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.

Strange that under 13 years of Labour we kept our triple AAA rating with the 3 rating Agencies.

It took Osbourne and the Tories just over 2 years to lose them.

Care to comment Max.......Hays????????????????

back home for one day . the latest scam to come out over the last 10 years immigrants coming to the uk giving false info on their age if they are say 24 they have been putting down 30 so they will get pensions 6 years early and the benefits
thousands have been doing this costing the uk billions .

no passport then they should be kicked out

Why you should only vote for a ‘serious’ political party

By David Craig, on December 22nd, 2014





One of the lines we’ll be fed by LibLabCon between now and the 7 May 2015 General Election is that we should ‘only vote for a serious political party’ – basically Con, Lab or (don’t laugh) Lib. And the parasitical LibLabCon and their sycophantic journalist minions will increasingly hurl abuse at and smear UKIP in their desperate attempts to portray UKIP as ‘not serious’.

So, as we approach the end of the year, it’s maybe a good time to look back at what I’ve chosen as the ‘Top Ten Achievements‘ of the supposedly ‘serious’ political parties while they’ve been in power:



Read and weep: http://www.snouts-in-the-trough.com/archives/11701

Somebody remind Haze

Max.

There were mistakes made by Labour

The outstanding ones

1) invasion of Iraq, (urged on by IDS and cronies)

2) not regulating the city and Banks appropriately.

But the problem in the end down to the greed of the ladders and the enlightened middle class, borrowing too much, thinking wealth grew on trees, buying property for 10% more than they paid the month before.

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There were numerous other mistakes made in changes in education etc, but the labour period was a period of general advancement of all, where the present governments policies are aimed at protecting the few.

Fred.

I don't think there's a fag papers difference between the lib/lab/cons.

Either we go for something else, or it's more of the same.

I think that Renee Zellweger and Kirsty Young have been swapping bodies.....

And I still think that Cilla Black and David Bowie are the same person.......

Well it is is Christmas ...after all...

Cilla and David don't exactly sound the same when they speak or sing - ground control to major tom !

typical fred ..... of course iraq could never ever be laid entirely at labour's door; heaven forefend! ..... that parliament (and the rest of us) would only ever have been given massaged information via Mr Blair on which to form a view, is of course totally irrelevant

Look...you never see them together.....one goes on stage when the other goes off,,,and vice versa !....look at the names : Cilla goes well into David...and Black into Bowie..

Fred you have come out with some belters this year and this one has to be about top of the list -----------"but the labour period was a period of general advancement of all" :-)) Personally I cannot remember any general advancement thanks to the Labour Government, but perhaps I just missed out !

Have you started your festivities early rf? :-)
2517

I don't know what you're on this morning rf - but could you send some over please!

Ground control to Major Tom,
Take your protein pills,
and keep your helmet on. La,La, La

Nothing in particular but I have been eating a lot of mushrooms lately....

SNP on course to hold balance of power in Westminster, according to new poll showing depth of Labour's collapse

Nationalists expected to take 54 of Scotland's 59 constituencies next May in poll predictions that could see Alex Salmond become minister in next UK Government




Alex Salmond, former First Minister and SNP leader, is running to become an MP Photo: PA



By Ben Riley-Smith, Political Correspondent

10:20AM GMT 22 Dec 2014



The SNP is on course to hold the balance of power in Westminster after the next election as a poll revealed almost half of all Scottish voters plan to back the party.


A staggering collapse in Labour's appeal north of the border will see the Nationalists win 54 of the 59 Scottish constituencies and play a central role in any Coalition negotiations, pollsters found.


The predictions raise the prospect of Alex Salmond, the SNP's former First Minister who is running for Parliament, becoming a minister in the next UK Government – a scenario unimaginable six months ago when he led the campaign to break up the Union with Scottish independence.


The poll also reveals the depth of Labour's problem in Scotland and reveals the challenge Jim Murphy faces in turning around the party's fortunes after becoming Scottish Labour leader.


The loss of 39 of Labour's 41 seats in Scotland could prove fatal to Ed Miliband's hopes of entering Number 10, losing a power base the party has enjoyed for decades.


Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP leader and First Minister of Scotland, said the poll was a "great early Christmas present" for the party and promised a renewed push after the New Year to get the "strongest possible voice" in Westminster.

The Survation poll for the Daily Record predicted 48 per cent of voters will back the SNP next May – its highest ever predicted vote share in Westminster elections from the pollster.

Labour is expected to get 24 per cent, Conservatives 16 per cent, Liberal Democrats 5 per cent and the UK Independence Party 4 per cent.




More: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/SNP/11307543/SNP-on-course-to-hold-balance-of-power-in-Westminster-according-to-new-poll-showing-depth-of-Labours-collapse.html