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.

Who's rattled your cage today Stanley, are you auditioning to take over Gf's position as Fred's Bitch? Once a blue always a blue in my case mate :0)

I'll tell you one thing , Farage is the most honest and Gutsy politician in Britain today ,he's not scared to upset a proportion of the people and speak his mind .
It is just a shame he is leading UKIP as in my mind he's basically a one man band ,a bloody good one though .

Jeremy Corbyn loses the trust of Labour voters as belief in him falls to almost half that of Ed Miliband

The Labour leader has lost the trust of scores of voters compared to his predecessor and support for the party has also taken a significant dip, new research shows

Just 18 per cent of voters trust Jeremy Corbyn - half the number who had faith in his predecessor Ed Miliband, a new survey has shown.

David Cameron has won over 40 per cent of people, up seven per cent since 2014 according to research by Edelman.

Nationally, the reputation of the Labour party has also taken a hit, with 10 per cent fewer people saying they would trust the party compared to when Mr Miliband was in charge.


The figures are the latest in a trend to show a lack of public support for Mr Corbyn, after almost three quarters admitted to feeling wary of his stance on national security in a survey in December.

Support for Labour has fallen 10 percentage points since 2014, from 41 per cent in 2014, to 36 per cent last year and just 31 per cent in 2016.

In stark contrast, support for the Conservatives has remained steady and increased by one percentage point since 2015 to 38 per cent.

The only leader with a lower trust rating than the Labour leader is Leanne Wood, the leader of Plaid Cmyrw. His rating is on a par with Ukip leader Nigel Farage.

David Cameron's trust rating has increased over the same period from 33 per cent to 34 in 2015 and 40 per cent in 2016. He is now more trusted than Boris Johnson for the first time since the Edelman Trust Survey began.

Just 24 per cent of those asked said they felt Mr Corbyn represents them, compared to the prime minister who was out in front on 32 per cent - beating even Boris Johnson, who scored 29 per cent.

Got a link for that "research" Haystack?


cos it sounds like a load of horseshit!

And there's me thinking that Leanne Wood was a woman. Mind you I thought Bruce Jenner was a man so we live and learn.
All the nonsense that Cornyn was spouting on tv on Sunday is going to come home to roost come the next general election, assuming he is still around.

MaxK
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/Jeremy_Corbyn/12106543/Jeremy-Corbyn-loses-the-trust-of-Labour-voters-as-belief-in-him-falls-to-almost-half-that-of-Ed-Miliband.html

MaxK
The fall in popularity of Corbyn has been shown in numerous polls recently. He is only popular with a few hundred thousand Labour activists.

Don't forget that the members who voted him as leader amount to 1/2% of the electorate.

Thanks Haystack.

Corbyn is just a useful fool.

The real problem is elsewhere.





Daniel Hannan ‏@DanHannanMEP · Jan 8

A prime minister who must plead with foreigners for the right to tweak his own benefits rules cannot be said to lead an independent country.



Nicked off twittarse.

Come on you Tory Muppets time to tip out and deal shares.

I always remember going to Wembley charity shield donkey years ago...Liv-ManU..(0-0 I think)...the Mancunian supporters had a great big banner down their end saying :" I'd rather be a muppet than a Scouse"....it was all in great spirit....

Which one do you look like Stan ?

On the subject of Muppets, Albert Einstein said that "the measure of intelligence is the ability to change". So what does that make those that post the same twaddle day after day?

Leave H/S out of it.

That wouldn't be Fred your referring to ?

Pot and kettle alert!

RF at least the Man U supporters recognised that scousers are not muppets; that is reserved for those east and northeast of Runcorn. :)
Nice close up of Fred Jimmy. That's Stan and 'is mates at the club. I believe Stan is the dickhead at the front left.
Sorry, it is a slow day...

Stan is a dickhead everywhere

On the subject of scousers, did anyone catch the replay of an audience with Ken Dodd over the Christmas? He was absolutely brilliant.
One misconception is that he invented the place Knotty Ash, along with the diddy men etc. In fact he came from Knotty Ash. His brother was the local coal merchant. As a teenager, I first saw the Beatles play at Knotty Ash village hall. I dont if it is still there. It was across the road from Alder Hey Hospital.

Ken Dodd?

He is/was amazing. :-)

We watched the majority of the latter part of it.

The man is a true comic genius. His memory and ability to recall, his delivery, his 'staying power' are utterly phenominal! He had an excellent singing voice too. His ventriloquism is so atrociously bad, he could get the audience totally cracked up with laughter from the performance of it.

If you go to one of his live shows, which we did about a decade or so ago, you get a very strong feeling you aren't going to get out of the theatre before at least 1am - and that if you do decide to leave, you are going to have to go well before he does!),

Like Bob Monkhouse, he must keep a massive store of material and have access to a very big 'library' of jokes and humorous work.

Doddy is famous for beating the 'Tax Man' in a high court 'trial by jury' and from it one could deduce and suppose how he used to take a lot of his theatre fees 'in cash'. Since the jury was comprised of Liverpudlians then the trial result at the time was a laugh in itself.

He is getting and very old now (b. 8.11.1927) and still does a few shows a year, I believe.

The TV show to which we are referring showed many of his theatrical peers in the audience and lots of them have now popped their clogs. I found it fascinating to see how today, he has outlasted so many of them.

I think, that when he dies, his funeral will be massive.