Roads petition breaks a million M6 Toll Road Ministers are mulling plans for "pay-as-you-drive" scheme More than one million people have signed an online petition against plans to introduce road charging in the UK. The petition, which is the most popular on the Downing Street website, calls for the scrapping of "planned vehicle tracking and road pricing policy"
+Jezza.
In other words, the most important issue in the UK is Man + Car.
Mr. T, disagree on Clarkson's petition being about cars/roads. It's about people who feel they get very little from the BBC despite funding it (not unlike bin collection being the only thing people often feel they get from the council) and are pissed off Top Gear might cease altogether.
There's an added layer of loathing political correctness.
@Morris_Dancer Swinging a punch at someone because your dinner is not on the table is frowned upon these days. I know you don't do "modern" history, but it has been so for quite a while .
@chestnut It kind of makes sense, the majority of the country would become housebound if they lost their car.
If you move outside of London, you pretty much need a car, which is one of the reasons why London-centric decision making or power brokers is a problem.
The rest of the country doesn't have a dozen tube lines and hundreds of bus routes that run 24 hours a day.
You know what really annoys me about twitter images, you can't easily zoom in to see them at their original size. Always have to drag the image into the address bar in order to do it. Grr
It might not be that straight forward..trying to read the text and it seems this was setup by a Ibrahim Taguri....the question is what other politicians or parties have taken some dodgy donations from this sting operation?
Mr. T, disagree on Clarkson's petition being about cars/roads. It's about people who feel they get very little from the BBC despite funding it (not unlike bin collection being the only thing people often feel they get from the council) and are pissed off Top Gear might cease altogether.
There's an added layer of loathing political correctness.
Not true - I feel I also get a limited amount of street lighting, which is just as well given the current incidence of potholes and also er..... um ..... well yes that's about it really.
@Tykejohnno Calling some on here thick is the most I can get away with, but if it is any consolation, have a look at some of the things I get called. As for stopping people replying? nope, it destroys the entertainment. You appear to be coagulating nicely though.
You worked out the difference between a freeze and a cap?
We’ll back the party that scraps the bedroom tax - In a hung parliament, Northern Ireland’s DUP will back whoever prioritises defence, social justice and beefs up UK border controls
Seem quite left wing - all the right wing issues (Sodomy in Ulster etc) tend to be devolved.
Am I correct in thinking when the DUP talk about "UK border controls" they're not referring to the Channel, but to the totally open Ireland/Northern Ireland border?
@chestnut It kind of makes sense, the majority of the country would become housebound if they lost their car.
If you move outside of London, you pretty much need a car, which is one of the reasons why London-centric decision making or power brokers is a problem.
The rest of the country doesn't have a dozen tube lines and hundreds of bus routes that run 24 hours a day.
My village used to have a regular (empty) bus every couple of hours, it now has a community taxi once a week.
Thread Header: "CON moves back to a 10 seat lead on the SPIN spread markets"
In fact Sporting have had the Tories 10 seats ahead of Labour for some time, but as I pointed out yesterday, they evidently can't be bothered to update their prices on their PB.com advertising ..... sloppy.
Danny Alexander has been virtually certain to lose his Inverness seat by a considerable measure for quite some time now. One only has to look at the bookies' odds to realise the impossible mountain he has to climb.
On thread: I do wonder whether there's a lot of counting chickens on the Tory side.
Even assuming a slight Tory lead - and probably to add to all the excitement we'll find that Labour are 5% ahead tonight - it still likely means that Labour will form the next government. So no real change from what has been likely for the last 3 years or so.
It sometimes feels as if the Tories think that because they find EdM unimaginably awful they simply cannot imagine how anyone can possibly vote Labour. That lack of imagination about why (a) people might not vote Tory - despite what the Tories think of as their own superior competence; and/or (b) people might vote Labour is a big failing.
