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.

He has a clean pair of hands.

Not sure who would be a bigger disaster Cameron or Farage!

(Or Hazy one with Manuel as Minister for ??)

Mind it is suggested that the old etonian club at No 10, is going to be changed into a club for tory harpies.

I wonder if Hairy one will be invited to join them.

ugggh!

The con party's response to the country's needs.

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Actually, I feel a bit sorry for Cameron.

He has such a bunch of lightweights to choose his next cock up from.


(Sorry, I meant cabinet. Didn't notice typing error.)

See inflation is up

Inflation rises to 1.9% in June.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28308837

Perhaps, that is the damper on the housing market?

I think all ministers should actually declare what qualifications they have before there're given a department... Its obvious Teresa May hasn't a clue about how to be Home Secretary, just as George Osborne is about as financially literate as a Chimpanzee..

Politics is the only job in the world where you can really F$%Kup and not get sacked. Instead they put all the jobs under question into a pass-the-parcel and play the old reshuffle game for the day at the tax payers expense...

Whose really the mug, the politicians or the tax payers that allow this behaviour. Isn't it ironic that the group of people charged with running the country and setting laws are also allowed to act like children and receive the largest financial rewards for doing so... Now that just really sets the example!!

Lets summarise politics as a whole... Politics is the ability to find a fool that knows nothing about the department that he/she will run and more importantly won't ask questions. It is then the ability to miss-guide that minister by ensuring he has advisers with alternative agendas to complete a set goal.

I love the way we debate in parliament, really if that's supposed to be a debate then what we're taught in school how to do it goes right out the window. I have always wondered why in this day and age politicians feel the need to waste so much time in parliament anyway, surely a one person podcast would suffice and wouldn't require the time of so many others that usually end up asleep.

Parliament really serves one useful purpose, that is to give us tax payers the perception that politicians work for their money doing something!!

It really doesn't matter how noble a blood line is every so often a fool is created that just won't cut it in the real world. These types of people still go through the privileged schooling process to end up in politics, the front men for their cleverer class mates... After all, the nobles couldn't have any member of the family hold a unworthy position that wasn't deemed one of power... Hence forth the modern politician was born, the runts of the litter with their quirky features...

Just as children miss lead other not so intelligent children and get them into trouble, so do the rich and powerful with politicians. It's a trait we all either learn of fall foul too.

Government ministers do not run their ministries in the conventional sense. They guide policy and civil servants do the actual work. A minister does not need technical expertise of a particular ministry to run it. If they did then it would not be possible to shuffle people around. Osborne has economists in the Treasury and OBR to do the number crunching. Most of the best Chancellors were not economists.

TOSH.

Of course ministers don't run anything, they are simply the front men put on display, the faces of success or failure... It'd be cheaper to simply have an icon for each of them and a dam site cheaper too....

Now lets get hays selective polls into context, heres the polls out yesterday........


UK polls:

Populus: LAB 37%, CON 34%, UKIP 12%, LD 9%

ICM: CON 34%, LAB 33%, LD 12%, UKIP 9%

YouGov: LAB 38%, CON 35%, UKIP 10%, LD 8%

the Guardian ICM is obviously a rouge poll as it gave Labour a easy lead last week.

Shortie itd be even cheaper if they were specialists in the department they cover, then we wouldnt have to pay the hangers on.

GF do you really believe that your polls are anything more than an elaborate distraction... If not then surely you must understand the differences between the four parties being polled..

Theirs ONE BIG THING about this so called recovery that worries me, why havent the Banks and Miners performed?????????.

Usualy a yardstick for economic recovery, or is it again a recovery built on Credit.

Shortie the polls arent mine, I believe the polls as Hays says are showing the trend and the trend is showing labour to have an out right majority victory at the GE.

And yes I understand the difference between a party who is hell bent on Privatisation and a party who takes on board responsible capitalism.

In fact the exact figure is 54 seats for a labour majority after yesterdays polls.

http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/

gf
The polls above have one thing in common. They all show UKIP falling to 9%, 10% and 12%. That's about half the level needed for one MP. As the election approaches, UKIP will implode.

Not bothered about UKIP but you should as a Tory. These figures as you put it are falling but its not affecting labour.

What YOU should be worried about is todays increase in inflation and just how far off interest rate rises are. The housing market is at boiling point, these measures Carney as put in place are not working.

Hazy One,

In the present case of Cameron and crew the "Blind overseeing the Blind".

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Shortie,

Bet you are glad to get that off your chest.

8-)

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I have to admit, although I enjoy mocking the present incumbents of No 10 and cohorts who in comparison to previous administration appear incompetent I wouldn't like their briefs and accept grudgingly that some are "bright".

(But rank IDS and one of the most stupid ministers of recent time. Bluster, and more bluster.)

The only problems I really have is that they are not building for the future and rather than the thinking of the good for all of society are more inclined to try to protect their own political arses.

They are reactive not really proactive.

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But in that they are so open to ridicule, I will help them along.

Hays hays Hays....daily Politics, ........sacked Tories are seething and out for a fight.