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.

Is cricket a form of an old man's baseball?

cut the crap you guys and concentrate on the serious stuff ..... like Oz 19 for 2!

It looks like gf has wrongly analysed the cricket today. It matches his deluded view of politics.

Two aussie wickets taken in first three over's.

cynic
It is possible to watch the cricket live from where you are. There are a number of streams you can get access to.

watched the rugby that way, though unfortunately was out for nearly all the 2nd half ....... as for the cricket, i can watch the paint dry AND keep up to date with the ball/ball commentary on the ordinary net

There is a large river by you.

Why not use that.













For washing, of course.

What a ball! Now 22 for 3.

Fred re----But if the "rights" of the employed were improved by strike action which you did not take part in, would you have not accepted those rights?
It was a case of militant union bosses wanting to flex their muscles and yes I would not have been permitted to refuse, but the outcome was such that the strikers, p----d off returned to work.
The top crass (yes 'c' not 'b') union leader was none other than Jack Dromey husband of Harriet Harman and now an MP in his own right. You remember Fred, whilst Labour party treasurer he claimed he was unaware of £3.5m in loans in the cash for peerages scandal.

Re GB's bullying---what a cop out

After you! Greenpeace protesters climbing up The Shard in London

royal mail sell off IF TTHE GOVENRMENT WANT TO SELL OFF BAD ASSETS GET RID OF THE BBC SELL THAT OFF OR GIVE IT AWAY
THE MOST CORRUPT WASTE OF PUBLIC MONEY
THE BBC IS SHITE RUN BY CROOKS AND ANTI UK

Haystack - 10 Jul 2013 17:15 - 27002 of 27009
It looks like gf has wrongly analysed the cricket today. It matches his deluded view of politics.

Two aussie wickets taken in first three over's. ..........ends

Exactly Hays, just think if we had put them in, they may have been 95 all out. Thats what I was meaning the swing conditions were set up for Jimmy Anderson and Broad yesterday morning.

I think Cook the captain was eyeing up the dry brown pitch and wanting cracks and thinking of his spinner too much.

It could be costly especially if atmospheric conditions change today. Hope not though.

2517.

I don't remember and only have fleeting "memories" of Jack Dromey and his "personna"

Not sure why, but may look him up.

However, you state your problem was the £3.5 million loan.

Was it illegal to do so and was it repaid?

Was it for his own personal use.

How does it rate against observations from Wickopedia:

"
In May 2009 Jenkin was reported by the Daily Telegraph to have used £50,000 in expenses in order to pay his sister-in-law rent on the property he uses as his constituency home. Jenkin claimed that he was just paying "an honest and reasonable rent" for the property.[3]
On 27 October 2009 it was initially recommended that Bernard Jenkin pay back £63,250 by expenses auditor Sir Thomas Legg. This is the highest amount known to have been recommended after an audit of MPs' claims on second homes expenses.[4][5] This amount was reduced to £36,250 following an appeal.[6] "


This gentleman is still active as and MP.


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There are abuses of "system" across the board.

Fred did you know that before the last general election a Tory Donner was recorded as contributing £1 million.

Then as one looked down the list his wife his son and his daughter contributed a further £3 million.

Half of what Unite contribute........... from just 4 people.

Little wonder Milliband says the Tory party are run by a select few at the very top.

(source Andrew Neal daily politics)

Munch and chew on this Hays............... from your Tory freinds.........

If an election were held tomorrow, Ed Miliband would win by a landslide
By Matthew Holehouse Politics .

We have a new toy on Telegraph Politics: our Vote 2015 results forecaster.

We have teamed up with Electoral Calculus, the brilliant analysis site run by Martin Baxter, to produce a daily snapshot of how Parliament will look on the morning of May 8, 2015.

It works by taking the results of the latest polling – we use YouGov’s daily tracker poll – and applying the swing against the results of the last election to see which seats are likely to fall.

In May 2010, the Tories won 36.9 per cent of the vote, Labour 29.7 per cent, the Liberal Democrats 23.5 per cent, and Ukip 3 per cent. It left the Tories 19 seats short of a majority.

Today’s tracker has Labour on 40 per cent, the Tories on 30, the Lib Dems on 10 and Ukip on 14.

Our model suggests that if we went to the polls today, Ed Miliband would gain 120 seats and become prime minister with a powerful majority of 106. (By comparison, Blair had a majority of 167 in 2001, cut to 67 in 2005.)

The Tories would lose 98 seats, down to 223, and the Lib Dems would lose more than half, down from 57 to 23.

Among the victims of the 10-point Labour surge, according to the forecast, would be Danny Alexander, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, majority 8,765); Chloe Smith, the Cabinet Office minister (Norwich North, majority 3,901); and Anna Soubry, the Health Minister (Broxtowe, majority 389).

Other losers would include Jeremy Browne, the Home Office minister; Simon Hughes, the Lib Dem deputy leader; Edward Timpson, the Children’s minister; and Robert Halfon, the Harlow MP who has successfully campaigned for lower fuel duty. And all of the Tories’ gains would come from the Liberal Democrats.

All the same, some health warnings: it is merely as a snapshot of what the polls show today, not in two years' time. The Tories hope a growing economy and scrutiny on Miliband will narrow the gap rapidly.

And it is based on a universal national swing, with parties losing votes by the same amount in each seat. That makes predicting individual results more tricky. In reality, some hardworking MPs will hang on to wafer-thin majorities, while some – due to personal failings or a tough opposition – will lose what could have been holdable seats. But at a national level, these local factors balance out, as Martin's correct forecast of the 2010 results testifies

Predicting Scotland and Wales is tricky, due to a lack of regular local polling. (YouGov polls Ukip separately but treats Nationalist and other minority parties as "other".)

Then there is Ukip. Nigel Farage’s party polled around 23 per cent of the vote in May elections. YouGov puts its support on 14 per cent. But under our forecast – which accounts for its share of the vote changing at the expense of other parties equally – it would fail to win a single seat.

Under Martin’s modelling, if support was evenly concentrated Ukip would not start to win seats until their national support goes above 23 per cent, winning five seats at 24 per cent and 79 at 28 per cent.

Two caveats though. What the model does not show is if Ukip’s support is coming disproportionately from one party – such as the Tories – which could change a significant number of races, potentially to Labour’s advantage.

And the party leadership is confident there are constituencies where support is concentrated enough to win, regardless of the national share of the vote. We shall see.

Read more by Matthew Holehouse

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/matthewholehouse/100220387/if-an-election-were-held-tomorrow-ed-miliband-would-win-by-a-landslide/

You have a very selective memory Fred.
2517

Labour lead down to 5%

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 10th July - Con 32%, Lab 37%, LD 11%, UKIP 12%

The public is waking up to the corrupt Labour/Union relationship.

Not only is the Labour/Union relationship potentially corrupt, but it might be an idea for Wallace Millipede to wake up and smell the coffee. Without the unions' money, the Labour party would be in serious danger of going t!ts up. Damned if he does, damned if he don't!

Unless, of course, fishfinger redirects his £120k grand annual sub...

Latest poll of Polls Labour Majority of 90 seats..........

http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/

Only bent Torys could say Labours ralationship with the Unions is not politicaly correct/ currupt.

Figures due to be released soon that show just 20 individuals are responsible for over 80% of Tory funding.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When this hits the news labours problems will seem like a storm in a teacup.

The Conservative funders cannot choose candidates, cannot choose the party leader, do not directly pay for individual MPs, do not fix the constituency ballots. These are all things that the unions do.