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.

Phew. That's a relief. I thought it was me!

Heavy weather coming!

Labour in 'absolute meltdown' over welfare cuts rebellion as Andy Burnham admits it is a 'mess'

Labour in disarray after 48 MPs rebel against the party on the Tories' £12bn welfare cuts vote - this is how the day unfolded




Andy Burnham admits Labour is in 'a mess' over welfare cuts Photo: AP



Michael Wilkinson
By Michael Wilkinson

3:22PM BST 21 Jul 2015


• 48 Labour MPs rebel by opposing welfare bill

• Harriet Harman wanted party to abstain on vote

• David Blunkett warns the party has been left 'divided'

• SNP claim Labour is in 'absolute meltdown'




More: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11752677/Labour-in-absolute-meltdown-over-welfare-cuts-rebellion-as-Andy-Burnham-admits-it-is-a-mess.html

Memo to self: never confuse 'customers' with 'clients' on air. It's just asking for trouble...

Nope! None there.

looks as though fred's buddy is hot fave to win the labour leadership election
it won't be just unite and the other militant unions who have backed him that will be hanging out the flags if that is brought to fruition

Well done with that cartoon Fred #61579, you've finally twigged.

Max,

You are awake but, as usual, you haven't engaged your brain.

Morning Fred.

Springtime for Cameroon and the conservatives.

Weeds come and go.

Dynasties collapse.

Look at any of the Labour candidates running , not a very inspiring bunch i think it will keep the Tories in for the next 20 years .

Cameroon cant believe his luck....

That girl with the dark hair was a researcher i think ,correct me if i'm wrong but she has not held any senior posts .

And as for Corbyn ,say no more .

At least Andy Burnham half looks like a leader. Does Corbyn smoke a pipe and walk a labrador? One thinks he would be credibly good at that.

In conclusion, other than AB who is a middleweight, what a bunch of lightweights!

Corbyn at least has some convictions, the other three wouldn't be able to spell the word much less know what it means.

Just goes to show what a lucky escape we had in May. Goodness knows what state the country would be in had this motley crew been successful, fortunately they are in the process of self destruction.
Of course this could all be a ploy.... have these 4 numpties scrabble about looking totally inept......and bang in comes someone electable to the rescue...... David Miliband
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Rolf Harris would be a good leader. He has convictions!

can't stand the guy, but he actually talks sense as below .....

LONDON (Reuters) - Tony Blair, the Labour Party's most successful election winner, told his party on Wednesday that it could not win power in Britain by lurching to the left.

"You win from the centre, you win when you appeal to a broad cross section of the public, you win when you support business as well as unions, you don’t win from a traditional leftist platform"

"I wouldn’t want to win on an old fashioned leftist platform ... even if I thought it was the route to victory, I wouldn’t take it," said Blair.
"Move on but don’t for heaven’s sake move back. If we do then the public won’t vote for us ... because our thoughts are out of touch with the world they live in today."