coldel

In something like 20 constituencies the Tories won by less and 500 votes - it really was that close. But agree a slight swing either way and we could have seen other results. Unfortunately her strapline of strong and stable has led to the most unstrong and unstable government, so I wonder when she is pressed on the issue again what the strapline will be Somewhat ironically, the result and May's selfish opportunism, total failure to capture the moment and in fact throw it away and to now clinging on to power as an unelected PM means a brexit that most brexiters didn't want.

Good work - tuck is easy and reversible as you say, just need to hold your nerve when bending it back up on itself!

Different ball game altogether although get the analogy. Any voter research done on something like dementia tax would have told you in an hour or two that it was a ridiculous idea to propose to your voter base. Called Theresa Maybe for a reason Problem is May tried to run the country like she ran the home office, micro managing everything and relying on an inner circle of a handful of people that lacked the experience to run the country. She didn't listen to public opinion and she didn't listen to experienced MPs in her own party and got the appropriate kicking up the backside.

I did the bumper tuck on mine it was a doddle, you do have to get under there and get a good look at it - I found on mine I could just release the bumper from the supporting brackets, got an M8 bolt I think it was and tuck the bumper up and put the bolt through the bracket and new bumper position to hold it in place. Seemed to work fine took about 5 mins.

I will be there with Celica-Club, will of course come over and check out the Zeds

I would let the guys sort out the macro issues going on right now and then come back to this...

Yep works fine for me in FF - could be a local issue with your computer?

Be interesting to see how Johnson and Gove get on...

Just for reference I just tried 10 different pages on Firefox and worked fine here.

I guess it wasn't clear if the original post that you had revised the price as there is no history of edits visible.

...and fair play for taking it on the chin - I would have been screaming bloody murder at every inanimate object within reach

There is a difference though between a u turn and an adjustment of policy. Quite frankly how the Tories thought they could throw dementia tax and heating allowance reduction into the manifesto when so many voters are older people on their turf is just astonishing. I get if they launched an initiative and something didn't quite work and they change the tactics to make it work, thats fine. But sticking a tonne of tax on the self employed, then removing it days later smacks of incompetence/lack of understanding/planning, and then given they pulled it, where is all the money shortfall now going to come from? U-turns in politics or business is bad, tactical re-alignment or whatever you want to phrase it is something else.

Yes I agree, we cannot have Boris as PM right now - just not the right position at all for him.

I do remember the BMW 24hrs race and JC definitely was going quicker than Hammond (who binned it)

What you need to be looking at are the levelised costs for energy production - every government produces reports on it based on case studies etc. which tell you the cost of production of energy per mwh much more accurate than the random links above it would seem. Obviously it varies by country because different countries can produce energy in different ways more efficiently. In the US for instance natural resource burning is much cheaper to produce energy per mwh over the lifetime of the equipment than say off shore wind farms. Thats not true in the UK though being a smaller island state with plenty of wind energy available. Actually H Class gas turbines are one of the cheapest most efficient ways of producing energy in the UK.

I would say JC is a better driver than Hammond - although to be fair the other crash was hardly his fault with a drag car tyre failing on him

Loved this as a kid, great fun watching the mix of corn and action RIP

Very good

Erm well, it would be a close run thing between you and that guy that dressed as a fish finger in Kemble...but hey I'm in.

Source: http://www.bbc.com/n...n-2017-40219338 Aye not a bad summary, the Jonathan Pie video is a good one also "like where are all those new labour detractors that slated Corbyn when in fact it appears old labour is the opposition the country actually wanted, if they got behind their leader they would be in government now" there were plenty of F words in the mix also lol Labour lost but not by as much as they were told they would. Lib Dems misunderstood what people meant when they said this would be a brexit election (that its not about reversing it) SNP didnt listen to the 40% that voted leave the EU in Scotland UKIP have absolutely no reason to be involved in politics any more with £180k worth of deposits down the drain

That post wasn't directed at you at all J in terms of being 'ardent'. And I have said on other posts that I wouldn't oppose a re-vote on EU, we are on the way and thats the end of it, no gripe at all. What I do oppose is a hard brexit that makes a complete and utter mess of our economy for decades to come - May is going in too hard and too aggressive which is going to be met with not an equal but a greater reaction from the EU. And yes, I do not like TM, she is a poor leader, a poor PM and quite frankly completely the wrong person by some stretch to take us down this path. Its only my opinion, just like yours.

Surely even the most ardent Tory can see why this happened. The invisible plan where we will get the best deal because we are strong and stable was meant to be delivered by someone who has very quickly developed a reputation for not sticking to her decisions. Now that strong and stable government is in coalition where the plan could well be challenged, and who is she to stand up to a challenge.

Lets hope her plan isn't as fantastic as her plan for gaining more power in parliament... No you don't shout out the details - but all we have had so far is 'it will be the best deal for the UK' - you can release more than that without compromising your position. In any case whatever plan they had is now in ruins with the DUP stepping in and soft brexit a possibility.

Simple. TM has indicated a hard brexit with no concessions but has no plan of any detail to back it up yet in terms of what an alternative looks like. One line. done.

I think many people realised that voting the Tories in would be the sensible thing to do but many people just couldn't face doing that I presume as their version of brexit is just too extreme and they had to make some sort of stand against it. I do think the DUP will soften brexit (and you could argue a few Tory backbenchers will now put pressure on May to do the same) but as you say the DUP also have some lets say very extreme views on things...