"This morning, the Co-operative Party gathered alongside City journalists, residents of Tower Hamlets and representatives of the financial mutual sector to hear Ed Miliband give a speech at the London HQ of the Co-operative Bank. His speech, broadcast live, set out his vision of real change for Britain’s banks."
ISTR there are also problems with a third and fourth runway at Heathrow, as well; particularly with Southend and London City. Airspace is by its nature limited.
These problems can be sorted out; closure of Southend and downgrading of Heathrow would be a good start.
Schiphol might be more of a problem.
Compare to the current problems at Heathrow, and the brain-dead idea that a third runway is in any way a long-term solution.
(As an aside, we were at Legoland on Sunday; it closed an hour later due to being busy. We were still there as it was starting to get dark beyond eight, and the lights of the planes descending down to Heathrow was quite magnificent. Can't be very nice for those living underneath, though).
I struggle to see how the departure of Abu Qatada can be considered a blow to the government.
Nice to see that the National Institute estimates growth for the quarter to April at 0.8%. And revisions to the data on Construction Output could now wipe out any decline in overall output for Q1 2012.
I'm sure PB will welcome an unintended consequence of this by-election.
'The expectation at Holyrood is that list MSP Mark McDonald will resign his North East seat to fight the constituency.That would trigger the promotion of fellow list candidate Christian Allard, making him the first Frenchman to become a Member of the Scottish Parliament. Mr Allard, who is from Dijon, settled in Scotland 20 years ago and built a seafood exporting business.'
How does rEd square "the ethics of responsibility" with letting a political party run up a huge overdraft and then pay the bank to use it's premises - then watch it turn to junk ?
It will be interesting to see if the EU continue to push for the sale of the LloydsTSB branches that the Co-Op Bank turned down. Not sure who would want to buy them anyway as quite a few customers have moved away from those branches as they did not want to come under the Co-Op Bank.
Coming from SW, Wales or NW to Heathrow: train to Reading, there get the express coach from Reading Station to Heathrow - all in one ticket. Have used it many times and saves entering London.
Good to see that Sven. Would you like to stop projecting your DaneGeld when it comes to Europe...?
My friend (and work-colleague) was - as part of RM45-Commando (Whiskey) - dutied to protecting those who created the Euro. I can tell you, from pubs to train-stations (just for Dr Prasannan) that there is no wish to support the Euro-Zone in The Netherlands.
England is becoming the exemplar. Which probably shows your disconnect and incomprehension of the normal European worker. How are your luxuary flats; and who is paying for them...?
Eastleigh was a Con/LD marginal, the Conservatives came third in the by-election.
I'm well aware of that but it hardly the only type of marginal nor is Eastleigh anything other than unique in it's circumstance. Thanks to Huhne.
The bit you left out is self-evident.
"There is no one-size-fits-all strategy for dealing with the Ukip problem."
The main uncertainties are how solid the ukip vote is and how solid the lib dem vote is. Current polling notwithstanding it would be a very brave bet that the lib dems will not win any seats while a UKIP seat is far from assured.
Bad news about the co-op bank, but it shows the problems any small 'regional' proper banks might well have in the future...
If you are going to run a banking system in a capitalist fashion then it follows that you have to allow some banks to fail if they are badly run. In this context occasional failure is a good thing.
In the short-term you can allow successful banks to gobble up the failing banks, but as we have seen this creates the situation where the remaining banks are too big to fail, and they are bailed out at enormous cost, and hang around as zombie institutions, blocking the path to recovery.
There are only two ways out of this predicament. Either you do whatever is necessary to ensure that there is a steady supply of new banks to replace failed banks, or you run banking as a state institution. Dithering as we are at present, in the hope that the problem will go away temporarily in time for the next election, is ridiculous.
It will be interesting to see if the EU continue to push for the sale of the LloydsTSB branches that the Co-Op Bank turned down. Not sure who would want to buy them anyway as quite a few customers have moved away from those branches as they did not want to come under the Co-Op Bank.
Coming from SW, Wales or NW to Heathrow: train to Reading, there get the express coach from Reading Station to Heathrow - all in one ticket. Have used it many times and saves entering London.
Yep, done that journey myself in the past. Although it involves what has to be the worst mode of public transport ever devised - the long-distance coach. At least if you are over six feet tall...
