Download the App
The new Google Nexus 4 is out tomorrow – 02 sent one to Guido to test. Our app looks great on the 4.7″ screen with 1280 x 768 pixel resolution – bigger and better than an iPhone. It is now the top of the class Android phone available – scorching fast, it feels more fluid and smoother. The first 50 people in the queue outside 02 at 8 a.m. tomorrow get a free 32″ flatscreen TV as well! Details here.
The Android native app can be downloaded here. For all other devices you can download it here…
I demand a judge led inquiry into this App!
I demand an enquiry into how you ever became Leader of the Opposition.
So do we – we voted for his brother.
We voted for David Davis.
Wrong !!
Er, don’t think so !!
bbc glorified so.vile.
will it undermine now.
what should it mine?
ores are extracted through mining.
If BBC’s demise is in the eyes of its political opponents then it may go for public sentiment via making contents of Operation Ore public. Politicians are going to sacrificed in our deMOCKracy. We have a paedophile protecting political class.
Shome mishtake, snorely. I voted for Joe Davis.
is there an app for releasing the content of Operation Ore?
store.google.com/blairfacedliar
BBC in more pooh here:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/11/12/breaking-the-secret-list-of-the-bbc-28-is-now-public/#more-74210
The 28 it appears, were not ‘climate scientists’ or even ‘climate experts’.
The 28 were a collection of rent seeking special interests, environmental pressure groups, a couple of ‘convinced’ scientists and a green overseer from the American government.
No wonder the BBC refused to reveal, just who is driving their environmental policy.
just who is driving their environmental policy.
Their pension fund trustees apparently. They’re heavily invested in the green subsidy industry.
Don’t forget “Jon Plowman, Head of Comedy”
Fuck. I suppose it’s too late to put 14 Nexus phones on expenses.
YUP !!
Makes no difference to the voters what so ever.
The tories appear to be recycling their Bradford West candidate. Obviously expecting a similar triumph.
The Tories are expecting another ‘Respect’ victory in a Labour safe seat?
Keep telling yourself it was a safe seat if it makes you feel better.
Labour since 1923 except for 1931-33. I’d say that was fairly safe.
Anything to say, Jimmy?
No?
In order of preference.
1. Pig with red rosette.
2. Tub of lard with red rosette
3. Dodgy labour Councillor who’s fraud convictions have almost all been served.
4. Welsh Muslim lesbian disabled with a green transgenderism + political studies degree.
5. Euan Blair.
Hey !! Willy should be up there !
6 Shane McDenis
Where’s the bladder on a stick?
Standing as Police Commissioner in Hull.
Alan McLadd !
Wow. Happy Days.
I’m going to prison.
Did Cherie Blair get a free phone as well?
I demand freebies everywhere I go. Of course I do a lot for charity too. Like the time I autographed a copy of the Hutton report. Some accused me of bad taste for signing a copy of an inquiry into the death of someone, but it was sold at auction to raise money for Labour, so it was all for a good cause. Naturally, I charged a fee for signing my autograph, and another fee for being in the same building as that person.
That’s the trouble with these modern phones, Gordon. All that fragile glass at the front – very breakable. Oh, by the way, it’s a screen, not a mirror. Sorry to “break” it to you, Gordon, but you’re not actually a brightly coloured Angry Bird.
Finally restocked the shelves here
Yeah, we did too!
Did the offer of a phone at all influence the copy that appeared under the photograph? BE careful otherwise the BBC will subject you to a full newsnight grilling …
I’ve already broken 8 of these phones. It was the right thing to do.
Gordon, they always sell you an old 2210 at a new price.
And those apps on your phone..They are just stickers from an in the night garden book.
There is no such thing as an ‘automatic Obama dialer’. Its just the Ninky Nonk.
You really should have twigged. Especially as every time you asked a question the phone shop team said “We’ve got a Sap for that!” And stuck another sticker on the screen.
I don’t like you. You’re a bigot. You’re always making hurtful comments about me. If you were here right now in my toilet in Kirkcaldy, I’d hit you with my Nexus.
if you get stuck in the loo again, just press the ‘iggle piggle’ app and John Prescott will rush to help you out.
Makkapakka
Put your Nexus away, Gordon. You’ve already been.
My balls still ache – and I haven’t been able to make a final decision. Perhaps the Middle’ Way might work – saw one off as suggested and smash the other with a heavy hammer.
