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Pensioners, as we all know, are most likely to be on the electoral register and most likely to vote. They are also the segment of the population most likely to have savings on which, in the era of ultra low interest rates, they are receiving a pittance. Also the polling suggests that they are more likely to be CON supporters than other age segments.
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It was a council election, the incumbent was a Lib Dem, there was one constituent that didn't like him, who on the ballot paper drew a penis with arrow to the councillor's name.
The Lib Dems said that was a vote for their man, as it was clearly a mark indicating a preference for their guy.
Seems to work out right, but of course I'll know eventually.
"Should dent the Tory grey vote a little."
I doubt it, unless Labour are committed to reversing this?
Tumbleweed drifts across screen.
Responsibility for the deficit? Surely the blame game is bound to reverse as time goes by?
There's now support for nationalising the power industries. I'd assume that's predominantly from the young - those who don't remember the three day week.
Why isn't more being done about the foreign eBay sellers who cheat us all by not paying VAT?
http://www.mirror.co.uk/opinion/isnt-more-being-done-foreign-4982416
http://greenparty.org.uk/news/2015/01/15/combined-uk-green-parties’-membership-passes-ukips/
It would be interesting to compare how CPI grows relative to nominal GDP.
Again, all that is needed is for a few pensioners to be upset enough to move on to UKIP or stay at home (or stay with UKIP).
IANAL/IANAA but there appears to be two issues.
Firstly if the good are supplied from say China, and I believe they almost always are, the article rather begs the questions, but in my experience of buy cheap gear on EBay it almost always arrives with Hong Kong postal stamps attached. This is clearly good supplied from outside the UK/EU and no VAT is due, they win, ain't globalisation great.
If they good are supplied from inside the UK, they clearly VAT is due, but since the chinese seller is outside the jurisdiction of the UK courts, they are going to have, and particularly if he is in China, they are going to have a hard time doing much about it.
The Chief Inspector Wexford creator, 84, had recently completed a new novel but is now being treated in hospital."
http://news.sky.com/story/1408328/ruth-rendell-critical-after-serious-stroke
*not good
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/relationships/fatherhood/11345624/Why-the-idea-of-paedophiles-stealing-pictures-of-my-kids-doesnt-bother-me.html
"This Black Friday, which started in America..."
"Charlie Hebdo co-founder says murdered editor 'dragged' staff to death with provocative cartoons"
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/charlie-hebdo-founder-says-murdered-editor-dragged-staff-to-death-with-provocative-cartoons-9979104.html
Will it spread?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30829917
Euro sinks in the market. TTL I sold mine last September.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30829222
*not good
The Pope has the advantage of never having to stand for election again, and not have to clear up the mess when it all goes wrong. If the majority's patience snaps and elects a hard right government and lots of nasty deportations and other civil strife happen, the Pope will sigh and preach that this should not happen either, even if it was the direct result of his original recommendation.
He also hopes the same accommodations that have been afforded the Islamists would be afforded the Catholics, in that I suspect he might be disappointed.
Hardly Mayhem. Currencies move up and down all the time.
First ELBOW of the new year (11th Jan):
UKIP 14.5
Green 6.4
All-December "Super-ELBOW" (32 polls):
UKIP 15.5
Green 6.0
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Ozzy achieving cut through yet again!!!
*not good
Why not? The Pope offering violence for insults (even if in a jokey fashion).
Well done Francis re: Climate Change, but not for this.
By the way, how did get Marf her her hands on my photo?
"I believe tackling climate change is the most important thing I can do in politics for my children's generation," he will say. "It demands leadership and resolve. So in Paris next year, a Labour government would be pushing for global targets for reducing carbon emissions that rise every five years with regular reviews towards the long-term goal of what the science now tells us is necessary - zero net global emissions in the latter half of this century."
Miliband will also aim some thinly veiled criticism at Prime Minister David Cameron, who he has in the past accused of ditching his previous commitments to the environment.
