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Matthew Goodwin @GoodwinMJ · 46m46 minutes ago
Would you prefer a cut in tax you pay or cut in no. of migrants coming to Britain? All voters vs Ukip
Source: YouGov pic.twitter.com/EuEOVZ0ucC
will Conservative backbenchers manage to screw their chances by trying to axe Cameron before Labour backbenchers can damage their party beyond repair by briefing so much against Miliband it drives their polling through the floor?
Mr. Isam, money's much like oxygen - it's importance becomes apparent when your supply is insufficient for your needs.
Who are the suspects in this drama?
Someone has to pay the taxes.
Having some difference of opinion in a party is a good thing.
Is this what Ed's pledges for a London-style bus service op north was all about?
I don't see anything resembling that in the cartoon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krazy_Kat
Maybe I'm just allergic to the Blair presidential style where all dissent is suppressed.
What levers do Cameron and Ed is crap have at their disposal to transform this country's fortunes, even if they wanted to? Having a full number of digits doesn't make you a concert pianist -but you sure as sh*t won't become one if you only have one or two.
We don't want to get people feeling sorry for ed.
ie If Labour MPs don't think he is good enough to be PM, then the public will be more likely to think he isn't good enough to be PM.
Lab 1.88
Con 2.18
http://www.betfair.com/exchange/politics/market?id=1.101416473
I suspect the former.
Panelbase Scottish poll has SNP with the 17% lead over LAB on Westminster voting. SNP 45 LAB 28 CON 15 UKIP 7 LD 3 GRN 1"
https://twitter.com/MSmithsonPB
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/david-cameron-is-in-danger-of-becoming-a-poor-impression-of-nigel-farage-9844972.html
I think there is a degree that Labour is suffering from localism/devolution/whatever following the Scottish goings on - perhaps these NW MPs are disconnected from Ed's London mob (I know he's really from Doncaster North obviously). Some of the London mob must be in on this though - it's a BBC report!
Cameron and Miliband battling for most seats, not majorities.
Mr Mitchell said: "There were a lot of people who wanted us to burn Katie Hopkins again but she's put all that weight on so building her would have been a lot of extra work."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-29917779
Not sure that Ed does himself favours trotting out hackneyed phrases Costa Living Crisis, NHS...
Hostile press didn't ask Ed Miliband to drop coins in that beggar's cup. Their photos made him look like a tight wad, his actions made police, Big Issue and some Social Services angry.
Ed M - image hapless. Almost impossible to zoom up the heights of popularity.
What the UK needs is an increase in the quality and motivation of the available UK born workfoce such as would make them worth employing.
To be fair 90% of new jobs created in 2013 were to UK nationals
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/13/uk-jobs-british-nationals-romanians-bulgarians
There are long traditions of dead people voting, often several times!
Cue "IPSOS MORI were the most accurate at counting flies on the wall at the last PB meet etc tec"
Arf !
Smug London bubble-dweller alert.
His piece is predicated around the outlier Mori poll.
Oh well, no one reads the Independent anyway.
Very "new politics"
Is that you Weathercock
What we really need is a govt that doesn't waste so much.
Who's Weathercock? (innocent face)
Absurdest fantasy...
Yes I agree
But more jobs are being dragged down to minimum wage level by economic migrants
I freely confess this is a protectionist move, and I dont care if UKIP used to be a free market libertarian rah rah rah party
I have always been a Labour voter, and motivated by getting the best deal for the lowest paid.. If that means stifling foreign competition, and I think that is the best way, then so be it
Its better for the poor of this country to have the chance to earn a decent wage without competition rather than be propped up by state benefits.. They're being propped up either way, but at least this way they are working and learning
By all means have foreign competetiton in highly skilled jobs.. same as the old system in football.. only the best can come and play here... the journeymen can stay in their own country and our kids will learn on the job
Nobody bleated when Cameron et al. got burnt. 'tis a victory over the desperately offended.
http://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/531907/Ukip-to-win-rural-countryside-vote-next-election
But no beds for sick children
http://www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/health/pictured_boy_with_broken_arm_uses_floor_for_bed_at_busy_queen_s_hospital_1_3835970
Mr Salmond responded to the initial tweet by telling BBC Scotland he was "used to insults from Tories in East Sussex".