Keep up the good work, break as many as you like. Some of the work was actually done in the UK. That is despite your attempts to ruin our electronics industry here.
Mc Shame will be needing one
Wow, a phone which can get the BBC News website covering itself for 24/7.
Oh stop gushing, just cos you got a freebie Guido.
Does it vibrate?
It does indeed!
And so does the app:
“Hardware controls
control vibrator
Allows the app to control the vibrator.”
It can also
“read phone status and identity
Allows the app to access the phone features of the device. An app with this permission can determine the phone number and serial number of this phone, whether a call is active, the number that call is connected to, etc.”
AND
“take pictures and videos
Allows the app to take pictures and videos with the camera. This allows the app, at any time, to collect images that the camera is seeing.”
No can do. Google are tax avoiders.
Tax avoiders are patriots. Only by starving the beast of government will they get the message.
Bollocks. If I have to pay up then so should they.
You don’t have to pay up any more than they do.
Arrange your life so you don’t pay so much tax. Work less hours. Set up a company and pay yourself via dividends. Stop buying so much unnecessary shit. Plan your journeys so you use less fuel. Stop paying the telly tax. Stop eating out or buying processed meals with 20% VAT on them.
Go on tax strike.
Become an MP. That way you need never pay tax ,or even pay for household expenses ever again. Or even stamp duty. No matter how many homes you might have.
Or get a job at the BBC and take advantage of the many tax dodges on offer.
My employer won’t let me become self-employed
I can’t afford to work less hours
I buy nothing that is unnecessary but do try to enjoy life
My car is extremely economical
Can’t afford processed meals or eating out
Sent from a Payphone
‘Sent from a payphone’
Like
A three minute check of the internet reveals so much.
Stick to dogs on skateboards Philip.
Not only that, but Google’s phones are made in China by poor workers who are in working conditions that are tantamount to slavery.
Sent from my iPhone.
Sent from my iPhone.
Sent from my iPhone (in Starbucks.)
Sent from my iPhone (in Starbucks.} [ In New York. Home of capitalism]
Sent from my iPad (in First Class {thx trust-fund})
Whilst trying to recruit an unpaid intern.
Sent from my iPhone.
What is an iphone for goodness sake?
It’s a crappy phone for people who have more money than sense.
I’m with XXX here. Gave up mobile phones some years back when I realised they were a recipe for endless expense and pointless chatter. Life is peaceful and I feel happier for the change. If anyone wants me to have one of these infernal things, they can buy me one. It’ll be an amusing relic within twelve months.
Not only that, but Google’s phones are made in China by poor workers who are in working conditions that are tantamount to slavery.
Sent from my iPhone.
Not only that, but Google’s phones are made in China by poor workers who are in working conditions that are tantamount to slavery.
Sent from my iPhone.
Pump up my arse
Pump it up
While your hands are trembling
And my knob is riding
Pump it up
A little more
Get your arse
Shaking on the Wrexham hotel floor
Hi, Tom !!
Ah, the glorious 80s! When I worked for the nonce-outfit Pae*dophile Information Exchange. They wanted to abolish the age of consent so men could legally have sex with kids. And I worked so hard to try and make that happen.
Happy days!
The dogs are still barking but the caravan’s moved on.
Oi,oi ! Saveloy !!!
Give him a chance. He’s trying to get a grip. Apparently.
Don’t resign him ffs that would be another million quid down the swanny. It would have been much cheaper to keep Entwistle on full pay and put him on office tea boy duties and a lot more useful.
Poor old George, I miss him dreadfully.
Something’s happened at the Office and I can’t put my finger on it but someone is eventually going to say something I think.
I also heard recently that we may be moving to Salford it’s probably just a rumour.
Sirs: I do not wish my name, however unintentionally and tangentially, to be linked in any way with what is going on at the BBC. I had the good grace at least to admit I was a thieving antisocial bastard who didn’t care who else knew it.
Did you copy that puff for the phone word for word from the press handout?
Tom Watson-Brown’s rabid hippotomus- is groteque. Put me off my dinner. Euurrrgh!
I think the only way for the victims of pàedophile politicians to get justice is to round up the guilty perverts from both parties and force them to bugger each other. A Labour nonce won’t want it up the arse by a Tory nonce and vice versa.
Hear hear!!!
You’re so naive.
