bridge too far

A bit harsh to call Penny a dog

Love this - I've pinched it to post elsewhere. Hope you don't mind

Bigger crowd at Adams Park last night to watch the Continental Cup final between Manchester City ladies and Arsenal ladies than the norm for Wycombe Wanderers.

Sorry - didn't express myself very well. I was trying to show that Ebola infection is not rife anywhere apart from West Africa and not really an issue in Spain / US etc. I hope it won't become one. Had the original 'infectees' been treated at the site of their infection, the health workers in Spain and the US would not have been infected.

I don't think those unfortunate people 'got it' in Spain and the US. They were being treated in those countries having been infected in Africa - slight difference. Some people who had been treating them were subsequently infected.

I'm agreeing with Trousers and Lord D! Lawks a mercy!

I liked the comment that it should read 'Skys Craper [sic] city'

Admirable sentiments but the harsh facts are that if doctors and teachers take the risk and stand for Parliament and then lose their seat at the following election, they've lost out on essential in-service training. Doctors in particular would be facing a significant pay cut too.

Oh we've done that - tied up in the little basin and eaten many times at The Opposition.

Or alternatively, if you're in the Cotswolds, try Great Rollright http://www.oxfordshirevillages.co.uk/westoxonvillages/great_rollright.html

Third store that Tesco has mothballed since their new boss took over recently!

I'd second Shropshire. Lovely countryside and loads of industrial history if you like that sort of thing - e.g. Ironbridge.

Almost as bad as getting a new set of saucepans for your birthday. On reflection - even worse

Just managed to find the latest score - they're losing 1-2 to Northampton

Chr**t on a bike! They say women are *****y - we couldn't hold a candle to you lot! None of you, of course, would EVER EVER go for what you perceive to be a better job / more money would you. FFS

Saw this earlier - made me laugh

I think this says it all. A man who is absolutely out of touch with the real world. Plank http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/10/03/boris-johnson-housing-affordable_n_5925758.html?1412335620

But if you were a police man/woman and you'd just pulled him in for questioning about an offence, wouldn't common sense dictate that you look into his background and record in previous countries? Common sense I would have thought although I know the police are hugely under-resourced these days.

What's even more nuts is the fact that when he was questioned quite recently about an attack on a(nother) teenage girl, the police didn't seem to question his history! I guess his 7 year sentence was imposed by Latvian courts and there's bugger all we can do about that.

WG have a look at this - it shows that almost 50% of welfare spending is on the State Pension http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_state_in_the_United_Kingdom

Nowhere did I say big companies were bad. Many big companies pay decent wages and still remain profitable. It's the likes of tax avoiders and zero contract hours employers like Amazon that are happy to have their wage bills subsidised by you and me.

I would question that since something like 1.4m people are on zero hours contracts and 1.4m are on workfare (counted as jobs) and 1.4m are on JSA sanctions. The greatest welfare spend by far is on state pensions and a huge amount is paid to people IN WORK to top up their paltry wages - in other words lining the pockets of wealthy companies with taxpayers' money.

Oh I agree but what is odd is that he didn't go missing until a week after her disappearance. I would have thought he would have disappeared immediately after the event. But it appears that it was only when CCTV of him doing the same journey 15 minutes later that he did a runner. Because he knew they were on to him or because he was scared his previous record would militate against him? Who knows

I'm not talking about his actual speech - I'm highlighting what a lot of economic experts and think-tanks are saying about his promises about tax in 2020. They're pointing out that, far from helping people who are poorly paid, his plans will benefit the better off disproportionately. In fact a spokesman from the Institute for Economic Affairs is on the BBC saying just this. And of course it's based on the premise that we'll be out of debt by 2020 whereas, in fact, this government has borrowed more in the past 4 years than the Labour government ever did in 13 years.

This shines an interesting light on Dave's promises http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/10/01/david-cameron-tax-pledges-graphs_n_5912072.html?1412167530