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.

TANKER if cynic was to join the Labour party the odds wouldn't be that long if you look at the competition !!

Denmark’s first female prime minister, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, has conceded defeat and resigned as leader of her party after her coalition government lost the election to the centre-right opposition.

Thorning-Schmidt told party members she will step down as prime minister and leader of the Social Democratic party on Friday after Denmark became the latest European nation to experience a surge in rightwing populism.

In her resignation speech, she said: “Every single day the responsibility has been mine. I stand by the decisions I have made … I am Denmark’s first female prime minister, but I won’t be the last.”

The strong showing for rightwing parties in the Nordic nation also delivers David Cameron a potentially vital ally in Europe for his bid to renegotiate the terms of Britain’s membership of the EU. Finland and Norway already have rightwing populists in government.

Labour is looking for a leader who can lose with dignity

Telegraph View: Labour's leadership contest is haunted by the past. Especially by Comrade Corbyn in his Lenin cap


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11685015/Labour-is-looking-for-a-leader-who-can-lose-with-dignity.html

Fred better not apply for the job then !!

Manuel wouldn't even get a job as a "waiter" in the labour party.

Mind as long as he stays on his knees before his icon, the "leader" may notice him and pat him on his head!




(I will choose the bottle to pat him with!)

After the IMF met Greek ministers yesterday, the IMF said they needed to talk to adults.

Implying that the Greeks are children.

Children are not responsible for their parents debts.

Good point.

The parents of the debts are now hiding themselves abroad.

Good point.

The parents of the debts are now hiding themselves abroad.

why have the fathers of those children taken to Syria not gone after them .
that is the question loving families

an Englishman would die for is children
others will not even try and save them

Actually if Greece leave the EU and Eurozone Cameron can send them some foreign aid and food parcels.

See he has changed mind on Med. immigrants.

To embarassed to go around EU with his cap in hand standing up for Maggie. Sorry Magna Carta england.

Powerful fellow this Dave chap, not ashamed of doing another U-turn instead of thinking first.

Should have sent IDS.

Why Tories should join Labour and back Jeremy Corbyn

For just a £3 membership fee you can help consign the party to electoral oblivion in 2020 - and silence its loony Left forever






By Toby Young

7:51AM BST 17 Jun 2015


Just before Jeremy Corbyn made it on to the Labour leadership ballot, Ladbrokes were offering odds of 100 to one against him winning. Now, they’re down to 20 to one and falling. I wish I’d had the foresight to get on that sooner. By September he could well be the favourite. At least, he could if I have anything to do with it.


• Conservatives joining Labour to back Jeremy Corbyn


With the first televised Labour leadership hustings being broadcast tonight, I’d like to take this opportunity to endorse the #ToriesForCorbyn campaign. I can’t claim credit for this hashtag – that honour belongs to Marcus Walker, the associate director of the Anglican Centre in Rome – but I will certainly do my best to promote it.

As the Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson pointed out on Twitter yesterday, Labour’s new electoral rules mean that all members, registered supporters and affiliated supporters who join before 12pm on the 12 August can vote in the leadership election.



Ruth Davidson MSP
✔ ‎@RuthDavidsonMSP
I seem to have a lot of traffic in my timeline saying that for a mere £3, I can change Labour's future and vote for Jeremy Corbyn. Bargain.


8:32 AM - 16 Jun 2015



More fun here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/politics-blog/11680016/Why-Tories-should-join-Labour-and-back-Jeremy-Corbyn.html

This is how you join as a supporter

https://supporters.labour.org.uk/leadership/1

Very amusing to watch the anti austerity marchers in Central London. There seems to be quite a ragbag collection there; SWP, anti nuclear etc. They haven't grasped that somewhere around 70% of the population support the cuts.

www.ft.com › UK
20 Apr 2015 -

George Osborne's plan to make further cuts to Britain's welfare bill has the support of 75 per cent of voters

39%

Haystack,

I believe rain is forecast. Some of them are probably in dire need of a good wash.

Ipsos MORI’s monthly political monitor is out, their first since the election. Topline figures are CON 39%, LAB 30%, LDEM 9%, UKIP 8%, GRN 6%.