General Chat

Nope,only the posts you reported G007 :-)

RR I think you have deleted quite a few of your threads too.

G007/ Graham Heather I would seriously doubt, given how many threads you have deleted, that you can remember WHAT you said ...half the time you don't seem to remember your own name...after all you've already changed it twice on this thread alone ;-)

The big question: who will become the next Labour Leader ? I think Y.Cooper would be a good idea, time the Labour Party had a woman has their leader. Who do you fancy as the new leader, and if you have any other views on a new leader, post them, thanks.

Guinevere, did I say Nigel would be an MP, don't think so, however, he wasn't far away from being one. Plus UKIP came second and third in many places, so they picked up many votes.

Nicola Sturgeon is selling a dummy to the English with consummate political skill in much the same way as an Irish fly half will take the ball from the scrum and coast through the lumbering English defense.

It is not in Scotland's interest to separate from the UK - that much became clear during the referendum ( I'll not repeat the reasons). Equally it is not in England's interest to cast off Scotland for different but related reasons.

Nicola though is managing to terrify the English into the fear that they might. This would have a horrible knock on effect on the English world position - UN seat, G7, credit rating and would make any sensible defense of the islands next to impossible.

Nicola intends to exact a high price for doing what she will be forced to do anyway i.e. stay in the union. Her price will be to run a counter domestic policy completely at odds with UKGov but funded by the English taxpayer.

There is no way to break out of this circle within the current messy arrangements financed mainly through Barnett. The UK will have to adopt federal arrangements not the sticking plaster of "English Votes for English Taxes" proposed by DC.

Meanwhile as the Chinese say you cannot ride two tigers at once. Nicola will find riding the tigers of Holyrood and DevoMax at the same time a very difficult trick. Things in Scotland under the SNP are not all hunky dory and Labour's Jim Murphy will make sure that this is well understood. Holyrood has proportional voting so the SNP cannot collect > 90% of the seats there with only half the vote.

The English should calm down and set the pace - slowly.

fwiw all the reasons which made a UK/Scotland split a really bad idea apply in spades to leaving the EU.

for once I agree Dermot ;-) ;-)

( did i just type that) ;-)

'Alas! Elections are mere cosmetic exercises in musical chairs. We are simply replacing the faces, yet the music remains the same'.

I think there will be another Referendum .to try & separate Scotland from England .Nicola Sturgeon is like a Rottweiler .with a bone hope she has her own teeth .she will need false ones before she is finished chewing at the government ;-) :-D

UKIP might have only got 1 MP; but 12.6% of people that voted, voted for them. Compare that to the 4.7% that voted for the SNP and look at how many seats they got.

I don't agree with GH; but some people obviously do. :-(

GH, you said Nigel would be an MP. So you were wrong.

You have banged on about UKIP constantly, don't try to rewrite history, people copy your threads because you delete when you're losing the argument and we all know the truth.

If people agreed with you there would be more than one UKIP MP.

Didn't you promise never to post here again? Several times.

Regarding UKIP votes, I think they were so concerned about letting Labour in through the back door... thought best to vote Conservatives, however, I bet a lot of them agree with the UKIP.

bob talks a lot of sense, and spot on about Ed Balls.

Guinevere, I said some good things about the UKIP, but never said they would form the next government... so I'm not wrong. I was mainly refering to the Labour Party with my posts on here, in the past... and I was right about them. Seems the people of this country agreed with me, well, many of them did.

Thank you Bob that's Better photo :-) well cabinet reshuffle .another 5years of Mr C. hope he looks after our country now .& keeps his promises ? Thanks for your comments :-D :-D ;-)

Before the election Dave Cameron's coalition government had a majority of 73. Through a curious act of political cannibalism the larger part of the coalition ate the other part.

Now Dave's majority is 12.

Terrific victory welcome to 1992 and all that.

I was glad to see that Ed Balls lost his seat. He spent all night in denial regarding the exit polls. I bet there will be dissent in the Balls household now, as his wife kept her seat. LOL. Perhaps he could become a house-husband.

And Labour aren't out - they weren't in in the first place. That was the Tories. :-S

Where are the hosts of UKIP MPs ? Thin on the ground.
Has brave Dave invited them to join the government benches? No.
What has happened to the UKIP demand for an in/out EU referendum now? Vanished like the melting snow.
What do we know now ? That around 10% of the country are idiots - you can work that out anytime you drive down the M6 guess the same people ( you know the ones who sidle up the emergency lane in jams) vote UKIP..

So other than representing the Tendring area of Essex ( not the most prosperous or dynamic part of the SE to say the least of it) what will UKIP do next? Where is the money coming from ?

Nigel seems to have the right idea, going south.

I didn't make any predictions about the Labour party, GH, but I did say that Nigel wouldn't get elected. I was right, wasn't I? And you were wrong.

To be fair Nigel is a man of his word and he resigned.

I respect a man who keeps his word.