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.

Update - Labour lead at 2
by YouGov in Politics
Wed May 21, 2014 6 a.m. BST

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 20th May - Con 33%, Lab 35%, LD 11%, UKIP 13%;

ComRes poll of marginal seats
20 MAY 2014

ComRes have a poll of marginal seats out tonight covering the forty most marginal seats with Labour and Conservative in first and second place (so 25 with Tory incumbents, 15 with Labour incumbents). Collectively the vote in these seats was CON 37%, LAB 37%, LDEM 18%, UKIP 3% at the last general election. In today’s poll ComRes found current support of CON 33%(-4), LAB 35%(-2), LDEM 8%(-10), UKIP 17%(+14). That’s a swing from Conservative to Labour .............ENDS

Very good news for labour its a well known fact Com Res are weighted towards Tory constituencies.

Hays Hays Hays......cant you sleep, the pressure getting too you.

More room for rich foreigners as government cuts Disabled Students Allowance,
21/May/2014

Some readers may find the above headline a bit strong, but please be assured – this is what it means.

Vox Political became aware of this story in two contrasting ways, as follows.

Firstly, from The Guardian: “From September 2015 [the government] will only pay for support for students with specific learning difficulties, such as dyslexia, if their needs are ‘complex’, although the definition of this, and who decides it, remains unclear.

“It will no longer pay for standard computers for disabled students, or for much of the higher specification IT it now subsidises.

“And it will no longer fund non-specialist help, likely to include note-takers and learning mentors. The costs of specialist accommodation will be met only in exceptional circumstances.”

Paddy Turner, of the National Association of Disability Practitioners (NADP) is quoted: “This is going to have a disastrous effect on students with specific learning difficulties because it looks very clear that [universities minister David Willetts] is trying to remove them from the DSA. It looks like a knee-jerk reaction to recent reports that specific learning difficulties and dyslexia aren’t really disabilities at all.”

Secondly, please read the following, from Vox Political reader Karlie Marvel, who has a relative with MS: “They are axing the disabled student allowance. The amount of funding for DSA is relatively tiny.”

I’ve been completely staggered by what I have discovered to be going on… Surely, the benefit to the economy of helping disabled students towards being able to contribute fully to society, rather than being left on the sidelines because of penny-pinching, is greater than the cost of a short period of support whilst they train?

“But I can’t say I’m surprised really.

“No education…

“Struggle to find work…

“No benefits…

“Die.

“Coalition government 2014. I’m feeling very bleak, Mr Vox.”

Who can blame her? Yet again, our government of couldn’t-care-less millionaires is cutting support to the very people they should be working hardest to help – the vulnerable disabled who cannot make it on their own.

They have rigged benefit assessments to make claiming as stressful as possible for people who can be killed by anxiety.

They have closed most of the Remploy factories that employed disabled people.

They are closing down the Independent Living Fund (ILF), that delivers financial support to disabled people so they can choose to live in their communities rather than in residential care.

Now this.

Morning gf.

Voting Nu/Old Labour in the €uro-election is a vote for more of the same.


No thanks, time for a change, even if it is only to give the big three a kick up the arse, they sure as hell need it!

You have got to see this


http://dotsub.com/media/b5ee5ada-5b37-4b0b-9916-e0896337ec4b/embed/eng

Thanks for that aldwickk.

The guy's name on the video clip is Pat Condell. If you want to watch/listen to more of his offerings, try starting out at:

https://www.youtube.com/user/patcondell

gf
You missed the last part of you Comes post

That’s a swing from Conservative to Labour of just one point, far lower than the swing shown in ComRes’s GB polls (it would be the equivalent of a national poll showing a Conservative lead of five points) suggesting Labour are doing worse in key marginals than in the country as a whole.

http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/8828?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PollingReport+%28UK+Polling+Report%29

Nice one aldwickk....classy rant :-)

http://news.sky.com/story/1265690/police-to-patrol-more-than-100-polling-stations

Police will be stationed at more than 100 polling stations to combat voter intimidation and fraud at the local and European elections on Thursday, Sky News has learned.

The Electoral Commission has identified 16 areas as being at "high risk" for vote-rigging and bullying.

This includes Tower Hamlets, which in response has introduced what the council described as "the strongest measures to prevent fraud of any authority in London - and one of the most robust in the country".

The council said: "On polling day, police officers will be stationed at all 125 polling stations in the borough for the whole 15 hours of the poll (from 7am to 10pm) to deal with any alleged malpractice or public order issues."

Returning Officer John Williams said they were responding to allegations of intimidation during previous elections.

He said: "In general it has been enthusiastic campaigners gathering outside polling stations and trying to convince electors as they are coming in to vote who they should be voting for and sometimes that can be intimidating for people."

Councils are also investigating irregularities on nomination, voter registration and postal vote forms.

In Tower Hamlets they are not just screening signatures and birth dates on postal votes, but also visiting houses with high numbers of registered voters.

More than 5,000 names have been removed from the electoral register since February.

Pendle, in Lancashire, is another area identified.

Conservative council candidate Abdullah Zaid said activists have in the past coerced vulnerable voters on the doorstep.

He said: "They say, 'how do we know you're voting for us? To assure us you need to do the postal vote applications (now).'

"Then they do the applications themselves and get their signatures and send off the postal votes."

Lib Dem Councillor Tony Greaves, who has campaigned on the issue and sits in the House of Lords, said: "Fiddling postal votes has happened at every local election in Pendle since 2002 and it has taken this long for people and the police to sit up and take notice.

The at-risk areas are mostly Asian communities.

The others are: Hyndburn, Blackburn with Darwen, Burnley and Oldham, Kirklees, Bradford, Calderdale, Derby, Walsall, Birmingham, Coventry, Peterborough, Slough, and Woking.

Apart from Tower Hamlets, no other council is planning to police every polling station.

Police will be stationed at more than 100 polling stations to combat voter intimidation and fraud at the local and European elections on Thursday, Sky News has learned ....... The Electoral Commission has identified 16 areas as being at "high risk" for vote-rigging and bullying ....... Lib Dem Councillor Tony Greaves said: "Fiddling postal votes has happened at every local election in Pendle since 2002 and it has taken this long for people and the police to sit up and take notice.


has 1st April come around twice this year?
we aren't living in pakistan or afghanistan or similar

It's what I've been saying sleepwalking into this.Nothing but trouble in the future.

Hays rubbish, total carp. (your sort of reply.........note he he. )

Hays your going to feel really down in the dumps tomorrow and the few days after.

Camoron is in a defeatist mode already.

I have a rope if you want to borrow it, or maybe you have freind who can lend you one.

These EU polls don't matter to anyone except Farage, which is why the projected turnout is so low. The GE is all that counts and UKIP are stuck at the same nowhere level.

intrinsically correct, except that ukip still show GE support at about 14% (i think), which makes it hard to believe that they'll get zero mps

They have to get well over 20% to get just one MP.

If thats the case why is Camoron shit-ing at just the mention of their name.!!!!!!!

It is not that UKIP will get MPs. It is that UKIP could reduce the Conservative vote share and let in Labour in Conservative marginals.

i know your logic, but i don't think it's entirely correct .... or if it is, then lib/dems will assuredly have none, notwithstanding that they may only fight a few seats - and if they do that, then they really have written themselves off as a mainstream party

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anyway, overall i'll still put money on a hung parliament