Austin, isn’t it time you and that other Labour coffin dodger Dennis Skinner rode off into the sunset, preferably headed towards a cliff edge?
How did Margaret Hodges’ family company score?
Shhhhhh.
We haven’t had the time to let our viewers an listeners know about Margaret’s tiny oversight.
Shockingly they forgot to put anything about the Committee chair’s hypocrisy!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20288077
I’m sure AlJabeebya will fix this, after all they get nearly 4 billion quid a year.
Unfortunately, as a result of the cuts the BBC won’t be able to find time or space to draw attention to Margaret Hodge’s egregious hypocrisy. This problem of cuts is exacerbated by the massive pay-offs currently being handed out to people who were so excited at the prospect of sticking it to the Tories that they forgot they were actually supposed to check their sources.
Because of the cuts.
BBC
Copies of a shelved report into abuse at north Wales care homes in the 1970s and 80s have been found in local council archives.
Next to Omaha’s Kenyan Birth Certificate?
Signed in Arabic by the local imam.
Are these Tory Councils ??
In North Wales? I doubt it.
We don’t want the twats round here
Fuck off our phone’s better than that
No its not
Tom Watson needs to get lost. He is creating a witch hunt environment with his innuendos, partisan politics and political point scoring. He is a hinderance, he is not helping anyone.
To clean this mess up, we need politicians to be non partisan and who feel no need to confuse the public or collude in media smear campaigns. Confusion and smear tactic will solve nothing. Time for a more mature approach.
A more mature approach to politics?
yes….I like the sound of that..more mature…
“I demand a judge-led inquiry into why politics isn’t more mature..Resign! resign! resign!”
We do need a more mature approach to this sensitive issue. What we witnessed last week was worse than a school playground. It was more akin to lord of the flies where all rationality and decency had completely broken down. This is not good for the victims who are caught up in all this. Disgraceful.
“Lord of the Flies,” my Aunt Agatha!
Bit rich coming from the man who, as a boy, played Piggy:
http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsE/5156-11457.jpg
Fucking hilarious. I forgot about poor piggie.
“we need politicians to be non partisan”
They’ve always been non-partisan when it comes to covering up for nonces. That’s the problem.
Well, I have heard of product placement before, but that one goes straight for the jugular, not even a pretence of a story behind it.
Guidofall.
Good work!!
I’m disappointed there wasn’t an accompanying episode of Mr Ed for our entertainment.
Oi
I bet the baksheesh comes in handy down the alehouse.
Tune in tonight to see what our next fuck up will be!
What times it on? I’ve never watched it……
Tonight, exclusive on NewsNight…Norman Tebbitt bummed George Michael ….what’s that…now you say it might have been Norman Wisdom? Or Norma Major? Or Major Stanley Cliffburger ? Or it might have just been a spitting image sketch?
Look..We’ll run the story tonight and deal with any problems tomorrow, ok? So “Norman Tebbit, top sex offender in Thatcher’s cabinet of sex slaves.. “
Tonight, an exclusive report into abuse behind the scenes of children’s TV show Rainbow. The victims were George and Bungle who claim they were molested by another member of their team. We can’t name this person for legal reasons but we have reason to believe he has a zip for a mouth.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2046044491551473170
I have a sinking feeling it could be devoted to the Ash tree fungus scandal, which as you all should know happened under the watch of a Tory government, Maggie had one in her garden 30 years ago and the BIJ after exhaustive enquiries have identified her tree as the source of all the rot.
If the BBC wasn’t left-wing they’d be blaming it on the wave of uncontrolled immigration from Poland during the Blair/Brown despotism.
Is it ‘cos i is black?
I personally invented the mobile phone.
I personally invented the internet.
I personally saved the world.
I also cured cancer and abolished boom and bust.
I personally ran up a load of fake invoices to fight fascism. The B&P made me do it.
Did most of it happen during the Thatcher era Denis?
Fatchur made me do it.
Ruby ruby ruby!
So that’s three ruby murrays, two sag aloos, four naan, two onion bhajis, a bottle of Kingfisher and an onion raita.
What’s your mate having?
Access it via the web … use Ad Block
Wow!
Can the Minister assure the house that BBC independence remains absolute?
What is the government going to do about Entwhistle’s enormous payoff?
WTF are you on about Fawkes?
