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Re Item 14 : So now I am confused. Campbell is criticising Farage for being the first party leader to suggest we should let Syrian refugees in? Or is he trying to rewrite history?
5. "How many UKIPers will die of old age before an EU referendum".
If people are going to pose a question like that in a broadsheet then - how many SNP voters are going to die shooting up heroin with pox-covered needles huddled caked in their own shit in Glasgow slums before an independence vote?
Either both stereotypes are acceptable in the Telegraph or neither.
Perhaps of interest: the author of the Jesus and Mo cartoons will be interviewed by Paxman on Newsnight tonight I suppose re the death threats made against the Lib Dem candidate for Hampstead and Kilburn. I wonder if we are finally beginning to see the establishment thinking about tentatively drawing something that might look like a line in sand between freedom of speech and Islamic offense culture.
5. "How many UKIPers will die of old age before an EU referendum".
If people are going to pose a question like that in a broadsheet then - how many SNP voters are going to die shooting up heroin with pox-covered needles huddled caked in their own shit in Glasgow slums before an independence vote?
Either both stereotypes are acceptable in the Telegraph or neither.
Careful, watch your blood pressure, it can be dangerous.
But do you have a view on the question, though, Hugh? Is it acceptable to create a false stereotype of the right when the equivalent false stereotype of the left wouldn't be tolerated?
Very entertaining PMQs! Does anyone else think that Ed and Dave like each other on a personal level? It might be a trick of the light but they seem to nod at each other when they think the other has landed a blow. Certainly there seems to be very little in the way of animosity.
Interestingly not everyone who was sentenced to a posthumous execution upon the restoration received one as Cromwell did. Apparently Colonel Pride's remains were too decayed, although quite frankly I find it hard to imagine that there is a line to be drawn once you've decided to have your vengeance upon a corpse.
Hugh - by establishment you know fine well that I mean the powerful people of the UK - ie the media, the politicians, the heads of the institutions of the state - those who's words influence policy and lead to action.
It's no surprise they don't dive in with an opinion given what's happened to people in Denmark, Holland etc. At the end of the day they are just people doing their jobs, with families to go home to - the last thing they need is a death threat from a religious group that has killed before.
However, I do wish the 'establishment' had been stronger that day the Muslim extremists marched down Sloane St to the Danish embassy waving placards saying 'Death to all those who insult Islam' etc whilst chanting things like 'We will have your wives as war bounty'. We ceded ground to fundamentalism that day. Hence my admiration for the author of Jesus and Mo, who is making a small stand in the pursuit of freedom of expression.
the media, the politicians, the heads of the institutions of the state - those who's words influence policy and lead to action.
Blimey. Quite a conspiracy, then. Ed Miliband, David Cameron, Nick Clegg, the Queen, Richard Branson, Tony Hall, Rupert Murdoch, the list goes on. Do they meet somewhere to co-ordinate their evil establishmentness?
the media, the politicians, the heads of the institutions of the state - those who's words influence policy and lead to action.
Blimey. Quite a conspiracy, then. Ed Miliband, David Cameron, Nick Clegg, the Queen, Richard Branson, Tony Hall, Rupert Murdoch, the list goes on. Do they meet somewhere to co-ordinate their evil establishmentness?
Mr Dancer, I think the author must be British if he's been interviewed by Paxo, assuming he's in the studio. I wondered before if he wasn't American. Not sure if 'cause celebre' is quite the right expression, but I do hope that maybe this affair will allow reasonable Muslims to distinguish themselves from the fundamentalists and for the latter to somehow be persuaded that they shouldn't take a religious book so literally.
the media, the politicians, the heads of the institutions of the state - those who's words influence policy and lead to action.
Blimey. Quite a conspiracy, then. Ed Miliband, David Cameron, Nick Clegg, the Queen, Richard Branson, Tony Hall, Rupert Murdoch, the list goes on. Do they meet somewhere to co-ordinate their evil establishmentness?
I haven't been around few days, did you ever post the evidence to those stats you posted?
You know the ones, four times, twice that, half of this. As a Kipper I am really interested in seeing them.
the media, the politicians, the heads of the institutions of the state - those who's words influence policy and lead to action.
Blimey. Quite a conspiracy, then. Ed Miliband, David Cameron, Nick Clegg, the Queen, Richard Branson, Tony Hall, Rupert Murdoch, the list goes on. Do they meet somewhere to co-ordinate their evil establishmentness?
