I can’t see one that stands out. Just say what people want to hear 
Wages still poor… 
was earning more in 1998…
I might not bother at all…
I went to a wife swap one a couple of years ago. Couldn’t get rid though.
I’m happy if there’s food…
Carryfast!!!
100 essays coming you way…
Sumsmeister:
I’m happy if there’s food…
Love a buffet at a party 
I’m always in the kitchen…
Presumably you mean political party, scroll down the threads a bit till you come to the Election Poll thread.
Pretty conclusive which party lorry drivers think is the best bet, for whatever reasons they might have, the party in question stands out a mile from the others.
Get ready for a political history lesson and unreasonable debate from Carryfast. 
I don’t know much about politics 
But I know what to do with a trifle 
Sad but true…
I was thinking on the lines of beer and loose women 
nick2008:
I was thinking on the lines of beer and loose women
Seems like a proper party.
But who would we ban from attending ?
Last nights party, gone and almost forgotten…
Paul
I’m interested to find out why some drivers still think “Voting Conservative” is a good thing for the industry… I can’t see how anyone can bring themselves to still vote for them as they might have done in the past (as I have even!) when they’ve kept on all the crappy parts of Labour’s so-called “reforms”, but failed to introduce the would-have-been popular ones spoken of in their “hot air” promises…
The Tories lost in 1997 because of lousy management of the economy. Interest rates went up too high for too long, too many lost their houses, never to qualify for a mortgage again.
There was no end to “tight” economic policy in sight going into the election. Major bragged “We leave Labour with a great set of economic figures” which just showed that with all that cash - the Tories just didn’t have the imagination to spend it on country-worthy things. They just hoarded it. Big mistake.
Come 1997 - the people were ready for a “Party” all right - A “spend it 'cos you’ll be dead before you do otherwise” party aka “You can’t take it with you” or “There’s no point in being the richest man in the cemetery” kind of thing. Blair was there to mop up all that desire by the elecorate.
Who have we got now promising us something different from the last five years? - Labour? Maybe if it were not for the unelectable Milliband… 15 years ago Labour had some capable ministers sitting at the Cabinet table. Now they’ve all but gone. So have their chances of ever sitting at that same cabinet table again.
The choice is “Change” or “more of the same”.
Change - which can only come from the SNP or UKIP. Scotland don’t like Farage’s brand of “change” however, and us sassenachs don’t like the Sturgeon version representing the other side of the same coin.
Are we really going to vote for a bunch of people we can’t stand - merely because we fear the SNP in England or UKIP policies being rolled out in Scotland?
This “Austerity” plan we’ve been lumped with is not planned to cease - ever! How can it be ever ended when we’re getting bullied out of our dinner money daily by Brussels, and we have had governments literally left, right, & centre these past 18 years that just won’t tax the people sitting on most of the cash?
I like UKIP’s costings with the savings are clearly laid out. We won’t be paying for India’s space programme nor HS2 for starters…
Cameron won’t say where his cuts are going to fall, which taxes are going to be raised… The EU will still get paid, as will India, and all those other dictators around the world with their collective hands up our skirts, always threatening the UK with “Help us out, lest we become a rogue state” standard blackmail as always. Time to cut all of these “foreign concerns” loose eh?
Milliband doesn’t want to ask our permission for anything at all, not even “staying in the EU”…
…And Cleggy? - He had his shot, squandered it, and now it’s time to see him standing there this thursday night without a seat like a deaf kid who’s been asked to play Musical Chairs at yet another proverbial “Party”…
If your local seat is held by the Conservatives - You can afford to vote UKIP. You won’t get “Milliband” instead unless people in Labour seats won’t swing to UKIP.
If your local seat is held by the Libdems - Well, like me, what have you got to lose by giving someone else a shot, having already gained experience in voting for a party supposedly with “no chance of being in government” - as was thought pre-2010…?
Got a likeable “Independent”? - Vote for them by all means. Wouldn’t we like to see another Martin Bell kick the incumbent out of Tatton again for example? 
North of the border - The SNP juggernaut seems unstoppable - and why not?
There’s no point trying to talk the Scots out of voting SNP any more than the Tories have screwed up large trying to talk people out of voting UKIP south of the border…
Accept that the SNP are going to get 50-59 seats (as they are favourite to do!) and counter it with a third party in England that has 60+ seats!
