I hope they've broken out the METTHs. That would be fabulous.
I think it's going to be a split between marginals and non marginals.
He didn't say it was a "corker" - meh..
The last "corker" wasn't a corker in any way - just a run of the mill MOE poll!
So when it's not even a corker - it's even more "meh".
We need a definition - I suggest any poll that has the gap between Lab/Con moving by +/- 5 or a minor party adding or losing +/- 4 is a "corker". Happy to take soundings
Otherwise "meh" !
I would go along with that, I would say a "corker" requires a non-MoE move by at least one of the major parties.
Lab +2, Con -2 might be in corking territory though - might it ?
PoliticsHome @politicshome 5m5 minutes ago Ed Miliband says Labour "will ensure executive pay is connected to performance" by putting employees on remuneration committees
Not sure how the first part is ensured by the second part, but I am sure it sounds good in the papers.
I don't see any harm in this idea at all. I doubt it will have the effect on executive pay that Labour expects, mind.
Bollocks. I mean, just bollocks, per me, nobody dissenting, no citation needed, unless the tradesman turns up in a van sign-written HUGE CASH DISCOUNTS SO I CAN DEFRAUD THE REVENUE INNIT.
If you want to indulge in another frenzy of jurisprudence you might consider the point that, absent agreement to the contrary or a custom of the trade, nothing except cash is legal tender, and the tradesman is entitled to decline the offer of payment by any other means, and sue you for debt.
Lomas establishes that an obligation under the civil law to render assistance to a principal will be no defence to a charge of aiding and abetting. No obligation under the civil law will be enforceable, on grounds of public policy, if it involves the commission of a criminal offence. You could not get specific performance against a merchant for the sale of a gun, even if you had paid, if the merchant knew you intended to murder your wife with it.
In your other reply you said you needed knowledge rather than a suspicion that an offence would be committed. Absent the tradesmen being stupid enough to admit it in negotiations, if he just said "Cash only, £100", I don't see how the buyer, or anyone else could reasonably infer knowledge that he was proposing to commit and offence.
As a matter of practicality I don't see how HMRC could demonstrate that any transaction had happened, much less that it was with intent to defraud since it takes place (usually) in a private residence with no witnesses and no paperwork.
The internals of the IPSOS were the corking bit, Labour with a 2 (or 3 was it ?) % lead over the Conservatives whilst the SNP were on an impossible 6%.
Why would you follow Dan Hodges in the first place? You can read his every thought in real time on pb.
Has Dan The Man ever posted here?
Oh, that Dan The Man, I thought you meant the Member of the European Parliament for South East England.
Him to? I'm not fussed which Dan The Man!
If Dan Hannan was Conservative leader I reckon UKIP would be ~ 7% and Conservatives with a decent lead over Labour.
If Dan Hannan was Conservative leader I reckon UKIP would be ~ 7% and Labour with a decent lead over the Conservatives. It would be William Hague Mk 4.
Just ask bobachildallowance........finger on the pulse about how there is 'nothing to see' in Scottish Labour.....
Tories telling each other how awful Labour is makes them feel very good but does not help them to win the election.
Labour telling each other how 'stories don't matter' when they continue to feature in the news and drive coverage off Labour's wished for topic makes them feel very good but does not help them to win the election.
If tax avoidance is the dominant theme of the next couple of months Labour will be delighted. The story matters a lot, because it is a good one for Labour. What it is very unlikely to do is play well for the Tories. We shall see.
I agree that it's not a good story for the Tories. I am less sure that it's that good for Labour. My impression is that both parties are up to their neck in getting funds from people/groups who are a world away from real life and who indulge in all sorts of accounting wheezes designed to reduce their tax as much as possible. Both are, more or less, as bad as each other.
What we need to have - but won't get - is a hard limit on how much parties can spend, how much they can receive from any individual or entity (whether that be company, union, charity or whatever) in any one year (no more than £50K - increased every year only by inflation), full transparency of everything provided (money/loans/services in kind etc) and parties will need to learn to live within their means - just like the rest of us. Oh - and no state funding!