I’ve met 100s of interesting people
Labour council hoist on its own petard.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-20294633
Er, no, taxpayers extorted to fund Council’s largesse hoisted by said Council’s petard.
The Council has no money of its own, none.
If they sell ‘services’ that money should go back to the taxpayer as rebates – the taxpayer provided the capital, they get the reward.
Download my arse!
What a shower of shite. There is only so many hours in the day, and are they hoping working people live on their farting mobiles?
“Sorry nurse, could you hang on to this artery forcep, I have just got to get this”
LOL! srsly, funny u shd say dat! <3
Sent from the Theatre on my iphone.
The Nexus 4 is being sold SIM free (no contract) direct from Google for £279: https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_4_16gb Then get a giffgaff SIM paying £10 a month (no contract). That adds up to £519. Compared to O2′s terrible pricing structure where the phone is free buy the contract is £36 a month for 24 months adding up to £864. A complete rip off.
Buy direct from Google and go SIM only. Save a fortune!
Buy a second-hand Blackberry off E-bay for 80 quid and then get an 6-month T-Mobile (now EE) internet booster for 20 quid. Total cost over two years = 160 quid.
Or, better still, manage without a mobile phone altogether.
I bought a brand new Nokia clam type about 5 years ago, It cost me £20 with £5 free air time, still going strong and I find if you can resist the urge to hurl it against walls it’s great for telephone communication.
The company I worked for let us keep our Nokia 6310i’s when made redundant. One of the best corporate phones ever, amazing battery life.
Yup, I keep mine as an emergency phone. Battery lasts about 3 weeks with moderate use.
I’ve made a good start, I’ve got a giffgaff £10 goody bag, which btw, just cost £10 for a month of 250 mins (not enough for most mobile phone nuts, but enough for me) unlimited texts and 1GB internet. It used to be unlimited internet, but you know how these fuckers erode it over time.
+1
The interesting thing about GiffGaff is it runs on (and, I’ve heard, is owned by) O2, and yet it’s shed-loads cheaper than O2. I’ve saved a packet since switching.
Customer support is non-existent, though. But that seems pretty standard for mobile phone companies (have you ever tried ’3′ – the worst mobile phone company in the world, bar none?)
Before I die, I want to pic.twitter.com/VkTXTWWU
Cyril Smith is trending.
That’s more like it. The dead can’t sue.
The public are forced without choice to fund the BBC. The public are forced without choice to fund the EU. The public are forced without choice to fund benefits and housing for terrorists allowed to stay here. The public are forced without choice to fund new identities for convicted murderers and their accomplices. The public are forced without choice to fund compensation payouts to criminals. The public are forced without choice to fund Tony Blair’s personal security. The public are forced without choice to fund MPs’ expenses.
Democracy? Pull the other one.
I’m also going to force you to accept lower wages and higher crime, when I let up to 29 million Rumanians and Hungarians into Britain in January 2014.
Remember the Polish invasion of 2004? The invasion I’m orchestrating will be worse. Much worse.
Guffff-haw haw haw haw haw haw haw haw haw!
Toodle pip!
PS: jolly-well remember to vote Conservative in 2015.
If child benefit is removed from “rich” parents why do we still pay for Blair etc.
If it is right that a wealthy person should be treated unequally, then take away the benefits and security for politicians who are wealthy. Especially the ones that transfer to the EU gravy train.
Has Adrian Van Klaveren resigned yet?
Anyone watching the beeb The One Show at the moment. Talk about bilious – I am almost bringing up tea. Talk about going back to basics, as us Welshl
Children in Need beeb? Very ironic beeb – bring on again a clip of Jimmy S, or is that too last year?
Can’t stand the hypocritical Shepherds Bush beeb, total children they are themselves.
What do you say Jimmy?
Matt Monro, please sing for the perve,
Yeah. How much did that Rickshaw challenge cost to stage?
All those police? All the outriders? The support crew? The economic damage caused by the traffic delays (you saw the queues behind them?). Plus the hotel bills.
Wouldn’t it have been better to just give a wodge of cash to Children in Need?
(answer: yes).
Loads, no doubt friend.
And don’t tell me that beeb ex-employees don’t get a cut as directors in these charities. Money for old rope for themselves it is. Con merchants the lot of them are. Need shooting, the lot of them.