That party can only be UKIP.
There’s no way Cleggy’s Libdems are going to gain any net seats in this coming election - unless a bunch of non-libdem incumbents crosses the floor to Libdem by Thursday!
…Not going to happen is it?
The best party for truckers, is the one where they are not allowed to talk about trucks, or about who did what on the M6 yesterday. Eat drink and be merry. Looking at the waistlines of some truckers, they certainly know how to do that…
Political parties? Well let me put it this way, some will be having celebration parties on Thursday and some will be having commiseration parties.
For years in this country it been a two horse race and I would like to see both of them have a major shock to the system this year, rather than expecting votes for doing bugger all in previous years… We can all have a truckers party then…
All I see these days is the politics of personality, as in " I’m not voting labour as I don’t like milliband" regardless of wether their policies will benefit you or not. It’s the same with all parties these days, how many could name five other politicians from all the major parties off the top of their heads? We know most of the leaders & that’s is what most people’s vote seems to be based on. I don’t even know my previous MP let alone the names of the people running this time. It’s solid labour so the don’t even bother putting leaflets through the door, we’ve only had 1 so far & that’s ukip.
Roll on Friday when the real bunfight starts.
Winseer:
I’m interested to find out why some drivers still think “Voting Conservative” is a good thing for the industry… I can’t see how anyone can bring themselves to still vote for them as they might have done in the past (as I have even!) when they’ve kept on all the crappy parts of Labour’s so-called “reforms”, but failed to introduce the would-have-been popular ones spoken of in their “hot air” promises…The Tories lost in 1997 because of lousy management of the economy. Interest rates went up too high for too long, too many lost their houses, never to qualify for a mortgage again.
There was no end to “tight” economic policy in sight going into the election. Major bragged “We leave Labour with a great set of economic figures” which just showed that with all that cash - the Tories just didn’t have the imagination to spend it on country-worthy things. They just hoarded it. Big mistake.
Come 1997 - the people were ready for a “Party” all right - A “spend it 'cos you’ll be dead before you do otherwise” party aka “You can’t take it with you” or “There’s no point in being the richest man in the cemetery” kind of thing. Blair was there to mop up all that desire by the elecorate.Who have we got now promising us something different from the last five years? - Labour? Maybe if it were not for the unelectable Milliband… 15 years ago Labour had some capable ministers sitting at the Cabinet table. Now they’ve all but gone. So have their chances of ever sitting at that same cabinet table again.
The choice is “Change” or “more of the same”.
Change - which can only come from the SNP or UKIP. Scotland don’t like Farage’s brand of “change” however, and us sassenachs don’t like the Sturgeon version representing the other side of the same coin.Are we really going to vote for a bunch of people we can’t stand - merely because we fear the SNP in England or UKIP policies being rolled out in Scotland?
This “Austerity” plan we’ve been lumped with is not planned to cease - ever! How can it be ever ended when we’re getting bullied out of our dinner money daily by Brussels, and we have had governments literally left, right, & centre these past 18 years that just won’t tax the people sitting on most of the cash?I like UKIP’s costings with the savings are clearly laid out. We won’t be paying for India’s space programme nor HS2 for starters…
Cameron won’t say where his cuts are going to fall, which taxes are going to be raised… The EU will still get paid, as will India, and all those other dictators around the world with their collective hands up our skirts, always threatening the UK with “Help us out, lest we become a rogue state” standard blackmail as always. Time to cut all of these “foreign concerns” loose eh?Milliband doesn’t want to ask our permission for anything at all, not even “staying in the EU”…
…And Cleggy? - He had his shot, squandered it, and now it’s time to see him standing there this thursday night without a seat like a deaf kid who’s been asked to play Musical Chairs at yet another proverbial “Party”…If your local seat is held by the Conservatives - You can afford to vote UKIP. You won’t get “Milliband” instead unless people in Labour seats won’t swing to UKIP.
If your local seat is held by the Libdems - Well, like me, what have you got to lose by giving someone else a shot, having already gained experience in voting for a party supposedly with “no chance of being in government” - as was thought pre-2010…?
