OldNick

Fair point, but it depends how the question is asked, there might not be a no, but a list of choices.

A bit dramatic Thorpie. Policemen dont come out and sort out problems now.There is no way that Cancer departments will be cut. Anyone here who works in the NHS will be able to recount many stories of complete and stupid waste. That is what needs to be looked at. Silly things can make a difference. Schools can also make savings.When i was at school (early 70's) we had the power crisis. It was drilled into us to switch off lights when we left the classroom, to write to the bottom of the page and on both sides during the paper crisis. That may seem small savings to budgets but if teachers felt that these small inconvieniences to make savings meant they would still have a job it would focus their minds.The public sector have been lazy in looking at these things as in times of glut they forgot the little things. These little things can be done at all government levels, drive past government buildings and see all the lights burning away with nobody in the building. It is of course not the full answer but start at a level all the workers can help with and that will go a long way. Public sector pensions is another area that is not fair to the wider public, and it is not right that I and others will have to work longer to help pay for those unrealistic payments

Mike, he is cutting waste not just staff. Im sure you see in your work lots of places where money can be saved, without losing lots of staff. If your department can become more efficient, use less materials and wastage you will be ok. In business you have to look at costs and there is so many bad practices that waste you and I as tax payers money.

He thinks he has been reinstated at FP

He has done what is right for his party, as they will get a different voting system. Longterm that is good for his party.

So do I. From Camerons speech , he his going to look after the needy frail and old, but the shirkers and leeches will be sorted. I truly hope that the coalition is strong, and a little of the worthy part of the left can join the worthy part of the rights beliefs, and we as a nation can move on stronger.

Cecil Parkinson didnt have any protection

Hypocritcal as usual

Not at all, you could argue that 100% or 0%.

I dont think that is correct. 30% didnt vote, and so you can't put them in your figures.

yep a load of ultra left wing out of work lay abouts. They would hate Brown as he would be seen as right wing in their eyes

You must move in some odd circles then. A man who took us to an illegitimate war. Lol

That is a bit harsh. He like Blair have a false reputation of providing the golden years. He after all saved the world. lol Go to America and they adore Blair when the majority here dislike him.

Pompey fans are part of the commitee. My brother was a creditor when Bournemouth went into admin and got nothign back as the majority were Cherrie fans and so wouldnt do anything that would hurt the club.

He is gone, and I wish him well where he can do some good.

In denial Lol

If we hadn't had Thatcher we would never have had the golden years ,that her tough decisions laid the foundations for. She took the nation on when we were in disarray. Years of the unions having too much power took its toll. The unions are important to stop employers taking people for granted etc,but they cannot use that strength try and bring governments down and destroy the jobs they were supposed to be protecting. The BA dispute has shown old practices that go back to the 1930's have no place in the cut throat modern world.

has anyone got Avrams league record this season?

I might put you on the wing in one of my fantastic tactical changes. We have to keep them guessing,

time will tell how funny it is

I should have put forever. It would be interesting (not possible of course) that once a coalition is formed that their policies then be voted on, as nonoe has voted for the combination we are going to be saddled with. The hunger for power is evident and the small nationalist parties wil be rubbing their hands in expectation, as we the English will be paying a ransome to get their vote. John Reid and Blunkett have come out of all this with honour IMO.As they have stated it as it is. I hope that DC has the common sense to put a halt to all this and cut Clegg adrift. Already the thought of a coalition with the LIbs is causing rifts in the labour party.The Scots labour mp last night said he would not sit down with the SNP, and so Cleggs hand is not as strong as he thinks. Let him jump into the pit of snakes with the lovely sounding rainbow coalition, but Bungle Jane and freddie might end up having a massive fall out. That will leave DC to come to power with a proper working government in 6months time.

I have always wished for saints to have a proper kop end. I doubt the Kop or the Stretford the Holt end would be so intimidating if the away fans were next to them. If you go to a game so you can spend most of the time facing the away fans so you caqn look hard, then you are wasting your money. As an exercise go to another part of the ground and you will see that the away fans diffuse the home fans singing due to thir noise being a barrier. When i have been in the iTchen oyou cant hear the Northam if the away section is large.We have diluted the strenght of our support by our insistance off ahaving to stand next to the away section. A nonsense IMO

On consideration, the PR system i assume would not get tactical voting. The Liberals probaly would have got 10 seats less had that not have happened. The nation has to think this through before dropping something that has been tried and trested for centuries. If we are likely to get more situations like this one, in the first past the post way then I think we do need to change. The danger is that whoever is power will put forward a system the disenfranchises perhaps a third or more of the electorate. To me it is a nonsense that labour needs to get less votes to get a lot more seats and the Liberals get less for more. I do understand their frustration, listening to the journalist from De Bild last night was very interesting. He was quite scathing about PR and said that with the first past the post government the rest of the world knew that what the government said to them they could be confident they could carry it out. Wheras he said that with a coalition it was fudge. He gave the impression that he thought it would be a mistake, in a global sense to our position in the world. All in all it is a copmplex issue that most are not qualified to understand.That is a danger as the masses will not be interested in reading up about the different systems and could be hoodwinked into voting for something they are not sure of. The classic for me is the way Heath through stealth got the nation to vote something in as a trading agreement into the EU. The result may have been different had it been spelt out by the politicians at the time.

Perhaps we have more foresight.Realistically though I think that we see that the nation is on the brink.We have seen the excess of Labour spending and the debt has to be started to be adressed this year and now not next year. What you should really take on board, if times get really hard the weak and poor get hurt most and so it is in their interests that a Tory governemnt gets a grip of this. Labour can only borrow for so long until people lenders say enough is enough and wont lend any more. Then we will spiral. All the money that is spent by the government has to be paid back, and so the longer you put it off the worse it gets