If parties cannot raise money within such limits then they die. Too bad. They have no God-given right to exist if they cannot persuade people to support them.
Yes, the answer is spending limits. Strict and inflexible.
It negates the reason for vast sums of cash. You can only hoard it not spend it.
Why would you follow Dan Hodges in the first place? You can read his every thought in real time on pb.
Has Dan The Man ever posted here?
Oh, that Dan The Man, I thought you meant the Member of the European Parliament for South East England.
Him to? I'm not fussed which Dan The Man!
If Dan Hannan was Conservative leader I reckon UKIP would be ~ 7% and Conservatives with a decent lead over Labour.
If Dan Hannan was Conservative leader I reckon UKIP would be ~ 7% and Labour with a decent lead over the Conservatives. It would be William Hague Mk 4.
I think he's far more charismatic than Hague. Also he's not facing Tony Blair...
@MichaelPDeacon: "Longer Term Economic Plan." This is like when Robbie Williams released a single called Strong so Gary Barlow released one called Stronger
PoliticsHome @politicshome 5m5 minutes ago Ed Miliband says Labour "will ensure executive pay is connected to performance" by putting employees on remuneration committees
Not sure how the first part is ensured by the second part, but I am sure it sounds good in the papers.
I don't see any harm in this idea at all. I doubt it will have the effect on executive pay that Labour expects, mind.
PoliticsHome @politicshome 5m5 minutes ago Ed Miliband says Labour "will ensure executive pay is connected to performance" by putting employees on remuneration committees
Not sure how the first part is ensured by the second part, but I am sure it sounds good in the papers.
I don't see any harm in this idea at all. I doubt it will have the effect on executive pay that Labour expects, mind.
That was really my point. Its more ineffectual grandstanding legislation. We have seen far to much of that under the current government. I can't quite see how appoints a couple of fitters off the shop floor will change anything, partly because they wont have the business knowledge (and probably access to the relevant information) to know if the company is doing well or not, and more importantly because if they don't have the majority of votes their views will be sidelined and business will continue as before.
In principle I am not wild about business owners (ie the people who are risking their capital) having people foisted on them by the government, and in effect telling them how to run their business.
PoliticsHome @politicshome 5m5 minutes ago Ed Miliband says Labour "will ensure executive pay is connected to performance" by putting employees on remuneration committees
Not sure how the first part is ensured by the second part, but I am sure it sounds good in the papers.
I don't see any harm in this idea at all. I doubt it will have the effect on executive pay that Labour expects, mind.
Go to say #megapollingmonday is getting off to a rather slow start...
I was thinking that myself. I checked on here early to see if it was just your standard PB Hodge Polling orgasm day or it was a full blown mega tissue event.
I hope they've broken out the METTHs. That would be fabulous.
I think it's going to be a split between marginals and non marginals.
He didn't say it was a "corker" - meh..
The last "corker" wasn't a corker in any way - just a run of the mill MOE poll!
So when it's not even a corker - it's even more "meh".
We need a definition - I suggest any poll that has the gap between Lab/Con moving by +/- 5 or a minor party adding or losing +/- 4 is a "corker". Happy to take soundings
Bollocks. I mean, just bollocks, per me, nobody dissenting, no citation needed, unless the tradesman turns up in a van sign-written HUGE CASH DISCOUNTS SO I CAN DEFRAUD THE REVENUE INNIT.
If you want to indulge in another frenzy of jurisprudence you might consider the point that, absent agreement to the contrary or a custom of the trade, nothing except cash is legal tender, and the tradesman is entitled to decline the offer of payment by any other means, and sue you for debt.
Lomas establishes that an obligation under the civil law to render assistance to a principal will be no defence to a charge of aiding and abetting. No obligation under the civil law will be enforceable, on grounds of public policy, if it involves the commission of a criminal offence. You could not get specific performance against a merchant for the sale of a gun, even if you had paid, if the merchant knew you intended to murder your wife with it.
