Apparently there's a Tory Conference going on, so let's not forget the most dangerous policy of all
By March 2012 up to 45 per cent of those borrowers who had taken out a mortgage since 2005 had become mortgage prisoners – people who have a mortgage but either are in negative equity, don’t earn enough or don’t have sufficient savings to move to a different mortgage provider. Many cannot sell their homes because they wouldn’t be able to raise the funds to buy another.
This figure may be even higher for former first-time buyers – the FSA estimated that 55 per cent could be mortgage prisoners and that these borrowers “may not be able to remortgage for a better deal or move house.” Sadly, Osborne’s attempt at rescuing this group will merely end up fuelling even greater over-valuation in the housing market. It also delays the inevitable day of reckoning: when interest rates finally go up after the election, house prices will start to fall.
When that happens, Osborne’s hopes of a budget surplus will, tragically, vanish in yet another black hole of his own making.
tim you pillock it's all forgotten about. You've been ranting on about the blackshirts in the Daily Mail and Ralph singlehandedly invading occupied Europe. The tories have announced loads of inititaives that any competent opposition could have torn apart. But we've had Ed and his family hang ups instead.
Yes it's all gone so badly. Why has nobody outside the PB Tories (lower leagues) noticed just what a terrible miscalculation has been made?
it will all be forgotten when the next episode of Strictly comes on - was Susanna's cha cha cha better then Rachel's paso doble ?
Intospective Ed has decided to make himself the story which suggests it's a weak man trying to look tough. In the meantime no-one challenges government announcements: free breadmakers for fops and dandies, pet porpoises for bankers, open borders for latvian homophobes. Really anything goes since the opposition isn't up to the job.
Labour have chosen to make Ed the story and that's because they have to.
And that's what happens when you start throwing stones.
Also the BBC's venerated Lord Reith ;
" In 1975 excerpts from Reith's diary were published which showed he had, during the 1930s, harboured pro-fascist views. On 9 March 1933 he wrote: “I am pretty certain ... that the Nazis will clean things up and put Germany on the way to being a real power in Europe again. They are being ruthless and most determined.” After the July 1934 Night of The Long Knives, in which the Nazis ruthlessly exterminated their internal dissidents, Reith wrote: “I really admire the way Hitler has cleaned up what looked like an incipient revolt.” After Czechoslovakia was invaded by the Nazis in 1939 he wrote: “Hitler continues his magnificent efficiency.” Reith also expressed admiration for Mussolini. Reith's daughter, Marista Leishman, revealed how her father in the 1930s did everything possible to keep Winston Churchill and other anti-appeasement Conservatives off the airwaves. "
RT @afneil: #r4today has now done the Mail/Miliband story 3 (or is it 4) times this morning, inc. 7.10 and 8.10 ....plus every news bulletin
That's because it's the big news Plato
Your hatred of British institutions is well known, particularly the BBC and NHS.
What? Hatred? What are you on?
I have a problem with their biased political coverage and the compulsory TV Tax - and I have a problem with poor standards of care in the NHS but agree it should be free at the point of use.
I don't think my views are *hatred* or in fact that unusual at all.
Tasked with doing a number of Miliband, if the Mail journo had just run a piece that had said Ralph Miliband had some (especially by modern standards) extreme left wing views and [not justifying this] but made some comparisons in regards to Ed's latest ideas, surely they get the same effect on the hatchet job, and little that Ed could really complain about.
Instead they have managed to produce no real proof for the headline and allows Ed to take the moral high ground.
It is like the Sun running with Gordo's spelling mistake...actually what they could have run with was Brown just lying through his teeth to the widow, which actually shows his truth character when presented with a mistake of his own making.
Instead again the focus was on the ridiculous attack on somebody making a spelling mistake, not the fact that when he phoned up the woman up, rather than say sorry I made a mistake how can I make up for it [which if he had done, would have made him look just like Ed in this case], he ended up denying everything and arguing black was white for 5 minutes.
The Mail may have gone too far but certainly in the Times - most readers think it was legitimate to bring it up and it was EdM who made his dad a pawn in the game after mentioning him repeatedly.
I'm not particularly exercised by it - but I think EdM should have left it to others to attack the Mail, wading in himself looks thin-skinned and a bit sinister re press regulation - which is what the Mail wanted.
Apparently there's a Tory Conference going on, so let's not forget the most dangerous policy of all
By March 2012 up to 45 per cent of those borrowers who had taken out a mortgage since 2005 had become mortgage prisoners – people who have a mortgage but either are in negative equity, don’t earn enough or don’t have sufficient savings to move to a different mortgage provider. Many cannot sell their homes because they wouldn’t be able to raise the funds to buy another.
This figure may be even higher for former first-time buyers – the FSA estimated that 55 per cent could be mortgage prisoners and that these borrowers “may not be able to remortgage for a better deal or move house.” Sadly, Osborne’s attempt at rescuing this group will merely end up fuelling even greater over-valuation in the housing market. It also delays the inevitable day of reckoning: when interest rates finally go up after the election, house prices will start to fall.
When that happens, Osborne’s hopes of a budget surplus will, tragically, vanish in yet another black hole of his own making.
tim you pillock it's all forgotten about. You've been ranting on about the blackshirts in the Daily Mail and Ralph singlehandedly invading occupied Europe. The tories have announced loads of inititaives that any competent opposition could have torn apart. But we've had Ed and his family hang ups instead.
Yes it's all gone so badly. Why has nobody outside the PB Tories (lower leagues) noticed just what a terrible miscalculation has been made?
it will all be forgotten when the next episode of Strictly comes on - was Susanna's cha cha cha better then Rachel's paso doble ?
Intospective Ed has decided to make himself the story which suggests it's a weak man trying to look tough. In the meantime no-one challenges government announcements: free breadmakers for fops and dandies, pet porpoises for bankers, open borders for latvian homophobes. Really anything goes since the opposition isn't up to the job.
Labour have chosen to make Ed the story and that's because they have to.
Susannah Reid's cha cha cha works for me every morning.
RT @afneil: #r4today has now done the Mail/Miliband story 3 (or is it 4) times this morning, inc. 7.10 and 8.10 ....plus every news bulletin
That's because it's the big news Plato
Your hatred of British institutions is well known, particularly the BBC and NHS.
I disagreed with Plato's interpretation of Ralphgate but she is correct this morning about one of the consequences - after all the blather, and it doesn't make it acceptable (what in journalism/politics is), there will be some kind of a residual
"Milliband...Labour...can't quite remember...family...cut from the same cloth...nice bloke after all...Marxist...ooh-er..." feeling.
