howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Thanks Howard, so it seems the figure is £900m not £92bn, a slight difference eh.
Brian, if you can find one word I've said on here supporting the Tories ill buy you a beer. I loathe 99 per cent of politicians
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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million, billion, schmillion david!!
hair splitting my good chap.
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Call me a pedant but it's fair to say Eric Pickles isn't sitting on £92bn, oh well, the joy of the Internet
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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are you sure he isn't david, he's a big lad.
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Brian Dixon
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ahh david,miss memory now defunkt i stand corrected.
most of your posts david to be precise,but there again i might be missreading them,but there again i might not.
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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No problem Brian, we all make mistakes.
I can categorically confirm I am not a conservative supporter by the way
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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best wait until keith decides david, he smokes them out.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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thats ok david,not a worry.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c".. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f".. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.
Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.
By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".
During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi TU understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.
If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
