daftest tweet in ages, if it had been Belfast she may have had a point, assuming we choose to overlook some Bostonians liked to fund bombs in Ireland's second city
@foxinsoxuk and presumably the only way to avoid a collapse in house prices would be by keeping demand ahead of supply, ie by a massive increase in immigration which would most likely lead to a similar increase in benefit costs
The largest factor in house prices is supply of MONEY in the form of mortgages. That's the reason prices went mental in the 2000s - borrow what ridiculous sum you like, no need to prove your income or pay anything back apart from the interest on the principal. Add to that the firm belief in most people's minds that (a) prices should never go down that is always bad and (b) renting is "dead money" under ANY circumstances, and it's really hard to make house prices fall in this country outside of a depression.
Bad new for under 35s, great news for over 50s and especially over 60s, who vote most. First time buyers come almost exclusivley fomr families which already own property, and this will perpetuate. Just think how much more disposable income we'd all have if mortgages had always been restricted to provable 3.5x 1 income or 2.5 x joint with the concomitant lid on house prices (and bank profits).
Also @tim on Eastern European immigrants - if just 10,000 of them are claiming JSA (probably a conservative guess) they'll no doubt be claiming at least housing benefit as well, and some of those claims will be for families rather than individuals; I'd guess (again conservatively) the average claim at around £10,000pa. There's another £100m right there. And that's before considering the cost those 10,000 claimants add to the NHS and schools bills.
Maggie was dead right on the weakness of Labour lead.In May 1995 two years before the 2007 GE, the Labour lead was around 20%, more than doubklle EDs pitiful figure.By the 1997 GE the Labour lead was down to just 11%.A bit of good economic news could easily wipe out the current Labour lead.Labour needs to wake up soon and realise that Millibland is an albatross around their neck. Because of Labour,'s inbuilt electoral advantage it is unlikely that the Tories will get an overall majority.However on present polls the SNP would get 30+ seats and could end up holding the balance of power.Nice one!
Sorry Sir. tim has decreed that 1995 is inappropriate as a comparitor for the current VI polls. As is 1990. From the tim dictionary: evidence [ev-i-duhns] n. that data which supports my world view
If I were guessing, both Ed Miliband's poor ratings and George Osborne's sharply improved ratings relate to the debate around benefits rather than Margaret Thatcher's death. Of course, we'll never really know.
The big area Blair got wrong, along with all govts over the last 35 years is housing, Miliband will make that the central plank of a growth and benefit cuts programme as the Tories offer an alternative of house price inflation
If Miliband can sell house price deflation (or at least the deflating of the bubble) he'll be a fine politician indeed.
The number of owner occupiers is in decline, while the number of private renters increases. The 2011 figures are:
Perhaps Miliband is too far ahead of the game for this to be an election winner, but if that sort of trend continues then the public mood will inevitably follow.
The percentage may be falling but is that of a larger base ?
It is of a larger base, but the absolute number is also down.
The number of owner occupier households is down by 421,000 to 17.746 million.
For comparison, when Thatcher left office, the percentage of owner occupiers was 66.6%, so we're below that now, and private rentals were 8.5% of the total, just under half the 2011 figure.
Those are some big changes. Either they are reversed - as ALP believes Osborne will achieve - or they will change politics.
I'd guess (again conservatively) the average claim at around £10,000pa.
The average claim for housing benefit in this country is £89 a week.
You are just making stuff up about Eastern European immigration aren't you.
The average claim for the uk may be £89 a week but I expect a higher proportion of Eastern European migrants live in London and other prosperous (ie more expensive to rent) areas. And even if they were to claim HB at the national average, and were all single claimants (£71 a week JSA), that would make the average claim £160 per week, so £8320pa. How wrong do you really think I am? Surely your maths ain't that bad?
Are we really reduced to bickering about comparisons of grief?
Anyone expecting anything profound from twitter is an idiot. Whatever she meant, the tweeter seems to have been well-intentioned and trying to express empathy, and should be given leeway accordingly.
To be pedantic (which is what this site is for after all), not in 1940-41 when the Blitz took place. I know they were our senior partner in 1940 and everything...
To be pedantic (which is what this site is for after all), not in 1940-41 when the Blitz took place. I know they were our senior partner in 1940 and everything...
My mistake.
Mea Culpa.