It tends to turn into a "But the voters cannot be / won't be that stupid, surely!" rant, which is not tremendously attractive.
A brief flick through the history of previous leaders that are polling as poorly as Ed explains the increasing confidence of Tories.
No one, Lab or Con, has been so poorly rated and won.
There isn't a big enough tribe to support such a lowly regarded leader.
There is always "no precedent" for something happening until it happens and then, bang, there's your precedent.
Just because no-one has been so poorly rated and won does not mean that this might not happen - for the first time - this time.
Electoral laws are hardly the laws of physics.
It's also likely that the winning party will receive a post-war low share of the vote, below the current record set in 2005. In that context it's actually to be expected that the winner will be relatively poorly regarded compared to precedent. The converse would be surprising.
Thread Header: "CON moves back to a 10 seat lead on the SPIN spread markets"
In fact Sporting have had the Tories 10 seats ahead of Labour for some time, but as I pointed out yesterday, they evidently can't be bothered to update their prices on their PB.com advertising ..... sloppy.
You are not following this. The CON lead has fluctuated a fair bit between 8 and 10 over past two days. Indeed it has now edged back to 8. The panel above is being updated in real time.
This new divorce settlement law is just fecking nuts. Can we argue about THAT rather JC?
You have sex 30 years ago, have a baby, break up, she takes the child. But the woman can come back 30 years later and make claims on money you made long long after you last saw her?
WTF. Just, WTF.
They had a lawyer on BBC early and it is a little bit more complex than being reported (it appears the old hippies didn't do the divorce properly and in full), but its still nuts.
If the Tories are only 8 seats ahead of Labour and the SNP are expected to get 35-40 seats it doesn't look too bad for the left. The most worrying thing is the Tory momentum, if slight, and how this talk of a Labour/SNP deal could bother people. It's very easy to say that Miliband should rule out a deal with the SNP. But what if a majority isn't possible otherwise? Are we supposed to go without a government? Or would we have a grand coalition with Cameron as the incumbent remaining as Prime minister?
Telegraph expose sounding very, very bad for the Lib-Dems...
I think they half-dodged a bullet in truth. It read terribly for Taguri, but Danny Alexander and Lord Fox both stay well within the lines. Lord Fox even "urged some of the guests to put their head “above the parapet” by donating above the £7,500 limit", which can hardly be said to suggest he was advising people to get around the limit. And Danny Alexander doesn't seem to have done anything beyond being wheeled out to butter up a donor a bit.
So the story is bad, but the party can keep the damage limited mostly to a single person. They tough it out for now, and if the story catches on they can ditch him and kill it in its tracks. It has no legs beyond Taguri.
Thread Header: "CON moves back to a 10 seat lead on the SPIN spread markets"
In fact Sporting have had the Tories 10 seats ahead of Labour for some time, but as I pointed out yesterday, they evidently can't be bothered to update their prices on their PB.com advertising ..... sloppy.
You are not following this. The CON lead has fluctuated a fair bit between 8 and 10 over past two days. Indeed it has now edged back to 8. The panel above is being updated in real time.
Your comments about SPIN are wrong.
That simply isn't so - I checked their website prices before my post at 10:02pm and I've checked it again just now at 10:22pm. On both occasions they were showing the Tories 10 seats ahead of Labour. Contrary to your claim, their PB.com continurs to show the Tories only 8 seats ahead - this is NOT being updated in real time!
@FrankBooth Only coalitions with the Conservatives are allowed because the country needs stability! If anybody else has a chance to do so, it is immoral.
This new divorce settlement law is just fecking nuts. Can we argue about THAT rather JC?
You have sex 30 years ago, have a baby, break up, she takes the child. But the woman can come back 30 years later and make claims on money you made long long after you last saw her?
WTF. Just, WTF.
Indeed. Absolutely bonkers. I am slightly mollified by this:
the £1.9m payout she had hoped to secure was too high an amount.
