Nigel Farage has revealed his radical plans for Ukip to support a minority Conservative government after the next election.
The UK Independence Party leader says that he is willing to make a deal with the Tories on the condition that they hold an EU referendum before Christmas.
The detailed plans for a hung parliament set out that Ukip and Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party would work together to support the Conservatives on a vote by vote basis.
Ukip - forecast to gain up to six seats in the election - would vote for the Conservative's first Budget, which would be the first major test of this new right of centre alliance.
Nigel Farage has revealed his radical plans for Ukip to support a minority Conservative government after the next election.
The UK Independence Party leader says that he is willing to make a deal with the Tories on the condition that they hold an EU referendum before Christmas.
The detailed plans for a hung parliament set out that Ukip and Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party would work together to support the Conservatives on a vote by vote basis.
Ukip - forecast to gain up to six seats in the election - would vote for the Conservative's first Budget, which would be the first major test of this new right of centre alliance.
@currystar Because some of us can see that our country is rotten to it's core, and Dave and Ozzie are clueless. No one is that keen on the alternatives, but they would like to see some of the rot treated.
I was in Southampton today. The shopping centre was packed. All the food joints had queues. There was even a jewellery store called pandora where there was a 30 minute wait just to get in the shop to buy jewellery . All this nonsense that it is only rich people who are feeling the benefits of the recovery . I'm sure France wishes that it is as rotten to the core as we are .
I think there is a definite divide. My experience of travelling around, the south is doing very well, some of the big cities like Birmingham are busy busy busy, but the smaller northern towns not so much.
So how will labour help the smaller northern towns?
Crap strategy for us BOO'ers. The ground has nowhere near been prepared for an OUT victory yet, nor a roadmap for a positive, warm internationally outward looking post-EU UK: the only way OUT can win.
If we had a vote this year, we'd lose, and be locked into the EU for at least another 20 years.
Your assuming (wrongly IMO) that Farage want's to leave the EU...
I think he does. But he's too emotional. He makes the mistake of assuming everyone else sees the world the same way he does.
He can work up his 15-20% base into an enthusiastic frenzy. But no matter how hard they mark the ballot paper, the votes will be limited. To win an EU referendum vote, he will have to win over some on the centre-left to the cause.
Is "Savllesque" a typo? Does "top BBC boss" have a name? Does the Mail have an axe to grind?
Daily Mail could get itself into deep shit over that headline.
The Mail - or the 'BBC Boss' once he or she is identified?
The petition now stands at 894,378 signatures. It might make the million yet.
For the Mail to go so big on that, I would think they have to be able to stand up their claims and also had the lawyers go over it, or it very could get expensive.
Crap strategy for us BOO'ers. The ground has nowhere near been prepared for an OUT victory yet, nor a roadmap for a positive, warm internationally outward looking post-EU UK: the only way OUT can win.
If we had a vote this year, we'd lose, and be locked into the EU for at least another 20 years.
@currystar "So how will labour help the smaller northern towns?"
I have not a clue, but if they actually do something about rebalancing the economy, instead of watching the bond markets, I would vote for that. If it is "Blairism" with some red dusting, I won't.
@currystar Because some of us can see that our country is rotten to it's core, and Dave and Ozzie are clueless. No one is that keen on the alternatives, but they would like to see some of the rot treated.
I was in Southampton today. The shopping centre was packed. All the food joints had queues. There was even a jewellery store called pandora where there was a 30 minute wait just to get in the shop to buy jewellery . All this nonsense that it is only rich people who are feeling the benefits of the recovery . I'm sure France wishes that it is as rotten to the core as we are .
I think there is a definite divide. My experience of travelling around, the south is doing very well, some of the big cities like Birmingham are busy busy busy, but the smaller northern towns not so much.
So how will labour help the smaller northern towns?
No bloody idea...unfortunately I don't think Osborne or two the Ed's do either.
Tory lead 0.6% in ELBOW so far this week, with only Opinium, YG (Sunday) and ComRes (online) to come this weekend!
Have we been informed who The Sunil is coming out for this time?
