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.

What is she, besides a nutter?

Very little bio, no mention of family etc.


http://www.kerrymccarthymp.org/about.aspx

Jeremy Corbyn still might snub the Queen
However, asked by ITV News if he had decided to kneel before the Queen, Mr Corbyn, said he had not yet made up his mind.

By Christopher Hope, Chief Political Correspondent5:30PM BST 24 Sep 2015 Comments4 Comments

Jeremy Corbyn is still considering snubbing the Queen when he is sworn in as one of her official advisers.
The Labour leader is expected to be sworn in as a member of the Privy Council early next month when the Queen returns for her annual break in Scotland.
As part of the ritual he will be expected to kneel on a low stool in front of the Monarch and brush her bare hand with his lips.

However, asked by ITV News if he had decided to kneel before the Queen, Mr Corbyn said he had not yet made up his mind.
He said: “Haven't been invited yet. I haven't made up my mind. I haven’t made up my mind… It's an honest answer.”
There was an outcry last week when it emerged that Mr Corbyn might refuse to kneel for the Queen at the ceremony.
Last week, serving Privy Counsellors said that Mr Corbyn will “embarrass” the Queen if he fails to kneel when he is sworn in.
Owen Paterson, a former Tory Cabinet minister who has been a member since 2010, said that Mr Corbyn had “to grow up” and accept that he would have to kneel in front of the Monarch.
He said: “He is being completely beyond childish – you grew out of this sort of nonsense in your first year at university.
“The whole thing is just ridiculous – he should grow up or go back to the back benches and play around like some sort of bearded activist.”

i don't think that even fred in his most petulant of moods would support this act of total childishness, allegedly and rationalised as being a point of principle .... JC is rapidly becoming a total laughing stock, if he wasn't already

only a little while ago, i thought JC to be interesting and charismatic even if i didn't like his policies, but i am now quickly losing all respect for him

Fred is Welsh cynic, don't hold your breath LOL!!

McCarthy was born in Luton,[2] where she attended Denbigh High School, followed by Luton Sixth Form College. McCarthy studied at the University of Liverpool reading Russian Studies, before studying law at City of London Polytechnic. McCarthy began a doctorate on Labour links with the City of London at Goldsmith's College, but did not complete it.[3] She was a councillor in Luton and for a short period of time volunteered in the Legal Department of the Labour Party. She was also a member of Labour's National Policy Forum and is a qualified solicitor.

n May 2009 McCarthy repaid £402 for a second bed claimed in expenses for her one bedroom flat. She stated the claim had been made in error.[14][15]

In October 2010 McCarthy admitted a charge of electoral fraud, accepting a police caution for revealing on Twitter the number of postal votes cast per party in her constituency at the 2010 election, and apologised for this action.[8][16][17][18][19]

In May 2012 McCarthy branded a fellow train passenger a "lager drinking oaf" and suggested he should "have been killed before he could breed" in comments made to over 13,000 followers on Twitter.

it would be like Cameron licking his own balls before he puts them in a Pig's Mouth.

The pig wasn't Porky Osborne.

Probably would enjoy it.

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JC. umm wait and see.

Remember Attlee looked like Lenin's brother, but the tory dropout Churchill was dumped by the country.

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Interesting to watch.

But Cameron is managing the "economy" well for ?????.

Manuel, soon you will probably back with the slops in the kitchen!

8-)

Ps.

What was the name of your cafe, the "Dirty Spoon"?

OOPS looks like you touched a nerve there cyners LOL!!

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-click-fraud/

Well done Osborne:

Jeremy Hunt arrives on the ward!

https://yougov.co.uk/news/2015/09/25/measuring-gap-between-corbyns-supporters-and-labou/

Jeremy Corbyn's supporters and the general public are divided by a gulf that is unprecedented in modern British politics

Successful party leaders marry the enthusiasms of their supporters to the mood of the wider electorate. By this test, Jeremy Corbyn looks destined to fail. New YouGov research for the New Statesman reveals that those who voted for Jeremy Corbyn overwhelmingly describe themselves as left-wing. They reject capitalism, and admire Tony Benn more than Tony Blair. Two-thirds of them want to abolish private schools and the monarchy, and favour higher taxes to pay for greater welfare.

Labour’s target voters think none of these things. Nor do many current Labour supporters. The table gives the main findings. The first column sets out the views of those who voted for Corbyn to be party leader. The final three columns are taken from a separate survey of more than 10,000 electors. Just over a quarter would currently vote Labour; a further 20 per cent would consider doing so. To win in 2020, Labour must retain the support of almost all its current supporters and at least half its potential voters.



Our figures show how hard this will be. While 81 per cent of the people who voted for Corbyn say they are “very” or “fairly” left-wing, a mere 15 per cent of potential Labour voters, and just 25 per cent of “weak” Labour supporters do so. (“Firm” supporters are those who identify fairly or strongly with the party, while “weak” supporters would currently vote Labour but don’t identify strongly with it.)

This gulf matters – as the Conservatives know only too well. Their party was unelectable when they were led by William Hague, Iain Duncan Smith and Michael Howard. True, they were up against Tony Blair, New Labour and a steadily growing economy. But, in addition, most voters saw the three Tory leaders as too right-wing – and their political outlook was nothing like as far removed from the public mood as Corbyn’s.

So: should Corbyn tack to the centre and compromise on his long-held views? He has already performed U-turns on a number of issues, such as Europe. He accepts that abolishing the monarchy will have to wait.

However, if he abandons the beliefs he has embraced for more than thirty years, he faces a double risk. On the one hand, the people he needs to attract may reject him as a cynical leader, hiding his true feelings to win votes; on the other hand, those who voted for him may accuse him of betraying the very principles that he proclaimed so clearly in his leadership campaign.

Corbyn’s other option, of course, is to hold firm to his views, make the case for red-blooded socialism, and persuade millions of voters to back his crusade. If he truly believes in it, he should do so – and set out to prove me wrong.

This board is very quiet.

Are all the barmy army at the UKIP party, or looking for a pork butcher?

Corbyn is too set in his ways to change. He is also accustomed to the easy life of protest. He is very good at repeating the verse he has been practicing all his life but is too lazy and dim witted to be the leader of the opposition. That is why he decided to read out emails from the public at PMQs rather than defend his own questions. Terry Wogan would have done a better job...

Ps,

JB,
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I didn't know Liz and Pip were KGB sleepers?

You could make your fortune writing Le Carre novels!

i not sure why i should have tweaked one of fred's nerves

much more importantly
i am completely bewildered as to why junior doctors' salaries should (effectively) be cut by 30% when nhs is not already short of same but many are emigrating elsewhere (like oz) where conditions are said to be better

i not sure why i should have tweaked one of fred's nerves

much more importantly
i am completely bewildered as to why junior doctors' salaries should (effectively) be cut by 30% when nhs is not already short of same but many are emigrating elsewhere (like oz) where conditions are said to be better

I don't think their salaries have been cut by 30%. The new contract is different regarding hours etc. Their basic is being raised quite a bit and it will include more hours. Some will get more overall, some will get less and some stay where they are. The new system should leave them the same on average. The fuss over it is coming from the doctors' union. They are very resistant to change.