They'll push the 'total bankrupt mess' line for as long as they can as a stick to Bash the Tories with. In exactly the same way as the Tories bashed Labour for the 'total bankrupt mess' they left them with. It's all so childish, mud flinging b*llsh*t.

I think it's healthy for management to change periodically, it balances things out and can keep things fresh. It's like going from a Defensive manager to an attacking manager - for the first 6 months you can find that a happy medium is struck and the system works well.
Problem is that you need 2 managers of sufficiently differing views for it to Work. I fear we are just swapping Frank Lampard for Steve McClaren.

"It was a Team effort, I guess it took all players working together to lose this one"

Just been to exercise my francise. As it was very quiet in the Polling Station I took great delight in standing in the booth with my pencil poised, audibly playing "dit, dot, do" 5 times (we have 6 candidates)before marking the ballot paper and exiting to put it in the box.

The look on the faces of the 2 guys running the station was a picture.

A stairway to Heaven and a Highway to Hell give some indication of expected traffic numbers

How so? They were sitting on their bums when I went in, they were still so when I left, and the actually get a good rate for working the day, so my 'having a joke' made absolutely no difference to their day whatsoever, other than maybe giving them a bit of light relief.

A stairway to Heaven and a Highway to Hell give some indication of expected traffic numbers

that's pathetic.

As has been stated the national debt is now over 100% of GDP, our overall tax burden is the highest it has been since the 2nd world war, but of course don't trust Labour as they will raise your taxes.
Personally i would be happy to pay a little more if it meant i could get a doctors appointment or didn't need to wait for 12 hours at A&E, or even could use a public toilet now and again.

And who cares if CGT is raised - it's very low now and only c400k pay it each year, whereas c40m people pay income tax, so the impact is on 1% of the population.

I can assure you they don't get a good rate because up to and including the recent Police Commissioner elections, I've been a poll clerk myself for the last 5 years. I finally decided 'enough is enough' primarily due to the number of knob-heads you have to deal with; their knob-headery made worse by the requirement for them to bring photo ID.

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Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)

'Voted' early. Or rather when in and drew three lines over my ballot paper.

And to my surprise, walked out feeling exhilarated! Totally unexpected reaction.

Now tomorrow I might feel different, and once upon a time I would have been my harshest critic for taking such an action but today...it just felt right.

I fully accept arguments about how puerile such a gesture is but as things stand, am still buzzing.

f*** Democracy.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.