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.

instead of concentrating on all your usual claptrap and nonsense - also applies to fred and haze and even stan on occasion - perhaps you should be more concerned with the effects of having a badly hung parliament, with the two major parties led by complete numpties and with neither party even having good lieutenants and ncos behind them

somewhere into the mix, you can then throw snp who will have a good slab of seats, but probably not quite enough to be kingmakers, and discuss how you want to treat with them and their readable agenda

I am expecting either a Conservative majority or a Con/Lib coalition. So it will be more of the same or some strong government. I agree with you that SNP won't do as well as is being predicted. To do that they would have to overturn 25,000 majorities in some cases. Every recent election has shown that the polls underestimate the Conservative vote.

The words Claptrap and Alf in the same sentence...say no more.

fine stan, but how about addressing the issues i raised ...... if you are betting that labour will have an outright majority, then say so

In short the Conservative mandate for the GE..

shortie - and that for labour is what? .... i assume none of the other parties warrant any mention at all

If you are talking about removing freedoms then look at the Blair government. By the way none of the details below involved repealing any anti union laws brought in by Thatcher.

The Blair years: new law passed every three hours
Last updated at 08:12 04 June 2007


In his ten years as Prime Minister, Tony Blair has introduced a new law every three-and-a- quarter hours, new research reveals.

Since 1997, an average of 2,685 laws have been passed every year - a 22 per cent rise on the previous decade.

They have covered subjects ranging from the importing of bed linen to the evaluation of statistics on labour costs.

The figure does not include European Union laws which also affect Britain - last year, 2,100 of those were passed, bringing the total to 4,785 or 13 every day, according to legal publishers Sweet & Maxwell.

Of the laws, 98 per cent were brought in by statutory instruments, rather than Acts of Parliament. The procedure allows less time for debate by MPs than the tabling of a Bill.

The statutes themselves have become longer, with five Acts passed last year taking more than 100 pages to explain, three of them more than 200, another above 300, another above 500 and one more than 700 pages long.

Shadow Cabinet Office minister Oliver Heald said: "Tony Blair and Gordon Brown think the answer to everything is to make a new law.

"But, after creating thousands of new laws, violent crime has doubled."

A spokesman for the Bar Council, which represents barristers in England and Wales, said: "Politicians often equate legislation with action.

Oh the other parties are just as hideous, I just like taking the piss out of Cameron the most. He has to be the most uninspiring, waffle talking, back tracking, lying prime minister that this country has ever had. I thought Blair topped it but Cameron wins the prize in my book... I wouldn't trust the man with a mop and bucket!

The Conservative philosophy is to increase freedom and reduce the nanny state that is so prevalent under Labour.

fred before the alt"" bit in the code for that picture of Farage can you insert

width="200" height="150"

please???

I love this one!! So true..

Could you ever trust him again!?!

Can you really take this one-man band seriously???

permission granted shortie :-)

one assumes that is the mail as opposed to the mirror or socialist worker, so must be true
that said, one could and should add, "and why on earth should he not?"

Tell us Alf, Has your PT told you when your training is going to end yet?

not his call of course
i hope that now i have committed (not have been!), that i'll maintain it for a many more years

Shortie,

Was allowed out earlier this morning, but wanted to make sure Max knew what he was wishing for before I went!

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