Has the detoxifying of the centre-right [the Cameroonian Conservatives] enabled the shrinkage of the centre-left [LibDems] and the Magic Money Tree left [EdM's Labour]? It's certainly damaged the electoral prospects of the centre-right.
I've had the day from Hell at work. Just cycled home to find that the Mrs will be at work until Midnight and the kids are stopping at Granny's, so I'm on my own. I've been on a health kick, and so have run down the contents of my beer fridge. I fancy a drink. The Wife has a good supply of Sauvignon Blanc, but I don't like it. There was one bottle of Corona in the fridge. I've downed it. The village garage shop is closed, the Wife has the car, and I don't fancy cycling 6 miles with a case of whatever the shop in the next village has on my crossbar.
Is drinking perfume or aftershave any serious hazard to health?
When the Maltese entrant started singing about Jeremy who works in IT, I thought it was going to take a much more interesting lyrical direction than in fact it took. Clearly the singer has never come across any Jeremies who work in IT (or alternatively, he might have done and be trying to maintain proprieties all round in an otherwise socially conservative society).
I've had the day from Hell at work. Just cycled home to find that the Mrs will be at work until Midnight and the kids are stopping at Granny's, so I'm on my own. I've been on a health kick, and so have run down the contents of my beer fridge. I fancy a drink. The Wife has a good supply of Sauvignon Blanc, but I don't like it. There was one bottle of Corona in the fridge. I've downed it. The village garage shop is closed, the Wife has the car, and I don't fancy cycling 6 miles with a case of whatever the shop in the next village has on my crossbar.
Is drinking perfume or aftershave any serious hazard to health?
Even bad sauvignon blanc is a better bet than aftershave.
I've had the day from Hell at work. Just cycled home to find that the Mrs will be at work until Midnight and the kids are stopping at Granny's, so I'm on my own. I've been on a health kick, and so have run down the contents of my beer fridge. I fancy a drink. The Wife has a good supply of Sauvignon Blanc, but I don't like it. There was one bottle of Corona in the fridge. I've downed it. The village garage shop is closed, the Wife has the car, and I don't fancy cycling 6 miles with a case of whatever the shop in the next village has on my crossbar.
Is drinking perfume or aftershave any serious hazard to health?
Have you checked the kitchen cupboard for cooking sherry?
I've had the day from Hell at work. Just cycled home to find that the Mrs will be at work until Midnight and the kids are stopping at Granny's, so I'm on my own. I've been on a health kick, and so have run down the contents of my beer fridge. I fancy a drink. The Wife has a good supply of Sauvignon Blanc, but I don't like it. There was one bottle of Corona in the fridge. I've downed it. The village garage shop is closed, the Wife has the car, and I don't fancy cycling 6 miles with a case of whatever the shop in the next village has on my crossbar.
Is drinking perfume or aftershave any serious hazard to health?
You don't have a stash of 'Christmassy tipples' that you never drink because they're disgusting? That's what I turn to in an emergency.
Have you checked the house for the usual obscure bottle of Spanish liqueur that mysteriously has hung around since 1994? It might be worth trying it.
I still have a bottle of pisco (aptly named) that I brought back from Peru a few years ago. I pretty much lived on pisco sours when I was there. Somehow they didn't taste the same when I tried to recreate the magic.
"My contention is that most Tory losses will be in safe seats - rural, Southern. The question is what happens in the Northern marginals. Perhaps they could threaten Labour's vote (through an appeal to disaffected/tactical Tories, NOTA and disaffected Labour?)"
For the Conservatives to get an overall majority in 2020 they'll need to win constituencies such as Morley, Grimsby, Wakefield, Penistone, Scunthorpe and Don Valley in Yorkshire.
Their problem is that these are places where UKIP were already picking up votes in 2010 and will strengthen in any case by absorbing ex BNP and EDP voters plus disaffected Conservatives.
So when Labour loses wwc support its likely to go direct to UKIP who will overtake the Conservatives in these areas.
The Conservatives need to find a way to appeal to private sector wwc voters - there simply isn't enough private sector middle class voters for them to win a majority on that support alone.
'Bought a Bonnie Tyler Sat Nav for our police car. Big mistake - it kept telling us to 'turn around' and every now and then it fell apart...' solihullpolice
Have you checked the house for the usual obscure bottle of Spanish liqueur that mysteriously has hung around since 1994? It might be worth trying it.
Mate, I cleared that out the last time I felt like this. I ended up drinking a a small bottle of "champagne" that some cheapskate bought me for my 40th.
I do have a bottle of Gordon and Macphail 30 year malt that I have wrapped up, as a present for a member of my Watch that retires next week. It cost 110 quid. I'm thinking I open it carefully, drink it, and then top it up with Bells or something.
" ICM poll in the Sunday Telegraph. They don’t have normal voting intention (instead having the ICM wisdom index thingy that asks people to predict the shares of the vote rather than ask how they themselves would vote – the figures this month are Conservative 29%, Labour 32%, Lib Dem 16%, UKIP 15%)"
48% of the electorate vote for the centre-right. I've got the popcorn in to watch POB Lefties wriggle out of that one. Best remark so far is,"the need for a socially conservative Left". Good luck with making that manifest.
I'm watching this from Hungary, and I can't find it in my heart to find anything nice to say about this. If I wanted to see some Shoreditch hipsters, I'd have stayed at home.
Ukraine has two big advantages: the looks of its singer and her voice. The song is pretty average, but that probably won't matter (though strictly that's what the competition is about).
And I just granted the Ukraine accession status after enlargement.