In Britain, the Sunil comes out every day!
As it stands, with just the YG data tables to come through, we have both the Tories and Labour on 33.1% apiece in ELBOW!
The sunil has got his hat on, hip-hip-hip-hooray The sunil has got his hat on and he's coming out today Now we'll all be happy, hip-hip-hip-hooray The sunil has got his hat on and he's coming out today
@currystar Because some of us can see that our country is rotten to it's core, and Dave and Ozzie are clueless. No one is that keen on the alternatives, but they would like to see some of the rot treated.
And at the moment UKIP is the only party willing to apply some medical aid.
He seems very confident that the Labour are heading for a very low score. I am interested to know why he thinks they will drop 3-5% from current polling in the next few weeks.
Peter Kellner- YouGov has conducted 15 polls in the past three weeks. The Tories have led in seven, Labour in three.
The previous three weeks produced 11 Labour leads and just two for the Tories. Individual polling samples still vary and the overall shift is small. But it is real.
Given the historic pattern for Tory governments to do better than Labour oppositions in the final weeks before polling day, it is bad news for Miliband.
Peter Kellner- YouGov has conducted 15 polls in the past three weeks. The Tories have led in seven, Labour in three.
The previous three weeks produced 11 Labour leads and just two for the Tories. Individual polling samples still vary and the overall shift is small. But it is real.
Given the historic pattern for Tory governments to do better than Labour oppositions in the final weeks before polling day, it is bad news for Miliband.
TONY BLAIR was engulfed in a Labour funding row last night after he helped to broker a secret £1m donation deal with the party’s biggest business backer in a move to weaken the influence of the trade unions over Ed Miliband.
The former prime minister used a dinner at his London home last week to drum up cash for Labour’s election war chest and freeze out Unite, the union that is the party’s biggest paymaster.
At the dinner Assem Allam, chairman of Hull City football club, told Miliband that he would give Labour £300,000 on top of the £200,000 he has already handed over this year.
He promised a further £500,000 if the Labour leader loses money by standing up to Unite’s general secretary, Len McCluskey.
Crap strategy for us BOO'ers. The ground has nowhere near been prepared for an OUT victory yet, nor a roadmap for a positive, warm internationally outward looking post-EU UK: the only way OUT can win.
If we had a vote this year, we'd lose, and be locked into the EU for at least another 20 years.
Farage has been talking about demanding a referendum this year for cofidence annd suply for at least 6 moths. It's old news and anyway under the current circumstances it will not happen. A referendum will need a vote in Westminster will it not? No way Labour, the SNP and the Libdems would allow it
You're always very confident about your predictions. Like when you told me there was absolutely zero chance of Osborne making any move on inheritance tax in his budget.
And I still stick by that. Inheritance tax is a pledge for the next parliament not a throwaway for the rump end of this because once its pushed through that's it. It has little further value.
Similarly I do not believe there will be a referendum anytime soon partly because I believe that Eurosceptics are far in advance of pro-Europeans in developing their arguments and that in itself provides sufficient risk for pro-Europeans to ensure they will avoid a referendum at all costs. Eurosceptics only need one win in a referendum. Pro-Europeans have to win every one ( victory for pro-Europeans would not be an end to it not with ever closer union on the horizon)
Peter Kellner- YouGov has conducted 15 polls in the past three weeks. The Tories have led in seven, Labour in three.
The previous three weeks produced 11 Labour leads and just two for the Tories. Individual polling samples still vary and the overall shift is small. But it is real.
Given the historic pattern for Tory governments to do better than Labour oppositions in the final weeks before polling day, it is bad news for Miliband.
Quick question:Did Kellner correctly predict that Lab and Con would be tied 53 days before the general election?
He seems very confident that the Labour are heading for a very low score. I am interested to know why he thinks they will drop 3-5% from current polling in the next few weeks.
I think Kellner's almost bang-on the money there. A little punchy for the Lib Dems mind.
EDIT: 12% share for UKIP, not seats!! Getting tired.
