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.

I was thinking!!!

I am confused. Is that Fred or goldfinger? My guess is that it is goldfinger as he comes across as looking like that.

hey fred - ukip shedding seats like confetti ..... oz 91/6!

Yes shame about the aussies! :-)

I thought I could hear Mr Burns above saying "answer the question!!"

UKIP won't get ANY seats in an election. By then they will be seen as the crazy party. The Libs are also known as the silly party and Lab is becoming the VERY silly party.

Most people I know will vote UKIP, Conservatives, Labour and Lib Dem leaders can't be trusted as goes to say the same for the parties. Unless theres a major shakeup UKIP I believe will do well.

shortie - there's a sort-of in-joke between fred and myself re test match result and ukip seats

on a slightly more serious note, I would not be surprised if ukip pick up a reasonable number of votes, though it really is far too far ahead to make an educated call ...... however i doubt they will even pick up 5 seats, and quite possibly, none at all

Even with quite a few votes UKIP will not get MPs. I have seen these protest parties before and they come to nothing. UKIP's polling figures are falling now and this is not even an election. People tend to revert to their traditional voting patterns.

Just seen this on Twitter:

"What's that you say, Skippy? The real Australian cricket team are stuck down an abandoned mineshaft?"

SC :~)


Haystack - 5th day tickets looking dubious!

Hays,

Some tories ministers in the past were seen as honest.

Now they are not, public opinion at the next General election may see them as dishonest and vote accordingly.

I can't say UKIP has any appeal to me except to split the tory vote.

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Yes. My son is complaining about the 5th day. He was gong down this afternoon to get returns at 4 o'clock, but the website said there weren't any today.

I think the current set of ministers are no better/worse than normal. Certainly Blair had a pretty evil set.

I have no love for Blair.

Didn't like him before the 97 election, or after it.

Thought many of his policies were correct at his time, some weren't. (Accepting the route of PFIs was one of the latter.)

Kinnock and John Smith made the Labour party electable and Blair capitalised on the situation.


I see Cameron as artificial and egocentric as Blair.

However, he did put "cash" into the infrastructure, but should be shot for Iraq.

Kinnock was completely unelectable and John Smith was far too Scottish. Kinnock was a buffoon. He was scared to death of Maggie. Just look at their confrontations in the Commons on YouTube. He hardly ever looked at her, he was so scared.

I suggest you look back at the Kinnock period with less blinkered eyes.

Maggie left town and villages looking like graveyards and is probably responsible for the rapid decay of the UK.

Maggie left the UK a better place than she found it. She removed the iron dead grip of the unions. That alone was fantastic apart from all the other things.

Maggie 1 legal war = 1 vicTORY , = street's of London , safe from Argentine terrorist's

Blair/Brown 1 non legal war and 1 semi legal war = total defeat = Islamic terrorist's roaming the street's of London .

Hays,

I suggest you refer back to the ethos of the Thatcher period and the values she imparted on society during her period.

Also, the influence that period had on the values society and the delight that some took up the baton she left, and the interpretation she inferred of "there is no such thing as society".

Would suggest trying to do so with some detachment rather than through the tribal eye.

Many with less than jaundiced view, see as less than adorable, or presentable than many of the remnants of her party would like to think.

But as Cynic wrote for me, "each to their own taste".