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.

Only just Hilary4/5 Conservative majority.13/8 No Overall Majority.not exactly a certainty.Cameron is just as much a liability to the Toriesas Brown is to the Labour Partythe one difference is Labour have no options.also Vince Cable convincingly won the Chancellors TV debate Alistair Darling was second by defaultdue to George Osborne thinking he was in a boy band.

A majority is a majority and it doesn't really matter by how much, Tabster. They need 626 seats for a majority.

Betfair today are calling a 56% chance of a Tory majority and are suggesting they'll get 333 seats. That's fluctuated between a 50/50 call on budget day, and a 62% chance of an outright majority around a week or so back.

If you like looking at charts, it's also evident that the Betfair Tory downtrend which has been in place since February has now been broken to the upside.

Thanks mnamreh - A few years ago, post retirement, I was invited by an enterprising teacher to visit local secondary school and offer basic guidance on financial matters to volunteers in their lunch break. Their ignorance was quite frightening. Other side of the coin is that I cringe if I pay in a cheque at my bank and am asked ( by someone who hasn't got a clue, but is told to ask me) if I know what to do with the money.

Hilary,

Your phantasies are interesting and seemingly fascinating to yourelf. Firstly pointed "willies" and especially mine and then Sheep@shagging.

I would suggest rereading all your posts and check some of your statements.

I would consider being careful when trading or driving.

Have a nice day.

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UKIP, be careful the tories are coming!

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Tabs,

What are the odds to-morrow?

Only asking 8-)

"They need 626 seats for a majority."

326 seats actually, I think, Hils. :-)

I was talking to someone the other day and they said how important was the vote from the armed services and not to forget it. It could swing things in one hell of a direction.

Today the Lib Dems produced their manifesto promising all of our military 'risk takers' a nice pay rise, together with a credible proof on 'how' and 'with what' this and other goodies were going to be paid for.

I think thing are still up for grabs and the Lib Dems are going to take a bigger share of the vote as time goes on and things get nearer to Election Day.

Both Nick Clegg and Vince Cable have done very well today and so have the Lib Dems.

There are a lot of undecided people out there, including myself, and this whole thing is going to go down to the wire. If we get a hung parliament, which is currently the favourite thing to happen, then deals are there to be struck. The Lib Dems have got some sensible entrenched key points to do their deals with.

I was interested to hear Clegg's views on 'jails and sentencing'. He seems quite strong on a solution to solve fact that "92% of offenders only get short sentences and then, having been sent inside for a 12 weeks holiday (or even less!), where they learn a bit more on perfecting their crime skills, they come out, commit another crime and then get sent back to jail. Clegg's strength for me, was on just how to go about doing this without building even more jails. He actually has a well thought out plan on it.

Personally speaking, I'm quite fed up with the red or blue 'voting promises' fiasco, which we've had for the last umpteen years, with its unfair taxation, poor solutions to the crime and education problems, and also a whole lot more and I actually fancy and am up for a bit of a change.

Well spotted, Doc.

:o)

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PartridgeI have a friend whos son had a job with a very well known Big Bank in the Green Park areahe was literally persuaded/told to get rich foreigners to sign up to various schemes that he knowingly ripped off the customerwhen he questioned the Banks actionshe was told in no uncertain terms to carry out these instructionshe also told the Bank in no uncertain terms to hire a crook if they wanted to commit crimehe maintained his integrity and leftthe Bank found a crook to replace

tab..your friend's son had courage and youth on his side. Suspect that some decent people who have been there many years suffer a crisis of conscience as they cannot afford to go elsewhere.

Exec,

8869 interesting post.

Would you like a 12 week holiday in one of HM rest homes or prisons?

One of the problems with policies are delivering the changes suggested.

But one of my gripes is that we have had too many changes in too short a time and it would be more sensible to allow things to bed down and then make the smallest changes to improve functioning.

I think the constant changes have been the cause of much dissatisfaction, disharmony and "air" of resentment in the public services.

Excellent posts Hilary. Everyone wise and intelligent.

The banks shuld have definately been allowed to go bust. Brown has engineered the bigest bust in the history of our country.

The pseudo-intellectual Guardian reading idiot Fred is the type that got the country into the mess it is in at present.

On a lighter note:



I just applied for a Planning permission for a new house.



It was going to be 100 ft tall and 400 ft wide with 9 turrets at



various heights and windows all over the place and a loud outside entertainment sound system.



It would have parking for 200 cars and I was going to paint it snot green with tatty pink trim.



The Council Planning Department told me to clear off.



So I sent in the application again, but this time I called it a Mosque.



Work starts on Monday ......

PS, That is why I think the current "policies" on schools and police forces, advocated by the tories are daft.

This is me ,very funny , but unfortunately would be the case .

This-is-me.

Spot on yet again.

Tabasco.

You say re Gordon Brown, "there could still be a future for him in waiting as a Catholic Priest". True but the difference is GB has shafted just about everyone, whereas Catholic Priests have only (OK you fill in the rest).

TIM,

I am not certain whether you are a member of the BNP, but with your obvious intellect and leanings, I am sure Nick Griffin could find a useful position for you.

I would think you would feel at home in their company.

Buy the Guardian and expand yourself, it is better than comics.

The Guardian is for those who consider themselves superior but who, in reality, are incapable of recognising where there is a false premise (often hidden) to an argument and where the logic is flawed. Your cheap shot about the BNP merely demonstrates the truth of this. You have also, almost certainly, failed to recognise that the current success of the BNP is due to the fact that the majority of the population agrees with their immigration policies and not those of the government. They know this even if you do not, and this is why they mostly only talk about immigration. Try reading The Sun; at least they keep it simple and you will not have the wool pulled over your eyes the way the Guardian does.

Saint Vince Cable is a dodgy political economist too. Until 2008, he was a fierce advocate of joining the Euro -- which would have done for us for sure. Seems he changed his mind in the last two years, figuring that control over our economy, particularly interest rates, was what saved us from complete disaster.

Which is what the rest of us knew for years before.

Let's face it folks, this wreck of a corrupt and incompetent government has to go. The only credible alternative is the Tories. All this mindless wishy-washy, dewy-eyed chatter about how wonderful a hung parliament would be would die on the mornng after when the UK's credit rating gets downgraded, and the BofE has to raise domestic interest rates to deal with the debt interest crisis that then ensued. We'd be in the shit with Greece.

Tim.

With regards to P8881.

I am surprised if your first sentence regarding the Guardian has much if any truth in it, and that if it does, I would have expected you to be an ardent indiscriminating reader of it.

The remainder of the posting again contains sweeping statements about public opinion in a similar manner to the way the BNP broadcast theirs.

I dont think the general public are in agreement with your positioning, or that of the BNP., although there are recognisable problems with regard to past and present levels of immigration, some of those relating to the current economic circumstances.

(The solutions suggested by many of that ilk are simplistic and pay no attention to the diversities and complexities of the problems. Also, they do not reflect the possible responses from other countries.)

As far as reading the Sun is concerned I will leave that for you, it seems a suitable level for you. Enjoy it.

As far as my reading matter is concerned, I havent bought a copy of the Guardian within the last 2-3 years.

I have read extracts from the Guardian on a few occasions, but these were either on the Internet, or when they have been sent to me by friends and contacts.


As far as cheap shots are concerned, I refer you to you previous postings.

Have a nice day.

Fred ,,i think it was meant as a joke (TIM) ,lighten up man ...
As it was i thought it was a funny joke ,,,,,,,
This thread used to be so much fun ,,got a bit too political now ....