Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

unlike (fos)fred, and whether or not many do not like what you write, at least you voted (i hope!)

Natch cynic.

Manuel.

I don't vote, but watching the game of politics has always fascinated me.

A bit like sitting outside a bar in Paris on a warm summer's day with cold bottle of wine of day, watching the world go by and recognising one's own insignificance.

the last part is spot on, but when you're sitting in your pavement cafe, you don't spend your time (even you i hope), berating people for living in that country (france) and putting up with the taxation system, unions, immigration problems etc, unlike you do on this thread .... if you did, the adjoining table might well retort, "what's it to do with you?" which is rather as here where it would be said, "but you don't even vote for anything different, so cut the incessant whingeing and live with it"

Agree with you Chris, the Tories needed a good kick up the backside. I don't know who Cameron's advisers are, but they need to re-write the script before it's too late.

Just a break from some of the Right Wing abuse on here:
At the end of todays last game of the season Danny Ings gave his boots to a young kid in a wheelchair and kissed him on the head.. Nice touch in an age where footballers are often criticised for only thinking about their pay cheques.



OK, carry on as you wish.

Actually I thought it was left wing abuse.

Although I do not follow football, it was a very nice gesture from the footballer concerned to make a little boys day happy and I suppose for the rest of his life. There are lots of good people out there. I wish this political stuff would end as nobody is getting anywhere.

Fabulous Stan, nice touch.

Manuel,

Not surprising, that your experiences of France and the French and mine are different.

Often talk with them about the politics of the UK and Europe and how they view the little englanders. Also, discussed the ongoing politics and developments and hopes of France and Europe. Rather than just how much they could get out of Europe.

Found them very interesting, tolerant to differing views opinions and not fixed in their positions, also very humorous and good humoured. Not abusive, such as calling opposition groups clowns, etc.

Many times I wished I was still allowed to smoke Gauloises or Gitanes and could take the same amount of brandy.

But different people and different experiences.

It seems one of the leading lights of the Tory party is in a spot of trouble.

Same old tories. Perhaps, they should concentrate on vetting their own party's candidates more carefully!

I hear noises asking Cameron to "WAKE UP".

I think Cameron and similarly Osborn will continue dreaming, and may wake up after losing their position.

My comment from a pea but brain:- THIS THREAD IS BECOMMING EXASPORATING. Boring to the extreme fact:- that I cannt believe educatd people write so much shrit.

D and 3m.

I see you believe in censorship.

If you don't like what is posted, censor yourself and don't read it, or even simpler squelch the posters you object to.

I am sure they won't mind.

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Dreams.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta. ~
(Brian Aldiss)

You seem to dwell in close contact.

Just for Manuel and Hays, who like Dreams are lying down in front of an oncoming juggernaut.

Don't move, the country really needs you!

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Foreign Secretary William Hague says the Conservative Party does not need a "drastic change of course" despite its poor showing in local election results last week.

He was responding to a surge in support for the UK Independence Party, which won over 140 seats.

He wrote in the Sunday Telegraph that Tories shared voter concerns about immigration, welfare and living costs.

Mr Hague said that while the election results "are better for the government than is usual in the middle of a parliament... they do show that there is a good deal of dissatisfaction and unhappiness in the country, in particular among some traditional Conservative supporters".

Mr Hague said that the results required a "threefold response" from the Conservative Party.

Firstly, he said, it must "underline to all those feeling aggrieved that we don't simply 'understand' how they feel - on immigration, on welfare, on bringing down the cost of living - we feel it too."

And the party needs to "relay much more forcefully how we're acting in all these areas", he says.

"The deficit has been cut by a third and 1.25 million new private sector jobs have been created. We have brought in a cap on benefits.

"We have pledged a referendum on Europe. These are the things we came into government to do for the country - and we must shout about them even louder."

Mr Hague also said that the "important" third response must be "a resolve not to fall into the trap of lowest common denominator politics".

I would suppose that adds up to no change until the next U-Turn.

Mind it is well thought out and consistent with row, row, row the sinking boat ashore.

Bail, bail, bail out and plead with the Cayman Isles for another bail-out.

Hear Michael is in talks with Nick.

Did you see the comment' "the election results are better for the government than is usual in the middle of a parliament"?

Borrowing to pay for food. TORY britain for you........

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22417334#