Oh tally ho! the tories are putting fox hunting  high on their agenda,along with hunting poor./disabled/ill folk...fookin' bastards.

I don't claim to be an expert but round here Prison is about overcrowding, drug smuggling, forming new gangs and learning new ways of commiting crime.

Much like schools then.

Nigel Farage is to remain as UKIP leader after the party rejected his resignation.

Which is strange because I'm sure I read that Suzanne Evans was the new UKIP leader. In fact I'm sur I copied and pasted it here somewhere.

 

Edit: Found it....it's on the 'Election fix' thread.

One long weekend in and already beyond parody!

Cameron will tell the NSC: “For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone.

He might have worded it differently!!

Er, there's both numerically and percentage-wise more Labour MPs in England than Scotland.  The SNP are responsible for the UK having a Tory government.

 

Scotland put on the blue and white Braveheart facepaint and went to the polls and got a Tory government. 

 

What did they think would happen in England?  That the English be absolutely fine with the SNP testing a potential Labour government to destruction as part of its nationalist agenda?

 

If Scotland wanted to leave the union they should have had the bottle to do it when they were polled.  That would have brought down Cameron.  The Scottish electorate have become Cameron's best friend. Don't blame the Labour Party for Scotland's timid conservatism.

 

The Scots thought they were so clever and left wing getting rid of the 'Red Tories' well now they have the real Tories.

 

What the dickens are you on about? No matter who might have won the 59 seats in Scotland, the fact that in England enough people voted Tory to give them a majority - so the Tory government is down to the people who voted for them. If people were stupid enough to fall for the Tories' lies then that's THEIR fault, no-one else's,

That's absolutely true EFFT!

However, outside the box, Murdoch has played a blinder with his puppetry. We fell for his lies and didn't get Labour in. You fell for his lies and got the SNP in but they don't have any power or influence. The Tories can do anything they want.

I don't like this comment Fluffers ... two well respected, well liked FMs have stated in here that they voted Tory and I don't it's fair of you, or anyone, to publicly call them stupid.

 

I know politics are an emotive subject but ...

 

 

Brian May making far more sense (IMHO) than Labour leadership candidate Tristram Hunt on Question Time, babbling on about aspiration, like a Westminster crypto Tory suit.

 

 

What a coincidence! I'm in bed now. I switched off immediately after Tristram mentioned the "A" word. Absolutely no idea.

Many English voters specifically said they were not voting Labour because they feared the SNP would test any Labour government to destruction as part of their agenda for Scottish independence. 

 

The SNP came down to Westminster and started Tweating like teenagers on a school outing to see "Sunshine on Leith".  They couldn't believe their luck. 

It's so banal, isn't it?  'aspiration' has become a code word that means doing nothing about social injustice and prizing power for its own sake.  Tristram wants to serve two masters, but you can't.

 

 

You summed up exactly how I felt about those pictures.   Cringeworthy.  I take comfort in the fact that at least I didn't help them get there.

I don't even like Queen or Brian May's guitar playing at all, but make this man Labour leader!

Is he a member?

Nigel's making sense on the voting system.  It can't be democratic that Ukip get far more votes than the SNP but only 1/58th of their seats. 

No Rexi, I think maybe you're misunderstanding what I mean. I wasn't intending to suggest that everyone who voted for the conservatives was stupid. I'm sure that many of the voters for any of the parties voted for sound reasons'. I was responding to the suggestion that many people were pushed into voting conservative because of a possible 59 SNP MPs.

Don't know!  It's an indictment of Labour that a millionaire pop star is more in tune with the realities of this country than a Labour leadership candidate!

I think the jury is out on that one. I would have preferred them to get no seats at all. Both of 'em in fact!

Brian May considers politics   Posted: Thursday 5 Feb 2015       QUEEN star BRIAN MAY is considering a political run as an independent candidate at the upcoming general election. The guitarist's agent Phil Symes tells The Mirror newspaper the 67 year old is frustrated by "a system that he sees as failing the electorate" and he's hoping to "re-establish common decency in our lives, work and Parliament".   May previously expressed his political interests, stating he had grown disillusioned with politicians and adding, "I believe there are good people currently in Parliament, of all political colours, MPs (Members of Parliament) that deserve to be returned in the next election. But there's also many people in there dedicated to hanging on to old unfairnesses, powered by selfishness and vested interests, and this element is what needs to be thrown out with the dirty washing."   A staunch animal rights activist, May has tackled government policies against a badger cull and a bid to bring back fox hunting.

Piers Morgan with his bullshit anecdotal 'chats' with taxi drivers, barmen etc on aspiration on "This Week"

 

The only contact the likes of Piers Morgan have with the working class are those who drive them places and serve them food and drink.  Just a thought!  Maybe those taxi drivers and bar staff want a tip?

 

People like Morgan want a Labour Party that they can feel comfortable and self righteous about voting for, safe in the knowledge that Labour will do very little or nothing to roll back inequality.

So would I, but only in the event of no one voting for them.

Right! I'm out of here. Carnelian! I appreciate what I'm about to say may cause a Brentford v Ipswich conclusion, but in the event of mutually pleasing results, are you going to Wembley?

I hope to but I'm not a season ticket holder.  Despite being a NCFC 'super member', I couldn't get tickets for the Ipswich away nor home leg as they sold out within half an hour.  I'll definitely be there if I can get a ticket.  I think it will have to be an early morning queue outside the ticket office as the on line site just ground to a halt.

Ah, I see, thanks

 

Mind you, I suppose it comes down to the individual's perception of sound reasons!

Haha....there is that!

 

I wonder what he said to get that type of reaction!

 

 

 

 

He probably told her the amount of redundancy payments they can both expect, over £64,000 each amounting to over £10 million in total

I have made a right (Ed) Balls up   

Disgraceful isn't it Squiggle? 

Yes it certainly is moonie, as always heads they win tails we lose.

 

it applies to them all though Moonie...this is the first time I have seen one MP named, although every MP across the commons gets it..... I just don't get the media reporting in this country..well I do, but that's another matter. 

 

 

The lady in question is Andrea Jenkyns and is single.

 

 

Who ever get where our media is coming from at anytime Dameee?  

That 10.4 million figure actually works out at 47k for each of the 218 MPs concerned and I believe that they have to turn over some of that for staff costs and so forth.

47k is nothing in pension terms. Most of us average workers in industry or local authorities would have received at least that sort of amount as a lump sum having built up pension pots of several hundred bags of sand.

it does stick in the craw though that the Tories have done everything they could to retain their pensions but attempted to ruin everyone else's jobs, contracts and pensions.