Lord Duckhunter

The right to withdraw your Labour is a fundamental part of a free market economy IMO. I find it ironic that people moaning about Tubes not running on Boxing day (or having to pay the drivers a premium for doing so) are exercising their right to shop and spend money freely when and where they want to, yet these supporters of a free market want to deny others the right to withdraw their Labour.

"A modern unionist" passionately opposed to the EU. A man who spent his whole life fighting for working people, who realised that EU immigration has suppressed their wages and been disastrous for the employment chances of the unskilled British youngster.

Sad, especially for his children. To lose a father of that young age is painful and our thoughts should be with them. Always thought Crow was a decent lefty. Believed what he said, and did exactly what a union leader should do, he did his best for his members. It was the people who kept caving into him that were at fault , not Bob. A vehemently anti EU campaigner, he would have been an important voice from the left in any referendum. I'd rather see people like crow running the workers party than the present bunch of half wits that try to be all things to all men (and women), except "The Bankers". To see posh privately educated people like Harman, Hunt, Balls playing at protecting the working class is nauseating. People like Crow and Alan Johnson are the authentic voice of the working man, the rest are just middle class posh kids slightly to the left of the wet side of the Tory party.

Despite south west trains making me stand all the way from parkway to clapham and a ****e view (we were 3 rows from the back), a decent away day. Great to see us win a scrappy tight game. Thought back 4 did well , and Adam for 60 mins. Thought we lost it a bit up top when Rickie went off, but overall pleasing game. MP seemed up for it.

Do you see a conspiracy in everything? These people don't go around telling people " I'm into looking at naked kids" . How on earth can this be an example of Cameron's judgement. They don't have a big stamp on their head with nonse writtern on it. Nobody would suggest that Dawltry's judgement is flawed by being in a band with Pete Townsend. Yet mention the Tory party and you get a hard on.

What is there to say? What do you want me to say, that it's ok to look at kiddie porn if you work for Call me Dave , but not Red Ed? His arrest has about as much to do with Cameron as Dave Jones' had to do with Ruppey. What are you trying to say, that there is a culture of kiddie fiddling in number 10. That Cameron covered it up, or was part of it, or turned a blind eye? Are you somehow trying to claim that Cameron's judgement is in question because he let a kiddie fiddler into number 10. Is Roger Daltry's judgement in question because he sang with Pete Townsend?

People with left wing views - lefties Arsenal fans -Gooners Mods, Rockers Skates Teenagers

Here's an idea, why dont they make BBC 3 subscription only, that way the people who want to watch their shiete can pay for it and the rest of us can stop subsidising it. An even better idea would be to abandon the TV poll tax and make all the BBC subscription only. Its 2014, not 1954 FFS

What, like at Sunderland?

You lefties make me laugh. When the Mail ran the Harman story lefties in the media were screaming how they wouldn't have run the story if it was a Tory, it was just a "smear". Now they break a story of a Tory, give it a high profile online and in the daily and they were fed the info, presumably for political reason. Lol

A good rule of thumb for a defined contribution pension is that you need to put the % of your salary that matches the age you start a pension to get a decent retirement income. So if your 20, then the ideal amount is 20%. If your 35 , then 35%. The problem is that's not really affordable to most working people, and that's why the next generation of pensioners will be poorer than the last. Unless you work in the public sector or are unbelievably lucky, you can thank Gordon Brown and the labour party for ****ing up your retirement. I only pay into our money purchase scheme because I get free money from my employer for doing so, but it ain't going to fund my retirement so need to look at other options. Luckily mrs duck has an NHS pension, so staying the right side of her is one priority.

They broke the story.

Of course had Theresa May, IDS & Edwina Currie belonged to an organisation that allowed a bunch of peado's to affiliate and join. Had May refused to say it was mistake, despite being asked 6 times by a Newsnight interviewer to do so and despite the present head of the organisation having done so (despite not even being born when it started), there's no way Pap would have started a thread about that .

He also said that he was the best centre half in the world. Discussing the interview on Monday night club, his fellow skate claridge called him deluded.

Silly old me thought that all kiddie fiddler chat occurred on the Savillie thread. Seems that a Tory deserves his own thread, when Rolf and others don't. Seeing as its pretty silly starting a thread for every suspect, perhaps PAP's effort could be the political peado thread. In light of this, Pap do you think Harmen should follow others lead and apologise and do you think she was right when she called for naked photos of kids not to be made illegal unless it could be proved that the kid was harmed. Would you resign from an organisation that let peados affiliate, I would. Would you Pap?