"This morning, the Co-operative Party gathered alongside City journalists, residents of Tower Hamlets and representatives of the financial mutual sector to hear Ed Miliband give a speech at the London HQ of the Co-operative Bank. His speech, broadcast live, set out his vision of real change for Britain’s banks."
"As the Labour Party's banker, the Co-op Bank finds itself uncomfortably close to the "loans for honours" affair. While Blair was arranging loans from friendly businessmen, the Co-op Bank was extending Labour's overdraft facilities to £11m and lending money secured on the party's empty headquarters in Westminster.
The Co-op Bank has links, both financial and personal, deep inside the Labour machine, particularly with Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Ed Balls, his former right-hand man, and a slew of influential MPs, Lords, MSPs and members of the Welsh assembly."
Eastleigh was a Con/LD marginal, the Conservatives came third in the by-election.
I'm well aware of that but it hardly the only type of marginal nor is Eastleigh anything other than unique in it's circumstance. Thanks to Huhne.
The bit you left out is self-evident.
"There is no one-size-fits-all strategy for dealing with the Ukip problem."
The main uncertainties are how solid the ukip vote is and how solid the lib dem vote is. Current polling notwithstanding it would be a very brave bet that the lib dems will not win any seats while a UKIP seat is far from assured.
The original ConHome article looks at marginals, based on the 2010 vote shares. Musing about whether the Conservatives should target the 2010 LD voters, or the 2010 UKIP voters.
This is denying reality. The 2010 Conservative voter coalition has broken.
If we look at Corby. Labour increased their vote, perhaps by the addition of 2010 LD voters, but that is not the reason the Conservatives lost. The 2010 Conservative vote had collapsed.
Bad news about the co-op bank, but it shows the problems any small 'regional' proper banks might well have in the future...
If you are going to run a banking system in a capitalist fashion then it follows that you have to allow some banks to fail if they are badly run. In this context occasional failure is a good thing.
In the short-term you can allow successful banks to gobble up the failing banks, but as we have seen this creates the situation where the remaining banks are too big to fail, and they are bailed out at enormous cost, and hang around as zombie institutions, blocking the path to recovery.
There are only two ways out of this predicament. Either you do whatever is necessary to ensure that there is a steady supply of new banks to replace failed banks, or you run banking as a state institution. Dithering as we are at present, in the hope that the problem will go away temporarily in time for the next election, is ridiculous.
It now looks like the US has a good chance of taking some action on Too Big To Fail. There's a Senate bill that's been put forward that would put a much higher capital requirement for banks above a certain size. This should encourage decentralisation in the industry. It's a great idea and we should do it here.
"This morning, the Co-operative Party gathered alongside City journalists, residents of Tower Hamlets and representatives of the financial mutual sector to hear Ed Miliband give a speech at the London HQ of the Co-operative Bank. His speech, broadcast live, set out his vision of real change for Britain’s banks."
"As the Labour Party's banker, the Co-op Bank finds itself uncomfortably close to the "loans for honours" affair. While Blair was arranging loans from friendly businessmen, the Co-op Bank was extending Labour's overdraft facilities to £11m and lending money secured on the party's empty headquarters in Westminster.
The Co-op Bank has links, both financial and personal, deep inside the Labour machine, particularly with Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Ed Balls, his former right-hand man, and a slew of influential MPs, Lords, MSPs and members of the Welsh assembly."
@Socrates.Boris Island is on the wrong side of London, full stop.
Depends on what you mean by the "wrong"side.
If one of your objectives is to reduce noise pollution it is on the "right side" ~ 70% of approaches into Heathrow are westerly - over the city of London. Moving the airport to East of London would have these approaches over the sea.
I'm not arguing with the desirability of the Thames island - I think it's a good idea, however isn't there also an issue with interfering with the approach path to Schipol?
In the interests of balance, does our host also have a Scottish poll to report showing that the independence campaign has closed the gap a little?
What poll is that, I know OGH loves doing threads on Scottish Independence.
Hopefully he can incorporate this story into it as well.
SNP ministers will be bound by law to cease campaigning for independence 28 days before the referendum but UK ministers can legally promote the Union until the polls close, according to experts.
This is denying reality. The 2010 Conservative voter coalition has broken.
You'll have to remind me of this coalition 'pact' I can't seem to remember any such thing. The fact that some tories were upset at the UKIP 3.1% vote in 2010, and even blamed it for Cammie not getting a majority, does miss the point that repositioning usually means swapping one set of voters for another. It's a question of which voters you alienate and which you enthuse by targeting because there is no way to appeal to all of them reliably. A protest vote can harvest some from all but it is by it's nature a more brittle and softer vote come a GE.
