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.

Max,

Repetition.

Memory beginning to let you down.

But does point out that the sham references to the NHS will backfire on Cameron, especially if there is a flu epidemic this winter!

Hils

Grrrr! Two party system? Who on earth are the Tories in coalition with at the moment then?

But the Lib Dems are going to get wiped at the next GE. It is they who might only manage a couple of seats.

Why should Farage agree to anything with DC? Oh, you mean they should do a deal? And what would be in it for the Kippers? I suppose they would think they might better win a few more seats. Anfd if they did, it would be UKIP seats + Tory seats = Working Majority.

We have a fantastic Tory MP in our constituency, Andrea Leadsom. Were it not for my utter respect for her, I would be voting UKIP myself. Goverment really does want a massive kick up the arse and voting UKIP is the best message to give the top power monger members of your two political party system. Namely, "We want loads of change!"

Doc,

If you don't believe that we've got a two-party political system in this country, try Googling Duverger's Law about plurality rule elections for an explanation.

The Lib Dems are there simply to take the blame if something goes wrong. Nothing more. Nothing less. They have no control over anything important, and the Tories even managed to keep the idiot Cable quiet by creating the pointless, un-authoritative position of Business Secretary for him. Notwithstanding, the role of Deputy PM will look good on Nick Clegg's CV in the years to come. Maybe the Tories should even do a swap and take Clegg on board as one of their own, in return for sending some of their old farts like Ken Clark across to the Lib Dems.

And the Lib Dems are not going to get wiped at the next election, simply because of how the first past the post system works. Their support is focused in certain pockets of the country, and, even if their overall nationwide support were to fall to, say, 5%, they would still have sufficient support in their heartlands to guarantee a similar number of Westminster seats to what they've got now.

UKIP, on the other hand, have their 11% to 13% nationwide support spread evenly across the whole country. That even spread isn't sufficient to get them any seats, with the possible exception of some east coast towns where localised support may secure them 35% or 40% of the vote and get them an MP or two.

is everyone's moneyam working ok?

Bit slow today

Your always slow Hays.

Stop taking the drugs.

Gibby, mines been dodgy for 30 hours or more.

Sometimes waiting to log in and then very slow.

it seems to be working ok now but was crap earlier

thanks goldfinger, cynic, & haystack - I was wondering if it was just mine but it helps to know it wasn't - bit frustrating - hopefully be ok tomorrow
cheers

No its all down to Cameron and Osborne's cut backs!

8-)

Yep agreed rumour is it they have a cap on streaming time.

lol

LOL!

But the tories are spending more on streaming than NuLab ever did.

says so in the torygraph!

Daily YouGov poll tonight has topline figures of

CON 35%, LAB 34%, LDEM 6%, UKIP 14%.

The fieldwork was conducted between Wednesday afternoon and Thursday afternoon, so was entirely after David Cameron speech. This is the first one that YouGov have shown Conservatives in the lead since 2012.

http://order-order.com/2014/10/02/tories-take-poll-lead-for-first-time-since-2012/

Could it be there is someone worse at eating bacon sarnies than the leader of the Labour Party?

What does it translate to seat wise?

Nothing.

It was before newspapers had time to ask where the 7 £billion was coming from.

A lot of the Tories themselves are confused....heres the total item......

The Sun has two interesting polls tonight. Firstly the daily YouGov poll tonight has topline figures of CON 35%, LAB 34%, LDEM 6%, UKIP 14%. The fieldwork was conducted between Wednesday afternoon and Thursday afternoon, so was entirely after David Cameron speech, but largely before this morning’s newspaper coverage of it. Other companies like Ashcroft, ICM and MORI have popped out the occasional small Tory lead over the last year, but this is the first one that YouGov have shown since before the Omnishambles budget in 2012. Usual caveats apply, it is just one poll and conducted when David Cameron was getting some very good publicity, time will tell if it sticks.

Secondly the Sun have a Survation by-election poll in Heywood and Middleton. Voting intentions with changes from the 2010 result are CON 13%(-14), LAB 50%(+10), LDEM 4%(-19), UKIP 31%(+28) – it suggests a huge surge for UKIP into second place, but with a nineteen percent lead for Labour they should still hold the seat comfortably.

mansion tax
interesting to see the guardian writing that ed balls' idea was ridiculous and not remotely the correct tack to use