bridge too far

No such thing as bad publicity now is there? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-36403733

It surprises me that intelligent, erudite posters on here can't see that the salient point is that he changed his story 6 times in a week. Doesn't fill me with confidence and now there's apparently the matter of a further £70+K in shares he's sold and not declared.

Can I have one too please? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/samantha-cameron-special-adviser-fashion-aide-taxpayer-salary-530000-a6974181.html

I wonder if Osborne will publish HIS tax return and what it will show. Didn't I read recently that Osborne & Little (his family wallpaper business) also used off-shore tax havens?

Like this you mean?

Funny that because Corbyn has just been on the news saying he's quite happy to disclose his tax affairs.

Corrected it for you

And IDS has thrown his toys out of the pram and resigned! RESULT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

For your delight and edification, a timely article by my old buddy Bryan Gould http://www.bryangould.com/the-left-case-for-brexit/

Oh we might as well all give up then - Batman says how it's going to be FFS

Oh happy days! We're winning, Wycombe are winning and Poopey are losing! Yay!

Well said sir!

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/22/ttip-deal-real-serious-risk-nhs-leading-qc

You're bang on there - it's called TTIP and it worries the living daylights out of me.

98% Bernie - no surprise there then also 98% Hilary - bit surprised at that

Exactly - it's happening - see my link above. It's being done by stealth

http://www.buzzfeed.com/solomonhughes/nhs-contract-stoke#.ir2jVpZ5b

And 30,000 more nurses are likely to be 'sent home' http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tories-plan-kick-30000-nurses-5925812

I've voted

From a post on FB today Rich Bowman6 hrs · Birmingham, United Kingdom · Last night I was the sole doctor on site caring for over 100 patients who were acutely unwell with complications from their cancer. Some couldn't breath, some were fighting overwhelming infections with literally no immune system, one had bleeding in their head, one had a blockage in their bowels. If I made a mistake because I was tired, any one of these patients could've died. Every cancer patient in the south birmingham region has a direct line to call for advice or help. 11 new unwell patients arrived and I assessed and treated them too. There was not a single manager in the whole hospital. Last night, I ran the oncology service for the whole south birmingham region from inside the biggest teaching hospital in Europe. Apparently I have no transferable skills to find a different job. And then I stood on a picket line in the cold to save our NHS. But my shift wasn't during the strike, it was just what countless other junior doctors do everyday. I am 27 years old. I work 60 hours a week, for the 48 that I'm paid for, I earn £18/hour. Apparently I lack vocation, I'm overpaid and I need to work harder. Screw you Jeremy Hunt. We never asked for thanks. All we do is for our patients, how dare you try and turn them against us. All of this is your government's fault. Well you've picked a fight with the wrong crowd. Go on, announce imposition, and just see what the most resilient, driven, passionate, intelligent group of people in Britain do next. Bring it on.

http://anotherangryvoice.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/guardian-corbyn-moderates-wintour-aav.html

Indeed I am jolly clever. But I am no longer a full member of this fascist ****fest so I only get three posts. I save them for special occasions.

Blimey! Which tree did you fall from? The media DRIVES the feeling of the general population, many of whom take what they read at face value instead of bothering to research the validity of the opinions proffered!

I think you've been misled by the media. Most of the General Secretaries' roles are comparable to those of business leaders with whom they negotiate (and, it has to be said, work very closely in many industries and businesses). So it's quite understandable that their salaries should be begin to approach the levels of those business leaders - although of course theyre nowhere near those levels in reality. The other, very important, point to make is this. Their salaries are considered and agreed by the membership. The same membership that votes for industrial action. The 'barons' do not make these decisions without the approval of their members. Shame private enterprise doesn't do the same, eh?

Nothing like sweeping generalisations is there ? My ex husband was a full time Regional Secretary for the construction trade union UCATT and went to extraordinary lengths to protect his members and fight for their rights. This at a time when the Economic League was in full flood.