Edit: I do have mitigation, the documentary I saw in Liverpool, the Germans believed the Americans were sending troops as well as materiel.
MD: After last week's tyres' controversy, can you comment on the effect of Bahrain on tyres, plus the influence of errant sand.
BTW: I have been diverted to Aruba for a weekend trip and so will not be able to attend the get-together at DDs. And yes it is business and not a beach break.
O/T Just been VI'd by You Gov. A number of assorted questions on Maggie. And one that I wasn't expecting.
If you had to choose one of these super-powers, which would you prefer to have? Reading minds Invisibility Time travel Ability to fly None of these/ don't know
I think if Ed observes Tories getting as complacent as this piece suggests they are, then he'll be satisfied.
The economy is going nowhere, debt numbers are going to be revised up again in the autumn, a potential triple dip (although I suspect anaemic growth) in Q1 and Fitch and S&P downgrades to come.
O/T Just been VI'd by You Gov. A number of assorted questions on Maggie. And one that I wasn't expecting.
If you had to choose one of these super-powers, which would you prefer to have? Reading minds Invisibility Time travel Ability to fly None of these/ don't know
Interesting article. Think the ICM poll yesterday suggests that Labour has some thinking todo. 38% at this stage is not enough to guarantee Labour a working a majority.
It should be no comfort that the Tories are further away from that goal.
Mr. Financier, Bahrian should be drastically different for several reasons.
China had soft and medium compound tyres. However, Bahrain has soft and hard. The soft tyre should work better in the higher temperature, I think.
In addition, China's a bit odd in that the front tyres get more wear than the rear, whereas Bahrain is more usual in that the reverse is true. This should help Red Bull out a little.
Wear rates are expected to be highish. I read somewhere that 3 stops are expected. I briefly checked the post-race analysis from last year on pb2 and it seems only one chap (Di Resta) managed to make a 2 stop work then.
Not sure how much of a factor sand will be. It depends to an extent on the wind. Safety car is probably unlikely due to the large run-off areas (which also help stop sand getting onto the track).
.. If you had to choose one of these super-powers, which would you prefer to have? Reading minds Invisibility Time travel Ability to fly None of these/ don't know
I chose Time Travel
Ability to fly by a country mile.
Time travel would get too confusing to keep track of.
O/T Just been VI'd by You Gov. A number of assorted questions on Maggie. And one that I wasn't expecting.
If you had to choose one of these super-powers, which would you prefer to have? Reading minds Invisibility Time travel Ability to fly None of these/ don't know
I chose Time Travel
Me too! History was a very close second favourite subject at school behind Chemistry.
Too fraught with problems haven't you seen the raft of recent films about it? You would end up bumping into your father on Oxford Street thus diverting him from meeting your mother thus putting yourself in all kinds of temporal paradoxes.
Ed Miliband has been very lucky. No one has yet noticed that a Greek chorus has walked on stage, offering a commentary on the hero's actions, thanks to the audience's attention being fixed on tomorrow's funeral.
This seems to have been a pretty concerted push, with Tony Blair, David Blunkett, Alan Milburn, Tessa Jowell, John Reid and Peter Mandelson all breaking cover in the last few days. Are we going to get regular commentaries from them, or is this a one-off? Time will tell.
That's what I was wondering. It seems a concerted push - but why this week when it will get little attention?
Cynically I thought they were trying to put their objections on the record so that if it all goes wrong at the next election they can said 'we told you so, only a Blairite can win'
I was wondering if it was because DMili is standing down as a MP and pushing off to the USA so is no longer the King Over The Water in the same way as he was. He's the last of the prominent Blairites left.
I'd guess (again conservatively) the average claim at around £10,000pa.
The average claim for housing benefit in this country is £89 a week.
You are just making stuff up about Eastern European immigration aren't you.
Without taking a view on JonnyJimmy's comment I'd just point out that you are misrepresenting his position on the statistics.
He was referring to total benefits on an annual basis. You replied with one specific benefit on a weekly basis to make comparisons difficult.
In fact JSA for an over 25 year old is £71.70 per week and housing benefit average (haven't checked your figure) is £89 per week. £160.70 per week * 52 = £8,356.40 per year. This is before any other benefits are considered.
A working estimate of £10K p.a. is not an unreasonable assumption therefore.
Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark had no powers they had money and used it well.
Take note Bill Gates.
