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.

Notice how the Tory front bench had women on at PMQs, and four women strategically placed behind fat Dave.

electionista ‏@electionista
UK - YouGov/Sun poll:

CON 34%
LAB 39%
LDEM 10%
UKIP 11%
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Today
The Bank of England revised up its growth forecast for 2014 to 3.4 percent from 2.8 percent, a more bullish forecast than most other economists, and one which the Bank said was due in part to its belief that the Office for National Statistics had underestimated fourth-quarter gross domestic product growth.

The Bank says room remains for more growth without stoking inflation, despite a record number of people in work and business surveys that show bottlenecks in factories.

Inflation has fallen unexpectedly rapidly to its 2 percent target and the Bank said it expected it to dip further to 1.7 percent by March, before hovering close to 2 percent for the next couple of years.

As Andrew Neil and Nick Robinson both said just now, those figures are a potential game changer for the economy and politics.

More chance now of a Conservative victory.

Polls now showing UKIP potentially in 3rd place in EU elections.

And still we have Food Banks opening at record levels and Loan pay day merchants booming.

Dream on Hays do you really think the ordinary Joe Soap on the street cares about economic growth.

Its the pound in the pocket that counts and people have long memorys they wont forget the 4 years of nil pay award or pay cuts and hours cut.

Growth at that level is almost a boom. That will put cash in people's pockets. It will produce a feel good mood. The choice will be for people to vote for Labour, who the public doesn't trust on the economy or vote for the Conservatives who would be bringing good times and a boom. The public just love a boom and wouldn't want Labour to spoil it.

From the BBC teletext service "But Mr Carney WARNED that the recovery was NOT SECURE" .............

Hays your beginning to lie like the the two at the top Fat Dave and Sir Giddeon.

No recovery is secure. He is just hedging his bets. The likelihood is that it will bring an overall Conservative majority.

I wouldn't be surprised if we had another hung parliament at the next election. Labour aren't nearly as far left as they used to be and voters are generally totally fed-up with these idiot politicians - it doesn't matter which party they represent. The latest flood fiasco is pretty typical of the blame game that goes on whenever something goes wrong in this country.

!!!!!! Potential !!!!!!! Burst.

Typical tory con.


Money "NO OBJECT"!!!!!!!!!!!

Lying B.

Unless it is going into his backers' pockets.

Money "NO OBJECT"!!!!!!!!!!!

he'l come to regret saying that will Camoron.

You mark my words.

LATEST UNS PROJECTION
58 Labour Majority

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UKPR POLLING AVERAGE
33 38 10

Tory goverment my ass.

cut through the crap shall we?
the economy is unequivocally on the mend, but unless or more likely until peeps see more money in their pockets and/or life in their high street, they won't pay much attention

the political platforms are likely to move away from the economy - labour can't win trying to use that old dog - back to immigration and perhaps EU

however, peeps have first to be convinced that it is worth turning out to vote for anyone, and that remains MY major concern

Ed Conway ‏@EdConwaySky 33m
BoE helpfully surveyed households and discovered fwd guidance actually reduced confidence rather than increasing it.......

Why has Carney retreated from the 7% unemployment figure before raising interest rates?

Is it because he has realised those figures are falsified?

What is GDP now compared with 2008 and what should it have been if sensible policies had been implemented?

This government has been self serving and a disaster for the majority.

The only thing holding it up is that a large amount of the media is in cahoots with it and they are pulling one another's strings.

Also, they are hamstrung to parts of the "city".

the majority of "real people" are shown clearly to just shrug their shoulders

Carney only said that at 7% unemployment levels, he would consider raising interest rates. At the time he said that, he made it clear that it was just the start of a period where a rate rise would be considered. He has subsequently said that it would probably be at least a year away.

Yesterday was the Tuesday, the day before it was Monday.

He is as wobbly as Wavy Davey.

Are they his paymaster?

Yep spot on Fred, mind their is talk he will HAVE to raise just before the election(next spring) so that will be a downer for Sir Giddeon.