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.

In the mail today - Tories are in a frenzy but soapbox Ed is caught with his pants down.

Without going on - many senior Labour figures are now convinced they are heading for defeat in 2015.


Many senior Labour figures are now convinced they’re heading for defeat in 2015.

They believe they can see the writing on the electoral wall for three reasons. First, the council results were much worse than anticipated. Labour predicted gains of well over 300 seats, and a percentage of vote-share pushing the mid-thirties.






http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2326817/Tories-frenzy--Soapbox-Ed-caught-pants-down.html

That's a very interesting article. If accurate, it spells doom for Labour.

The Comres poll the other day showed UKIP up to 19%. Labour dropped 3 points to 35 and Conservatives down 1 to 29%.

32% thought that Cameron would be the best Prime Minister, but only 24% thought Miliband would be best.

One statistic that shows up UKIP's problems is that even with 19% of the voters, they would not gain even one seat. The Libs have always had a decent number of seats with that percentage and even lower. It is one of the peculiarities of our voting system that having a good percentage on average doesn't get you seats. You need even better in specific constituencies. It is why the Libs have never made a breakthrough at any election.

My view Haystack is the Cons have had a protest vote against them and on the day that counts they will shine. My view only and many others as well . :-))

From the mail -

We’re going to get caught with our pants down,’ said one official. ‘We’ve been hammering the Tories over this flat-lining economy. Well, it doesn’t look like it’s going to be flat-lining much longer.’

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Within Miliband’s circle, meanwhile, there is said to be a sense of paralysis and mounting crisis. ‘Madness’, was one description of the atmosphere in the Miliband camp in the wake of the recent intervention by Tony Blair, in which he criticised Labour’s drift into a ‘comfort zone’.


There was even thought given to an all-out assault on Blair and his New Labour legacy. In the end Miliband himself vetoed the plan.


But the bitterness that exists towards Blair among Miliband’s team goes to the heart of Labour’s problems.

From the moment he was elected leader, Miliband has been governed by one guiding principle: think what Tony Blair would have done, then do the opposite.

The point I'm making - day after day on here the Cons are run out and as you can see from above the Labour party is not a lot different. It does seem to go unnoticed from a certain party and no doubt it will carry on. :-))

Mad Swivel eyed loon alert -):

Anyone been to Florida and not checked their lottery ticket. :-))

A single ticket holder has won the biggest Powerball lottery jackpot in history, scooping an estimated \$590.5m (£389m).

The \$2 ticket was bought at a supermarket in Zephyrhills, Florida, according to the state's lottery executive Cindy O'Connell.

The winning numbers were 10, 13, 14, 22 and 52, and the Powerball was 11

Dream on,

Was this last night's episode?

Or was this the dream.

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Cameron is going to call the LIBS bluff he is going to upset them on human rights and on other lib silly ideas and policy

Increasingly, there are reports coming out of the Labour party of desperation among their leaders. Miliband is being seen as unelectable, which he was all along. It is now too late for Labour to change its leader. As the economy improves things will just get worse for Labour. The EU referendum has wrong footed Labour and they don't know how to get themselves out of the hole they have dug.

Cameron can now sell lloys for profit putting over 20b in is hands to cut the debt
he is over the moon they do not want the libs to take any credit ready for an election in 18 months when the fight starts

ukip now in third place 5 points behind the torys labour is down to 32%
talk of several torys thinking of going to ukip .
ever one I speak to is saying vote ukip
my good work is working .

UKIP THE ONLY HOPE OF SAVING THE UK FROM IMMIGRANTS
the uk over the last 20 years as made the uk a cesspit with these
migrants pulling the uk to a third world tip

conservative part is falling aparty so is the labour part the libs are finished just a pack of liars . clegg what is he going to do next .

global warming proven to be rubbish and the uk is closing and knocking down its coal stations and china Africa building hundreds
green power is a rip off making the rich billions on lies
the temperature over the last 23 years has not moved THESE ARE FACTS WHICH THE GOV DOES NOT WANT PUBLIC

Hays,

It strikes the hole dug by Cameron is his own and he has jumped into it.

To have a referendum in 2017 when you don't know the outcome of a negotiations, or the economic situation is B. stupid.

Opting out will create chaos and the costs of doing so colossal, the bill will be handed out to the UK in one way or another.

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But I am glad you think your party of cons is united.

"Splits expected as MPs prepare to debate gay marriage"

Plans to legalise same-sex marriage in England and Wales return to the Commons later, amid continuing opposition from some Conservative activists and MPs.

The Marriage Bill was approved by a 225-vote majority when it was last debated by MPs in February, but nearly half of all Tories voted against it.

Some critics have tabled an amendment saying heterosexual couples should be able to have civil partnerships.

But ministers call this a "complicated distraction" which may delay the bill".


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I think that heterosexual couples should be able to have civil partnerships.

It may address the rights of the partners and families to pension arrangements.


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Another of Cameron cock-ups.

MP's to get at least £10k rise, comforting to know we're all in it together.
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