If we look at Corby. Labour increased their vote, perhaps by the addition of 2010 LD voters, but that is not the reason the Conservatives lost. The 2010 Conservative vote had collapsed.
Bad news about the co-op bank, but it shows the problems any small 'regional' proper banks might well have in the future...
If you are going to run a banking system in a capitalist fashion then it follows that you have to allow some banks to fail if they are badly run. In this context occasional failure is a good thing.
In the short-term you can allow successful banks to gobble up the failing banks, but as we have seen this creates the situation where the remaining banks are too big to fail, and they are bailed out at enormous cost, and hang around as zombie institutions, blocking the path to recovery.
There are only two ways out of this predicament. Either you do whatever is necessary to ensure that there is a steady supply of new banks to replace failed banks, or you run banking as a state institution. Dithering as we are at present, in the hope that the problem will go away temporarily in time for the next election, is ridiculous.
It now looks like the US has a good chance of taking some action on Too Big To Fail. There's a Senate bill that's been put forward that would put a much higher capital requirement for banks above a certain size. This should encourage decentralisation in the industry. It's a great idea and we should do it here.
A nation monument should be erected for SETH PROCTOR the Libdem candidate in two of yesterdays local by elections. In one he polled 3 votes and the other 32 votes. What a man
Which of these statements comes closest to your view...?
According to the great British public, Labour and Lib Dems are both nice but dim (soft hearted but useless) and the Conservatives are mean and dim (callous but useless).
What a bunch to pick from!
Those polled would prefer Labour led by Miliband to Conservatives led by Cameron by 41-40.
Which of these statements comes closest to your view...?
According to the great British public, Labour and Lib Dems are both nice but dim (soft hearted but useless) and the Conservatives are mean and dim (callous but useless).
What a bunch to pick from!
Those polled would prefer Labour led by Miliband to Conservatives led by Cameron by 41-40.
Sky News Newsdesk @SkyNewsBreak Home Sec Theresa May announces creation of independent panel to investigate unsolved murder of private investigator Daniel Morgan in 1987
@Socrates.Boris Island is on the wrong side of London, full stop.
Depends on what you mean by the "wrong"side.
If one of your objectives is to reduce noise pollution it is on the "right side" ~ 70% of approaches into Heathrow are westerly - over the city of London. Moving the airport to East of London would have these approaches over the sea.
I'm not arguing with the desirability of the Thames island - I think it's a good idea, however isn't there also an issue with interfering with the approach path to Schipol?
If aircraft are approaching Boris island from the East, it's unlikely they would be approaching Schipol from the west.
Much more alarming are those of all parties who believe that there should be no age limit, 5%, and those saying 14 or under, 8%.
However the most interesting result are the 1% of Tories and 1% of Labour voters who think that having sex with someone of the opposite sex should be illegal!
So, there it is. Initial estimates were that in Q4 2011, Q1 2012 and Q2 2012, the economy contracted by a sharp 1.4%. Now it's been revised to a contraction of 0.5%, and I think that Q1 2012 will eventually be revised to show growth.
1% of people believe it shouldn't be legal to send people to prison. So what should the punishment for sending people to prison be? I think we need stiffer deterrents.
15% of UKIP voters believe sex between people of the same sex should be illegal 9% Tories 6% Labour 3% LD
Actually that is a surprising stat.
you would expect a party that is against gay marriage to have supporters that think gay sex should be illegal
I would have expected the gap between UKIP voters and Labour to me far bigger than 9 per 100
1% of people believe it shouldn't be legal to send people to prison. So what should the punishment for sending people to prison be? I think we need stiffer deterrents.
15% of UKIP voters believe sex between people of the same sex should be illegal 9% Tories 6% Labour 3% LD
Actually that is a surprising stat.
you would expect a party that is against gay marriage to have supporters that think gay sex should be illegal
I would have expected the gap between UKIP voters and Labour to me far bigger than 9 per 100
Actually, I think that stats like these are, in common parlance, a load of bollocks.
1% of people believe it shouldn't be legal to send people to prison. So what should the punishment for sending people to prison be? I think we need stiffer deterrents.
15% of UKIP voters believe sex between people of the same sex should be illegal 9% Tories 6% Labour 3% LD
When you get to a result of 1-2%, with just a few hundred respondents in the category, you are well in the noise floor. Some respondents will have misunderstood the question, whilst others will not be taking it seriously.
