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.

A bit like when, or whether, the treasury informed Wavy Dave?

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If you publicise your opinion or "facts", you should have the courage to allow them to be challenged by all, they should be open all.

I know some little people like forming consensual cliques and have similar gang traits, but they can do that off line if the need each others "company".

that would be difficult as people could reregister as someone else and read the posts.

fred - i'm unsure whether i am happy or sad that i cause you pain :-)

Man,

It helps to remind me that I am still alive.

8-)

Is it me or does the cartoon at post 48474 look to be positioned higher at the LHS than it is at the RHS?

Hmmm?

Haze the man of straw:

Your knighthood is coming:

It is positioned that way where I got it from. I guess it was scanned crooked.

http://news.sky.com/story/1360258/scottish-labour-row-may-cost-miliband-dearly

i thought it looked very much like one of the implants purloined from jumeirah beach

Haze,

It may be just a hiccup for the next 3-4 years for Labour, but it won't benefit the Con Party!

The left are squabbling amongst themselves in Scotland, but the Cons are detested in Scotland and not much love is shown to them except London , bits of the S.E. and some shires.

Fred, the Conservatives have been history in Scotland for years now. Do you actually know how many seats they have left to lose in Scotland at the GE? Labour could lose 41 seats in Scotland to the SNPs.

tories have one seat if i remember correctly, so just as ukip may make more of a mess of the tory vote in the rest of england, snp are just as likely to screw things for labour in scotland

as i have been saying for months, a hung parliament must be pretty much odds-on ..... what then happens could be interesting, and will certainly be bad for the stock market, so watch out

DB4.

After Cameron renegades on his "promises" and U-bend again where will those "old" Labour votes go?

Is the SNP and right wing or left centralist party?

Are their policies similar to those of "social democrats or moderates"?

Do they share political ideals similar to the CON party, or Labour and lib/dems?

(The lib.dems have left a bad taste in the mouth of some Scots, as they have done in England. Probably to a degree which is a bit unfair.)

Which party or group will the SNP vote with, and wish to have in government set in "LONDON"?

If you were them, would you vote for a party led by a Cameron?

If it is another coalition, which I think it probably will be, I wouldn't like to negotiate the deal, but I push my luck, and perhaps I might chuck it back to the electorate for another more defined result, immediately, or after a month or two.

(Fixed term parliaments rules seem easy to circumvent, except by those hoisted by their own petard i.e. the con party, who would have cut and run by now, if they had a chance to do so. (Another ruse which has come home to bite Cameron's arse. (Apologies to Manuel.)

surely not a sudden u-turn by fred all of a sudden ....
if it is another coalition, which I think it probably will be

strange that for months the silly old fart has been ranting on about how there'll be a clear labour majority

Manuel,

The stock market won't be any different, the present government isn't in charge, other than gerrymandering a political buccaneering for it own party political gain.

The market knows that.

it is absolutely certain that stock markets don't like uncertainty, and that is what there will be

who on earth was that aimed at?