BTW: Ralph Miliband was, apparently a famed political writer. Surely Ed and co can find quotes in his copious works where he expresses a love for his adopted country? Where he says how much he admires it? That would have been a much better defence than the one Ed played. Fight a quote from his father as a 17-year old with ones from an older, maturer man.
I am sure that Ralph Miliband's views on nationality and identity cannot be reduced to some tabloid splash, or soundbite. They were almost certainly more nuanced and complex than that.
Considering that Ed is the only person that knows what they were or has ever read any of them , who gives a jot. Ed is still crap and nobody but him cares about his late father, if he cannot take the flak then find a job outside politics.
However: you cannot have capitalism in the modern world without big business or institutional investor elites. Capitalism thrives on innovation, and we're a long way away from the times when a man in his garage could develop world-changing items such as the light bulb or TV. Research and development costs money, and that means big business and big investors.
When a new (conventional) power station costs a billion to develop, or a new drug two billion, we're far away from the small-investor ideal. Only government or big business can do it, with the problems they bring.
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Certainly power stations and new drugs require a lot of investment but there are many new businesses, web-based in particular, that still start from a very small base. And big business and investor elites are not a particularly modern phenomenon - consider, for example, the USA in the 19th century. It is possible to be supportive of business and enterprise whilst at the same time challenging abuses of market power, as the USA did with the anti-trust laws. There is a perception at the moment that abuses of market power are worse than they used to be - this may be due to the pressure on people's living standards or it may be because the abuses really are worse, but the upshot is that EdM's challenge to corporate power strikes a chord, which it would not have done 10 or 20 years ago.
@WelshBertie –“I'm also curious at the attempts on twitter to paint the article as being anti-semitic in tone. It's as if the left have collectively gone full retard on this.”
It’s a default setting for some – You see it again with the constant references to fascism
Damn the Mail if you will for what it publishes now. But Rothermere the Second, Rothermere the Third (Vere) and now Rothermere the Fourth (Jonathan) cannot be held responsible for the views of the first of their line.
I don't think Cameron's speech will make much difference, because there won't be much in it. After all the government have the autumn statement in November (or December?) with more guaranteed news coverage when Osborne will have higher than expected growth figures to throw money at things.
RT @afneil: #r4today has now done the Mail/Miliband story 3 (or is it 4) times this morning, inc. 7.10 and 8.10 ....plus every news bulletin
That's because it's the big news Plato
Your hatred of British institutions is well known, particularly the BBC and NHS.
I disagreed with Plato's interpretation of Ralphgate but she is correct this morning about one of the consequences - after all the blather, and it doesn't make it acceptable (what in journalism/politics is), there will be some kind of a residual
"Milliband...Labour...can't quite remember...family...cut from the same cloth...nice bloke after all...Marxist...ooh-er..." feeling.
In the same way that Sarah "Plato" Palin's connecting Obama with socialism worked presumably?
It's as if the left have collectively gone full retard on this.
Clearly because they lack the class and insight of someone such as yourself. Why can't they see what fools they are making of themselves as they dig deeper and deeper? It's a complete mystery it is.
Ed had to act. Anyone with a pulse would defend their dead father against such a smear. Even Plato, I would imagine would not take kindly to her father being labelled evil.
If he had done nothing, he could have ended up like Dukakis in '88 when challenged on the Death penalty.
And that's what happens when you start throwing stones.
Also the BBC's venerated Lord Reith ;
" In 1975 excerpts from Reith's diary were published which showed he had, during the 1930s, harboured pro-fascist views. On 9 March 1933 he wrote: “I am pretty certain ... that the Nazis will clean things up and put Germany on the way to being a real power in Europe again. They are being ruthless and most determined.” After the July 1934 Night of The Long Knives, in which the Nazis ruthlessly exterminated their internal dissidents, Reith wrote: “I really admire the way Hitler has cleaned up what looked like an incipient revolt.” After Czechoslovakia was invaded by the Nazis in 1939 he wrote: “Hitler continues his magnificent efficiency.” Reith also expressed admiration for Mussolini. Reith's daughter, Marista Leishman, revealed how her father in the 1930s did everything possible to keep Winston Churchill and other anti-appeasement Conservatives off the airwaves. "
The Weimar Republic was such a basket-case and the post-1929 Depression so awful in so many countries - particularly on the back of The Great War and the subsequent 'flu pandemic - that it's no surprise that Hitler's Nazi Party received a great deal of international admiration in the period 1932-1937/8(ish) when Germany was seen to be united, growing, had a clear sense of national identity and was modernising its own infrastructure in a way which we (as always!) had singularly failed to do.
Britain also had its own unique problems too: Ireland, India - and votes for women!
It's true that a national grid for electricity was rolled out during this time, so that the vast majority of homes were electrified by 1939, whilst very few were in 1918 (I recall someone posted the data on that on here some months ago) and I know that gas mains were upgraded and improved around many towns too, specifically to create work for the unemployed.
It takes a lot of men to dig a long trench entirely by hand, but the work was done a great deal faster than we seem able to do today - 25+ years to build a (relatively) short length of railway? The Victorians would have done it in well under 10 - though also well over budget!
"...During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5, The Times was at the forefront of technological innovation when it became the first newspaper to use wireless telegraphy to cover a war. When a Russian torpedo flotilla was sunk trying to attack Port Arthur, Manchuria, Colonel James — who had the use of a specially kitted-out boat and a 180ft mast erected on shore — reported it to London before Japan even knew the attack had been made. Chartering a boat, and all the equipment, was an expensive business: it was calculated that James’s dispatches cost the paper 20 shillings (£1) a word. Which probably would not get past the managing editor these days.
The exclusive account by The Times of the opening of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1923 was another costly affair. With other Fleet Street papers vying to match our scoop, the correspondents in Luxor were spending money hand-over-fist, with The Times racking up an expenses bill of £3,500 — equivalent to £137,000 today. “The expenses are the devil,” our correspondent, Harry Perry Robinson, wrote to his manager. “The amount of money that goes in daily boat and donkey hire is horrid.”
Kim Philby, a Times correspondent before he was discovered to be a Soviet spy, submitted a legendary expenses claim when he lost his belongings while covering the retreat from Amiens in May 1940. It included a suit, a camelhair overcoat, pigskin gloves, a cigarette lighter and a Dunhill pipe and pouch (“six years old but all the better for it”). His claim was for £100 and 16 shillings; in the great newspaper tradition, he got £70 of it.
