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.

In 2014 over 900,000 are using food banks...
On the 6th richest country on earth.

Nick Robinson ‏@KipperNick 3h hours ago

Don't be ridiculous and suggest that we at the BBC should report #CameronMustGo. We only report real news. Like white vans.

Emily Thornberry tweet row hurt Labour's chances of winning next election, Rachel Reeves admits
Shadow work and pensions secretary says Ed Miliband's hopes of entering Number 10 were set back by tweet in first admittance by top of party that row will cost votes

By Ben Riley-Smith, Political Correspondent7:03PM GMT 23 Nov 2014
The Emily Thornberry scandal has reduced Labour's chances of winning the next election, the shadow work and pensions secretary has admitted.
Rachel Reeves, one of the Ed Miliband's closest allies, said Ms Thonberry's tweet showing a house covered in England flags and the subsequent fallout after her sacking had set back his hopes of entering Number 10.
It is the first admission from a senior Labour frontbencher that the row will cost the party votes in the run-up to the general election in May.
It came as a procession of Labour MPs linked the inopportune tweet to fundamental problems in party and openly attacked Mr Miliband's judgment over the incident.
Frank Field, former health minister under Tony Blair, said Mr Miliband and his North London colleagues were acting like a "Berlin Wall" stopping MPs connecting with working class voters.

Diane Abbott, a former shadow health minister under Mr Miliband, said he made a "mistake" in sacking Ms Thornberry as shadow Attorney General and inadvertently turned the row into a "bigger story" than necessary.
And David Lammy, the Labour MP who grew up on Tottenham’s infamous Broadwater Farm, said the whole episode revealed how the party has become "culturally adrift" from its "traditional working class base".
The string of helpful comments for the Labour leadership suggests the social media slip-up could reflect a more serious problems for a party which reportedly is relying on motivating its traditional support base to win the election next May – the so-called "35-per-cent strategy".
Despite the Conservatives losing the Rochester and Strood by-election to Ukip last week it is Mr Miliband that has endured the worst of the fallout thanks to Ms Thornberry's "sneery" tweet of a house covered in St George's flags with a white van in the drive.
Ms Reeves said it was "right" Ms Thornberry had gone, calling the tweet "condescending and disrespectful” towards working people and against Labour's "ethos and values".
"I was angry when I saw it, because I am working hard, as are other Labour MPs and activists around the country, trying to get a Labour government back in six months time and she set that process back. So he [Mr Miliband] was angry, Labour activists and MPs were angry and I think it is right that she has gone," Ms Reeves said.
Speaking on Sky News' Murnaghan, Ms Abbott defended Ms Thornberry over the incident and criticised the Labour leader's heavy-handed reaction.
"I think he [Ed Miliband] made a mistake sacking her because I think apart from anything else it implied she had said something about the man's house, which she hadn't. But more important, I think it made it a bigger story than it would otherwise have been," Ms Abbott said.
Mr Field said Ms Thornberry's "old-fashioned snobbery" was indicative of the detachment at the top of the current Labour Party.
It's the north London set we've got to control. They are a Berlin Wall trying to prevent us reaching out to our voters," he told the Sunday Times.
"Ed's trying to move us on immigration and welfare and with one blast of a tweet she wrecks that and puts us back to square one."
In a separate fightback on welfare Ms Reeves revealed new House of Commons analysis uncovering £760 million of additional Government spending between 2010-2015.
In Budgets and Autumn Statements between 2010 and 2013 Tory ministers promised to make £2.5 billion savings on benefit fraud, error and administration, but fell £760 million short. "A Labour government will end Tory welfare waste," Ms Reeves said.

UK Uncut ‏@UKuncut 6h hours ago

#CameronMustGo because he's never going to do anything to stop his tax dodging mates

as a % of population, how many use foodbanks in UK vs the same in US (they have a foodbank equivalent)?

The US is not a welfare state, and has nothing like the taxation levels of the UK.

http://www.scotsman.com/news/uk/new-scottish-poll-piles-pressure-on-ed-miliband-1-3613482

New Scottish poll piles pressure on Ed Miliband

PRESSURE is continuing to mount on Labour leader Ed Miliband as a poll revealed that twice as many voters in Scotland thought David Cameron will make the better Prime Minister after general election in May next year.

The results of a Scottish sample of a Yougov poll comes after a Sunday paper reported that a member of Mr Miliband’s shadow cabinet had said he has become “a laughing stock”.

Prominant London backbencher David Lammy claimed that the party had become “culturally adrift” from its core voters.

Meanwhile Labour former leadership contender Diane Abbott said Mr Miliband had “made a mistake” in sacking Islington South and Finsbury MP Emily Thornberry over her tweet of a picture of a house with a white van draped in England flags.

“Emily Thornberry is not a snob, she doesn’t look down on council tenants,” she said.

But defending her leader, shadow work and pensions secretary Shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves said it was “right” that Mrs Thornberry was no longer in her job.

She said: “I thought Emily was being condescending and disrespectful of people actually who I went into politics to serve, so I think it’s right that she went.

“I think it’s right that she’s no longer in her job because what she was suggesting doesn’t represent the ethos and the values of the Labour Party.

“I was angry when I saw it because I’m working hard, as are other Labour MPs and activists around the country, trying to get a Labour government back in six months’ time and she set that process back.”

The Scottish sample put Mr Miliband on 12 per cent as the best Prime Minister, compared to Mr Cameron at 24 per cent while Labour on 23 per cent was only just ahead of the Tories on 22 per cent and 18 points behind the SNP on 41 per cent.

The results came as campaigning Labour backbencher Tom Watson said in an article that the party would pay “a heavy price” for siding with the Tories in the referendum.

ARTIST TAXI DRIVER ‏@chunkymark 10h hours ago

"those looking for a conspiracy at Home Office+No.10 will have to look somewhere else" David Cameron #CameronMustGo

Conspiracy theories are fine, but lets not forget the labour party cover up's.


What is it with Westminster and peedo's?