Tykejohnno Actually sensible comments by Clarke as Mitt Romney showed having a campaign war chest full of donations from billionaires and multi millionaires is of little use if swing voters think you are not on their side
Evening all and I am starting to think people being polled are taking the piss out of the pollsters. How can the same people say they intend to vote e.g. Labour but heavily back David Cameron as PM and to win the election. Either that or lots of them intend to be reckless and are relying on others to "do the right thing".
Also, just been to see 'American Sniper'. It was gripping, one of Clint Eastwood's best films and can well see why it has done so well in the US heartland at the box office
A positive for state party funding is that we could have it set independently, and at a very low level to discourage the burgers from spamming us constantly for weeks?
Any prospect of a labour-snp coalition during the heat of the campaign in April will cause chaos in England with a sharp move to back the conservatives to prevent a constitutional crisis. I understand some English labour MPs are threatening to sit on the opposition benches if Ed Miliband goes anywhere near this proposition realising the anger that could befall them from their constituants
This straw grasping is based on a complete misconception.
While there might be 50% animosity to SNP support of Labour, it's not 50% of Labour supporters. Or even many. The people who even consider this as an electoral issue are not going to be voting Labour under any circumstances.
Cammo's 'go to bed with Nigel wakeup with Ed' is I guess based on going after soft UKIP voters not the ones you mention. The thought of Salmond controlling Westminster and Downing St may give heebie jeebies to some soft ukips. That at any rate is prob the idea.
In regard to the decline in UKIPs vote, I doubt if their leadership will be too concerned given that their vote does tend to decline in periods when they are relatively inactive and there are no elections taking place. Below is the monthly averages in their polling totals going back to the start of 2013. The first two peaks coincide with the annual election periods and their aftermath and the third (their highest monthly averages so far) coincides with UKIPs first fully televised conference and two successful by-election victories. Not only that but at this point UKIP are still roughly 2 points higher on average than they were this time last year.
Evening all and I am starting to think people being polled are taking the piss out of the pollsters. How can the same people say they intend to vote e.g. Labour but heavily back David Cameron as PM and to win the election. Either that or lots of them intend to be reckless and are relying on others to "do the right thing".
It seems to be a genuine dilemma for people. They want Cameron to remain as Prime Minister but they want a Labour government too.
Who do you blame for the current tax avoidance scandal
Current Coalition Government 14%
Last Labour Government 21%
Both 44%
Neither 7%
DK 14%
That's strangely satisfying. Especially as I've had my interest piqued sufficiently to look at the actual details and it's very noticeable that the Coalition Government have actually been the most assiduous and successful at chasing down tax evasion and avoidance.
And Miliband certainly knows that. It's a little depressing that I had a lot of time for him back at the start. Now I hold him in genuine contempt.
Tykejohnno Actually sensible comments by Clarke as Mitt Romney showed having a campaign war chest full of donations from billionaires and multi millionaires is of little use if swing voters think you are not on their side
The Labour Donor on the front page of the Telegraph is Dale Vince.
He was in the papers the other day
The renewable energy company Ecotricity is giving £250,000 to the Labour party, and has accused the government of being deceitful on climate and energy policy.
Dale Vince, founder of Ecotricity, said he felt compelled to act because there was “an existential threat from a second-term Tory government”. He said it was a myth that Labour was anti-business and praised the party’s leader, Ed Miliband, for standing up for renewables and taking a “pro-people” approach to banking and energy markets reform.
The Labour Donor on the front page of the Telegraph is Dale Vince.
He was in the papers the other day
The renewable energy company Ecotricity is giving £250,000 to the Labour party, and has accused the government of being deceitful on climate and energy policy.
Dale Vince, founder of Ecotricity, said he felt compelled to act because there was “an existential threat from a second-term Tory government”. He said it was a myth that Labour was anti-business and praised the party’s leader, Ed Miliband, for standing up for renewables and taking a “pro-people” approach to banking and energy markets reform.