"...During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5, The Times was at the forefront of technological innovation when it became the first newspaper to use wireless telegraphy to cover a war. When a Russian torpedo flotilla was sunk trying to attack Port Arthur, Manchuria, Colonel James — who had the use of a specially kitted-out boat and a 180ft mast erected on shore — reported it to London before Japan even knew the attack had been made. Chartering a boat, and all the equipment, was an expensive business: it was calculated that James’s dispatches cost the paper 20 shillings (£1) a word. Which probably would not get past the managing editor these days.
The exclusive account by The Times of the opening of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1923 was another costly affair. With other Fleet Street papers vying to match our scoop, the correspondents in Luxor were spending money hand-over-fist, with The Times racking up an expenses bill of £3,500 — equivalent to £137,000 today. “The expenses are the devil,” our correspondent, Harry Perry Robinson, wrote to his manager. “The amount of money that goes in daily boat and donkey hire is horrid.”
Kim Philby, a Times correspondent before he was discovered to be a Soviet spy, submitted a legendary expenses claim when he lost his belongings while covering the retreat from Amiens in May 1940. It included a suit, a camelhair overcoat, pigskin gloves, a cigarette lighter and a Dunhill pipe and pouch (“six years old but all the better for it”). His claim was for £100 and 16 shillings; in the great newspaper tradition, he got £70 of it.
Anyone who thinks this row helps the tories now, short term, medium term or long term is deluded.
The Daily Mail has achieved what the spin doctors of Labour could not and for which previous evidence was scanty at best. They have made Ed look like a human being.
I would disagree on the long term. In May 2015, many voters will be deciding specifically on Dave V Ed, the vast majority will not follow politics closely and all that will have filtered through from this story, (if anything), will be Miliband = extreme left.
"...During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5, The Times was at the forefront of technological innovation when it became the first newspaper to use wireless telegraphy to cover a war. When a Russian torpedo flotilla was sunk trying to attack Port Arthur, Manchuria, Colonel James — who had the use of a specially kitted-out boat and a 180ft mast erected on shore — reported it to London before Japan even knew the attack had been made. Chartering a boat, and all the equipment, was an expensive business: it was calculated that James’s dispatches cost the paper 20 shillings (£1) a word. Which probably would not get past the managing editor these days.
The exclusive account by The Times of the opening of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1923 was another costly affair. With other Fleet Street papers vying to match our scoop, the correspondents in Luxor were spending money hand-over-fist, with The Times racking up an expenses bill of £3,500 — equivalent to £137,000 today. “The expenses are the devil,” our correspondent, Harry Perry Robinson, wrote to his manager. “The amount of money that goes in daily boat and donkey hire is horrid.”
Kim Philby, a Times correspondent before he was discovered to be a Soviet spy, submitted a legendary expenses claim when he lost his belongings while covering the retreat from Amiens in May 1940. It included a suit, a camelhair overcoat, pigskin gloves, a cigarette lighter and a Dunhill pipe and pouch (“six years old but all the better for it”). His claim was for £100 and 16 shillings; in the great newspaper tradition, he got £70 of it.
Apropos of nothing.
Paywall doesn't cost nothing which is presumably why those who operate it are not overfond of their articles being slapped onto other people's websites wholesale.
RT @afneil: #r4today has now done the Mail/Miliband story 3 (or is it 4) times this morning, inc. 7.10 and 8.10 ....plus every news bulletin
That's because it's the big news Plato
Your hatred of British institutions is well known, particularly the BBC and NHS.
I disagreed with Plato's interpretation of Ralphgate but she is correct this morning about one of the consequences - after all the blather, and it doesn't make it acceptable (what in journalism/politics is), there will be some kind of a residual
"Milliband...Labour...can't quite remember...family...cut from the same cloth...nice bloke after all...Marxist...ooh-er..." feeling.
In the same way that Sarah "Plato" Palin's connecting Obama with socialism worked presumably?
Did Obama self-identify as a socialist?
It will to some degree aid the return of the Kippers at GE2015.
Markit have just published their Construction PMI for September and the march of the housebuilders gathers pace:
Housing construction activity increases at fastest pace for almost a decade
Key points:
• Strong overall construction output growth continues in September
• Residential construction rises at sharpest rate since November 2003
• Optimism about business outlook reaches highest since April 2010
Although residential construction led the way (highest output since 2003), commercial construction was also up (best rate since May 2012) with civil engineering a little off its August high. Construction employment also continued a four month rise, expanding at its sharpest level since December 2007.
Overall the Markit PMI was 58.9 a shade under the August level of 59.1. With yesterday's manufacturing PMI being 57.1 over August's 57.2, it does appear that although the summer growth rates may have peaked the follow on is more plateau than decline.
@SO "As the director of a small business I hope Cameron does talk about aspiration and profit today in more than just vanilla terms."
Having been in big business but now helping SMEs. I basically agree with your aspirations, but if in any politician's shoes I would really struggle to give a finite route to the path for defined growth.
Aspiration is something that as a nation and for many people personally is something that has been lost today. I find that young people are just as aspirational as ever, but in some areas there is an inverted snobbery. Last week, I witnessed some new sixth-formers being told by their teacher not to think of applying to O&C or any high Russell Group universities as "it was above their class", and this is not uncommon in many schools.
Yet SMEs are constantly struggling to find new employees with the required skill sets, mainly due to years of a deficient education system that has slipped well behind leading global standards.
Profit is essential to the growth of any business in a capitalist system. We reinvest about 25% of our profit into R&D and about 50% into market development. We could do more but for Employer's NI and I would like to see all businesses with under 20 employees exempt from that tax. Then we could employ 10% more people.
The other stumbling block is cash flow. As more of our business is outside of Western Europe we have to finance more credit. At present the UK banking system is not prepared to supply the required finance.
Global competition means that our pricing has to be competitive (that includes credit terms) and potential Asian competitors with a lower cost base are rapidly improving their skill sets.
At present I do not have an answer as to how the UK will employ the large number of people who are unemployed and unemployable due to their lack of required skills and a bad education and suffering from the joint impact of IT and globalisation.
SO, if you are willing I would like to correspond with you outside PB - Mike S will let you have my email address if you ask him.
Just a hunch, nothing substantial behind it: In his speech, Cameron will produce a rabbit called Boris out of a hat.
Not just a hunch. It's already been hinted at by a few westminster political editors.
As to what kind of rabbit Boris would involve.. (we'll save save the obvious comedy for later) there was also talk a while back about the current inadequacies of the tory chairmen situation.
