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.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/11/11/david-lammy-ed-miliband-labour-party_n_6138638.html

David Lammy: Ed Miliband Won't Win A Majority In 2015

Ed Miliband will not win a majority at the next election, a senior Labour MP has said.

In an interview with The Huffington Post UK, David Lammy predicted the 2015 election, in six months time, would be "phenomenally close". He also warned the Labour leadership against "posturing" on immigration.

Miliband has been under intense pressure in recent days, with Labour MPs anonymously criticising his leadership of the party. Yesterday, the Labour leader was forced to deny there was a "crisis" while former home secretary Alan Johnson, who had been tipped as a replacement leader, felt the need to publicly rule out any leadership ambitions he may have had.

Looking at how divided public opinion is, Lammy said it was difficult "to see any party get[ting] a substantial majority".

No dont think they will, but the SNP is even better than an overall majority far more left wing.

Mansion Tax soon Hays.

CARING LABOUR COUNCIL

By Claire Carter for MailOnline

Published: 11:57, 10 November 2014 | Updated: 14:22, 10 November 2014


A war veteran faces a £70 fine if he leaves his car outside his home after he persuaded council officials to turn the space into a disabled bay, only to have his blue badge taken away months later.



Don Jones, 89, asked Swansea Council to mark up the parking space outside his front door as a designated disabled spot so that he could park there after undergoing a number of knee operations and struggling with arthritis.

But the decorated war veteran has since been reassessed and no longer fits the council criteria to classify him as disabled.

This means he no longer has a blue badge and cannot park in the space outside his house .

The pensioner, who was awarded the Atlantic Star, said: 'I wont be able to park outside my own home without getting a ticket.'

Mr Jones experienced the Blitz during World War Two devastate his home town of Swansea in south Wales and joined the Royal Navy.

He served for two-and-a-half years on board the HMS Barclay Castle and was rewarded for his bravery on the Atlantic convoys.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2828450/War-veteran-89-persuaded-council-disabled-parking-bay-outside-home-s-decided-s-not-disabled-faces-70-fine-uses-it.html#ixzz3InqRAtsN
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This is the same council (Labour) that introduced an increase of up to 5000% plus on the ground rent lease, held on a housing estate, comprising young families, disabled and pensioners, one aged 90. The Lease, in one case, shot up from £75 per year, to £3400 per year. Are they rich stock brokers you might well ask, no just a run of the mill, Welsh community. The council see nothing wrong in doing this, even though these same people have been already paying more than anyone else in the Swansea area. The support and condemnation of the horrendous burden placed on these people, not to mention, that the local Estate offices have come out and said their homes are now worthless, has been muted to say the least, both from the Welsh Assemble Government and the Central Labour party. This paper was asked for their support, but ignored the request, in the mean time, these good people continue to live in utter fear.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2828450/War-veteran-89-persuaded-council-disabled-parking-bay-outside-home-s-decided-s-not-disabled-faces-70-fine-uses-it.html#ixzz3InqxPJIQ
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How to land a dishwasher on a bit of rock!

Well, hardly! The bit of rock is a comet which is millions of miles away and as big as half the mileage distance across London; it's travelling at 31,000 mph; it's full of crags and precipices and only some areas on it are fairly flat.

Hmmm? Sounds very tricky.

The action starts at around 3:30pm GMT but the signals take around 30 minutes to get here. Accordingly, we won't know whether the landing of the dishwasher has actually been a success until around 4pm.

The men in charge are hopefully going to make the dishwasher drill the comet's surface to try to find some amino acids. If they do find some, well, it will be quite nice because we didn't know that before and someone else will make quite a big deal out of the discovery. Others will say, 'God made comets and so God made amino acids and God also made dishwashers too' (and terrorists but he doesn't dig my garden).

The dishwasher is called 'Phil Eye' or 'Philae' for short. Follow the landing, and which goes by the name of the 'The Rosetta Landing', live at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/science-environment-29985988

By the way, this deal isn't modern technology. It has taken 10 years for this dish washer killer driller to get to the comet. Fingers crossed!

Do I see Hairs holding another's truncheon:

Do I see Hairs holding another's truncheon:

Hairy ones", Cambridge the night after.

Cameron pleads with Labour and Lib Dem voters to help beat Ukip in Rochester after Farage's party takes 12-point lead

David Cameron urged people in Rochester by-election to vote tactically
Wants Labour, Lib Dem and Green voters to back Tory Kelly Tolhurst
PM insists it is a two-horse race with Ukip candidate Mark Reckless
Poll puts Ukip on 44%, Tories 32%, Labour 17% and Lib Dems 2%

By Jason Groves for the Daily Mail

Published: 23:22, 11 November 2014 | Updated: 08:42, 12 November 2014


David Cameron last night issued a desperate appeal to voters in the Rochester by-election to vote tactically to keep out Ukip – as a poll showed the anti-EU party with a 12-point lead.