The higher the percentage, the more that effect will be reduced by real responses.
But prison is outdated. What we need are trebuchets - the harsher the sentence, the greater the fling!
1% of people believe it shouldn't be legal to send people to prison. So what should the punishment for sending people to prison be? I think we need stiffer deterrents.
15% of UKIP voters believe sex between people of the same sex should be illegal 9% Tories 6% Labour 3% LD
Actually that is a surprising stat.
you would expect a party that is against gay marriage to have supporters that think gay sex should be illegal
I would have expected the gap between UKIP voters and Labour to me far bigger than 9 per 100
Actually, I think that stats like these are, in common parlance, a load of bollocks.
I would have thought a lot of people take the piss with their answer
pity the gullible that treat stats from opinion polls as facts
no opposition party has gone on to win without at some point achieving an opinion poll lead of at least 20%. Labour has not come close to this since 2010.
The largest opinion poll lead I can find for Labour is 16%, from Angus Reid on 2012-05-31 and TNS BMRB on 2012-09-21
In the last Parliament, the Conservatives once enjoyed a 28% lead in an Ipsos-MORI poll on 2008-09-14
In the interests of balance, does our host also have a Scottish poll to report showing that the independence campaign has closed the gap a little?
What poll is that, I know OGH loves doing threads on Scottish Independence.
I have no knowledge of such a poll, but it seemed that one would give a nice symmetry to yesterday's threads. And we all love threads on Scottish independence.
An interesting stat from last year's presidential election: for the first time ever the percentage turnout among black voters was higher than among white voters.
An interesting stat from last year's presidential election: for the first time ever the percentage turnout among black voters was higher than among white voters.
Since December 2004 and May 2010 the average tenure of a Home Secretary has been 16 months.
Theresa May 36 months and counting.
According to wikipedia, Blunkett was the first Home Secretary to try to deport Abu Qatada in 2002. Since then he has seen off, in a manner of speaking, 5 Labour Home Secretaries.
If May remains Home Secretary until the 2015 general election, she will have been the longest-serving Home Secretary since Butler (January 1957 - July 1962).
Libdems polling still dire, last weeks local elections saw thirty three years of local election advances wiped out (14% national projected vote share, only 1% higher than their tally in 1980) for the lib dems, Clegg's popularity still two words to raise a smile from most people..
Clearly time for Dan Hodges to pop up and claim a Clegg and lib dem comeback is imminent.
"Hayes said the unions are likely to call for a public inquiry into what went wrong at Co-op Bank and may call for clawbacks to any bonuses paid to executives."
That YouGov poll on criminal offences is scary. The 38% of members of the public who think that watching porn should be illegal until age 18 must come from the planet that the internet forgot. The average male teenager is just starting to get slightly bored with porn by age 18, having exhausted the potential of midget lego goat porn.
Kudos to the 1% of voters who think that it should not be legal to stand for Parliament.
Economics is not known as the dismal science for nothing. About a month ago I expressed the view, somewhat tentively at first, that the UK economy had turned the corner. I think the evidence since then has been very supportive of that and many are now forecasting that Q2 will exceed the 0.3 of Q1.
Later this year we will start to see the benefit of the boost in investment in north sea oil. At the moment the north sea remains a drag on perfromance, as it has been the last few years. As the breaks come off our economy is going to accelerate.
Which, of course, is where the dismal bit comes in. My guess is that by the end of this year or possibly very early next year base rates will start to increase. This is necessary as the economy returns to something like normal but there are still a lot of businesses and households hanging on as a result of negative real interest rates. As rates increase a lot of home owners, who have got used to very modest mortgages, are going to feel real pain. Is there a danger this will diminish or even eliminate the boost the tories ought to get from the economic upturn?
Over half of Scots want to see a Trident replacement and based in Faslane. So give it three months until Salmond's demanding an upgrade of facilities and accusing HMG of weakening Scotland's defences ?
On topic, are we now back to pretending that Labour has a 9% lead again and that the 4% on a poll with in excess of 5m voters on a day when Yougov was saying Labour had a lead of 11 didn't really happen?
Or are we saying that Labour now probably has a lead of 2%? That at least would be consistent with the forced choice of Ed Miliband and David Cameron.