So that is one of two of Ed business backers and the other bloke isn't a business man anymore....
Also Vince let it out of the bag, he said the Tories were against on-shore windfarms, which his business really needs so that capacity of renewables is increased.
Any prospect of a labour-snp coalition during the heat of the campaign in April will cause chaos in England with a sharp move to back the conservatives to prevent a constitutional crisis. I understand some English labour MPs are threatening to sit on the opposition benches if Ed Miliband goes anywhere near this proposition realising the anger that could befall them from their constituants
This straw grasping is based on a complete misconception.
While there might be 50% animosity to SNP support of Labour, it's not 50% of Labour supporters. Or even many. The people who even consider this as an electoral issue are not going to be voting Labour under any circumstances.
Cammo's 'go to bed with Nigel wakeup with Ed' is I guess based on going after soft UKIP voters not the ones you mention. The thought of Salmond controlling Westminster and Downing St may give heebie jeebies to some soft ukips. That at any rate is prob the idea.
When I offered you EVS about the Tories in Rochester, and you called them "rubbish odds" and said you could get better with a bookie.,, where were you referring to?
Who do you blame for the current tax avoidance scandal
Current Coalition Government 14%
Last Labour Government 21%
Both 44%
Neither 7%
DK 14%
That's strangely satisfying. Especially as I've had my interest piqued sufficiently to look at the actual details and it's very noticeable that the Coalition Government have actually been the most assiduous and successful at chasing down tax evasion and avoidance.
And Miliband certainly knows that. It's a little depressing that I had a lot of time for him back at the start. Now I hold him in genuine contempt.
Mike's put the rest of the poll findings into the thread header.
Evening all and I am starting to think people being polled are taking the piss out of the pollsters. How can the same people say they intend to vote e.g. Labour but heavily back David Cameron as PM and to win the election. Either that or lots of them intend to be reckless and are relying on others to "do the right thing".
My view is that the campaign won't change much because everyone is bored of politics and dislikes everyone equally.
But when they get to fill in the ballot, they will think "Cameron or Miliband?" and choose accordingly.
Evening all and I am starting to think people being polled are taking the piss out of the pollsters. How can the same people say they intend to vote e.g. Labour but heavily back David Cameron as PM and to win the election. Either that or lots of them intend to be reckless and are relying on others to "do the right thing".
My view is that the campaign won't change much because everyone is bored of politics and dislikes everyone equally.
But when they get to fill in the ballot, they will think "Cameron or Miliband?" and choose accordingly.
Fairly depressing summary Charles but hard to disagree with.
Neither of our two main parties have a clue what to do, they want power just to stop the other guys getting it.
Evening all and I am starting to think people being polled are taking the piss out of the pollsters. How can the same people say they intend to vote e.g. Labour but heavily back David Cameron as PM and to win the election. Either that or lots of them intend to be reckless and are relying on others to "do the right thing".
My view is that the campaign won't change much because everyone is bored of politics and dislikes everyone equally.
But when they get to fill in the ballot, they will think "Cameron or Miliband?" and choose accordingly.
Yeah think you have a point. Wonder too on impact of social media.
Alex Salmond is why I'm sticking before betting big on Lab majority. If SLAB get back to 50% their seats in Scotland then Lab maj looks value to me. Otherwise the Salmond Spectre could have decisive final week impact on english voters.
Mr. Dave, and Mr. K, you might be interested to know that the BBC has commissioned a series based on Bernard Cornwell's series about Anglo-Saxon England and the Vikings. If they have the attention to detail shown in Wolf Hall, it could be rather good. If they make it like Atlantis, it'll be atrocious.
The TV adaptions of Sharpe and Hornblower didn't really work very well. I think it's difficult to adapt these things on a budget. They call for an army of extras.
That said, Vikings works well. And the battle scenes in Game of Thrones I think use computers to generate a convincing army.
Sharpe worked because it was before Return of the King.
RotK really created a watermark for staging battles. The Charge of the Rohan was 6000 horse, once you see what 6000 horse looks like thanks to Massive then you have problems believing things like the Braveheart scense of about 100 horse pretending to be circa 4000.