@currystar Bully for you, conversely, there are people waiting three days just to get to a foodbank.
Please remember that Southampton which is clearly the richest place in the uk and the only place that does not need food banks has two MPs both of whom are labour . This gives you an idea of the demographics of the place , yet these labour voting lot cannot afford food yet can afford pandora jewellery. Get real the uk has done amazing under this government . They deserve enormous credit.
At the dinner Assem Allam, chairman of Hull City football club, told Miliband that he would give Labour £300,000 on top of the £200,000 he has already handed over this year.
He promised a further £500,000 if the Labour leader loses money by standing up to Unite’s general secretary, Len McCluskey.
He seems very confident that the Labour are heading for a very low score. I am interested to know why he thinks they will drop 3-5% from current polling in the next few weeks.
The phone polls, Ipsos excepted, have Labour on 30-32 now.
Peter Kellner- YouGov has conducted 15 polls in the past three weeks. The Tories have led in seven, Labour in three.
The previous three weeks produced 11 Labour leads and just two for the Tories. Individual polling samples still vary and the overall shift is small. But it is real.
Given the historic pattern for Tory governments to do better than Labour oppositions in the final weeks before polling day, it is bad news for Miliband.
Quick question:Did Kellner correctly predict that Lab and Con would be tied 53 days before the general election?
His piece in January predicted that the Tories would have regular but inconsistent leads by the budget.
Peter Kellner- YouGov has conducted 15 polls in the past three weeks. The Tories have led in seven, Labour in three.
The previous three weeks produced 11 Labour leads and just two for the Tories. Individual polling samples still vary and the overall shift is small. But it is real.
Given the historic pattern for Tory governments to do better than Labour oppositions in the final weeks before polling day, it is bad news for Miliband.
Quick question:Did Kellner correctly predict that Lab and Con would be tied 53 days before the general election?
ELBOW for the 10 polls with data tables released so far this week currently has Labour and Tory leading by 0.00%!! (only the Sunday YG data can spoil that perfect symmetry!!)
He seems very confident that the Labour are heading for a very low score. I am interested to know why he thinks they will drop 3-5% from current polling in the next few weeks.
The phone polls, Ipsos excepted, have Labour on 30-32 now.
Peter Kellner- YouGov has conducted 15 polls in the past three weeks. The Tories have led in seven, Labour in three.
The previous three weeks produced 11 Labour leads and just two for the Tories. Individual polling samples still vary and the overall shift is small. But it is real.
Given the historic pattern for Tory governments to do better than Labour oppositions in the final weeks before polling day, it is bad news for Miliband.
Quick question:Did Kellner correctly predict that Lab and Con would be tied 53 days before the general election?
ELBOW for the 10 polls with data tables released so far this week currently has Labour and Tory leading by 0.00%!! (only the Sunday YG data can spoil that perfect symmetry!!)
I hope you applied a Gold Standard correction to downweigh the obviously erroneous polls which have a Labour lead.
Is "Savllesque" a typo? Does "top BBC boss" have a name? Does the Mail have an axe to grind?
I'm sure the Mail has an axe to grind but the remarks coming before a supposedly objective disciplinary hearing are hardly politic are they? I suspect the BBC boss is Danny Cohen who the Mail has previously claimed ''has seized on the incident as the reason he needs to oust the controversial figure.'' That a BBC boss (of all people and organisations) seeks to link the PM to Saville says a lot about them as well.
Peter Kellner- YouGov has conducted 15 polls in the past three weeks. The Tories have led in seven, Labour in three.
The previous three weeks produced 11 Labour leads and just two for the Tories. Individual polling samples still vary and the overall shift is small. But it is real.
Given the historic pattern for Tory governments to do better than Labour oppositions in the final weeks before polling day, it is bad news for Miliband.
Con+UKIP+DUP on 310 seats; Lab+Green+LD+SNP on 328 seats. Not enough to pass the EU bill.
So he'd have to do a deal with the LDs to pass it.
One of the reasons I think Kellner is right is that a weak, unpopular, incredible leader just might not get out the vote for Labour. Not to mention the multiple messages, and limited resources.