"It is obvious, even at this stage, that an award approaching that size is out of the question," [Lord Wilson} said.
"Her claim may even be dismissed.
But it defies reason, I would suggest, to say it is even reasonable, given all the money was made after the divorce, that
"But there is, in our opinion, a real prospect that she will secure a comparatively modest award, perhaps of a size which would enable her to purchase a somewhat more comfortable, mortgage-free home.
presumably because
Lord Wilson said Ms Wyatt, who lived in Lowestoft, Suffolk, Sunderland and the Forest of Dean, had raised her son through "16 years of real hardship".
Um, without wishing to be mean about it, if she wanted not to live in that hardship the pair could have remained married, she could have married someone wealthier, or even she could have earned more wealth herself. Why now, after all this time, does she deserve a mortgage free home? It's not as though the child needs a home to be raised in now either.
Insanity, pure insanity. No time limit at all on claims, no matter how weak the case may be? Sure it says the claim might be dismissed, but it would seem fairer on all parties not to drag out such ridiculously weak cases in the courts and instead set that time limit.
Danny Alexander has been virtually certain to lose his Inverness seat by a considerable measure for quite some time now. One only has to look at the bookies' odds to realise the impossible mountain he has to climb.
Damn, Mirror doesn't even defend itself against |Gascoigne.
You know, I'm a Rangers fan, loved Gazza playing for us, thought he was an amazing player. But always got disappointed since. This might not explain things to everyone. But I think it explains it enough for me.
The Labour rag should be shut down and the Labour Party needs to accept it's culpability for it's party rag.
This new divorce settlement law is just fecking nuts. Can we argue about THAT rather JC?
You have sex 30 years ago, have a baby, break up, she takes the child. But the woman can come back 30 years later and make claims on money you made long long after you last saw her?
WTF. Just, WTF.
They had a lawyer on BBC early and it is a little bit more complex than being reported (it appears the old hippies didn't do the divorce properly and in full), but its still nuts.
I know, and, yep, it's still nuts.
It is the reductio ad absurdam of feminist-driven jurisprudence. Sleep with a man, have a baby, take child, then 30 years later demand a chunk of the money he earned BY HIMSELF decades after he last saw you.
On the face of it, it does not seem that unreasonable for someone who fathers a child to share his money with said child and the person who brought it up for him.
Sun Politics @SunPolitics · 7s 7 seconds ago YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead by one: CON 34%, LAB 35%, LD 7%, UKIP 14%, GRN 5%
Boo! Come on YouGov, Labour need to panic to make this interesting, and while they won't like such slender leads, and both effectively being pretty much tied with each other it seems, they do still know that could be enough. They shouldn't be resting on that, but after so long in the lead, and still having leads this close to the end date, they need a whole weak of being behind to make this entertaining.
Unintentionally hilarious moment on the News before, from some museum spokesman speaking out against "selfie sticks" (some kind of metal rods which people hold out with a phone on to take pictures of themselves).
"We're worried that these metal rods might poke someone in the eye - or, even worse, damage a painting"
This new divorce settlement law is just fecking nuts. Can we argue about THAT rather JC?
You have sex 30 years ago, have a baby, break up, she takes the child. But the woman can come back 30 years later and make claims on money you made long long after you last saw her?
WTF. Just, WTF.
They had a lawyer on BBC early and it is a little bit more complex than being reported (it appears the old hippies didn't do the divorce properly and in full), but its still nuts.
I know, and, yep, it's still nuts.
It is the reductio ad absurdam of feminist-driven jurisprudence. Sleep with a man, have a baby, take child, then 30 years later demand a chunk of the money he earned BY HIMSELF decades after he last saw you.
On the face of it, it does not seem that unreasonable for someone who fathers a child to share his money with said child and the person who brought it up for him.
And she couldn't make a claim 20 years ago because? A time limit does not seem unreasonable to me, given the child no longer needs bringing up.
