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.

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?

Peter Smith ‏@Redpeter99 11h hours ago

When nobody was watching Ed claimed £7K a year in expenses and Cameron claimed £135K. Yet another reason why #CameronMustGo

Conservatives well on course to win GE. Cameron still doing an excellent job.

Good gear eh Haystack?


Let me know your dealer.

Big black man on London Bridge.

Conservatives and Labour tied and heading for hung parliament, but Labour should lose most of their seats in Scotland. This would easily make Conservatives the biggest party.

No wrong the polls take into account people living in scotland.

And when the defections start.....well.

If Tories have to rely on a coalition with UKIP............ohhh dear.