In fairness the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation will do far, far more good in the real world than Bruce Wayne etc did in the pretend one: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/
Working families would have to earn more than £41,000 a year to get the same as many living on state benefits if the Labour Party was in charge of the welfare system, the Tories claimed last night.
The Government’s benefit cap – introduced yesterday – limits the amount of money a household can claim in welfare payments to £26,000 a year, the before-tax income of the average working family.
Ed Miliband’s party opposes the cap and voted against it in the Commons, even though opinion polls show that it is hugely popular with the public.
Official figures, contained in an impact assessment of the policy, show that on average those who will see their benefits capped will lose £4,836 a year: about £93 a week.
A working family would need a pre-tax salary of £32,000 to match the £26,000 a year in state handouts allowed under the cap.
Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark had no powers they had money and used it well.
Take note Bill Gates.
In fairness the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation will do far, far more good in the real world than Bruce Wayne etc did in the pretend one: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/
I come across the Gates Foundation quite a lot, both professionally and in my philanthropic roles. It truly is a fabulous organisation. All power to them (although I believe Melinda was the driving force behind the idea)
O/T Just been VI'd by You Gov. A number of assorted questions on Maggie. And one that I wasn't expecting.
If you had to choose one of these super-powers, which would you prefer to have? Reading minds Invisibility Time travel Ability to fly None of these/ don't know
I'll leave you and JonnyJimmy to concentrate on the tiny percentage of the benefit bill accounted for by A8 immigrants.
it's the equivalent of looking for savings in the health budget on IVF and tattoo removal. A sideshow, but one which exposes prejudice quite nicely.
You might dismiss over £100m pa as a tiny percentage of the total bill, but it's still £100m pa that can be saved from the immigrants least likely to claim benefits! No wonder our national finances are screwed with thinking like yours.
And I presume you'll "leave us to concentrate on" it because, again, I've shown how wrong you are and you hate to admit it.
My grandad's local The Jolly Miller was bombed in Liverpool. He never did forgive them. Think it's now (or became at one point) a Harvester. I'm sure he wouldn't have forgiven that either.
Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark had no powers they had money and used it well.
Take note Bill Gates.
In fairness the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation will do far, far more good in the real world than Bruce Wayne etc did in the pretend one: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/
I come across the Gates Foundation quite a lot, both professionally and in my philanthropic roles. It truly is a fabulous organisation. All power to them (although I believe Melinda was the driving force behind the idea)
I'd imagine any foundation run by the likes of the Gates or Buffets of this world would do more effective good than the collective aid budget of most national governments. They both have a rare talent and enough ruthlessness - but not so much that they sow their own downfall with hubris.
Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark had no powers they had money and used it well.
Take note Bill Gates.
In fairness the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation will do far, far more good in the real world than Bruce Wayne etc did in the pretend one: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/
"Peace has cost you your strength. Victory has defeated you!"
We could always annexe Poland and kill two birds with one stone, loads of cheap coal and lots of housebuilding. plenty of space there to resettle miners.
What are you guy's talking about? Britain couldn't annexe Canvey Island at the moment if she had to.
My grandad's local The Jolly Miller was bombed in Liverpool. He never did forgive them. Think it's now (or became at one point) a Harvester. I'm sure he wouldn't have forgiven that either.
The nearest pub to me The Green Gate became a McDonald's years ago. My second nearest, the Horns Tavern is now Costcutter which only opened a couple of weeks ago...
daftest tweet in ages, if it had been Belfast she may have had a point, assuming we choose to overlook some Bostonians liked to fund bombs in Ireland's second city
That has been the topic for the usual way that Old Firm fans find any reason to spout off at each other.
Good morning all . So far here in Worthing Pier I have had 3 local election leaflets . Lib Dem focus , a very large multi folded glossy Conservative leaflet which says far too much to take in before it enters the bin and a small glossy UKIP leaflet . This in essence says 29 million Bulgarians and Roumanians are coming so we need UKIP County Councillors to cut taxes and crime stop wind farms save the Green Belt and spend more on local services . Strangely the UKIP leaflet is for the wrong ward as it is for Worthing West which starts on the other side of Grand Avenue .
'Worse, his personal ratings are sinking deeper into negative territory – a majority of 51% say he is doing a bad job, as against just 28% who think he is doing well.