Typical. A thread about a Tory . I must have missed the one about Mr and Mrs Harman , Hewitt and the PIE.

Seeing as Gaston and Osvaldo have been complete and utter waste of money , this maybe a good thing.

Since Gordon brown destroyed the final salary pensions of private company employees , the equity in peoples houses is their only form of "savings". My and Mrs Duck will use ours to buy a smaller place which we'll rent out. Once the kids leave home and the mortgage is paid off, we'll switch properties and the £1100 (based on next doors rent) a month rent we'll get in will go towards our retirement income. Now clearly its in my interest for supply to be kept down, forcing rent up. Do I want the hassle, no I don't. But Brown made my final salary pension unaffordable and I've lost thousands. What is more "scummy". Funding your own retirement by providing a service, relying on the state to look after you, or decimating one of the worlds finest pension systems?

Our next door neighbour (a teacher BTW) got a job in Germany. It is a 3 year contract, so decided not to sell up, but rent out their house as they want to live round here on their return. The people who moved in, love the house and told me that they couldn't believe their luck that this became available to rent. I don't know why they rent, I didn't ask them. But she doesn't work and he drives a BMW, so presume they could afford to buy. Just to add, after mortgage payments , estate agents fees for managing the property and paying rent on his place in Germany, he still comes out with a profit. Is my neighbour a "scummy landlord with no soul" ?

What UKIP have done is change the terms of the debate. Bill Cash and others used to argue about "section x, sub section y of treaty w" it didn't really resonate with people. What Nigel's done is simplify the argument and concentrate on the effect, rather than the cause. He's linked low skill Eastern European immigration to the EU, he's linked unskilled British youths on the dole to EU immigration. The BBC and other establishment figures have tried to push Europe down the agenda, they've tried to say that it doesn't rank highly amongst voters issues. What Nigel has done is bust that myth wide open, "Europe" itself may not feature highly, but immigration does and it's now linked to Europe. If immigration went away as an issue, there's plenty of other issues that are caused by our membership that Nigel can link. Amazon/Google ect paying taxes elsewhere, VAT rates, increased cost of dredging rivers, the list will be endless because as EU Commissioner Viviane Reding said recently, 70% of UK law comes from the EU. The Establishment have lied to us, made people vote again, denied us a voice for a generation, fiddled the books (when was the last time the auditors signed off the EU budget) and basically treated us like citizens of a third world despot to keep the gravy train running . Armed with all that, even a half wit could take Cleggy to the cleaners, let alone an intelligent witty bloke like Farage.

Lucky for him that he blew up innocent people, had he grabbed a couple of chicks tits he'd be facing the full force of the law.

This was the Tory line when opposing the minimum wage. Labours very clever and politicly acute response was to set the minimum wage (via a "low pay commission") so low that it didn't really make a blind bit of difference. All they did was top up the wage with taxpayers money. It was genius really, a win,win,win, for them. Labour politicians can tour TV outlets bragging about this great social policy, their client state was expanded and the big business got subsided labour. Meanwhile the gap between rich and poor widened, the taxpayer got screwed, and people are trapped on welfare, whilst working. It's barmy, complete madness. Its not a minimum wage, its a welfare to work scheme .

Unbelievable that this happens in a country where the government sets a minimum wage .

Talksport is not as good as it was. Porky was great with Brazil, the only decent co-hosts he has now are Brian Moore and Warnock. Alvin Martin and Ray Houghton are pretty good, but I used to like Lofty from Eastenders show from years ago.That Murray is pony, dire, the midmorning slot is ruined now.Bring back Gaunty and I miss the late great Mike Dickin. In the evening, Sports Bar is dross, Goldstein and Cundy are too juvenile and Bobby Gould's even more of an old fossil than Dave Merrington. Away from Talksport, Claridge is good and I like Keano but can understand that he's not everybody's cup of tea. Garth Crooks FFS, the biggest plum that ever picked up a mike. Nobody else comes anywhere near. Motty needs to **** off and retire. Best anchorman Stelling, best pundits are Gary Neville and Stewart Robson by a mile.

Perhaps he was having a crafty fag in the public loos.