I'm not suggesting Sharpe battle scenes were without problems but compared to what you consider acceptable now, it worked.
GoT doesn't show large battle scenes. They didn't even pretend to in Season One where it was "build up" then cut to "walking amongst the dead". Where it does, it tends to be quite limited, the Battle of Blackwater Bay lent itself to cheap CGI for the fleet and a very limited pitched battle on the beach. The first time a major battle was actually shown on screen was Neil Marshall's phenomenal Battle of Castle Black in Season Four. (All the stuff in Esteros is pretty much static ranks of Denerys army and not large scale battles).
The Labour Donor on the front page of the Telegraph is Dale Vince.
He was in the papers the other day
The renewable energy company Ecotricity is giving £250,000 to the Labour party, and has accused the government of being deceitful on climate and energy policy.
Dale Vince, founder of Ecotricity, said he felt compelled to act because there was “an existential threat from a second-term Tory government”. He said it was a myth that Labour was anti-business and praised the party’s leader, Ed Miliband, for standing up for renewables and taking a “pro-people” approach to banking and energy markets reform.
He's the one who was a radical hippie green loon until he made some money and decided that capitalism was a good thing.
The link below gives a lot of interesting background (although I should say that it is one of the most specious claims by the ex-wife I've ever heard of!)
Tykejohnno In some ways it was, the Tories 'black and white' poll last week which has the super rich bidding thousands to go shoe shopping with Theresa May, have a cross country run with IDS on his country estate and have dinner with the Javids may have raised a few million but it was a PR disaster
When OGH declared this week a triumph for Ed I did suggest we wait for the Sunday's......
Me too. Wisdom's proved right by her actions. Miliband and Labour needed to be squeaky clean before dishing dirt. Said it could come back to bite them hard.
Also is it true the Guardian shelter half their £850m reserves in the Caymans?
The Sunday Times appears to dragging things out by using this story as a tease. Its YouGov poll always seems to be better for Labour than those of its sister paper, so I'm expecting a 3% Labour lead tonight or thereabouts to round off a very disappointing week for the Tories, who simply must do better, much better and soon if they are to have any real chance at all.
Evening all and I am starting to think people being polled are taking the piss out of the pollsters. How can the same people say they intend to vote e.g. Labour but heavily back David Cameron as PM and to win the election. Either that or lots of them intend to be reckless and are relying on others to "do the right thing".
My view is that the campaign won't change much because everyone is bored of politics and dislikes everyone equally.
But when they get to fill in the ballot, they will think "Cameron or Miliband?" and choose accordingly.
Fairly depressing summary Charles but hard to disagree with.
Neither of our two main parties have a clue what to do, they want power just to stop the other guys getting it.
I'm rather happy with politicians who aren't visionaries.
I take the view that they pretty much only mess up everything they touch, so better that they sit back and do nothing. If it takes £10bn of money wasted in DfID to keep them quiet then it's a small price to pay
The Sunday Times appears to dragging things out by using this story as a tease. Its YouGov poll always seems to be better for Labour than those of its sister paper, so I'm expecting a 3% Labour lead tonight or thereabouts to round off a very disappointing week for the Tories, who simply must do better, much better and soon if they are to have any real chance at all.
I actually think this is the real affect of the bad few weeks on NHS and tax dodging. It isn't really taking any votes away from the Tories, but their momentum has been stopped in its tracks and time running out to gain support in order to close that 1% gap and overtake Labour. Neck and neck isn't good enough for the Tories.
Yep - James Lyons tweets: Tories accuse Ed Miliband of hypocrisy over relevation that top Labour placed shares in offshore trust. My spalsh in #SundayTimes
When OGH declared this week a triumph for Ed I did suggest we wait for the Sunday's......
Me too. Wisdom's proved right by her actions. Miliband and Labour needed to be squeaky clean before dishing dirt. Said it could come back to bite them hard.