No one likes people who can't take a joke. Would he have got on his high horse if an effigy of Cameron was being put on a pyre in Edinburgh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO2Aq0sEf88
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion.”
Oh and the council are selling the homes at Harold Wood, and it is rumoured St Georges, to house Newham overspill, so there will be tens of thousands more people to deal with
Grrreat
Incidentally, if anyone wants to both help a self-employed chap and get themselves an absurdly good bargain, do feel free to browse my wares here (available elsewhere, notably Smashwords, but I know most use Amazon):
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Been a dry year, but hoping to get Kingdom Asunder out in 2015, as well as (potentially) several short stories [though anthologies can be delayed because of the large number involved], and another project that sci-fi fans may enjoy.
*but they don't really count
@ezraklein: Every losing Democratic Senate candidate was more popular than Obama: http://t.co/e92NRlUzaG
He is going to cost them their seats
We could continue the analogy further, and say even with the limited powers at their disposal, a really great and utterly determined Government could turn things around within the EU. Sadly, the direction of travel is such that staying in still seems to be a dead end to me.
@OldKingCole
Indeed I have some sympathy for Clegg. Nice lad even if he was an arsonist but absolutely hopeless when it comes to policy (that HoL reform was a mess). After all he got dealt a lousy hand. Huhne, Cable. Oakeshott, Tonge, Opek, Baker, Browne, Laws, Davey, Featherstone, Teather, Rennard, Hancock, Alexander, Ashdown.
No wonder the poor sod is so unpopular trying to make even a sow's ear let alone a silk purse out of that worthless rabble!
Your Iraq war theory is cobblers because three quarters of those voters who left Blair left before the 2001 election when Iraq wasn't even contemplated
The Libdems won votes off Labour by pretending to be left wing. That's why those votes returned to Labour as soon as the Libdems got into bed with the 'centreist' Tories. Funny that isn't it? First they are repelled by 'centreist' Blair and then they are repelled by Centreist Cameron and you think those voters are centreists?
And if the centreist Libdems were so succesful in their centreism do tell how they rarely win 10% of the vote share these days in polls and hanging on to their deposit is now considered an event to celebrate at by elections?
As for your opinion of UKIP, given your narrow minded bigoted view of them you'll understand if i respond in this way.........
You really do talk bollocks!
The smart money is moving into, not out of, London. It's a reversal of what used to be the norm.
The poorer people, whatever their heritage, have to move somewhere cheaper - i.e further away from London. An RM postcode is a lot cheaper than an E postcode.
Hospitals are being demolished, and built on to house overspill from the places you mention... it isn't going down well
The conservative council approved the developments, and Boris ignored the petitions
http://www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/boris_snub_is_such_an_insult_claims_harold_wood_residents_1_778766
You neatly illustrate the schism amongst the UKIP collective. In truth there is a massive split in purpose between its supporters.
The recent report by the way - pretty well argued and researched - pointed out that EU migrants have contributed £20 billion in taxes over the amount that they claimed or consumed. The figure for native Brits in the same period was minus £617 billion. Consumers are getting a good deal from overseas workers whether they are migrants from the EU or hard pressed labour in China.
Faisal Islam @faisalislam 22m22 minutes ago Rochester, South East
..@KellyTolhurst: "@markreckless hasn't turned up because the candidate for Labour and Conservatives are two strong women and he was scared"
The slim-line man we know as Fat Steve usually arranges a special area which works well. Hope uoi can make an good to see Isam and others again.
That's the point I am making.. the economic boost from EU migrants is paying for the people they replace to be on the dole... a false economy with added social misery...The government are meant to look out for these people not ruin them
Most are far more worried about what goes on in Rotherham than strasbourg.
EU related immigration has always been a pretty positive thing in my book. Non EU immigration is a far, far more mixed bag.
no politician, not even UKIP, have the courage to say this.
Carswell didn't go to the first one in Clacton, didn't work out too bad
Wages might rise initially after we restricted EU immigration, but soon companies would move abroad in search of the low wages than still exist in many places.
And that so instead of earning low wages many in the UK would be looking at the dole queue.
Its not nice, but that's globalisation for you.
Looking forward to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lM69zmUHfc