Sergei Gotsmanov

I actually agree with Clyne. He has done enough to be picked for England and not getting a game sends out all of the wrong messages - the team is picked based on which club you play your football for. That will be proved when he leaves and becomes an England regular.

Great story that. Proper person.

There will of course be boundary changes to cancel out Labour's Northern 'bonus'. That is worth 20 seats apparently. There is of course Scotland and I cannot see how they will not vote tribally from now on. We will however all be sick of the current mob in five years because that is how it normally works.

I suspect you might actually be right!

Apart from in 1992 when he attracted more votes than any other leader has ever achieved.

Very jealous. Lovely part of the world. Enjoy the red squirrels.

Rarely agreed with him but he was always articulate when arguing that bears don't **** in the woods. Lets hope his forum absence is short term and he can use his time away for a period of contemplation and a hair cut. I concluded he was alright.

Probably wants to run for Mayor

The biggest issue for the reformed southern State would be immigration.

I know but he comes across well and principled, is not a career politician and has served his country. He feels right and somebody should be speaking to him. Andy Burnham is too much of a Union man and has the baggage of Stafford. Chuka comes across as too metropolitan (hardly going to win Scotland back) and a career politician with an eye for himself. Yvette Cooper has probably lost her appetite for politics. Liz Kendall I have no idea. Could be a surprise.

So that means Andy Burnham will not win then? I would persuade Dan Jarvis to stand. He seems to have a lot to offer.

So what would happen if a local coffee shop had displayed a blackboard asking people to admit to voting labour so they could pay 20% more to subsidise other people's coffee and to pay for the extra business costs associated with new regulations and taxes? The sign would be vandalised and 'Tory Scum' scrawled on the door. The local student Union would announce an immediate boycott and demonstration. Customers would be given leaflets by scruffy looking middle class students who in-between yelling abuse at customers and staff organise a smear campaign on social media using the latest top of the range I-pads and i-phones . Martin Freeman announces that he will not use the coffee shop again before it emerges he has shares in Costa and has been drinking in Starbucks for years. The coffee shop eventually closes and two hard working and decent Poles, a Latvian and a Romanian lose their jobs.

A modern day case of the Wilmslow Boy. I think that legally if on probation he has no rights. This is however not about being late or sloppy it is about an accusation of dishonesty. That is a considerable slur on your poor son's reputation. Do not play the little man and walk away. Demand to speak to the manager who has made the allegation and ask him to provide his evidence. If he cannot then substantiate the claim then that is really quite shocking. The public are outraged by miscarriage of justices and I would point out that you will be taking this to the media. Maybe set up a facebook campaign to highlight their behaviour. Oh and when you contact the manager start to the phone call off by telling him that the phone call is being recorded for legal purposes. He will take you more seriously.

Not sure the opening line was called for. You can dislike big business but still understand its value to the national economy. The strength of small business's is how many there are and their power at the ballot box. There are over 5m of them - upset them and that is a lot votes. Part of Labour's downfall was their resentment and lack of understanding of business in general. It is reputed (but quite possibly Tory propaganda) that Milliband went to the FT to seek in endorsement. The FT is quite pink politically as well as on paper and based on the Europe referendum it was not out of the question that they would back him. That was until Milliband asked why companies have to pay shareholders. Until Labour become business friendly again they will not be electable. The Tories will change the electoral boundaries which will cancel out their historical Northern bonus, while the Scots will vote tribally until they are given the chance to discover the shortfall in the budget. If they lose the next election that will mean that in 2025 they will not have won an election for twenty years. In reality of course they will win again and a good job too. Stability is great but governments need freshening up every few years and the electorate will allow them to shift back to the centre ground and vote them in possibly sooner than you would think.

What the left will not understand is that small business hate big business more than they do .

I think we found out who the real Muppets were on Thursday.

I would suggest that the 'tractor building' wealth creation model you put forward has been demonstrated to fail. I think that if 1% of the population pay 27% of the taxes then you should try to turn the 1% into 2% and you will raise even more taxes and have even better public services. The price you pay is that there are lots of very rich people. The point being that we can both have differing viewpoints about how to realise the same objective of good public services. Yours is left of centre mine is right, that does not make me a c***t'.

Well clearly they are intimidated and that does not reflect well on the left. There is actually an argument that the more wealth you create the more you have to spend on public services and the more you borrow the worse austerity you will have in the years ahead. I subscribe to that argumen but did not go and scrawl Labour scum on all the Labour signs that I saw.

Just pointing out why the polls were wrong. Would you disagree?

People shake their heads and wondered how can the polls have been so wrong? The polls were wrong because of a campaign of intimidation and bullying by the left that genuinely frightened people from admitting they would vote Tory. You would expect it from Mugabe's Zimbabwe but Britain? How many Labour signs did you see vandalised? Ironically the SNP had a similar approach in Scotland and the referendum poll was also 5% out. Who really is the nasty party?

I quite like Clegg. History will be kind to him.

Its a bit like being lectured too about the dangers of smoking by somebody you know to be on sixty a day.

Capitalism has taken far more people out of poverty than socialism could ever dream of.

Its cynical because he did not raise it at the time and has waited until an election to do so to try and link the tragic migrant deaths to Cameron. In fact his view at the time was; “This is an important moment to recognise the National Transitional Council and their role in taking Libya forward and we’ve got to be led by them. It’s very important that Libyans determine their future.”