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.

i do not dislike farage at all ..... he's a very good and entertaining speaker and certainly has (simplistic) popular appeal ...... for better or worse, it is undoubtedly his influence that forced the tories to include the referendum in their election manifesto

however, even more so than the main (any) opposition party in parliament, it's very easy to shout the odds as it's effectively words without responsibility
as so many have found out, once you have the power (responsibility), you discover that the seemingly simple is not simple at all

farage will never be in the position to find that out

Agreed, Farage will never have any political office (fortunately).

Hammond for Chancellor and Osbone for Foreign Secretary?

Your right cynic he won't which is a shame .

Haystack you really do chose the worse people .

Are you Tory boy

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as so many have found out, once you have the power (responsibility), you discover that the seemingly simple is not simple at all


But some stick around and try to resolve the problems they created and cheered for.

Also, those shouting loud with glee at the moment maybe those who will be cursing the loudest in 12-18months time at the "said" success.

The Tories will outlive UKIP. Political Party vs protest group (rabble).

Of course they will however watch the UKIP votes if she doesn't deliver Brexit Tory boy.

I have always voted Tory but even i have had enough of them ,where do we go from here ,Labour are a non starter ,i just hope that May surprises us and brings in the right people who wanted to leave the EU .

There may be a route to a second referendum. If a possible deal with the EU contains some elements of free movement, a referendum on that deal may be put to the country. The is a good chance that it would go some way to reverse the current decision. It would not reverse the leave EU position, but might be somewhat less than Leave campaigners wanted.

UKIP could gain some voters, but there is a large majority of people who could never bring themselves to Vote for them under any circumstances.

You will have a massive rise in UKIP votes if the electorate gets tucked up and the invasion of unskilled workers continues ,they will steal many Labour votes in the North and down the East coast.

jimmy or do i mean hays - your argument is about as valid as complaining that millions of people did not vote for whichever party wins a GE

i hope and think at this juncture that TM will prove to be a strong leader and negotiator (with her team) ...... it should not be forgotten that the eu plutocracy has many concerns of its own about the potential domino effect

for sure uk will not get all it wants, but that is the nature of all negotiation and compromise ..... the ideal is where both parties are unhappy with the result

Everyone keeps dancing round the elephant in the €U room.

Namely, it's banks.

Starting with the big daddy DB, and working it's way down the list, it all seems to be heading for a spectacular bust...unless there is a bail-out, which is forbidden (lol) by €U rules.

They changed the rules on bail-ins awhile back, and now the depositors are firmly on the hook (little Greece) for fleecing.

tick tock, it's coming.

confess i haven't followed the deutsche bank story at all
is it nearly tits up?

The relatively unknown investment fund where Theresa May’s husband Philip works as a senior executive is one of the world’s largest and most powerful financial institutions, controlling $1.4 trillion (£10.5 trillion) in assets.

Its portfolio also includes $20bn of shares in Amazon and Starbucks, both of which were cited by the Prime Minister-designate in her pledge to crack down on tax avoidance yesterday.

Latest filings to US authorities show that Los Angeles based Capital Group owns huge stakes in a variety of companies, including investment bank JP Morgan Chase, defence giant Lockheed Martin, tobacco company Philip Morris International, the pharmaceutical sector’s Merck & Co, and also Ryanair.

Who wants it?

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For that matter, a large majority of people don't vote for the tories either. UKIP lacks characters but it does not lack appeal, particularly with Labour going down the pan.

I find that UKIP lacks any appeal at all, but then people like all kinds of slop.

Sky Sources: #Labour's ruling NEC has suspended all meetings of local Constituency Labour Parties for the duration of the leadership contest


This may be as a result of police being called to a Manchester Constituency meting over voting irregularities and bullying and violence.

Labour result 24 September