Bedford.
Not Bournemouth?
Her Maj and Branson may slip out furtively together.....
5. "How many UKIPers will die of old age before an EU referendum".
If people are going to pose a question like that in a broadsheet then - how many SNP voters are going to die shooting up heroin with pox-covered needles huddled caked in their own shit in Glasgow slums before an independence vote?
Either both stereotypes are acceptable in the Telegraph or neither.
although turnout will probably be higher among the former
YouGov feels better for Labour, even though the lead remains the same. Share edging back into high 30s. Will calm some nerves.
What the 50 pence thing seems to have done is to animate somnolent Tory supporters and reminded them why they don't want Labour in power. But Labour are in their usual zone and show no sign of leaving it.
It seems that the immediate effect of Labour's 50p tax announcement might have been to move a few UKIP voters back to the Conservatives. But more data is needed.
Looking on the bright side, the 100% correlation between english (men) cricket defeats on the morning of a spurs thrashing later that day has continued AND there's only 2 more ODIs to go before the cricket is finally over in Oz. They don't play on Saturday hopefully?
the media, the politicians, the heads of the institutions of the state - those who's words influence policy and lead to action.
Blimey. Quite a conspiracy, then. Ed Miliband, David Cameron, Nick Clegg, the Queen, Richard Branson, Tony Hall, Rupert Murdoch, the list goes on. Do they meet somewhere to co-ordinate their evil establishmentness?
looks like 4 of the 7 went to oxford. murdoch is not really establishment (and resents it). the queen is the establishment. so you have one exception branson, though even he went to a public school. not going with the conspiracy theory, but the backgrounds do have something in common
YouGov feels better for Labour, even though the lead remains the same. Share edging back into high 30s. Will calm some nerves.
Labour's share looks as rock solid as it has done for years, it'll be astonishing if they don't poll mid-high 30s in 2015.
What's interesting in the last few YouGovs has been a small Tory uptick. Wonder what's caused that, or if it's just noise. Perhaps a few Fruitcakes are going home as the Tractor Stats look better?
You seem upset for some reason tonight,why all the insults ?
YouGov feels better for Labour, even though the lead remains the same. Share edging back into high 30s. Will calm some nerves.
Labour's share looks as rock solid as it has done for years, it'll be astonishing if they don't poll mid-high 30s in 2015.
What's interesting in the last few YouGovs has been a small Tory uptick. Wonder what's caused that, or if it's just noise. Perhaps a few Fruitcakes are going home as the Tractor Stats look better?
It does appear that there has been a smallish Tory uptick - perhaps a few less grumpy Kippers, otherwise unchanged. One thing seems certain, the rumour about 2010LD switchers sliding home appears baseless (assuming the cross tabs are in line again tomorrow)
YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead remains three points: CON 35%, LAB 38%, LD 10%, UKIP 11%
Onward we march, further we go, not knowing when we will be freed of the burden.
here you go friend
With a huge selection of aluminium football goal posts, full size steel football goalposts, samba mini-goals, five-a-side goals, plastic goals, portable goals, home goals and football goal & net accessories available to buy online at great prices.
www.footballgoalposts.co.uk
Have you found those stats yet or did you just make them up?
YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead remains three points: CON 35%, LAB 38%, LD 10%, UKIP 11%
Onward we march, further we go, not knowing when we will be freed of the burden.
here you go friend
With a huge selection of aluminium football goal posts, full size steel football goalposts, samba mini-goals, five-a-side goals, plastic goals, portable goals, home goals and football goal & net accessories available to buy online at great prices.
We had 2 inches of snow yesterday, starting at noon. About an hour later businesses, schools and government offices closed.
Everyone hit the roads at the same time. The interstates became parking lots. Then it began to freeze as the temperature plummeted.
Interstate exits are typically uphill, though a few are downhill. They became ice sheets. So the traffic couldn't get off the interstates.The regular roads backed up because traffic couldn't get on the interstates. Because the roads were clogged the few gritting trucks available couldn't do their job.
One of my neighbors arrived home at 11am today, having left work at 1pm yesterday. He had stayed the night in a Publix supermarket. Hundreds of people spent the night in gas stations, supermarkets, 24 hour stores like Walmart and Target, fire stations etc.
Some parts of the interstates are still gridlocked. The state has partnered with a wrecking company to move thousands of abandoned cars to the median or beside the roads. National Guard and state police are distributing gas to cars that ran out.
