dune

I'm very for him and his family and wasn't talking about genuine cases. Of course genuine people deserve all the help we can give them. What i'm talking about are the thousands who milk the system and are on incapacity benefits because they're bone idle sponging scumbags.

I agree. 13 years of pandering to the Guardian brought this country to it's knees. The govt. need to start listening to what the British people want and start pandering to the rational views of the Daily Express and the Daily Mail.

I'm not talking about taking people out of one job and forcing them into another job, i'm talking about the bone idle slobs on incapacity benefit that have made a life choice to sit on their fat arses and sponge off the state. Work should be found for them and they should be forced to do it. Why should they get a rent free house, no council tax, and money to spend on fags and booze? It disgusts me - they should all be put in workhouses, fed and clothed, and made to work.

I hate the c**t with a passion.

Some you win, some you lose, but i'm no quitter and in the long run i'll do very well.

If Billy is so decent and principled why has he abandoned urban life to live in the countryside?

What on earth are you waffling on about? As it goes I am in favour of work houses because there's too much of the carrot to live a life of riley, and not enough of the stick to poke these people into getting off their back sides. International Aid is similar to the Socialist benefits for our own idle slobs in the sense that it doesn't address the root cause of the problem and thus it's a wasteful drain of taxpayers money and it doesn't help those in the third world stand on their own two feet. The only way to really help these people (and our people) is through private investment - NOT GOVERNMENT HANDOUTS. Africa is a rich continent that has been badly managed. Take Rhodesia as an example - they have good soil, a climate that is condusive with high yield agriculture, and rich mineral resources. This country was once the bread basket of Africa and health and education were provided free of charge for all of the people, yet since 1980 infant mortality has increased and life expectancy has declined. That is because of poor governance which has led to commercial farming turning into subsisatnace farming and foreign investors being frightened off. Verbal you, like the rest of the lefty types, love to come accross as the good guys, but the fact is you are ignorant to what is blatently obvious.

They put our over payed footballing prima donnas to shame. Welldone England Cricket team.

You are quite wrong about that, but unlike lefty types who think handouts are the answer, i'm of the belief that handouts do not help at all. What Africans need is law and order and private investment. It's exactly the same in this country where the Socialists have created a workshy slob class that are prepared to live like pigs so long as the state pays for their fags and chip butties.

He's a typical of the hobby Socialist type (Bridge too far i'd put in this category what with her being the daughter of Conservative activists). They are wealthy enough to be able to take the hit from an incompetent partys mismanagement of the economy, wheras if you're real working class namby pamy Socialist ideals aren't as important as jobs and prosperity for those of us who are prepared to do a days work.

I'm actually friends with a lady who stood for Labour in my constituencies election in 2005 (i think it was 2005 - may have been the previous election) as she is in my local pubs quiz team - bit of a fat unkempt sort of lady and her husband wears rainbow coloured knitted jumpers (and drinks half pints) but nice people none the less. When she came to the door naturally I welcomed her in, but made it quite clear I wouldn't be voting for her or her misguided Socialist party. At the time I was disgusted by the anti hunt laws and made it perfectly clear that her party would never be wanted in the countryside, especially at this time.

There's no need to be sarcastic. I'm just interested in it, nothing more. Don't read my posts if all you want to do is sneer.

France won't intervene, which is sad, but not unexpected as they have completely withdrawn from the world stage millitarily. They will pay for this weakness because there are a lot French interests in Ivory Coast. As for the Marxists you really need to research Africa, because it's a fact that China and Russia are keep rogue regimes in power by exploiting the mineral wealth with payments to dictators and their henchmen. It's happening in Rhodesia, it'll happen in Ivory Coast, it's happening in Iran -and the list goes on. Wake up and smell the coffee and ask yourself why it's always the Marxist axis that impedes the UN in dealing with said countries. It's no co-incidence that Iran is sucking up to Russia and China - they know full well that they can get away with genocide and suppression and building up a nuclear arsenal so long as the cash keeps flowing in from their Marxist allies and the minerals keep flowing out.

Randgold falling early doors despite a mini rally yesterday. Bank of Irealnd falling too with the potential for a quick buck achieveable on the bounce back.

fodder

Two big listed companies supply genetically-modified seed worldwide – America's Monsanto (NYSE: MON) and Switzerland's Syngenta (NYSE: SYT). http://www.monsanto.com/whoweare/Pages/default.aspx http://www.syngenta.com/global/corporate/en/Pages/home.aspx I really like the look of Syngenta and theyir shares are really performing very well... http://qfx.quartalflife.com/clients/(S(zakcyl45ajvo1w45vofmlo55))/ch/syngenta/sm6/Default.aspx?culture=en-US# Will have to ring up my dealer to complete this deal as it's not available online. As for Halfords I have them on my watch list but they're going nowhere fast - a bit like a bloody push bike.

r.e potatoes i said you'd struggle to find a producer, but would be better looking at a seed producer. There are clearly options here. I'm a big supporter of genetically modified crops because with the worlds population increasing so much there will come a time when even the idiotic leftwing types will have to concede that disease resistant crops is the only way to create high yield harvests. Food production is already under pressure so genetically modified seed production is going to be the most important industry of this century along with energy, be that renewable or fossil fuel. Thanks Hamster, i've just decided in which area i'll next be investing and it complies perfectly with my ideology in investing in areas that tree huggers hate. Now it's time to start researching, i'll be back with some suitable suggestions....

A prime example of an African leader that is scareing away foreign investment. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/93420/20101217/mugabe-may-hit-foreign-firms-in-retaliation-for-sanctions.htm

Exactly. International aid is a ridiculous socialist concept that achieves nothing. What poor countries need is security for foreign investment and for foreign investment to be secure it needs protection. The East India company and the British South Africa company were only able to bring prosperity through being able to recruit their own armies. This is the model that worked because it allowed commerce to flourish. What I would propose would be for the UN start focussing more on protecting western investments because that is the key to bannishing poverty from Africa.

We acted in the interests of all. By providing stability we raised living standards and life expectancy and commerce was able to flourish. What we're seeing now in the Ivory Coast is tribal rivalries once again undermining prosperity. I believe that the United Nations needs to raise its game and start protecting commerce because it is only through commerce that these countries will be able to stand on their own two feet.

In the old days such conflicts were dealt with swiftly. http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=41551 (you'll enjoy this Thorpie)

That hasn't been possible given my injury.

Scarpetburgerthorpe

I'm currently on holiday. Unlike Socialist types who would take a sickie i took a holiday to recuperate from my unfortunate accident.