That gives a net approval rating of -23, almost double his negative May 2012 score of -12, and worse even than the -17 he notched up in December 2011, when his party was behind in the polls overall and his leadership appeared insecure.'
@Plato: a split trial is more expensive. If the court decides that the tweet was not libellous, there is no need to determine damages. Presumably McAlpine wants to determine that question first so that, if he wins, Sally Bercow will settle the damages point without the need for a trial.
However it is organised the first point the court will need to decide is whether the words used were or were capable of being defamatory. Sally Bercow has always said that while she apologises she does not believe that she libelled Lord MacAlpine. So there will be much argument about the meaning of "trending" and "innocent face" and smileys.
Are these different banking licences? Are Gordon's like the wrong sort of snow?
RT @tangentreality: Labour are calling for 'banking licences'. Shame that under FSMA 2000 - legislation introduced by Gordon Brown - they already exist.
You need to read more carefully, I said "in work benefits"
For instance, a couple with four children earning £26,000 after tax and with rent and council tax liabilities of £400 a week is entitled to around £15,000 a year in housing benefit and council tax support, (£3,146 in child benefit) and more than £4,000 in tax credits.
The CJEU has this morning confirmed that Enhanced Cooperation is legal under European law. It rejected claims by Spain and Italy that in using it to create the Unified Patent Court other member states had acted unlawfully. As discussed previously, this ruling could severely limit the UK's bargaining position vis a vis linking repatriation of powers to a Eurozone deal on closer cooperation. Basically, the CJEU has said that Enhanced Cooperation means that Eurozone members can agree something without the UK (or anyone else) having to OK it.
For followers of Bitcoin or Anonymous - the latest episode of The Good Wife features both. Mr Bitcoin appeared in a much earlier series as the supposed lawyer for the mysterious creator.
I'm all in favour of creative ways to engage with potential voters but this seems a little off beam to say the least - Mr Dancer's space cannon would surely be a better option? I suspect they actually spent the entire £55k on LSD...
"It may seem like a drop in the ocean considering the vast amount of waste in Britain's public sector, but the Electoral Commission, tasked primarly with regulating political parties and their financing, has revealed that it has spent almost £55,000 on a new website encouraging people to register to vote.
The initiative, known as ItsYourVote.org.uk went live earlier this year and uses some bizarre methods to seek to convince people to register to vote. The site asks you for your postcode, upon which a selection screen launches, asking you to choose between an ice cream scoop, a cat and a fairground game. Once you've chosen, disaster is brought forth upon your neighboured, as the ice cream scoop digs you away, the cat burns you to cinders or the winch from a fairground game lifts you into the air.
I'm all in favour of creative ways to engage with potential voters but this seems a little off beam to say the least - Mr Dancer's space cannon would surely be a better option? I suspect they actually spent the entire £55k on LSD...
"It may seem like a drop in the ocean considering the vast amount of waste in Britain's public sector, but the Electoral Commission, tasked primarly with regulating political parties and their financing, has revealed that it has spent almost £55,000 on a new website encouraging people to register to vote.
The initiative, known as ItsYourVote.org.uk went live earlier this year and uses some bizarre methods to seek to convince people to register to vote. The site asks you for your postcode, upon which a selection screen launches, asking you to choose between an ice cream scoop, a cat and a fairground game. Once you've chosen, disaster is brought forth upon your neighboured, as the ice cream scoop digs you away, the cat burns you to cinders or the winch from a fairground game lifts you into the air.
@Plato: a split trial is more expensive. If the court decides that the tweet was not libellous, there is no need to determine damages. Presumably McAlpine wants to determine that question first so that, if he wins, Sally Bercow will settle the damages point without the need for a trial.
However it is organised the first point the court will need to decide is whether the words used were or were capable of being defamatory. Sally Bercow has always said that while she apologises she does not believe that she libelled Lord MacAlpine. So there will be much argument about the meaning of "trending" and "innocent face" and smileys.
I wonder if her lawyers also think that Lord McAlpine might have difficulty in showing actual loss arising from this given the many other tweets etc that were going around. Did her rather silly tweets of themselves actually damage Lord McAlpine's reputation? It might give them a second bite at the cherry.