Meanwhile, Cameron and Osborne are pumping iron into their base with sweeties all round, running watertight message discipline and ramming it all home with a very well funded campaign.
I've covered myself on the 60-65% turnout band at Bet365 at 7/2.
Con+UKIP+DUP on 310 seats; Lab+Green+LD+SNP on 328 seats. Not enough to pass the EU bill.
So he'd have to do a deal with the LDs to pass it.
Kellner's "prediction" (and it is only that) is or may be the justification for the Clegg line. Roughly 300 Conservatives plus roughly 30 LDs plus 8 DUP gives a fairly comfortable majority in truth.
And yet...I'm far from convinced a weakened Clegg could sell Coalition 2.0 to a damaged party.
Peter Kellner- YouGov has conducted 15 polls in the past three weeks. The Tories have led in seven, Labour in three.
The previous three weeks produced 11 Labour leads and just two for the Tories. Individual polling samples still vary and the overall shift is small. But it is real.
Given the historic pattern for Tory governments to do better than Labour oppositions in the final weeks before polling day, it is bad news for Miliband.
Quick question:Did Kellner correctly predict that Lab and Con would be tied 53 days before the general election?
His piece in January predicted that the Tories would have regular but inconsistent leads by the budget.
Could you post that article as his Youguv January article doesn`t allude to it?
He predicted 2.5% swingback 4 months to the election and with 53 days to go,swingback so far has been 0.5%
Crap strategy for us BOO'ers. The ground has nowhere near been prepared for an OUT victory yet, nor a roadmap for a positive, warm internationally outward looking post-EU UK: the only way OUT can win.
If we had a vote this year, we'd lose, and be locked into the EU for at least another 20 years.
Farage has been talking about demanding a referendum this year for cofidence annd suply for at least 6 moths. It's old news and anyway under the current circumstances it will not happen. A referendum will need a vote in Westminster will it not? No way Labour, the SNP and the Libdems would allow it
You're always very confident about your predictions. Like when you told me there was absolutely zero chance of Osborne making any move on inheritance tax in his budget.
And I still stick by that. Inheritance tax is a pledge for the next parliament not a throwaway for the rump end of this because once its pushed through that's it. It has little further value.
Similarly I do not believe there will be a referendum anytime soon partly because I believe that Eurosceptics are far in advance of pro-Europeans in developing their arguments and that in itself provides sufficient risk for pro-Europeans to ensure they will avoid a referendum at all costs. Eurosceptics only need one win in a referendum. Pro-Europeans have to win every one ( victory for pro-Europeans would not be an end to it not with ever closer union on the horizon)
Because you will want to show who's the bigger man, I look forward to you graciously conceding you were wrong by close of business on Wednesday.
In note the "magic sign" comes up yet again for the SNP - not Ladbrokes the bookies but 45 per cent support in the Comres sub sample. It seems like your tactical voting pals are up a gum tree Mike.
Peter Kellner- YouGov has conducted 15 polls in the past three weeks. The Tories have led in seven, Labour in three.
The previous three weeks produced 11 Labour leads and just two for the Tories. Individual polling samples still vary and the overall shift is small. But it is real.
Given the historic pattern for Tory governments to do better than Labour oppositions in the final weeks before polling day, it is bad news for Miliband.
Quick question:Did Kellner correctly predict that Lab and Con would be tied 53 days before the general election?
His piece in January predicted that the Tories would have regular but inconsistent leads by the budget.
Could you post that article as his Youguv January article doesn`t allude to it?
He predicted 2.5% swingback 4 months to the election and with 53 days to go,swingback so far has been 0.5%
Crap strategy for us BOO'ers. The ground has nowhere near been prepared for an OUT victory yet, nor a roadmap for a positive, warm internationally outward looking post-EU UK: the only way OUT can win.
If we had a vote this year, we'd lose, and be locked into the EU for at least another 20 years.