Also is it true the Guardian shelter half their £850m reserves in the Caymans?
Given MILIBAND's own family history you'd have thought he'd think twice before going after tax avoidance.
His speech to Welsh Labour on tax avoidance was riddled with lies, I hope Channel 4 fact checks it.....
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When OGH declared this week a triumph for Ed I did suggest we wait for the Sunday's......
Me too. Wisdom's proved right by her actions. Miliband and Labour needed to be squeaky clean before dishing dirt. Said it could come back to bite them hard.
Also is it true the Guardian shelter half their £850m reserves in the Caymans?
All the profit from the sale of Autotrader (which I think raised about £1bn in two tranches) was structured through a BVI)(?) company and using other exemptions to avoid any tax on the disposal.
When OGH declared this week a triumph for Ed I did suggest we wait for the Sunday's......
Me too. Wisdom's proved right by her actions. Miliband and Labour needed to be squeaky clean before dishing dirt. Said it could come back to bite them hard.
Also is it true the Guardian shelter half their £850m reserves in the Caymans?
All the profit from the sale of Autotrader (which I think raised about £1bn in two tranches) was structured through a BVI)(?) company and using other exemptions to avoid any tax on the disposal.
The Sunday Times appears to dragging things out by using this story as a tease. Its YouGov poll always seems to be better for Labour than those of its sister paper, so I'm expecting a 3% Labour lead tonight or thereabouts to round off a very disappointing week for the Tories, who simply must do better, much better and soon if they are to have any real chance at all.
I actually think this is the real affect of the bad few weeks on NHS and tax dodging. It isn't really taking any votes away from the Tories, but their momentum and from gaining support in order to close that 1% gap and overtake Labour. Time is running out for the Tories to do that.
The campaign - such as it has been so far - has not touched on the economy. The Budget is the starting pistol. If the Tories can't get some traction at that point - when Labour should be on the back-foot - that will be the time for Tories to worry.
When OGH declared this week a triumph for Ed I did suggest we wait for the Sunday's......
Me too. Wisdom's proved right by her actions. Miliband and Labour needed to be squeaky clean before dishing dirt. Said it could come back to bite them hard.
Also is it true the Guardian shelter half their £850m reserves in the Caymans?
All the profit from the sale of Autotrader (which I think raised about £1bn in two tranches) was structured through a BVI)(?) company and using other exemptions to avoid any tax on the disposal.
Bit rich of them to get high horsed about this? That's the trouble with moral crusades. Who's actually that moral?
BBC, Guardian, the lot have structured their affairs to be "tax efficient". Call it "vanilla" tax avoidance, but the hypocrisy is widespread in the media industry.
Yep - James Lyons tweets: Tories accuse Ed Miliband of hypocrisy over relevation that top Labour placed shares in offshore trust. My spalsh in #SundayTimes
When OGH declared this week a triumph for Ed I did suggest we wait for the Sunday's......
Me too. Wisdom's proved right by her actions. Miliband and Labour needed to be squeaky clean before dishing dirt. Said it could come back to bite them hard.
Also is it true the Guardian shelter half their £850m reserves in the Caymans?
Given MILIBAND's own family history you'd have thought he'd think twice before going after tax avoidance.
What else does he have? I mean - what? The economy? Immigration? Higher education? Trident? Rotherham?
The Sunday Times appears to dragging things out by using this story as a tease. Its YouGov poll always seems to be better for Labour than those of its sister paper, so I'm expecting a 3% Labour lead tonight or thereabouts to round off a very disappointing week for the Tories, who simply must do better, much better and soon if they are to have any real chance at all.
PfP.
Sorry to see your club, Derby, drop out the FA Cup today.
With a new manager now in place I'm hoping Villa can progress to the last 8 by beating Leicester tomorrow at home. I've backed Villa to win the FA Cup (each way) at 66/1. Despite having successfully got to the last 16, Villa's last price matched price matched on Betfair is 35.0.
