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The April Ipsos-MORI Issues Index sees unemployment move into 2nd place with immigration down to 3rd. twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st…
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"I half expected Miliband to shout “How many seats? What’s it got to do with you, choirboy? Want a piece of me do you?!” But fortunately he kept his cool, and fell back on the tried and tested answer, “I think I’m going to do very well, but I can’t show it just in case I don’t, so I’m going to mutter some rubbish about it all being up the voters.” (I paraphrase.)
There are few rituals more tiresome than the local elections expectations-management game. Last time I looked, Labour was claiming that if it got the votes of two men and a dog in Cambridgeshire, it will represent a spectacular night. The Tories, in contrast, seem to be telling their supporters they should prepare to wake up on Friday morning to find southern England has become a people’s republic."
I think I can add one thing that is more tiresome than local elections expectations management - By-election expectations management and aftermath.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danhodges/100214586/councillors-are-a-partys-footsoldiers-the-local-elections-will-go-a-long-way-to-deciding-who-wins-in-2015/
Laughing at a joke made by the man serving you in a kebab shop will provide great anecdotal evidence that you are not a racist
Surprise your UKIP friends by singing 'Baa Baa Black Sheep' and not being arrested. Say the word 'blackboard' for added shock value
Hit back at David Cameron's suggestion that you are a 'closet racist' by being openly racist
Are you Danny Blanchflower in disguise ?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/10027920/Apple-to-break-borrowing-record-with-bond-to-fund-capital-return.html
"Although Apple has $137bn in cash, just over $100bn of it is outside America. Under US law, the Silicon Valley company would have to pay tax of up to 35pc on the money should it want to bring any of it back to give to shareholders. The bond sale, which is expected to be completed on Wednesday, offers the company a cheaper way of handing cash back to investors."
Scores of councils have been coping with thousands more people living in their area than was previously thought, the Office for National Statistics has disclosed
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10029027/Councils-coping-with-higher-population-figures-than-was-thought.html
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Apartment_Buildings_in_Tbilisi_(A).jpg/800px-Apartment_Buildings_in_Tbilisi_(A).jpg
I posted this last year that councils will soon be under pressure,so tim's idea is to build houses so we can fill them with new immigration,just brilliant.
Quality of life for those who don't own their home will be depressed for as long as property prices remain vastly inflated. The sensible course is for the government to end its policy of keeping house prices too high. In the meantime, we may as well address the symptoms and build some more houses.
well as you have been informed immigration makes us all richer. The bit I can't work out is why we aren't the most successful nation in Europe as a result. The only explanation possible is that Labour were such total crap at economic management that the huge benefits just got wiped out. ;-)
Build if you must - but build an airport, or train tracks or autobahns for driverless cars or nuclear power stations - why this obsession with knocking together cardboard boxes that will be unihabitable in 20 years ?
The private sector has built plenty of houses - and sold them - let them continue.
Officials have carried out a review of population figures in the light of the 2011 census, to give a truer picture of how many live in the country and to gauge the impact of a decade of mass immigration.
The census showed there were almost 500,000 more people living in England and Wales than was previously thought and prompted the ONS to revise its annual “mid year population estimates” for all 348 council areas across the country.
500,000 WTF
Or, to put it another way, a town the size of a plant pot every 700 acres or so!!
BRiTAin si FLUL!
Yes, Al Gore
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthage,_Tennessee
Ed Miliband admits misjudgment in World at One interview
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/30/ed-miliband-misjudgment-interview
The pound gained 0.3 percent to $1.5545 at 4:53 p.m. London time after climbing to $1.5546 yesterday, the most since Feb. 15.
Calm down, George! You are not meant to be overheating the economy!
Relaxing the planning laws would pose a serious threat to the major building firms' oligopoly.
Can you please display more respect for The Queen of Bithynia
I mean, it IS, but since voters think all parties are crap on the economy, it kind of cancels out. So things like immigration, the NHS etc grow in significance.
"Under the spotlight, he (Ed Miliband) too often sounds peevish, evasive and exasperated. This is not how the public expect a future Prime Minister to behave. More than halfway through a Parliament, and with a lacklustre coalition government struggling with its own internal tensions, Labour should be doing better. So should Mr Miliband."
Or, to put it another way, a town the size of a plant pot every 700 acres or so!!
BRiTAin si FLUL!
That would be sound,only problem the people are concentrated in our towns and cities,you would be right with British cities are full.
Good luck.
Osborne had the perfect opportunity to break up the oligopoly but would rather prop up their balance sheets and subsidise their profits.
