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.

fred - we know where your allegiances lie, and that was why i posted from the Guardian
personally, i though EM was dreadful, looking rather scruffy and trying "awfully hard" to be a bit blokish a la NF



MrT - i'm quite surprised at your reaction to last night's debate
i thought DC took on the immigration question pretty well, while acknowledging the fact of life, that as long we are part of EU, we cannot actually stop migration from Europe
whether or not their claims for benefits can be blocked as outlined, remains to be seen

certainly EM ducked the issue completely and also (of course) ruled out any referendum on our EU membership

I was in London yesterday at the Royal Ear Nose & Throat hospital , it was packed and running two hours late .
At least 75% of people waiting were foreign ,some spoke hardly any English ....
That is the strain on our NHS .

The Graun has the answer, Paxo won it by a mile!



http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/27/battle-for-no-10-verdicts-first-of-the-leaders-tv-programmes

but they weren't necessarily at the hospital "unfairly" though that is an easy conclusion to draw
go to any chinese enclave across the country, and you'll find that many, especially among the older generation also cannot speak english depiste having been in the country for many years
glaswegians can be incomprehensible too :-)

I didn't say they were there unfairly ,also they were not the older generation .
In fact it was a complete mish mash of different ages and nationalities .

I for one will be glad when the election is out of the way.....and then....hooray... we can have nothing.....but... politics on here almost.......(moan and groan)... (:((....

rf check back to when it was started and it was a fun thread ,then it became Question Time ..I didn't post here for several years .

Perhaps someone should start a politics thread....put it all on there...

amusing note .....
the Daily Mirror political editor was being interviewed just now and accidentally referred to EM as DM ... and of course, that is labour's great problem and arguably the tories gift from heaven

however, i very much fear that we'll end up with a second GE within 6/9 months of the first

Go on then!

Perhaps, you could start a thread for those not interested in politics.

Perhaps, calling it the non-politics NOWT thread after GF.

Good luck!

Manuel,

I see what you are referring to in the interviews last night.

You prefer gravy train slick Cameron's packaging to Ed Miliband's content.

Apparently, as would be expected Cameron went down well with the party sheep, but the undecided voters migrated to Ed and Labour.

Popularity of Cameron is based on Right winged press and exposure due to "office".

He is a gonna!


I liked Ed's put down of Paxman at the end of Paxman not being that important, especially whe n Paxman seemed more interested in attacking Ed's personality rather than policies.

Cameron is a plucked chicken, squawking and running away from real debate.

I hope and the other interviews will expose Cameron weaknesses even more.

Of course Cameron will be watching them on the TV.

LOL

Fred like i said check back this was not the politics thread , you took it over when you wanted to save the world and his brother .

Here come another load Fred all heading for the promised land .

The world would be a good start for me.

8-)

Interesting questions on Zero hour contracts and "food banks" and whether Cameron live on the income.

Wavey Dave was squirming.

But the good thing it enables the rich to get richer the poor to get poorer.

Here come another load Fred

apart from MrT who hates all immigrants regardless of their nationality, i suspect that most of us are a bit like me

that is to say, we really quite like the poles as the great majority of them come over and work very hard indeed to make something of themselves ...... at the other end of the scale, we have the croatians, romanians and their, whom we regard as innate criminals or scroungers at best

if it is legally possible to refuse benefits in the way outlined by DC last night, then that will certainly help sort the wheat from the chaff, but i suspect it will be shown to be much harder to implement that to debate

zero hour contracts
i thought the question was answered very sensibly ..... neither DC nor EM nor JP could live on zero hour contracts, but it does not mean that they should be outlawed as they have their legitimate use when properly applied

cynic missing the point , we can't take 300 000 per year ! this country is stuffed .

Here comes some more Fred , will you take them in ,can they live with you .

Nice bus.