"I know tackling climate change, global poverty and inequality are not as fashionable as they once were," he will say. "But I also know they are more important than ever. For me, they are not luxury items in our programme for change. They are not part of a branding exercise. They go to the heart of my beliefs and the reason why I entered politics."
http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2390356/over-1-000-civil-society-groups-launch-campaign-for-climate-action
HMRC used to be very casual about it but in recent years, no doubt to pay for certain big companies etc., they have become much more rigorous (and slower - the parcel takes longer sitting in a warehouse somewhere waiting for Customs than it does for the rest of its trip). And then the Post Office charge a fee of about £16 [edit] to collect the VAT for HMRC.
The implication of the article is that the true value of the goods is not being declared by the vendor.
It was notable in this country when the Religious Hatred Bill was going through how all the church leaders joined together to try and get the provisions passed. They were, disgracefully, free riding on the coat tails of the one group in particular that was pushing.
Just that I agree with Indigo - doesn't make sense and undermines the cartoonists' convinctions, which isn't fair.
They were irreverent and full of firey opinion - and enjoyed brainstorming sessions with a big pad of paper while the news was being discussed. The editor gave them total freedom.
The only bit that Indigo may not know - and I do - is that even if you've had a great gig in the cartooning world, Charlie Hebdo is unique, and jobs for cartoonists are hard to find.
Most printed mags and newspapers have cut back so much; one of the reasons why Charlie Hebdo is so cherished in France is that they worked outside the establishment, much like Private Eye here.
Ian Hislop bows to no-one - much as the Charlie Hebdo editor proclaimed as his right.
Neither editor would ever dream of dictating to cartoonists, let alone columnists. But of course a good editor reserves the right to choose the sharpest cartoon of a selection.
It is a collaboration of the most creative kind - and sometimes that sense of freedom (which Mike gives me, by the way) is the best ticket to creativity.
A cartoonist reserves the right not to publish.
Anyway, a fascinating subject.
Indigo's absolutely right to throw doubt over this scurrilous and sour story. Even if it were true, I've known many editors who weren't exactly teddy bears!!!
3 prize pratts who need to step aside and let someone else be the MP.
Greg Mulholland, Peter Bottomley and Jim Shannon.
I used to by bulk camera film from Guernsey many years ago, which used to arrive in packages that coincidentally were worth exactly £15.
The fact remains, you can't exactly sue a seller in China, and you are going to have a hard job getting Ebay interested in taking action. Even if you did get his ebay account banned its the work of 10 minutes to set up a new one, he might lose any reputation, but thats the cost of doing business, and the likelihood of being found out makes it worth the risk.
Greg Mulholland, Peter Bottomley and Jim Shannon.
If Jim Shannon leaves Parliament they're going to have to find a successor to the presiding idiot.
Just seen Bobby Sol's miss.
He truly is the Jade Dernbach of football
http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/30828754
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provocation_in_English_law
"The Act provided that provocation could be by anything done or said without it having to be an illegal act and the provoker and the deceased could be a third parties. If the accused was provoked, who provoked him was irrelevant."
Of course if the vendor charges VAT in the UK and then sends the goods from China without paying it ...
I am shocked, just shocked that this might happen a few months before an election.
Edited extra bit: on a related note, bad news. Being bone idle's even worse than being a tub of lard:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30812439
As a skinny, lazy fellow, this is alarming news.
The trouble is the UN is one of those pompous organisations which sees nothing wrong in shutting down criticism and the majority of the countries in the world are unfree ones. Will we have to rely on the US with its First Amendment to hold the line?
More immediately I do worry about what a Labour government would do. They have form. And the Leveson report is hardly protective of free speech.
And yet there are still Tory supporters who pretend that it is only Labour who are financially irresponsible and use the Exchequer to buy votes.
http://youtu.be/59sG34Nx-DY
*sighs* I suppose I shall have to commit the sin of gluttony and have a magnum this afternoon.
Edited extra bit: sorry, thought you were referring to the weight rather than idleness.
I may exaggerate slightly. I normally do light exercise 4-5 times a week.
I would point out that averaging the Polls so far this Month Labour are about 0.7% ahead, last Month it was 3.2%. A 2.5% drop in less than a month is significant I think. PB is a great site but it does have a long-standing tendenct to big-up Labour & run down The Libdems.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d4-lFjGnUA