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.

H/S looks particularly dopey.

So what do these parties stand for? Here are some links:

UKIP

At least UKIP do tell you what they are all about, what they stand for and what they want to change and why.

Labour

Notice how it is not now 'New Labour. It appears to have dramatically moved more towards the left. It is quite hard to find out what they stand for, believe in, disagree with and want to change. I noticed lots of rhetoric and lots of requests for people sign up, become a member and donate.

Conservatives

Wham! The governing party, albeit that they are in coalition with the Lib Dems. And they do try to greet you with a splash of achievement. Plenty of info' to tell you what they stand for and hope to achieve.

Lib Dems

Very clearly, 'Fair but Firm' is what they stand for. But are we convinced? Anyhow, their communication to us on all of it all is easy to find and reasonably clear. Perhaps they need some stronger senior members? How many of them can you name? Or are this lot holding up the Conservatives and preventing them from doing a better job? Next time, will they just form a coalition with Labour just to stay in power?

I can't be bothered to put any more links up. I guess the Greens are for green and the Independents are for independence. :-)

Waitrose is facing a middle-class revolt from shoppers who claim that its free coffee and tea are attracting the wrong type of customers.

The high-end supermarket currently offers a free cup of coffee or tea for customers holding a myWaitrose loyalty card - even if they don't make a purchase.

Angry shoppers used Facebook and Twitter to vent their frustration, arguing that handing out free drinks is turning Waitrose into a soup kitchen and the stores are packed with less affluent customers, which is putting some customers off.

One Facebook user wrote on the supermarket's page: "Please stop the free coffee at Barry Waitrose, it is putting me off shopping in the store people are coming with two cards two free coffee no shopping, with their Tesco bags.

"I think seeing people walking round the store holding on to takeaway cups of tea and coffee looks quite ridiculous and brings down the image of Waitrose until it is just like everywhere else – in which case I might as well shop anywhere else."

Another angry shopper said: "Bit disconcerting seeing people carrying cups of hot coffee around Waitrose whilst they text and push trolleys with their bellies."

MailOnline - news,politics.. Saturday, Dec 28 2013 3AM

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GF,


Is it really only 16%?

Could you make the image a little bigger for Manuel and Hays as they wont be able to the margins properly

Nowadays, they seem to be entering their dotage and not seeing thing as they really are.

(That is just an opinion.)

Britain's Supreme Court will be able to over-rule Strasbourg court, says Chris Grayling

Britain’s Supreme Court will be able to over-rule the European Court of Human Rights, under plans being drawn up by the Tories.



Chris Grayling: 'We have to make our Supreme Court supreme.' Photo: DAVID ROSE FOR THE TELEGRAPH


Christopher Hope
By Christopher Hope, Senior Political Correspondent

11:57AM GMT 30 Dec 2013


Britain’s Supreme Court will be able to over-rule the European Court of Human Rights, under plans being drawn up by the Tories.


Chris Grayling, the Justice secretary, said the Conservative Party will draft new laws to curtail the impact of European human rights legislation on Britain.


Pulling out of the European Convention on Human Rights to give the UK more control over human rights laws was also being considered by the party.


The comments suggest the Conservatives will go into the 2015 general election Britain pulling out of the jurisdiction of the European Court to ensure that human rights judgements are ultimately made by British judges.


Mr Grayling said the final proposals would emerge shortly. He said: “We have to make our Supreme Court supreme. I do not believe decisions about the way this country is governed - we are a democracy after all - should be taken elsewhere.”


More lies here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/10542296/Britains-supreme-court-will-be-able-to-over-rule-Strasbourg-court-says-Chris-Grayling.html



But read the comments...the tory party is finished.

The Tory party is finished..........wow.

Better get looking for a new pub/club.

That was the torygraph comments page gf. Not looking good for call me dave.

Another Labour Chancellor that Fred say's was good.

Take Lord Sugar....please....... He came out and backed Gordon Brown of all people and look what a disaster he turned out to be....whether it was the orders he was getting for his Viglen computers from schools and colleges we will never know but who in their right mind would back Gordon Brown long after he was found out to be the biggest disaster as Chancellor that we have ever known.

Haystack.

If you have the source to hand, how about a comparison graph with all three of the stoogies shown?

It might make for an interesting discussion as the popularity of the various actors rise and fall according to public whim.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - One-third of Americans reject the idea of evolution and Republicans have grown more skeptical about it, according to a poll released on Monday.

Sixty percent of Americans say that "humans and other living things have evolved over time," the telephone survey by the Pew Research Center's Religion and Public Life Project showed.

But 33 percent reject the idea of evolution, saying that "humans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time," Pew said in a statement.

MailOnline - news,politics.. Saturday, Dec 28 2013 3AM

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An Updated look at European Parliament Voting Intention – Labour maintain their polling lead in 2013
December 26th, 2013
Survation conducted a poll for The Daily Star with fieldwork 21st-22nd of November who have published the Westminster voting intention aspect of that work today. As part of the requirements of our membership of the British Polling Council we are providing the data tables for the voting intention aspect of the survey.

What may be interesting is that as part of this poll, we also updated European Parliament election voting intention which had a separate likelihood to vote adjustment. This will likely be the last published UK EP election poll of 2013.

There have been strangely few EP election polls this year – despite huge interest in the results, usually with a media focus on UKIP “likely topping the poll”. Polling so far does not show UKIP yet poised to win at this stage (we believe the ComRes/Open Europe figures showing UKIP 4% ahead of Labour in May was due to something like a poll scripting error).

Our latest figures are as follows:

CON 24% LAB 32% LD 8% UKIP 25% GRE 6% Others 6%

These figures are not strictly comparable to our previous EP election poll as it did not include a separate likelihood to vote turnout weight.

Data tables for the voting intention part of this poll can be viewed here:

We hope you are having a Happy Christmas period and we look forward to what should be a very exciting political 2014.

All the best,

Damian Lyons Lowe.

Chief Exec, Survation.

- See more at: http://survation.com/2013/12/an-updated-look-at-european-parliament-voting-intention-labour-maintain-their-polling-lead-in-2013/#sthash.K8nT44nj.dpuf

No point in trying to engage H/S Max, as he's remains in his own little propaganda world.

goldfinger

You have finally found a poll that Edd Ball's comes top in , i know its very rare but don't go on posting it every day.

Stan

You and Fred know all about that. Ask comrade Fred to answer cynic's question. BTW do you bother to vote ? if yes do you approve of a person who doesn't vote , but hates the party who is in power but didn't do anything to stop them being elected

A poll has revealed Britons would rather share their Christmas Day with David Cameron than Ed Miliband.

In a scenario that would make it tricky to stick to the old adage to avoid talking about politics, religion or money around the dinner table, respondents picked out the prime minister as their favoured man from the leaders of the country’s main political parties

Worryingly for Mr Miliband however is that Mr Cameron came out as the favourite choice to run the country despite the Labour party being more popular overall.