We can't let Ukraine into the EU until someone tells me if it is "The Ukraine" or just plain "Ukraine"
"The Ukraine" is incorrect both grammatically and politically, says Oksana Kyzyma of the Embassy of Ukraine in London.
"Ukraine is both the conventional short and long name of the country," she says. "This name is stated in the Ukrainian Declaration of Independence and Constitution."
A shame - I'd hoped it was a question to which there was no clear answer. Maybe some places we refer to as 'the x' as they used to not be independent/used to be a region not a country, and so it hasn't caught on yet.
Except the Bahamas and The Gambia, which it is official for apparently.
So when Labour loses wwc support its likely to go direct to UKIP who will overtake the Conservatives in these areas.
That was exactly my point. In the past people have criticised the Tories for not tactical voting (although arguably they had no option if they figured out the Libs were just diluted Labour which is what so many of them seem to be).
Perhaps we could see wholesale Tory voting for UKIP in the Northern marginals - and a shock result for Labour. A regional split like that may not be the worst thing for the right.
Have you checked the house for the usual obscure bottle of Spanish liqueur that mysteriously has hung around since 1994? It might be worth trying it.
Mate, I cleared that out the last time I felt like this. I ended up drinking a a small bottle of "champagne" that some cheapskate bought me for my 40th.
I do have a bottle of Gordon and Macphail 30 year malt that I have wrapped up, as a present for a member of my Watch that retires next week. It cost 110 quid. I'm thinking I open it carefully, drink it, and then top it up with Bells or something.
Get your local Indian takeway to delivery some papadums and Tiger.
Another dirge from Italy. Will the agony never end?
@Sunil_Prasannan The big advantage to Eurovision, Mike, is that we can still participate even if we leave the EU!
The question is do we want to? Only You and TSE seem to enjoy this muck.
What's not to enjoy in a night of cheesiness and shared national shame at each others' silliness? Brings people together, and let's us all laugh at, rather than snipe at, each other. The mysterious threats of eastern and south eastern europe are less scary when you see how silly they can be.
In all seriousness, it can be a slog, and I usually just flick through the next day to see if there were some catchy tunes or funny moments, but it's still nice to see some weird and silly stuff, and to get overly angry at regional block voting.
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Is drinking perfume or aftershave any serious hazard to health?
For the Conservatives to get an overall majority in 2020 they'll need to win constituencies such as Morley, Grimsby, Wakefield, Penistone, Scunthorpe and Don Valley in Yorkshire.
Their problem is that these are places where UKIP were already picking up votes in 2010 and will strengthen in any case by absorbing ex BNP and EDP voters plus disaffected Conservatives.
So when Labour loses wwc support its likely to go direct to UKIP who will overtake the Conservatives in these areas.
The Conservatives need to find a way to appeal to private sector wwc voters - there simply isn't enough private sector middle class voters for them to win a majority on that support alone.
Oh crap, I've just enacted Godwin's law.
I do have a bottle of Gordon and Macphail 30 year malt that I have wrapped up, as a present for a member of my Watch that retires next week. It cost 110 quid. I'm thinking I open it carefully, drink it, and then top it up with Bells or something.
Sadly not quite "faries wear boots" though better guitar riff than most europop.
The man who helped topple a Tory PM because of Europe says
Tory party out of control over Europe, says Lord Howe
Former chancellor launches scathing attack on David Cameron and says Euroscepticism is 'infecting party soul'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/may/18/tory-party-europe-lord-howe
Tories minus 1
Labour plus 2
UKIP plus 3
LD minus 2
Tory/UKIP 47%
Progressives 44%
Now the Romanian vampires.
Nigel, be very afraid!
http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/7463
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/active/10066273/Lets-quit-EU-say-46-per-cent-of-voters-in-poll.html
I may be gone some time.
Romania was hilarious - good song though, why did he sing it in such a high key???
ICM/Sunday Telegraph.
Bad choice.
1) Denmark
2) Estonia
3) Romania (in a car crash sort of way)
Bloody gays ruining Eurovision.
Should gays be allowed to vote in Eurovision.
Another lousy Eurovision Farce.
There's a dichotomy in there somewhere, if only I could find it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18233844
Was the groundwork for these polls done before or after Farage lost all credibility over the Scotland nonsense?!
Pahahaha!!!!!!!
https://twitter.com/suttonnick/status/335859365036822528/photo/1
Likewise the Sudan.
"Ukraine is both the conventional short and long name of the country," she says. "This name is stated in the Ukrainian Declaration of Independence and Constitution."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18233844
A shame - I'd hoped it was a question to which there was no clear answer. Maybe some places we refer to as 'the x' as they used to not be independent/used to be a region not a country, and so it hasn't caught on yet.
Except the Bahamas and The Gambia, which it is official for apparently.
Bonnie T must have had some very good producers in the 80s.
Perhaps we could see wholesale Tory voting for UKIP in the Northern marginals - and a shock result for Labour. A regional split like that may not be the worst thing for the right.
@Sunil_Prasannan
The big advantage to Eurovision, Mike, is that we can still participate even if we leave the EU!
The question is do we want to? Only You and TSE seem to enjoy this muck.
During my first stint as guest editor, my eurovision thread was the most viewed thread, it was more popular than an Ed is crap thread.
In all seriousness, it can be a slog, and I usually just flick through the next day to see if there were some catchy tunes or funny moments, but it's still nice to see some weird and silly stuff, and to get overly angry at regional block voting.
But what's this?
ugh!
I can't have Georgia on my mind
Hopefully next year it won't be a closed selection but open to a nationwide televote.