I hear they have made the consideration of banning the Grand National horse race a central plank in their platform. Good to know they have their priorities straight. :D

Hang on a minute, am I the only one that thinks the highlighted points are contradictory ??

"ON GUARD"

Looks Nigel is in a spot of trouble...

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/londo...-10172088.html

Tell you what this should put some life into this boring election. :DL


Moving on to my area I see the Cons/Lab/UKIP candidates for the GE are now posted.

Ahh, apologies I misread your original post, thanks for explaining.

I must admit I was pleasantly surprised at the UKIP manifesto this morning.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-32313965

Policy guide: Where the parties stand.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2015/manifesto-guide

I shall be reading all the manifesto's over the weekend online and seeing which party suits me. All I will say the chances of me voting Tory are not good.

No matter what Farage may say his policies are, his parties members and their policies will undermine any sincere message he has:
http://shouldyouvoteukip.tumblr.com/...t-so-bad#notes

Yeah, those are boils that will need to be lanced at some point sooner rather than later but I honestly don't believe he condones or welcomes them, rather puts up with them until they find another sewer to live in.

I have been told I missed the funny high light of the campaign so far, Cameron eating a hot dog with a silver knife and fork. :haha:

My only regret is I missed that. :/\\!!

Any how moving on, I have been out and about today and I noticed something and that something was not one party poster in the window not one party poll in a garden not one bill board poster. Too sum up a big fat zero unlike back in 2010 when you could not miss seeing these.

Whats your area like where you live?

I've seen, so far, one UKIP flag (unfortunately flying too high for me to set fire to it) and two Labour posters...in the same window.

Rather odd really considering this will be the first election my wife has voted in, and the first in a long while that my mother will vote in, although she's doing it through proxy via me since she can't get to the polling station.

Nothing here at all although one chap was flying a Union flag yesterday - I was wondering why but I now suspect it was for the release of a (Unionist) manifesto (UKIP's perhaps?). Or was there a royal birth or something?

Indeed - I don't see why not, really: Westminster can be trimmed right down to as small as necessary. There would not be that much extra bureaucracy plus there could finally be a focus on England itself, rather than the often UK / English confusion. Still, simple and obvious rarely seems to triumph.

I've seen one SNP poster so far and a few "Yes" stickers of referendum vintage re-appearing, but nothing else.

I haven't even seen any canvassers at all, either, though that might change nearer the date.:hmmm:

Mike.

Agreed.:rock:

However, too many snouts in troughs, methinks.

I'd actually make a complete change and have a completely new location for an English Parliament. Perhaps a clean break is what's needed, especially considering the state of the current building.:hmmm:

I keep seeing either Winchester or York being mentioned.

Mike.:)

I'd thought about keeping Westminster for the English parliament because of the historical associations, but "New Westminster" being somewhere further North, perhaps geographically equidistant from the four capitals (it can't be at the geographical center North / South as that's just outside of Lockerbie in Scotland).

It might help bring some prosperity north.

On the other hand, perhaps a complete break might be better.

The SNP were on fire tonight, Farage was smashed into the dirt by the ladies and Ed...god bless him, he tried, but the show was not being run by him.
I tell you, if I were north of the border, my vote would definitely be heading towards the SNP, such a strong performance not seen in a very long time.

Ed's utter refusal to entertain an SNP alliance is odd though, I think that behind the scenes he's probably either already negotiating one...or perhaps, he's putting in bids for what'll be left of the Lib Dems. Not sure that'll be enough though.

There's one more debate to be had in a couple of weeks and that's a BBC Question Time panel with Clegg, Milliband and Cameron, that will be interesting to see.

And an interesting aside for the night. Part way through the debate I made a tweet which stated that I wished I lived in Scotland so I could vote SNP, because Sturgeon was on fire and that tweet has since been retweeted nearly a hundred times and favourited over fifty. I opposed the break-up of the Union, and I still do, but the SNP has done a fantastic job in the debates, as have Plaid Cymru that I feel that it would be unfair for them not to be rewarded.

As it stands, I must admit, my voting choice has wavered a bit from Labour towards Green...I'm going to have to do some soul searching about Trident I think... :hmmm:

Well, the SNP have been doing quite a good job in Holyrood (also, Holyrood is more congenial, I think, to working with other parties) and now that the referendum has given an answer it's possible to vote for them without worrying about a break-up. Sturgeon is rather good.

Ed, I think, has to look like he's defending Labour's candidates in Scotland so cannot really say out loud "alright, we'll work with you": plus we've seen the papers and articles where "SNP MPs should not get to vote", "The Thames will run red with blood if the SNP prop up Labour", etc., so I would guess (just a guess) that he's a bit worried about a back-lash in England. Your tweet (and several others) makes me think that this might be a worry he can ignore.

Interesting times, though. If I lived in England I would not know who to vote for.

If the snp do very well in scotland which im sure they will, it wont be long before they push for another referendum. This is definately a danger for the uk as a whole especially if they have ed by the delicates.

I'm a Labour Party member and I'm not 100% sure :doh:

:)