This is how crap Hannibal was, Carthage doesn't exist anymore, but Rome is still here in the modern day.
Caesar, once again is King.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tomchiversscience/100214491/beyond-the-fringe-do-we-really-want-our-politicians-to-be-funny/
http://www.libdemvoice.org/nick-clegg-mp-writes-the-labour-and-tory-exodus-34302.html#utm_source=tweet&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=twitter
Osborne's policy, like the last administration's, has always been to keep house prices artificially high. Osborne is now compounding that error by trying to inflate them yet further. He has no real interest in sorting out the housing issue, because the political benefits would accrue after the next general election to the House of Commons. He is a Barberist barbarian, and when he ceases to be HM Chancellor of the Exchequer, the whole nation will be better for it.
The Prime Minister was there to win votes for the coming local elections. The Tories' message for this campaign is that they are the party "For Hardworking People", a message Mr Cameron communicates by making hardworking people down tools for an hour to listen to him speak.
The Morrisons depot staff had been sitting silently for 25 minutes by the time Mr Cameron strode through the aisles to greet them. In fact they'd been waiting so long they'd dozed off. At least, I assume that was why they didn't applaud.
I'll let other people judge what other parties are and what other parties do," he said vaguely, before adding that ultimately British politics was still about the Tories versus Labour. Although he didn't put it quite like that - what he actually said was, "the blue team" versus "the red team". Perhaps that's how his advisers have told him to put it during warehouse visits. "The working man likes association football, boss. Make it sound like association football."
A member of staff asked about the rising cost of living. Mr Cameron reminded him of the Government's freeze on fuel duty. "The fuel duty put in place by the last government was like a series of unexploded bombs, which we've had to defuse!" he cried heroically. ("The working man likes Bruce Willis films, boss. Make it sound like a Bruce Willis film.")
Restriction of supply, inflating the relative attractiveness of a specific investment class and subsidising the returns. A policy mix tailor made to inflating property prices.
Not to mentioned general crap economic management leading to a psychological bias towards real assets which won't be inflated into nothingness by spendthrift governments.
Or would've been, if Hannibal hadn't killed him.
But I don't think we like them to be too funny, probably because a lot of the times politicians try to be consistently funny (beyond the occasional line), they are not as amusing as they think, or their delivery not as good, and it damages their image instead. Lots of groaners among the good political lines.
Now, what odds that by the time I finish this post, someone says something like 'Cameron/Miliband are certainly pretty laughable'?
I doubt Ed worries about this in the slightest, either. He seems well up for the scrap, and certainly seems to know full well what he's up against.
Moreover, when you think about house prices you need to strip out the M25 (and arguably only the super-prime/prime-London segments). In most of the country house prices are not nearly as strong as the Express likes to believe.
Yesterday, one of my relatives thought that a caller claiming to be Ed M was a hoax or prank and she was being set up by her sister. The guy does deserve Respect, as Ali G would say. She really did chat to him.
If I hadn't lived my whole life in the Tory heartlands, and grown up with the most prominent Labour figure being the smarmy and odious Blair, I'd probably be seriously thinking about voting Labour right now. As it is, it'll probably still take a while to overcome such a background.
http://youtu.be/wBn1lsFvDNU
Kinnock proberly thought that as well,ed is no Kinnock ;-)
The point stands. Ed's opponents like Murdoch, Dacre and the Tories will define him how they see fit. No matter what. Ed needs to be (and I think is) up for that.
1) He did a stint on TMS, and he spoke like a true cricket fan, rather than a Jonny Come Lately politician trying to be a fan
2) In another interview he explained why he was so geeky/bookish. He said, his Dad was ill when he was at school, and he didn't want to stress his Dad out by getting bad results, so he concentrated on getting good results to cheer up his Dad.
Why don't you run along and find a nice bridge to sit under?
That creates an opportunity for our party.
No it doesn't. It means they'll be seen as even more 'in the pocket of the other lot' than they are by the respective supporters of each other party now. They can get away with such things, because they have much stronger core votes, which they take with them when they shift. The LDs do not appear to.
this has miraculously morphed into an Ed is crap thread. I did so miss them ;-)
However, I'm working in London on the 29th and 30th, so I need something to do on the evening of the 29th.
http://www.politicshome.com/uk/article/77452/the_daily_telegraph_tuesday_30th_april_2013.html
The government tried to relax the planning laws but were shouted down by vested interests. I suspect planning law is a Nixon/China issue, although Labour undermined even the most tentative steps that the last Tory government tried to make (such as (I think) pp7 exemptions)