That YouGov poll on criminal offences is scary. The 38% of members of the public who think that watching porn should be illegal until age 18 must come from the planet that the internet forgot. The average male teenager is just starting to get slightly bored with porn by age 18, having exhausted the potential of midget lego goat porn.
Kudos to the 1% of voters who think that it should not be legal to stand for Parliament.
That's actually 50% of people who think porn should be illegal till 18 or above.
I assume it might be a case of knowing that people are going to break it, but valuing it anyway.
(As an aside, we were at Legoland on Sunday; it closed an hour later due to being busy. We were still there as it was starting to get dark beyond eight, and the lights of the planes descending down to Heathrow was quite magnificent. Can't be very nice for those living underneath, though).
Which is why they were able to buy their properties cheap.
We looked at one in the area - was at least half what a comparable property would have been away from the Heathrow flight path. Ultimately decided not to go with it, because my wife felt she wouldn't have been able to enjoy the garden
Apparently sector 3 times in Spain are good pointers for Monaco. The commentators seem to think Mercedes will be good at Monaco (ie in with a chance of winning).
(As an aside, we were at Legoland on Sunday; it closed an hour later due to being busy. We were still there as it was starting to get dark beyond eight, and the lights of the planes descending down to Heathrow was quite magnificent. Can't be very nice for those living underneath, though).
Which is why they were able to buy their properties cheap.
We looked at one in the area - was at least half what a comparable property would have been away from the Heathrow flight path. Ultimately decided not to go with it, because my wife felt she wouldn't have been able to enjoy the garden
Can you imagine if the MPs transport committee had been in charge of the new Hong Kong airport ? It would still be being debated.
Housing costs: just pay the cost of a reasonable hotel in central London ever night they need to be there.
If you want to get rid of any MP's with a family thats a very good idea.
Surely an MP's family lives in one place or the other?
I think there are arguments against the hotel-method, because MPs would likely need a 'home' study in their London living arrangements. The sensible thing is for parliament simply to buy out an entire block of flats that can be used by MPs.
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Today is Friday. As a good Catholic I will be consuming some fish later; Battered Haddock* to be precise.
And in other news:
Fluctuations occur within an "opinion" poll sample. Here is the weather....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u0xSoyNvOA
* This sea-food was not PIE-ed by 'Arriet 'ArdBint. All taste has been - hopefully - preserved....
http://www.party.coop/2012/07/09/ed-miliband-mp-sets-out-his-banking-reform-plans-at-the-co-operative-bank-hq/
"This morning, the Co-operative Party gathered alongside City journalists, residents of Tower Hamlets and representatives of the financial mutual sector to hear Ed Miliband give a speech at the London HQ of the Co-operative Bank. His speech, broadcast live, set out his vision of real change for Britain’s banks."
One nation one bank one downgrade to junk... ?
These problems can be sorted out; closure of Southend and downgrading of Heathrow would be a good start.
Schiphol might be more of a problem.
Compare to the current problems at Heathrow, and the brain-dead idea that a third runway is in any way a long-term solution.
(As an aside, we were at Legoland on Sunday; it closed an hour later due to being busy. We were still there as it was starting to get dark beyond eight, and the lights of the planes descending down to Heathrow was quite magnificent. Can't be very nice for those living underneath, though).
Nice to see that the National Institute estimates growth for the quarter to April at 0.8%. And revisions to the data on Construction Output could now wipe out any decline in overall output for Q1 2012.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/political-news/ukip-ready-to-field-by-election-candidate.21032655
http://www.labour.org.uk/rebuilding-britain-real-change-for-britains-banks,2012-07-09
"Ed Miliband MP, Leader of the Labour Party, said:
It is a pleasure to be here at the Co-op.
You have always understood that ethics of responsibility, co-operation and stewardship must be at the heart of what you do."
I'm sure PB will welcome an unintended consequence of this by-election.
'The expectation at Holyrood is that list MSP Mark McDonald will resign his North East seat to fight the constituency.That would trigger the promotion of fellow list candidate Christian Allard, making him the first Frenchman to become a Member of the Scottish Parliament. Mr Allard, who is from Dijon, settled in Scotland 20 years ago and built a seafood exporting business.'
Anyone want this mob running the country again ?
The 2010 data is just out of date.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election#Graphical_summary
It will be interesting to see if the EU continue to push for the sale of the LloydsTSB branches that the Co-Op Bank turned down. Not sure who would want to buy them anyway as quite a few customers have moved away from those branches as they did not want to come under the Co-Op Bank.