Over 3000 kids spent the night at their schools, because the school buses couldn't get through.
Schools and government offices are closed today and tomorrow.
I went out briefly today. It's a mess.
Roads will freeze again tonight and tomorrow morning will be a zoo.
All this on 2 inches of snow.
To be fair, snow events are comparatively rare here, so it doesn't make sense to spend the sort of money that cities in the northeast do on snow moving equipment.
On the funny side, local news scrolls all the school closures along the bottom of the screen, and you saw names like "Everlasting Life - closed tomorrow" and my favorite "Eternal Word - closed". Gives a new meaning to eternal and everlasting.
A few years back, we kept getting an intermittent flickering of our electricity supply here in rural Aberdeenshire. It became so annoying that we phoned to report it, and also to inquire as to what might be causing it. And I kid you not, we were told that it might actually be caused by cows rubbing up against the electricity poles!!
YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead remains three points: CON 35%, LAB 38%, LD 10%, UKIP 11%
Onward we march, further we go, not knowing when we will be freed of the burden.
here you go friend
With a huge selection of aluminium football goal posts, full size steel football goalposts, samba mini-goals, five-a-side goals, plastic goals, portable goals, home goals and football goal & net accessories available to buy online at great prices.
www.footballgoalposts.co.uk
Have you found those stats yet or did you just make them up?
The silence is deafening
It'll take you a few minutes to find the polling data tables from Mori or YouGov (a few minutes more for flipping ICM!). Heck you, could even come back and dazzle us with some stats of your own, poww!
To recap, it shows that Labour are about 4 times as popular as the Fruitcakes amongst working class voters, Tories 2-3 times as popular. Lib Dems are about as popular amongst "the WC" as UKIP.
Although UKIP are doing fairly well Vs the Greens amongst the working class, about twice as popular.
YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead remains three points: CON 35%, LAB 38%, LD 10%, UKIP 11%
Onward we march, further we go, not knowing when we will be freed of the burden.
here you go friend
With a huge selection of aluminium football goal posts, full size steel football goalposts, samba mini-goals, five-a-side goals, plastic goals, portable goals, home goals and football goal & net accessories available to buy online at great prices.
www.footballgoalposts.co.uk
Have you found those stats yet or did you just make them up?
The silence is deafening
It'll take you a few minutes to find the polling data tables from Mori or YouGov (a few minutes more for flipping ICM!). Heck you, could even come back and dazzle us with some stats of your own, poww!
To recap, it shows that Labour are about 4 times as popular as the Fruitcakes amongst working class voters, Tories 2-3 times as popular. Lib Dems are about as popular amongst "the WC" as UKIP.
Although UKIP are doing fairly well Vs the Greens amongst the working class, about twice as popular.
According to the same UKIP page I referenced below "The very wealthy pay very little tax".
1. Taxes are on income, not wealth. If UKIP is proposing a wealth tax (which actually makes a lot of economic sense, although it would be political suicide), then they should say so. 2. The top 1% of earners pay a third of all income tax. If this is "very little", then it is clearly some new meaning of the word "very" or the word "little" that I was previously unaware of.
YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead remains three points: CON 35%, LAB 38%, LD 10%, UKIP 11%
Onward we march, further we go, not knowing when we will be freed of the burden.
here you go friend
With a huge selection of aluminium football goal posts, full size steel football goalposts, samba mini-goals, five-a-side goals, plastic goals, portable goals, home goals and football goal & net accessories available to buy online at great prices.
www.footballgoalposts.co.uk
Have you found those stats yet or did you just make them up?
The silence is deafening
It'll take you a few minutes to find the polling data tables from Mori or YouGov (a few minutes more for flipping ICM!). Heck you, could even come back and dazzle us with some stats of your own, poww!
To recap, it shows that Labour are about 4 times as popular as the Fruitcakes amongst working class voters, Tories 2-3 times as popular. Lib Dems are about as popular amongst "the WC" as UKIP.
Although UKIP are doing fairly well Vs the Greens amongst the working class, about twice as popular.
Che Farage, voice of the working man.
I would n't know where to look, you post them.
Just put ", political poll" or similar in Google (other search engines are available. I assume you have the internet, don't you?)
Mind the spelling mistakes, those third thumbs can be cumbersome on keyboards.
YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead remains three points: CON 35%, LAB 38%, LD 10%, UKIP 11%
Onward we march, further we go, not knowing when we will be freed of the burden.
here you go friend
With a huge selection of aluminium football goal posts, full size steel football goalposts, samba mini-goals, five-a-side goals, plastic goals, portable goals, home goals and football goal & net accessories available to buy online at great prices.
www.footballgoalposts.co.uk
Have you found those stats yet or did you just make them up?
The silence is deafening
It'll take you a few minutes to find the polling data tables from Mori or YouGov (a few minutes more for flipping ICM!). Heck you, could even come back and dazzle us with some stats of your own, poww!
To recap, it shows that Labour are about 4 times as popular as the Fruitcakes amongst working class voters, Tories 2-3 times as popular. Lib Dems are about as popular amongst "the WC" as UKIP.
Although UKIP are doing fairly well Vs the Greens amongst the working class, about twice as popular.
YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead remains three points: CON 35%, LAB 38%, LD 10%, UKIP 11%
Onward we march, further we go, not knowing when we will be freed of the burden.
here you go friend
With a huge selection of aluminium football goal posts, full size steel football goalposts, samba mini-goals, five-a-side goals, plastic goals, portable goals, home goals and football goal & net accessories available to buy online at great prices.
www.footballgoalposts.co.uk
Have you found those stats yet or did you just make them up?
The silence is deafening
It'll take you a few minutes to find the polling data tables from Mori or YouGov (a few minutes more for flipping ICM!). Heck you, could even come back and dazzle us with some stats of your own, poww!
To recap, it shows that Labour are about 4 times as popular as the Fruitcakes amongst working class voters, Tories 2-3 times as popular. Lib Dems are about as popular amongst "the WC" as UKIP.
Although UKIP are doing fairly well Vs the Greens amongst the working class, about twice as popular.
Every single person in the UK would be better off under this system.
Someone earning - say - £4m a year would be £1m better off.
Now, I may be missing something, but why wouldn't we want a system where every single person in the country paid less tax?
It does seem weird to think that Public Sector employees are paid out of a fund derived from tax collected from others, and those wages are then taxed again!
CCHQ Press Office @CCHQPress 2 mins One Member, One Vote? Trade Unions could end up with EVEN MORE power over Labour leadership according to #Newsnight.
According to the same UKIP page I referenced below "The very wealthy pay very little tax".
1. Taxes are on income, not wealth. If UKIP is proposing a wealth tax (which actually makes a lot of economic sense, although it would be political suicide), then they should say so. 2. The top 1% of earners pay a third of all income tax. If this is "very little", then it is clearly some new meaning of the word "very" or the word "little" that I was previously unaware of.
By the way, and despite this somewhat snippy comment, the UKIP tax page is well worth reading. They are absolutely right that excessive taxation of work makes marginal businesses uneconomic and leads to increased unemployment.
YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead remains three points: CON 35%, LAB 38%, LD 10%, UKIP 11%
Onward we march, further we go, not knowing when we will be freed of the burden.
here you go friend
With a huge selection of aluminium football goal posts, full size steel football goalposts, samba mini-goals, five-a-side goals, plastic goals, portable goals, home goals and football goal & net accessories available to buy online at great prices.
www.footballgoalposts.co.uk
Have you found those stats yet or did you just make them up?
The silence is deafening
It'll take you a few minutes to find the polling data tables from Mori or YouGov (a few minutes more for flipping ICM!). Heck you, could even come back and dazzle us with some stats of your own, poww!
To recap, it shows that Labour are about 4 times as popular as the Fruitcakes amongst working class voters, Tories 2-3 times as popular. Lib Dems are about as popular amongst "the WC" as UKIP.
Although UKIP are doing fairly well Vs the Greens amongst the working class, about twice as popular.
Every single person in the UK would be better off under this system.
Someone earning - say - £4m a year would be £1m better off.
Now, I may be missing something, but why wouldn't we want a system where every single person in the country paid less tax?
It does seem weird to think that Public Sector employees are paid out of a fund derived from tax collected from others, and those wages are then taxed again!
Cosmic.
Can't work it out.
When the NI employers rise came in the NHS budget was hard hit.
I did a stint in the public-private hinterland sector once, everyone was so obsessed with their bloody BUDGET it had to be seen to be believed.
According to the same UKIP page I referenced below "The very wealthy pay very little tax".