Got a likeable “Independent”? - Vote for them by all means. Wouldn’t we like to see another Martin Bell kick the incumbent out of Tatton again for example?
North of the border - The SNP juggernaut seems unstoppable - and why not?
There’s no point trying to talk the Scots out of voting SNP any more than the Tories have screwed up large trying to talk people out of voting UKIP south of the border…
Accept that the SNP are going to get 50-59 seats (as they are favourite to do!) and counter it with a third party in England that has 60+ seats!
That party can only be UKIP.
There’s no way Cleggy’s Libdems are going to gain any net seats in this coming election - unless a bunch of non-libdem incumbents crosses the floor to Libdem by Thursday!…Not going to happen is it?
Yeh yeh, but never mind all that, I still like the sound of the beer and loose women
Winseer:
I’m interested to find out why some drivers still think “Voting Conservative” is a good thing for the industry… I can’t see how anyone can bring themselves to still vote for them as they might have done in the past (as I have even!) when they’ve kept on all the crappy parts of Labour’s so-called “reforms”, but failed to introduce the would-have-been popular ones spoken of in their “hot air” promises…The Tories lost in 1997 because of lousy management of the economy. Interest rates went up too high for too long, too many lost their houses, never to qualify for a mortgage again.
There was no end to “tight” economic policy in sight going into the election. Major bragged “We leave Labour with a great set of economic figures” which just showed that with all that cash - the Tories just didn’t have the imagination to spend it on country-worthy things. They just hoarded it. Big mistake.
Come 1997 - the people were ready for a “Party” all right - A “spend it 'cos you’ll be dead before you do otherwise” party aka “You can’t take it with you” or “There’s no point in being the richest man in the cemetery” kind of thing. Blair was there to mop up all that desire by the elecorate.Who have we got now promising us something different from the last five years? - Labour? Maybe if it were not for the unelectable Milliband… 15 years ago Labour had some capable ministers sitting at the Cabinet table. Now they’ve all but gone. So have their chances of ever sitting at that same cabinet table again.
The choice is “Change” or “more of the same”.
Change - which can only come from the SNP or UKIP. Scotland don’t like Farage’s brand of “change” however, and us sassenachs don’t like the Sturgeon version representing the other side of the same coin.Are we really going to vote for a bunch of people we can’t stand - merely because we fear the SNP in England or UKIP policies being rolled out in Scotland?
This “Austerity” plan we’ve been lumped with is not planned to cease - ever! How can it be ever ended when we’re getting bullied out of our dinner money daily by Brussels, and we have had governments literally left, right, & centre these past 18 years that just won’t tax the people sitting on most of the cash?I like UKIP’s costings with the savings are clearly laid out. We won’t be paying for India’s space programme nor HS2 for starters…
Cameron won’t say where his cuts are going to fall, which taxes are going to be raised… The EU will still get paid, as will India, and all those other dictators around the world with their collective hands up our skirts, always threatening the UK with “Help us out, lest we become a rogue state” standard blackmail as always. Time to cut all of these “foreign concerns” loose eh?Milliband doesn’t want to ask our permission for anything at all, not even “staying in the EU”…
…And Cleggy? - He had his shot, squandered it, and now it’s time to see him standing there this thursday night without a seat like a deaf kid who’s been asked to play Musical Chairs at yet another proverbial “Party”…If your local seat is held by the Conservatives - You can afford to vote UKIP. You won’t get “Milliband” instead unless people in Labour seats won’t swing to UKIP.
If your local seat is held by the Libdems - Well, like me, what have you got to lose by giving someone else a shot, having already gained experience in voting for a party supposedly with “no chance of being in government” - as was thought pre-2010…?
Got a likeable “Independent”? - Vote for them by all means. Wouldn’t we like to see another Martin Bell kick the incumbent out of Tatton again for example?
North of the border - The SNP juggernaut seems unstoppable - and why not?
There’s no point trying to talk the Scots out of voting SNP any more than the Tories have screwed up large trying to talk people out of voting UKIP south of the border…
Accept that the SNP are going to get 50-59 seats (as they are favourite to do!) and counter it with a third party in England that has 60+ seats!
That party can only be UKIP.
There’s no way Cleggy’s Libdems are going to gain any net seats in this coming election - unless a bunch of non-libdem incumbents crosses the floor to Libdem by Thursday!…Not going to happen is it?
