Lord Duckhunter

I've never understood why this is perceived as a Left/Right issue. The US as a nation are amongst the most right wing people in the world, on the other side of the coin Countries like The Netherlands and Sweeden have monarchs. For me the left like to tell people how to behave,they like to rule every aspect of your life.Whereas I believe in freedom for people to decide themselves. It would be a bit bizzare to believe in a free market and then back an insitution like the Royal family.

I think it's his best solo effort to date, but like all his solo stuff his voice lets it down a touch. Steve Winwood and Clapton feature on it, so all in all I'd say it's pretty good.

Got hold of my first new CD for about 15 years, (are people still using CD's). Robbie Robertson's "How To Become Clairvoyant. The great man's first offering for 13 years.Got the head phones on, glass of wine in hand....Nice.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edTvD4XW8Po&feature=related

If we cant beat one of Plymouth away or Walsall at home, we dont deserve to go up.

Us, Town and Brighton are heads above any other team in this league. All 3 deserve promotion.

A few flag waving stalkers and Lady Di fanatics is hardly a celebration. Most people used it as a **** up. If St George's day was a Bank Holiday we could all have a **** up then. My choice would be Independance day, the day that the Heredity privilege was ended and England joined the grown up nations of the world, where every single English man and women, was born equal.That would be a great celebration.......

Just had a text from my Huddersfield supporting mate. He hopes they lose, he cant see us not picking up 6 points in 2 1/2 games when we're 2-0 up in one of them. He reckons they'll beat Brentford next week and he doesn't want to go into the play offs on the back of a 24 game unbeaten run.He wants a defeat out of the way before proving their the 3rd best team, strange but I'm hoping he's right.

I've no worries on that score. You dont get to be a top player as Poyet was without being a bad loser. Neither he or his side will want to lose today, however sides with nothing to play for do tend to relax and even the top sides ease off once they've won the League. Brentford with nothing to play for, or Brighton with nothing to play for, both are beatable and should be put to bed if either us or Town deserve promotion.Plymouth and Walsall are slightly different, they have something to play for. If Town win and we lose, it wont be down to Poyet or Brighton.

I think you're on to something here. Let's get the majority to decide who becomes head of state. We could call it an election, and vote every 4 years.

I bet the French weren't jealous. They can have pride and patriotism in their Country without the need to be subjects.

Great point well made. Monarchists seem to want to choose our head of state on the basis of who brings in the most money. I found yesterday embarressing to a modern nation.The number of chumps who commented "This is what Britain does best",made me cringe. I tried by and large to ignore the whole thing, but some of the people I did see interviewed in the nights leading up to it, were definitely stalker material.If that's what Britain does best, then god help us. In 200 years people will look back on our social history and wonder how we ever allowed ourselves to get like this.Us Replublican are like Charles Darwin, banging our heads against a brick wall of "tradition", but like him our views will become the norm as time goes on. I refuse to sing God save the Queen at any event or occasion and will continue to do so. They need to go and go now.

I find it very strange that we invade Iraq and Bomb Libya, in the name of Democracy and yet our version of it, has a family ruling us on the basis of their forefathers being Saddam Hussein like, hundreds of years ago. Perhaps we should have let Saddam become King of Iraq and then in a few hundred years, his loyal subjects will be cheering and fawning over his relatives. I love England but can not believe in 2011 that we still let ourselves be subjects and are considered commoners. I dont hate the Royals, but I hate all they stand for and the sooner we become a Republic and every one is born equal, the better.

The Greens fielded only 28 less candidates than the BNP and got approx half the BNP's vote. People always seem to think that the Greens and "good" parties will get proper representation under PR, but in fact the BNP are far more popular. Based on the last election and the European election results UKIP & The BNP are under represented compared to the strength of their vote.

Correct, the lie that the yes people are clinging to was that Davies would have won the leadership. He would not of. Party rules are that the membership decide the leader after they are presented the MP's 2 favourite candidates. Which ever way the 2 candidates were given to them, the result would have been the same. Under FPTP it would have been Davies, Cameron. Under the system that they used it was Cameron, Davies. The membership decide who is leader not the MP's.

Under PR (which most supporters of AV want in the end) the BNP would have the 5th most seats in a uk Parliament, behind UKIP and the big 3.

I understand what you’re saying now. If you reduce the electorate to 198 and discount 198,000 of the votes and then run it as FPTP then Davies would have won. If you did the same with the Labour Party then David Milliband would have won. One of the reasons I am against AV is, if you reduced the vote in Barking to 198 white racists and then ran the election on an AV basis, Nick Griffin would have won the seat.

I still cant understand how you can fail to grasp the facts. Cameron won the only members vote by over 60,000 and only lost the first MP's votes by 33, how on earth would Davies have won one big FPTP election?

There were 198 MP's who voted. There were 198,844 members who voted Cameron won 134,446 of the members votes. How would Davies have won if there was just one big FPTP election, bearing in mind that Davies won just 33 more votes in the first round. Unless you think that MP's alone should elect leaders. In that case Ed should stand aside for David. Let's hope the rest of the voters aren't taken in with these lies as easily as you seem to be.

What on earth are you on about? Please explain how Davies would have won. "replace all the rounds including the membership bit", what does that mean?

Why are people taken in by this lie? Under FPTP both Cameron and Davies would have gone forward to the membership. The membership voted 62% for Cameron.

As a democrat I assume you will accept the outcome of the vote.It will be the opinion of the British people, where it matters, in the ballot box .

Elliot Morley would have won his seat under AV, he won with 53% of the vote.So how on earth is AV going to clean up politics? Why do people on here keep reapting the Yes to AV lie that David Davies would have won the Tory leadership under FPTP? It is not true, Davies and Cameron came first and second and therefore went to the membership. If the Yes to AV people want to clean up politics they should start by not telling lies themselves.

For the last time, the Tory Party does not use AV to elect it’s leader. The Leader is elected by one member one vote from the party members after the MP’s have put forward 2 candidates. The 2 candidates are not elected by the process being proposed now. The reason for the preliminary system they use (which is different from any election system proposed by any party), is because of damaging splits in the past. The party decided to use a complicated system to whittle down candidates to 2, which involves multiple votes by the MP’s. It is because the leader will need the broad support of all MP’s to run the party in Parliament, without that their would be terrible splits and briefing against the leader.The final vote is a run off, one member one vote.

He should go private, he can afford it. The money spent on his op could then be used by the NHS. Bloody annoys me that rich politicans from both parties use the NHS because they feel it's politically right to do so . The more people that go private, the more NHS money for the rest of us.

But Labour dont use AV, PR, FPTP or any sort of vote to decide which candidates go through to their members votes. You just need X amount of nominations. In a parliamentry election the preliminary process is ten parliamentary electors of the constituency put you forward. The preliminary process for the Tory party is decided amongst MP's. The full vote is One member one vote. You can complain about the Tories not using FPTP for their preliminary, but if you do that must surley complain that Labour dont use their favourite voting system during their preliminary process, or indeed their full election (they allow certain members 3 votes,but dont believe that's right in a general election). You have been taken in by the Yes people's lies. Under a preliminary process of FPTP David Davies and David Cameron would have still been the two to go through. David Cameron would still have won,In the One member, one vote election that followed.