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.

vote ukip the honest party who speaks for the brits

The UKIP candidate's fly sheet for our ward's Northampton Borough Council election is a belter of enlightenment.

The only trouble is, we had voted the day (or was it two days before it arrived through our letter box, by post).

Here's just some of what he has to say on it:

"Our Borough Council is made up of 45 councillors all paid a minimum of £6,000 per year, yet all the decisions are made by a small, select well paid group, known as the Cabinet. Their decisions are then passed with little or no meaningful debate by the other Conservative councillors who sit in the chamber likke nodding dogs.

If elected, we are committed to seeing the return of a Committee System of council management so that the voices of all the councillors can be heard when decisions affecting the town are being made.

We will also introduce local referendums which will be triggered when 20% of the town population present a petition to request one. This will mean, that when we are faced with future vanity projects which the people of the town do not want, like the new bus station, there will be a mechanism in place to stop them."

also:

"We currently pay for two sets of councillors as well as some duplication of officers and employees. We in UKIP will work to see the town will become a Unitary Authority to significantly reduce costs and place all services under one body as shown in an adjacent table. (Everything shown in the table under 15 different category headings had duplicate management!)

We are also committed to moving the town boundaries to enclose the 36,000 homes being built, bringing them into the town. This will mean that the council tax raised comes to Northampton rather than going to other authorities outside the town."

He has much more to say all along similar lines. He is called Michael Jones and he standing as a UKIP candidate for Nene Valley Ward, Northampton Borough Council. Although I didn't vote for him, I sincerely do hope he gets elected and UKIP get a lot of seats.

Cameron fury as desperate Lib Dems leak Tories' 'secret' welfare cuts: Alexander reveals Conservatives are plotting to 'con' British people by slashing child tax credits and child benefits in £8billion purge
Danny Alexander exposed 'secret' plans by Tories for £8bn in welfare cuts
Said Conservatives are trying to 'con' British people by keeping planned cuts a secret until after the election
Tories say they will only set out plans for welfare cuts after the election

if this is true then come on dave it will win you the election I will vote for you cut benefits for immigrants and lazy people cut housing benefits by 50%
cut child benefit to two children and freeze it

the eu as told the uk they must take 50 000 med migrants but have said they will not speak about till after election

I reckon a piece on the front of the Telegraph, about how polluting deisel cars are, has just cost everyone owning one of them at least £2-£5,000.

Brown pushed us to use deisel engined cars because they produce less CO2. What he didn't tell us is that they produce 2x more NO2 than petrol engines and 10x more particulates.

The EU is going to fine the government if it doesn't do something about it.

Stand by for heavy taxation on deisel engined cars!

I reckon, that in 5 yrs time there will be 50% less of them on our roads and in 10 yrs time, there won't be any!

More HERE

April has been such a very sunny month my E/W array of solar panels on the house roof has generated around 450 kWh.

Anyone else on here have them?

YouGov for the Sun have topline figures of

CON 35%, LAB 34%, LDEM 9%, UKIP 12%, GRN 4%.

The new GB voting intention poll is from BMG Research for May 2015. It’s an online poll, using the sort of weightings and adjustments ICM use – so weighted by past vote, weighted by likelihood to vote with people who didn’t vote weighted down, and with 50% of people who say don’t know assumed to vote for the party they did last time. This has produced topline figures of

CON 35%, LAB 32%, LDEM 11%, UKIP 14%, GRN 3%

The last of Ashcroft’s polls was in Thanet South, the seat being contested by Nigel Farage. There has been substantial polling in this seat, with recent Survation polls commissioned by UKIP donor Alan Bown showing a solid lead for Nigel Farage and other polling by ComRes showing a tight three way race between Conservative, Labour and UKIP. Ashcroft found a tight race between Conservative and UKIP, with the Tories just three points ahead, but Labour now clearly back in third place –

CON 34%, UKIP 32%, LAB 26%.

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April has been such a very sunny month my E/W array of solar panels on the house roof has generated around 450 kWh.

Anyone else on here have them?

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Yes EL, we have had them installed and they have been generating very well, if your house is in the right area/conditions then fitting them is a no brainer!

I don't have solar at the moment EL.

Have problems making the figs work.

If I may, a few questions.


How big is your array, and what did it cost to install?

Same questions to you Stan.

ComRes’s telephone poll for the Mail & ITV has topline figures of

CON 35%, LAB 35%, LDEM 7%, UKIP 11%, GRN 6%

http://news.sky.com/story/1475012/tories-ahead-of-labour-by-five-points-poll

Tories Ahead Of Labour By Five Points -



The Conservative Party is leading Labour by five points, the latest poll suggests.

With one week to go until the election, the monthly Ipsos MORI survey for the Evening Standard newspaper suggests the Tories are on 35% with Labour trailing on 30%.

It shows a reversal of fortunes for the two main parties compared to the previous Ipsos MORI poll on 16 April, which suggested Labour had a two-point lead.

The latest survey - conducted between 26 and 28 April - suggests the Lib Dems climbed to 8%, up one point from last month's poll, while UKIP remained unchanged on 10%.

The Greens also remained steady on 8%.

Max, Ours are 3.85 KW. 12 panels cost £5,350 including Inverter.

We did have the scaffolding already up for other work up so you will have to add that on. Say £500 approx.

We went for the more robust Norwegian panels that cope better with the heat and cold extremes that we will expect in the future, the extremes will not affect the generating output of these panels.

ED. Panels are made by Rec.

All the polls bar one with the BBC website give the Tories a small lead.....ITV give Labour the lead.....(one poll)....

Another reason to live in the south

Average life expectancy in some parts of England will exceed 90 in little more than a decade's time, according to new research.

The forecast is greater than the official figure from the Office of National Statistics and will put pensions and health services under enormous strain, the scientists warn.

The most comprehensive analysis of its kind suggests the rich will enjoy the greatest life spans in 2030, with people in affluent southern areas living at least eight years longer than those in deprived parts of the North of England and South Wales - greater than the differences in life expectancy between the UK and Vietnam.

Yeah everyone move to the South or more specifically the South East cos' as we know there's plenty of room there -):

What Solar set up have you got EL?

There is plenty of room here. The entire population of the world could get into a space only slightly larger than the Isle of Wight.