Farage has been talking about demanding a referendum this year for cofidence annd suply for at least 6 moths. It's old news and anyway under the current circumstances it will not happen. A referendum will need a vote in Westminster will it not? No way Labour, the SNP and the Libdems would allow it
You're always very confident about your predictions. Like when you told me there was absolutely zero chance of Osborne making any move on inheritance tax in his budget.
And I still stick by that. Inheritance tax is a pledge for the next parliament not a throwaway for the rump end of this because once its pushed through that's it. It has little further value.
Similarly I do not believe there will be a referendum anytime soon partly because I believe that Eurosceptics are far in advance of pro-Europeans in developing their arguments and that in itself provides sufficient risk for pro-Europeans to ensure they will avoid a referendum at all costs. Eurosceptics only need one win in a referendum. Pro-Europeans have to win every one ( victory for pro-Europeans would not be an end to it not with ever closer union on the horizon)
Because you will want to show who's the bigger man, I look forward to you graciously conceding you were wrong by close of business on Wednesday.
It's what I think not some method by which I prove my character but if Osborne does try to push it through I'll be looking to see if I'm proved right and the Libdems block it or not and whether Labour and the Libdems use it in terms of calling it a 'Millionaire's tax cut' and whether the Tories vote share suffers or not.
Peter Kellner- YouGov has conducted 15 polls in the past three weeks. The Tories have led in seven, Labour in three.
The previous three weeks produced 11 Labour leads and just two for the Tories. Individual polling samples still vary and the overall shift is small. But it is real.
Given the historic pattern for Tory governments to do better than Labour oppositions in the final weeks before polling day, it is bad news for Miliband.
Quick question:Did Kellner correctly predict that Lab and Con would be tied 53 days before the general election?
His piece in January predicted that the Tories would have regular but inconsistent leads by the budget.
Could you post that article as his Youguv January article doesn`t allude to it?
He predicted 2.5% swingback 4 months to the election and with 53 days to go,swingback so far has been 0.5%
The Kellner prediction of 30 LibDems on a vote recovering to, er, 10% is interesting. All polls have them on 7% tonight. So that requires some mighty special pleading - for the LibDem vote to rise by nearly 50% from where they currently sit. Every two current LibDem voters have to find another. Bold...
Peter Kellner- YouGov has conducted 15 polls in the past three weeks. The Tories have led in seven, Labour in three.
The previous three weeks produced 11 Labour leads and just two for the Tories. Individual polling samples still vary and the overall shift is small. But it is real.
Given the historic pattern for Tory governments to do better than Labour oppositions in the final weeks before polling day, it is bad news for Miliband.
Quick question:Did Kellner correctly predict that Lab and Con would be tied 53 days before the general election?
His piece in January predicted that the Tories would have regular but inconsistent leads by the budget.
Could you post that article as his Youguv January article doesn`t allude to it?
He predicted 2.5% swingback 4 months to the election and with 53 days to go,swingback so far has been 0.5%
Peter Kellner- YouGov has conducted 15 polls in the past three weeks. The Tories have led in seven, Labour in three.
The previous three weeks produced 11 Labour leads and just two for the Tories. Individual polling samples still vary and the overall shift is small. But it is real.
Given the historic pattern for Tory governments to do better than Labour oppositions in the final weeks before polling day, it is bad news for Miliband.
Quick question:Did Kellner correctly predict that Lab and Con would be tied 53 days before the general election?
His piece in January predicted that the Tories would have regular but inconsistent leads by the budget.
Could you post that article as his Youguv January article doesn`t allude to it?
He predicted 2.5% swingback 4 months to the election and with 53 days to go,swingback so far has been 0.5%
@currystar Bully for you, conversely, there are people waiting three days just to get to a foodbank.
Please remember that Southampton which is clearly the richest place in the uk and the only place that does not need food banks has two MPs both of whom are labour . This gives you an idea of the demographics of the place , yet these labour voting lot cannot afford food yet can afford pandora jewellery. Get real the uk has done amazing under this government . They deserve enormous credit.
I suspect that many of those shopping in Southampton do not actually live there. It is the best place for shopping in Hants.
