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So that makes it alright? Maybe if someone was ****ging Sam Cam and blackmailing Dave they should be invited too?

The Tories are accused of being too London focussed and out of touch with Scotland and the regions. Cameron then promises to govern for the whole country. One of his first steps is to invite the Mayor of London to cabinet meetings. Not lots of Mayors, just London. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-32658697

We do have maple syrup here you know. Re Grand banks - absolute and utter ********. The collapse of the fishery was entirely due to overfishing against all scientific advice.

I agree totally with this. Legally he has no rights, but the company must follow their own procedures, if they dont you have a lever.

Maple syrup and seal clubbing

Im not saying they were centre right. My point was that some voters arent very sharp. They'll buy anything as long as the packaging is good.

Actually its their policy. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/debates/11523763/Nicola-Sturgeon-says-SNP-prepared-to-vote-for-full-fiscal-autonomy.html

It didnt matter so much when we had a 2.5 party system with the winner getting 43% or so. Now with four or five national parties a winner takes all system where 37% is enough makes the case for electoral reform more pressing imno.

Thats how he won Labour three elections - getting Tories to vote Labour because he wrapped it up and spooned it in the right way. Miliband couldnt / didnt want to master the same trick.

Yes but those small businesses account for less than half of employment and one third of private sector revenue so in value terms the private sector is dominated by big business. http://www.fsb.org.uk/stats. The problem is that as all organisations get bigger they get harder to manage, less efficient and less entrepreneurial. A public sector organisation with 10,000 staff is little different to a private sector one of the same size. Ive had BT broadband for 6 years. I changed my contract two weeks ago to a different package. Instead of simply doing that in minutes by a data entry on a account management system they made 8 separate mistakes: 1. Sent me two home hub 5 (£100 each) instead of 1 2. Cut off the broadband 3. Randomly changed my phone number 4. A week later cut off my phone 5. Sent a engineer to install a router "because the home hub 3 you have needs a router" despite the fact they had installed a router three years ago and anyway the new hub they sent didnt need one 6. Sent an engineer to "fix the problems you have been experiencing" (ie reconnect the broadband they shouldnt have cut off . He apologised profusely but said he couldnt do the work because all of the 10 available connections in the street cabinet were blown because of lack of maintenance. 7. My BT TV order was never processed. 8. Eight different call to customer services mostly ended up in India who transferred me at least 10 times and cut me off five. They just came out with nonsense "your account is not with BT", "you have no phone line", "you have been cut off because you havent paid the bill", "Its not working because it takes 48 hours to settle down" and never actually resolved anything at all. So for £15pm on a 12 month contract (grand total £180) they have sent two engineers to my home and one to the exchange. BT staff spent a total of five hours on the phone. They sent me £200 worth of equipment and £140 in Sainsbury and Next vouchers. How is that efficient business? I have never dealt with a public sector organisation anywhere like as a bad as BT, or Tiger sheds in Yorkshire.

No no you haven't understood Whitey's and Wes' mentality. In the private sector they are dynamos on performance related pay, in the public sector its bloated fat cats. The CEO of the trust I used to work for earned, for managing 10,000 staff and a budget of £1billion a year, around £230,000pa. For context thats a bit less than than a couple of the doctors who worked for her and less than a partner in medium sized London law firm. She lived in Oxford because she couldn't afford to live near the hospital in central London.

Independence or nuking Glasgow. Im an undecided.

Not sure. I agree with your earlier post - people make a protest vote to influence mainstream politicians, but they arent stupid enough to actually put them into power.

She didnt swallow. Not much of an ad for Sprite.

Interesting table. The right / left balance wouldnt have changed much under PR but the seats would have done.

I think hes right. The next five years are going to be very tough and whoever was in government will end up unfairly getting a real kicking for dealing with the deficit (in the absence of rapid economic growth).

They got around 50% of the vote, which isnt too disimilar to the referendum result.

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Its more to do with presentation than actual policies. Ed allowed himself to be seen as a bash the rich leader put in place at the behest of the unions.

There is a visitor centre there. Supposed to be good. http://distillery.bombaysapphire.com/the-distillery/laverstoke-mill

Okay the polls were spectacularly ill informed, not Hutch!

It was always going to be a tough five years in government for whoever was elected - mostly scrabbling around to find cash to cut the deficit and dealing with the fallout and getting kicked rather than taking the country in a new direction. I seriously doubt the Tories will get re-elected in 5 years time, just as Labour wouldnt have done.

This. You can be a progressive alternative without being a 'left wing' throwback

or believe the date they texted you.

Having seen a lot of interviews with SNP politicians over the past 24 hours Im not surprised they did so well. People who speak well, answer a question directly and apparently honestly and mostly are elected for the area they come from. A real mix of Scots from different backgrounds within a single party. Not the bland clones the Tories and Labour have turned into. I have respect for maybe only 6 of the 60 or so people on the front benches of the four main English parties combined. If Labour want to regain respect and support they need to ditch their candidate selection process which rewards long careers behind the scenes as an activist and start advertising in the press for candidates - "This is what we believe in you. If you agree apply to be a candidate". You cant persuade voters you are competent if the best your representatives can do on camera is ramble and be thrown by simple questions.