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.

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!

Perhaps you would prefer the Green manifesto

Here is a sample

“a complete ban on cages for hens and rabbits”
“end the use of the whip in horse racing and conduct a full review of the sport”
“end the practice of grouse shooting”
“ensure UK taxpayers’ money is not used for bullfighting”
“ban the import of fur products”
“ensure that all schools, hospitals and other public buildings have solar panels by 2020″
“closure of all coal-fired power stations”
“make equality and diversity lessons mandatory in all schools”
“progressively introduce anonymised CVs”
“strengthen Travellers’ rights”
“cancelling student debt”
“revive the role of trade unions”
“phase in a 35 hours week”
“work for the abolition of the City of London Corporation”
“introduce a wealth tax of 2% on the top 1%”
“raise the additional top rate of income tax to 60%”
“increase corporation tax from 20% to 30%”
“introduce new taxes on the use of water”
“ensure that no company owns more than 20% of a media market”
“state funding of political parties”
“pursue a policy of defensive defence, which threatens no one”
“a ban on the production and sale of fois gras”

strengthen Travellers’ rights

Could be popular with Tanker. He is a pikey, isn't he.

Tanker is off to Spain again

Nice picture of Ed picking his nose on a train yesterday.

You can't call a Pikey a Pikey now , it's racist . You will have Fred to deal with .

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/17/top-gear-bbc-trust-pikey-jeremy-clarkson

Tuesday 17 March 2015 11.36 GMT

Top Gear cleared by BBC Trust over use of the word 'pikey'

Jeremy Clarkson faces fresh row as Traveller charity says trust’s decision ‘legitimises the use of a racist word’

Jeremy Clarkson has become embroiled in a fresh row, as it emerged that the BBC is set to clear the use of the word “pikey” in an episode of Top Gear.

The BBC has come under fire from the Traveller Movement charity, which criticised the corporation’s decision to clear the use of “pikey” as “legitimising the use of a racist word”.

The BBC Trust’s editorial standards committee published the findings of its internal investigation on Tuesday, ruling that the use of the word in the show was not racially motivated.

You can never find an armadillo when you want one

http://news.sky.com/story/1464707/mother-in-law-hit-by-bullet-fired-at-armadillo

A woman has been accidentally shot by her son-in-law after he was apparently aiming at an armadillo, according to reports.

Larry McElroy, 54, was outside his mother-in-law's mobile home in Lee County, Georgia, on Sunday night when he took aim at the armadillo.

The man was believed to be about 100 yards from the home when he fired his 9mm pistol at the animal.

The victim, identified in local reports as 74-year-old Carol Johnson, was taken to hospital and is expected to recover as her injuries are not serious.

Local TV station WALB said the bullet bounced off the armadillo, hit a fence, went through the back door of the mobile home and struck Ms Johnson.

Officials acknowledged the bizarre case defied belief.

Bill Smith, an investigator with the Lee County Sheriff's Office, told the TV station: "Just the circumstances - just all the way around - the whole situation was unusual."

No charges have been filed so far