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.

Exec,

It would be much more fun seeing Hays in jail.



8-)

Dont like the look of this.............

Shutdown is nothing: Debt ceiling debacle could be real ugly
Published: Tuesday, 1 Oct 2013 | 3:15 PM ETBy: John W. Schoen | CNBC.com Economics Reporter.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101078103

Boris made a marvellous speech to-day, and didn't the party love him.

Just heard that there is going to be a quick bye election to get Boris is ready to stand to get back into the HP.

Once there, a group of dissidents who want him to replace Cameron before the General Election.

Rumour is that some disenchanted tories hope that this will attract the tory deserters to UKIP back to the con party.

;-)

Theirs been quite a bit of that on twitter today Fred.

I suppose Labour would then need the Lib Dems like I suggested monday and in the longer term we have a 2 party Nation.

Labour/LibDem's working together , that should be fun

It would be even more fun if they got in....Carey Street type fun.

Actually, it may be sensible.

? 20 years ago? there were many , who thought when the SDNP broke off from the Labour party that they may have develop a moderate socialist party in alliance with the Libs of that time.

I think that was the stimulus for the moderates within the Labour party leading to the castration of many of their more far left factions

In one way it seems some of the Libs have moved to right leaving a large rump behind, while the majority of Labour has moved towards the centre.

It would seem a reasonable move.

But I don't think they could buy having Clegg, or the Red Squirrel in a cabinet.

But wouldn't be surprised if Danny Alexander defects to the party of Cons.

Feel a little sorry for Clegg, but he sold out on University fees and that is unlikely to be forgotten.

SDP not SDNP

Hays,

Thank you!

You are correct!

You can go to bed now.

I am doing penance for losing to a 78 year old earlier on at chess, after being 2 pawns ahead at the end game.

Labour is currently lurching to the left

Gay marriage and HS2 hit local Tories

Conservative associations are running out of money and shedding members, with the blame being put on unpopular policies such as same-sex marriage and the HS2 rail line.


An analysis of dozens of local Conservative associations’ annual reports shows that membership is declining rapidly Photo: GETTY IMAGES


By Peter Dominiczak, Political Correspondent
10:21PM BST 01 Oct 2013

An analysis of dozens of local associations’ annual reports shows that membership is declining rapidly amid warnings that Tory voters are defecting to the UK Independence Party. The report of one group in Buckinghamshire simply states: “There is no money.”

Tory membership has almost halved to 134,000 since David Cameron became leader in 2005.

The Prime Minister’s relationship with activists has come under mounting strain in recent months. The Daily Telegraph disclosed in May that a member of his inner circle had described Conservative association members as “mad, swivel-eyed loons”.

While all three main parties’ membership has fallen in recent years, Ukip’s has risen dramatically, from 15,535 in 2010 to 30,780 today. The annual report for the Chesham and Amersham Conservative Association, written by Andrew Garnett, its chairman since 2011, said: “There is no money. The money has run out.

“This is the situation [the association] finds itself in as we enter 2013. Put very simply the level of membership subscriptions has fallen by in excess of 300 over my time as chairman. The money raised from social events has fallen off a cliff.”


More: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/10348476/Gay-marriage-and-HS2-hit-local-Tories.html

Morning morning morning everyone. -issing it down here in lovely Yorkshire.

Labour and the LibDems also losing members.

Seems UKIP is the only one gaining membership.

From my mate on twitter..........

Dave Camoron ‏@EtonOldBoys 12m
Great news for the unemployed,they have just been guaranteed a 35 hour week at the Job Centre.

Vote ukip vote ukip

Nice one gf (30337) nicked it for the other place :-)

hays hays hays........... bad news sir, just out this morning..........

electionista ‏@electionista 1h
UK - YouGov poll: CON 31%, LAB 41%, LDEM 8%, UKIP 12%

Probably the silly new policy on the unemployed from the Tories responsible for this.

Another one for you MaxK..........

Iain Duncan Smith MP ‏@IDS_MP 1m
Like the Prime Minister I also have a breadmaker. His name is Eric and I pay him minimum wage. Vote Tory!

Is it a real one gf? (wouldn't surprise me)

nah, they are just spoofs. LOL. Although you could imagine it to be so LOL.

goldfinger

"Probably the silly new policy on the unemployed from the Tories responsible for this."

Well, at least I agree with you on this one.

I agree with it in principle but there has to be a better way of selling it.

"You WILL DO THIS/THAT/THE OTHER..." never enthused anyone. In fact, as we can see from the polls, it has just the opposite effect.

:-)