Key point - Don't forget that Labour will probably lose around 1% of the total UK electorate in Scotland, so in terms of looking at these opinion polls for the English battle... you need to add 1% on to Labour to see the true "overall" Lab vs Con picture.
In total, Ecotricity, which Mr Vince wholly owns, has been paid £36m in subsidies since 2002, when the scheme began, and which Mr Miliband oversaw as Climate Change Secretary from 2008.
The subsidy is added to household electricity bills and paid by consumers, pushing up bills for all households. It is probably fair to say Mr Vince has earned more from the Labour-introduced subsidy than any other individual in the UK.
The Sunday Times appears to dragging things out by using this story as a tease. Its YouGov poll always seems to be better for Labour than those of its sister paper, so I'm expecting a 3% Labour lead tonight or thereabouts to round off a very disappointing week for the Tories, who simply must do better, much better and soon if they are to have any real chance at all.
I actually think this is the real affect of the bad few weeks on NHS and tax dodging. It isn't really taking any votes away from the Tories, but their momentum and from gaining support in order to close that 1% gap and overtake Labour. Time is running out for the Tories to do that.
The campaign - such as it has been so far - has not touched on the economy. The Budget is the starting pistol. If the Tories can't get some traction at that point - when Labour should be on the back-foot - that will be the time for Tories to worry.
You may be right MM but it's beginning to smack of desperation somewhat isn't it to have to rely on a one trick pony such as a pre-election giveaway budget?
In total, Ecotricity, which Mr Vince wholly owns, has been paid £36m in subsidies since 2002, when the scheme began, and which Mr Miliband oversaw as Climate Change Secretary from 2008.
The subsidy is added to household electricity bills and paid by consumers, pushing up bills for all households. It is probably fair to say Mr Vince has earned more from the Labour-introduced subsidy than any other individual in the UK.
I think you are getting the order the wrong way round.
But Vince Dale probably believes that the Tories might be more likely to cut green subsidies than Labour.
He's entirely, and nakedly, self-interested. Bernie Ecclestone is also self-interested.
I have no doubt, of course, that all donations to the Labour party are made from the purest of motivations.
TBH If tax avoidance is in the news for next 11.5 weeks IMO that will be a much bigger problem for the Blues.
Lab will not have anywhere near as many DODGY donors as the Tories
Not the way it would pan out.
In that time scale the truth and facts would overtake the lies and sound bites.
On action and success in starting work on collecting more tax there is only one winner. BBC, Guardian and many left leaning business and unions would be exposed as well.
The Sun on Sunday also have a story on a Labour donor.
Cripes that's got a big circulation. Thought they'd be taking a pop. Wonder if polls will move a bit more to Cons next week? All skirmishing though to now.
When OGH declared this week a triumph for Ed I did suggest we wait for the Sunday's......
Me too. Wisdom's proved right by her actions. Miliband and Labour needed to be squeaky clean before dishing dirt. Said it could come back to bite them hard.
Also is it true the Guardian shelter half their £850m reserves in the Caymans?
All the profit from the sale of Autotrader (which I think raised about £1bn in two tranches) was structured through a BVI)(?) company and using other exemptions to avoid any tax on the disposal.
When OGH declared this week a triumph for Ed I did suggest we wait for the Sunday's......
Me too. Wisdom's proved right by her actions. Miliband and Labour needed to be squeaky clean before dishing dirt. Said it could come back to bite them hard.
Also is it true the Guardian shelter half their £850m reserves in the Caymans?
All the profit from the sale of Autotrader (which I think raised about £1bn in two tranches) was structured through a BVI)(?) company and using other exemptions to avoid any tax on the disposal.
In total, Ecotricity, which Mr Vince wholly owns, has been paid £36m in subsidies since 2002, when the scheme began, and which Mr Miliband oversaw as Climate Change Secretary from 2008.
The subsidy is added to household electricity bills and paid by consumers, pushing up bills for all households. It is probably fair to say Mr Vince has earned more from the Labour-introduced subsidy than any other individual in the UK.