Crap strategy for us BOO'ers. The ground has nowhere near been prepared for an OUT victory yet, nor a roadmap for a positive, warm internationally outward looking post-EU UK: the only way OUT can win.
If we had a vote this year, we'd lose, and be locked into the EU for at least another 20 years.
Farage has been talking
You're always very confident about your predictions. Like when you told me there was absolutely zero chance of Osborne making any move on inheritance tax in his budget.
And I still stick by that. Inheritance tax is a pledge for the next parliament not a throwaway for the rump end of this because once its pushed through that's it. It has little further value.
Because you will want to show who's the bigger man, I look forward to you graciously conceding you were wrong by close of business on Wednesday.
It's what I think not some method by which I prove my character but if Osborne does try to push it through I'll be looking to see if I'm proved right and the Libdems block it or not and whether Labour and the Libdems use it in terms of calling it a 'Millionaire's tax cut' and whether the Tories vote share suffers or not.
You said there was "absolutely zero" chance of it happening. You mocked me repeatedly on here for suggesting otherwise. Now you are trying to broaden the scope of what you said, including all the irrelevancies of your cumbersome paragraph-long sentence, and worm out of what you were previously so certain about.
If you mock a well-thought through prediction on here with 100% certainty yourself, and are subsequently shown to be wrong, expect to be called out on it.
Humble pie: you have four days to learn how to eat some.
I'm surprised anyone would need to 'announce' such a thing as a headline, given how clearly that is what he would need to have any chance at all for a very long time now, but I guess that ties in to the 'normal people don't think about politics' reality that we live in.
Peter Kellner- YouGov has conducted 15 polls in the past three weeks. The Tories have led in seven, Labour in three.
The previous three weeks produced 11 Labour leads and just two for the Tories. Individual polling samples still vary and the overall shift is small. But it is real.
Given the historic pattern for Tory governments to do better than Labour oppositions in the final weeks before polling day, it is bad news for Miliband.
Con+UKIP+DUP on 310 seats; Lab+Green+LD+SNP on 328 seats. Not enough to pass the EU bill.
So he'd have to do a deal with the LDs to pass it.
I don't think the time is right for an EU referendum. Massive changes are required in the EU in order for it to survive. We face many years of can kicking before they wake up to reality. Only then when the EU is on it's knees will an EU referendum be a good idea for the Eurosceptics.
You said there was "absolutely zero" chance of it happening. You mocked me repeatedly on here for suggesting otherwise. Now you are trying to broaden the scope of what you said, including all the irrelevancies of your cumbersome paragraph-long sentence, and worm out of what you were previously so certain about.
If you mock a well-thought through prediction on here with 100% certainty yourself, and are subsequently shown to be wrong, expect to be called out on it.
Humble pie: you have four days to learn how to eat some.
Your memory seems to be failing you again. Go back and read what I said. i said the Tories would be nuts to try and push it through now. i said the Libdems would not let it go through. I quoted the Libdems website on tax.
The Conservatives can't be trusted to deliver fair taxes by themselves. We blocked their plans to give millionaires a £270,000 inheritance tax cut and they refuse to create a mansion tax because they are worried it would affect their big donors.
I said to try and push it through now would invite comments about only helping the wealthy (i.e. Millionaire tax cuts) and potentially create significant negative coverage
I said it was something for the coming manifesto. Now if you don't believe me go back and read it again. As for mocking you I do not believe I did (there are those who I would mock on this site but you are not one of them)
If I am proven wrong I am wrong, but if I am, then the Libdems will be up for further ridicule along the lines of the tuition fees debacle.
What is more likely given there is going to be a section on manifesto pledges in the budget is that Osborne puts it in that section which is what I recommended in the first place. So instead of babbling on about humble pie get your facts right in the first place!
Now prove me wrong by quoting what it was I said originally that doesn't align with that or give it up!
The Kellner prediction of 30 LibDems on a vote recovering to, er, 10% is interesting. All polls have them on 7% tonight. So that requires some mighty special pleading - for the LibDem vote to rise by nearly 50% from where they currently sit. Every two current LibDem voters have to find another. Bold...
