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.

have i missed anything new on here during the day?
i suspect not :-)

Haze.

I am not aware of what the Tinker is posting, but I think that you would have been one of the first in the Berlin Bunker with Goebbels. Many of your postings seem as deluded as some which the latter made.

I quite like this one Alf http://www.moneyam.com/InvestorsRoom/posts.php?tid=8123&from=51832

.. not that I'm biased at all.

LOL! Have another pint TANK.

c c off to the club at 5 pm meeting on next years bowls

Blimey TANK that's early our AGM isn't till January. £2.60 a pint I'll be voting for no increase :0)

he actually meant bowels (and piles)

This is a very interesting article, confirming what I have been saying for some time

https://yougov.co.uk/news/2014/12/01/uniform-swing-rip/

This is based on current polls. Even a slight increase for the Conservatives will give them the most seats

i was under the impression that for some time you had been shouting the odds of the conservatives getting and overall majority ....... fat chance!

I have been saying that the Conservatives will get most seats. I also hope that they will get a majority. There are two budgets to go yet. One this Wednesday and one in March. Still 6 months to go.

This will be displayed on the political placards in the run up of "CARE UNDER CONSERVATIVES".

The home care system in England is close to crisis because of the way workers are exploited, a report says.

The review, led by former Care Minister Paul Burstow, found a combination of inadequate funding and poor working practices was putting people at risk.

About 500,000 older and disabled people rely on home care for daily tasks such as washing and dressing. Some pay for it, but others get help from councils.

But the report said zero-hours contracts and low pay was harming care.

The review was set up by the Local Government Information Unit think tank and home care provider Mears, after a number of scandals in residential care homes.

It analysed existing data as well as taking evidence from those in involved in the sector and concluded it was "only a matter of time" before there was a major scandal in home care.

If found about 60% of care workers were employed on zero-hours contracts, while there were many staff - up to a third - who were effectively not being paid the minimum wage because they are not paid while travelling between clients.

'Completely unacceptable'
These practices contributed to a high turnover rate in the sector with over a fifth of staff leaving their jobs each year - twice the national average.

The lack of stability meant that those receiving care were often faced with short visits and constant changes in staff - there were reports of some people having up to 50 different carers in a year.

Mr Burstow said: "The price of poor care is paid for by the most frail and vulnerable in our community and by the care workers they rely on, who get a raw deal."



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30278034


Or as the Cons will claim Business as usual

Watch out Manuel and Haze, you never know what is around the corner and you care make cost a fortune by them!

1 seat barely constitutes "most" and methinks you distort your earlier protestations
looks to me that we're in for a really awful period of very weak gov't, not that this one has shown much backbone, albeit that they inherited a poisoned chalice

I expect far more than 1 seat to be the largest party. The trend is towards the Conservatives, slowly albeit.

Cynic I don't think you have been reading Haystack's posts properly, I can't recall him "shouting the odds of the conservatives getting an overall majority".

Cynic,

I suggested before the last G/election it was perhaps a good election to lose.

But if that was an election to lose this is even worse one to win.

Cameron has irritated the EU and the majority of the the World's economic power and probably we will need their help and them, ours.

He has provoke constitutional problems without rational resolution.

He has overseen fragmentation of UK society and set groups one against another.

He hasn't sorted out the banks or financial services.

He has produce apathy and chaos in the NHS and Education and Welfare Services.

He has increased debt and not resolved the deficit.

He has overseen the creation of a toxic mess.

This government has behave like conceited adolescents or juveniles who know everything without reading the books and have little experience of the real world of the majority of the UK society.

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You like myself are probably insulated from the chaos created, but I feel sorry for a large percentage of the less "able" and possibly more deserving in society.

DB4..

Bore yourself and read early posts of you mate Haze and you will see Manuel's remark is accurate.

i don't necessarily agree with you fred my old grandad as your views are far too partisan for me
the real truth of the matter is that i do not see any party with a worthwhile leader let alone lieutenants in support which has the strength of either character or will let alone ability to pull this country back into prosperity

on the other hand, whatever you may think let alone say, the present bunch have certainly done well to avoid many of the siren calls, and economically (like it or not) the country is in far better shape than it would have been had labour retained power with the mindset attaching