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.

Green party membership doubles to 27,600 as Ukip’s reaches 40,000

Figures suggest trend away from mainstream politics and put Greens only just behind the Liberal Democrats



Patrick Wintour, political editor


The Guardian, Tuesday 2 December 2014 13.47 GMT



Natalie Bennett, leader of the Greens in England and Wales, addresses a rally in London's Hyde Park. Photograph: Mark Kerrison/Demotix/Corbis



Membership of the Green party of England and Wales has doubled since January this year to reach 27,618.

Ukip has seen its membership rise to 40,000 in October; close to that of the Liberal Democrats, suggesting a trend away from mainstream Westminster parties to smaller parties.

Both Ukip and to a lesser extent the Greens have been given a fillip by increasing publicity, including over how they should feature on TV in the coming election debates.



Nigel Farage is interviewed at his party’s office in Kent. Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA



Graun Greeny article continues here: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/dec/02/green-party-membership-doubles-ukip-mainstream-politics

DB4,

I thought I knew her!

8-)

Gordon Brown leaves British politics with a legacy few can rival


His role in saving the Union, his decisive action during the financial crisis and his championing of the NHS mark Brown out as a political colossus of a kind we will rarely see again.


by George Eaton Published 1 December, 2014 - 17:13



http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/12/gordon-brown-leaves-british-politics-legacy-few-can-rival

You wouldn't expect anything other than biased left wing nonsense penned by a left wing columnist!

What a load of utter bollocks;


"Few economists now doubt that Brown's decision to intervene decisively during the financial crisis by bailing out the banks and enacting fiscal stimulus was the right one. Again, to describe him as the man who "saved the world" would be an overstatement, but he has a better claim to the title than anyone else."

End of an ERROR!!!

DB4.

With all his faults, he may not have been the "saviour", but he did that was necessary with the G20, after the Banks and Financial services and financial wide boys, crashed the world economies.

Considered beside him, I would think you are a pygmy".

And, to Broons credit.

He did put the block on St Tone's €uro ambitions.

That in itself is worth a gong imo.

It was really the Treasury that stopped the Euro. They ran Blair's figures figures through the Treasury economic model and came up with worrying answers. All Brown did was show them to Blair.

What is definition of a pygmy Fred?

Somebody about your intellectual size!

But you are lucky you have a long lost member with Haze.

What about your intellectual size Fred? Apart from his intellect, do you think Brown was a decent human being and which is more important?

Brown was a bully and his moral compass was fake , he didn't give the Army the money to equip our troops , he sold our Gold at a rock bottom price , didn't rein in the city traders and the the selling of unsecured loans. It was all spend now and pay if you can, and was one of the worst PM and Chancellor in history.

Mitchell,

Education: University of Cambridge, Rugby School, Jesus College, Cambridge

8-)
you missed out the school for liars

Tony Blair was the headmaster and the school was New Labour upper , North London.

Aldwickk, an accurate analysis of Gordon Brown's legacy.

Yes,

But like all mortals with faults and made mistakes, but I think a decent moral and consistent core, but certainly had an egocentricity, the latter seems common in politicians or "leaders".

What! You mean he was a twat Fred, just like the rest of them?