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.

There are three polls in this Sunday’s papers – Opinium in the Observer and two separate YouGov polls, one in the Sunday Times and one in the Sun on Sunday.
Opinium has topline voting intention figures of CON 30%(+1), LAB 33%(+1), LDEM 7%(-2), UKIP 19%(nc), GRN 4%(nc) (changes are from their last published voting intention figures a fortnight ago (tabs are here).
YouGov’s two sets of voting intention figures are CON 33%, LAB 34%, LDEM 8%, UKIP 15% in the Sun on Sunday poll, and CON 33%, LAB 33%, LDEM 7%, UKIP 16%, GRN 6%

Well I don't believe it.

U-bend Cameron promises are broken again.

What should the country expect of him?


'Unlikely' we will meet immigration target - Theresa May


Home Secretary Theresa May has said the government has been trying to bring net migration down to the tens of thousands.

LOL......nice one Max, outdone Hays.

GF,

Do you think Cameron will make it to the G/E?


Can hear the knives being sharpened from here.


Is Hague tearing up his resignation, or Boris putting his "pants" on?

8-)

;-), 8-)

It is very true that times will be tougher after the GE, no matter which party is elected. Labour has said there will need to be cuts including benefits.

the fact of the matter is that parliament is and will be crammed full of absolute nitwits and numbskulls, some of whom shouldn't even be allowed to cross more than half the road on their own

it is surely a racing certainty that the next election will bring about a hung parliament and however the dice then roll, the country will then go through another few years of total mess and turmoil

we may even manage to make the french gov't look reasonably competent, and that will be achievement in itself

Manuel,

I can name quite a few MPs who on a dark night a lot of drivers would like to see in the headlights.

Please don't warn them.

Just get Haze to guide the MPs.

http://agirlcalledjack.com/2013/11/15/exposed-the-169-mps-who-voted-yes-to-the-bedroom-tax-after-claiming-up-to-25k-in-accommodation-expenses/

Thanks Max.

Worth a lot.

I have cut and pasted some of the 169

Some of the MPs listed.

Will list the rest of them if Haze asks me to do so nicely.

What bunch !

NAMED: The 177 MPs who voted YES to the Bedroom Tax after claiming up to £25K EACH in accommodation expenses.

November 15, 2013Jack Monroe (MsJackMonroe)
BY JACK MONROE.

177 of the MPs that voted YES to the Bedroom Tax on Tuesday evening, claimed up to £25k EACH in their own “spare bedroom” expenses.

One of the highest claims, Nigel Adams whopping £25k in 2012-13, could pay the Bedroom Tax for up to 30 families in his constituency for a whole year.

Richard Bacon’s constituency is a three hour commute from the House of Commons, yet his accommodation expenses bill averages £450 a week.

Stephen Barclay’s constituency in Cambridgeshire is less than two hours away – and he has the fifth highest claim on the list at over £24,000 last year.

THE WORST OFFENDERS:

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Nigel Adams (CON, Selby and Ainsty). Claimed £25,309 in accommodation expenses. Voted YES to the Bedroom Tax.

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Richard Bacon (CON, South Norfolk). Claimed £25,094 in accommodation expenses. Voted FOR the bedroom tax.

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Karen Bradley (CON, Staffordshire Moorlands). Claimed £24,849 in accommodation expenses. Voted FOR the bedroom tax.

Jenny Willott (LIB DEM, Cardiff Central). Claimed £24,446 in accommodation expenses. Voted FOR the bedroom tax.

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Stephen Barclay (CON, North East Cambridgeshire). Claimed £24,226 in accommodation expenses. Voted FOR the bedroom tax.

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John Hayes (CON, South Holland and The Deepings). Claimed £23,757 in accommodation expenses. Voted FOR the bedroom tax.

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David Morris (CON, Morecambe and Lunesdale). Claimed £23,702 in accommodation expenses. Voted FOR the bedroom tax.

There is not really a connection between expenses and the under-occupancy penalty. The name 'bedroom tax' is incorrect as it is not a tax. It is a reduction in a benefit. The system was introduced by the Labour party in 2008 for private tennants. The coalition has just extended the system to council tennants. It is somewhat hypocritical of Labour now to complain about it as the rules have not changed.

Absolute rubbish, Labour would never extend the system to council tenants.

And labour had exceptional conditions which the Tories have lifted.

Deception again at its worst.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2846174/Miliband-clique-millionaire-allies-Berlin-Wall-Labour-ordinary-working-class-voters.html

Ed Miliband’s clique of millionaire advisors are acting like a ‘Berlin Wall’ stopping Labour connecting with ordinary voters, backbench MPs have warned.

The Labour leader is facing mounting criticism over his sacking of shadow minister Emily Thornberry over her ‘snobby’ tweet of a family home draped in England flags last week.

Former welfare minister Frank Field said the incident was ‘the most serious thing that has happened’ to Labour - ‘because it gives vent to what everybody’s guts are telling them about us’.

Labour shadow cabinet minister Rachel Reeves added that the gaffe had harmed Labour's chances of winning the next election.

Conservative Rochester By-Election Campaign Was 'B*****ks', Says Tory MP
The Huffington Post UK | By Asa Bennett & Ned Simons21/11/2014

Speaking to The Huffington Post UK in the aftermath of the Tory defeat, Brian Binley, MP for Northampton South, issued a blistering attack on his party's tactics. "If you want the term I would use to talk straight, I would say that is a load of bollocks to try and play the 'elitist' card," he said.

Asked about warnings made by a fellow Tory MP that voting for Ukip would see house prices fall in the constituency, Binley said: "I've already used the word bollocks. These are weasel words."

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/11/21/brian-binley-tory-rochester-camapign_n_6197536.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

Dave is going to have to make a deal with de divil, or he's on his way out.


What is his greatest desire .. being PM again, or appeasing his masters?