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The people of Liverpool understand what people in Boston are going through.
daftest tweet in ages, if it had been Belfast she may have had a point, assuming we choose to overlook some Bostonians liked to fund bombs in Ireland's second city
"Picture it now, see just how
The lies and deceit gained a little more power
Confidence taken in
By a suntan and a grin"
Outside of London, Liverpool was the most heavily bombed part of the country during the Second World War.
Fixed it for you.
Bad new for under 35s, great news for over 50s and especially over 60s, who vote most. First time buyers come almost exclusivley fomr families which already own property, and this will perpetuate. Just think how much more disposable income we'd all have if mortgages had always been restricted to provable 3.5x 1 income or 2.5 x joint with the concomitant lid on house prices (and bank profits).
Because of the docks.
Where a lot of American troops and materiel arrived.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blitz#Bombing_raid_statistics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_Blitz
The stats are available here.
The number of owner occupier households is down by 421,000 to 17.746 million.
For comparison, when Thatcher left office, the percentage of owner occupiers was 66.6%, so we're below that now, and private rentals were 8.5% of the total, just under half the 2011 figure.
Those are some big changes. Either they are reversed - as ALP believes Osborne will achieve - or they will change politics.
Anyone expecting anything profound from twitter is an idiot. Whatever she meant, the tweeter seems to have been well-intentioned and trying to express empathy, and should be given leeway accordingly.
Mea Culpa.
Edit: I do have mitigation, the documentary I saw in Liverpool, the Germans believed the Americans were sending troops as well as materiel.
Will that silence the whiners ?
BTW: I have been diverted to Aruba for a weekend trip and so will not be able to attend the get-together at DDs. And yes it is business and not a beach break.
Just been VI'd by You Gov.
A number of assorted questions on Maggie.
And one that I wasn't expecting.
If you had to choose one of these super-powers, which would you prefer to have?
Reading minds
Invisibility
Time travel
Ability to fly
None of these/ don't know
I chose Time Travel
The economy is going nowhere, debt numbers are going to be revised up again in the autumn, a potential triple dip (although I suspect anaemic growth) in Q1 and Fitch and S&P downgrades to come.
These are treacherous waters for Tories.
It should be no comfort that the Tories are further away from that goal.
China had soft and medium compound tyres. However, Bahrain has soft and hard. The soft tyre should work better in the higher temperature, I think.
In addition, China's a bit odd in that the front tyres get more wear than the rear, whereas Bahrain is more usual in that the reverse is true. This should help Red Bull out a little.
Wear rates are expected to be highish. I read somewhere that 3 stops are expected. I briefly checked the post-race analysis from last year on pb2 and it seems only one chap (Di Resta) managed to make a 2 stop work then.
Not sure how much of a factor sand will be. It depends to an extent on the wind. Safety car is probably unlikely due to the large run-off areas (which also help stop sand getting onto the track).
http://politicalbetting.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/bahrain-early-discussion.html
Time travel would get too confusing to keep track of.
Who paid for such a pointless question?
Edit. Having seem MIB3 again at the weekend I would have to go with time travel too.
I also watched Argo on DVD. How can films which you know the ending of (Apollo 13 for example) create such tension? Really amazing.
Too fraught with problems haven't you seen the raft of recent films about it? You would end up bumping into your father on Oxford Street thus diverting him from meeting your mother thus putting yourself in all kinds of temporal paradoxes.
Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark had no powers they had money and used it well.
Take note Bill Gates.
He was referring to total benefits on an annual basis. You replied with one specific benefit on a weekly basis to make comparisons difficult.
In fact JSA for an over 25 year old is £71.70 per week and housing benefit average (haven't checked your figure) is £89 per week. £160.70 per week * 52 = £8,356.40 per year. This is before any other benefits are considered.
A working estimate of £10K p.a. is not an unreasonable assumption therefore.
Working families would have to earn more than £41,000 a year to get the same as many living on state benefits if the Labour Party was in charge of the welfare system, the Tories claimed last night.
The Government’s benefit cap – introduced yesterday – limits the amount of money a household can claim in welfare payments to £26,000 a year, the before-tax income of the average working family.
Ed Miliband’s party opposes the cap and voted against it in the Commons, even though opinion polls show that it is hugely popular with the public.
Official figures, contained in an impact assessment of the policy, show that on average those who will see their benefits capped will lose £4,836 a year: about £93 a week.
A working family would need a pre-tax salary of £32,000 to match the £26,000 a year in state handouts allowed under the cap.
