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.

Labour are not doing their homework before bringing out these ill thought out policies. (below)

The Conservatives also claim Mr Miliband's apprenticeship scheme would be against EU law, which prevents member countries giving preferential treatment to their own citizens in the jobs market

BBC news -

Labours apprenticeship scheme

'Shambles'

But the plan did not go down well with business groups, with the CBI warning it could lead to more red tape for firms and the British Chambers of Commerce dubbing it an "apprentice tax" on employers that would not help young people or curb immigration.

So it is that Labour risks unveiling real policy substance and still leaving people wondering what on earth the man who wants to be our next prime minister might do if he reached Number 10.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24195015

"A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma".


So it is that Labour risks unveiling real policy substance and still leaving people wondering what on earth the man who wants to be our next prime minister might do if he reached Number 10.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24195015

Do we want socialism? The last time it was attempted, it was the downfall of Michael Foot.

Ed Miliband: I'm bringing socialism back to Britain

Ed Miliband has said he is "bringing back socialism" to Britain as he unveiled new plans to strengthen the minimum wage ahead of the Labour Party conference.

In a question-and-answer session, Mr Miliband was asked when he would “bring back socialism”. He replied: “That’s what we are doing, Sir.”

The last 4 polls on electionista(shown above) SHOW THE TREND IS GOING BACK LABOURS WAY.

Last week all the polls had them at just 3 or 4 points in front or level like the Suns defunkt poll.

Now they have widened out again. The trend is with labour.

Is it UKIP supporters moving over???, looks that way to me.

yawn

appropos nothing in particular .... Golden Hind in Marylebone Lane has fantastic chips - and fish to match
can't think why that came to mind

Yep the trend is now back with labour.

Its the voters that count not trivial side show bust ups and arguments that the press and media love to transmit.

No doubt it will happen at the Tory conference aswel, pound to a penny Linton Crosby will be enbroiled in some kind of smear talk.

Best chippy I've come across...pricey tho.


The Seashell Of Lisson Grove



Lisson Grove North, W16

What trend? Nu Lab haven't got a workable policy to their name!

The Sea Shell was the best fish and chips about 20 years ago. It was bought by a large company for a rumoured £2m. The family that sold it, opened another one in the family name called Faulkners. It was just as good as their original one. It is in Dalston, but has been sold to new owners and is now awful.

Never going to happen mate. lol

It was some time ago Haystack.

The trend Hays keeps refering to.

In other words the polls are turning back labours way.

No way do working class people want posh boys at no 10.

Remember the posh boys couldnt rule by themselves last time when the most weakest PM we have had in this country was in power.

Even worse...If the lesser spotted Millibandus gets the job, he'll put Balls-up in charge of the money.

Labour are going to make a monumental cock up of their conference this week. The unions have already said they won't play ball with his reforms. He will finish the week looking even weaker than he started it.

Doesnt matter the polls are going in labours favour.

The trend is with labour.

You cant have it both ways Hays saying the trend is against and now when its with them you just trash the trend.

Its a bit like how you trashed the SUN poll a few months back but now use it for your propoganda programme.

i certainly remember the Seashell but that was back in the 70/80s .... in those days, there used to be a string of very expensive cars parked outside, belonging to those eating in or taking away

Geale's in Notting Hill then went through a "trendy" phase, but frankly, i never thought it very good, and it may not even exist any more

Whitstable and Whitley Bay both have fine establishments i believe, but rather too far to travel of an evening to get the goodies home while still fresh and hot

Eurozone tensions bubble as Merkel storms to victory

Eurozone tensions are simmering as the bloc faces four more years of tough austerity under the leadership of conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel.


Protesters holding posters depicting famous Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream" and reading "My health a business! Vote and shut up" take part in a demonstration against budget cuts and plans to partly privatise medical services in Madrid on September 22, 2013. Photo: AFP/Getty Images

By Denise Roland
7:10PM BST 22 Sep 2013



German exit polls on Sunday evening indicated that Mrs Merkel’s conservative bloc won 42pc of the vote and may be on course to win an historic absolute majority. A projection by broadcaster ARD put Merkel’s conservatives on 42.5pc, just over the combined total for the left parties who together scored 41.6pc.

Mats Persson, director of think tank Open Europe, said the result reflected "a validation of [Merkel's} eurozone policy" and the bloc should expect "more of the same".

Support for the centre-left Social Democrats stood at 26pc, with the environmentalist Greens and far-left party each securing around 8pc of the vote. But Mrs Merkel’s current partners, the Free Democratic Party, risk losing their Bundestag seats as their share teeters on the 5pc threshold.

German voters also displayed rising levels of anti-euro sentiment after a new eurosceptic party, the Alternative for Germany, looked to have come within a whisker of entering parliament, with an exit poll reading of 4.9pc.

Even if Mrs Merkel is forced to form a so-called 'grand coalition’ with her leftist rivals, a major shift from her dogged defence of German interests seems unlikely.



More sausage here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/10326978/Eurozone-tensions-bubble-as-Merkel-storms-to-victory.html