Good post Winseer, although I wouldnt agree to everything. I know Im in a minority of one here, but…I dont think things are all that bad! I would like a box to tick where we just carry on as we are, Con/LibDem. I think theyve done a reasonable job, things seem to be on the up, especially compared to the EU countries.
Anyone from another planet would think that poor people didnt exist before this government took over. Labours record on the economy and immigration must surely make them un-electable. Although immigration is still too high.
When will people learn that you cant have everything you want? LibDems took a lot of undeserved stick for the tuition thing, but it was they who got us on £10600 allowance. When Labour left office it was only £5k+ a bit, but people are too whingey to see any good preferring to whine on about how hard life is. Im in a safe as houses Labour seat unfortunately, so Ill have to vote for a 22year old!!!!! UKIP guy and hope many others will too. Im pretty peaved about the Scotch influence in all of this mind, I can see them getting more and more resources at our expence in the next term and beyond.
Winseer:
I’m interested to find out why some drivers still think “Voting Conservative” is a good thing for the industry… I can’t see how anyone can bring themselves to still vote for them as they might have done in the past (as I have even!) when they’ve kept on all the crappy parts of Labour’s so-called “reforms”, but failed to introduce the would-have-been popular ones spoken of in their “hot air” promises…The Tories lost in 1997 because of lousy management of the economy. Interest rates went up too high for too long, too many lost their houses, never to qualify for a mortgage again.
There was no end to “tight” economic policy in sight going into the election. Major bragged “We leave Labour with a great set of economic figures” which just showed that with all that cash - the Tories just didn’t have the imagination to spend it on country-worthy things. They just hoarded it. Big mistake.
Come 1997 - the people were ready for a “Party” all right - A “spend it 'cos you’ll be dead before you do otherwise” party aka “You can’t take it with you” or “There’s no point in being the richest man in the cemetery” kind of thing. Blair was there to mop up all that desire by the elecorate.Who have we got now promising us something different from the last five years? - Labour? Maybe if it were not for the unelectable Milliband… 15 years ago Labour had some capable ministers sitting at the Cabinet table. Now they’ve all but gone. So have their chances of ever sitting at that same cabinet table again.
The choice is “Change” or “more of the same”.
Change - which can only come from the SNP or UKIP. Scotland don’t like Farage’s brand of “change” however, and us sassenachs don’t like the Sturgeon version representing the other side of the same coin.Are we really going to vote for a bunch of people we can’t stand - merely because we fear the SNP in England or UKIP policies being rolled out in Scotland?
This “Austerity” plan we’ve been lumped with is not planned to cease - ever! How can it be ever ended when we’re getting bullied out of our dinner money daily by Brussels, and we have had governments literally left, right, & centre these past 18 years that just won’t tax the people sitting on most of the cash?I like UKIP’s costings with the savings are clearly laid out. We won’t be paying for India’s space programme nor HS2 for starters…
Cameron won’t say where his cuts are going to fall, which taxes are going to be raised… The EU will still get paid, as will India, and all those other dictators around the world with their collective hands up our skirts, always threatening the UK with “Help us out, lest we become a rogue state” standard blackmail as always. Time to cut all of these “foreign concerns” loose eh?Milliband doesn’t want to ask our permission for anything at all, not even “staying in the EU”…
…And Cleggy? - He had his shot, squandered it, and now it’s time to see him standing there this thursday night without a seat like a deaf kid who’s been asked to play Musical Chairs at yet another proverbial “Party”…If your local seat is held by the Conservatives - You can afford to vote UKIP. You won’t get “Milliband” instead unless people in Labour seats won’t swing to UKIP.
If your local seat is held by the Libdems - Well, like me, what have you got to lose by giving someone else a shot, having already gained experience in voting for a party supposedly with “no chance of being in government” - as was thought pre-2010…?
Got a likeable “Independent”? - Vote for them by all means. Wouldn’t we like to see another Martin Bell kick the incumbent out of Tatton again for example?
North of the border - The SNP juggernaut seems unstoppable - and why not?
There’s no point trying to talk the Scots out of voting SNP any more than the Tories have screwed up large trying to talk people out of voting UKIP south of the border…
Accept that the SNP are going to get 50-59 seats (as they are favourite to do!) and counter it with a third party in England that has 60+ seats!
