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.

Who said anything about the kippers running the country?

It's about upsetting the cosy complacent status quo.


Also, the present lot and the ones before didn't do a very good job, now did they?

It may upset the balance, but you will still have one of two parties.

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2014/11/03/dont-write-off-liberal-democrats/

Looking at wider voting considerations – rather than stated voting intentions – suggests the Liberal Democrats have the potential to exceed expectations

I expect the Libs to do very well. The poor showing in the polls does not affect them much as it is an average figure across the country. It only matters in their own constituencies. The Libs have always had very solid support in a specific areas. They may well lose seats that they picked up in 2010 but the rest are pretty safe. They have very well organised party machinery in each area, particularly in constituencies where they have MPs for a long time. They hold databases of every voter in the constituencies built up over many years. They are very good getting their supporters out to vote. They ring people up on the day to remind them and take them by car to the polls. I was a volunteer working for them years ago and was amazed how efficient they are.

Its getting closer and closer but my thoughts are it will be a LAB/SDP coalition government come May/June.

absolute contempt.



MPs to escape investigations over alleged expenses abuse after paperwork 'destroyed'



MPs accused of abusing parliamentary expenses will be harder to investigate under a new system after House of Commons officials "destroyed" paperwork relating to their claims, it has been revealed.


Commons Speaker John Bercow has been accused of heading a new cover-up following the destruction of records relating to claims made before 2010, when a new policy of disposing records after three years was introduced in the wake of the expenses scandal, the Daily Telegraph reported.



More: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/mps-to-escape-investigations-over-alleged-expenses-abuse-after-paperwork-destroyed-9834575.html?origin=internalSearch

Yep but the newspaper (Telegraph) that started the investigation as retained all the records on THEIR database, so hard luck cheating politicians.

Haystack Send an email to Haystack View Haystack's profile - 04 Nov 2014 10:24 - 49129 of 49133

Surely, you don't think UKIP could run the country. UKIP are a good protest party, but not capable of running anything.


Well it is B obvious that many think the tory party are a party of confidence tricksters who can't run the country.

They have fragmented it and are hell bent of dividing it even further.

They are alienating nearest neighbours and EU trading partners at any expense in order to an attempt to cling on to power,

It seems to many, that the only ones to have benefited from their "guile" is the small minority of wealthy financial backers who they hope will continue to support them.

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They seem unable to work in coalition with others.

The Home Office is in disarray and the party is jumping with joy for Theresa May ( a strong woman, who they see as a reincarnation of the "mummy" Margaret Thatcher) of who has demoralised those working in the "unit" and failed to fulfil the promises she has made.

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B. madness has set in!

Good one gf.

I hope we can look forward to another scandal, cos the bastards are still at it.

I do hope there are copies of the files outside the UK!

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If I was a betting man, at the moment I think it will be a coalition of Lab, SNP and Lib/Dem.

Their core ideologies seem similar.

With a decent majority it may allow sensible "moderate" policies, which considers the long term rather than the PR news bites of the present mob.

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(Moderate policies, such as hanging all tory members of the present cabinet. 8-) )

LOL........ that last line..

George Osborne, the Chancellor, will travel to Brussels on Friday for a meeting of EU finance ministers in an attempt to reduce the bill ahead of the deadline.

So we are going to pay it , but not yet and not so much. That's not what Cameron told us, he said it was unfair and we won't pay it . More votes for UKIP.

49125 - is that part of the missing 10% :-)

If I was a betting man, I would take into consideration how the Lib Dems and the defecting Tories who have gone over to UKIP are all more recently aligned to being mates with the Tories and their policies. They are also more recently used to sharing power with them.

So my bet on a coalition would be for an agreement between three parties:

Tory/UKIP/Lib Dem

This would also ensure the UKIP and Tories get the Referendum and the Lib Dems might be persuaded to at least go along with this.

Nigel gets a seat at the cabinet table. So too, do Nick Clegg and Danny Alexander.

Whilst ever Ed Milliboring Bellybuttonband (you know, the one with the snuffle and the Wallace and Gromit teeth, who can't even do any other than stitch his own brother up and so who the hell would ever do a deal with him?) is leader of the Labour lot, then no one is going to share power with him/them.

I'll leave it at that for now.

:-)

What does Nigel get ?

Are you looking at your reflection in the mirror in hope?

I can see one or two Lib MPS moving to the Con party, as they are goners in their own party.

(Just wonder if Danny boy and Boy David might jump ship!)

But I "feel" the libs feel "burnt" by the connections with Cons and would not trust them again.

Could be wrong, but don't think so.

I doubt that UKIP will have enough MPs to enter into a coalition. There are other parties, such as the Unionists to go into coalition with and they will probably have more seats than UKIP. UKIP are still on track to win zero new seats at the GE

And by the way Cameron said that he wouldn't pay the bill on December 1. He didn't say he wouldn't pay it.

No, he will be a rent boy for it and pay interest on the outstanding amount!

Sorry, the UK will pay the outstanding the rent.

Another PR are failure for a U-turn and blame somebody else.

I know try Georgie boy!

Not when he first spoke about it he didn't, he said he wouldn't pay it

No. He has always said that he wouldn't pay on December 1. I saw the first speech where he mentioned it.