Do stop sneering, Mark. It does you no credit.
The 2010 Lib Dem vote has gone soft. It has not gone away.
Liberal voters need to be reminded why the Lib Dems are their best option. And this is now starting to happen, now that Lib Dem PPCs are in place, and council candidates out campaigning.
In the next few weeks, the electors will be reminded, I think, that the Conservative Party - if returned unfettered - would be an unmitigated disaster for most people.
The Kellner prediction of 30 LibDems on a vote recovering to, er, 10% is interesting. All polls have them on 7% tonight. So that requires some mighty special pleading - for the LibDem vote to rise by nearly 50% from where they currently sit. Every two current LibDem voters have to find another. Bold...
Do stop sneering, Mark. It does you no credit.
The 2010 Lib Dem vote has gone soft. It has not gone away.
Liberal voters need to be reminded why the Lib Dems are their best option. And this is now starting to happen, now that Lib Dem PPCs are in place, and council candidates out campaigning.
In the next few weeks, the electors will be reminded, I think, that the Conservative Party - if returned unfettered - would be an unmitigated disaster for most people.
Watch this space.....
I don't need to watch this space, I've seen your election literature. Which is sneering. And does you no credit....
@currystar No thanks, I am not sure that things will be all that rosy no matter who gets in. Our productivity levels per capita are a joke.
The UK had a productive banking sector that was wiped out - permanently. A chunk of productive capacity lost. This is what is meant when economists talk about the need to rebalance the economy. The Bank of England also point to companies not shedding labour as you might expect in a recession. This points to spare capacity it says both within companies and in the labour market. From what the Bank of England say it may be that the recession was not tough enough! They imply that more low productivity firms have survived the recession than might be expected.
Is "Savllesque" a typo? Does "top BBC boss" have a name? Does the Mail have an axe to grind?
I'm sure the Mail has an axe to grind but the remarks coming before a supposedly objective disciplinary hearing are hardly politic are they? I suspect the BBC boss is Danny Cohen who the Mail has previously claimed ''has seized on the incident as the reason he needs to oust the controversial figure.'' That a BBC boss (of all people and organisations) seeks to link the PM to Saville says a lot about them as well.
It slightly odd, maybe I am not reading it correctly they carefully don't say those comments were made by Danny Cohen in the text, but in the image they show Cohen.
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Bully for you, conversely, there are people waiting three days just to get to a foodbank.
The UK Independence Party leader says that he is willing to make a deal with the Tories on the condition that they hold an EU referendum before Christmas.
The detailed plans for a hung parliament set out that Ukip and Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party would work together to support the Conservatives on a vote by vote basis.
Ukip - forecast to gain up to six seats in the election - would vote for the Conservative's first Budget, which would be the first major test of this new right of centre alliance.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/nigel-farage/11471179/Revealed-Nigel-Farages-offer-to-support-a-minority-Conservative-Government.html
https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/576869368841261056
He can work up his 15-20% base into an enthusiastic frenzy. But no matter how hard they mark the ballot paper, the votes will be limited. To win an EU referendum vote, he will have to win over some on the centre-left to the cause.
As it stands, with just the YG data tables to come through, we have both the Tories and Labour on 33.1% apiece in ELBOW!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2995140/Did-Cage-director-train-Jihadi-John-MoS-uncovers-new-evidence-links-apologists-ISIS-butcher-desert-weapons-camp.html
Mail lawyers have been earning their corn this weekend...
"So how will labour help the smaller northern towns?"
I have not a clue, but if they actually do something about rebalancing the economy, instead of watching the bond markets, I would vote for that.
If it is "Blairism" with some red dusting, I won't.
The sunil has got his hat on and he's coming out today
Now we'll all be happy, hip-hip-hip-hooray
The sunil has got his hat on and he's coming out today
The previous three weeks produced 11 Labour leads and just two for the Tories. Individual polling samples still vary and the overall shift is small. But it is real.
