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.

I suspect the Tories will gain an overall majority.
2517

251,

Put a £1000 on it.

Have courage of your conviction!

Yeah, go on George I dare you.

How much are you two putting on the Bean?

MaxK
Did u read my comments above regarding the Scots joining the Euro?

Sorry Haystack, yes I did, and you summed it up...I didn't think it required any comment cos the obvious is right in your face.

Of course, we do have Stan and Olly, so perhaps explanations are required.

ps, I didn't realise how heavily this board is moderated.

Why do you say that?

Bad news Haystack the Duchess is in Labour , whats Dave gonna do . I'd have thought UKIP but ah never mind .

The Duchess is in Labour? Best be long in Mothercare is obviously the answer then! LOL!!

8-)

Cameron mocked after describing election as 'career-defining'
Opponents claim prime minister’s third gaffe in recent days reveals the Tory leader is more concerned about his own job prospects than the future of the UK


David Cameron addresses staff at Asda headquarters in Leeds. In the past week he has forgotten the name of the football team he supports and the date of the general election.

Friday 1 May 2015 12.51 BST Last modified on Friday 1 May 2015 15.02 BST


David Cameron has accidentally described the 7 May election as “career-defining” when he meant “country-defining”, his third gaffe of recent days.


His mistake on Friday was immediately jumped on by his opponents as unintentionally revealing that he was more concerned about his own job prospects than the future of the UK.

It is likely that the prime minister will step down as Tory leader if he is voted out of Downing Street.


Election 2015 interactive: who is ahead in the polls where you live?


“This is a real career-defining … country-defining election that we face in less than a week’s time,” he told an audience at the headquarters of Asda in Leeds.


Over the past week, Cameron has also gotten the name of his football team wrong, saying West Ham instead of Aston Villa, and has forgotten the date of the general election – saying 9 May instead of 7 May.

His premiership has been remarkably gaffe-free, with the notable exception of allowing a television camera to pick up his regaling the former New York mayor with how the Queen “purred” down the line to him about the outcome of the Scottish referendum.

Cameron’s flurry of recent verbal slips might indicate that the strains of the election campaign and his heavy tour schedule are beginning to show.

Labour immediately mocked Friday’s slip, tweeting: “It’s all about Dave.”

Jon Ashworth, a shadow Cabinet Office minister, added: “The problem with David Cameron is he always gets his priorities wrong. He puts his career before country, just as he puts a privileged few before working people.”

This week, the comedian Russell Brand, who interviewed Labour leader Ed Miliband, tweeted: “CEOs like Cameron are what make Britain a great company, I mean country.”


http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/01/cameron-mocked-after-describing-election-as-career-defining-gaffe

What is new about him?

The choice this election gets clearer by the day
Telegraph View: Labour's flip-floppping over deals with the SNP give us a taste of the constitutional and economic chaos to come



By Telegraph View7:30AM BST 02 May 2015Comments35 Comments
Ed Miliband appears to be deluded. During this week’s Question Time confrontation between party leaders and the straight-talking people of Yorkshire, the Labour leader was asked if he would ever do a deal with the SNP. The answer was no: “I am not going to have a Labour government if it means deals or coalitions with the Scottish National Party.” The audience was incredulous, and for good reason. The promise was absurd. Within 24 hours, it had crumbled to dust.
The polls are tight and Labour is facing electoral wipe-out in Scotland. Whatever the results next Thursday, it is likely that Mr Miliband’s only chance of entering Number 10 will be with the support of the SNP. This is a prediction shared by the Nationalists. Nicola Sturgeon says that she expects to be part of a grand “anti-Tory” coalition whereby, “[the SNP is] supporting a Labour minority government on an issue-by-issue basis”.



Within hours of Mr Miliband apparently ruling such a deal out, he and his front bench appeared to row back from that “resolute” position. The Labour leader said that it was indeed up to the House of Commons to decide how it wants to vote on a future Queen’s Speech, while Andy Burnham, Hilary Benn and Caroline Flint all conceded that Labour whips might well talk to SNP whips about items of legislation.
The voters are not fools. They know that any such negotiations between Labour and the SNP will amount to a deal and will involve compromise. Again, this is not mere guesswork: the SNP has said that it expects exactly that to happen. Leaked Nationalist documents seen by The Daily Telegraph indicate that the party intends to prop up Labour in government as part of an effort to move Britain to the far Left.
Be in no doubt that the SNP will fight tooth and claw to get what it wants. Our profile of Ms Sturgeon reveals a determined lady reminiscent of Margaret Thatcher. She even received voice coaching from Sean Connery to improve her performance. Her ideology, however, is far from Thatcherite: Ms Sturgeon is said to believe that Labour lost its way when it replaced Michael Foot with Neil Kinnock. Her socialism is reflected in the SNP’s list of post-election demands: no austerity, greater spending, more powers for Holyrood and the abolition of the Trident nuclear deterrent. Yes, even Britain’s national defence is on the table. Of course, the ultimate goal of the SNP is not just to turn Britain to the Left but to extract Scotland from the Union. This week, Jim Sillars, former deputy leader of the SNP, said that his party would push for another independence referendum as early as 2016.


It is clear that Labour will have to work with the SNP post-election and that the consequences could be enormous. How, then, could Mr Miliband assert the obvious untruth that he won’t work with Ms Sturgeon – and with a straight face? It is possible that he has a talent for economising with the actualité. But it could also be that he is genuinely deluded.
Consider his attempts during the Question Time encounter to assert that Labour did not overspend when it was last in government. The idea was ridiculous. David Cameron had, in his own section of the programme, produced the infamous letter by Liam Byrne that warned his successor at the Treasury that there was no money left. So Mr Miliband was confronted with physical evidence that Labour did indeed overspend – yet he still denied it. At times, Mr Miliband is a veritable Walter Mitty.
Whatever Mr Miliband’s schemes or fantasies might be, the choice between Labour and the Conservatives becomes clearer by the day. Mr Miliband is gambling on a minority administration that will rely upon votes from the Nationalists to survive, which could well lead to a mix of constitutional chaos and reckless spending. Mr Cameron, by contrast, wishes to form a government that will stick to a rational economic programme and hold the country together through what could be a rough period. Within a week, we shall know what the British people want. Judging by the responses of that Yorkshire audience, Mr Cameron’s message is cutting through.

it has been patently obvious for weeks that snp and labour would have an informal arrangement .... this allowed EM to say that there would be no coalition or similar with snp without quite telling a barefaced lie ..... i can't believe his dissimulation was believed by any, for we are all abundantly conscious of the meaning of "politico-speak"

needless to say, labour are far from being the sole culprit .... they're all as bad as each other

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Unknown woman in London having a baby!


I don't mean Manuel!

He's known!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3064879/Ed-Nicola-Jackie-Magazine-special-Scots-lass-loved-independence-met-class-nerd-anorak-Ed-fall-wee-mouse-liker-her.html

Right Wingers getting more and more hysterical.