And by the way, Matt Monro is a hero of me, a true honest man he was, so, two song for you all same thinking as I am, hankies at the ready for the first one. Why do the good die young? Stange it is, therefore I havn’t got much time left, but I hope I am the exception, that is if I am “good”…
Michael Caine and Benny Hill in this, Torino, Italia,
OK, so it is some englishman in his Alfa Romeo down the english coast somewhere, so?
I had an Alfa Spider back in South Africa and that was not an Alfa.
I tried crowd surfing at a gig over the weekend.
Probably wasn’t the best thing to do at my niece’s 4th birthday party.
More Red Blooded Women on vimeo here, to show that they have actually got a brain on each of them, in case you think I was making fun, with them,
http://vimeo.com/3973913
Bollocks to it, might as well make a good job of it, might as well post a pic of my daughter getting on with things in life, working in some part of the workd, it changes every six months or so, here she is looking after travellers from this country in around the Med, last she told me, She could be anywhere now, Oz even, ready for the brit rush. Given up asking her these days, it is all confusing for an old fella like me,
http://sphotos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/548625_10152134021740274_1647034692_n.jpg
She’s the blonde one with the teeth, bu the way, halfish welsh, quarter oirish and AHEM!, quarter engkish Eltham Saff Lahndahn. A hell of a girl she is, but I would say that, wouldn’t I, being her suffering Dad.
Are you sure you’re posting to the right site? This isn’t mumsnet.
1984 – you have hit it right on the head of the nail there, but have slightly missed. I want more mumsnet on here, to bother their married consciousness’. If the torys can carry on, why can’t a leftie like me have a bit on the side, ey?
Be honest. You’re a little bit squiffy aren’t you?
BWP, blogging whilst pissed.
What kind of a nutjob posts his daughter’s photo on the internet ffs?
I would if I had one.
You DO – ffs woman!!
woman? I’m a bloke, and welsh, and yes, learned the trade like Tom to make them across to my way of thinking, pied piper of ladies knickers in life some of us are,
Calm down ladies. OH FOOK!, RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
Desperate saddo. Try posting something interesting or funny even.
Hope it helps.
Jealousy will get you nowhere. Anyway, she has friends in high places, and it is on her faceless front page anyway you fucking numbnut! Do you think I am that stupid? don’t answer that….
bugger it, might as well post Jackie Lee’s song of her version of London, which she wrote in the early 1970 – Jackie of Barbarella, Rupert the Bear, Follyfoot, etc. etc. singing fame, 78 now she is, lives in Canada. She comments on this vid – I am yippitydodah there in comments, speak to her often, about “things”,
Top drawer, ey?
A total mong who has posting tripe for a couple of days now. Nothing interesting or funny. Best leave him alone.
: ) nghunnghaa
I THINK THEREFORE I AM -somewhat puzzled
sir – have you a point to make?
I THINK THEREFORE I AM -somewhat puzzled
sir – have you a point to make?
He is desperate for attention.
Its Billys latest incarnation.
ed martin. Who is sadder? One who has spawned a life beating daughter, or someone like you.
Since you have wound me right up to the hilt, I will play the song that I play to my daughter, to teach her about simple kife, since I have been doing since she was young. But it has got to be in one’s DNa, may I say, not learnt overnight.
Can i Siân bach fi, baban yn fy llaw, un amser,
(eng trans: Song for my little Siân, once upon a time just a babe in my arms)
wipe tear.
wharrt?
Anne Idiot LP – don’t think you get me, do you? Some are sour, some are sweet, but I like people that get me, as in a dish of sweet and sour pork, who can look at both sides, jumping either side of the fence for a look. It is called some sort of perverted artisrty, I suppose, and some say.
A peculiar, maybe healthy, way of looking at life. There has got to be some like us about, otherwise life will be boring.
Justin Poofy Boots – climate change observation, buy it’s app, if it’s available, but maybe not – have you noticed the leaves have fallen a few weeks late this year.
Dylan, who is hundred semi-mortal next year might have to change his line in wherever he is “October lay leaved with October blood”, on his poem on his birthday, as here, read by the old soak himself, years ago, on the radio,
Phwoar!
Are you millionaire, or hoping to be a millionaire, inherited I don’t mind, she’s yours, as long as you pass myu basic astrology test with birth signs – found that works best matchmaking. If not you might not line up on the astral plane, you might do with her dark haired mate iberian penninsula extraction Sophia, you never know.
