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.

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.

I remember in the 60s, I had a girlfriend in South London. I went round her house one Saturday night and her father said, "there has been a fight between a white guy and a few of the local lads".

CC,

Labour won in '97, '01, and again in '05 without needing the Scottish vote, so their loss will certainly affect them, but it's not in itself the end of the road. What will affect them nearly as much will be the loss of the Labour seats following the boundary changes that will be made as soon as the Tories next get an overall majority.

Combined, the two events would probably mean that the only way you'll ever see a Labour government again will be if they position themselves politically just the right of Attila the Hun.

Thanks hils :O)

desperate or what?




Ukip councillor under investigation over racist and homophobic comments

Newly elected Redditch councillor Dave Small referred to gay people as perverts and African immigrants as scroungers


Kevin Rawlinson


theguardian.com, Saturday 24 May 2014 13.56 BST






Nigel Farage is dealing with fresh allegations of racism and homophobia in his party only days after the local and European elections as Ukip was forced to launch an investigation into comments made by one of its newly elected councillors.

Dave Small, who was elected to Redditch borough council on Friday, faces being kicked out of the party for referring to gay people as "perverts" and African immigrants as "scroungers".

In comments posted on Facebook, he also attacked BBC broadcaster Clare Balding and singer Elton John over their sexuality and referred to "our sworn enemies in the Muslim world".



More outrage here: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/may/24/ukip-councillor-investigation-racist-homophobic-facebook-comments

Its is not only the loss of 41 Labour seats that is important. There are 11 Lib seats and 3 SNP seats. That makes 55 missing seats. That makes it easier for the Conservatives to get a majority.If the Conservatives get a clear majority then they will go ahead with the constituency boundary changes.

The net effect is 14 less MPs for Lab, 10 less for Libs and 6 less for the Conservatives. That gives an overall advantage of -18 for the opposition to the Conservatives. You could add that 18 to the 55 about be to get 73 seats if Scotland goes and the Conservatives get a majority. Now that would be quite a hill for Labour to climb.