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.

DM for you Fred, EM is no good. Shocking.

The lesser spotted millibum must be cursing his luck/bad judgement at jacking it in too early.

Lesser spotted Millibum may have the last laugh MaxK!

Thinks he will in the end db, but it could have come a lot sooner if he hadn't thrown his dummy out of the pram so fast.

"Haystack - 18 Dec 2014 20:39 - 53319 of 53333

There is a lot of stuff about Dolphin Square. I lived in the next street, St Georges Square, and drank in the bar at Dolphin Square most evenings in the early 80s. I had a lot of friends who lived in DS, but never heard of anything funny going on. David Steel had a flat there as dozens of other MPs. I used to drink regularly with Lord Long, who was the Conservative whip in the Lords. There was plenty of heterosexual goings on, but no funny stuff that I came across. I knew of a handful of MPs who kept mistresses there."

So what was Dolphin Square in those days H/S just rental or mixed, rental and owner occupied can you remember?

It has always been rental. It is owned by Westminster Council. They are effectively posh council flats. They have special conditions though. You have to live and work in the borough to get a flat. The waiting list is vast. A number are kept for MPs. There are quite a few flats at the non river end that are used to run a sort of Hotel. It is or was the largest block of semi luxury flats in Europe.

DB4,


"John Bercow is very good at losing files!"


If he is, then possibly he learnt the trick when he was a conservative MP from the con artists he was supposed to work with.

I knew lots of people who live in there. There was an excellent bar, a pub, a very good restaurant, a swimming pool, squash courts, an underground arcade of old fashioned shops, which I believe are still there. It is where I used to do my shopping. I lived there while doing long term consultancy at ICI on Milbank almost opposite parliament. I was doing financial modelling.

Does that mean you posed erotically for financiers? :-)

lol :-)

Not exactly, but there is something in that which I am probably not going to explain.

My daughter sent me an e-card earlier this evening which had my wife and I absolutely creased up laughing.

She superimposed our faces and those of our two dogs which were taken from family photographs and put them into a jingly kind of dance-like-cartoon-thingy-e-card. There are various starter models to use and the one she chose was 'Rocking around the Christmas Tree'. The result was absolutely hilarious! Having been created, it can then be sent out with a link in an e-mail where the recipient can see the cartoon e-card result stored on the jibjab.com web site.

Have a go yourself at: http://www.jibjab.com/holidays

I guess you guys could, say take pictures of the faces of your favourite politicians and, say having sent an e-mail of it to yourself, put a link up here....???

Go on amaze yourself. I'll do one myself for you tomorrow.

Oh go on H/S it is Christmas -):

Thanks for the background, we wait further info on the abuses.

Wonder if Hays will be called to give evidence??????????????????

Police were on late last night (SKY NEWS) saying they wanted to hear from anybody with connections/knowledge of that area during mid 70s to mid 80s.

Tories raise funds for further poll soon after general election in May

Party to make contingencies in case hung parliament - and aversion to another coalition - prompts second election




Patrick Wintour and Rajeev Syal


The Guardian, Thursday 18 December 2014 20.41 GMT







The Conservatives are making contingency plans for a second general election next year as Whitehall’s election spending watchdog officially begins the countdown for the 7 May poll.

Sources close to the Tories say that party officials, wary that opinion polls show it is likely that neither major party will have overall control, have been told to begin raising funds for a second poll within months of the first.

“Extra fundraising is under way as a precaution in case there is a second election next year,” a Tory source said. “It is sensible contingency planning given the possibility of a hung parliament.”



http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/dec/18/tories-contingency-funds-second-poll-general-election

That sounds like the scenario of Conservatives getting most seats and trying to run a minority government for a short while.

Anyone watch Andrew Neals show last night.

All 3 experts went for labour as being the largest party after the GE but with no overall majority.

Haze,

Cons running a minority government, they couldn't run the present stitch up coalition, and it is coming back to bite it!

Start your medication again!

So, who is going to do a deal with ukip?