In total, Ecotricity, which Mr Vince wholly owns, has been paid £36m in subsidies since 2002, when the scheme began, and which Mr Miliband oversaw as Climate Change Secretary from 2008.
The subsidy is added to household electricity bills and paid by consumers, pushing up bills for all households. It is probably fair to say Mr Vince has earned more from the Labour-introduced subsidy than any other individual in the UK.
The enforced component of subsidies to green energy is the poll tax for our times. The same people who are quite happy for every poor family in the land to have a three-figure tax stuck on their electricity are those who went on the poll-tax marches.... Funny old world.
TBH If tax avoidance is in the news for next 11.5 weeks IMO that will be a much bigger problem for the Blues.
Lab will not have anywhere near as many DODGY donors as the Tories
(a) It won't be, there's an election going on. (b) Even if your assertion is true [not so sure myself], that doesn't matter. Labour need to have near-as-dammit none, now that they've started down this road.
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Clarke puts the tories on the back foot yet again.
Who do you blame for the current tax avoidance scandal
Current Coalition Government 14%
Last Labour Government 21%
Both 44%
Neither 7%
DK 14%
Whose side is he on?
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The problem is that there is always the suspicion that "he who pays the piper...."
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/feb/14/ow-over-arlboro-funded-research-that-undermined-plain-cigarette-packs
A positive for state party funding is that we could have it set independently, and at a very low level to discourage the burgers from spamming us constantly for weeks?
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/hsbc-leaks-since-when-do-banks-know-what-their-clients-get-up-to-10042828.html
31/01/2013 9.80
28/02/2013 9.72
28/03/2013 12.47
30/04/2013 12.53
31/05/2013 15.88
28/06/2013 14.14
31/07/2013 12.78
31/08/2013 12.22
30/09/2013 11.42
31/10/2013 11.52
29/11/2013 11.92
22/12/2013 11.50
31/01/2014 12.50
28/02/2014 12.48
31/03/2014 12.35
30/04/2014 13.88
30/05/2014 14.71
30/06/2014 14.89
31/07/2014 13.05
31/08/2014 13.41
30/09/2014 14.80
30/10/2014 16.02
30/11/2014 16.05
22/12/2014 15.52
30/01/2015 15.24
12/02/2015 14.33
Clearly the key period will be the formal campaign where UKIP will have published its manifesto and receive equal coverage to the other parties.
Irresistible force meeting immovable object.
Especially as I've had my interest piqued sufficiently to look at the actual details and it's very noticeable that the Coalition Government have actually been the most assiduous and successful at chasing down tax evasion and avoidance.
And Miliband certainly knows that. It's a little depressing that I had a lot of time for him back at the start. Now I hold him in genuine contempt.
He was in the papers the other day
The renewable energy company Ecotricity is giving £250,000 to the Labour party, and has accused the government of being deceitful on climate and energy policy.
Dale Vince, founder of Ecotricity, said he felt compelled to act because there was “an existential threat from a second-term Tory government”. He said it was a myth that Labour was anti-business and praised the party’s leader, Ed Miliband, for standing up for renewables and taking a “pro-people” approach to banking and energy markets reform.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/feb/10/ecotricity-gives-250000-to-labour-amid-existential-threat-from-tories
Trust Ed will throw him under the buss and say he is "dodgy" forthwith
Labour Minority 5/1
Combined 2/1
Someone tell me who is going to get into coalition with either?
Also Vince let it out of the bag, he said the Tories were against on-shore windfarms, which his business really needs so that capacity of renewables is increased.
I might fancy the Blues at Odds against
I think that the first time I've ever been in the majority on every question
But when they get to fill in the ballot, they will think "Cameron or Miliband?" and choose accordingly.
(As my father pointed out to me, one day, when I referred to myself as an 'investment banker')
Boris says he wants to play a role in EU renegotiation because he knows Brussels. If he weren't mayor he'd ask Dave to be the top man
Are the figures on the tax story a disaster for Ed then?