Anyway, she has loads of available friends like them both, horses for courses and all that bullshit. But if you are interested in my Siân, come into my study and puff cigars and swig whiskey/whisky, and discuss things….
cough!, don’t i believe I posted that, but still. I must be getting soft in my older age.
“Be brave now Sianny bach, I have checked him up, and he is right for you, so fight for him, give him everything you have got, and if he has any problems our clan is ready, he is my family now, just like you, fight fight your corner in life, don’t take any bullshite”.I whispered in her lug ‘ole that night…
Tonight on Newsnight! We reveal the name of a senior politician who some guy down the pub told us he heard from a mate of his had molested his cousin in 1942.
1942? Wasn’t that when Thatcher and the Tories were in power?
Winston Churchill, and a coalition for the duration of the war. But he obviously was a nonce too, you can tell by the poofy way he pronounthed hith eth’th. Have the Tories been covering up for him these past 70 years, Fat Bastard? We know you’re just the man for the job of blowing the lid off these things!
Philip Schofield named new boss of BIJ!
“The organisation aims for its output and editorial processes to be a masterclass, a gold standard for 3 minute google based journalism of this kind.”
I Demand an enquiry into the wyth tha some bloggers are ndeed blagger and get thwee phoneth
Thurley Mithter Thpeaker only honourable memberth thould have thutch privelidgeth
So did Cyril Smith diddle some kids? It’s ok, he’s dead. No risk of libel action.
no thanks.
Tom Watson – download the ape…..
I’m the new Director General of Peppa Pig World, it’s the shite thing to do.
That phone is for gays. Nothing beats a manly iphone in a nice lilac tone.
Gilligan must be loving this. The BBC left him twisting in the wind when he exposed Blair’s lies.
First he gets revenge on Labour via Livingston – now he lives to see the BBC on its knees.
Maybe he will get the chance to walk the corridors and fire a few of the lefty twits
Gilligan for DG!
Seems another serial nut case has landed, or is it Halloween revisited?.
Helen Flannigan nearly lasted as long as George Entwhistle.
Margaret Hodge really is thick. She couldn’t work out why companies like Amazon, Google and Starbucks located to low tax countries. I don’t get her anger, Ireland is part of the EU and if a company wants to put its head office there and pay corporation tax in that Country what’s the problem?
Here’s a thought….perhaps if we cut our taxes we might attract more big companies to pay taxes here rather than act like a mental headmistress as today. I thought she was rude and arrogant, she would have been better off having a go at her ex boss McMental who bankrupted us.
These stupid fuckwits we call MPs are going to chase away big companies who employ many many people. That is more important and more cost effective to the Nation than whatever taxes they pay. Fucking imbiciles !
I’m no fan of the hypocrite Hodge but in the version I saw she was representing the UK against a bunch of scoundrels! She had worked it out only too well and was f*cked off with their obvious obfuscation, pretence of ignorance, and lying! The response of the company spokesmen was so disrespectful to us that they deserved more than Hodge gave them.
The issue is not where a company locates its head office per se, but that certain companies with overseas bases can use questionable accounting devices to transfer their UK profits overseas and dodge UK corporation tax while gaining unfair advantage over solely UK-based companies. Companies cannot simply choose where they pay corporation tax. It is liable on profits made on trade in a country.
These companies are making profits here, no matter how well disguised, and they would not simply abandon the UK and these profits, somewhat reduced, if we closed the loopholes and made them play fair. Even if they did, they would be creating a gap in the market for other companies, potentially UK-based, to fill with an even greater number of jobs.
“Companies cannot simply choose where they pay corporation tax.’ – OF COURSE THEY CAN!
“they would be creating a gap in the market for other companies,” hmmmm……..the reason Starbuck exists is because uk based taxpaying companies were not filling the gap that Starbucks has filled – you could not get a decent cup of coffee in many major cities 20 years ago
Furthermore – at three quid a cup – it cannot be beyond the wit of a UK-based company to compete at that kind of mark-up. Except obviously it is.
I see Starbucks as the bell-weather for the end of recession in the UK. Until the UK population regains control of its senses and refuses to pay three quid for a cup of fucking coffee then there are clearly too many people getting too well paid who have lost sight of the value of money. For the recession to end Starbucks must go ba*nk*ru*pt.
Hodge does not represent the UK. She represents a) herself and b) Labour in that order.
fuck me, another welsh lothario, that’s all we fucking need.