@JosiasJessop
Coming from SW, Wales or NW to Heathrow: train to Reading, there get the express coach from Reading Station to Heathrow - all in one ticket. Have used it many times and saves entering London.
So much for Ed's banking reforms as his flagship junk Co-Op sinks.
My friend (and work-colleague) was - as part of RM45-Commando (Whiskey) - dutied to protecting those who created the Euro. I can tell you, from pubs to train-stations (just for Dr Prasannan) that there is no wish to support the Euro-Zone in The Netherlands.
England is becoming the exemplar. Which probably shows your disconnect and incomprehension of the normal European worker. How are your luxuary flats; and who is paying for them...?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOWA-L3JZO4
One nation one bank one downgrade.
ROFLMAO.
Was the then labour government at all involved in that transaction, I wonder?
The bit you left out is self-evident.
"There is no one-size-fits-all strategy for dealing with the Ukip problem."
The main uncertainties are how solid the ukip vote is and how solid the lib dem vote is.
Current polling notwithstanding it would be a very brave bet that the lib dems will not win any seats while a UKIP seat is far from assured.
In the short-term you can allow successful banks to gobble up the failing banks, but as we have seen this creates the situation where the remaining banks are too big to fail, and they are bailed out at enormous cost, and hang around as zombie institutions, blocking the path to recovery.
There are only two ways out of this predicament. Either you do whatever is necessary to ensure that there is a steady supply of new banks to replace failed banks, or you run banking as a state institution. Dithering as we are at present, in the hope that the problem will go away temporarily in time for the next election, is ridiculous.
"As the Labour Party's banker, the Co-op Bank finds itself uncomfortably close to the "loans for honours" affair. While Blair was arranging loans from friendly businessmen, the Co-op Bank was extending Labour's overdraft facilities to £11m and lending money secured on the party's empty headquarters in Westminster.
The Co-op Bank has links, both financial and personal, deep inside the Labour machine, particularly with Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Ed Balls, his former right-hand man, and a slew of influential MPs, Lords, MSPs and members of the Welsh assembly."
Great-circle or linear method? You should - really - stop do this so obviously....
This is denying reality. The 2010 Conservative voter coalition has broken.
If we look at Corby. Labour increased their vote, perhaps by the addition of 2010 LD voters, but that is not the reason the Conservatives lost. The 2010 Conservative vote had collapsed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corby_by-election,_2012#Result
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/10048704/There-was-no-UK-double-dip-recession-ONS-data-suggests.html
Hopefully he can incorporate this story into it as well.
SNP ministers will be bound by law to cease campaigning for independence 28 days before the referendum but UK ministers can legally promote the Union until the polls close, according to experts.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/legal-experts-snp-bound-by-law-to-stop-independence-campaign-28-days-before-referendum.1368097653
I remember the good old days, when we didn't have the daily tracker, and we were forced to analyse sub samples to the nth degree.
The fact that some tories were upset at the UKIP 3.1% vote in 2010, and even blamed it for Cammie not getting a majority, does miss the point that repositioning usually means swapping one set of voters for another. It's a question of which voters you alienate and which you enthuse by targeting because there is no way to appeal to all of them reliably. A protest vote can harvest some from all but it is by it's nature a more brittle and softer vote come a GE. You do realise if you add the UKIP vote to the Con one they still lose?
Is Nigel Farage a racist?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/shortcuts/2013/may/10/is-nigel-farage-racist
Yes - those ones.
This is a speech by George Osborne hailing 2013 as the year we changed British banks, including the planned sale of Lloyds branches to… the Co-op.
Which deal then collapsed?
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/
Coalition 1 (Miliband E. og) Labour 0.
What a man
http://www.party.coop/lists/members-of-parliament/
Your bank took one hell of a hammering.
Which of these statements comes closest to your view...?
According to the great British public, Labour and Lib Dems are both nice but dim (soft hearted but useless) and the Conservatives are mean and dim (callous but useless).
What a bunch to pick from!
Those polled would prefer Labour led by Miliband to Conservatives led by Cameron by 41-40.
http://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/5pk92znec2/YG-Progress-results-040313-nasty-or-nice.pdf
(Edit: From the end of February apparently)
Farage is an unashamed public school boy , Dulwich ; Cameron's problem is that he's embarrassed by his excellent education.
Schipol is nearly 200 miles from "Boris Island."
However the most interesting result are the 1% of Tories and 1% of Labour voters who think that having sex with someone of the opposite sex should be illegal!