The Tories will never triumph with five chairmen at the helm
The party organisation is a total mess – but London Mayor Boris Johnson could restore clarity
Shut down the debate, just go off whinning to Press Complaints Commission.
BBC - Press Complaints Commission has received 32 complaints about Daily Mail's articles about Labour leader Ed Miliband's father.
How many were complaining that the Mail went too easy on Ralph ?
I wonder who has been rushing off to be 'outraged' of NW1 about the article. As for the Twitter stand up for Labour Decency, took them quite a bit of time to deal with Dancing on Thatcher's grave t shirts.
It will to some degree aid the return of the Kippers at GE2015.
Exactly. And a very large proportion of those Kippers are Mail readers (the rest are Telegraph readers).
Not much to choose in the polls between how much Kippers dislike Cameron and Miliband, the moment has passed for Dave to reverse his slur that UKIP are racists I suspect.
Although while Cameron is -50 among Kippers Theresa May is +5 isn't she?
"Reith also expressed admiration for Mussolini. Reith's daughter, Marista Leishman, revealed how her father in the 1930s did everything possible to keep Winston Churchill and other anti-appeasement Conservatives off the airwaves. "
Don't know why Reith bothered.
'If I had been an Italian, I am sure I would have been entirely with you from the beginning to the end of your victorious struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism.' To Benito Mussolini in a press conference in Rome (January 1927)
'One may dislike Hitler's system and yet admire his patriotic achievement. If our country were defeated, I hope we should find a champion as indomitable to restore our courage and lead us back to our place among the nations.' "Hitler and His Choice", The Strand Magazine (November 1935)
'I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us back to our rightful position among the nations. I am sorry, however, that he has not been mellowed by the great success that has attended him. The whole world would rejoice to see the Hitler of peace and tolerance, and nothing would adorn his name in world history so much as acts of magnanimity and of mercy and of pity to the forlorn and friendless, to the weak and poor. ... Let this great man search his own heart and conscience before he accuses anyone of being a warmonger.' "Mr. Churchill's Reply" in The Times (7 November 1938)
Why football pundits shouldn't talk about politics
Gary Lineker @GaryLineker Only a matter of time before Dacre resigns. It's what he would demand of another in this situation. Unless of course he's a hypocrite.
Why football pundits shouldn't talk about politics
Gary Lineker @GaryLineker Only a matter of time before Dacre resigns. It's what he would demand of another in this situation. Unless of course he's a hypocrite.
I still can't quite understand the faux outrage about an article outlining that a marxist academic was actually a marxist.
I'm also curious at the attempts on twitter to paint the article as being anti-semitic in tone. It's as if the left have collectively gone full retard on this.
Yes it like every left wing idiot is ignoring the basic fact - that a marxist is a traitor and wants to commit treason (all for the greater good you know) and that by default they have to hate this country otherwise they wouldn't be trying to remove the monarchy & overthrow the government.
Watching Ed lie on tv unchallenged was so infuriating. Anyone on the right trying for that level of disingenuity would have been interrupted every 30 seconds!
I still can't quite understand the faux outrage about an article outlining that a marxist academic was actually a marxist.
I'm also curious at the attempts on twitter to paint the article as being anti-semitic in tone. It's as if the left have collectively gone full retard on this.
Yes it like every left wing idiot is ignoring the basic fact - that a marxist is a traitor and wants to commit treason (all for the greater good you know) and that by default they have to hate this country otherwise they wouldn't be trying to remove the monarchy & overthrow the government.
Watching Ed lie on tv unchallenged was so infuriating. Anyone on the right trying for that level of disingenuity would have been interrupted every 30 seconds!
A Marxist has the same basic desire as Conservative or a Liberal, to build a society that benefits people. Now, you and I (and pretty much every person in the world) recognises that Marxism basically sucked. But don't doubt the sincerity of the believers: they genuinely thought it would be better for the people of the UK to live in a socialist paradise.
Yes it like every left wing idiot is ignoring the basic fact - that a marxist is a traitor and wants to commit treason (all for the greater good you know) and that by default they have to hate this country otherwise they wouldn't be trying to remove the monarchy & overthrow the government.
Republicans and democrats are traitors now? Sounds like something only a right-wing idiot would think.
Why football pundits shouldn't talk about politics
Gary Lineker @GaryLineker Only a matter of time before Dacre resigns. It's what he would demand of another in this situation. Unless of course he's a hypocrite.
No, I think Lineker is right. It's only a matter of time before Dacre stops working for The Mail. As he's currently 64 (although looking pretty good for his age), I'd give him another five years or so.
Ed's gone from Mr Bean to Stalin in a week. Not bad
That's a matter of opinion.
Good morning, Comrades!
The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that Ed, for lack of a better word, is good. Ed is right, Ed works. Ed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the (r)evolutionary spirit. Ed, in all of his forms; Ed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And Ed, you mark my words, will not only save the Labour Party, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the UK. Thank you very much.
Q.4 Regardless of which party, if any, you are likely to end up voting for at the next General Election due in May 2015 or are leaning towards at the moment, which political party would you say you have usually most closely identified yourself with? Replies were Labour 605 - 30% Conservatives 521 - 26% NONE 333 - 17% UKIP 224 - 11% Lib Dems 196 - 10% Green 47 - 2% SNP 43 - 2% Another party 16 - 1% BNP 13 - 1% Plaid 8 - So how do Populus redistribute those replies to make it a fair and even poll? Here is how. Unweighted numbers above become these weighted numbers below. Labour 622 - 31% Conservatives 562 - 28% NONE 441 - 22% Lib Dems 261 - 13% SNP 35 - 2% Green 34 - 2% UKIP 20 - 1% Another Party `13 - 1% BNP 10 - 1% Plaid 8 This is why I have started collecting REAL VOTES NOT OPINION POLLS as it seems in the world of the pollster that UKIP has only double the support of the BNP and only two thirds of the support of which the Green party has. Populus also seem to believe that there is 30% more Lib Dems out there as well as giving boosts to Lab & Con. Make of this as you will, but be interesting to see if Populus change anything in the coming months and how if they do it will effect their polling results.
Mick Twister @twitmericks The PM, our government's head When asked for the price of cheap bread Said let them eat cake (Or loaves that I make In my Panasonic instead)
Why football pundits shouldn't talk about politics
Gary Lineker @GaryLineker Only a matter of time before Dacre resigns. It's what he would demand of another in this situation. Unless of course he's a hypocrite.
