*Belle*

I thought it was a serpent, although its been a while, but same property for both. Here

Gell St, off West St.

His policy?? http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/19/photos-obama-immigration-detention-facilities/

Freedom of speech? Hell no.

Thirty years old and still as relevant as ever, nothing really changes.. Expelling the Russians

It was certainly more than that. He was already on the FBI radar and had already previously been interviewed by them. The fact that the FBI have made a rare apology for their failure to act, is telling.

For the most concise and interesting breakdown of the main points of the charges, New York lawyer and media analyst Michael Lebron aka Lionel Nation:

There has always been fake news since there has been news. "History would be a wonderful thing, if it were only true" as Tolstoy said. The difference today, thank God, is that rebuttals or contradictory evidence can be made public in a few seconds.....and long may it continue. I'm not a child, I don't need anyone telling me what I can or cannot read. I'm quite capable of doing my own research and making up my own mind.

As I understand it, the Dems enforced the shutdown by trying to introduce the DACA issue into the proceedings, a month or so earlier than originally planned. It was done to try and back Trump into a corner and their capitulation shows it clearly didn't work. There are more important things afoot at the moment, none of which appears to be reported upon in the mainstream media. I believe that the doodoo is about to hit the fan in a major way with regard to the widespread corruption in high places.

Its been on the table for donkeys years. Hilary voted in favour of it in 2006.

Whatever we might think about Trump, it is interesting to see the Russia collusion propaganda now unravelling, some of it apparently paid for by the Clinton/ DNC. Add to the mix, the ongoing connection of kick backs paid to the Clintons by the Russians for her to sign off on selling control of 20% of America's uranium. Another bit of interesting reading is the Charles Ortel investigation into the illegal shenanigans of the so called 'Clinton Foundation' and its spin offs. If Trump intends draining the swamp, I'm afraid he has a way to go yet.

The puppetmasters have always been able to make the unsavoury issues go away, providing the influential perps tow the line.

The naivety of some people never ceases to amaze me.

For, as always, the best analysis

There was a time when, pre huge venue days, world famous artistes would be happy to play venues like the City Hall for a reasonable fee. I would cheerfully fork out for such a venue. I wouldn't be interested in seeing anyone in the cattle market, arena type venues if they were giving the tickets away.Each to their own, but as long as the mugs keep going to these venues, you can hardly blame the artistes for raking in a million quid for a nights work.

It also illustrates perfectly how the mindset of local industrialists contributed in no small way, to some of the industry's eventual demise. The message of the film, appears to be, "To succeed, work harder with the same old antiquated equipment ." So whilst other countries were equipping themselves with the latest machines and technology, industrialists like Sir Stuart Goodwin were building fountains and sports centres as well as sponsoring golf tournaments to ingratiate themselves with goodness knows who, whilst their employees were expected to keep producing the goods on equipment that was generations out of date. When the curtain finally came down, the blame fell on the unions and British workers who found themselves labeled as slow and lazy. It makes my blood boil.

So, this afternoon, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes told reporters that he has seen reports from the U.S. intelligence community that showed communication from members of President Trump's transition team — and possibly from the president himself — were incidentally collected as part of a broader surveillance effort. None of it relates to Russia but does relate to a "foreign intelligence" This could get interesting.

This book is so good and I wish him all the best with it. To see how the book idea came about (and my quest for reflected glory ), read more HERE

Apologies for resurrecting this old thread but some time ago, as you can see above, after reading his excellent posts, I suggested Downsunder should write a book. He has !! and has kindly sent me a complimentary copy (Wow! and thank you) for the initial suggestion. Its such a good read and so cleverly illustrated, I definitely recommend it. Details in the LINK

My original question, was of course rhetorical but at least the situation has prompted a meeting on Thursday by 'The Committee on Standards in Public Life' and not before time, in my opinion. I doubt that anything much will come of it, but at least it is being discussed.

So George Osborne is to be the editor of the London Evening Standard for 4 days a week and on the books of Blackrock for one day a week and its thought that he will remain as MP ??? Hows that work then??

I think that steveroberts means that, if he is driving 'exclusively' for this company, HMRC would consider him to be employed by them. HMRC can then insist that he is placed on their payroll and must be an employee. And as you mention taxi drivers, the Uber tribunal came to a similar conclusion.

Happy Birthday #11 to the legend

Only if I could rewind my brain, so that I didn't know what I know now So that would be late 60's. A few laughs in the local then down to the Cav or Top Rank or Fiesta or Tiffs till 2, taxi home and set the alarm for 7 to be up for work. I have a headache just thinking about it.

Time machine? - no thanks. Some great times in the past, but the thought of revisiting them today would fill me with dread.