That party can only be UKIP.
There’s no way Cleggy’s Libdems are going to gain any net seats in this coming election - unless a bunch of non-libdem incumbents crosses the floor to Libdem by Thursday!…Not going to happen is it?
…hmm, thought I had something to add, but my mind has gone back to food.
Which is more important anyway.
While I’m here, I liked the Muppet poster so much I thought of an alternative tag-line - “Vote for Kermit, he’s supposed to be a Muppet.”
Someone’s bound to come up with something better…
Winseer:
I’m interested to find out why some drivers still think “Voting Conservative” is a good thing for the industry… I can’t see how anyone can bring themselves to still vote for them as they might have done in the past (as I have even!) when they’ve kept on all the crappy parts of Labour’s so-called “reforms”, but failed to introduce the would-have-been popular ones spoken of in their “hot air” promises…The Tories lost in 1997 because of lousy management of the economy. Interest rates went up too high for too long, too many lost their houses, never to qualify for a mortgage again.
There was no end to “tight” economic policy in sight going into the election. Major bragged “We leave Labour with a great set of economic figures” which just showed that with all that cash - the Tories just didn’t have the imagination to spend it on country-worthy things. They just hoarded it. Big mistake.
Come 1997 - the people were ready for a “Party” all right - A “spend it 'cos you’ll be dead before you do otherwise” party aka “You can’t take it with you” or “There’s no point in being the richest man in the cemetery” kind of thing. Blair was there to mop up all that desire by the elecorate.Who have we got now promising us something different from the last five years? - Labour? Maybe if it were not for the unelectable Milliband… 15 years ago Labour had some capable ministers sitting at the Cabinet table. Now they’ve all but gone. So have their chances of ever sitting at that same cabinet table again.
The choice is “Change” or “more of the same”.
Change - which can only come from the SNP or UKIP. Scotland don’t like Farage’s brand of “change” however, and us sassenachs don’t like the Sturgeon version representing the other side of the same coin.Are we really going to vote for a bunch of people we can’t stand - merely because we fear the SNP in England or UKIP policies being rolled out in Scotland?
This “Austerity” plan we’ve been lumped with is not planned to cease - ever! How can it be ever ended when we’re getting bullied out of our dinner money daily by Brussels, and we have had governments literally left, right, & centre these past 18 years that just won’t tax the people sitting on most of the cash?I like UKIP’s costings with the savings are clearly laid out. We won’t be paying for India’s space programme nor HS2 for starters…
Cameron won’t say where his cuts are going to fall, which taxes are going to be raised… The EU will still get paid, as will India, and all those other dictators around the world with their collective hands up our skirts, always threatening the UK with “Help us out, lest we become a rogue state” standard blackmail as always. Time to cut all of these “foreign concerns” loose eh?Milliband doesn’t want to ask our permission for anything at all, not even “staying in the EU”…
…And Cleggy? - He had his shot, squandered it, and now it’s time to see him standing there this thursday night without a seat like a deaf kid who’s been asked to play Musical Chairs at yet another proverbial “Party”…If your local seat is held by the Conservatives - You can afford to vote UKIP. You won’t get “Milliband” instead unless people in Labour seats won’t swing to UKIP.
If your local seat is held by the Libdems - Well, like me, what have you got to lose by giving someone else a shot, having already gained experience in voting for a party supposedly with “no chance of being in government” - as was thought pre-2010…?
Got a likeable “Independent”? - Vote for them by all means. Wouldn’t we like to see another Martin Bell kick the incumbent out of Tatton again for example?
North of the border - The SNP juggernaut seems unstoppable - and why not?
There’s no point trying to talk the Scots out of voting SNP any more than the Tories have screwed up large trying to talk people out of voting UKIP south of the border…
Accept that the SNP are going to get 50-59 seats (as they are favourite to do!) and counter it with a third party in England that has 60+ seats!
That party can only be UKIP.
There’s no way Cleggy’s Libdems are going to gain any net seats in this coming election - unless a bunch of non-libdem incumbents crosses the floor to Libdem by Thursday!…Not going to happen is it?
PS I wonder if Winseers post will be the most quoted EVER?