 'Labour' is leaving the voting on this issue to its members. That's why, for example, John Reid and Caroline Flint are supporting the 'No' campaign.

I've just read a plethora of articles from the likes of Forbes magazine, New York Times etc. From what I've read, it seems to me that S & P downgraded the US because of fears that agreement won't be reached by the two main parties on how to address the long-term debt and that the rating is a 'political' move.

It was graceless of David Cameron to attack Gordon Brown in such personal terms yesterday, ruling him out of a job for which there is not even a vacancy yet. The former Prime Minister has his eyes on the £270,000-a-year post as managing director of the International Monetary Fund, if the incumbent, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, decides to run against Nicolas Sarkozy in next year's French presidential election. Mr Cameron is under no obligation to back him. And the Prime Minister made a reasonable point when he suggested that the IMF should look eastwards, to China or India, for a suitable candidate. But he could have argued that without indulging in derogatory comments about the former Prime Minister, saying that the IMF needs someone who "understands the dangers of excessive debt, excessive deficit" rather than "someone who says that they don't see a problem". Neither Tony Blair nor Margaret Thatcher ever belittled John Major or Jim Callaghan in such a fashion. Nor should we be misled into thinking that Mr Cameron was driven by disinterested concern for the best interests of Britain or the IMF. This was low politics. Come the next election, the Conservatives will want people to believe that all the bad things they have experienced under the Coalition was the fault of Mr Brown and his former advisers, Ed Miliband and Ed Balls, while all the good is attributable to the Conservatives. If Mr Brown received recognition from the international community, it would spoil their story. And the attack on Mr Brown's competence is not just unworthy, but contentious. The rest of the world copied Mr Brown's recapitalisation of the banks during 2008, implying that other governments are less begrudging about his achievements than our Prime Minister. Further, when the previous government announced the spending plans which brought about what Mr Cameron calls our "excessive debt", the Conservatives promised to match Labour's expenditure, pound for pound. So a question arises: if Gordon Brown is apparently not to be trusted with the stewardship of the IMF, can Mr Cameron and George Osborne be trusted with the British economy? Full article here: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-camerons-contentious-and-unworthy-attack-2269993.html

Would you be allowed to go for a walk on the beach if you were on Death Row?

The Music Box song from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang because my granddaughter sings it constantly and I've now bought her a musical box that plays the tune.

OIC But, to be pedantic, I said "I'd never live ......". In other words, I WOULD never live ..... This indicates current and future plans, not past events. Oh yes!

DP in missing the purpot of my first sentence shocker

If Brown was the most gifted economist in the world, DC would still not support his candidature. Think about it rationally - if he supported him it would be tantamount to admitting that actually Brown was right in what he did to support the economy and, therefore, by implication, that DC / GO were wrong! Crikey, even the majority of respected economic observers in the world failed to spot what was coming.

Oh yes!

You will find waste in any industry or business or public service. You might find this article interesting: http://abetternhs.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/the-nhs-excellence-and-efficiency/ It's one of many that reinforce the report from about a year or so ago that the NHS is one of the most efficient, value for money healthcare systems in the world.

Having been an insider myself, I'm well aware of how SOME of the targets were met, with some undesirable methods. But many good targets were set and met and some of these are no longer being met. It's no good ring-fencing NHS budgets if you're going to spend some of the budgets on so-called reform.