General Chat

Me too Kay, I am just buying more shares in gin manufacture :-D

RolloTheRed Report 3 Jun 2017 16:57
Paddy Power have a hung election at 7/2 which sounds a good bet for a monkey. See you can have a prezzie even if Dermot won't shell out.
According to PP 87% agree with Rollo. OTOH Rollo is a proven disaster at the bookies.

A hung result could be entertaining.

The SNP have destroyed Labour in Scotland no love lost there.
Callaghan was propped up by the Irish who then whipped away the ladder. The Tories won't repeat the mistake.
The LibDems won,'t promise a rose garden again.
Another election impossible.
Also impossible to govern as a minority with a hostile opposition.
So .. Labour - Tory grand coalition. Such a left right coalition has worked out fine in Germany. No wonder May already has the knife out for Hammond.
Just a thought.

Well I'm glad I didnt have a flutter on one or 2 of your pedictions....... :-D

:-D :-D :-D

...not just me, then, Sue?

Gin talk?

WHAAAAATT?

Sorry, didn't understand a word of that.
Never mind.

Amenti caeca humus nimia est verisimile

Well, aside from suppositions - and there has been a lot of suppository - sorry suppositious posts on this thread over the past week or so, we shall have to wait and see what the 1922 committee comes up with.

Rollo....how come you can never read or fully comprehend what anyone else ever says...oh hang on you'll say it's because we all talk what was it piffle?
I've always said for any of the elections in any of the countries don't assume you know the result until the votes have actually been counted.

Ah but some people never think they'll go down again only upwards :-D

I am reminded of the saying about " being kind to the people you pass on the way up - you may pass them again on the way down" :-)

Speaking as a person wanting reason in the UK.

Why can't we all agree to disagree and stop pulling both leaders of the top parties apart and knuckle down to getting on.

We should all get behind the Government and give the Conservatives a good chance of negotiating Brexit .

Please don't let this post get any nasty remarks as it won't make a blind bit of difference.

Well one thing about our Pm she wont have to meet MR Trump now. Oh dear he isn't coming to the UK until he feels people will welcome him :-D ;-) are you all upset now :-( He could have come to Scotland & had Dinner with M/s Sturgeon :-D

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-andrew-marr-general-election-theresa-may-labour-conservatives-a7784201.html


Not only that he wants another general election!!!

How much does it cost to run an election these days?

As nothing is final it'll be interesting to see how the next few days go won't it.....

I'm sure you have bob :-D :-D

Oh, so I'm silly now. I have been called worse.

Pretty sure; and can't be bothered to waste time and check; you said before all this hit the fan that you'd be ready to jump over to France first chance you got Rollo...hardly sticking it out with the plebs is it.

Didn't I read somewhere that dear old JC is going to try and stop the Queens speech getting past so he can form a Government....up to at least yesterday he was saying quite clearly he can form a Government still the people have backed him to do so!!

Ruth Davidson for PM?

Workable,,,,


yes workable.

if you have a problem with that then suffer it. rolly.

Because she is weak ( and weakened) Supercrutch, you will note I did NOT say that the Conservatives as a whole shouldn't be "given a go", as they keep reminding everyone they got the most votes, but I do not believe she is strong enough to deal with Brexit.

If she hasn't even the wit to consult her own party before announcing a manifesto that was cobbled together without general cabinet approval ( apparently) and seemingly designed to lose a good section of her own party's core of voters along the way, then how is she going to negotiate with a much tougher crowd ?

Genuinely, whatever party she represented I don't think she has the qualities to hack the job, certainly not in a time of economic and social change. To be fair I think it would be one hell of an uphill struggle for anyone.

Edit PS

" Am I in favour of the tax payer funding 'the study of the evolution of the Dandy comic? Errr answers on a postcode. Give bursaries to those studying Math, Science and Teaching (repayable if they give up on the course)."

I notice you didn't include Politics :-D But yes that would seem fair, except that I would say any subject that broadens the mind and increases intellectual capacities is not wasted.

Why shouldn't Ms May be allowed to 'give it a go'? The Tory party won the most seats, agreed not an overall working majority but far more than Labour.

How is Corbyn going to fund his minimum wage? SMEs will be choking and so will their businesses. Where is the money going to appear from to scrap University fees? Do students still grasp that they will have high living costs? Anyway devolved Governments may well have different policies (Wales do). Am I in favour of the tax payer funding 'the study of the evolution of the Dandy comic? Errr answers on a postcode. Give bursaries to those studying Math, Science and Teaching (repayable if they give up on the course). Don't put all students into the 'useful' bracket because some of them certainly aren't.

Where will the money appear from to build the promised 100,000 plus new houses per annum? Borrow, borrow, borrow........let's leave huge debts for our children/grandkids to repay through taxes in a decade or so.

Today I have been watching really nasty remarks spouted by the two main parties to score personal points, that's both sickening and very unhelpful.

Every public service has problems with funding, since when that has been an historic subject of discussion? Let me think? at least 40 years to my knowledge.