tom_widdows

Thats one way of putting it However based on results in 2010 a coalition government that didn't involve the tories would have required the following Labout 258 Lib Dem 57 And then minimum 11 seats from the following parties so you would end up with a minimum 4 party coalition DUP 8 SNP 6 Sinn Feinn 5 Plaid Cymru 3 SDLP 3 Green 1 Alliance 1 Independant 1 Lib dems whores you say? Or was it sheer laziness on behalf of all the parties and the wish to avoid the potential powderkeg of picking say the SNP, Plaid Cymry and just one of the Northern Ireland Parties?

The reasons for them going tits up can be argued long into the night - Being naive and too eager for power to read the fine print? - The UK public not understanding the concept of an uneven coalition (5 Tories for every 1 Lib Dem) and presuming both Lib Dem and Tory policies would be implemented (even through they contradicted each other) - Not having the balls to stick to their PR voting system policy for future elections and then being extremely fucking lazy and naive in the corresponding alternative vote campaign (Way too easily stitched up by both Labour and the Tories on that one) - Being shite at dirty tactics and waiting till now to 'leak' unpopular and controversial tory policies (Cameron and Co would never have walked away from this coalition so Lib Dems could have stuck the knife in years ago) - Not having the balls to say 'ah fuck right off we quit. Call another election right now' My point is if you are an SNP voter who is expecting a Labour/ SNP Coalition and will turn nasty if a Conservative/ SNP appears on May 10th they why bother voting for the Nats in the first place? You either want a stronger Scots Nats voice at Westminster or you don't. If you think a coalition which is minimum 4.5 labour-ites for every 1 Scot nat is going to be any fairer in the negotiation stakes then think again. The tragedy of the FPTP system means we will always end up with tory or labour in some way or another and as has been suggested before they are essentially as bad as each other. We had the chance to change this 4 years ago but the great British public happily voted to keep the status quo. It actually made me want to strangle a friend of mine when she said she had voted against changing the system because 1) 'I want everyone to have just one vote so the government is always chosen by the majority of the UK 2) 'The other way seems way too confusing and I dont want the hassle on polling day' She looked a bit perplexed when I pointed out Labour had formed 3 previous 'majority' governments with less than 45% of the vote ie the majority actually voted against them. I then asked how much hassle she had during the Scottish elections but she chose to change the subject

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An extremely depressing suggestion. 'I'm right behind ya Nic.....whats that....you'd do a deal with thatcher's crew? Fuck you ya turncoat.' If it turned out to be true it would say a great deal about the SNPs current increased support ie they would rather sacrifice a shot at actually having their party influencing the UK parliament just because of their potential Bed Fellows. Are we destined to see another party in Yellow go tits up over the next 5 years? But then again so many people vote with their gut which is why the press still have so much influence. Anyway had to put up with the SNP 4x4 megaphone driving past my office on numerous occasions and they were in full tartan shortbread tin mode with their little campaign desk outside Partick station. As with the referendum they seemed to take one look at me and suddenly they werent handing out leaflets or talking to people. I'm starting to feel like Bill Hicks with the right wing christians

Almost £5k raised in just over a week https://crowdfunding.justgiving.com/BonAccordHeritage Think the old £2 gym & swim wont be on the cards if it re-opens but hope it all goes well and they dont flatten it for another shite office block or hotel

Bournemouth CHAMPIONS!!! Sheffield Wednesday shaft Watford the same as they Shafted Bournemouth 2 weeks ago

Blackpool game abandoned after pitch invasion. Their owners make Romanov look like mother Teressa Brentford heading for the premiership playoffs unless Derby can find 2 goals in the next 7 mins and in lighter news Falkirk 0-3 Hibs Hearts 2-2 Sevco Queen of the South Vs Sevco coming up next Saturday Cowdenbeath heading down to League 2 and livi somehow staying up

By 'barring' people does that mean they can be removed from the stadium and told not to come back? or does it mean they are not allowed to buy anymore overpriced watered down booze at half time? Football violence isnt the only issue with booze at the football. There is a point where it is fucking irritating to have someone who doesnt know when enough is enough and you and several others are unfortunately stuck next to them. That goes against the 'family' atmosphere they claim they want. However short of breathalysing every single person at the turnstiles I don't see this making any impact other than making a fair few volunteer stewards say 'fuck this I quit' Police and government really want to make a difference with alcohol then I say they would need to start targeting the weatherspoons of this world who blatantly ignore the supposed laws regarding continuing to serve people who are intoxicated. A 'brave' notion could be to restrict each customer to a max of 2 alcoholic drinks per sale (a much stricter version of the Kiwi stadium booze rules that were in force when I lived there) and banning the night club practice of selling bottles of Wines & spirits to customers thereby effectively killing the 'round'. Cause extremely long queues, be about as popular as a thatcher impersonator at a Ravenscraig social club and the breweries and pub trade (and tax man) would have a fit but personally I think it would be interesting to see if it would made a difference to the booze culture?

If Labours ratings are so bad a deal with the SNP may not be enough to get the majority. SNP can only get a max of 59 seats which would leave Labour needing 267 to get for a 2 party coalition majority. The quote from Ballot Monkeys keeps ringing through my head "They're all tossers. To win an election, you’ve only got to convince people that your tosser is less of a tosser than the other lot’s tosser.”

