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.

a fair comment on the wireless was that he was shadow biz secretary but then blamed the leadership for "failing to reach out to business"
enough said?

Yvette Cooper was the former JCR President of my son's old college. Over three years ago now, he said she would be the next Labour leader.

He might be right.

Good i can't stand the jumped up little ponce !!!

Oh dear...


Yvette Cooper


Chief Secretary to the Treasury 24 January 2008 – 5 June 2009

Tarred with the same brush as Dick Ed II....

From the same stable ... never done a job outside the westminster bubble.

And she's jock.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvette_Cooper

Yvette Cooper

Chief Secretary to the Treasury 24 January 2008 – 5 June 2009

Funny how she is in denial now!


Yvette Cooper: Labour didn't spend too much before the crash

Labour leadership contender denies that the party spent too much ahead of the financial crisis

Yvette Cooper has denied that Labour spent too much in the run-up to the financial crisis, as she launched her campaign to be the party’s leader.

The shadow home secretary sided with defeated leader Ed Miliband by refusing to accept that the last Labour administration should have reined in public expenditure.

Liz Kendall, a Blairite who was first to enter the Labour leadership race, on Wednesday admitted that spending levels were too high in the Blair and Brown years.

"I think that we were spending too much before the crash,” she told BBC Newsnight.

But asked on Thursday whether she agreed with Ms Kendall’s comments, Ms Cooper responded: “No.”

An early vote is expected at Westminster to overturn the hunting ban.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/hunting-ban-set-to-be-repealed-within-12-months-with-early-commons-vote-expected-10254419.html

The English country gentleman galloping after a fox—the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable



Oscar Wilde

The English country gentleman galloping after a fox—the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.


Oscar Wilde

23.08

is there something wrong with this board?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3083887/Portrait-man-taken-cleaners-voters-Ed-Balls-pictured-carrying-dirty-suits-laundrette.html

Portrait of a man taken to the cleaners by the voters: Ed Balls is pictured carrying dirty suits to the laundrette

We are back on air again!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3084058/Labour-power-forever-leadership-candidate-warns-Liz-Kendall-says-risk-party-never-form-majority-government-again.html

Labour could be out of power forever, leadership candidate warns: Liz Kendall says there is a risk party may never form a majority government again

The MP for Leicester West added that Labour should support a referendum on EU membership
The party should also stop advocating high taxation 'just to make a point'
Justifying her uncompromising language, she said 'I will tell it like it is'

Blairite leadership candidate Liz Kendall has warned that Labour must acknowledge the scale of last week's catastrophe or face never forming a majority government again.

'One more parliament like the last means we might be unable to form a majority government ever again,' she told the Guardian.

She went on to insist that Labour should support an in/out referendum on EU membership.

The MP for Leicester West added that the party must embrace business and stop advocating high taxation ‘just to make a point’.

And she said Labour must concentrate on running a surplus, saying: ‘The party should have reined in spending before the crash - even though the crash itself was not caused by overspending by the Labour government.’

The leadership contender told the paper that Labour must also not support a top income tax rate of 50p‎ on a permanent basis.

And she supported the government’s welfare cap, saying: ‘Voters in my constituency do not feel people who are not working should get more than those in work.’

Although she said she was a passionate European, Miss Kendall said: ‘We should have that referendum, make the case and take on the argument, early, strongly and passionately.’

The moderniser said the election was a catastrophic result, saying: ‘We should have won a majority‎. We had fewer seats to win back than any opposition in a generation yet we ended up with the worst result since 1987.’

Justifying her uncompromising language, she said: ‘I will tell it like it is.’

She said businessmen had been turned off the party because it gave the impression that ‘profit is wrong’.

Test

For Max Exec.

Should impress the tory backbenchers and Shires.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11611042/Len-McCluskey-threatens-split-from-Labour.html

Len McCluskey threatens split from Labour


Labour must chose the "correct leader", Len McCluskey says, as he warns of withdrawing funding

Len McCluskey has warned Unite could disaffiliate from the Labour Party if it does not elect the "correct leader".

The union's general secretary said its multi-million pound funding could be severed unless the party proves it is the "voice of organised labour".

He hit back at Jim Murphy, the former leader of Scottish Labour who resigned with a furious attack on Mr McCluskey as the "kiss of death". "He's hurting at the moment. I wasn't the one that lost Scotland to the SNP," Mr McCluskey said.

It came as Jon Cruddas, who helped write Labour's unsuccessful manifesto, warned the party faced the greatest crisis in its history and suggested it creates an English-only party to win back lost voters.

Mr McCluskey insisted he has not endorsed any candidate, saying there would be a union-organised hustings. He distanced himself from a previous warm endorsement of Andy Burnham, the front runner, who he said is the person who "impresses me the most".

Is this is why Chuka left? I think it is.

Chuka wasn't right 'left' enough for the trade unions, particularly Unite. He didn't fit the profile required for the funding investment which is controlled by union leaders and left-wing activists, who refuse to acknowledge the mistakes of the Labour Party past.

I think Chuka fits more with the modernisers. Those with their eyes on a more moderate, slightly right of centre, 'encourage business and profit making' future.

IMHO, Chuka Umunna will be back - but the Labour Party will have to wait for a leadership challenge from him after Labour have repeated their current failure by also losing the next election.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3084750/100-000-year-rail-strikers-s-staggering-sum-paid-150-workers-ll-cause-Bank-Holiday-misery.html