1. Taxes are on income, not wealth. If UKIP is proposing a wealth tax (which actually makes a lot of economic sense, although it would be political suicide), then they should say so. 2. The top 1% of earners pay a third of all income tax. If this is "very little", then it is clearly some new meaning of the word "very" or the word "little" that I was previously unaware of.
By the way, and despite this somewhat snippy comment, the UKIP tax page is well worth reading. They are absolutely right that excessive taxation of work makes marginal businesses uneconomic and leads to increased unemployment.
YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead remains three points: CON 35%, LAB 38%, LD 10%, UKIP 11%
Onward we march, further we go, not knowing when we will be freed of the burden.
here you go friend
With a huge selection of aluminium football goal posts, full size steel football goalposts, samba mini-goals, five-a-side goals, plastic goals, portable goals, home goals and football goal & net accessories available to buy online at great prices.
www.footballgoalposts.co.uk
Have you found those stats yet or did you just make them up?
The silence is deafening
It'll take you a few minutes to find the polling data tables from Mori or YouGov (a few minutes more for flipping ICM!). Heck you, could even come back and dazzle us with some stats of your own, poww!
To recap, it shows that Labour are about 4 times as popular as the Fruitcakes amongst working class voters, Tories 2-3 times as popular. Lib Dems are about as popular amongst "the WC" as UKIP.
Although UKIP are doing fairly well Vs the Greens amongst the working class, about twice as popular.
Every single person in the UK would be better off under this system.
Someone earning - say - £4m a year would be £1m better off.
Now, I may be missing something, but why wouldn't we want a system where every single person in the country paid less tax?
It does seem weird to think that Public Sector employees are paid out of a fund derived from tax collected from others, and those wages are then taxed again!
According to the same UKIP page I referenced below "The very wealthy pay very little tax".
1. Taxes are on income, not wealth. If UKIP is proposing a wealth tax (which actually makes a lot of economic sense, although it would be political suicide), then they should say so. 2. The top 1% of earners pay a third of all income tax. If this is "very little", then it is clearly some new meaning of the word "very" or the word "little" that I was previously unaware of.
By the way, and despite this somewhat snippy comment, the UKIP tax page is well worth reading. They are absolutely right that excessive taxation of work makes marginal businesses uneconomic and leads to increased unemployment.
A lot of what UKIP say makes sense!
While I would be monumentally better off under UKIP's tax plans, I suspect they would raise a great deal less revenue than the current system.
YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead remains three points: CON 35%, LAB 38%, LD 10%, UKIP 11%
Onward we march, further we go, not knowing when we will be freed of the burden.
here you go friend
With a huge selection of aluminium football goal posts, full size steel football goalposts, samba mini-goals, five-a-side goals, plastic goals, portable goals, home goals and football goal & net accessories available to buy online at great prices.
www.footballgoalposts.co.uk
Have you found those stats yet or did you just make them up?
The silence is deafening
It'll take you a few minutes to find the polling data tables from Mori or YouGov (a few minutes more for flipping ICM!). Heck you, could even come back and dazzle us with some stats of your own, poww!
To recap, it shows that Labour are about 4 times as popular as the Fruitcakes amongst working class voters, Tories 2-3 times as popular. Lib Dems are about as popular amongst "the WC" as UKIP.
Although UKIP are doing fairly well Vs the Greens amongst the working class, about twice as popular.
Every single person in the UK would be better off under this system.
Someone earning - say - £4m a year would be £1m better off.
Now, I may be missing something, but why wouldn't we want a system where every single person in the country paid less tax?
It does seem weird to think that Public Sector employees are paid out of a fund derived from tax collected from others, and those wages are then taxed again!
Yes but remember that to calculate and collect all that tax which is paid by the public sector workers who have been paid from the taxes collected from other people, we have to have even more public sector workers who will also need to be paid from the taxes collected from the public sector workers who were paid from the taxes of other people, so they can pay their own taxes.
YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead remains three points: CON 35%, LAB 38%, LD 10%, UKIP 11%
Onward we march, further we go, not knowing when we will be freed of the burden.
here you go friend
With a huge selection of aluminium football goal posts, full size steel football goalposts, samba mini-goals, five-a-side goals, plastic goals, portable goals, home goals and football goal & net accessories available to buy online at great prices.
www.footballgoalposts.co.uk
Have you found those stats yet or did you just make them up?
The silence is deafening
It'll take you a few minutes to find the polling data tables from Mori or YouGov (a few minutes more for flipping ICM!). Heck you, could even come back and dazzle us with some stats of your own, poww!
