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 was interesting to see the interviews of people in Clacton by the BBC and Sky after the election today. Many people said that although they voted for UKIP in a by election, they would revert to voting Conservative at the GE.

Hang on hays you said you didn't give a fig about Clacton.

if carswell is as good an mp as i have heard, then i reckon he'll hang on to the seat

in some ways more interesting was the by-election in m'chester
while accepting it was a small turnout - i've seen plenty lower - it was still a kick in the teeth for labour, but again, will that be mirrored in the general election

LOL you dont half talk some pony cynic. a 36% turnout and thats probably give or take a few hundred the most that UKIP can muster together.

Plus your forgetting the new Labour MP had to fill the feet of the late respected sitting MP.

No kick in the teeth for labour at all what it showed was that in the North UKIP are going to be labours main challengers rather than the Tories hence the Tory saying vote UKIP get Milliband in power.

Reckless winning would be like an atomic bomb placed on the Tory party,id be shit-ing if I were you, the Mansion Tax is being drawn up as I post.

Still I wouldn't rule out UKIP, I know plenty of people here on the south coast that WILL vote for them..

Haze.

You are back in Noddy Land again.

At the rate tory party members are defecting there won't be a party to vote for.

I don't think such a rump should be even allowed party political broadcasts at the time of the next election, especially as Cameron seems to much of a coward to debate policies with Farage.

After the next G/E, what will remain of the tory party other than a rabble, seen by many to be led by a cowardly liar, who its members were unable to rid themselves of.

The lack of courage shown by the poser Cameron will be played on by Farage right up to the next election.

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Caswell, may be a "good" constituency MP, but he only comes into "contact" with minority of the his electorate and possibly by the time of the next election the rest will have forgotten who he is!

SHORTIE STOP ARGUING..........LOL.

Yep the Tories ......and labour dismiss UKIP at there peril.

BIG BIG point you make their Fred. Tory defections.

i don't agree with your summation of the result in m'chester
however, i would accept that by-elections often give totally skewed results that are not borne out in a general election
and i'll preempt hays by saying that clacton is a completely different kettle of fish

Sorry GF lol.... But in my defence there has only been 1 person I've ever argued with on this site... I took yours and everyone elses advise by the way and squelched the idiot..

I think you are all missing the big picture here!!

And here it is!!

JR clearly is alive and getting into British politics!!

LOL good on you Shortie. (probably follow me now LOL)

Go on whats the big picture then?.

Who ever gets in nothing will really change... Conservative / Labour / Lim-Dems, same shit just packaged in a different colour...

What MONSTER RAVING LOONEY PARTY????????

Lord Sutch

I always remember a female newscaster interviewing him just before a result was due, she said to him "what place do women have in your partys future" his reply "they can always come back to my place dear" .......LOL

On a key note, how many times have you ever listened to the news and heard that due to an EU resolution or law something couldn't be done... The deporting of Abu Qatada and EU human rights legislation... Health & Safety legislation... the list goes on and on.... What's the real cost of being in the EU??

Cameron said we'd have a referendum on Europe if the Conservatives win a majority, a majority isn't very likely now so neither is the referendum... Yet he still insists on pretending he's open to a democratic vote on Europe when in reality the vote will never happen..!

He is hanging on to his own skin!

His place in history is noted!

I like the way Cameron, Osborne and Clegg claim to have created jobs, fabricating the facts when reclassification of people who work in further education etc. have simply been reclassified from public sector workers to private sector workers..

There are plenty of examples like this, they all feed the myth that the government has a handle on the economy.... LIE!!