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.

on that basis, perhaps NS will be PM :-)

I would think, that some of the political experts and academics in Westminster will have written many papers about this stuff. Historical events will have been studied and debated in both Oxford and Cambridge universities for sure.

Routes of eventuality will have been mapped out so that political leaders will have a good idea of what to do for several different scenarios.

These are very interesting and fascinating political times.

Today's headline is that growth in GDP seems to have stalled. It's only 0.3% this last quarter as against 0.6% for the quarter before. Osborne is reminding everyone that these are economically delicate times and 'the plan' needs to continue. I suppose Miliband and Balls will be attacking Tory economic policy, saying something like, 'It's not as good as all that. Look what has now happened. It's stalling! This is what needs to be done.'

It would be Salmond as he would be the UK MP.

The saying, "It would serve them right" comes to mind.

Have to mention the terrible scenes from Nepal !....glad to see international help coming......helicopters are an absolute must in those regions .........

Milliband 4/6 , Cameron 11/8 to be next Prime Minister.

No wonder the Indices have gone tiits up :0)

6/1 Burnley to stay up... Get your money on.

The bean is odd's on?

What are the odds for them to go down Stan?

Well that aint gonna happen is it Stan !

Might as well be 100/1 , you will still lose your money.

The "R" word and Burnley in the same sentence does not compute CC.

Oh Dil... ye of little faith.

:0)

4 games left 12 pts + 26 = 38... job done can't see what the problem is.

Except maybe our recent inability to score goals -):

Lol Stan , don't think Chris has got much either.

See you next season.

Odds for overall majority

Conservative 13/2
Labour 40/1

With the rise of SNP, it looks like no Labour majority for years to come.

Every cloud then Hays :0)

Not if the two of them get together.

They may get together for a term, but there's are major differences to stop them joining up properly.

It looks like Labour will only get in with a coalition. That could be good for the Tories as the Labour/SNP combination is not going to suit the bulk of voters. In the future there could more easily be a Conservative majority. The next time there is a Tory majority there will be constuency boundary changes made that will make it tougher for Labour.