Ben E King 76 years old

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Is anyone really that surprised that the 'neverendum' (as jim murphey called it) is the main topic the Main UK parties are bringing up? I could be very wrong but I think in the back of Sturgeon's mind is 'how long will it take a fair chunk of the people who have suddenly joined our party/ are claiming to be out to vote for us to turn nasty if we haven't negotiated another referendum within x number of years?' Personally their candidate in my constituency really haven't impressed me at all. Based on her profile she has the life experience that is mandatory for anyone to get my support but to date the only contact I have had is a letter telling me to object to a 'new' recycling plant down the road in the industrial estate - its actually an extension of an existing plant but you need to either look at the planning application or know the company to know this. This letter was left outside my door (not posted through the letter box for some reason) along with a general SNP leaflet which mentioned the SNP 'invest in our traditional industries like science, innovation and engineering, while at the same time promoting new emerging sectors like renewables, the creative sector and life-sciences.' The extension to this recycling plant is supposedly going to use new gasification technology to create both cheap electricity and heating to the local area much like similar plants currently in operation in Austria and Sweden. It will also almost double the amount of construction industry waste which can be recycled in the city. The irony of the situation. As for the other candidates Lib Dems - Guy is in his early to mid 20s and according to his info has spent most of his adult life either learning about or being involved in politics Cannabis is safer than alcohol party - Pointless in FPTP Conservative - Slightly older version of Lib Dem Candidate Communist - Just a step above the Cannabis lot IMO Labour - Current MP (has been for 15 years) and based on his background (ex BT Engineer) he at least qualifies to be a politician in my book. Green - Retired teacher who spent 20 years working in the East End of Glasgow. Much like Labour guy she appears to have the life experience which should be mandatory for any politician Only the Labour and Greens are fielding the same candidates. If the opinion polls are correct the SNP are going to snatch the seat from Labour. If so that is a hell of a swing. Labour took 54% of the vote in 2010. Lib Dems -16%, SNP -15%, Tories 10%

unfortunately its clashing with more important stuff Cars that Rock with Brian Johnson

Another example of SPFLs short sightedness about the whole situation. Last season I suspect they were so confident hibs would stay up and that yon blue meanies would never in a million years be struggling for promotion through the common method of playoffs that they said 'aye let yer season ticket holders in for free' 12 months later and the issue comes up again but now there is a precedent....and we all know what happens when precedents favour celtic and Glasgow's 3rd airport

The only requirements are 1) All-Seated 2) Complies with Taylor Report 3) Relevant Safety Certificates. Unlike the pricks at SPL and Co the English Premier league has never introduced a 'minimum' capacity rule...yet Blackpool had approx 17000 and QPR currently have just over 18000 Southampton played 11 years in the Premiership with a capacity of just 15,200

I reckon there will be at least 35000 Highland Council were meant to be making arrangements for tickets to be given to local schools and other kids groups and I'm sure I heard talk of arrangements with local bus companies to offer discounted travel Megabuses and trains also on regular (not sunday) service along with many folk potentially making a weekend of it I'd say Inverness could muster up 15-18K (Ross County Managed approx 15K). Falkirk have no issues with transport and found 13k for their last final (against the evil hordes of Ibrox). The Neutral and Glory Hunter element will also come out for this one. The Missus and I will be going anyway ('Local' teams always get my backing) I could be very wrong but using Caley's League cup final crowd as the yardstick is almost like using the dons support at the 2000 Scottish Cup semi final as a judgement on the support's potential. 6:05pm kick off on a sunday = 6500 dons fans 2:30pm kick off on a sunday = 7000 Caley Fans

Keith Harris Presumably that means Orville too

I imagine it would be split after 30 games so it ended up with 37 matches each. Perhaps the new sponsor is sports direct

Just looked at the form table and its amazing (or a sign how strange the league is) that Caley and the Arabs are still in the top half Celtic - 25 from a possible 30 County - 25 from a possible 30 Dons - 22 from a possible 30 St Johnstone - 17 from a possible 30 Thistle - 16 from a possible 30 Well - 13 from a possible 30 Dundee - 12 from a possible 30 St Mirren - 9 from a possible 30 Killie - 9 from a possible 30 Caley - 8 from a possible 30 Accies - 7 from a possible 30 Arabs - 5 from a possible 30 Would say St Johnstone are Caley's biggest threat

Sevco kicked into 3rd place and need to get a win at Tynecastle next week and hope hibs fuck things up at Falkirk to avoid a playoff with QotS.

Seems FIFA have something to say on the matter http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32416795

Their policy of buying land left right and centre to stop their rivals from building close to them should have been investigated by the office of fair trade and the UK Planning offices years ago. Said land could have been used for many other things but Tesco just held onto it stopping potential commercial, industrial and residential developments in so many towns and cities - The Tesco town phenomenon. In several cases they aggressively evicted/ compulsory purchased away shafting lots of small businesses and residents Personally the only time I shop in tescos is in inverness and that is basically because that's about all there is. If they go bust I know at least one company who will be rubbing their hands with glee when the Metro stores start shutting down.

soooooo as i now understand it if a player is sent off for 'deliberate' handball on the line there is no grounds for appeal when it was an incorrect decision (see Kevin Mcnaughton (I think it was him) several years back against hibs who cleared the ball with his chest but was sent off anyway) but if it happens and is missed by the referee, linesman and goalline assistant they can now be suspended after the match. I presume they are going to write to celtic to ask if they will accept a 3-3 draw and a replica of the Scottish cup they would clearly have won

2:30pm according to my ticket stub....and wikipedia 51,143 crowd with 43000 dons fans would leave 8,143 split between caley fans, and corporate/ sponsors

They took approx 7000 but that was with a 2:30pm sunday kick off and only 1 train that could have gotten them to and from Glasgow before and after the game (and that train would have been booked solid from perth onwards so that probably wants even an option. Megabus etc wasnt much better (4 buses down but only 2 on the way back up)