Quote of the day post select commite from sky journo repeated by Jon Craig “even google couldn,t find the answers”. Despite the chairs own tax revelations as erm difficult , I have never been happy with some of the things she let slip through , particulary from Huhne when in office , but that aside when she started demanding calling someone who could give her answers rather than evasions , and some of the more obtuse inquireis such as which web site generates sales and wheres the profit before tax for each , made him look all the more evasive .
perhaps it isnt the time for irony but looking back dont all that trade by Blair and mandelson and the globalisation rubbish now look a bit , well utterly wrong and thats been kind . Sure you want things like markets and access to them , that is my understanding of trade of the sort that classic economic thinking outlined as wealth . You clearly dont want trade that effectively reduces tax take by profitless growth whilst channeling cash in clever schemes to those places where you locate your HQ to make the best silo ,in a continental debt crisis .All done under labours watch of course via legislation . I believe in competition , but as we have seen from the questions the select commite attempted today , starving a country whilst dominating the market is about as anti Adam Smiths early thoughts going into the industrial revolution , as one could possibly get .
I might ponder why Dave Nick ,Vince and George hadnt got it in there manifestos so bloody obvious it is .
The purpose of trade is to allow people to make themselves better off, not to allow the state to rip people off while they’re doing it.
You seem to have zero knowledge of Adam Smith.
But people can only build wealth from trade conducted in an orderly environment with infrastructure and protection provided by states, eg in the environment and infrastructure that built the British Empire protected by the British Navy and alliances. Without a cut of the profit there is no state to provide infrastructure, order and protection.
Except that England’s navy was successfully protecting the state and the industrial revolution was under way long before the introduction of Income Tax.
We do not face any serious external threats.
The main threats to free movement, association, trade and prosperity are:
1. Resurgent Islam, frantically imported by ‘The State’
2. The State itself, and it’s clients.
The State is far too big. It should be cut back to a maximum of 30% of GDP.
could you please completely rewrite your post and reduce the number of words by 99%.
Excellent point, namr. On this occasion certainly worth the effort of wading through the language barrier.
Gave up on his posts long ago.
Lessons learned, draw a line under going forward and getting a grip. What more do you want?
Yes but I didnt go to public school nor do I have degree in ecnomics , all I can say Blair must have convinced them all utterly …
Eureka! In an instant, all becomes clear
We get dumber and dumber, year after year
At last there’s a rational explanation
For the British Broadcasting Corporation
And all those comedians in Parliament
They’re thick as short planks rather than being bent
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2231924/Are-getting-stupid-Researchers-claim-longer-need-intelligence-survive.html
Get, a grip, learn the lessons, draw a line under it and move on.
The B£iar/Campbell mantra.
Guido never mind the app, your getting downgraded on the search engine , you have gone from top slot to number 6 in 2 weeks
Plop
http://tinyurl.com/2muvjf
Send forth all legions
Interesting comments by Andrew Gilligan and I think he is on the right track,in that the BBC is awash with layers of managers.
Why do you think the executive require these layers,well believe it or not to protect themselves.
I have worked in private companies all my life until retirement and have sat on numerous executive boards mainly in the chemical/pharma industry as an engineer.I have seen a few instances were high fliers tried to pass the buck but were found out and appropriate action was taken.
When I look at this BBC debacle and see the buck being passed around I think it is appalling.
If they were telling me that they know they have failed miserably in their exec/management structures then I would be asking them how they failed to keep up with the real world.
Finally (THIS IS NOT ABOUT THE BBC AND THEIR FAILURES IT IS ABOUT CHILDREN WHO WERE ABUSED BIG TIME WITHIN OUR CORRUPT SYSTEM).
We as a nation should be demanding to know in years past as to what happened to these abused children.
NOTHING LESS WILL DO WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOUR.
You’ve just noticed?
You’ve just noticed?
It’s an income for life. Once you become unusable in the broadcasting department your mates invent a non job in management for you until you take early gold plated retirement.
Yentob inadvertantly gave the game away on Newsnight. He said that Gormless George deserved his payoff because he had given up a “safe” job to become DG. Great insight into the management culture at the beeb.
The Peter Principle pops up again!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle
So do you get to keep it now that you have promoted it?
Will not accept a SD card or new battery. So not future proof, of use to travellers or long lasting..just like the iphone.
are we to infer that some of your faithful readers watch TV?
think(sic) again – ain’t that the problem?
