margun

Okay so I made the fatal error. After clearing the 4ft wall of bubbles from the kitchen, what do to make the dishwasher clear of fairy?

As others have mentioned, it's coal unless you're soft and a 'Weber One Touch Premium' will see you right. I have cooked/smoked all sorts (beer can chickens, brisket, pork shoulders) with the lid down indirect cooking method with great results.

Perhaps you all mistook his "resign" for "re-sign"?

Remember it's VE Day today. Even greater cause for celebration!

Because of the way our first past the post system works. Constituency boundaries in Scotland are drawn in such a way that they capture more seats for fewer votes. Needs reforming in some way but I can't see that happening without a fight from various quarters. Overall a blinding result. Conservative majority predicted, UKIP third largest party now by vote share, lots of big names made unemployed and likely resignations from Milliband and Clegg.

Duplicate post.

He'd be better off resigning as leader, ousting the awful Niel Hamilton to become chairman and making way for Suzanne Evans or possible Carswell to lead the day to day stuff.

Hi FM, I understand where you're coming from but need to point out a couple of things. Firstly you are right there are a lot of bone idle Brits who are perfectly capable of doing the jobs that are taken up by immigrants. UKIP should focus on this group first- perhaps immigration would drop naturally if less opportunities were available because the natives already had them filled. However we are in a cycle where the genuine home grown good eggs are competing for ever lower wages with people from other countries with poorer economies, where their money will go further so they can afford to accept lower wages. Of course this suits you and other employers, but it doesn't help with solving the depressed wages issue. Result: increased immigration and proportionally less tax income to support those who would work but find they're better off on benefits. I don't know enough about universal credit to comment but suspect it'll not fix this elephant in the room. I personally do not feel threatened by immigration due to the nature of my work but I take a wider view that if the depressed wages issue for many is not addressed then we all have a problem in ever increasing welfare bills (paid for by taxes). Solutions from the mainstream parties that do not involve national bankruptcy, immigration controls or vote losing acceptance of long term lower living standards aren't exactly abundant. Also your comment about the NHS collapsing overnight without immigrants is absolutely right. Except UKIP do not pledge to bar skilled immigrants from coming so it is a flawed argument. M

I agree at face value with this, I saw some figure somewhere that UKIP could take 14% of the popular vote but only claim a small handful of seats, whereas the SNP could clean sweep in Scotland and hold the balance of power with only 4%. However if we moved to proportional representation then future election results would be skewed in favour of high population areas like London. So we would have the liberal luvvy moss knitting Guardianistas calling the shots. Sounds like a case for reducing the amount of constituencies in Scotland and increasing them elsewhere, but can you imagine the stink that would be kicked up by parties with safe seats in those areas?

I agree with this completely. It isn't so much about how many seats a minority party wins, as our FPTP system won't allow it. Same applies to all minority parties. It's more about voting for who best represents your views (not tactically) and nipping at the heels of the establishment. UKIP has been growing their percentage election after election. Even the Greens could show an increase in percentage. I predict UKIP to come second in many seats, which will frighten our illustrious leaders. But it's their fault that we have a divided society. To me it represents decades of weak leadership.

More left wing ********

I don't think people are hoodwinked one bit. Our country is fragmented in its politics sadly and the main parties are to blame. The SNP and UKIP may not have risen if Labour and Conservatives had not tried to be all things to all men. Bliar moved Labour to the middle as did Camoron with the Tories in hope of securing three terms like his role model Blair. I view SNP and UKIP as the natural home of die hard Scottish Labour and Tory voters and both would fade if Lab & Cons concentrated on their core votes for a change. Picking the good and bad parts of each party will get us nowhere because under our electoral system and current diverse political views we would (and probably will) end up with perpetual coalition.

Lol!

My reasons for moving from Con to UKIP... I lost my patience with the Cons over their policy of perpetually inflating house prices through various means. It's a mask for a ******** economy not to mention my own selfish position of being unable to afford to buy a decent family home despite earning a pretty decent salary. My parents generation were able to buy a substantial home in a nice area on one reasonable/average salary, 25yrs ago. Sure immigration plays a part in supply and demand but nowhere near the effect of Government and bank policy of over lending and providing constant props like H2B to hold prices up. Free market my **** they can't afford to increase interest rates of do anything to adversely affect house prices. I admit, UKIP doesn't offer credible answers to that one but neither does anyone else. Labour presided over the rapid house price growth in the naughties, plus they're socialist so fundamentally against my politics. Also, I dislike Cameron personally. I see him as insincere, pretending not to be as plummy as he really is. He is lying to us / kidding himself over Europe. Angie and Juncker keep telling him that no negotiation is possible on the key areas he wants to negotiate (namely borders and movement). A pretenderendum won't do in that case Dave. He has failed in several other policies, the national debt doubled under this coalition and he still tries to tell us that they've done a good job on the economy. Printing money, lending it and calling it growth isn't growth. It's fake. Investing in infrastructure and industry to make stuff to sell to foreign lands is growth. UKIP, whilst being too immature a party to be credible, represent something different. Populist perhaps, but I find myself agreeing with a huge amount of their policies. Best of a bad bunch.

We build all of the above (admittedly not commercial passenger ships). However in terms of warships we build some of the finest vessels in the world. We have a manufacturing and engineering industry to be proud of technically, volume lets us down. In terms of defence there are some rather powerful countries who would love to get their hands on our technology ;-)

Vote UKIP

SNP are an extreme version of socialist Labour, who could do a deal with 'red Ed'. Like I said, if Labour get in then crosshairs at Scotland before UKIP voters.

We will be well and truly chuffed if Labia get in, just as we were when they finally got booted out last time. However I don't agree that UKIP voters will be the reason if they do. Tactical voting (for Tories rather than UKIP) was proven wrong at the last by-election where labia snuck in at Haywood with a handful of votes over UKIP with Tories quite a way behind. If those Tory 'tactical voters' voted UKIP then we could well have seen a demolishing of Labia. Obviously I assume there were a fair chunk of tactical voters. Also Scotland delivers a disproportionate share of Labia votes because 'that's who they vote for'; enough to swing things more than UKIP could. I would direct the flack at the Scottish if Millipede reaches Number Ten before putting the crosshairs on UKIP voters. I was always taught that if you don't vote then you can't criticise the Government. I'll take two biggies from this election- be able to criticise because I didn't put the Government into power, with head held high for voting who best represents my views.

Nigel for me. Snap ITV post debate poll of 1000 viewers put 21% equally to Cons, Lab and UKIP. I just find it incredible that there's so many Labour voters out there.

None of the above. Clegg is more feminine.

She's lovely, I wouldn't even come up for air!

This is an interesting thread. Until recently I was (for once) genuinely struggling with who to vote for. From a narrow field of course. But the recent allegations and developing information about the Westminster child abuse scandal has changed my mind. All major parties implicated. Cameron and co. keeping a lid on things for fear of damaging the election. Therefore in my opinion anyone with any shred of decency should hang their heads in shame for even thinking of voting for any one of the established parties. Their morals clearly lie with election chances over the most abhorrent of criminals being brought to justice. Either spoilt paper or UKIP for me. The rest are dog muck.

As with any business, money speaks. Especially when the recall programme would make the Toyota brake problems pocket change in comparison!

People in my industry (avionics) say the same. Poor cockpit culture. 447 as a concrete example.

Agreed. If there was a genuine problem then the guys name has been smeared. I think 'the officials' must be sure enough though.