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Of the 13 ( ! ) party affiliations stated for my region, at least 8 are immediately discounted due to some fairly obvious core policy disagreements, so it may have to come down to where I can most effectively place a 'protest' vote to block one of them.

There would be less 'wastage' if the politicians could resist interfering just because they need to be seen to be doing something. The number of policy changes, initiatives, and guidelines issued in the Health and Education sectors is mind-boggling, and much of this involves contradictions and corrections being introduced in attempt to put right last year's big plans, which have not been given enough time or attention to bed in and show a benefit.

But surely I should only vote if I support and believe in the party and it's policies. And that assumes that such a party has a candidate in my constituency. Voting simply for the sheer hell of it, or God forbid because it becomes compulsory, is worse than saying 'none of you lot are fit to get my vote'.

To do what exactly ? Form a BNP / UKIP / Greens coalition ? When it comes down to it, of the 35% of the total electorate who will bother to vote :30% will vote for the donkey with the blue ribbon, 30% for the donkey with the red ribbon, 20% for the donkey with the yellow ribbon, 10% for a minority donkey of their choice, and the result will be decided by the remaining 10% of lower middle-class, self interested, swing voters. Me, I'm thinking of the 'none of the above' option.

Either http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirque ( Coombe, Cwm, or Corrie ) or a member of a Scottish folk group.

"One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn "Candide" by Voltaire or the one that got my teeange son into the habit of reading 'proper' books "Brighton Rock" by Graham Greene

Yep, that's me. ( And stop calling me 'Honey' ! )

There might well be a few current MPs getting close to this already

FWIW, my two rabbits are called 'Hazel' and 'Geoffrey Boycott' - ( true ! ) Oh, and getting back to the point of this thread, my favourite animals are Killer Whales: Beautiful, sleek, intelligent, - and bl00dy deadly.

Well, I for one 'ain't gonna work on her farm no more'.

Monday morning feels so bad, Ev'rybody seems to nag me Coming Tuesday I feel better, Even my old man looks good, Wednesday just don't go, Thursday goes too slow, I've got Friday on my mind

I thought HE couldn't be named....

Or lunch.......

Better that they fit into your stew pot

Young rabbits are called kittens. HTH

WOOT, a win !!! Bring on the ockers.

A Police helicopter circling over the end of the M55.

The things that rankle most, for me, is not so much the value of the expenses and allowances available to MPs; it's the fact that they have exempted their benefits from tax, ( payable by everybody else in the country ), and tried to exclude the fees system from the Freedom of Information Act. I heard a radio interview yesterday with one of the lawyers who worked with Heather Brooke, the Guardian journo, on the FOI case against the Fees Office, ( which was the real precursor for the Telegraph stories ). At the end of the High Court appeal against the disclosure order, which the Government side quite rightly lost, the question arose as to whether the Government should be liable for costs, and for how much. HMG's lawyers argued that they should not be liable for full costs. The Judge asked why, and was told that "We should not have to pay the full amount, as our case was so weak from the start the other side should have realised and convinced your Lordships to shorten the hearing". The Judge responded that this was probably the worst line of argument anyone had ever dared to present to him, and awarded full costs against HMG.

8 - ABBA, The Day Before You Came 10 - Billy Joel, Piano Man

Not the Lady in Red ?

Good call. :smt098 Helsinki would be my alternative, but probably a bit too pricey.

"Browser" but not bothered registering yet. Mine is an Octavia TDi, mainly due to doing @22K miles per year, mostly on 'A' class rural roads. Had it for just over 3 years and the only fault has been that the radio needed a recall for a software upgrade. Average mpg approaching 60 My wife's car ia a Fabia with the 3-pot engine, though my son seems to think it's an MR2 when he's driving it

Welcome to the club

Do the Tories not have morals then ? That explains a lot The Tories being in it solely for themselves.:cool: A SOCIALIST understands the need for money, they just feel that it might be more evenly distributed. Cameron is merely demonstrating he is Tony Bliar's true heir - the king of the opportunistic soundbite.

Since when were the current Government socialist ?