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.

When do we get the results?

Manuel.

At least when you are being kicked you are getting attention.

Any straw when you are drowning is better than nothing!


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Mark.

Labour won.

UKIP 2nd

Greens 3rd

Tories still canvassing!

Count in started in Newark. Result maybe 3am

Candidates

Paul Baggaley (Ind),
David Bishop (Bus Pass Elvis),
Nick The Flying Brick (Monster Raving Loony),
Andy Hayes (Ind),
Roger Helmer (UKIP),
Robert Jenrick (Con),
David Kirwan (Green),
Michael Payne (Lab),
Dick Rodgers (Stop Commercial Banks Owning Britain's Money),
David Watts (Lib Dem),
Lee Woods (Patriotic Socialist).

Cynic here we have the evidence re- to my earlier post re- to right wing press distorting the real truth on many issues in support of the Tory party...........

Daily Telegraph hack Laura Donnelly today directly blamed the tragic death of a baby and the poisoning of other children by contaminated drips on the NHS:



In fact, the contaminated drips were supplied by a private company called ITH Pharma.

But Donnelly and her sick colleagues at the Telegraph have no qualms about using such a tragedy – and outright lies – to continue their political point-scoring in support of the coalition government’s commercialisation of the NHS.

Well done Laura. You’ve managed to drop below even my extremely low expectations of gutter press hacks when it comes to decency.

I’ve just got one question for you Laura.

How do you sleep at night?

NOW ASK YOURSELF WHY DIDNT THIS JOURNALIST IN HER HEADLINE PUT...........

15 babies poisoned by private company ITH PHARMA DRIPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


WE all know why and so do you if you were genuine. finito.

Because the cause of the contamination had not been traced to the company at the time of writing the article.

Labour controlled NHS in Wales slated on Question Time last night gf. No comments from you? Are you slacking, missed it conveniently. Or as I suspect simply does not fit your agenda, along with your cohorts Red Fred and Brother Stan?

sticky - if you had stopped to read what i wrote instead of leaping instantly onto your soapbox .....

surely virtually all drugs are supplied by private/public companies but that said, it is assuredly not NHS's responsibility to test the stuff for purity or whatever

unfortunately you tend to be selectively blind or worse

Tories win famous victory....only lose a half of their vote.

UKIP second with huge upswing.

Noo Labour third.

Dim Libs coming up the rear in sixth place

newark
tories will be chirpy because they still won with a comfortable majority
ukip will be cock-a-hoop, though of course anyone voting for them may just have been comfortable in the knowledge that it wouldn't make any difference
labour will just shrug shoulders and say they never expected anything much
lib/dems i'm afraid will just need to crawl under a stone and hope to die

They've already died c, just refusing to fall over.

i wonder where their disillusioned voters will put their mark at GE

Haystack - 06 Jun 2014 01:01 - 41994 of 42000

Because the cause of the contamination had not been traced to the company at the time of writing the article....................................ends

well if thats the case WHY imply its the fault of the NHS???????????????????????????? AT THE TIME OF PENNING THE ARTICLE.

YAWN, Newark was a forgone conclusion. Lets face it if labour or UKIP win the Tories 44th safe seat, the alarm bells should start ringing for Dave and Co.

42001 - which is exactly or at least in so many words what i wrote at the time and again this morning, though you have chosen not to read that bit

not sure that DC has been huffing and puffing much on this one, but more eu-collective and obama, neither of whom have done anything meaningful, though not sure what could be done

Newark doesn't need UKIP while they have this lot:

Even the UKIP spokesperson on BBC last night said the result was very disappointing. They didn't even manage the percentage gained in Eastleigh. Labour's share of the vote dropped. Not only did they not challenge for the seat, but getting a smaller percentage is very poor.

The Conservative result was excellent. It was the first time in 25 years that the Conservative have held a by-election seat while in government. That was very good bearing in mind the temporary rise of the protest vote for UKIP.

The Newark turnout was 52%, down from 71% at the last GE. As all the UKIP supporters probably came out to vote, that's not a good result for them. Grossing their vote up to the GE, they would likely only get 18%. This is in line with current polls and gets them no MPs.