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.

Miliband's rise to power

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/sep/24/ed-miliband-union-gmb-labour-leadership

Ed Miliband union backers accused over Labour ballot mail-out

GMB union's endorsement on leadership voting envelopes 'breaches spirit of election'



One of Ed Miliband's major union backers was accused today of breaching the spirit of the rules surrounding the Labour leadership vote by sending out ballot papers in packages calling for union members to endorse him.

The GMB sent its 700,000 members ballot papers within a larger envelope featuring Ed Miliband's picture. Party rules say you cannot include in the ballot envelope any literature backing a candidate.

"Affiliates should not include any materials in the ballot envelope indicating support for individual candidates," the rules say. "The ballot envelope may be inserted in another union mailing, which may contain a recommendation from the trade union as to which candidate to support."

There is doubt at senior levels in the Labour party over whether the type of literature put out by unions supporting their chosen candidates was within the principles set out by the party before this year's contest to find a new Labour leader.

Ed's their man, and they are going to stand by him!

Tammy Wynnette will do the vocals.

electionista ‏@electionista
UK - Populus poll:

CON 33%
LAB 40%
LDEM 11%
UKIP 8%

One point lead

The monthly ComRes telephone poll for the Independent is out tonight and has topline figures of

CON 32% (nc), LAB 33%(-4), LDEM 9%(nc), UKIP 14%(+4).

Meanwhile the Sun politics team have tweeted the daily YouGov poll. That too shows the Labour lead down, in this case to two points:

CON 35%, LAB 37%, LD 9%, UKIP 13%.

Haze,

You do scrape around in dustbins.

Getting ready for the revolution.

Look over your shoulder.

Its another precipice.


LOL

I am waiting for Labour and Libs 55%

UKIP 25%

Torrids 15%

UKIP support will collapse at the election.They will do well at the EU elections as it is proportional voting, but the general election is first past the post and they will be lucky to get even one MP.

It's the power that the ukippers will deny to others that count.


Lots of very quivering assholes in the marginals I would think, all sides, cos no one knows where voting intentions will lead to on the day.

True. They may upset the results in constituencies. However, once the illogicality of UKIP's position is realised, closer to the election, their support should diminish.

there you are .... post 35939 - a real no-contest bet that fossy would never answer any question no matter how simple even for his pretentious mind

Manuel,

I would prefer to leave you wallowing in your own colossal ignorance.

Have a nice day.

fossy the *anker and pedagogue drivels and slithers again
pretence to leftist idealism, but totally lacking the credibility for his phoney convictions
that's why his posts are well worth a detour

Manuel,

You have promised to bypass my postings.

Pleased, if you do so.

But, as usual, your definition of my political leanings are far from correct and out of touch as many of you frequent pronouncements are.

But, to me, you appear to be becoming more and more a fitting member the far right fascist wing of the torrid party having swallowed the party propaganda.

Have a better day than yesterday.

Manuel,

For you a fitting picture of a mate from the old school.

fossy is indeed a most fitting sobriquet
added to that, you're just a charlatan with no courage of supposed convictions

Pete Seeger has died. He wrote "If I Had a Hammer," ''Where Have All the Flowers Gone" and "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" and many others.

And ""We Shall Overcome."!

He only popularised "we shall overcome". His contribution was just to swap "will" to "shall" because it opened up the mouth more.