badgerx16

I'm not denying there may be a problem, but with the sensationalist way it is headlined, and by the way dunce has edited the story to form his OP, it seem to me that it is being used to support a particular anti-muslim agenda. The actual story is that an ongoing Home Office enquiry is investigating claims that this practice may be spreading to the midlands, hardly a surprise given the prosecutions in Derby. And this story is so much of a current issue up here, the local rag doesn't have a single line on it.

Exactly. Shows how up to date the Torygraph is, printing a headline story that is 8 years old.

Clinton

handy

Ascona

We're the rural Lancashire, not quite as exotic as some of the foreign places that are being registered, but nonetheless over here.

relax

gardens

:):) Good luck to everybody else.

Fingers crossed for everybody else in this situation - I find out if I have survived this afternoon.

Babs married Jesus of Nazareth ( well Robert Powell )

maglia

snap

But do they have the same level of hysteria over the debt level that we are experiencing ?

Just take a peek at Japan.

Do you feel better now dearie ? And just to help, they are not MY union members, as I'm not in a union, and haven't been since about 1988.

So, there are no unions in the private sector, are there ? Try getting rid of that massive chip on your shoulder, being able to stand up straight will give you a whole new perspective on life.

Oscar

Real World to Alpine Saint : I was engaged in a game of tit-for-tat statistics chucking, and I am perfectly well aware of the iniquities of our 'democratic' system and it's propensity to create majority Governments from a minority share of the vote -which you would be aware of if you ever bothered to actually read a thread through, ( something that dunce, for all his faults, actually manages). And for the record I am not, nor have I ever been, a member of ANY political party. So if you've got nothing of interest or value to add, go and troll somewhere else. Oh forgot ----- FFS !

That only applies to England, what proportion of votes do the Tories get in the provinces ? Labour are always bouyed by the numbers of MPs returned by the Scots and the Welsh, and no amount of gerrymandering will alter that. It also presupposes that voter apathy doesn't rear it's head.

An open and honest admission on SWF, whatever next !

Explain the councils with 28%+ cuts in 2011/2012 as compared to 2010/2011, ( due to the 'front loading' of the 7% compounded year on year for due for the next 4 years ), and 19% average cuts across central government from April 1st. Hardly small beer.

A spell checker ?

Sometimes I wonder why we vote for any of them. They are all self serving dissemblers, whatever colour rosette they might wear.

They would have looked stupid had they won ! And remember, the CONservatives didn't win either.