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.

Fred - Alvor isn't a dusty fishing village any more, sadly, but it still retains a lot of its charm despite that. There are still dusty fishing villages in Portugal, but they are becoming harder to find. Lovely country, lovely people and a great place to visit - if you can get away from the more popular tourist places favoured by beer-swilling Brits!

Brothers at war: David Miliband defies Ed to insist intervention in Syria is 'increasingly necessary' despite being unpopular
Former foreign secretary says aid workers under attack in Syria
Calls for an end to the 'diplomatic and military deadlock' for action
More than 6m Syrians forced out of homes with 2m leaving the country




By Matt Chorley, Mailonline Political Editor

PUBLISHED: 17:05, 3 September 2013 | UPDATED: 17:14, 3 September 2013




http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2410132/David-Miliband-defies-Ed-insist-intervention-Syria-increasingly-necessary.html

Once again Ed Miliband has laid an egg!

We did say, did we not ? :-))

Why does everything I do turn to sh*t?

Because you are.
2517

"Both the government and rebels have blamed each other for what they say was an attack involving chemical weapons."


So who are they going to bomb?

It has for Cameron.


Cameron seems to have disappeared following shooting himself in the foot.

PM questions should be interesting to-morrow.

Ps/

Forgot we have an overgrown school boy acting as a clown for a PM.

-------


I wonder when the tories will dump him, before or after the election.


Farage is laughing in his socks.

Miliband needs dumping.

Fred, Yes a pint is overdue, will let you get the Portugal trip arranged and then we can make arrangements.

BILL aka haystack......... your fav poll SUN........ conmen....

Now U were saying 3%................... sorry bud.

electionista ‏@electionista
UK - YouGov/Sun poll: CON 33%, LAB 40%, LDEM 9%, UKIP 12%

Labour lead 7%.

Oh dear.

Camoron IS FRIED.

That's back to the polling figures before Syria vote. So it has done no harm to Cameron. It is beginning to look like Miliband will come out worse over the stupid Labour vote.

H/S,

Are you having trouble sleeping?

GMB cuts funds it gives Labour from £1.2m to £150,000

The GMB union is to cut the affiliation funds it gives Labour from £1.2m to £150,000 in the wake of a row over reforms, the union has announced.

The union said there would also be cuts in spending on Labour campaigns.

The changes will take effect from the start of next year.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23953573

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23953573

Hays,

When you were a little boy, did you use to say "stupid mummy" when she said something you didn't like.

No effect for Syria vote except damaging to Miliband.

Update: Labour lead at 4
by YouGov in Politics
Wed September 4, 6 a.m. BST

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 3rd September - Con 33%, Lab 37%, LD 9%, UKIP 13%;

The GMB union is to cut the affiliation funds it gives Labour from £1.2m to £150,000 in the wake of a row over reforms, it has announced.

The union said there would also be cuts in spending on Labour campaigns.

The changes will take effect from the start of next year.

The GMB said its decision to reduce its funding for Labour reflected its estimate of the number of union members who would be willing to affiliate themselves to it individually following Mr Miliband's change.

At the moment the union automatically affiliates 420,000 of its members to Labour, at £3 each per year,

It estimates about 50,000 of the 650,000 GMB members would actually choose to affiliate with Labour. This figure is derived from the number who took part in the Labour leadership contest in 2010, it said.

The move comes despite Mr Miliband's plea to unions to campaign to get their members to sign up.