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.

My eldest is doing an internship for an MP for the summer. It may help when he graduates next year in Politics.

Doubt it, if hes like you he wont listen to the MP.

In fact the poor sod might aswel just send him out delivering leaflets.

A government minister no less. He arranged it all himself. The rules for applications for internships are that you submit your CV and covering letter without your name and personal details.

Tell him to be carefull if its a Tory male.

And even more carefull if it's female...undecided.

It could be male or femail and Conservative or Lib.

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Well?

Juicy Tomatoes

National Opinion Poll (YouGov):
LAB - 38% (+1)
CON - 34% (-1)
UKIP - 13% (+1)
LDEM - 8%

UKIP getting stronger Hays, Id start to sweat if I were you. Are you still in bed??, tap Hilary on the shoulder and inform her labour are moving up again.

UKIP going nowhere but down.

CON + UKIP beats LAB + LDEM (just).

If UKIP going down goes to CON and not to LAB then CON is still OK.

IMHO, winning the next GE is going to be all about:

1. Winning the marginal seats.
2. The battle between LAB and CON in capturing UKIP votes.
3. Mopping up the remnants of the LDEM voters, who are about to disappear into oblivion.
4. Which party do people 'trust' the most and want to vote for?
5. Defining which aspect of the word 'trust' is most important to voters.

eg, Trust with the Economy? Trust with the NHS? Trust with Education? Trust with Law and Order? Etc, etc.

The Libs will rise again at the GE. They have been in this situation before in advance of a GE. Their party machinery is very good and they have always recovered at the election.

LibDem support tends to localised, particularly in the west country. This means that they will probably still hold nearly all their seats, even with a reduced share of the vote, because of how the first past the post voting system works.

UKIP support, on the other hand, is broad across the whole country, and that's what should prevent them from getting any seats, even if they poll a higher share of the vote than the LibDems. Farage would be better off, imo, ditching any national ambitions, and putting 110% effort instead on ten or dozen 'winnable' northern constituencies which are typically Labour held with a predominantly white English population of Sun and/or Daily Mail readers, but where immigration is a serious concern nonetheless. Places like Rochdale (where that Gillian Duffy lady caused a rumpus with Gordon Clown last election) spring to mind.

Hey hilary we won yesterday then ehh.

Suprised me but Ill take anything Cook can conjur up at the moment.

Took balls to prove all his critics(including myself) wrong. Lets just hope its not a one off and he starts knocking up double hundreds again.

What do you think of our new wonder spinner?, flash in the pan? Old Trafford takes loads of spin so Im hoping hes the real deal.

Yorkshire lads proping up the batting again. Balance looks like he could go on to be a great, but I want to see him first against the SA quicks in a test series.

Indeed, Fishfinger. I was getting a little concerned that England would forget what it takes to win, but I'm really pleased Cook provided his critics wrong. What a difference a couple of good innings at the top of the order makes, huh?

Dunno what to make of Moeen Ali though. After all he was brought in as a batsman, but if it works out then it's fine by me.

Gary Ballance a Yorkshire lad? Hmmm. You might be mistaken on that one.

:o)

Ok naturalised Yorkshire man, Joe Root is 100% I know hes a relation of mine.

Anyway It fair made my day yesterday, and think Ill go up to Old Trafford.

Could be very exciting.

Yes, at least we've got more English players in the England cricket team now than South Africans for the first time in a while.

:o)