But if nothing had changed and Labour got its way, the benefits claimants hit by the cap would have been given nearly £31,000 and a working family would need £41,000 before tax to match them. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2309687/41-000-What-average-working-family-need-earn-match-benefits-Labour-wants.html#ixzz2Qc0q4lNo
My comment was on your abuse of statistics not on the substantive topic.
And I presume you'll "leave us to concentrate on" it because, again, I've shown how wrong you are and you hate to admit it.
My grandad's local The Jolly Miller was bombed in Liverpool. He never did forgive them. Think it's now (or became at one point) a Harvester. I'm sure he wouldn't have forgiven that either.
Can Mr TSE or DavidL advise on what this means?
@OliverCooper: BREAKING: Ed Balls calls for an independent judge-led public inquiry into Ed Balls.
@MShapland
Just been sent this by a Labour researcher - ouch! #EDBALLS http://pic.twitter.com/aFII3tQP9z
Ed Balls #edballs http://pic.twitter.com/nD8hiRlPPr
BTW, you aren't a sister to carl, are you?
RT @MYSADCAT: Because another NME photo shoot for his all-cat indie band has been ruined by the sullen attitude of the guitarist. http://twitter.com/MYSADCAT/status/323806448347906049/photo/1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/apr/12/sally-bercow-twitter-libel-battle
Go peddle your crap elsewhere and save Mike some bandwidth costs.
Strangely the UKIP leaflet is for the wrong ward as it is for Worthing West which starts on the other side of Grand Avenue .
Ed's having a good year.
'Worse, his personal ratings are sinking deeper into negative territory – a majority of 51% say he is doing a bad job, as against just 28% who think he is doing well.
That gives a net approval rating of -23, almost double his negative May 2012 score of -12, and worse even than the -17 he notched up in December 2011, when his party was behind in the polls overall and his leadership appeared insecure.'
However it is organised the first point the court will need to decide is whether the words used were or were capable of being defamatory. Sally Bercow has always said that while she apologises she does not believe that she libelled Lord MacAlpine. So there will be much argument about the meaning of "trending" and "innocent face" and smileys.
RT @tangentreality: Labour are calling for 'banking licences'. Shame that under FSMA 2000 - legislation introduced by Gordon Brown - they already exist.
Stupid relic of Gordon Brown the worst PM and CoTE ever.
RT @thetimes: Thatcher’s death certificate poignantly describes her occupation as Stateswoman (retired) http://t.co/DgO9GVML24 (picture not paywalled > http://t.co/yWpdS3E8L6
So a couple with four children that clear £26,000 after tax, can then claim another £22,000 off the state? amazing.
TSE is going to be in big trouble for starting a rEd is crap thread ....
RT @ICMResearch: Guardian/ICM - 6 point Lab lead would be wiped out if a young #Thatcher were leader now http://ow.ly/k6xY7 http://ow.ly/k6y6y #mrx
"It may seem like a drop in the ocean considering the vast amount of waste in Britain's public sector, but the Electoral Commission, tasked primarly with regulating political parties and their financing, has revealed that it has spent almost £55,000 on a new website encouraging people to register to vote.
The initiative, known as ItsYourVote.org.uk went live earlier this year and uses some bizarre methods to seek to convince people to register to vote. The site asks you for your postcode, upon which a selection screen launches, asking you to choose between an ice cream scoop, a cat and a fairground game. Once you've chosen, disaster is brought forth upon your neighboured, as the ice cream scoop digs you away, the cat burns you to cinders or the winch from a fairground game lifts you into the air.
Supposedly, the website is supposed to convince you not registering to vote is a similar fate to one of these bizarre situations. After a cat has burned your neighbourhood, the website reads, "Register to vote now or come election time, you may as well be vaporised by Catzilla's rainbow lasers"... http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3258/electoral_commission_spends_55_000_on_ice_cream_scoops_and_cats#.UW0m8iktuTY.twitter
Only short sighted static analysists and Milibands fail to grasp the medium to long term importance of this.
The cat one looks like my Ginger Tom ! Have you tried the website, its quite amusing actually
I wonder if her lawyers also think that Lord McAlpine might have difficulty in showing actual loss arising from this given the many other tweets etc that were going around. Did her rather silly tweets of themselves actually damage Lord McAlpine's reputation? It might give them a second bite at the cherry.