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.

It could be male or femail and Conservative or Lib.

50 Shades of Clegg

10-07-12


THE Daily Mash presents an exclusive excerpt from the erotic memoir that is setting the publishing world alight. The million-selling book tells the story of an ambitious young politician who enters into a sado-masochistic relationship with a seductively powerful Old Etonian…



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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)

Have you two kissed and made up or just made up?

Rumours Hays kicked hilary out of bed this morning.

Where is he.......... sulking.

ISRAEL DOING A GREAT JOB . CLENING OUT SCUM TERRORISTS WHO HIDE BEHIND CHILDREN AND OLD WOMEN ABOUT SUMS UP THE SCUM HAMAS COWARDS . TO SCARE TO SHOW THEIR FACES . WHILE RAPING THE GAZA WOMEN .

ISRAEL DOING A GREAT JOB . CLENING OUT SCUM TERRORISTS WHO HIDE BEHIND CHILDREN AND OLD WOMEN ABOUT SUMS UP THE SCUM HAMAS COWARDS . TO SCARE TO SHOW THEIR FACES . WHILE RAPING THE GAZA WOMEN .

Three little pigs who are sticking their snouts in the trough to keep out the wolves
01
Friday
Aug 2014
Posted by Mike Sivier in Conservative Party, Corruption


Caught out again: Grant Shapps is yet again having to justify his own shady behaviour.

Here’s a story to get you irritated and annoyed on a hot summer’s day: Your Prime Minister, his Chancellor and the chairman of their political party have all found novel property-based cheats.

According to the Daily Mirror, David Cameron and George Osborne have done a secret deal with the taxman to cut thousands of pounds off the tax they pay while they are living in their famous grace-and-favour homes on Downing Street.

Under the change, which HM Revenue and Customs has buried deep in the small print of its accounts, Cameron is saving a minimum of £1,228 a year, while Osborne’s bill has more than halved, saving him £1,560 a year.

The Mirror points out that this means Osborne is paying just £23 a week and Cameron no more than £35 to live at Britain’s most exclusive address, while the average rent in the UK is £195.

The paper quotes Alex Hilton, director of pressure group Generation Rent, who mocked the top Tories with their election slogan from 2010: “We’re blatantly not all in it together if the residents of Downing Street can wangle themselves a nice bonus while ordinary families are seeing their rent go up by more than wages.”

Meanwhile Grant Shapps, the Tory co-chairman who hid his own shady business deals behind the false names ‘Michael Green’ and ‘Sebastian Fox’ for the first four years of his Parliamentary career, has been receiving campaign funds from a Conservative club that has not submitted a tax return since 2009.

Conservative Club (Hatfield) Ltd has been fined £3,000 by the Financial Conduct Authority for its failure to produce accounts or name its officers. Despite these issues, it seems the club has been entirely able to provide £140,000 to fund Shapps as a candidate in his Welwyn Hatfield constituency.

Shapps has claimed the club is not connected to his local Conservative Association, which is odd – because not only is it based in the same building, paying rent to the association, but its members are all counted as members of the Conservative Party as well.

Was Shapps among the Conservatives who justified last year’s Gagging Act by claiming it was vital that the public had transparency from their MPs?

And didn’t Cameron say his government would be the most transparent ever, in its affairs?

Liars. Pigs with their snouts in the trough, all of them.