Why would you follow Dan Hodges in the first place? You can read his every thought in real time on pb.
Has Dan The Man ever posted here?
Oh, that Dan The Man, I thought you meant the Member of the European Parliament for South East England.
Him to? I'm not fussed which Dan The Man!
If Dan Hannan was Conservative leader I reckon UKIP would be ~ 7% and Conservatives with a decent lead over Labour.
If Dan Hannan was Conservative leader I reckon UKIP would be ~ 7% and Labour with a decent lead over the Conservatives. It would be William Hague Mk 4.
I don't even think he'd have UKIP that low. If he was Conservative leader he'd be operating under the same constraints as David Cameron.
I hope they've broken out the METTHs. That would be fabulous.
I think it's going to be a split between marginals and non marginals.
He didn't say it was a "corker" - meh..
The last "corker" wasn't a corker in any way - just a run of the mill MOE poll!
So when it's not even a corker - it's even more "meh".
We need a definition - I suggest any poll that has the gap between Lab/Con moving by +/- 5 or a minor party adding or losing +/- 4 is a "corker". Happy to take soundings
Otherwise "meh" !
Easy to define.
Corker=outlier
The headline numbers of the Mori aren't the corker bit, the internals are.
Massive over reaction to one favourable poll/crumb of comfort from the Tories finally being corrected
"The most recent move has been in Rochester, where Mark Reckless improved from joint to outright favourite today. The immediate betting reaction to their by-election win had been that the Tories were likely to take it back in May – that’s no longer the case."
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If you have a qoute for £xxx.xx and pay in cash £xxx.xx - 20% how will that change your position?
The inference that any jury would draw from that is an intent to assist in the defrauding of the Crown of value added tax. If the tradesman evades his liability to value added tax, you would be liable as a secondary party for cheating the public revenue, contrary to common law. In addition, you be liable as a principal for being knowingly concerned in the fraudulent evasion of value added tax by the tradesman, contrary to VATA 1994, s. 72(1).
If I was on that jury, I wouldn't draw that inference.
Hmm maybe I'm viewing Hannan through my own specs here, I'd have no problem voting for him whereas I'm struggling with Dave. If Boris is Con leader then they have a 0% chance of getting my vote. But I know he's quite popular...
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PoliticsHome @politicshome 5m5 minutes ago Ed Miliband says Labour "will ensure executive pay is connected to performance" by putting employees on remuneration committees
Not sure how the first part is ensured by the second part, but I am sure it sounds good in the papers.
I've done a lot of Board level work with Scandi companies where there are elected employee representative directors. In the main, they have been valuable additions to the discussions, with different perspectives and non-political. I would be very resistant to unions getting to appoint directors, because I think they would be political, but most employees are pretty sensible
Massive over reaction to one favourable poll/crumb of comfort from the Tories finally being corrected
"The most recent move has been in Rochester, where Mark Reckless improved from joint to outright favourite today. The immediate betting reaction to their by-election win had been that the Tories were likely to take it back in May – that’s no longer the case."
That has to be correct, I think. Centre-right voters know they can vote UKIP, without risking a Labour win. And centre-left voters know that every seat that is lost by the Conservatives,, even to UKIP, reduces the chance of a Conservative-led government.
Why would you follow Dan Hodges in the first place? You can read his every thought in real time on pb.
Has Dan The Man ever posted here?
Oh, that Dan The Man, I thought you meant the Member of the European Parliament for South East England.
Him to? I'm not fussed which Dan The Man!
If Dan Hannan was Conservative leader I reckon UKIP would be ~ 7% and Conservatives with a decent lead over Labour.
Nah.
Labour would use Dan's comments about the NHS 24/7 and Lab would have a significant lead.
And I speak as someone who is a fan of Mr Hannan
Hannan happens to be right about the NHS, its just that the public are not ready to hear it. The NHS needs another £30bn in the next five years, just to stand still, that's the equivalent of 5% on the basic rate on income tax, no government cant propose that an get elected, no voter would believe all that 5% would go to the NHS for one thing.