No, I think Lineker is right. It's only a matter of time before Dacre stops working for The Mail. As he's currently 64 (although looking pretty good for his age), I'd give him another five years or so.
Bit of a sore point for Dacre (woe betide any hapless Mail journo who mentions retirement in his hearing) and put safer into the future by Steafel's comical and inept performance. It's still Rotheremere's call in the end and Dacre quite obviously wants to see current events through to their conclusion. Which will not be quick.
"Reith also expressed admiration for Mussolini. Reith's daughter, Marista Leishman, revealed how her father in the 1930s did everything possible to keep Winston Churchill and other anti-appeasement Conservatives off the airwaves. "
Don't know why Reith bothered.
'If I had been an Italian, I am sure I would have been entirely with you from the beginning to the end of your victorious struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism.' To Benito Mussolini in a press conference in Rome (January 1927)
'One may dislike Hitler's system and yet admire his patriotic achievement. If our country were defeated, I hope we should find a champion as indomitable to restore our courage and lead us back to our place among the nations.' "Hitler and His Choice", The Strand Magazine (November 1935)
'I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us back to our rightful position among the nations. I am sorry, however, that he has not been mellowed by the great success that has attended him. The whole world would rejoice to see the Hitler of peace and tolerance, and nothing would adorn his name in world history so much as acts of magnanimity and of mercy and of pity to the forlorn and friendless, to the weak and poor. ... Let this great man search his own heart and conscience before he accuses anyone of being a warmonger.' "Mr. Churchill's Reply" in The Times (7 November 1938)
Cast your deluded mind back to 1940. While Scots , Welsh , Ulstermen and Englishmen got on with the business of defeating fascism , future SNP leader , Donaldson , fantasised about Germany crushing England.
RT @FreeThinkingUK: BBCQT line up: Owen Jones, Polly Toynbee, Neil Hamilton, Bonnie Greer, Michael Newman, Teresa May.
Jones, Toynbee and Greer all together.. that'll be a barrel of laughs..
They should abolish the turgid sanctomonious Question Time , tell the 'up its arse' studio audience to get a proper job plumbing or plastering and replace it with a politician's Krypton Factor . Ed Miliband should be good on the assault course with his inherited armed forces genes. The observation round could be about the Home Secretary's speech and ask which colour shoes Theresa May was wearing. Would birds and old biddies still get a head start on the assault course though cos they are weak?
"Reith also expressed admiration for Mussolini. Reith's daughter, Marista Leishman, revealed how her father in the 1930s did everything possible to keep Winston Churchill and other anti-appeasement Conservatives off the airwaves. "
Don't know why Reith bothered.
'If I had been an Italian, I am sure I would have been entirely with you from the beginning to the end of your victorious struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism.' To Benito Mussolini in a press conference in Rome (January 1927)
'One may dislike Hitler's system and yet admire his patriotic achievement. If our country were defeated, I hope we should find a champion as indomitable to restore our courage and lead us back to our place among the nations.' "Hitler and His Choice", The Strand Magazine (November 1935)
'I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us back to our rightful position among the nations. I am sorry, however, that he has not been mellowed by the great success that has attended him. The whole world would rejoice to see the Hitler of peace and tolerance, and nothing would adorn his name in world history so much as acts of magnanimity and of mercy and of pity to the forlorn and friendless, to the weak and poor. ... Let this great man search his own heart and conscience before he accuses anyone of being a warmonger.' "Mr. Churchill's Reply" in The Times (7 November 1938)
Cast your deluded mind back to 1940. While Scots , Welsh , Ulstermen and Englishmen got on with the business of defeating fascism , future SNP leader , Donaldson , fantasised about Germany crushing England.
"Reith also expressed admiration for Mussolini. Reith's daughter, Marista Leishman, revealed how her father in the 1930s did everything possible to keep Winston Churchill and other anti-appeasement Conservatives off the airwaves. "
Don't know why Reith bothered.
'If I had been an Italian, I am sure I would have been entirely with you from the beginning to the end of your victorious struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism.' To Benito Mussolini in a press conference in Rome (January 1927)
'One may dislike Hitler's system and yet admire his patriotic achievement. If our country were defeated, I hope we should find a champion as indomitable to restore our courage and lead us back to our place among the nations.' "Hitler and His Choice", The Strand Magazine (November 1935)
'I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us back to our rightful position among the nations. I am sorry, however, that he has not been mellowed by the great success that has attended him. The whole world would rejoice to see the Hitler of peace and tolerance, and nothing would adorn his name in world history so much as acts of magnanimity and of mercy and of pity to the forlorn and friendless, to the weak and poor. ... Let this great man search his own heart and conscience before he accuses anyone of being a warmonger.' "Mr. Churchill's Reply" in The Times (7 November 1938)
Careful or you'll drive the fascist swivel-eyed loons into a frenzy.
I'm also curious at the attempts on twitter to paint the article as being anti-semitic in tone. It's as if the left have collectively gone full retard on this.
The joy of PB.
Indeed. Some of the PB Tories haven't been this unhinged and hilarious since last week at least. Comedy at it's finest.
"Reith also expressed admiration for Mussolini. Reith's daughter, Marista Leishman, revealed how her father in the 1930s did everything possible to keep Winston Churchill and other anti-appeasement Conservatives off the airwaves. "
Don't know why Reith bothered.
'If I had been an Italian, I am sure I would have been entirely with you from the beginning to the end of your victorious struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism.' To Benito Mussolini in a press conference in Rome (January 1927)
'One may dislike Hitler's system and yet admire his patriotic achievement. If our country were defeated, I hope we should find a champion as indomitable to restore our courage and lead us back to our place among the nations.' "Hitler and His Choice", The Strand Magazine (November 1935)
'I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us back to our rightful position among the nations. I am sorry, however, that he has not been mellowed by the great success that has attended him. The whole world would rejoice to see the Hitler of peace and tolerance, and nothing would adorn his name in world history so much as acts of magnanimity and of mercy and of pity to the forlorn and friendless, to the weak and poor. ... Let this great man search his own heart and conscience before he accuses anyone of being a warmonger.' "Mr. Churchill's Reply" in The Times (7 November 1938)
sic transit gloria mundi.
If Adolf had popped his clogs at the end of 1938 he'd be in the pantheon of great Germans and still have streets and squares named after him.
I'm also curious at the attempts on twitter to paint the article as being anti-semitic in tone. It's as if the left have collectively gone full retard on this.
The joy of PB.
Indeed. Some of the PB Tories haven't been this unhinged and hilarious since last week at least. Comedy at it's finest.
Sir Reginald gets more state subsidies than the Red Army, no wonder Dave fought the last election to inherit more of them. And if it hadn't been for those pesky Lib Dems....
tim, you do realise that family are off limits now?
There are times when pb and the commentariat seem to have gone collectively mad. This morning is one of those occasions. Has someone put LSD in the breadmaker?
Patrick Cusworth @Patriccus Labour claims that “more people than any other issue” got in touch to oppose the Daily Mail piece. Doesn’t say much for their policies.
I'm also curious at the attempts on twitter to paint the article as being anti-semitic in tone. It's as if the left have collectively gone full retard on this.
The joy of PB.
Indeed. Some of the PB Tories haven't been this unhinged and hilarious since last week at least. Comedy at it's finest.
Glad to have your mate Tim back to cheer on Mick?
More amused by all the PB tory twits who couldn't stop talking about him when he wasn't posting.
I'm also curious at the attempts on twitter to paint the article as being anti-semitic in tone. It's as if the left have collectively gone full retard on this.
The joy of PB.
Indeed. Some of the PB Tories haven't been this unhinged and hilarious since last week at least. Comedy at it's finest.
Glad to have your mate Tim back to cheer on Mick?
More amused by all the PB tory twits who couldn't stop talking about him when he wasn't posting.
There are times when pb and the commentariat seem to have gone collectively mad. This morning is one of those occasions. Has someone put LSD in the breadmaker?
Maybe you're the one who is mad if you never realised that Ed was worse than Stalin?
There are times when pb and the commentariat seem to have gone collectively mad. This morning is one of those occasions. Has someone put LSD in the breadmaker?
Maybe you're the one who is mad if you never realised that Ed was worse than Stalin?
how will we ever know ? If only Stalin were still alive we could put him and Ed in a Strictly dance off and let the viewers decide.
I'm also curious at the attempts on twitter to paint the article as being anti-semitic in tone. It's as if the left have collectively gone full retard on this.
The joy of PB.
Indeed. Some of the PB Tories haven't been this unhinged and hilarious since last week at least. Comedy at it's finest.
Glad to have your mate Tim back to cheer on Mick?
More amused by all the PB tory twits who couldn't stop talking about him when he wasn't posting.
PB Tories grrrrrr
I'd rather be a PB Tory than a nitwit like @MickP0rk.
Rob Flello quits as Junior Shadow Minister (Justice). LabourList wonders if the reshuffle is starting
Interesting if it is. Could be quite a good time for it piling yet more news into a schedule already squeezing the tory conference into second place at the moment. It won't have escaped little Ed that today is Cammie's big speech either.
Patrick Cusworth @Patriccus Labour claims that “more people than any other issue” got in touch to oppose the Daily Mail piece. Doesn’t say much for their policies.
Indeed - to stir the Labour party into action you have to attack them, their paymasters or their luvvie media mates.
Bank crash and load up the country with debts ? No big deal - no apology required.
Do Ladbrokes have a price on whether Dave will begin his speech...
."Comrades, Blue Army and Blue Navy men, commanders and political instructors, men and women workers, men and women collective farmers, intellectuals, brothers and sisters in the enemy rear who have temporarily fallen under the yoke of the Miliband brigands, our glorious men and women guerrillas who are disrupting the rear of the Socialist invaders!
On behalf of the Coalition Government and our Tory Party I greet you and congratulate you on the 179th anniversary of the great October Conservative Revolution."
Why football pundits shouldn't talk about politics
Gary Lineker @GaryLineker Only a matter of time before Dacre resigns. It's what he would demand of another in this situation. Unless of course he's a hypocrite.
Why would Darce resign - he's doing his job - well it seems.
I'm also curious at the attempts on twitter to paint the article as being anti-semitic in tone. It's as if the left have collectively gone full retard on this.
The joy of PB.
Indeed. Some of the PB Tories haven't been this unhinged and hilarious since last week at least. Comedy at it's finest.
Glad to have your mate Tim back to cheer on Mick?
More amused by all the PB tory twits who couldn't stop talking about him when he wasn't posting.
PB Tories grrrrrr
I'd rather be a PB Tory than a nitwit like @MickP0rk.
I'd rather know something about politics than be a comically incompetent tory spinner like yourself. Stick to posting about cats or pretending you are a libertarian "serial labour voting" "floating voter".
Do Ladbrokes have a price on whether Dave will begin his speech...
."Comrades, Blue Army and Blue Navy men, commanders and political instructors, men and women workers, men and women collective farmers, intellectuals, brothers and sisters in the enemy rear who have temporarily fallen under the yoke of the Miliband brigands, our glorious men and women guerrillas who are disrupting the rear of the Socialist invaders!
On behalf of the Coalition Government and our Tory Party I greet you and congratulate you on the 179th anniversary of the great October Conservative Revolution."
Not that I can see, but ask them to quote and on past experience they'll offer you 10/1.
The basic premise of the article was always wrong ie Ed is defined by an ongoing need to "do right" by his late dad. Tony Benn was always very supportive of Hilary even though his son's arch Blairist tendencies must have grated on the old socialist. Ralph M grew up in a very different world and I suspect the Mail has done Ed a huge favour - the public have seen photos of a normal looking young lad next to his father, heard about his Dad's early life in the war years and seen a strong performance at the Labour conference, all of which will help shake off Ed's previous geeky and unfortunate image . After the doubts posed by the Syria business and an awkward pre-conference on Marr (although we now know he was saving his fire) the last 9 days have indeed been a potential game changer.
Do Ladbrokes have a price on whether Dave will begin his speech...
."Comrades, Blue Army and Blue Navy men, commanders and political instructors, men and women workers, men and women collective farmers, intellectuals, brothers and sisters in the enemy rear who have temporarily fallen under the yoke of the Miliband brigands, our glorious men and women guerrillas who are disrupting the rear of the Socialist invaders!
On behalf of the Coalition Government and our Tory Party I greet you and congratulate you on the 179th anniversary of the great October Conservative Revolution."
Not that I can see, but ask them to quote and on past experience they'll offer you 10/1.
I have an inkling that may be a shade too short, antifrank.
There are times when pb and the commentariat seem to have gone collectively mad. This morning is one of those occasions. Has someone put LSD in the breadmaker?
Didn't you hear that Brussels has ruled: breadmakers are only allowed to take Euros now. It's to do with harmonisation of trading standards, apparently.
Why football pundits shouldn't talk about politics
Gary Lineker @GaryLineker Only a matter of time before Dacre resigns. It's what he would demand of another in this situation. Unless of course he's a hypocrite.
Why would Darce resign - he's doing his job - well it seems.
He has raised the brand's awareness. The rest of the MSM is running stories on The Mail's attack on Miliband's Dad.
Comments
Intospective Ed has decided to make himself the story which suggests it's a weak man trying to look tough. In the meantime no-one challenges government announcements: free breadmakers for fops and dandies, pet porpoises for bankers, open borders for latvian homophobes. Really anything goes since the opposition isn't up to the job.
Labour have chosen to make Ed the story and that's because they have to.
" In 1975 excerpts from Reith's diary were published which showed he had, during the 1930s, harboured pro-fascist views. On 9 March 1933 he wrote: “I am pretty certain ... that the Nazis will clean things up and put Germany on the way to being a real power in Europe again. They are being ruthless and most determined.” After the July 1934 Night of The Long Knives, in which the Nazis ruthlessly exterminated their internal dissidents, Reith wrote: “I really admire the way Hitler has cleaned up what looked like an incipient revolt.” After Czechoslovakia was invaded by the Nazis in 1939 he wrote: “Hitler continues his magnificent efficiency.” Reith also expressed admiration for Mussolini. Reith's daughter, Marista Leishman, revealed how her father in the 1930s did everything possible to keep Winston Churchill and other anti-appeasement Conservatives off the airwaves. "
I'm not particularly exercised by it - but I think EdM should have left it to others to attack the Mail, wading in himself looks thin-skinned and a bit sinister re press regulation - which is what the Mail wanted.
"Milliband...Labour...can't quite remember...family...cut from the same cloth...nice bloke after all...Marxist...ooh-er..." feeling.
Considering that Ed is the only person that knows what they were or has ever read any of them , who gives a jot. Ed is still crap and nobody but him cares about his late father, if he cannot take the flak then find a job outside politics.
It’s a default setting for some – You see it again with the constant references to fascism
Damn the Mail if you will for what it publishes now. But Rothermere the Second, Rothermere the Third (Vere) and now Rothermere the Fourth (Jonathan) cannot be held responsible for the views of the first of their line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OpY16SzdEGk
Why can't they see what fools they are making of themselves as they dig deeper and deeper? It's a complete mystery it is.
If he had done nothing, he could have ended up like Dukakis in '88 when challenged on the Death penalty.
Britain also had its own unique problems too: Ireland, India - and votes for women!
It's true that a national grid for electricity was rolled out during this time, so that the vast majority of homes were electrified by 1939, whilst very few were in 1918 (I recall someone posted the data on that on here some months ago) and I know that gas mains were upgraded and improved around many towns too, specifically to create work for the unemployed.
It takes a lot of men to dig a long trench entirely by hand, but the work was done a great deal faster than we seem able to do today - 25+ years to build a (relatively) short length of railway? The Victorians would have done it in well under 10 - though also well over budget!
"...During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5, The Times was at the forefront of technological innovation when it became the first newspaper to use wireless telegraphy to cover a war. When a Russian torpedo flotilla was sunk trying to attack Port Arthur, Manchuria, Colonel James — who had the use of a specially kitted-out boat and a 180ft mast erected on shore — reported it to London before Japan even knew the attack had been made. Chartering a boat, and all the equipment, was an expensive business: it was calculated that James’s dispatches cost the paper 20 shillings (£1) a word. Which probably would not get past the managing editor these days.
The exclusive account by The Times of the opening of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1923 was another costly affair. With other Fleet Street papers vying to match our scoop, the correspondents in Luxor were spending money hand-over-fist, with The Times racking up an expenses bill of £3,500 — equivalent to £137,000 today. “The expenses are the devil,” our correspondent, Harry Perry Robinson, wrote to his manager. “The amount of money that goes in daily boat and donkey hire is horrid.”
Kim Philby, a Times correspondent before he was discovered to be a Soviet spy, submitted a legendary expenses claim when he lost his belongings while covering the retreat from Amiens in May 1940. It included a suit, a camelhair overcoat, pigskin gloves, a cigarette lighter and a Dunhill pipe and pouch (“six years old but all the better for it”). His claim was for £100 and 16 shillings; in the great newspaper tradition, he got £70 of it.
It will to some degree aid the return of the Kippers at GE2015.
He could be made Viceroy.
I think the main message this week is that Labour are shrillest on personal attacks and quietest on the big issues - ie the economy.
Its party before country - time after time - generation after generation.
Markit have just published their Construction PMI for September and the march of the housebuilders gathers pace:
Housing construction activity increases at fastest pace for almost a decade
Key points:
• Strong overall construction output growth continues in September
• Residential construction rises at sharpest rate since November 2003
• Optimism about business outlook reaches highest since April 2010
Although residential construction led the way (highest output since 2003), commercial construction was also up (best rate since May 2012) with civil engineering a little off its August high. Construction employment also continued a four month rise, expanding at its sharpest level since December 2007.
Overall the Markit PMI was 58.9 a shade under the August level of 59.1. With yesterday's manufacturing PMI being 57.1 over August's 57.2, it does appear that although the summer growth rates may have peaked the follow on is more plateau than decline.
Anti Free Press.
Anti Free Markets.
Anti Private Property.
He is now , in plain view , a declared enemy of freedom and privacy , like Stalin and other totalitarian menaces to humanity.
Plan B?
BBC - Press Complaints Commission has received 32 complaints about Daily Mail's articles about Labour leader Ed Miliband's father.
"As the director of a small business I hope Cameron does talk about aspiration and profit today in more than just vanilla terms."
Having been in big business but now helping SMEs. I basically agree with your aspirations, but if in any politician's shoes I would really struggle to give a finite route to the path for defined growth.
Aspiration is something that as a nation and for many people personally is something that has been lost today. I find that young people are just as aspirational as ever, but in some areas there is an inverted snobbery. Last week, I witnessed some new sixth-formers being told by their teacher not to think of applying to O&C or any high Russell Group universities as "it was above their class", and this is not uncommon in many schools.
Yet SMEs are constantly struggling to find new employees with the required skill sets, mainly due to years of a deficient education system that has slipped well behind leading global standards.
Profit is essential to the growth of any business in a capitalist system. We reinvest about 25% of our profit into R&D and about 50% into market development. We could do more but for Employer's NI and I would like to see all businesses with under 20 employees exempt from that tax. Then we could employ 10% more people.
The other stumbling block is cash flow. As more of our business is outside of Western Europe we have to finance more credit. At present the UK banking system is not prepared to supply the required finance.
Global competition means that our pricing has to be competitive (that includes credit terms) and potential Asian competitors with a lower cost base are rapidly improving their skill sets.
At present I do not have an answer as to how the UK will employ the large number of people who are unemployed and unemployable due to their lack of required skills and a bad education and suffering from the joint impact of IT and globalisation.
SO, if you are willing I would like to correspond with you outside PB - Mike S will let you have my email address if you ask him.
RT @thetimes: 53% of consumers say they have bought counterfeit goods thetim.es/1fI8bvc | Graphic: pic.twitter.com/H8VAT4uSOn
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According to @PopulusPolls the #BNP is half as popular as #UKIP and the #GreenParty has more support than both.
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'Daniel Hannan @DanHannanMEP
Never mind the Mail. I had no idea that the Daily Mirror had backed the Blackshirts. http://t.co/AgCdqy2jxk
So we can expect 45 minute warning Comical Ali back on Newsnight this evening attacking smears against the Daily Mirror?
As to what kind of rabbit Boris would involve.. (we'll save save the obvious comedy for later) there was also talk a while back about the current inadequacies of the tory chairmen situation. Cart before horse perhaps but a possibility nonetheless.
'If I had been an Italian, I am sure I would have been entirely with you from the beginning to the end of your victorious struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism.' To Benito Mussolini in a press conference in Rome (January 1927)
'One may dislike Hitler's system and yet admire his patriotic achievement. If our country were defeated, I hope we should find a champion as indomitable to restore our courage and lead us back to our place among the nations.' "Hitler and His Choice", The Strand Magazine (November 1935)
'I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us back to our rightful position among the nations. I am sorry, however, that he has not been mellowed by the great success that has attended him. The whole world would rejoice to see the Hitler of peace and tolerance, and nothing would adorn his name in world history so much as acts of magnanimity and of mercy and of pity to the forlorn and friendless, to the weak and poor. ... Let this great man search his own heart and conscience before he accuses anyone of being a warmonger.' "Mr. Churchill's Reply" in The Times (7 November 1938)
Gary Lineker @GaryLineker
Only a matter of time before Dacre resigns. It's what he would demand of another in this situation. Unless of course he's a hypocrite.
Only kidding!
Watching Ed lie on tv unchallenged was so infuriating. Anyone on the right trying for that level of disingenuity would have been interrupted every 30 seconds!
The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that Ed, for lack of a better word, is good. Ed is right, Ed works. Ed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the (r)evolutionary spirit. Ed, in all of his forms; Ed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And Ed, you mark my words, will not only save the Labour Party, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the UK. Thank you very much.
Either the government is taking a share of this risk or the private-ish sector banks are taking it. Either way the risk exists.
RT @FreeThinkingUK: BBCQT line up: Owen Jones, Polly Toynbee, Neil Hamilton, Bonnie Greer, Michael Newman, Teresa May.
Wednesday, 2 October 2013
HOW POPULUS WEIGHT THE PARTIES.
http://www.populus.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/OmOnline_Vote_30-09-2013_BPC.pdf
Q.4 Regardless of which party, if any, you are likely to end up voting for at the
next General Election due in May 2015 or are leaning towards at the moment,
which political party would you say you have usually most closely
identified yourself with?
Replies were
Labour 605 - 30%
Conservatives 521 - 26%
NONE 333 - 17%
UKIP 224 - 11%
Lib Dems 196 - 10%
Green 47 - 2%
SNP 43 - 2%
Another party 16 - 1%
BNP 13 - 1%
Plaid 8 -
So how do Populus redistribute those replies to make it a fair and even poll?
Here is how.
Unweighted numbers above become these weighted numbers below.
Labour 622 - 31%
Conservatives 562 - 28%
NONE 441 - 22%
Lib Dems 261 - 13%
SNP 35 - 2%
Green 34 - 2%
UKIP 20 - 1%
Another Party `13 - 1%
BNP 10 - 1%
Plaid 8
This is why I have started collecting REAL VOTES NOT OPINION POLLS
as it seems in the world of the pollster that UKIP has only double the support
of the BNP and only two thirds of the support of which the Green party has.
Populus also seem to believe that there is 30% more Lib Dems out there
as well as giving boosts to Lab & Con.
Make of this as you will, but be interesting to see if Populus change anything in
the coming months and how if they do it will effect their polling results.
The PM, our government's head
When asked for the price of cheap bread
Said let them eat cake
(Or loaves that I make
In my Panasonic instead)
Ed Miliband should be good on the assault course with his inherited armed forces genes. The observation round could be about the Home Secretary's speech and ask which colour shoes Theresa May was wearing. Would birds and old biddies still get a head start on the assault course though cos they are weak?
Careful or you'll drive the fascist swivel-eyed loons into a frenzy.
Some of the PB Tories haven't been this unhinged and hilarious since last week at least.
Comedy at it's finest.
If Adolf had popped his clogs at the end of 1938 he'd be in the pantheon of great Germans and still have streets and squares named after him.
I have this thing called a 'life' away from here you see.
Labour claims that “more people than any other issue” got in touch to oppose the Daily Mail piece. Doesn’t say much for their policies.
Unite and GMB endorse Pennycook in Greenwich
RT @Jamielyons #cpc13 delegate just refused to take her coat off at security as she was only wearing knickers & bra underneath
I hope it was a fur coat!
Bank crash and load up the country with debts ? No big deal - no apology required.
Call Eds dad a Marxist ? Bring out the onions...
."Comrades, Blue Army and Blue Navy men, commanders and political instructors, men and women workers, men and women collective farmers, intellectuals, brothers and sisters in the enemy rear who have temporarily fallen under the yoke of the Miliband brigands, our glorious men and women guerrillas who are disrupting the rear of the Socialist invaders!
On behalf of the Coalition Government and our Tory Party I greet you and congratulate you on the 179th anniversary of the great October Conservative Revolution."
Pennycook also has waaay more supporters listed on his website than Len. Maybe Unite have picked a winner for once?
I admire the man.
Tory unity over the EU can only be mere decades away now.
*crying with laughter etc* ;^ )
Isabel Oakeshott @IsabelOakeshott
Extraordinary 12 year old addresses #cpc13 paying tribute to Gove's free schools policy. Word perfect!
She's Zantain Campbell
"I'm not a Socialist in spite of being a Conservative. I'm a Socialist because I AM a Conservative!"