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.

Must mean that you vote UKIP Freda because you always look around for someone to blame or scapegoat .

Let us focus on what TM has done, not what she has failed to do - The Queen will be happy today because she has achieved putting to bed the idea of a seperate Scotland - No second referendem for Scotland, they have made it clear that they wish to remain as part of the UK even if the UK was going to go out with a hard Bexit. That puts to bed the idea that the public were afraid of a hard Brexit imo.

She must have learnt that you should not frighten older home owners with the loosing their homes.

She must have also realised that students do not want to be buried under a mountain of debt and neither do their families.

Then and not least of all the NHS has got to be supported to the hilt, ahead of giving money to North Korea etc.

Mind Vicky was right on something.

This is what happens when you publicly make fun of someone whose incompetent at her job , you put out she's not well the day before the vote , then Diane Abbott gets sympathy votes and increases her majority to 35,000 quite amazing , and did you know Corbyn's changed the face of British politics , who have thought .

Yes it's looking ugly

Clegg can now join his school mate DC and pal Osbourne and write a book about where he lashed up and ruined the chances of the Lib Dems.

77552 - fortunately all 3 of my children were bright enough to go to good unis and get proper degrees in worthwhile subjects ......

2 of them used their degrees directly in their future employment

though a BSc for the 3rd was not directly useful, it certainly helped in other ways ..... his greatest help in his future life, apart from being an excellent communicator, was to get holiday jobs in the field into which he wanted to go


adult education for the less academic is assuredly best learnt in the real world ...... hence the need for apprenticeships for them and not just for those who already have good academic qualifications

Just in and it raised a smile:

“Strong and stable.”

That little phrase was always something of a hostage to fortune. Now it looks downright hilarious, in a blackly comic sort of way.

Just over six weeks ago, an apparently popular prime minister succumbed to the temptation to take on an apparently unelectable opponent to shore up her majority and put Britain into a comfortable negotiating position ahead of Brexit.

Instead, we’ve got a hung parliament. And the possibility of another general election. And a stalled Brexit negotiating process on which the clock is ticking.

“Strong and stable.”

Oops...



One good thing is that our friends in 'Bonnie Scotland' now stay part of the UK. I'm sure the Queen will be quick to console the PM with this one.

in practice, the tories will have a slim overall majority
318/319 seats + 10 DUP takes them over the line from which one then subtracts 7 x SF

thus there are in practice 643 westminster seats of which the tories+DUP account for 328/329 leaving "others" with 315/314

There's god awful crap being spouted by supposedly experienced journo's and MP's/commentators .

the unstated killer for the tories was their suicidal dementia tax in the manifesto

Without a doubt cynic, suicide note. Every cloud has a silver lining Ruth Davis!

i suspect you mean ruth davidson .... strangely she isn't actually an mp

When I said i'd received 8 or 9 letters from the Treesa and one from Lab , after last election they changed the tory candidate for this term , anyway a 93 vote Lab majority turned into a 9,176 landslide for Labour , so over doing it lost a lot of votes me thinks .

Wasn't all bad news.. Alex Salmond and Angus Robertson were among the high-profile casualties as the SNP lost more than a third of its seats in the general election. And Nick Clegg lost his seat.

Ruth Davidson, yes pity she isn't cynic. If not for her we would have woken up to Jezza as PM.

if not for that appalling manifesto blunder, there'ld have been a big tory majority

Fred wanted to join the Monster Raving loony party, but they said he was to extreme.

So it's the Con/Dup party now dust yourself off and get stuck in . Apparently all the other parties won .

A positive statement from TM and showing a strong hand and not refering to her personal defeat. Loose a battle but win the war - Good for her. Now the troops need to stand behind their leader ever more than before.