Massive over reaction to one favourable poll/crumb of comfort from the Tories finally being corrected
"The most recent move has been in Rochester, where Mark Reckless improved from joint to outright favourite today. The immediate betting reaction to their by-election win had been that the Tories were likely to take it back in May – that’s no longer the case."
That has to be correct, I think. Centre-right voters know they can vote UKIP, without risking a Labour win. And centre-left voters know that every seat that is lost by the Conservatives,, even to UKIP, reduces the chance of a Conservative-led government.
And they know that electing Farage will be King Headache for CON.
Did Ed Balls actually say that everyone who pays cash should get a receipt, or that he personally has to get them? (I may have missed a clarification of what was actually said by him)
PoliticsHome @politicshome 5m5 minutes ago Ed Miliband says Labour "will ensure executive pay is connected to performance" by putting employees on remuneration committees
Not sure how the first part is ensured by the second part, but I am sure it sounds good in the papers.
I've done a lot of Board level work with Scandi companies where there are elected employee representative directors. In the main, they have been valuable additions to the discussions, with different perspectives and non-political. I would be very resistant to unions getting to appoint directors, because I think they would be political, but most employees are pretty sensible
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Scything.
Piss poor planning by Miliband, shows how poor his team are, set speech on business, interrupted by lights, machinery moving parts.
Would you want your message ruined by interruptions?
No sign of any election activity in Wales or Kiveton btw (Two Rother valley wards), no posters for either Labour or UKIP up as I cycled through it Sunday.
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Scything.
Piss poor planning by Miliband, shows how poor his team are, set speech on business, interrupted by lights, machinery moving parts.
Would you want your message ruined by interruptions?
The more distractions the better, if you're presenting Labour's proposals.
No sign of any election activity in Wales or Kiveton btw (Two Rother valley wards), no posters for either Labour or UKIP up as I cycled through it Sunday.
Early days yet obviously.
I read somewhere over the weekend, two of the seats Labour are really worried about UKIP are Grimsby and Rother Valley.
No sign of any election activity in Wales or Kiveton btw (Two Rother valley wards), no posters for either Labour or UKIP up as I cycled through it Sunday.
Early days yet obviously.
I read somewhere over the weekend, two of the seats Labour are really worried about UKIP are Grimsby and Rother Valley.
Rother Valley has the incumbent, Sir Kevin Barron - G Grimsby doesn't.
"The shadow chancellor said he always asked for a written record, even if it was just for £10 to cut a hedge, because it was the "right thing to do" Interesting, but only when you miss out the part where he gave the context and reason why he does it. Just as well taking things out of context is not smearing isn't it? One paper does it, and the rest of the media can quote them as a source, and ignore the original statement.
No sign of any election activity in Wales or Kiveton btw (Two Rother valley wards), no posters for either Labour or UKIP up as I cycled through it Sunday.
Early days yet obviously.
I read somewhere over the weekend, two of the seats Labour are really worried about UKIP are Grimsby and Rother Valley.
Rother Valley has the incumbent, Sir Kevin Barron - G Grimsby doesn't.
Yeah, I'm more confident about winning my Great Grimsby bet than I am of most bets.
Anyway I'm proud to have tipped up G Grimsby at 16s and Rother Valley at 8s , have £16 on the former @ 16s (Paddy Power max bets etc) and engineered a no lose £100 risk free win (Unless the Tories win R Valley... which I'm ruling out...) on the latter.
Anyway I'm proud to have tipped up G Grimsby at 16s and Rother Valley at 8s , have £16 on the former @ 16s (Paddy Power max bets etc) and engineered a no lose £100 risk free win (Unless the Tories win R Valley... which I'm ruling out...) on the latter.
F1: few days till Test 2: Test Harder (starts the 19th, I think). End of the third test (each being four days) is 1 March.
