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.

WE VOTED TORY JUST TO KEEP OUT THE TRASH

Abbott: "The net losses are about 50."
ITN: "They're 125."
Abbott: "Well the last time I looked they were about 100."

george - in that respect you are absolutely correct ..... whether voting to leave is the correct choice, no one will ever know, and certainly a reasonable guess will not be possible for a decade or more

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hays - did that stupid woman open her uninformed mouth yet again and so soon?
surely not!

CORBYN to be kicked out next week the leading contenders ABBOT and a man from Pakistan who will move to the uk if he wins

I disagree cynic I believe the majority now know we made the right decision thanks to the EU threats etc. Who in their right mind would want to belong to a 'club' that threatens them when they want to leave.

Our use to the EU is clear as day, we are a cash cow.

well said George

breaking news from a leaked doc from brussels , without the uk cash we are going to hav to print more money to keep the eu running

most here think it's the right call but no one will actually KNOW for a decade or more
even then, it will be skewed as this is going to have far reaching effects, some good and i'm sure some bad and i don't just mean for uk

I'm not one who thinks that everything will be ok once we've left, I've said before that there will be problems ahead. Economically there will be uncertainties, nobody knows how many financial jobs will go from London, GS is threatening that at the moment, but so did JPM who have now changed their stance.

Trade is a major concern, I feel we should be actively going for trade deals with the rest of the world now.

So in that respect I totally agree with you cynic, but not the fact that we voted to leave.

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LOL!!! Scouser Andy Burnham Mayor of Manchester! Gonna love that at Old Trafford :0)

wasn't that one the tories had hopes of winning?

No idea cynic, just tickles me that a scouser is now Mayor of Manchester. He's an Evertonian not a Kopite not sure that helps :0)

Must be something to do with globalisation Chris

:0) George

Andy Burnham Mayor of Manchester! Gonna love that at Old Trafford

only 29% bothered to vote if that had been a union vote the gov would say it is void

i am afraid turnout at local elections is pathetic, rarely getting above 35%

LOCAL ELECTIONS
the following link is pretty much current .....


if you want to read a sensible and balanced analysis, go to https://uk.news.yahoo.com/local-mayoral-elections-2017-results-154319778.html

today's times is suggesting that labour may take its worst drubbing in history at GE
personally, i don't believe it, and in many ways i hope the tory majority is not more than say 50 seats

that would still indicate that the country remains firm in its wish to get out of europe -
yes, there are indeed side issues re ineffectual corbyn's total incompetence as a leader - and give TM a solid base to negotiate in brussels without being distracted by the spoilers and disrupters

for sure whatever is ultimately agreed, and that may well take more than the abitrary 2-year time limit, will assuredly make some very unhappy and most grudgingly accepting
nevertheless, the country will have appointed a leader whom i happen to believe is strong enough to shoulder the heavy burden and accept the responsibility

I agree with the sentiment but the reality is likely to be different. It is healthy to have a strong opposition but few of the Islington group of Corbynistas will lose their seats. I doubt if the Corbyn clan actually want power. They are a protest group. Post the election, we will likely still have Corbyn leading labour and spouting the same nonsense, but with no prospect of power, or being an effective opposition, since he will still have deep divisions within his own party.

One suggestion that is getting popular, is for the UK to have a Norway style deal with the EU for an interim period of say 7 years