To recap, it shows that Labour are about 4 times as popular as the Fruitcakes amongst working class voters, Tories 2-3 times as popular. Lib Dems are about as popular amongst "the WC" as UKIP.
Although UKIP are doing fairly well Vs the Greens amongst the working class, about twice as popular.
Every single person in the UK would be better off under this system.
Someone earning - say - £4m a year would be £1m better off.
Now, I may be missing something, but why wouldn't we want a system where every single person in the country paid less tax?
Someone earning under the current threshold would not be better off and, presumably, would lose even more access to services and benefits, both of which would have to be cut massively.
Is that good or bad? I honestly don't know, as it seems like a lot of parents want their kids at school from 8-5, so without having access beyond the paywall I don't know if 9 hours a day is to be portrayed as out of touch tories or good old tories.
ETA: Ah, seen the frontpage proper now - apparently a bad idea.
According to the same UKIP page I referenced below "The very wealthy pay very little tax".
1. Taxes are on income, not wealth. If UKIP is proposing a wealth tax (which actually makes a lot of economic sense, although it would be political suicide), then they should say so. 2. The top 1% of earners pay a third of all income tax. If this is "very little", then it is clearly some new meaning of the word "very" or the word "little" that I was previously unaware of.
By the way, and despite this somewhat snippy comment, the UKIP tax page is well worth reading. They are absolutely right that excessive taxation of work makes marginal businesses uneconomic and leads to increased unemployment.
A lot of what UKIP say makes sense!
While I would be monumentally better off under UKIP's tax plans, I suspect they would raise a great deal less revenue than the current system.
Maybe in direct taxation, but if people had more money in their pockets then the revenues come in through different avenues, plus of course the saving in welfare as more people are likely to be in work.
Is that good or bad? I honestly don't know, as it seems like a lot of parents want their kids at school from 8-5, so without having access beyond the paywall I don't know if 9 hours a day is to be portrayed as out of touch tories or good old tories.
I do like that 'Cameron faces Tory revolt' takes up such a small portion of the front page of the Telegraph. Admittedly, it isn't very newsworthy, being the natural state most of the time.
YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead remains three points: CON 35%, LAB 38%, LD 10%, UKIP 11%
Onward we march, further we go, not knowing when we will be freed of the burden.
here you go friend
With a huge selection of aluminium football goal posts, full size steel football goalposts, samba mini-goals, five-a-side goals, plastic goals, portable goals, home goals and football goal & net accessories available to buy online at great prices.
www.footballgoalposts.co.uk
Have you found those stats yet or did you just make them up?
The silence is deafening
It'll take you a few minutes to find the polling data tables from Mori or YouGov (a few minutes more for flipping ICM!). Heck you, could even come back and dazzle us with some stats of your own, poww!
To recap, it shows that Labour are about 4 times as popular as the Fruitcakes amongst working class voters, Tories 2-3 times as popular. Lib Dems are about as popular amongst "the WC" as UKIP.
Although UKIP are doing fairly well Vs the Greens amongst the working class, about twice as popular.
Every single person in the UK would be better off under this system.
Someone earning - say - £4m a year would be £1m better off.
Now, I may be missing something, but why wouldn't we want a system where every single person in the country paid less tax?
Someone earning under the current threshold would not be better off and, presumably, would lose even more access to services and benefits, both of which would have to be cut massively.
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But I've backed Spurs to win (@ 14/5 with bet365) and I've also backed City to score 4 or more goals @ 7/1 with William Hill
Sign up that linesman he's done well down that side
In danger of negative goal diff again and if Dzeko had been on form, it would have been a horrible score.
Straight red card for last man (non violent) = one game
Straight red is only 3 games for violent conduct.
Congratulations, Mr. Eagles, but I'm sure you only post tips when I'm not on.
If people are going to pose a question like that in a broadsheet then - how many SNP voters are going to die shooting up heroin with pox-covered needles huddled caked in their own shit in Glasgow slums before an independence vote?
Either both stereotypes are acceptable in the Telegraph or neither.
Any thoughts on the Six Nations?
Ok next up - YouGov will Labour at +7
Is it acceptable to create a false stereotype of the right when the equivalent false stereotype of the left wouldn't be tolerated?
I'll be without electricity a bit tomorrow and Friday, but I should be able to get on and comment.
