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.

Must be difficult for Lord Ashcroft to publish these figures.

Bet hes been biting his tounge.

Full marks though to a man who goes againt the PRESENT Tory grain of being a cheat and lieing all the time ie, IDS and Camoron himself.

Well done Lord Ashcroft. An old fashioned Tory a tory who if thier was more of them I would consider rejoining the party. Im sure others would aswel.

It pays to be honest.

Not Spin like the Tory press but FACTS.

Why would Ed feel good about Thurrock?

UKIP took 5 extra seats there.

2 from old Lab

3 from nu Tory


https://www.thurrock.gov.uk/vote2014

This should have been one of the best weeks of Ed Miliband’s career. In fact, it has been by far the worst. Disaster followed disaster.

Having made the ‘cost of living crisis’ the centrepiece of his local and Euro election campaign, the hapless Miliband suggested that his family’s weekly shop cost around £70 or £80 — a figure most commentators agreed was a woeful underestimate, suggesting that he didn’t really know what he was talking about.

Then the man who lives in a London house worth £2.5 million announced rather coyly that he is only ‘relatively comfortably off’.

Elsewhere, he floundered in a cringe-making radio interview in Swindon, unable either to remember the name of the borough’s Labour leader, or identify that the Tories ran the council.

Worst of all were those pictures of him clumsily scoffing a bacon-and-ketchup sandwich in a desperate attempt to look like a man of the people. Those images, above all, will remain in the public’s minds.

To cap it all, yesterday — a day when he might have expected to be celebrating victory in the local elections and telling his troops to ‘prepare for Government’ — Mr Miliband found that Labour had turned in a shockingly poor performance.

It's grim oop north...


http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2014/05/24/local-elections-major-political-earthquake-not-many-dead/

he he ho ho ha ha

Hays I suspect when Ed sees that poll from lord Ashcroft it is one of his best weeks ever. .................................. and thats when conditions favour the tories , just think when the economy turns down those 83 seats tory to labour could easily double.

*Max I reckon you should be focusing in on the Tory press and asking why they have chosen to give UKIP about only 20% of the headlines and space they deserve in thier newspapers, instead they have chosen to try and bury the Excelent news and deflect from Tory woes to labours solid showing.

The spin is deafening, they are overlooking facts and are running scared of labour trying to discredit Milliband instead of asking why Camoron has performed so poorly a real disaster election for the tories

Lets face it he couldnt produce an overal majority against the weakest priminister this country as ever had(Brown)so what chance now with Nigel stealing his followers.

It was written on Camorons face yesterday afternoon when he did that outside interview for SKY, his face all screwed up he was fuming, livid, agressive. He knew UKIP had truely given him a good kicking.

UKIP wont take Rotherham in the GE, as per my post yesterday it was a special one off protest vote.

LOL
Just one special protest vote that saw UKIP take 45% of the vote in a Labour stronghold. Of 21 seats being voted on, UKIP took 10.
What would be the protest be about? Labour are not even in government. Silly gf.

Hays fool. It was a protest over Asian men grooming white girls. They picked on the labour council for that. Its a one off, I have relations and freinds in Rotherham.

I suggest you look up the facts before embarassing yourself in the future.

That's not a protest.

Ohhhhhh shut up, they more you post the more you look a fool .

Just remember you have taken one hell of a kicking this afternoon and from the boot of one of your own .........LORD ASHCROFT.

The locals, when interviewed gave other reasons. A Yorkshire businessman bankrolled a huge poster campaign in the area. They are planning to do even more at the GE.

Thats rubbish.

This is a very sensitive subject.

I suggest you do your own in depth research and stop making a fool of yourself.

All you have to do is think think think think think ............... ASHCROFT.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

The long awaited Lord Ashcroft Marginal Poll is just out and gives a MASSIVE boost to labour. See it below, read and weep HAYS.

Saturday, 24 May 2014
LORD ASHCROFT MARGINAL POLLS
This is from Lord Ashcroft site http://lordashcroftpolls.com/

By Lord Ashcroft

In the last few weeks I have polled more than 26,000 voters in 26 constituencies that will be among the most closely contested between the Conservatives and Labour at the next general election.

Across the battleground I found a 6.5% swing from the Conservatives to Labour – enough to topple 83 Tory MPs and give Ed Miliband a comfortable majority. But this is a snapshot, not a prediction. The research also found that most voters in these seats are optimistic about the economy, and only three in ten would rather see Mr Miliband as Prime Minister than David Cameron. As I have found in the Ashcroft National Poll, half of voters say they may change their mind before the election – and there is still a year to go.

The full results are below.

Con-Lab Battleground - Results summary
Con-Lab battleground - full data tables

Amber Valley
Broxtowe
Cardiff North
Hendon
Great Yarmouth
Lancaster & Fleetwood
Morecambe & Lunesdale
North Warwickshire
Sherwood
Stockton South
Thanet South
Thurrock
Waveney
Wolverhampton South West
Bolton West
Birmingham Edgbaston
Derby North
Dudley North
Halifax
Hampstead & Kilburn
Great Grimsby
Morley & Outwood
Southampton Itchen
Telford
Walsall North
Wirral South

so sticky, you want me to swallow your rubbish do you?
dream on pal!
i rather think the BBC and other commentators are much more likely to be giving the true picture

If Scotland vote for Independence in September, will that harm the Labour vote, or be of no consequence whatsoever?

ashcroft's poll
The research also found that most voters in these seats are optimistic about the economy, and only three in ten would rather see Mr Miliband as Prime Minister than David Cameron. As I have found in the Ashcroft National Poll, half of voters say they may change their mind before the election


all parts of that extract are interesting and relevant

If Scotland vote for independence in September it will harm Labour very much. There is a substantial number of MPs who want Scotland excluded from next year's GE. That's 41 Labour seats. It would make Labour unelectable in the UK most of the time. The Libs would lose 11 and Conservatives only 1.

Some of the best known names in Parliament would have to leave the Commons, including:

Former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Ex-Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy
Former Chancellor Alistair Darling
Current and previous Scottish secretaries Alistair Carmichael and Michael Moore
Shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander

Thanks Hays. Can't wait to see Wallace and Grommett promoting neeps and tatties or wearing a kilt :O)

Thanks Hays. Can't wait to see Wallace and Grommett promoting neeps and tatties or wearing a kilt :O)

"There was no uncontrolled imigration under under Labour"

Their behind you

That one on the left wearing glasses looks like a racist , or is he a white ethnic mintority.