As always, the key is not the headline times. Mood music gives better guidance. Teams should be more honest about competitors than themselves. I'll be seeing what people make of the Renault, which is in danger of (possibly excepting the new Honda) being the weakest engine this year. Ricciardo's a great driver, but if he doesn't have the car he can't challenge for the title.
Anyway I'm proud to have tipped up G Grimsby at 16s and Rother Valley at 8s , have £16 on the former @ 16s (Paddy Power max bets etc) and engineered a no lose £100 risk free win (Unless the Tories win R Valley... which I'm ruling out...) on the latter.
Why would you follow Dan Hodges in the first place? You can read his every thought in real time on pb.
Has Dan The Man ever posted here?
Oh, that Dan The Man, I thought you meant the Member of the European Parliament for South East England.
Him to? I'm not fussed which Dan The Man!
If Dan Hannan was Conservative leader I reckon UKIP would be ~ 7% and Conservatives with a decent lead over Labour.
Nah.
Labour would use Dan's comments about the NHS 24/7 and Lab would have a significant lead.
And I speak as someone who is a fan of Mr Hannan
Hannan happens to be right about the NHS, its just that the public are not ready to hear it. The NHS needs another £30bn in the next five years, just to stand still, that's the equivalent of 5% on the basic rate on income tax, no government cant propose that an get elected, no voter would believe all that 5% would go to the NHS for one thing.
NHS needs a Nixon to China moment. A Labour government is going to have to reform it. We're living too long in an era of astonishingly impressive but astonishingly expensive medicine. NHS as it is today surely cannot and will not last
Personally I don't think it's an unreasonable idea, but the listener response on Radio 5 this morning was entirely in opposition. It surprised me but I suppose when people say they want tax avoidance dealt with, or at least better record keeping to make it harder, they mean for other people not themselves.
Why would you follow Dan Hodges in the first place? You can read his every thought in real time on pb.
Has Dan The Man ever posted here?
Oh, that Dan The Man, I thought you meant the Member of the European Parliament for South East England.
Him to? I'm not fussed which Dan The Man!
If Dan Hannan was Conservative leader I reckon UKIP would be ~ 7% and Conservatives with a decent lead over Labour.
I'm not sure Dan would be able to connect with "floaters" that well. People might find him a bit too cerebral...
This one connected quite well
www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lW6Y4tBXs
Enoch Lovin', EU hatin' Dan Hannan?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx0ktkr9s8I
Hannan is pretty much the only reason I am still in the Conservative Party, if he move to the kippers, as I suspect he will if there is any controversy about the 2017 referendum (assuming the Tories win) I will be next in the queue, probably followed by a fair chunk of the right half of the party.
Why would you follow Dan Hodges in the first place? You can read his every thought in real time on pb.
Has Dan The Man ever posted here?
Oh, that Dan The Man, I thought you meant the Member of the European Parliament for South East England.
Him to? I'm not fussed which Dan The Man!
If Dan Hannan was Conservative leader I reckon UKIP would be ~ 7% and Conservatives with a decent lead over Labour.
Nah.
Labour would use Dan's comments about the NHS 24/7 and Lab would have a significant lead.
And I speak as someone who is a fan of Mr Hannan
Hannan happens to be right about the NHS, its just that the public are not ready to hear it. The NHS needs another £30bn in the next five years, just to stand still, that's the equivalent of 5% on the basic rate on income tax, no government cant propose that an get elected, no voter would believe all that 5% would go to the NHS for one thing.
NHS needs a Nixon to China moment. A Labour government is going to have to reform it. We're living too long in an era of astonishingly impressive but astonishingly expensive medicine. NHS as it is today surely cannot and will not last
More simplistic arguments on the finances of the NHS.
This is not zero-sum - those costs will still exist whether inside or outside the public sphere.
So the question is where does the burden fall? Old age care is tremendously expensive and the costs are rising and even insurance based systems are groaning to support the cost.
The rich can support the rising premiums of course, which is why the Right quite likes the idea of shunting people onto insurance based schemes - conveniently forgetting that for most ordinary people that is locking them in to ever rising cost burdens scoffing more and more of their disposable income.