Erm, Does that mean 100% of 81% are from the UK?.
She thinks that London isn’t in England
It certainly didn’t feel like it was last time I was there.
No. It means that no one in Wales, Scotchland and NI follow her and most loonies that do are based in London England.
And 99% from mental institutions.
Fatbot’s Tweet Map. She has more followers in Oz (0.5) than she does in Africa or South America
http://tweepsmap.com/!HackneyAbbott
0.1 followers in Jamaica. Little wonder she is over here then.
http://tweepsmap.com/!HackneyAbbott
What, no West Indian mothers who would go to the wall for their children ??
Harsh but…
The trending word is LITIGATION Sally.
What does “litigation” mean? It’s got more than four letters!
I detest the thought of Abu Qatada dodging justice at the expense of the British taxpayer no more than the rest.
But I have always had this nagging doubt. If he is such a bad man and we Britain have the evidence of this, why have we not made him argue his case in a British court under British law?
Because he’s wanted in his own Country. We should just stick him on a plane. Got really pissed off with Shami Chakrabarti on Newsnight. She’s sat there ranting away at Peter Bone, he’s an elected MP with a mandate, she fronts an organisation of 10,000 with no political mandate.
If she wants to change the law she should get elected first.
Could we not ask a more “understanding” EU country to issue a European Arrest warrant and for them to send him to his homeland to face Justice?
Because your New Labour friends destroyed the sensible rule of Law in Britain Lord Sugar
Because of the spineless nonentities in government.
Reckon he should be rehomed to a terrace in Bradford.
Oh I say
Smart phones, stupid people
By rights the bbc should lose its broadcasting licence over all its recent disasters. But Labour and Lord Patsy will ensure it stays safe. The government should just privatise it and let it compete commercially the same way ITV and all the other channels have to.
Except C4 news, who have zero adverts in their fake advert slots, but they can afford to pump out their crappy socialist hate rants against the Tories, because of public money.
It’s official: the Oxford Dictionaries UK Word of the Year 2012 is OMNISHAMBLES.
(refer Conservative led coalition)
Saw that alien yentob on NN last night, and boy can he waffle.
How on earth do they get away with it?
E mateless at the end of their chat actually said to him “Thanks very much for comming in”
WTF! The tosser’s paid hundreds of thounsands of pounds to work there FFS.
It’s all the BBC top knobs being interviewed, and they are all saying that all will be o.k.. So would I if I was earning £300 – 400k a year.
Someone should list all of the executives, senior managers etc., so we can see the size of it all. Maybe Philip Schofield could produce a list.
David Cameron: “I look forward to working with Barack Obama for the next four years.”
Two years, Dave, two years.
I doubt if “hard man” Dave will last another 6 months.
So what’s this free-market-supporting government going to do about rigging of wholesale gas prices?
Where are you Prime Minister?
Chillaxing. Where else?
Just noticed the Comment of the Day. It would have been modded before it was allowed to appear.
My copy/paste of it is waiting moderation!
Ex Ex Ex Ah! Monika says:
Your comment is awaiting moderation.
November 13, 2012 at 8:49 am
Anonymous
The NoTW exposed p4edos.
The BBC employs them.
o2 sent you one to check out did they?
What vrap. your ego is nearly as big as your fat gut you twat eyed twot
Police commissioner elections will end ‘cosy’ relations with officials, says minister
Damian Green promises that oath of impartiality will ensure commissioners will act on behalf of all constituents.
John Prescott took an oath to be faithful to his wife!!
John Prescott? Oath of impartiality?
Ahahahahahahahahahahahaha [wheezing fit, regains breathing...] ahahahahahahaha….
I honestly cannot believe how absolutely useless you fuckers are. You pay for me to stay here for years so that I can slag you off. This couldn’t happen in any other country. What a fucking joke.
It’s proof that God is a muslim. What other explanation would a muslim come to?
Eric Pickles, Communities Secretary, was asked if he had voted for Ms Dorries to be buried alive. “Yes, phone on speed dial,” he replied.
” What is an App? “
Leveson was heard to ask.
” How did Canute stop the tide? “
“the top of the class Android phone available”.
Really ? with only 16Gb storange and no SD Card, I’d say no even though the Nexus will have the latest Android OS. Please try harder.