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.

http://www.iaindale.com/posts/2015/01/18/general-election-predictions-the-final-results-we-re-heading-for-a-three-party-coalition-or-a-second-election

This worth a read. It is a detailed prediction of the GE result. I don't agree with some of it, but it mostly makes good sense. It allows the possibility of a second GE in the autumn.

It makes sense only if you ignore the protest vote, and the remainder vote along party lines.

I don't think it will be that simple.

Simple would be if the party which polled the majority of votes, irrespective of the number of seats, won the GE. I think it is totally silly that a minority party, whether it is the Lib/Dems or the SNP or the Green Party, could be in a position to decide who is our next PM.

Haze again living in false hope.

Wonder who will be leading the splits in the tories Berlusconi Boris one pack and after her speech this weekend Cruella May leading the remnants.

If they turfed out Cameroon and installed Boris tomorrow, they would win by a landslide.

Cameron is still the most popular with Conservative MPs and with Conservative voters by a long way.

Conservative MPs are an endangered species.

Conservative supporters (members) are voting with their feet.

The main parties are all losing members. The same is true of the larger parties across Europe.

Come on this cannot be true, I trust this pair a 100%. :-)). Not going to be a good week for labour.

THE ABOVE WILL NO DOUBT HAVE DONE MAJOR DAMAGE TO THE LABOUR PARTY. IF I WAS VOTING FOR THEM, I WOULD CERTAINLY NOT BE NOW. CARRY ON JUST AS YOU ARE BOYS, :-))

Dreams.

You are in Cloud Cuckoo Land with DB4.

Many economists at that period were pointing to the problem.

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Osborne promised what on the Debt and Deficit.

What has he done.

How many food banks have been open in the last three years.

What are wages like.

How many false promises are Cameron and Osborne making at the moment.

Four years of misery for the weakest in society, gluttony for the the wealthy with their noses in the trough.

What an outstanding record!

After weeks of dithering Brown only decided to abandon the idea of an election in 2007 when opinion polls turned against him. At the time it was stressed that the state of the economy was not a factor in when to call the election.
Mr Winter’s revelation casts doubt on this and reveals the politicking of the Labour leader and his shadow chancellor in the run-up to the general election.
The first public acknowledgement of a financial meltdown in the UK was made by the then Chancellor Alastair Darling in August 2008, who said Britain was facing the “worst economic crisis for 60 years”. He was roundly criticised by Brownites at the time.
But it is claimed that the threat faced to the UK economy was known at least a year before and Mr Miliband believed it was necessary to “either go now and risk losing, or wait and know we’re going to lose [the election]”.
In a further bizarre disclosure Mr Miliband was accused of mistakenly burning a hole in Mr Winter’s carpet, while he was staying with the former mayor, and then buying a prayer mat for his host to cover the damage.

Independent

And the real villain skipped happily away to his nu found riches.

I hope the conservatives cause maximum damage next week to the labour party with this headline. How can you trust this pair of muppets ? Any hard working person in this country who reads those headlines will see red. That action tells any voter with any common sense they would risk the country and cannot be trusted.

Do you believe in fairy stories as well?

Errrrrrrrrrrrrrr it was the Bankers who caused the Crash, no one else.

It was World wide and even a pleb like me with a PHD in economics predicted it 2 years HERE ON THIS THREAD BEFORE IT HAPPENED.

It was no secret.

Why didnt the independant BoE do something???????. Thats why they were made independant.

Nobody broke free though because they would have lost more than anybody else.

Lets face it if you were up with events you knew it was going to happen just like when labour take on power and the market cycle turns down again and 4 million people are made unemployed over night.

And it will happen as Unions have no power anymore, people are on Zero hour contracts, Zombie self employed jobs, and at least 2 million not counted in unemployment figures who are on Mickey Mouse training schemes.

EDIT......make that 5 million overnight unemployed.

YOU WILL HAVE SEEN NOTHING LIKE IT BEFORE.

Watch out for the civil unrest.

It is a bit rich when Labour MPs try and distance themselves from Blair and his decisions. There were 244 Labour MPs who voted for Iraq war including

Ed Miliband
Harriet Harman
Gordon Brown
Caroline Flint
Peter Gain
Margaret Hodge
Gerald Kaufman
David Miliband
Jack Straw
Keith Vaz
Hazel Blears
David Blunkett
Andy Burnham
Yvette Cooper
Alistair Darling
John Reid
Jacqui Smith

Your Doctor will see you in 28 days if you make an appointment tomorrow gf.

Labour says unemployed under-counted.

Labour has called for unemployment figures to be updated with the missing numbers. It is disgusting that the DWP has omitted significant groups who are clearly not working.

These 'missing' people include those in hospital awaiting operations, patients who die in hospital and haven't yet been buried. It is a scandal that suicides are not counted, not forgetting fatal victims of car accidents. Soldiers killed in various conflicts should be in the figures at least until they are repatriated.

Among Labour's more controversial suggestions is that those buried and passing through crematoriums in the current financial year should be classed as unemployed. Many of these people could have caused death and burial benefits to have been claimed.

Ed Balls said today, "those in a coma and a persistent vegetative state are clearly candidates for recognition as unemployed." He added, "we are currently looking at the possibility of including inmates of mental institutions and it goes without saying that the population of HM prisons are obviously unemployed."

Labour have already ruled out the possibility of union leaders being counted.

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh but your memory plays tricks with you Hays there was a poll that showed more than 80% of the public thought we should have invaded IRAQ.

And before this both Bush and Blair were working on an independant report that said IRAQ had weapons of mass destruction hidden.

Hindsight is a fantastic thing.

Lets face it IRAQ had invaded Kuwait only years before and killed thousands plus setting all the oil wells alight.