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.

I decided not to watch the Clegg/Garage punch up tonight as the previous one was so awful.,

The polls I have seen this evening suggest that Farage won the debate. I have two reactions to that. Firstly, what does it matter. They are both fringe parties. One will get its usual MPs and the other won't get any. Secondly, YouGov admitted after the last debate that the polls were flawed because a disproportionate number of UKIP supporters watched the programming and therefore skewed the opinion polls.

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL................

code for meaning, gosh UKIP are going to take a lot of seats away from us and hand the election to labour on a plate.

Clegg's silly remarks about Putin , and his fantasy remarks to Farage about going back to the past made him look a fool. And his lie from last week saying only 7% of our law's , directives or what ever liked to call them were made by the EU. What Farage could have said was you lied about the 7% just as you lied about student tuition fee's

You doth protest too much Haystack!


Farage won over even a BBC audience, no mean feat!

Haze,

I not sure if you are on any medication, but whether you are or not I would pop in and see your doctor.

That is if you can get an appointment and as long as Wavy Dave hasn't sold the NHS.

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Members of the public are realising why Wavy Dave and his cronies are to cowardly to face up to Fauxpage in a public debate.


The blue rinse brigade and the Captain Mainwarings are deserting the tories in their droves.

Onward and downward into the next general election.

8-)

Farage was very mean to Nick.

He almost ran away with his ball..

Spot on alders.

Nick doesent have any balls Fred, he's just a blow up balloon.

Here we are.............

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Trouble with Clegg tonight is that lot of what he said had b-all to do with EU; syria, gay marraige, wg grace. I fear audience will notice


8:13 PM - 2 Apr 2014


http://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/2014/apr/02/farage-v-clegg-the-debate-for-europe-politics-live-blog

Farage v Clegg - the debate for Europe: Politics live blog


• Guardian ICM poll says 69% say Farage won, 31% Clegg

• YouGov says 68% say Farage won, 27% Clegg


Andrew Sparrow


theguardian.com, Wednesday 2 April 2014 21.07 BST


38% more likely to vote Ukip after debate, Guardian ICM poll shows



http://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/2014/apr/02/farage-v-clegg-the-debate-for-europe-politics-live-blog

electionista ‏@electionista 48m
UK - who won #europedebate polls:

ICM/Guardian: Farage 69%, Clegg 31%

YouGov/Sun: Farage 68%, Clegg 27%

Peter Kellner, the YouGov president, said the underlying data was bad news for Mr Clegg. He said: "The most interesting change is there has been a shift to Farage among Labour voters since last week and among Lib Dems."

he he he yeah right.

Tories not bothered what the 90 odd sceptics are going to do when UKIP whup them at the Euros.

i'm sorry to say that the eu elections are even more meaningless to the average joe than his local elections ....... the problem arises for us all (yes i do mean all) if there is similar apathy at the general election

I thought Farage was streets ahead of dippy Clegg. Cleggs answers were schoolboy retorts and distorted figures at best. One minute he says we don't do exit figures for immigration next thing he says that half the people who come here go back. There was only one fantasist on show last night.

Carney: Rates could rise before general election
03 Apr 2014 | 08:07

Mark Carney said UK interest rates could rise before next May's general election if there are continued sustainable improvements in the economy, according to a report.
The Bank of England governor told the Northern Echo he does not rule out a rate hike before the election next May.
However, Carney (pictured) called for a improvement in the labour market in the North of England as well as the South before such a decision can be made.
"The point is that if a recovery is just based in the South-East it is neither sustainable nor balanced. It has to include the North-East, we are here to make policy for the UK as a whole, " the Governor said in the interview.
Carney recognised an interest rate hike would be unpopular with mortgage payers, but said a hike in interest ratesshould be seen as a "welcome sign" the economy is recovering after a difficult period.
He stressed the hike would be gradual, despite the quick pace of the recovery in the UK compared to other European nations.
"We will set policy as appropriate to meet our core responsibility to meet the two per cent inflation target," the Governor said.
"We have been as explicit as we can about the nature of adjustments to interest rates, but we cannot be specific."
Carney also called for banks to act more professionally in order to improve their public image.
He said: "Banking needs to be treated more as a profession. We also need to improve infrastructure, both in how markets are organised and the codes of conduct behind markets."

On Monday Farage told newsmen that “We are going to be spending the bulk of our money in the next eight weeks in the big cities in the Midlands and the north targeting the Labour vote”.