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.

Must be doom and gloom in the Miliband camp as the economy improves.

Not at all.

They are looking forward to taking over an economy that slightly improves.

Latest Poll........today........

electionista‏@electionista8h
UK - YouGov/Sun poll: CON 30%, LAB 40%, LDEM 10%, UKIP 14%

Not for long!

Yesterdays Poll..........

electionista‏@electionista22h
UK - TNS BMRB poll: CON 24%, LAB 37%, LDEM 10%, UKIP 19%

http://www.tns-bmrb.co.uk/news-and-events/media-alert-ukip-support-double-the-size-of-liberal-democrats …

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

Seems Hays has forgotten the Student Riots and the Summer Riots when the Tories were actualy in front in the polls.

That memory old lad of yours is getting worse and worse.

Don't forget that 19% support gets UKIP no seats.

Tanker,
About visiting doctor. Is your surgery in London?
Your GPs might have 4000 patient each, so just receiving money and cashing in.

Your GPs might have 4000 patient each
is that fact - i.e. on a particular doctor's books - or just that there population divided by doctors = 4,000 each or is it just a press-guess?

UKIP is a massive threat to all partys, more so tory party tho because of right wing agenda.

Foolish person who just writes them off.

In small cities each doctor has 1500 to 2500. In london between 4000 to ... any number you could guess. I heard 8000 exist.

from where did you glean your so-called facts?
i don't necessarily doubt you, but asking nevertheless

sticky - i agree that it's real ostrich stuff to ignore ukip, however long or short-lived an influence it may prove to be ...... however, i am not entirely convinced that ukip will harm tories more than the others ...... at least tories have promised (yeah, yeah - politicians!) a referendum whereas no other party is willing even to consider same

when it comes to immigration, i don't see either labour or even lib/dems putting out any sort of statement regarding possible controls, though i think the tories are at least making the right sort of noises

what other populist "policies" does ukip have, as i don't think it has anything sensible on its books, or at least not that can be genuinely afforded or funded?

my post 3 weeks to see my doctor was correct till I said then I will go to hospital
then they asked me if it was important I then said I have not seen my doctor for over 17 years do you think I want to waste my time then was told I could seemy doctor the next day .now waiting to go to hospital .

I have told my doctor I will pay to see the specialist out of my own pocket
she said that is wrong and said I will get you in next week and she has .

gold ever one I talk to is going to vote UKIP they have had enough

No one he I talk to is going to vote UKIP. I suppose it is just as unreliable as a polling method.

Sorry to hear your not well Tanker and hope you will be okay - I agree one shouldn't have to pay but sometimes necessary, unfortunately. My friend has waited nearly 6 weeks now to see a skin cancer Specialist and can only get in on 10th June. I went mad as he isn't going to do anything even then so I have told her to suggest she will pay - we shall see, if it hasn't travelled anywhere else by then. GL anyway.

The decision by Ed Miliband and Ed Balls to reposition Labour's stance on benefits spending has been attacked by leading figures on the left of the party as "cheap politics", "dreadful" and a "disaster".

On Monday, Balls announced that a post-2015 Labour government would prevent the wealthiest pensioners from claiming winter fuel allowance. On Wednesday, the BBC revealed that Labour would not reverse the coalition's cuts to child benefit for the better off.

And, in a speech on Thursday, Miliband is expected to declare his support for a cap on so-called 'structural' benefit spending (that is, welfare payments that are not the direct result of rising unemployment) - a cap that was originally suggested by the Conservative chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne.

"To be honest, this is a disaster," says the general secretary of one of Britain's biggest trade unions. "And just at the moment that [Balls] was being proved right [on austerity]. It's crazy."

The trade union movement is "very concerned" about Labour's shift on universal benefits, the union leader tells HuffPost UK. The move is a result of "pressure from the Blairites," he says.

T-bonehead's story (as usual) doesn't quite hold together ..... if he had reported even to the doctor's receptionist (we all know what they can be like!) that his symptoms implied something serious, then assuredly he would have been seen immediately (that day) and/or told by the surgery/doctor to get himself straight down to the hospital