Given the historic pattern for Tory governments to do better than Labour oppositions in the final weeks before polling day, it is bad news for Miliband.
He must be factoring in the trend plus the level of historic under/over statement of the two main protagonists.
That's a bit like "swingback" isn't it?
TONY BLAIR was engulfed in a Labour funding row last night after he helped to broker a secret £1m donation deal with the party’s biggest business backer in a move to weaken the influence of the trade unions over Ed Miliband.
The former prime minister used a dinner at his London home last week to drum up cash for Labour’s election war chest and freeze out Unite, the union that is the party’s biggest paymaster.
At the dinner Assem Allam, chairman of Hull City football club, told Miliband that he would give Labour £300,000 on top of the £200,000 he has already handed over this year.
He promised a further £500,000 if the Labour leader loses money by standing up to Unite’s general secretary, Len McCluskey.
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/Politics/article1531304.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2015_03_14
Oh.. Four letters? Cute??
Similarly I do not believe there will be a referendum anytime soon partly because I believe that Eurosceptics are far in advance of pro-Europeans in developing their arguments and that in itself provides sufficient risk for pro-Europeans to ensure they will avoid a referendum at all costs. Eurosceptics only need one win in a referendum. Pro-Europeans have to win every one ( victory for pro-Europeans would not be an end to it not with ever closer union on the horizon)
The Labour leader’s negative rhetoric and focus on the poorest voters spell disaster, key colleagues warn
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/Politics/article1531140.ece
EDIT: 12% share for UKIP, not seats!! Getting tired.
"Half a million more people claiming housing benefit under coalition "
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/mar/14/housing-benefit-coalition-people-claiming
I suspect the BBC boss is Danny Cohen who the Mail has previously claimed ''has seized on the incident as the reason he needs to oust the controversial figure.''
That a BBC boss (of all people and organisations) seeks to link the PM to Saville says a lot about them as well.
So he'd have to do a deal with the LDs to pass it.
Meanwhile, Cameron and Osborne are pumping iron into their base with sweeties all round, running watertight message discipline and ramming it all home with a very well funded campaign.
I've covered myself on the 60-65% turnout band at Bet365 at 7/2.
Cameron needs to respond decisively, for example by counting his conservatories.
And yet...I'm far from convinced a weakened Clegg could sell Coalition 2.0 to a damaged party.
He predicted 2.5% swingback 4 months to the election and with 53 days to go,swingback so far has been 0.5%
January SNP numbers a bit low
As far as I can see,this is a rehash of the article on Youguv website and that certainly makes no references to the budget.
Not that that involves much competition!
If Typhoo put the T in Britain,then who put the - you know what - in Scunthorpe?
Well we can put a tick against that, perhaps it will be better after the elections?
If you mock a well-thought through prediction on here with 100% certainty yourself, and are subsequently shown to be wrong, expect to be called out on it.
Humble pie: you have four days to learn how to eat some.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CAF2NM6UcAAa5ZX.jpg
I'm a fan of the proposals but I doubt they'll shift many votes.
https://yougov.co.uk/news/2015/02/16/scottish-voters-dent-milibands-hopes/
Orange became the new blue. His coat is on a shooglie nail as they are apt to say in the north
Southern Scotland = Ukraine
The 2010 Lib Dem vote has gone soft. It has not gone away.
Liberal voters need to be reminded why the Lib Dems are their best option. And this is now starting to happen, now that Lib Dem PPCs are in place, and council candidates out campaigning.
In the next few weeks, the electors will be reminded, I think, that the Conservative Party - if returned unfettered - would be an unmitigated disaster for most people.
Watch this space.....
With a trillion land mines....
The Bank of England also point to companies not shedding labour as you might expect in a recession. This points to spare capacity it says both within companies and in the labour market. From what the Bank of England say it may be that the recession was not tough enough! They imply that more low productivity firms have survived the recession than might be expected.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CAGBaqhWMAAqUS3.jpg
It slightly odd, maybe I am not reading it correctly they carefully don't say those comments were made by Danny Cohen in the text, but in the image they show Cohen.
Oh....