In a highly unusual move, the Prime Minister urged Labour, Liberal Democrat and even Green supporters to lend their votes to the Tory candidate Kelly Tolhurst to prevent a ‘Ukip boost, and all the uncertainty and instability that leads to’.

The poll, commissioned by the former Tory treasurer Lord Ashcroft, put Ukip on 44 per cent, the Conservatives on 32, Labour on 17 and the Lib Dems on only 2 per cent.



David Cameron, on a visit to Strood Academy in Rochester, urged Labour, Liberal Democrat and even Green supporters to lend their votes to the Tories








More desperation here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2830796/Cameron-begs-Labour-voters-Help-beat-Ukip-Rochester-Farage-s-party-takes-12-point-lead.html

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After the Rochester election can we have a breakdown of tory expenses related to it.

No need to lose the files, or suppress them, if they are nice and clean.

Also, for the sake of open, clean government, can we see the links between the hedge funds' and bankers donations to tory funds.

(Perhaps, from those who think they have an administration in their hands fit for another banana republic.)

Also, can we see the accounts for expenses for the No 10 canteen for "down and outs" of the Con party hopeful, future donors..


Or would it better if it left until April 2015.


Just a few thoughts!

In 2010 at Rochester/Strood:

Conservative 49.2%
Labour 28.5%
Liberal Democrat 16.3%

I think Milibland should be more worried than Cameron if 76% of the vote goes to right-leaning parties. Especially at a time the Labour party is lurching further towards the left.

Hil
Very true. Labour are very vulnerable, especially in the north. They see Miliband as increasingly out of touch with ordinary working people. He dismisses their concerns regarding immigration and the EU.

Indeed, Haystack. The centre ground where the battle will be fought is shifting, and the two main parties need to re-align so they can continue to fight.

Sure, Cameron needs to UKIPise Tory policy to make them more appealing to Joe Public, but, like the muppet he is, Milibland took a left turn and is now heading in the wrong direction.

:o)

Hils,

You would make a good member in different ways for the Bullingdon boys.

Compared with the damage Rochester election is doing to the Tory party and the possible defections, or flee from Cameron after the results are knowm, it will be a flee bite to the Labour.

Compared with the exposure of the Con partys dissimulation, it would be a minor worthwhile gambit to urge UKIP on.

Why don't you and Haze pop over and canvass in Rochester, your very presences would aid UKIP tremendously!

David Cameron 'Begging' For Labour Votes To Avoid Ukip Defeat


The Huffington Post UK | By Ned Simons


Posted: 12/11/2014 10:37 GMT





Nigel Farage has gleefully branded David Cameron "desperate", after the prime minister took the unusual step of asking Labour and Lib Dem supporters to vote tactically for the Conservatives in the Rochester by-election to prevent Ukip from winning.

The latest polls indicate Mark Reckless is set to become Ukip's second ever elected MP on 20 November. The result would be a second damaging blow for the prime minister and likely lead to more discord on his backbenches.

On a campaign visit to the Kent constituency yesterday, Cameron made a direct appeal to supporters of other parties to lend their vote to Tory candidate Kelly Tolhurst in a bid to stop Ukip's "great caravan" rolling on.

One Labour MP who has campaigned in the seat told The Huffington Post there was evidence that "Labour voters are going to vote Tory to stop Ukip". By-elections, the MP said, become an "inevitable choice between the two front runners".

Farage said this morning: "Mr Cameron is now begging voters from other parties to vote Tory to keep out Ukip. Desperate stuff for a prime minister to be doing."


More: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/11/12/ukip-rochester-by-election-david-cameron-tactical-votes_n_6143936.html

Short post im on a posh new mobile phone(and very nice they are)hilary/hays, stop talking daft northerners will always vote for Labour come election day.

No matter what they say before hand.

Rochester will take the temperature of the con party!

I think Dave's time is up!

Oh, how goldfinger must be gringding his teeth and wringing his hands now that his imminent interest rare rise prediction has come to nought. If I could be bothered I would go back and find all his dire warning of massive hikes in mortgage payments followed by repossessions. It is clear that he has no ability to analyse economic or political situations. His discomfort due to his terrible interest rate prediction will be nothing compared to seeing Cameron outside number 10 next year as the PM.

http://news.sky.com/story/1371816/bank-signals-no-rate-rise-until-next-autumn

The Bank of England has signalled that the base rate of interest is unlikely to rise until next autumn because economic conditions are not right.

Further bad news for goldfinger!!! Another one of his predictions vapourises.

http://news.sky.com/story/1371766/cost-of-living-pay-rises-outpace-inflation

Wages are now rising at a stronger pace than inflation for the first time since 2009, easing the squeeze on household budgets.

Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said he expected real terms wage growth to rise from zero to about 2% by the end of next year.