2 sets up let's hope carshalton is enjoying his pimms ,strawberry and cream

Exiled - after which Jack Rudoni will be announced as our loanee for the season….

According to a source on x we are playing Coventry city in Marbella on Saturday

I wonder whether Andrew Malkinson would be alive now if we had the death penalty - I imagine there’d have been calls for his execution from some quarters, yet he was wrongfully convicted and lost 17 years of his life as a result [Link]

What next... The Musical ''Albert Pierrepoint - The King of Swing''

Spartan - what is totally ridiculous is that it is a conditional pardon, i.e. they're changing the sentence from death to life imprisonment. It really is late for that!

Ruth Ellis - the last woman in Britain to be hanged, has been given a pardon. A bit late I think.

dave skinner - not to mention his policy of making 99Flake ice creams cost 99p as originally intended…

Any one who wants to nationalise Model railways wins it for me !

Farage has framed this as "the people v the establishment". Yet The Times story that caused all this was about George Cottrell, a man who's family is full of nobility and links to the Royal Family.

Hopefully the Monster Raving Loony Party won’t stand, as that would split the sensible vote, thus allowing the establishment public school multimillionaire candidate to win, and that’s surely what we all agree must be avoided at all costs…

Of course I'd tell people not to vote for me. However, it looks like there are now more candidates than there are seats, so no automatic appointment to parliament, and therefore no need for me (whew!)

You could vote for the Count Spit! He has some good policies; my favourite is pegging the price of croissants, a staple for us old yuppies ...

Other than Ronan, the only sensible option would be a well known local who would promise to spend time looking after constituents' problems.

I would be pissed off if I lived in clacton and supported one of the other party's that wont stand. Surely standing is a way of getting rid of Farage..

Ledd - you make a good point, but some may argue that many footballers spend quite a lot of time waiting for someone else to take a throw in or a free kick, they get a 15 minutes break after 45 minutes of sideways and backwards ball play, and if they look a bit tired, they get subbed off for a rest - probably a bit swings and roundabouts.

So Farage's only metric for success will be if he actually gets more votes than in GE. Good luck with that in peak holiday season!

Ironically the Swiss match was so boring I turned over and watched the tennis which was much better

Yay Ronan, but will you tell everyone not to vote for you?

5 hrs 15 mins ! Tennis is as boring as the Swiss v Columbia match last night.

In a tennis match the ball is in play for about 10% to 20% of the time. So a match lasting 5 hours 15 minutes would have a similar ball in play time as a football match.

That's the 2nd contrived By election within a month.

So it’s the Count vs the C*unt… I’ve heard of cunning stunts, but this is another level!!

or Count, for Prestons Womble, a4e and OI

The main parties sensibly don't want to play the role of extras in the Nige "I don't have a abide by any rules" sideshow. So it's Vount Binface v Nige.