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.

Jittery Labour is on the road to civil war, the headline in the Express. Typical Labour has not given voters a compelling case as to why Britain would be better off under Labour.

Bad 3 weeks for the government.

Standard OF Living dominating the agenda and Labour with upper hand.

Labours lead goes up to 8%.

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UK - YouGov/Sun poll: CON 31%, LAB 39%, LDEM 11%, UKIP 11%

Did they translate the poll results into probable seats?

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cartoon/2013/aug/07/mark-carney-new-governor-bank

Look how the public's attitude to the cuts has changed and now is behind the government.

MaxK....... here we are..........

Latest UNS Projection..... labour lead 76 Outright majority.

Uniform Swing Projection

238 363 23 8 18
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The standard method of translating shares of the vote into seats is to use a uniform swing calculation. This means that the national change in vote share for each party is applied to each individual seat to see how that would effect the result, and then these theoretical results in each seat are totted up to produce a projection for House of Commons.

This is a crude measure and can result in some illogical and impossible projections – for example, if a poll showed Labour support dropping by 13%, as one poll did during Summer 2008, then a uniform swing calculation using those figures would project Labour getting less than zero votes in 48 seats. This is clearly nonsense. Such projections also ignore any regional variations, tactical considerations or variations due to incumbency effects of new MPs or MPs standing down. Despite all these drawbacks, it normally does a reasonably good job and, given that it is a straight extrapolation of current voting figures it is at least accepted as a fair projection that is not at the whim of individual guesswork or assumptions

get a life all of you .... you all seem to be totally fixated by these meaningless polls that come out on almost a daily basis from which little if anything can be genuinely interpreted, least of all "how many sets etc etc"

None of it matters as the Conservatives are on course for a clear majority. The economy is going their way and the public are behind the cuts. Above all, once the economy has picked up, the public won't trust Labour to manage the money again. Every time Labour has left office the economy is wrecked.

Sick or what?

'Savile and schoolgirls' Lauder float criticised by MSP

What's all this about "Bongo bongo land" then? They look alright to me http://www.topshamcarsales.co.uk/Categories/32/Mazda.html

That looks like Fred's dream site! :-)

Thanks gf, that's all we need, an outright majority under "radar" Millibum.

Mind you, he's playing a blinder at the moment.

The trend is heading away from Labour and UKIP.

it's far too brave a call to bet on any party having an outright majority .... actually, it would be interesting to learn what odds are available on that

Ladbrokes said that 70% of the bets taken over the last two weeks were on the Conservatives to win an outright majority.

Any coincidence that Fred and Millipede are both in France, maybe a meeting with Francois Hollande to discuss the French unemployment situation?
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The increasing French unemployment situation. Add to that the increasing deficit.

This what you get when you vote for the left.

"The number of jobless people in mainland France reached a new record in June, labour ministry data showed on Wednesday. The new figures come as another blow to President François Hollande's vow to bring down unemployment by the end of 2013."

"PARIS: The French trade deficit, a critical problem for the recession-hit economy, worsened sharply in May, official data showed yesterday.
Although the data for a single month can vary considerably, the overall picture is grim for efforts by the left-wing government to boost industrial competitivity, growth and tax revenues.
The trade balance showed a deficit of 6.01 billion euros ($ 7.7 billion), rising above 6.0 billion euros for the first time since June 2012.
This outcome was 1.5 billion euros worse than the deficit of 4.5 billion euros in April."

''Sacre Bleu'' surely not, Monsieur Hollande promised to bring unemployment down. Maybe Fred and Millipede can help.
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It is interesting that Hollande has been doing pretty much what Miliband and co want to do.

We may think our politicians are bad

Make one gaffe in a two-minute interview and you could forgiven, but make at least three and people are going to start raising some eyebrows.

In a short TV interview with Australia's Channel 7 News, Brisbane parliamentary candidate Stephanie Banister said Islam was a country, said Jewish people follow Jesus and praised a government programme that does not start for another three years.

"I don't oppose Islam as a country but I do feel their laws should not be welcome here in Australia," she said.


Islam is not a country.

Banister wants halal food to be banned. But does not have a problem with kosher food being sold.

"Jews aren't under haram, they have their own religion which follows Jesus Christ," she said.


Judaism does not follow Jesus Christ.

In the interview Banister is also asked what she thinks of the Australian government's National Disability Scheme, the NDIS.

"I believe that the disability scheme is working at the moment," she said.


The NDIS does not start until 2016.