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.

sticky - into every life a little rain (and pain) must fall :-)

The MRL party only got 127 votes. They had been gaining at various elections until now. It appears that a newLoony party has donned their mantle.

Cynic and a bird in the bush is worth an egg in the frying pan.

half a loaf is better than a dead dog.

A hot dog is better with mustard on.

Doc Proc hit the nail on the head some months back, when he stated on this very thread that all Cameron needs to do win a majority at the general election is to UKIPise some Tory policies. He's got plenty of room to maneuver.

The major battle will still be fought with Labour over the middle ground, it's just that the middle ground is shifting a little bit to the right.

Milibland, on the other hand, as is rightly stated in Doods' article, is caught between a rock and a hard place. He'll be gone à la Kinnock, straight after Labour lose the election in spectacular fashion.

How do you cut your mustard then, Fishfinger?

with tomato sauce :-)

DB4,

I wouldn't wrapped chips up in the Telegraph and even less so the fish.

Ask Nigel and Cameron about

1) Bedroom tax?
2) Tuition fees?
3) Failings of NHS?
4) Doctors fleeing abroad to escape paying tuition costs?
5) Number of PhD students going to USA for avoid repayments of fees and guaranteed career structures?
6) Number of relatives using food banks?
7) Number of hours they are actually working?
8) Social services and welfare cuts?
9) Lack of pay rises in public services?
10) Job expectancy?
11) Are they benefiting from George Osborne's improving economy?
12) Do they feel they are all in it together?
13) Are the rich getting richer at their expense?
14) Do they think it is a fair country
15) Ask them if they feel the Mansion tax is fair?
16) Do they think somebody earning a high salary should be paying a higher rate of tax?
17) How long do they have to wait for a doctors appointment or in casualty departments?
18) How long do they have to wait for an ambulance or fire service?
19) if they have been broken into, do the police inspect the scene of crime or even log the event?
20) School buildings, roads and other infrastructures failing or not being repaired.
21)To cap all that if there is a flu epidemic this winter, the cracks will show even more!
ETC. ECT. ECT.


These are some of the questions that labour will be asking at the next election. No hurry, they can wait to do so and concentrate for the time being on long term policies not pie in the sky U-turns.

The focus will be on the economy and the failures and lies of the present government.

Racist immigration mantra, increasing the fear levels (terrorism) and scapegoating real problems won't get tories or kippers elected as a government!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ed-miliband/11148942/Ed-Miliband-has-the-electoral-appeal-of-Gordon-Brown-warn-NEC-members-ahead-of-crunch-Labour-meeting.html

Ed Miliband has the electoral appeal of Gordon Brown, warn NEC members ahead of crunch Labour meeting

Members of Labour's ruling body expected to challenge Ed Miliband over leadership drift at key meeting on November 4

The Telegraph!!!!!!!whos the editor Fred Ive got doodlebug on filter.

UKIP wins in Clacton – but what does it mean? 10/10/2014

It means people in Clacton actually like Douglas Carswell and Lord Ashcroft was right in his tweeted appraisal of him:



Of course, that’s not what David Cameron has been saying. His mantra is – as many of you will be aware: “Vote UKIP – get Labour.”

He’s wrong, of course. People aren’t thinking in those terms at all.

They’re thinking: “Vote UKIP – get rid of the Conservatives.”

It’s just a shame that they are also wrong; Carswell is still a Conservative – all he has done is swap a conservative party for another conservative party, that is more extreme than the one he just left.

The other notable factor in yesterday’s by-elections is the BBC’s continuing (if tacit) support for UKIP – which can be seen most clearly in its references to the Heywood and Middleton election.

“Labour held on to Heywood and Middleton but UKIP slashed its majority to 617,” states the BBC report, which merrily misses the fact that UKIP remains unable to take Parliamentary seats from Labour.

Labour supporters don’t want UKIP.

Labour supporters don’t need a political party that is more regressive than the Tories.

Labour supporters agree with Ed Miliband, that UKIP “do not represent the interests of working people”.

Read between the lines. Who was UKIP’s candidate in Heywood and Middleton? The BBC report doesn’t name this person until very far down its story.

If you read the mass media coverage, you’ll think UKIP was the only party in these by-elections. Don’t.

If we are to learn anything from the result, it is that the Conservative Party is in deep, deep trouble.

If we are to learn anything from the result, it is that the Conservative Party is in deep, deep trouble.

Hays,

The smearing and denigrating of Kinnock the tories and the gutter press controlled by you friend Rupert, Daily Mail, Express and similar, as various sycophants (and said commentators) worked in 1992.

I think it will repulse many and rebound on the tories.

I suggest you look at the cracks in the confidence trick party, with the likes of Redwood, Jenkins, Cash, Boris, Osborn, Cruella and Gove, playing their games.

Must get a picture of the above and put on the walls of an urinal!

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GF,

It is just a right winged rant by a frightened press trying to keep the tory party in their pockets!

Diversionary tactic to try to draw attention away from the catastrophy which is creeping up on them.

Haze and DB4 can't imagine how the "blue" party is split.

GF.

The statement :

Cameron


"He’s wrong, of course. People aren’t thinking in those terms at all.

They’re thinking: “Vote UKIP – get rid of the Conservatives.”

It’s just a shame that they are also wrong; Carswell is still a Conservative – all he has done is swap a conservative party for another conservative party, that is more extreme than the one he just left."


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I thought Ashcroft was a tory donor.

OH, I remember he has his peerage now!

And is now telling the story as it is!

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Fred, if you actually appreciate who Dan Hodges is - then it can hardly be classed as a "right winged rant" !

Heywood and Middleton was a safe labour seat

Clacton was a safe tory seat


No more!


And just wait till those good soldiers in the marginals (all flavours) think through those by-election results.

Clacton and Heywood are only superficially similar. With Clacton they were reelecting an MP and that made the difference. Heywood was a brand new set of candidates. The two by elections were as different as the reasons for them happening at all.

he he just found out from our kid who was the editor of the piece in the Telegraph that doodlebug posted, non other than chucked out of Labour DAN HODGES.

Doodlebug in the future make sure you know about the message boy before posting articles like that and use the grey matter.

Mind I didnt expect anything less.

Poor lad.

You need to check your facts gf. Dan Hodges resigned from the Labour Party in protest at their Syria vote in September 2013. He wasn't "chucked out".