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.

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.

as i wrote first thing .....

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

Hazy One.

I see you are a subject of Gallow's humour!

Haystack - 06 Jun 2014 09:29 - 42007 of 42010

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.............ends

Just hold on a second Hays whats this negative figure of over 9%!!!!!!!!!!!!

ahh In see they have dropped 9% points in their share of the vote. In fact their 16,000 majority was HALVED.

I wouldnt call that excelent or do you now have low expectations of the tories chances at the GE. !!!!!!!

For a by election of a government seat that's fantastic. How about Labours's poor showing at 4.6% down. Not much of a challenge.

The tories won, and by a decent margin, albeit well down to the last outing.

But didn't the Noo Labour vote do well, battered into third place.

As for the limp/dicks, lost their deposit...finis.


I don't know how this would translate into a general election, but these types of results will upset the applecart for sure, very few mp's know who is safe anymore.

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