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.

Attention terrible twins:

It's not over yet!

Libs signing up to Labour.

Seems sensible.

http://www.oddschecker.com/politics/british-politics/next-uk-general-election/prime-minister-after-general-election

Bookies mainly now offering same odds for Cameron and Miliband to be PM.; 10/11

Libs signing up to Labour, in your kin dreams Red Fred. What planet are you really on! LOL!!!!

http://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/574569/Ukip-in-touch-ordinary-British-people



To our readers in the North who have stuck by this paper while experiencing good times and bad, we say that this election is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to bring about a lasting difference.

Vote Ukip to strike at the Labour heartlands. Nowhere else are people’s votes being taken for granted, with so little given in return. Labour support has been handed down unthinkingly from one generation to the next and the party still believes that your vote is its birthright.

It is not. It is time to smash the Labour strongholds.

A song for Fred on Friday, a Jim Bowen classic line "This Is What You Could Have Won"

(If It Wasn't For The SNP) Playing in the background Roy Orbison .....


Dum dum dum, dummy doo wah
Ooh yay, yay, yay, yeah
Oh oh oh, oh oh ah
Only the lonely, only the lonely

Only the lonely
(Dum dum dum, dummy doo wah)
Know the way I feel tonight
(Ooh yay, yay, yay, yeah)
Only the lonely
(Dum dum dum, dummy doo wah)
Know this feeling ain't right
(Dum dum dum, dummy doo wah)

There goes my baby, there goes my heart
They're gone forever, so far apart
But only the lonely know why I cry
Only the lonely

Dum dum dum, dummy doo wah
Ooh yay, yay, yay, yeah
Oh oh oh, oh oh ah
Only the lonely, only the lonely

Only the lonely
(Dum dum dum, dummy doo wah)
Know the heartaches Ive been through
(Ooh yay, yay, yay, yeah)
Only the lonely
(Dum dum dum, dummy doo wah)
Know I cry and cry for you
(Dum dum dum, dummy doo wah)

Maybe tomorrow, a new romance
No more sorrow but that's the chance
You've got to take, if your lonely heart breaks
Only the lonely
(Dum dum dum, dummy doo wah)

Congratulations to Stuart Bingham in winning the World Championship Snooker title at the Crucible tonight. Brilliant stuff.

Indeed Exec - watched every pot, brilliant!

The Independent has come out in favour of another Conservative/Lib Dem coalition.

'Breathtaking' surge of Tory tactical votes to save Nick Clegg in Hallam – poll

Guardian/ICM findings suggest large-scale tactical voting will rescue Lib Dem leader in his Sheffield constituency

Nick Clegg is on course to be saved from defeat in his Sheffield Hallam constituency by a tide of Tory tactical votes, according to a special Guardian/ICM poll conducted in the deputy prime minister’s constituency.

The poll puts Clegg on 42%, seven points clear of his young Labour rival, Oliver Coppard, who is on 35%. Ian Walker, the candidate for the Conservatives, is on 12%.

But Clegg achieves his seven-point lead only because almost half the people (48%) who say their nationwide preference is for the Conservatives are planning to support the Lib Dem leader.

When ICM asked voters which party they would prefer if they put the local context and candidates out of mind, Labour is ahead on 34%, with the Lib Dems on 32% and the Conservatives on 21%.

Miliband to ask unions to save his bid for Number 10
Francis Elliott, Michael Savage and Lindsay McIntosh
Updated 18 minutes ago

Ed Miliband is set to hold talks with union bosses within 48 hours of the polls closing as he tries to shore up support for entering No 10 without a Commons majority. As a row broke out yesterday over the legitimacy of a government led by the “losing” party, it emerged that Mr Miliband would seek union backing at an emergency meeting of the national executive committee (NEC), which could be held as soon as Saturday, according to a member of Labour’s ruling body. Under new internal rules, Mr Miliband also needs to consult Labour MPs before trying to form a government without an overall majority. Shadow cabinet members admitted that he would need to “build legitimacy” if the opinion polls are correct and he wins fewer seats than Mr Cameron.

Haystack , how the feck is evens like 10/11 ???

Big swing to Cams over the weekend on being next PM

Milli 11/10

Cam Evens



Unless you take the worst odds going like Haystack does for one party when posting so just for you Hays

Milli 4/6

Cam 5/6

The odds on a second General Election in 2015 are falling.

This scenario I can well see happening as I believe while the Libs are led by Clegg then Labour will do no deal with them and vice versa.

Clegg gets the boot and we get a Lab minority on the second attempt but they then do a deal with Libs (other small parties agree first time round).

Who or spokesman for which party said in yesterday's FT
"Expect less from NHS. It is not an on-demand service"

===============

Who or spokesman for which party is reported in today's press as saying .....
"....... two-thirds of hospital trusts face having to make “swingeing cuts”

The really sad thing about this election is it could drag on a lot longer after polling day than it even did last time and everyone is already fed up with it.

Great article by Hodges on St Nicola







“I’ve just had a phone conversation”. He counts a beat. “Nicola is coming to visit us again tomorrow”. A burst of electricity surges through he audience.

She is coming.

The Khaleesi of Scottish nationalism is going to personally lead the charge on the final redoubt.



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/politics-blog/11581766/What-does-the-SNP-surge-look-like-up-close.html