Tamesaint

A good question. Until the list of costituencies where the pact is to take place is announced it is difficult to predict the effect with certainty but the Greens and Plaid Cymru don't look like benefiting electorally. PC may hold onto their marginal seat of Ceredigion (104 majority) without a Lib Dem opponent but as Lib Dems are the main opposition there it is difficult to see how that benefits the Remain cause. Elsewhere in Wales I cannot see how the pact gains PC any seats. The Greens presumably hope that they will gain support in their Bristol west target. They did well there in the Euro elections but the sitting Labour MP has a huge majority. Lib Dem votes there were low in 2017. So where will the Lib Dems benefit? They could hold onto their mid Wales by election victory but there are not many places where the Greens and PC were sufficiently numerous last time to make a difference. Isle of Wight perhaps but the sitting Tory there has a huge majority. Perhaps Bercow's Buckingham seat? Overall therefore, much as I like the theory, I cannot see the pact making much difference.... HOWEVER I have based this conclusion on the results from 2017. It is very possible that the Brexit debate over the last 2 years has confused things sufficiently so that everything is up for grabs.

Today of all days considering what has happened with Cairns is not the day for Tories to gloat about covering up sex scandals.

He predicts so much and so often it must be nice for him to get something right. A pity that he can't apologise for being so wrong about the Grenfell Tower victims. Perhaps he is Jacob Rees Mogg in disguise!

The Conservatives are fast becoming a weird political cult rather than a political party. True believers of Brexit are the only people admitted to the cult. They seem to be forgetting the middle of the road , floating voters who are not devout believers. I think it is sad that a broad church is now the home of such zealots. Unfortunately the main opposition party is going the same way so the choice at this election is not easy for anyone who is in the middle.

Rees-Mogg sorry for saying Grenfell victims lacked common sense https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/05/jacob-rees-mogg-claims-grenfell-victims-lacked-common-sense? .... nice to see that some bigoted cloud cuckoo land right wingers can apologise for their comments on Grenfell Tower.

I may be wrong but I thought that one of the issues was if Scotland were to join the EU they would be obliged to join the Euro. To me that would not necessarily be a bad thing but that could cause a few issues for many people !!

The BBC Have referred to "Southampton's impressively strong defence" Have never read that before.

The BBC Have referred to "Southampton's impressively strong defence" Have never read that before.

I have never read so much pony in my life. Clarke. An extremist !! He has voted more often for Brexit than Johnson. You really live in a strange world.

Another Trot sleeper who infiltrated the party. It's a good job that Johnson is playing a blinder and sorting them out.

Yes. There should be no place in the Conservatives for closet Socialists like him. He may have been in the party all his adult life and a Conservative MP for decades but he is clearly a Trotskyist sleeper who has infiltrated the party.

Shhh. Don't tell Duckie but at the same time as they leave the pinkoes are returning to the cult. 10 of the 21 extreme Socialists expelled from the sect a few weeks ago were reinstated this week.

But Gavin is a multi multi millionaire. He is richer than even you. I thought that being a multi millionaire excused everything in your eyes ... even flunking your A levels and going to Pompey Poly.

I agree. He was on celebrity pointless the other day.He has eaten rather a lot of pies!!

Come off it. He only called an election because he had lost his majority. If he had the same majority as Brown he would never have called an election.

I am concerned for Duckie. He may be a right wing extremist but Saints need every supporter we can get.

Well said.

You come over as very bitter. What is the matter ??

Boris let 10 of them beck in yesterday. Duckie and GM must be foaming at the mouth.

What??? You mean that the OP was wrong and he was spreading nasty baseless rumours. I find that hard to believe.

We drew the second half one all!! Not much of a consolation I know and man city had their foot off the gas and had their reserves playing but be grateful for small mercies. I think that most people would have accepted a 3 1 defeat before the kick off. We need to beat Everton a week on Saturday. Everything between friday's final whistle and then has to be designed to ensure that we can beat Everton. If tonight has restored a bit of confidence and self belief which will help on Saturday week then I am content.

Who has woken up Guided Missile and Wes? They have suddenly got verbal diarrhoea. It must be half term at Pompey Poly.

You have to have a thick skin to attend Pompey Poly. In fact You have to be pretty thick to attend Pompey Poly.

Semantics. The man told everyone that we would leave on 31 October. In the Tory leadership election Hunt said that we might need longer than 31 October yet Johnson rubbished him. Clearly Hunt was right and Johnson wrong. The man has failed and only blinkered fools would try to argue otherwise.

That's not fair!! He was about to get on the plane to Vietnam where he would have been incredibly brave when he got an attack of bone spurs in his heels. No way could he fight suffering from such an awful complaint. The war went on for another 7 years without Trump. It would have been a lot shorter if he had been there. Is there any truth in the rumour that bone spurs in your heels can cause dementia in later life?