lol. Look at that face.

In the dealing room here…. the cheer for Farage not getting in wasn’t quite as loud as Balls getting thrown out…. but it was still pretty loud.

Wonder if the Tories will offer Scottish Secretary post to the SNP?

No, they won’t. They get a majority, albeit slim, they will form a cabinet of tories only

You failed.

Ro5ey; What do you think will happen with regard to the grexit? Might it be as close as May 11th?

mefty – Member
Farage makes 2nd easily

Bless

For that you need intelligent argument and logic (or a leader who can eat a bacon sandwich).

Unfortunately the electorate consider these as equal qualifications.

pedantmode

They’ve been decimated

they’ve been more than decimated – that’s to reduce by 10% (after the romans’ trick of killing one man in ten as a punishment.

/pedantmode

sorry, its one of my pet peeves.

Allthepies: fair enough. True though.

they’ve been decimated

Sheesh, has no one read their latin primer this morning? Decimation would be the removal of one tenth of their force. They have been heavily defeated, routed even, and close to annihilation, but way, way more that decimation.

What have the Romans ever done for us, etc, mutter…

Oi, Smudger, what’s the Latin for fist bump?

Lots of contenders for I’m a celebrity ex politician get me a career bost.

@smudger, very interesting. Is it not to reduce 90% though, that would make more sense as to go from 10 to 9 isn’t so bad ?

No … ohnohesback… (as much as you want the end of the world… or even a just a little bit of anarchy anywhere to get your rocks off … wierd !?! )… it ain’t going to happen.

Greece has been patched up how many times now… this time will not be any different… sorry to disappoint

George Galloway gone!

In fact properly trounced? Fantastic!

@ninfan yes yes yes ! We just need the Tower Hamblets ex-mayor in jail now.

How hard is it to win a seat? Twice as easy as average if you are SNP, only 80x harder if you are UKIP. Figures from BBC results page.

PARTY SEATS VOTES VOTES/SEAT RATIO
DUP 8 184,260 23,033 1.0
SNP 56 1,454,426 25,972 1.1
SDLP 3 99,809 33,270 1.4
CON 321 11,047,519 34,416 1.5
LAB 228 9,186,115 40,290 1.7
SINN 4 176,232 44,058 1.9
UUP 2 114,935 57,468 2.5
PLYD 3 181,694 60,565 2.6
LIB 8 2,324,349 290,544 12.6
GRN 1 1,125,259 1,125,259 48.9
UKIP 1 3,785,499 3,785,499 164.4
TOTAL 635 29,680,097 46,740 2.0

@smudger, very interesting. Is it not to reduce 90% though, that would make more sense as to go from 10 to 9 isn’t so bad ?

No 1 in 10 I was wrong as I was about Farage coming third, hence my post about him coming second.

Are lollipop ladies still needed? In the 70’s and 80’s when primary school kids walked to school on their own, then yes they were important. But most kids of that age get dropped-off at the school gates now.

Either you don’t get out much, or you don’t get out much…

Usage

Historically, the meaning of the word decimate is ‘kill one in every ten of (a group of people)’. This sense has been more or less totally superseded by the later, more general sense ‘kill, destroy, or remove a large proportion of’, as in the virus has decimated the population. Some traditionalists argue that this is incorrect, but it is clear that it is now part of standard English.

fist bump – pugnus gibba

Hail fellow Pedant!

Just had a relook at the debt mountain – £1.5trillion. £500bn higher under Tories/Lib. So for lower taxes we are paying more in the future……

Another credit card economy in the making.

so if ed is going, who are the frontrunners to replace him. Yvette Cooper has already been mentioned but who else is there?

Seriously…….Tony Blair.

Oh get away – that blasted crook? A sure fire way for labour to poll no votes at all.

come on Hora – even you can do better maths than that!

of course the debt is higher – we’ve been running a DEFICIT.

reduce the deficit to zero THEN you can start reducing the debt.

the point is that the deficit wouldn’t have been reduced as much as it has/will be if we had tax/borrow and spend labour Govt meaning more borrowing in the future.

Oh balls (no, not that one, he’s gone). Labour overtook the LibDems as I predicted, but I forgot about UKIP, they’re in second place. Tory majority as huge as predicted.

Hoping the local election results don’t mirror that at all…

Before I sign off and do some real work, I’d like to remind all the tories here:

IT’S ALL YOUR FAULT WE NOW HAVE TO KEEP KATIE HOPKINS IN THIS COUNTRY.

Talk about dominatrix-fetishes, I reckon that’s the only reason they vote that way! 😉

Oh get away – that blasted crook? A sure fire way for labour to poll no votes at all.

At the very least, Mandy running as a close adviser to David Milliband.

Besides the Brits like a crook.

We won’t see Labour get in until the mid 2030’s with the other lot.

hora – Member
Just had a relook at the debt mountain – £1.5trillion. £500bn higher under Tories/Lib.

Bloody austerity hey!?!

Big increase in majority for Danczuk in Rochdale, one of the few Labour MPs to understand the UKIP threat.

Before I sign off and do some real work, I’d like to remind all the tories Scots here:

IT’S ALL YOUR FAULT WE NOW HAVE TO KEEP KATIE HOPKINS IN THIS COUNTRY.

Talk about dominatrix-fetishes, I reckon that’s the only reason they vote that way!

Stockholm syndrome ?

Farage has resigned.

IT’S ALL YOUR FAULT WE NOW HAVE TO KEEP KATIE HOPKINS IN THIS COUNTRY.

No we don’t, we’re sending her to Scotland as head of PR!

No we don’t, we’re sending her to Scotland as head of PR!

Fantastic, better get started on the Wicker Man. Is bile flammable?

Big increase in majority for Danczuk in Rochdale, one of the few Labour MPs to understand the UKIP threat.

What did he do to counter it?

Nate Silver didn’t do too well did he?

teamhurtmore – Member

hora – Member
Just had a relook at the debt mountain – £1.5trillion. £500bn higher under Tories/Lib.

Bloody austerity hey!?[/quote]One possible scenario is that with a clear playing field, the Cons may now set to work addressing this issue with more urgency – get the pain out of the way early on in their new term of office.

IMHO one thing for sure is that we have no right to expect future generations to cover the cost of our current mess.

get the pain out of the way

That’s a good euphemism for “make sure many more people die without help and many more children are in poverty”.

UKIP polled more votes than Lib Dems and SNP combined. Lib Dems close to double SNP vote. SNP about same as Greens.

That’s a good euphemism for “make sure many more people die without help and many more children are in poverty”.

£550bn spent on welfare in the last 5 years. £150bn a year in welfare going forward. Perhaps we need to spend that a bit better rather than just thinking the solution is to spend more ?