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.

He's on the Andrew Marr show shortly MaxK!

Caught the tail end of that db.

Good ol chuckling Boris, everyones pal.


Asked about the housing situation, he replied that they are building everywhere.

Asked about the cost of living in London...more chuckles, but no answers.


He wasnt being pressed, even by Trevor.

I have been to the London Assembly and watched Boris doing Mayor's question time. He is an amazing force. Labour constantly subject him to a barage of questions about various policies. They never lay a finger on him.

He comes in with a huge folder with all the answers. The questions are mainly written submissions and as the audience, we got a copy of them. He is well prepared and manages to answer each question whilst seeming to toy with the Labour group with dry comments and jokes. He makes the rest of the assembly look very second rate.

The interesting thing is that the public persona of a sort of buffoon was not evident. He was more business like and had a detailed grasp of the topics involved even when questioning strayed away from the written questions. Several times he responded in quite an uncharacteristically aggressive manner that unsettled the questioners considerably. One questioner looked visibly shaken after a bout of tongue lashing from Boris.

I'd expect nothing less from Balliol alumni, Haystack!

:o)

Record poll surge gives Ukip 25%: Survey would hand Farage astonishing 128 MPs... and puts Ed Miliband on new low

David Cameron remains the most trusted political leader in the poll
But Nigel Farage is on track to win 128 seats at the General Election
The Tories could lose more than 100 seats allowing in Ed Miliband
Polls suggest the public want Cameron and Farage to run the country


By Simon Walters for The Mail on Sunday

Published: 22:40, 11 October 2014 | Updated: 01:24, 12 October 2014


Nationwide support for Nigel Farage’s Ukip has soared to an all-time high 25 per cent – enough for the party to take Parliament by storm with well over 100 MPs and a possible Labour Election victory.

That is the shock result of a Survation poll for The Mail on Sunday, carried out after Ukip rocked the Tories and Labour in two by-elections last week.

If the poll result was repeated in next year’s General Election, it would see the Tories lose 100 seats, the certain resignation of David Cameron – and the possibility of Ed Miliband in No10.






More wet dreams here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2789512/record-poll-surge-gives-ukip-25-survey-hand-farage-astonishing-128-mps-puts-ed-miliband-new-low.html

Other polls still putting UKIP on 16%. Don't forget that the SDP party showed 50% support months before the election. Thatcher then got a large majority and SDP disappeared by merging with the Libs. UKIP's bubble heading for major burst.

Even 10% across the board is going to cause chaos.

All those mp's sitting in marginals will be getting squeaky bum syndrome.

Notice how active Hays is at the moment. Hyper active and why. hes shit=ng himself over the Tories,

Not long now Hays before the next defection.........................and election.

BRING IT ON.

PS, doodlebug is it right what ive seen on advfn.............your stigologist..........actualy had me thinking that then, thought NO CHANCE.........the lads too empty up top.

Haystack I remember when the SNP party won the first few seats from the Conservatives and then Labour that neither of the major parties took the SNP threat seriously enough and look what happened in Scotland - the Conservative vote demolished and Labour are going to lose even more seats at the next GE. Cameron may seriously regret referring to UKIP as a party of "fruitcakes and loonies". Whether or not people who vote for UKIP at local elections decide to vote for UKIP at the GE remains to be seen.

Interesting on the Marr show this morning that Marr said there was a strong rumour that the next defection to UKIP was going to be a Labour MP.

Doodlebug back on. ie, de-filtered

Entertainment value is brilliant since he trashed the Chart Thread.

Well along with Carson.

I came across this comment on religion made by Paul Dirac, Nobel Prize winner He predicted the existence of anti matter and was the first to describe quantum mechanics in 1926.

I cannot understand why we idle discussing religion. If we are honest—and scientists have to be—we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality. The very idea of God is a product of the human imagination. It is quite understandable why primitive people, who were so much more exposed to the overpowering forces of nature than we are today, should have personified these forces in fear and trembling. But nowadays, when we understand so many natural processes, we have no need for such solutions. I can't for the life of me see how the postulate of an Almighty God helps us in any way. What I do see is that this assumption leads to such unproductive questions as why God allows so much misery and injustice, the exploitation of the poor by the rich and all the other horrors He might have prevented.

If religion is still being taught, it is by no means because its ideas still convince us, but simply because some of us want to keep the lower classes quiet. Quiet people are much easier to govern than clamorous and dissatisfied ones. They are also much easier to exploit. Religion is a kind of opium that allows a nation to lull itself into wishful dreams and so forget the injustices that are being perpetrated against the people. Hence the close alliance between those two great political forces, the State and the Church. Both need the illusion that a kindly God rewards—in heaven if not on earth—all those who have not risen up against injustice, who have done their duty quietly and uncomplainingly. That is precisely why the honest assertion that God is a mere product of the human imagination is branded as the worst of all mortal sins.

As I have already said gf - I didn't post on the chart thread.

You along with Carson trashed it.

ps, is it right you are stigologist on advfn, cant imagine it as you are too green.


How old are you??

I'm sure everyone else on this bulletin board is getting totally bored with your constant repetition gf and I repeat for the 3rd time -I didn't post on the chart thread.

No I bet they are loving it, once again how old are you and second hows about a bet between us, Im NOT bARRED FROM ADVFN AS MECHANICAL TRADER!!!!!!!!!

£1000 BET.

No £10,000 BET.

Boris Johnson says he would campaign to pull Britain out of the EU in referendum



Remarks show on this issue London's Mayor is closer to the Tory right, who are determined to get out of the EU, than David Cameron




Andy Mcsmith

Sunday 12 October 2014


Boris Johnson has declared that he would campaign to pull Britain out of the EU in a referendum if David Cameron's attempts to negotiate a new deal for Britain in Europe failed.

There would be no point in negotiating for a change of rules in the EU unless the government was serious about being prepared to pull out "and I would be willing to say that," he argued.

His remarks show that on this issue London's Mayor is closer to the Tory right, who are determined to get out of the EU, than David Cameron, who warned earlier in this year against the "pessimists" who refuse to believe that the EU can reform.

The Mayor also expressed bemusement at the rise of UKIP, which he described as the Conservative Party’s 'doppelganger' because, he claimed, they shared identical beliefs. His remarks were very different from how David Cameron described UKIP members eight years ago - as "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists."


More: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-says-he-would-campaign-to-pull-britain-out-of-the-eu-in-referendum-9789431.html

No no no £ 10,000 bet or more you name the price.

Come on chicken.