It shows the limitations of polling.
What's weirder?
you would expect a party that is against gay marriage to have supporters that think gay sex should be illegal
I would have expected the gap between UKIP voters and Labour to me far bigger than 9 per 100
UKIP voters are more socially conservative than average
Theresa May 36 months and counting.
The higher the percentage, the more that effect will be reduced by real responses.
But prison is outdated. What we need are trebuchets - the harsher the sentence, the greater the fling!
(Mr Dancer: Enormo-Haddocks have made an appearance on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChrisBryantMP/status/324129424473726976 )
Des Lynam has come out for UKIP.
I would have thought a lot of people take the piss with their answer
pity the gullible that treat stats from opinion polls as facts
It includes the observation that:The largest opinion poll lead I can find for Labour is 16%, from Angus Reid on 2012-05-31 and TNS BMRB on 2012-09-21
In the last Parliament, the Conservatives once enjoyed a 28% lead in an Ipsos-MORI poll on 2008-09-14
D'you like the banner of House Dancer?
http://i.imgur.com/h4VxBN9.png
http://www.spectator.co.uk/life/the-wiki-man/8905211/how-to-fix-an-election/
Celeb endorsement of the day: Des Lynam for UKIP.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danhodges/100216130/nick-cleggs-coffin-lid-is-creaking-are-we-witnessing-the-resurrection-of-the-lib-dems/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/local-elections/10048826/Councillor-disowns-daughter-after-she-unseats-him-in-election.html
http://www.maxfarquar.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/David-Cameron-George-Osborne-Send-in-the-clowns.jpg
An interesting stat from last year's presidential election: for the first time ever the percentage turnout among black voters was higher than among white voters.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/may/09/gareth-bale-tottenham-hotspur
If May remains Home Secretary until the 2015 general election, she will have been the longest-serving Home Secretary since Butler (January 1957 - July 1962).
Clearly time for Dan Hodges to pop up and claim a Clegg and lib dem comeback is imminent.
Textbook.
http://youtu.be/pfa3MHLLSWI
Des Lynam's parents were Irish immigrant nurses who came to Britain after the war. He was born in the Irish republic..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/may/10/cooperative-bank-chief-quits-moodys-downgrade
I'm not sure Labour will want that
'slow progress on integrating the Britannia building society which it took over three years ago.'
IT disaster?
'Hayes said the unions are likely to call for a public inquiry into what went wrong at Co-op Bank'
It's up to the shareholders to hold the bank and it's directors to account. No need for a publicly funded enquiry.
Thinking further, that might be the problem. Does the Co Op Bank have shareholders as such, capable of influence over the board and executives?
Just about the last thing labour would want, I'd have thought....
Kudos to the 1% of voters who think that it should not be legal to stand for Parliament.
If you'd left off "for UKIP" it could have been a shock ;-)
Later this year we will start to see the benefit of the boost in investment in north sea oil. At the moment the north sea remains a drag on perfromance, as it has been the last few years. As the breaks come off our economy is going to accelerate.
Which, of course, is where the dismal bit comes in. My guess is that by the end of this year or possibly very early next year base rates will start to increase. This is necessary as the economy returns to something like normal but there are still a lot of businesses and households hanging on as a result of negative real interest rates. As rates increase a lot of home owners, who have got used to very modest mortgages, are going to feel real pain. Is there a danger this will diminish or even eliminate the boost the tories ought to get from the economic upturn?
Over half of Scots want to see a Trident replacement and based in Faslane. So give it three months until Salmond's demanding an upgrade of facilities and accusing HMG of weakening Scotland's defences ?
http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/top-stories/over-half-of-scots-want-trident-replacement-poll-1-2925653
Or are we saying that Labour now probably has a lead of 2%? That at least would be consistent with the forced choice of Ed Miliband and David Cameron.
That's actually 50% of people who think porn should be illegal till 18 or above.
I assume it might be a case of knowing that people are going to break it, but valuing it anyway.
I'd be happy to pay the cost of a hotel in their constituency instead.
We looked at one in the area - was at least half what a comparable property would have been away from the Heathrow flight path. Ultimately decided not to go with it, because my wife felt she wouldn't have been able to enjoy the garden
I think there are arguments against the hotel-method, because MPs would likely need a 'home' study in their London living arrangements. The sensible thing is for parliament simply to buy out an entire block of flats that can be used by MPs.