Are the Tories finished before they start?

[Gavin Scott]

Really? That's bad medicine. Not quite so bad up here - although they have sent me a taxi when the didn't have an ambulance.

Barcrod

*titter*

[Chie]

then there really should be traveling in one of these

I not sure why I have place a pic of it, its just sames nice

http://www.freefoto.com/images/28/01/28 ... ll_web.jpg

Bless.

Now you ARE phuquing joking, Barcrod.

Look up the Great Western Ambulance statistics on the web. You need a soddin' death certificate to get an ambulance round here, and then it'll be four hours getting to you.

That's after you've waited eight-and-a-half minutes for the 999 control centre to answer.

All personal projects of John Prescott, I might add.

I've had to call an ambulance three times (once down south, twice up here) and they've always been very good, in my experience.

[barcode]

well ok I tell you a bad story

I was on a bus and a woman was lying across the road, turns out someone had phoned for an ambulance, but its was at least 18mins later it turn up.

apart from the fact the ambulance depot was just 1min up the road, and when I phone to ask if an ambulance had been called for, I wait 5mins to speak to an operater

[Nick Harvey]

And, further to previous, how about this?

[Sput]

Something indicative of what scares me about the tories is in evidence right now: their words are lovely but their actions seem to betray them incredibly quickly. Case in point: Daniel Hannan is front and centre for a whole lot of interviews here in Manchester today. Not only did Cameron not smack him down for being an utter twatflap earlier in the year, but now he seems to be their point of contact with the press. Not bad for an "eccentric" guy.

[Gavin Scott]

Something indicative of what scares me about the tories is in evidence right now: their words are lovely but their actions seem to betray them incredibly quickly. Case in point: Daniel Hannan is front and centre for a whole lot of interviews here in Manchester today. Not only did Cameron not smack him down for being an utter twatflap earlier in the year, but now he seems to be their point of contact with the press. Not bad for an "eccentric" guy.

He has both a profile and a point of view - loathsome though it may be.

Something I've yet to see from the rest of the party.

[marksi]

Something indicative of what scares me about the tories is in evidence right now: their words are lovely but their actions seem to betray them incredibly quickly. Case in point: Daniel Hannan is front and centre for a whole lot of interviews here in Manchester today. Not only did Cameron not smack him down for being an utter twatflap earlier in the year, but now he seems to be their point of contact with the press. Not bad for an "eccentric" guy.

He has both a profile and a point of view - loathsome though it may be.

Something I've yet to see from the rest of the party.

He's also been wheeled out at every opportunity in the last week, each time using precisely the same script about how he was 4 the last time there was a referendum about the EU. Smug wanker.

I notice on TVF there are lots of people commenting on how a leaders' debate would leave out the main parties in Scotland and Wales, somewhat ironically leaving out Northern Ireland.

[DVB Cornwall]

Northern Ireland would go it's own way ... as it has with PEBs in the past.

[Sput]

Something indicative of what scares me about the tories is in evidence right now: their words are lovely but their actions seem to betray them incredibly quickly. Case in point: Daniel Hannan is front and centre for a whole lot of interviews here in Manchester today. Not only did Cameron not smack him down for being an utter twatflap earlier in the year, but now he seems to be their point of contact with the press. Not bad for an "eccentric" guy.

He has both a profile and a point of view - loathsome though it may be.

Something I've yet to see from the rest of the party.

Well yes but my point is that for someone who supposedly doesn't reflect the new progressive conservative party, he's certainly being allowed a lot of airtime. I'd have thought someone as media savvy as cameron would have kept him on a pretty short leash after the NHS comments.

[marksi]

Northern Ireland would go it's own way ... as it has with PEBs in the past.

You say that rather definatively, clearly without realising that the Ulster Unionists are now flying the Conservative flag.

And yes Sput, agreed on that point.

[DVB Cornwall]

The UU will contest the election under the Ulster Conservatives and Unionists - New Force banner not Conservative, they will fight under the leadership of Sir Reg Empey not DC. Sir Reg Empey would be involved in any NI Debate.