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.

Cameron's and Osborne's goose is being cooked.

In case The Haze has forgotten.


ROCHESTER, ROCHESTER, ROCHESTER!

i know my fine fedora is safe :-)

How do you un-record sex and violent crimes?

Conservatives lead at 1

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 17th November -

Con 33%, Lab 32%, LD 7%, UKIP 15%;

The polls have been up and down almost every day. The figures are all within the normal margins of error for polls. That shows the parties are pretty much even at the moment.

H/S now watching Milliband at every opportunity he can, ITV morning TV now.. see his 50512 for confirmation.

Miliband is always worth watching. Every time, it is like a new episode of Mr Bean.

Populus poll has topline figures of CON 35%, LAB 36%, LDEM 7%, UKIP 11%, GRN 5%. This is the lowest that any poll has shown UKIP for a while,

Last night on ITV

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2838759/Just-couldn-t-worse-Ed-takes-TV-battering-Myleene-Labour-leader-humiliated-taken-task-singer-proposed-mansion-tax.html

Well you wanted a Klass war, Ed! As if things weren't bad enough, now the beleaguered Labour leader is humiliated on TV by former pop star Myleene as she takes him to task over the mansion tax

Ed Miliband quizzed by Myleene Klass over Labour’s mansion tax plan
Party leader looked lost and bewildered as the singer tore strips off him
Labour wants to impose a levy on homes worth more than £2million
But Klass told him: 'You may as well just tax me on this glass of water'
Viewers said she was ‘doing a Paxman’ and ‘wiping the floor’ with Miliband
Labour leader turns to Kim Kardashian to improve his image in photos

After some of the worst weeks of his leadership, he may have hoped that taking on a former pop singer in a TV debate would provide a welcome boost.

But Ed Miliband was left humiliated last night after he was unceremoniously taken to task by Myleene Klass over Labour’s proposed mansion tax.

The party leader looked lost and bewildered as the singer tore strips out of his pledge to impose a tax on homes worth more than £2million.

‘When you do look at the people who will be suffering this tax, it’s true a lot of them are grannies who have had these houses in their families for a long, long time.

'The people who are the super-super rich buying their houses for £140million, this is not necessarily going to affect them because they’ve got their tax rebates and amazing accountants. It’s going to be the little grannies who have lived in those houses for years and years.’

Mr Miliband responded: ‘I totally understand that people don’t like paying more in tax. The values of my government are going to be different to the values of this government.’

you don't have to if you don't record until prosecution is agreed by CPS

Cameron is alway worth watching . Every time, it is like watching a scene from Walter Mitty.

Im reliably informed his EC chums (not) have a new nickname for him Deceptive Dave.

H/S Have you thought of starting a EMS club up yet?

G/F, DD I like it -):

Klass was just a big mouth screaming all the time, she ruined the show actualy.

Milliband looked embarrassed for her.

It was obvious to a blind man she is one of them going to be effected by the mansion tax as were the other panelists on the show.

Yep Deceptive Dave, its spreading here like Bird flu aswel.

This is a good fan site.

http://awkwardedmilibandmoments.tumblr.com/

didn't watch, but if MK's comment is as shown above, then of course she's absolutely right

my parents (both now dead as it happens), bought their house with 2 acres of land just after the war for £7.000 ...... purely by happenstance and location, it was of course worth a massive amount more when my mother (last survivor) died about 3 years ago, not least because the extra land (a large orchard) now had outline planning for 4 houses

by all means charge extra stamp duty on purchase - it's already been applied, although in a most unfair manner - but to charge super-tax purely because "the market says" a certain property is worth this arbitary £2m cannot be just, the more so if it isn't a staggered tax

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i wouldn 't be surprised if similar also applies in Aberdeen where housing is apparently staggeringly expensive

It was nice to see Miliband making a fool of himself again last night. Every panel member attacked him last night. The audience joined in as well. He is a walking car crash. When the public were asked to choose actors who should play politicians the other day, the was Rowan Atkinson. Cameron got Hugh Grant, Clegg got Colin Firth.

Alf, The word we use is "Fair" in this country, you should know that by now.. so just pay up or right.

Deceptive Dave makes a fool of himself everytime he speaks. He lies so much he forgets what he as lied about and is always getting letters from the parliamentry watchdog who look over conduct of the house of commons MPs.

People have lost count now how many times hes now had to apologise.