Why would you follow Dan Hodges in the first place? You can read his every thought in real time on pb.
Has Dan The Man ever posted here?
Oh, that Dan The Man, I thought you meant the Member of the European Parliament for South East England.
Him to? I'm not fussed which Dan The Man!
If Dan Hannan was Conservative leader I reckon UKIP would be ~ 7% and Conservatives with a decent lead over Labour.
Nah.
Labour would use Dan's comments about the NHS 24/7 and Lab would have a significant lead.
And I speak as someone who is a fan of Mr Hannan
Hannan happens to be right about the NHS, its just that the public are not ready to hear it. The NHS needs another £30bn in the next five years, just to stand still, that's the equivalent of 5% on the basic rate on income tax, no government cant propose that an get elected, no voter would believe all that 5% would go to the NHS for one thing.
NHS needs a Nixon to China moment. A Labour government is going to have to reform it. We're living too long in an era of astonishingly impressive but astonishingly expensive medicine. NHS as it is today surely cannot and will not last
More simplistic arguments on the finances of the NHS.
This is not zero-sum - those costs will still exist whether inside or outside the public sphere.
So the question is where does the burden fall? Old age care is tremendously expensive and the costs are rising and even insurance based systems are groaning to support the cost.
The rich can support the rising premiums of course, which is why the Right quite likes the idea of shunting people onto insurance based schemes - conveniently forgetting that for most ordinary people that is locking them in to ever rising cost burdens scoffing more and more of their disposable income.
Still waiting to hear your solution Ben, you wont get elected proposing 5% on the basic rate of income tax, so what do you propose, we are all ears.....
Populus have gone from giving the Conservatives and Labour a high combined share, to no better than average, over the past few weeks. Linked to that, UKIP seem to be hitting 15% routinely with them, now, rather than 12% or so. Have they changed their weightings?
Personally I don't think it's an unreasonable idea, but the listener response on Radio 5 this morning was entirely in opposition. It surprised me but I suppose when people say they want tax avoidance dealt with, or at least better record keeping to make it harder, they mean for other people not themselves.
Well it's worse than that. The tax avoidance schemes that Labour have been banging on about are entirely legal, cash in hand for jobs to evade VAT is not legal.
Testament is that Labour have determined that UC should not be repealed.
There's nothing to repeal. It's still a couple of pilots and a bunch of future rollout targets. When it's only going to a bloke in Oldham called Dan you can do all the calculations manually.
1 in 3 jobcentres will be using UC by the election - that is more than "a couple of pilots"
OK, so reading up on this, what they've done is to make the "Universal Credit" "live" in a bunch of job centres so they can publish the particular number you've quoted, but what's actually "live" only covers a narrow list of simple cases, with all kinds of exemptions. That way the computer system doesn't have to have been built yet, and you don't have to worry too much about people noticing chaos in the run-up to the election, because hardly anyone will be actually getting the thing in the first place.
This will be why they're quoting the number for what proportion of job centres are supposed to be "using" it, rather than the proportion of claimants who have actually started getting it.
Why would you follow Dan Hodges in the first place? You can read his every thought in real time on pb.
Has Dan The Man ever posted here?
Oh, that Dan The Man, I thought you meant the Member of the European Parliament for South East England.
Him to? I'm not fussed which Dan The Man!
If Dan Hannan was Conservative leader I reckon UKIP would be ~ 7% and Conservatives with a decent lead over Labour.
Nah.
Labour would use Dan's comments about the NHS 24/7 and Lab would have a significant lead.
And I speak as someone who is a fan of Mr Hannan
Hannan happens to be right about the NHS, its just that the public are not ready to hear it. The NHS needs another £30bn in the next five years, just to stand still, that's the equivalent of 5% on the basic rate on income tax, no government cant propose that an get elected, no voter would believe all that 5% would go to the NHS for one thing.