Still surprised Wales were/are out at 5.5 for the Triple Crown.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25922514
It's no surprise they don't dive in with an opinion given what's happened to people in Denmark, Holland etc. At the end of the day they are just people doing their jobs, with families to go home to - the last thing they need is a death threat from a religious group that has killed before.
However, I do wish the 'establishment' had been stronger that day the Muslim extremists marched down Sloane St to the Danish embassy waving placards saying 'Death to all those who insult Islam' etc whilst chanting things like 'We will have your wives as war bounty'. We ceded ground to fundamentalism that day. Hence my admiration for the author of Jesus and Mo, who is making a small stand in the pursuit of freedom of expression.
YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead remains three points: CON 35%, LAB 38%, LD 10%, UKIP 11%
You know the ones, four times, twice that, half of this. As a Kipper I am really interested in seeing them.
The Lib Dems will be relieved to be in double figures.
Perhaps a slightly miffing poll for the kippers ?
David Jack @DJack_Journo 30s
Tonight's @thetimes front page: Labour's spending spree to cost £25bn. IFS exposes 'sleight of hand' by Balls
pic.twitter.com/3IIYtDsgrN
Oh hang on, it's coal mining. I demand all coal mining must stop immediately.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2548146/Welcome-Britains-EARTHQUAKE-capital-Sleepy-Nottinghamshire-town-hit-36-tremors-just-50-days-geologists-say-mining-blame.html
And more details:
http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/recent_events/ollerton_earthquakes.html
The silence is deafening
Nice tip for Dappy.
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Everyone hit the roads at the same time. The interstates became parking lots. Then it began to freeze as the temperature plummeted.
Interstate exits are typically uphill, though a few are downhill. They became ice sheets. So the traffic couldn't get off the interstates.The regular roads backed up because traffic couldn't get on the interstates. Because the roads were clogged the few gritting trucks available couldn't do their job.
One of my neighbors arrived home at 11am today, having left work at 1pm yesterday. He had stayed the night in a Publix supermarket. Hundreds of people spent the night in gas stations, supermarkets, 24 hour stores like Walmart and Target, fire stations etc.
Some parts of the interstates are still gridlocked. The state has partnered with a wrecking company to move thousands of abandoned cars to the median or beside the roads. National Guard and state police are distributing gas to cars that ran out.
Over 3000 kids spent the night at their schools, because the school buses couldn't get through.
Schools and government offices are closed today and tomorrow.
I went out briefly today. It's a mess.
Roads will freeze again tonight and tomorrow morning will be a zoo.
All this on 2 inches of snow.
To be fair, snow events are comparatively rare here, so it doesn't make sense to spend the sort of money that cities in the northeast do on snow moving equipment.
On the funny side, local news scrolls all the school closures along the bottom of the screen, and you saw names like "Everlasting Life - closed tomorrow" and my favorite "Eternal Word - closed". Gives a new meaning to eternal and everlasting.
Every single person in the UK would be better off under this system.
Someone earning - say - £4m a year would be £1m better off.
Now, I may be missing something, but why wouldn't we want a system where every single person in the country paid less tax?
1. Taxes are on income, not wealth. If UKIP is proposing a wealth tax (which actually makes a lot of economic sense, although it would be political suicide), then they should say so.
2. The top 1% of earners pay a third of all income tax. If this is "very little", then it is clearly some new meaning of the word "very" or the word "little" that I was previously unaware of.
Week 1 - 6.8
Week 2 - 5.4
Week 3 - 6.0
This week - 2.67 (average of 3 polls, 2 more polls to come)
So a discernible move. Whether random variation could give 3 polls in a row this low without the true position having changed, I don't know.
But, combined with the ComRes, there has to be a significant chance that the true lead has narrowed.
One Member, One Vote? Trade Unions could end up with EVEN MORE power over Labour leadership according to #Newsnight.
LOL
I did a stint in the public-private hinterland sector once, everyone was so obsessed with their bloody BUDGET it had to be seen to be believed.
Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone wants to extend his controversial double-points scheme to the last three races of the season.
Idiot.
Tomorrow's front page exclusive from @tnewtondunn: Tories' shock plans for Britain's schools http://bit.ly/1ibNJku pic.twitter.com/3M8bEQ8Gzi
Simples.
http://www.politicshome.com/uk/article/92129/the_sun_thursday_30th_january_2014.html
ETA: Ah, seen the frontpage proper now - apparently a bad idea.
School holidays do need shaking up though.
No tax on min wage
25% up to £100k
40% above that