.....* backs out if thread *

* sits on hands* ....and reminds Dame she wasn't going to get involved in election

I find it extremely insulting to be honest Velvet 

I don't .....* runs* 

me too...but I'll just think it  

Steven Goode @stevenjbgoode  ·  Apr 2

Well done @Nigel_Farage & @UKIP - once again, you have shown up the Westminster massive with a TRUTHFUL performance . #farageforPM

Fair enough, although I think you might find that the SLP are actually "Cameron`s little helpers" They voted for the Tories 30bn cuts. They voted for the welfare cap and there was a no show by them on the vote for the scrapping of the bedroom tax. They will pay for their betrayal in May. 

I’m already preparing for the horror of another 5 years of Tory rule.

Me too! I'm scared! 

I have just been listening to a Labour shadow-under-minister for housing speaking about their proposed help to buy system.

Couple of things that had me puzzled.

1. They seem to be relying on the banks to use the cash to help finance the building of hundreds and hundreds of homes. But we all know the banks are about profit and it benefits them to have high priced homes as they attract more profit through mortgages. Also it would appear that this is voluntary on the banks part! 
2. The saving scheme itself starts this autumn and based on the example given after 6 months of saving and gov contributions a saver will have around £600. Over the course of a potential Labour government the saver will have around £5000 saved. To me unless you are a strong saver and have plenty to save, this scheme seems rather weak.

Of course I have no alternative solution, well, not off the top of my head anyway.

Is Nichola Sturgeon wearing a wig?  Not that there's anything wrong with it. Just wondered. Maybe she just has very thick hair cut in an odd style?

*pulls own wig straight* 

Just joking 

*passes Moonie her wig glue*  

Cheers Rog  

Anytime Moonie  

He's getting desperate!

PM pledges 'paid volunteering leave'           

Fifteen million workers would be allowed three extra days of paid leave to do volunteering under a Conservative government, David Cameron says.

It has been niggling me for a while. I could not remember why I had such a dislike for the SNP nationalists in particular even though I have a healthy zero tolerance for Nationalists in general. A side effect of ageing I suppose. 

I'm indebted to yesterday's correspondent in t'Manchester Grauniad.

1979....... Thatcher calls a vote of no confidence in Callaghan's Labour government. The parties line up behind their favoured leaders, and the 11? SNP support Thatcher. Callaghan loses by one vote. The rest is history.

i do hope we get sufficient MPs for a majority as a grass roots member I hope we have nothing to do with them.

One can only hope. 

Quite telling how our non-dom foreign owned free press flew into a panic over non-doms.  It must amaze most people that non-dom status can be inherited. 

The Mail, Telegraph and The Sun, typically jumped to the defence of stinking rich tax avoiders.  The Sun, that likes to style itself as the paper of 'white van man', always jumps to the defence of big money.  Not many white van men with non-dom status. 

The Tory on Question Time last night just couldn't bring herself to speak out against the ludicrous practice of hereditary non-dom status. Who is she really working for? 

Isn't it funny that the Sun and Tory Party, style themselves as speaking for the aspirational hard working and middle classes, yet stand behind old money establishment privilege every time.

How many times has Cameron used the fairness argument, stating that certain things aren't fair on hard working tax payers, when it came to slashing benefits.  Yet when it comes to non-doms paying little tax while PAYE workers pay their full whack, fairness no longer comes into it. 

Desperation on top of desperation!

"Labour is pledging one-to-one midwife care for women during childbirth in its health manifesto for England.

There is an element of making things up as we go along but. 

Yup, my sister has just said the same.

It reminds me of an episode of 'The Vicar of Dibley'.  David Horton stands for election to the local council.  Prior to the election he showers the electorate with promises.  These pledges rain down like confetti.  Once elected he reneges on all of them (apart from the one that will benefit him - a new golf course)

Hi Garage Joe, will you be canvassing for Labour?  I intend to.  It's the first time I've got involved.  I couldn't really get fired up by Blairism.  Brown was little better but although a fair improvement, still had the whiff of neo-liberalism about him.  Suffice to say, I've a lot of time for Brown and if Brown were still PM, the country would be a lot better off than under the current clowns.

I haven't been more positive about the Labour party for years.

I voted for Andy Burnham in the leadership election but Ed was my second choice and preferred over his Blairite brother.  I'd rather Labour lose and be led by Ed than win and be led by a Blairite like David Miliband.

Hi! I have done three leaflet rounds so far and have "vote labour" boards. On my journeys I have spoken to people, but in general leave the canvassing to the experts!! I have the facts but not the charisma!

My constituency is the sixth Labour target, we only lost by 300 votes last time. We always go the way of the largest party.

Ironically a guy with whom I get on very well, a fellow season ticket holder who travels with me to the games, performs the same local duties for the Tories. We were discussing the plight of the UKIP candidate. Their supporters seem well established as armchair activists, but he has had to deliver his own leaflets right across the area. Anyone else seems an also ran.

I voted for Red Ed (sic) twice in the hope that he might turn out to be red!

He is 'redder' than Labour leaders since Kinnock.  May prove to be redder in office or another Blair - worst case scenario.  Thatcherism/neo-liberalism has failed the country.  Something Blair couldn't see as its failure wasn't totally obvious in pre 1997.  It wasn't until the banking crisis that the left realised that Thatcherite trust in the self righting nature of 'the markets' was a sham.

I voted for David (although my trade union clearly favored Ed)… and back in 1994 after the sad passing of John Smith I voted for Margaret Beckett over both Blair and Prescott.

Although my party membership has now expired I am currently receiving requests from both national and local levels to give support. Having done some leaflet distribution last time around and only achieving 3^rd place; I think I will pass this time around.

Have always voted Labour in the past but, sadly, have become increasingly disillusioned with them. 

Considering voting Green this time around

The Leader Interviews - tonight it's Nick Clegg.

The Cleggatron is looking really tired in the face. Politics takes it's toll on a politicians looks.

It's interesting that the only party to doorstep me is the Green Party. Tonight actually.

I don't think labour can be bothered because they are pretty strong in my area.

The Conservatives don't have a cat in hell's chance.

The Lib Dem's, well not too far off Cleggies constituency and they are looking like a wounded animal right now.

Who else is there? ...goes to check.

UKIP?

Not even on my radar. But yes, thanks for the reminder.  I'll not bother updating my list. 

Wash your mouth out with soap and water   

On my radar, in the sense of "look at that on my radar, we need to blow that to pieces"

Look at this lot of elitist arrogant ****s!  You really think any of them give a damn about this country or you?  They are the born to rule, the old school tie, the drenched in establishment entitlement.  The job reference from Buckingham Palace to get Cameron a job!

What went so badly wrong with this country that we can have a PM, a chancellor and the mayor of our capital city from the same obnoxious sneering drinking club?  A club where an initiation rite was to burn a £50 note in front of a homeless person.  To trash restaurants.  To shove their privilege in the face of others less fortunate. 

And they're our most senior politicians.  People with a mocking contempt for almost all of the electorate they profess to serve.

I can see that they are lined up in a quasi 4-2-3-1 line up but who is in goal?

Um... You do know that's a photo of a bunch of actors who played the Bullingdon Club members for a C4 show, don't you?

http://www.theguardian.com/pol...eron-bullingdon-club

Here's the real photo: