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I don't get the reaction from most on here. Why is what they've done so embarrassing, cringeworthy etc? What's the big deal?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-trouble-with-ed-labour-mps-gripes-over-leader-6277712.html I hope Balls gets the job.

1 versus 26. It would seem that others are now not so sure... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/eu-26-fight-to-stop-pact-unravelling-6277137.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djcqr_eePMc

Verbal: Bridge too far: Badgerx16: more to follow...

Andy liked it, deppo liked it. It must be well funny.

I do think it's really interesting. You are such a cynic.

Because it's such an interesting topic. Have you seen avatar yet?

I think schools should teach employment attitude studies. Managing directors should be brought in (tax breaks for their businesses if they spare the time) to give lectures on a regular basis.

Employers don't want our young adults. The question is what has gone wrong - is it bad parenting or bad education in secondary schools?

Shock employment data reveals that migrants got 150,000 jobs, whilst an alarming 280,000 British workers lost theirs. http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/284200/Migrants-grab-12-000-jobs-a-month

I'm afraid that all the Eastern Europeans that have flooded in and taken our jobs has made an easy remedy difficult. My remedy would be to introduce an immigrants tax payable by employers, or a reduction in employer NI contributions for indiginous people. This would reduce unemployment and would discourage immigrants from settling. I would also stop benefits for immigrants to encourage them to go back where they came from. Clearly we would need to leave the EU to achieve this.

This is fascinating... Have you seen Avatar yet?

It is MY thread. I can't help it if MY threads are always the most popular threads.

http://twitter.com/#!/Nigel_Farage/status/146926382134464512

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FFS. I sat through all that and he didn't suffer an horrific crash. Your standards are slipping.

I've put 30K on it by transfering from equities into corporate bonds.

:lol: "It's not like we're brothers" - David Camerons reply to the nerds comments about coalition division between him and Clegg. David Cameron destroys the lisping geek every single time.

Interesting... InTrade Odds On Euro Collapse By End Of 2012 Now At 50% One can listen to Eurocrats promising the moon and the stars, and that the zEUR0.PK will survive come hell or high water, or one can trade the probability of the Eurozone's breakup based on reality. For those who opt for the latter, they should head over to Intrade where the contract pricing the possibility of "Any country currently using the Euro to announce their intention to drop it midnight ET 31 Dec 2012" is now trading at perfectly even odds or 50%. In other words, the "upside benefit" of the EFSF, the ECB, the IMF and ultimately the Fed have been reduced to coin toss odds. Naturally, if there is a break up in the Eurozone the fallout will be massive and will likely lead to a far worse outcome than the freezing of money markets in the aftermath of the Lehman bankruptcy. In other words, the odds of capitalism surviving for just over a year form now are exactly fifty/fifty.

Special K what is your take on the impending collapse of the Euro and it's effects on the willingness of banks to lend? This is key to my investment strategy...

I quite agree. Take international aid. I detest the whole concept of giving money to failing nations as it doesn't address the issue of poor governance. Take Rhodesia as an example. It was the bread basket of Africa when it was properly governed under the great Ian Smith, but now it has reverted back to the middle ages. What countries like Rhodesia need is experienced comercial farmers on the land, employing the native people, and producing the food to feed not only them, but to produce a surplus which happened before and could easily happen again.

Ipsos MORI’s monthly political monitor for Reuters is also out. Topline figures there are CON 41%, LAB 39%, LDEM 11%. We have now gone from polls suggesting a Labour majority to hung parliament territory. Things are looking up.

I'd argue it already is a wasteland. I've seen with my own eyes what has become of Spain. Unemployment is Sky high, building projects abandoned. Our future is increasingly dependent on markets further afield.

I can cope with a post like this from you. It's the incredibly dull and rambling essays that I will not read. I read one once. I swore then there wouldn't be a second time.