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.

My £5 says they will take a chance on Chuka Amunna, letting him build up strength and experience up to the next election.

And his the right colour for the ever growing non white voter

Is he acceptable to the unions?

I think it is Ummuna.

Don't think he would be acceptable to the unions

We are no longer one country.

Someone has worked out the extraordinary fact that the four nations which make up the United Kingdown are each now dominated by a different political party.

Last time a different party topped the poll in all four parts of the UK?

Probably 1832.

I look upon Scotland as just northern England etc. Nicola thinks she is going to stop austerity. She has no chance. What the public wanted was more austerity. The peoole in work are gradually doing better and expected that to accelerate. Austerity is a very popular policy. Recent polling showed more than 70% were in favour.

Priority will be given to constituency boundary changes which will cost Labour dearly at the next selection, making it even more difficult to be elected. The referendum legislation will be passed sooner rather than later (probably this year).

Miliband was rejected due to more factors than could be overlooked.

He was a complete embarrassment
He was too left wing
His party was not trusted on the economy
He was opposed to a referendum on the EU
His judgement was clearly in question after the monolith
He was expected to borrow and tax again
He was tainted by being part of Brown's workers
He stabbed his brother in the back
He was in the pockets of the unions

Agreed

Just a little bit of 'edit':

His SPENDING judgement was clearly in question after the monolith.

Apparently, it cost around £30k. It couldn't have been placed in the garden of No 10 either. No 10 is a listed building and the Planners are all Tories. :-)

Some think he actually stabbed his brother in the front, not the back. But who cares now?

I felt a need to check up on what 'goverment austerity spending' actually is and what the term means. Apparently, there are also degrees of 'austerity spending' too.

More at: http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/6254/economics/what-is-austerity/

There's nowt so strange as folk.



Emily Thornberry (elected)

Labour Party



51%

22,547

If the Tories had done the soon to come boundary changes before the election, they would have had 53% of the commons as opposed to Labour on 35%.

Labour are already crying foul. The intention is to reduce the commons from 650 to 690 seats. The effects are as follows:

The figures for English regions are given below (percentage reductions in brackets):

North East to lose three seats (-10%)
North West to lose seven seats (-9%)
West Midlands to lose five seats (-8%)
Yorkshire and the Humber to lose four seats (-7%)
London to lose five seats (-7%)
South West to lose two seats (-4%)
East Midlands to lose two seats (-4%)
Eastern England to lose to seats (-3%)
South East to lose one seat (-1%).

The reason is that the constituencies are not equal. The Conservaticpves need to get far more votes to get an MP elected than Labour due to the imbalance between urban and rural populations for each seat.

The aim is to make each constituency contain 76,641 voters within 5%.

What about the jocks?

A tad over represented??

The jocks appear to be on about 71k per mp.

There are 68,475 voters per constituency in Scotland.

4,040,000 registered voters for 59 seats.

So to get the balance right with the rest of the UK, they need to reduce their number to 53 seats.

in the 1950/60s, there was a common slogan of "better red than dead"

i see that the two hard-left militant unions (unite and aslef), who of course are (the) major paymasters of the labour party, are clamouring for the resignation of jim murphy, leader of the scottish labour party, blaming him for their woes
you will recollect that neil findlay, a hard-left socialist, was the unions choice and they subsequently refused to back jim murphy at all

to my mind, it is the union leaders who should resign, for clearly their quasi-marxist doctrines, foisted on their puppet EM, have been rejected by the uk's electorate, and it is they who do not understand (or perhaps even care) what is wanted by the electorate at large

their slogan should perhaps be reworded as, "better red AND dead"

next labour leader
if i were a labour supporter, i would be supporting tristram hunt, for he certainly has the right pedigree and presents exceedingly well

second choice would be chuka umunna, though he is perhaps too young to take on the mantle - and it is very questionable if the average labour party member would support a non-white leader.

Andy Burnham is second favourite after Chuka. He has form though. As Health Secretary, Burnham ignored repeated requests for a public enquiry into unusually high mortality rates at Mid Staffordshire Hospital, including three independent reports into what became known as the Stafford Hospital scandal. Burnham and his predecessor as Health Secretary, Alan Johnson, rejected 81 requests to examine the high rate of deaths at the hospital.

Can anyone imagine a violent demonstration by Tory supporters if Labour won the election.

The Women's War Memorial in Whitehall was defaced with graffiti during the unplanned rally, which started outside Conservative campaign headquarters.

The crowd, estimated by police at 100 people, then moved on to Downing Street to voice their anger at David Cameron's party, a day after he claimed victory in the General Election.

A police officer and a member of police staff have been injured.

Off subject ; shouldn't those press podiums that they have for political leader speeches have two wheels ?...(forgotten the name ...people movers ?...)....making a speech about how everybody should exercise and walk and not drive everywhere...and then : sort of I've got to go now and DC or BO just drives off....california syle..........good sketch for the likes of Rowan Atkinson there or the late Benny Hill.....

Yes, that's just what the labour party need, another horny handed son of the soil

unlike those nasty tory toffs.









Tristram Hunt

British Politician



Tristram Julian William Hunt, FRHistS is a British Labour Party politician, historian and broadcast journalist, who currently serves as Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent Central in Staffordshire. Wikipedia




Born: May 31, 1974 (age 40), Cambridge



Parents: Julian Hunt, Baron Hunt of Chesterton



Spouse: Juliet Hunt



Education: King's College, Cambridge (2000), more



Children: Margot Hunt, Digby Hunt