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.

The one that needs to be worried about is Ed Miliband. Hopefully the press have Ed Balls in their sights as well.

poll trend
though the MORI poll might be described as a rogue, as does indeed happen from time to time, there is no escaping the fact that whereas for many months labour was showing a 6 point lead - even that wasn't anything to boast about - that lead is now consistently at only 1-2 points and drifting

Oh don't you start.. now get back to your work please -):

thankfully i was out all yesterday - golf with client + bank manager :-) - but my post above is no more than a fair obervation

I have listen to Miliband's speech and thought it good.

The things which stands out is that he thoughtful, analytic and has honesty and integrity which is certainly not apparent in the overgrown etonian twins.

Also, I "believe" the majority of the UK are politically moderate and what he has said and will say appeals to them, although they may like Ed to have a little more charisma.

Crosby's smutty effect on the media and camp followers like Haze, Cynic will obviously concentrate on the messenger, but the labour party and voters will hopefully concentrate on the message as well as the messenger.

I know who I would trust.

Especially as more and more unfolds for this Gove rment and it u-bends more and more!

Stan,

Manuel, doesn't have any more dishes to wash and all the customers have fled without paying the bills.

He is hoping for a loan from his bank manager.

Times are hard on the Embankment.

The public know that Miliband won't be PM. The newspapers, the TV commentators and even the Labour party know. It is only Miliband that is in denial. It will be amusing to watch and see at what point it dawns on him.

fred - what you say about EM's character and speech may well be correct, or at least that is your own (fair) assessment of it
i think it is certainly reasonable to comment that "the majority of the UK are politically moderate"
however, like it or not, it is a fact, sad or not, that the "messenger" needs to have presence and charisma which EM patently does not ..... were it otherwise, then surely labour would be out of sight in the polls ..... if you argue otherwise, then surely it means that the public thinks labour's policies are as insubstantiable or unworkable or whatever as the incumbent's?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-13/forex-investors-may-face-1-billion-loss-as-trade-site-vanishes.html

Manuel,

It depends on whether you want a floozy, or prefer a decent cook.

I think the majority flirt with, or go to bed briefly with the first, but marry the latter.


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Just heard Matthew Hancock speaking.

Looks like the problem is solved for the next leader of the Con party.

He appears to me, to be a cross between Cameron and Farage.

All he needs is a barrow and Del Boy's overcoat.

Mind Cameron and Farage do remind me of Del.

Got the three of them posing together.

Doc,

There's only around $4bn a day passing through the global Forex market, and only a very, very small percentage will have passed through Secure Investments. There's no way in the world that they would have had anything like $1bn of client funds on deposit, and it's inconceivable that they had anywhere near 100k clients.

But, a fool and his money are easily parted, and if muppet retail investors persist in depositing their hard-earned with unregulated offshore brokers and 'fund' managers, then pas de problème.

Tory lead didnt last long, was all the negative stuff about Milliband over last weekend. Whats more they have what they want 35% of the poll.....

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 12th November - Con 32%, Lab 35%, LD 7%, UKIP 15%; APP -25

UKIP STILL polling highly, bring on Rochester, lets see Davy thrashed

it's been certain from the outset that the tories would get whacked at rochester
however, sticky my old friend, do read post 50158 about the undeniable trend

Yep the trend goes one way then the other, just wait until after Rochester.

Im not a betting man and wouldnt bet on any outcome for the GE at the moment, like chucking money down the drain.

Just for interest and to simplify for Sinner and Hazyone!

fred - you might just as sensibly have posted the MORI polls over the last 3 months ...... the trend over say the last 6 months is the important bit!

it wasn't so long ago that 38/39% voting for labour was being touted around

i'm not making a song and dance about it, but rather just pointing out the obvious

Manuel.

What odds are you offering on Ed and Wavy Dave?

crikey! i haven't the faintest idea ..... to be honest, i wouldn't want to put money on either of them (or their successors) as i think they're both awful in their own ways

Is anyone offering odd's that none of the three mooseketeers will survive the next GE?

PS.

I also promise not to post the Polls if they are in favour of the torrid party.

If I have the chance to do so, and actually do, consider it to be a mistake on my part.

8-)