NHS needs a Nixon to China moment. A Labour government is going to have to reform it. We're living too long in an era of astonishingly impressive but astonishingly expensive medicine. NHS as it is today surely cannot and will not last
More simplistic arguments on the finances of the NHS.
This is not zero-sum - those costs will still exist whether inside or outside the public sphere.
So the question is where does the burden fall? Old age care is tremendously expensive and the costs are rising and even insurance based systems are groaning to support the cost.
The rich can support the rising premiums of course, which is why the Right quite likes the idea of shunting people onto insurance based schemes - conveniently forgetting that for most ordinary people that is locking them in to ever rising cost burdens scoffing more and more of their disposable income.
Still waiting to hear your solution Ben, you wont get elected proposing 5% on the basic rate of income tax, so what do you propose, we are all ears.....
Lumping the risk on ordinary people isn't a solution.
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As a matter of practicality I don't see how HMRC could demonstrate that any transaction had happened, much less that it was with intent to defraud since it takes place (usually) in a private residence with no witnesses and no paperwork.
It negates the reason for vast sums of cash. You can only hoard it not spend it.
Though I have also been shown this one:
http://wwwpinknewscouk.c.presscdn.com/images/2014/02/BBC-lesbian.png
In principle I am not wild about business owners (ie the people who are risking their capital) having people foisted on them by the government, and in effect telling them how to run their business.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/31487235
Particularly enjoyable is the way she has been stripped of her PhD.
Corker=outlier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lW6Y4tBXs
Labour would use Dan's comments about the NHS 24/7 and Lab would have a significant lead.
And I speak as someone who is a fan of Mr Hannan
note on p.333: conviction quashed on appeal.
"The most recent move has been in Rochester, where Mark Reckless improved from joint to outright favourite today. The immediate betting reaction to their by-election win had been that the Tories were likely to take it back in May – that’s no longer the case."
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@TimesNewsdesk: Labour backs off Balls’ call always to get receipts
http://t.co/WAD4GCe85z
you can go by car,
you can go by cow...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1E3OFbCpqE
(I may have missed a clarification of what was actually said by him)
Interesting policy idea from Ed.
Would you want your message ruined by interruptions?
Early days yet obviously.
Why on earth would you want to give other countries even more of a competitive advantage over us ?
#RedLightGate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx0ktkr9s8I
Interesting, but only when you miss out the part where he gave the context and reason why he does it.
Just as well taking things out of context is not smearing isn't it?
One paper does it, and the rest of the media can quote them as a source, and ignore the original statement.
Clearly a xenophobic little Englander :rolleyes:
As always, the key is not the headline times. Mood music gives better guidance. Teams should be more honest about competitors than themselves. I'll be seeing what people make of the Renault, which is in danger of (possibly excepting the new Honda) being the weakest engine this year. Ricciardo's a great driver, but if he doesn't have the car he can't challenge for the title.
http://www.oddschecker.com/politics/british-politics/next-uk-general-election/general-election-specials
This is not zero-sum - those costs will still exist whether inside or outside the public sphere.
So the question is where does the burden fall? Old age care is tremendously expensive and the costs are rising and even insurance based systems are groaning to support the cost.
The rich can support the rising premiums of course, which is why the Right quite likes the idea of shunting people onto insurance based schemes - conveniently forgetting that for most ordinary people that is locking them in to ever rising cost burdens scoffing more and more of their disposable income.
Lib Dem slight revival in England ?
What price UKIP to win a seat at the GE that they don't currently hold? You make the price
I'll take the lack of straight answers as confo that UKIP have never been a beaten fav
Decent Scottish subsample for the Nats too. Good crossbreak in Midlands for Tories.
After a disastrous weekend for Labour exclusively in the rightwing press (copyright certain Tories on here), the Tories, er, flatline.
As they have for 4 years.
#megapollingmonday
*As copyrighted by the PB Hodges and some ratbag from The Scum, who tweeted that is what Tory HQ had planned would be happening.
This will be why they're quoting the number for what proportion of job centres are supposed to be "using" it, rather than the proportion of claimants who have actually started getting it.