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.

Marc Stears, Professor of Political Theory and Fellow of University College, Oxford, is not merely an old university friend of the Labour leader, he is one of Ed’s closest advisers and his chief speech-writer. More importantly he is the co-author of the Labour manifesto.

In 2012 Stears wrote approvingly in the New Statesman about an IPPR report calling on the left to favour letting housing association tenants have a right-to-buy:

The stable patterns of social interaction that are associated with communities of ownership are preconditions for the kind of social reciprocity that the left champions, as well as the more conservative disposition that is more usually commented upon. There is, in other words, a social argument for ownership…

An argument being made by the author of the Labour Party manifesto, for a policy appearing in Conservative Party Manifesto…

RF.

Why don't you double your bet.

Encourage Haze to do the same.

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Tories "rights to buy their own home", but not the the "free income" to do so!

Laughable.

I reckon that UKIP will side with the Tories.....and with the referendum (which I'm not too happy with) and deals on immigration (which I would be happy with) will entice Farages lot; so the maths could be : DC + NF > EM + others.....

RF.

The values of the KIPPERS are the same as the present tories.

They would be a perfect fit!

If Call Me did a credible deal with the kippers, he would be home and dry.

But he wont, cos his bosses in Brussels wont let him.



Meanwhile, the great white waits in the wings.

Are we talking English here ?....not sure if I comprendo.....

UKIP aren't going to get enough seats to support any party. They will be lucky to keep the two they have already. Clacton will probably stay UKIP as they are pretty bigotted in that area. The other seat could well be lost as his majority was drastically reduced and Garage may not get his seat.

Great white = Boris

It's not the seats they get Haystack, it's the seats they will deny to others.

All sides!

You're right.....but you never know UKIP might surprise a few...still think that DC will just scrape home.....somehow....DC+LD+UKIP+a few others > EM + others....

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Dodgy Dave will not leave the debt to his childrem.

No!

He will have plundered the pot with his mates and buggered off elsewhere.

The commitments he is promising now he has already promised and broken.

Many see him as putrid, brazen, corrupt and lying.

Suitable for the present tory leadership.

He is a disgrace to previous conservatives.

The effect that UKIP will have on other parties is important, but it won't put them in a position to support any party after the election. As the election approaches, I think that many UKIP voters will revert to their previous party support. They will see that voting UKIP will be pointless and may get them a government that they don't want. Voting for UKIP could well deny them an EU referendum.

They wont get a vote on the €U from any of the main three.

That will be the first promise broken.

Indeed, Haystack. As each day passes, UKIP are being increasingly exposed as a party of TANKERs.

A Conservative government would give a referendum. They would have to due to the size of the back bench rebellion. If there was no referendum, it would be carnage and the government would fall. There is no reason to go back on the promise.

Hilary
You are still there, where ever that is (maybe still skiing).

Talking of skiing....



What a great pity about beautiful little boy, Carwyn, who obviously was a little snow star with lots of skiing and snow boarding ability and who lost his life a few days ago falling off a cliff.

The accident happened in Flaine, 38 miles north west of Chamonix.

In their statement released through the Foreign Office, the family described Carwyn as an "adorable, caring person" who learned to ski from the age of three. The statement went on to explain how the family became separated on their last run of the day on Friday afternoon.

It said: "The family were all enjoying their last ski run over the small jumps and bumps at the side of the slope together, when Carwyn's sister lost her ski on a jump and at this point Carwyn skied ahead.

Police chief Patrick Poirot, head of the mountain rescue division in the nearby town of Annecy, said yesterday that police believed the boy did not know where to go after losing his parents and skied in the wrong direction.

He said: "He left the marked ski slope and probably skied to the top of a cliff. He then stopped, removed his skis, walked a little way and then fell."

RIP and massive condolences to his family.

More at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-32281151

On account of how the kids' snow park is just a park now, Haystack, I'm back in the UK now till early June. Then I'll be off to the summer house for the, erm, summer (Wimbledon and Lords Ashes excepting).

The Hill is cosying up with Tanker!