Cameron 18 points ahead of Miliband on approval.
What a complete surprise.......
When OGH declared this week a triumph for Ed I did suggest we wait for the Sunday's......
Neither of our two main parties have a clue what to do, they want power just to stop the other guys getting it.
Alex Salmond is why I'm sticking before betting big on Lab majority. If SLAB get back to 50% their seats in Scotland then Lab maj looks value to me. Otherwise the Salmond Spectre could have decisive final week impact on english voters.
RotK really created a watermark for staging battles. The Charge of the Rohan was 6000 horse, once you see what 6000 horse looks like thanks to Massive then you have problems believing things like the Braveheart scense of about 100 horse pretending to be circa 4000.
I'm not suggesting Sharpe battle scenes were without problems but compared to what you consider acceptable now, it worked.
GoT doesn't show large battle scenes. They didn't even pretend to in Season One where it was "build up" then cut to "walking amongst the dead". Where it does, it tends to be quite limited, the Battle of Blackwater Bay lent itself to cheap CGI for the fleet and a very limited pitched battle on the beach. The first time a major battle was actually shown on screen was Neil Marshall's phenomenal Battle of Castle Black in Season Four. (All the stuff in Esteros is pretty much static ranks of Denerys army and not large scale battles).
The link below gives a lot of interesting background (although I should say that it is one of the most specious claims by the ex-wife I've ever heard of!)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2865950/Wind-farm-boss-abusive-ex-wife-asked-maintenance.html
Also is it true the Guardian shelter half their £850m reserves in the Caymans?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/11413504/The-wind-tycoon-the-donations-to-Labour-and-36m-in-subsidies.html
I take the view that they pretty much only mess up everything they touch, so better that they sit back and do nothing. If it takes £10bn of money wasted in DfID to keep them quiet then it's a small price to pay
His speech to Welsh Labour on tax avoidance was riddled with lies, I hope Channel 4 fact checks it.....
“In order to create a brighter future, we call for solidarity among our unloved comrades so that we may demonstrate in resolute opposition to Valentine’s Day and the romantic industrial complex”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/11405651/Japanese-revolutionaries-plot-to-crush-St-Valentines-Day.html
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Bit rich of them to get high horsed about this? That's the trouble with moral crusades. Who's actually that moral?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2953182/Ed-turn-UK-France-destroying-investor-confidence-British-economy-warns-bank.html
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Lab will not have anywhere near as many DODGY donors as the Tories
Sorry to see your club, Derby, drop out the FA Cup today.
With a new manager now in place I'm hoping Villa can progress to the last 8 by beating Leicester tomorrow at home. I've backed Villa to win the FA Cup (each way) at 66/1. Despite having successfully got to the last 16, Villa's last price matched price matched on Betfair is 35.0.
Value?
The subsidy is added to household electricity bills and paid by consumers, pushing up bills for all households. It is probably fair to say Mr Vince has earned more from the Labour-introduced subsidy than any other individual in the UK.
But Vince Dale probably believes that the Tories might be more likely to cut green subsidies than Labour.
He's entirely, and nakedly, self-interested. Bernie Ecclestone is also self-interested.
I have no doubt, of course, that all donations to the Labour party are made from the purest of motivations.
Very little red top activity so far this evening.. I sense tidy exclusives on the boil #tomorrowspaperstoday
In that time scale the truth and facts would overtake the lies and sound bites.
On action and success in starting work on collecting more tax there is only one winner. BBC, Guardian and many left leaning business and unions would be exposed as well.
I'm hearing rumours that a certain Iain Cable may have questions to answer....
We could be near the end of big personal donations.
(b) Even if your assertion is true [not so sure myself], that doesn't matter. Labour need to have near-as-dammit none, now that they've started down this road.
He lives on Hopton Estate, Derbyshire, an historic house with its own shooting grounds. Thomas lives with wife Julie Thomas and dogs Roo and Winston on the splendid estate, which also boats 37,000 acres and was once a favourite of Princess Anne.