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Whilst some of us would prefer to give our full attention to our friends and enjoy the trip rather than breaking off to check our mobile phones every five minutes :-)

Sorry to disappoint you, but sometimes I stop replying because I'm enjoying spending the day with friends travelling around various triangular junctions between London, Norwich and Ipswich, then spending 2½ hours sat in Platform 1 at Euston :-) I certainly don't have the time or the...

Don't take it personally, he finds me "deeply patronising". I'm not sure if that's higher or lower on the ricther scale of patronising adverbs :-)

But this is exactly the sort of negativity and scaremongering that lost the election for Labour. Don't forget Labour were also gleefully predicting a triple-dip recession when we didn't even get a double. They were predicting crime would rise because of austerity and it didn't. They predicted...

No , I was talking about making things fairer. You seem to have this strange understanding of the word to include a concept of "fairer to someone" which is an oxymoron. Perhaps you meant "favours someone" which isn't what I said.

Not at all. It's the concept of fairness you seem be struggling with. But feel free to keep digging :-)

Err, wrong again, I think a problem does exist, and if you bothered to do some research, you'd soon see why!

Why am I not suprised that you think making the system fairer is somehow "gerrymandering" :roll:

So with a majority now, the Tories will be able to press ahead with the boundary changes Clegg reneged on. With Labour wiped out in Scotland and Tory gains in Wales, that ought to keep Labour out for a long time ,:-)

There are still two ways a government might not last 5 years: if more than two thirds of the House of Commons vote to call an election if a motion of no confidence is passed or there is a failed vote of confidence, there is a 14-day period in which to pass an act of confidence in a new...

Balls licked? Surely not :-)

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/dozens-of-ballot-papers-in-darlington-miss-off-local-ukip-candidate-but-election-goes-ahead-anyway-10232476.html Tsk, Darlington of all places. I wonder if those ballot papers were printed in Milton Keynes? :-)

Hmm, I know traditionally we're allowed to talk about how people actually voted once the polls close at 10pm, but at my polling station, it said as long as you were inside the building or in the queue by 10pm, you could still vote. What if someone saw the RailUK poll before they voted! I deem...

So if true, given bias in the constutuencies towards Labour, that must give the Tories a massive lead in the total vote? Certainly not the 33% vs 33% the polls were predicting.

Really the forum staff should have co-ordinated the Far North Trip and North Wales Extravaganza better, so that we could all escape from the next week of horse-trading, speculation, claim and counter-claim, denials, backroom deals, endless arguments over rules and precedent, recriminations...

But the weather is always better under a Tory government :-) I do read a lot of papers on-line. The main bias appears to be the way that certain aspects of the same story are exaggerated or excluded to suit their demographic. But it's also about confirmation bias. The papers have to pander...

Although in reality, from the Cabinet Office Manual:

Farage! :-) Only kidding. or am I? :-)

That just sounds like what the rugby club did when I was at Uni. If the witness was so sure they could identify Cameron, why wasn't he at least arrested? --- old post above --- --- new post below --- Yes it's a Railway Forum... not sure what point you are trying to make! --- old post above...

So as I said, guilt by association. Very enlightened! It's a basic human right.