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In other words, the most important issue in the UK is Man + Car.
It kind of makes sense, the majority of the country would become housebound if they lost their car.
There's an added layer of loathing political correctness.
Swinging a punch at someone because your dinner is not on the table is frowned upon these days.
I know you don't do "modern" history, but it has been so for quite a while .
https://twitter.com/suttonnick/status/575775032661655552
The rest of the country doesn't have a dozen tube lines and hundreds of bus routes that run 24 hours a day.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_2QTmCU8AAoYfa.jpg
Apparently if you can walk 40 yards, you don't need a car.
(It's official)
Alexander wasn't on the receiving end of the donation...
Yes, but you seem not to have.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/general-election-2015/dup-lays-out-postpoll-pact-demands-31059776.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/matt/?cartoon=11465720&cc=11442668
I blame the French for this.
Edited extra bit: goodnight, everyone.
Even better than her schoolboy outfit
In fact Sporting have had the Tories 10 seats ahead of Labour for some time, but as I pointed out yesterday, they evidently can't be bothered to update their prices on their PB.com advertising ..... sloppy.
he he...!
Alexander doesn't seem to be in the shit as much as the wanabee MP.
no comments on Telegraph website.
Your comments about SPIN are wrong.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_2VEbbWEAAQ3ao.jpg
'Star in a reasonably priced taxi' with Clegg replacing The Stig.
So the story is bad, but the party can keep the damage limited mostly to a single person. They tough it out for now, and if the story catches on they can ditch him and kill it in its tracks. It has no legs beyond Taguri.
I presume this has focus group'ed the c##p out of it, because the obviously people are going to be firing incoming.
Contrary to your claim, their PB.com continurs to show the Tories only 8 seats ahead - this is NOT being updated in real time!
Only coalitions with the Conservatives are allowed because the country needs stability!
If anybody else has a chance to do so, it is immoral.
the £1.9m payout she had hoped to secure was too high an amount.
"It is obvious, even at this stage, that an award approaching that size is out of the question," [Lord Wilson} said.
"Her claim may even be dismissed.
But it defies reason, I would suggest, to say it is even reasonable, given all the money was made after the divorce, that
"But there is, in our opinion, a real prospect that she will secure a comparatively modest award, perhaps of a size which would enable her to purchase a somewhat more comfortable, mortgage-free home.
presumably because
Lord Wilson said Ms Wyatt, who lived in Lowestoft, Suffolk, Sunderland and the Forest of Dean, had raised her son through "16 years of real hardship".
Um, without wishing to be mean about it, if she wanted not to live in that hardship the pair could have remained married, she could have married someone wealthier, or even she could have earned more wealth herself. Why now, after all this time, does she deserve a mortgage free home? It's not as though the child needs a home to be raised in now either.
Insanity, pure insanity. No time limit at all on claims, no matter how weak the case may be? Sure it says the claim might be dismissed, but it would seem fairer on all parties not to drag out such ridiculously weak cases in the courts and instead set that time limit.
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-31832392
Ian Birrell @ianbirrell
At least #Everton are still in Europe, the last remaining British team...
English prem,what a joke.
Plot? Plot? Wherefore art thou plot?
Paul Waugh @paulwaugh
It's official. No10 spksmn, asked if PM now rules out head to head TV debate with Miliband:"Yes. Final offer means final offer"
You know, I'm a Rangers fan, loved Gazza playing for us, thought he was an amazing player. But always got disappointed since. This might not explain things to everyone. But I think it explains it enough for me.
The Labour rag should be shut down and the Labour Party needs to accept it's culpability for it's party rag.
YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead by one: CON 34%, LAB 35%, LD 7%, UKIP 14%, GRN 5%
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=010KyIQjkTk
http://slummysinglemummy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/crying-squirrel1.jpg
"We're worried that these metal rods might poke someone in the eye - or, even worse, damage a painting"
LAB go 15% clear!!